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Studio One is the legendary Jamaican reggae label that launched onto the world Bob Marley and theWailers.

As iconic as Motown was to soul, or Blue Note for Jazz, Studio One was the creation of one great figurehead Clement Sir Coxsone Dodd.

This deluxe hard-back book is the first ever to tell the story of Studio One and the many artists that it produced. The book features hundreds of stunning full size record cover designs of Studio One and original artwork as well as rare and exclusive photographs, original flyers and artist interviews.

In the 1950s Clement Dodds Downbeat Soundsystem was the most important sound system in downtown Kingstons burgeoning dancehall scene, fighting off the competition of Duke Reid, Tom the Great Sebastian and others. Dodd began producing his own records in the late 1950s and in 1963, the year after Jamaican Independence, he launched Studio One.

Described by Chris Blackwell as the University of Reggae, Studio One is by far the most important record label in the history of Reggae music, an A-Z of Jamaican music. It is where Bob Marley and theWailers, Horace Andy, Alton Ellis, Freddie McGregor, The Skatalites, Marcia Griffiths, Burning Spear, The Heptones, Toots and the Maytals and many more artists became stars.

As Jamaica approaches the 50th anniversary of independence, this stunning deluxe book is a timely look at Reggae musics legendary record label and the artists and musicians that it made famous.

The Cure “Stills” follows the changing faces of one of the leading British rock bands during the post-punk and new-wave movements of the late ’70s and ’80s. As the band has continued over a period of nearly 50 years, front man and only constant member Robert Smith has maintained the band’s popularity throughout the changing musical eras, while staying true to their individualistic style and quirkiness.

Instrumental in the creation of the varying incarnations of The Cure is photographer Paul Cox, who first encountered the group on Top of the Pops in 1980. Having established a creative, productive and trusting relationship with the band, Cox’s resulting work is The Cure in all their glory. Including over 200 colour and 75 black-and-white images, with accompanying captions selected and written by Cox and Smith, this book is a celebration of a seminal band through the lens of a skilled photographer. 

About the Author:

Paul’s career took off in the late 1970’s initially with a job with London Features International photographing bands at concerts and various locations. One of these was the BBC studios for Top of the Pops, where Paul first encountered The Cure in 1980.

_Over 200 colour and 75 black-and-white images of The Cure over the decades
_Accompanying captions written by frontman Robert Smith and photographer Paul Cox
_Foreword by Robert Smith
_Stunning images selected from Cox's personal archives and overseen by Robert Smith
_Included in Rough Trade's Books of the Year 2024

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An insightful look at the unprecedented rise of America’s musical obsession: gangster rap

The History of Gangster Rap is a deep dive into one of the most fascinating subgenres of any music category to date. Sixteen detailed chapters, organized chronologically, examine the evolution of gangster rap, its main players, and the culture that created this revolutionary music. From still-swirling conspiracy theories about the murders of Biggie and Tupac to the release of the 2015 film Straight Outta Compton, the era of gangster rap is one that fascinates music junkies and remains at the forefront of pop culture. Filled with interviews with key players such as Snoop Dogg, Ice-T, and dozens more, as well as sidebars, breakout bios of notorious characters, lists, charts, and more, The History of Gangster Rap is the be-all-end-all book that contextualizes the importance of gangster rap as a cultural phenomenon.

About the Author:

Soren Baker has written thousands of articles about music and culture for such outlets as the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Rolling Stone, among others. He is producing a script he wrote for Snoop Dogg. He lives in Southern California.

The Penguin Guide to the 1000 Finest Classical Recordings brings together the experience and enthusiasm of four of classical music's greatest experts, Ivan March, Edward Greenfield, Robert Layton and Paul Czajkowski, to create an essential guide to the best recordings.

Downloads, CDs and DVD mean it is possible to listen to hundreds of thousands of classical recordings today - but how do you pick your way through the vast array of music now on offer? With clear, simple, easy-to-use A to Z listings of composers and performers, the pick of the latest CD releases, as well as established landmark recordings, short guides to ballet, opera and the history of recording, and indications of budget and mid-range price CDs, this guide offers a treasury of outstanding music, whether you are just starting to build a collection or tracking down a particular favourite.

