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“patrick humphries”

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  • Top of the Pops 50th Anniversary

    by Patrick Humphries ...
    'It's Number One... it's Top Of The Pops', for every generation from 1964, until the show ended in 2006, that was the sentence every young television viewer sat down to hear. At its peak, a quarter of the UKs entire population was watching. 'Top Of The Pops' was the pivotal pop television programme over its 2,000 weekly episodes, the programme gave peak airtime to every act, from The Beatles to ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nick Drake

    The Biography

    by Patrick Humphries ...
    'An exquisite portrait' MOJO'A riveting account of the golden-boy genius' EVENING STANDARDNick Drake was barely twenty-six years old when he died in 1974, but in his short lifetime he recorded three albums that are now recognised as classics: Five Leaves Left, Bryter Later and Pink Moon.Several decades after his death, he has amassed a huge following; his haunting songs cast a pervasive influence ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Cleopatra and the Undoing of Hollywood

    How One Film Almost Sunk the Studios

    by Patrick Humphries ...
    There had been stars before. There had been films prior to Cleopatra. But in all the cynical, greedy, magical, histrionic history of the movies, there had never been a combination like that of Elizabeth Taylor and Cleopatra.Other films may have taken more money, won more awards or attracted better reviews, but none have come close to the legend that is Cleopatra.What began in 1958 as a remake of ... Read more

    $19.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Many Lives of Tom Waits

    by Patrick Humphries ...
    This full length biography is the first comprehensive account of a truly legendary artist. It covers every aspect of the life and career of a man who has never seemed to be in the slightest danger of losing his credibility to mainstream success.With twenty albums to his credit and a legion of passionate fans, the uncompromising Waits continues to conjure up tender, ragged and magical songs that ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • The Beatles: The Music And The Myth

    by Patrick Humphries, Peter Dogget ...
    From their 1962 debut single Love Me Do to the most recent remastered albums, this is an album-by-album, track-by-track catalogue of every songs ever released by The BeatlesIncludes:A chronology of key events in the life of the greatest ever rock bandSeparate sections on compilation albums, the Anthology series and non-EMI recordingsEight pages of colour picturesThis is the books th... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Rolling Stones 69

    by Patrick Humphries ...
    Against a backdrop of social unrest and protests The Rolling Stones entered 1969 as a successful blues band that had experimented with psychedelia but were returning to their rock'n'roll roots. By the end of 1969 they had released a stone cold classic, lost one of their founding members, played an era defining concert at Hyde Park to half a million people and seen a fan stabbed to death at their ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Nick Drake: The Complete Guide to his Music

    by Peter Hogan ...
    The indispensable consumers' guide to the music of Nick Drake. A thorough analysis of every officially released album by Drake, from the early albums that were largely overlooked at the time of their release in the late Sixties and early Seventies to more recent posthumous collections. Peter Hogan is among the few contemporary aficionados of Nick Drake who actually bought his records in the early ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

    by Jonas Jonasson ...
    A larger-than-life old man with a fondness for vodka goes on an unexpected adventure in this whimsical novel -- perfect for fans of Forrest Gump and A Man Called Ove.The international publishing sensation -- more than six million copies sold worldwide!A reluctant centenarian much like Forrest Gump (if Gump were an explosives expert) decides it's not too late to start over . . .After a long and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Furious Love

    Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century

    by Sam Kashner, Nancy Schoenberger ...
    "[An] entertaining, blow-by-blow account of the life and times of an epic Hollywood couple . . . There is no shortage of saucy anecdotes in Furious Love." — Wall Street JournalFrom veteran entertainment reporter Sam Kashner and biographer Nancy Schoenberger comes the definitive account of the greatest Hollywood love story ever told—the romance of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Kashner has ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Alfred Hitchcock

    A Life in Darkness and Light

    by Patrick McGilligan ...

    $14.99 USD

  • Elizabeth Taylor

    The Lady, The Lover, The Legend 1932-2011

    by David Bret ...
    From her fairytale childhood to her impressive array of movies and marriages, Elizabeth Taylor’s life, both on and off the screen, has enchanted, saddened, appalled, and entertained us for the past seven decades.Elizabeth Taylor: The Lady, The Lover, The Legend -- the first new biography to be published following her death -- strips away the Hollywood veneer to reveal the woman as she really was. ... Read more

    $10.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • David Niven

    The Man Behind the Balloon

    by Michael Munn ...
    David Niven appeared in films for over 50 years of his life, from swashbucklers such as The Prisoner of Zenda and The Guns of Navarone to the Pink Panther series. Despite his on-screen persona, Niven wasn’t always the perfect gentleman. He was insecure both privately and professionally and used people to get ahead. But he did, he said, ‘at least try to be a decent man.’ He knew he often failed, ... Read more

    $6.29 USD