About the Authors:

Ivan March is a well-known lecturer and broadcaster, he has contributed to a number of record-reviewing magazines. He now reviews solely for Gramophone. Edward Greenfield, until his retirement in 1993, was for forty years on the staff of the Guardian, succeeding Neville Cardus as Music Critic in 1975. Robert Layton is an author, translator and critic, specializing in the music of northern Europe. Paul Czajkoski has been a fanatical record collector from almost the age he could walk to a record shop.

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The largest unique collection of printed memorabilia from the punk and post-punk movements.

Andrew Krivine began collecting punk memorabilia in 1977 when punk exploded onto the scene. Since then, Andrew has amassed one of the world's largest collection of punk graphic design and memorabilia.

This book features a carefully curated selection of over 650 posters, club flyers, record covers and adverts from the collection. Together they represent the prime years of punk which changed the world of graphic design forever with its do-it-yourself aesthetics.

The artworks are put into context by graphic design experts, academics and commentators. Among them former art director of New York Times Steven Heller, reader in graphic design at the London College of Communication Dr Russ Bestley, graphic design writer Rick Poynor, designer Malcolm Garrett and Pulitzer Prize-winning editor Michael Wilde. The book spans the growth and evolution of punk on both sides of the Atlantic including The Clash, The Buzzocks, Iggy Pop and The Stooges, Television, The Ramones, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, Devo, Blondie, Flying Lizards, Public Image Ltd, The Only Ones, The Slits, New Order, REM and Joy Division.

A collectable item itself, the book is beautifully produced with front and back cover artwork by Malcolm Garrett and Peter Saville, the designers behind some of punk's most memorable album covers. Arguably the most essential and final work on the graphic design revolution within the punk and post-punk movements of the UK and America, Too Fast To Live Too Young To Die will appeal to punk fans and graphic designers alike.

Part of Andrew's collection is currently touring the world as the Too Fast To Live Too Young To Die exhibition and has been on display at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York among other museums.

About the Author:

Andrew Krivine owns one of the largest private collections of punk and post-punk graphic design and memorabilia in the world. He began collecting when staying with his cousin John Krivine, who founded the seminal punk stores Acme Attractions and BOY in London in the 1970s. Andrew is a resident of New York, and he continues to add to his collection.

Uncovered is an oral history of the stories behind the most ground-breaking and controversial magazine covers ever published, as told by the people who created them. 

Compiled by industry veteran Ian Birch, Uncovered gathers together the insights of the magazine world’s most important figures, including high-profile editors, creative directors, photographers, artists and cover stars. 

Featuring compelling and shocking covers from Vogue, Life, Esquire, The New Yorker, i-D, The Face, Private Eye, Time, Rolling Stone and many more, covering issues as varied as the civil rights movement and Vietnam war to the Trump presidency and Brexit debate, this is a unique social document celebrating and chronicling the art of magazine design.

From the fashion and music brand and talent incubator VFILES comes a style book celebrating the young, diverse street trends influencing the hottest looks and sounds in fashion and music today.

VFILES was started for the kids in the line, the kids at the fashion shows and concerts who are always pushing culture forward. A ubiquitous social media platform at the crossroads of art, design, popular culture, and street savvy, VFILES represents what’s happening on the streets right now. Known for creating one of the buzziest shows of New York Fashion Week, VFILES regularly launches the next big talents in all areas of the music and fashion worlds.

The pages of VFILES: Style, Fashion, Music showcase the most exciting moments from VFILES’s creations and collaborations over the last ten years. The authors look at the young innovators shaping contemporary culture and highlight their influence on some of the biggest names of today. With photos of such style arbiters as Rihanna, Cardi B, Janelle Monáe, Solange, and Erykah Badu wearing VFILES designs, this book celebrates all aspects of street culture, from hair and makeup to art, design, and lingo.

A visual feast of street style, along with glamorous runway and editorial images of hip hop celebrities in their distinctive looks, these pages celebrate the intersection between music and fashion. This book embodies the VFILES credo that you can’t have fashion without music or music without fashion. And you can’t have either without the street.

About the Author:

Julie Anne Quay is the founder and CEO of VFILES. She’s served as executive editor of Visionaire and executive editor at Vogue Japan, fashion editor for Australian Vogue, and associate creative director for VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards. She was named one of Billboard’s top 25 influencers in fashion and music in 2016. Greg Foley is an award-winning author-illustrator and designer who has designed many books and a variety of other media. He was previously the creative director of Visionaire. He is the author of Cool: Style, Sound, and Subversion, published by Rizzoli.

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Taschen 25th Anniversary Series

Record covers are a sign of our life and times. Like the music on the discs, they address such issues as love, life, death, fashion, and rebellion. For music fans the covers are the expression of a period, of a particular time in their lives. Many are works of art and have become as famous as the music they stand for - Andy Warhol's covers, for example, including the banana he designed for The Velvet Underground.

This special edition of Record Covers presents a selection of the best 60s to 90s rock album covers from music archivist, disc jockey, journalist, and ex-record publicity executive Michael Ochs`s enormous private collection. Both a trip down memory lane and a study in the evolution of cover art, this is a sweeping look at an under-appreciated art form.

Jacket madness. A splendid collection of album art from the 1960s to the 90s

Record covers are a sign of our life and times. Like the music on the discs, they address such issues as love, life, death, fashion, and rebellion. For music fans the covers are the expression of a period, of a particular time in their lives. Many are works of art and have become as famous as the music they stand for — Andy Warhol's covers, for example, including the banana he designed for The Velvet Underground.

This edition of Record Covers presents a selection of the best rock album covers of the 60s to 90s from music archivist, disc jockey, journalist, and former record-publicity executive Michael Ochs’s enormous private collection. Both a trip down memory lane and a study in the evolution of cover art, this is a sweeping look at an underappreciated art form.

About the series:

Bibliotheca Universalis — Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe at an unbeatable, democratic price!

Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible, open-minded publishing. Bibliotheca Universalis brings together more than 100 of our all-time favourite titles in a neat new format so you can curate your own affordable library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia.

Bookworm’s delight — never bore, always excite!

If you thought you knew your music, then think again. 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, is totally revised and fully updated for 2021, and is the definitive guide to accompany your interest in music.

Written by top UK and US music journalists, and including a preface by Michael Lydon, the founding editor of Rolling Stone magazine, this book celebrates the great and ground-breaking albums throughout the eras - from the genesis of Fifties rock 'n' roll to the technological and electronic innovations of the 21st century.

Each entry includes key tracks and explains exactly why each of these albums deserved to be included in the list, offering an insight into the process of their creation, development, and success.

With albums from Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, The Sex Pistols, ACDC, the Beach Boys, Sonic Youth, Jack White, Green Day, and the latest from David Bowie, Beyoncé, Taylor Swift and The War On Drugs, 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die is the single most comprehensive list of music that changed the world.

Illustrated with more than 900 iconic images of album covers, bands and artists, as well as photographs from many legendary gigs, this is an absolute must-have for the musically inspired.

Biographical Notes 

Robert Dimery is a freelance writer and editor who has worked on Tony Wilson's 24 Hour Party People, Pump Up the Volume: A History of House, and 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, plus countless other popular music publications. He has also contributed to books on classic albums and classic singles, and has worked for a variety of magazines, including Time Out London and Vogue. He lives in London.

Michael Lydon was the founding editor of Rolling Stone. He is now a pop music writer and a "talking head" on radio and television. He has worked with music legends such as John Lennon, the Rolling Stones and Johnny Cash.

Written by leading music journalists from around the world, this book offers colourful insights into, and detailed information about, more than 700 years of musical endeavor. It covers the Gregorian chants of the Medieval age (pre-1400), the madrigals and more secular music of the Renaissance (1400-1600), and the ornamentation of the Baroque era.

"1001 Classical Recordings" is a guide concerned with excellence in every field of classical music. The reader becomes familiar with the Gregorian chants of the Medieval age (pre-1400), the madrigals and more secular music of the Renaissance (1400-1600), the intricate ornamentation of the Baroque era (1600-1750), the structured pieces of the Classic period (1750-1820), and the emotionally charged Romantic works (1820-1900), right through to the innovative and sometimes challenging composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. From the great and inspiring Masses, choral works, symphonies, concertos, and operas, to the intimacies and subtleties of chamber music and pieces written for small ensembles and soloists, the reader builds up a full understanding of the variety of music in the classical genre, and is guided to the most outstanding recordings of each masterpiece. Each entry is potentially a gateway to exciting new territories of music for the reader to explore.

The essential guide to guitars from throughout history, beautifully illustrated with a colour photograph of each guitar profiled.

Never before have so many guitars been profiled within a single illustrated volume. 1001 Guitars To Dream Of Playing Before You Die showcases the greatest instruments from across the globe: some are of historical or cultural significance and some were made famous by well-known musicians; others are included as examples of technological breakthroughs, innovative design or extraordinary sound quality.

From the earliest models produced by Belchior Dias in the sixteenth century to the latest Gibson "Robot" series of guitars with computer-controlled self-tuning capabilities and onboard sound-processing features, 1001 Guitars To Dream Of Playing Before You Die tells the fascinating stories behind the creation of each one. A striking colour photograph of each guitar is accompanied by specification details and illuminating text that traces the guitar's history and reveals which famous musicians like to play the instrument and on what albums it can be heard.

Chronologically structured, this visually stunning reference will enable you to trace the evolution of the guitar in sound and design and observe how and why it has altered over time. It is certain to be essential reading for guitar aficionados, guitar players and all those with an affection for this influential, beautiful and diverse instrument.

Biographical Notes 

Writer, musician and university lecturer Terry Burrows is among the world's bestselling authors on the subject of the guitar and music tuition. Author of Guitar Family Trees (2011), he has sold in excess of four million books in at least a dozen different languages - not only on music but also on subjects as diverse as history, technology and popular psychology. As a musician, he has recorded more than forty albums under a variety of pseudonyms and has appeared at prestigious festivals worldwide including the Aldeburgh classical festival.

From 'Eight Miles High' to 'Empire State of Mind', from Mississippi to Mali and from Ella Fitzgerald to Elton John, 1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die picks through nearly a century of music to bring you an inspiring selection of some of the greatest recordings ever made.

Each entry in this wonderfully browsable book tells the story of a great song. Find out what inspired the songwriter, what makes the track so enduring, which songs it influenced in turn and which cover version to listen out for. You will also pick up a wealth of fascinating trivia along the way. What links Lead Belly, Lonnie Donegan and 'Black Betty'? Whose gravestone inspired Phil Spector's first hit? And for which song did Johnny Rotten replace the singer from Def Leppard? Read on and find out.

Love your music? Then you need 1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die in your life.

3-е дополненное и переработанное издание.

Перед вами наиболее полный сборник рецензий на лучшие альбомы, охватывающий полвека истории замечательной музыки, от появления рок-н-ролла 1950-х годов до технических новшеств начала XXI века. Это поистине бесценный справочник, содержащий глубокую критику от 90 всемирно известных музыкальных журналистов, представивших детальные описания каждого альбома. Книга дополнена более чем 900 иллюстрациями - изображениями культовых обложек альбомов, фотографиями групп и музыкантов.

Здесь все великие вершины: от вдохновляющего альбома Марвина Гея 1971 года "What's Going On" до концептуального альбома Дэвида Боуи "The Rise And Fall Of Ziggi Stardust...". Погрузитесь в музыкальную историю - от знаменательной вехи поп-музыки, сборника "Pet Sounds" от "Beach Boys" до внедряющегося в сознание "Nevermind" от "Nirvana". Книга затрагивает многообразие жанров: обширный слой рок- и поп-музыки, диско, соула, хип-хопа, рэйва, экспериментальной музыки, уорлд-мьюзик вкупе с музыкой "дэнс".

Было ли вам известно, что альбом "Velvet Underground And Nico" стал источником вдохновения для Боуи и "Joy Division", "R.E.M." и "Strokes"? Ощутите вновь послевкусие судьбоносного появления Боба Дилана с электрогитарой на фолк-фестивале в Ньюпорте со своей мрачно-пророческой песней "Highway 61 Revisited".

"1001 альбом, который нужно услышать" полностью охватывает всеобщую историю музыкальной культуры, от экзотической и продвинутой до популярного мейнстрима. 

The guitar is undoubtedly the world's favourite musical instrument. This guide takes you through the originals, the best and the weirdest guitars ever made, in a convenient A-Z guide.