![]() ![]() The unadorned intimacy of Paul McCartney’s photobook 1964: Eyes of the Storm (Allen Lane, £60) makes it a treat for Beatles fans. ![]() If you want to examine the first draft of Tangled Up in Blue in Dylan’s tiny handwriting in a battered old notepad, this is the book for you. ![]() The even heftier Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine (Callaway, £80), curates more than 1,000 images and objects from the Bob Dylan Centre in Tulsa. An eccentric, rambling, bad-tempered book – as if the author has been driven half-mad by his subject – it is packed with interesting information for rabid Dylanologists. Michael Cragg takes a more light-hearted approach to just such subject matter in Reach for the Stars (Nine Eight Books, £25), an amusing and surprisingly poignant oral history of post-Britpop bubblegum pop, from the Spice Girls to S Club 7.Ĭlinton Heylin adds to the countless books on Bob Dylan already out there with the completion of his mammoth revisionist biography The Double Life of Bob Dylan: Vol. A worthy project, albeit academically dry and fawning, it belongs to a wider trend for the more ephemeral aspects of popular music to be treated with serious critical interest. There is a more positive narrative in Mary Gabriel’s exhaustive 800-plus-page biography Madonna: A Rebel Life (Coronet, £35), which contextualises the reigning female pop superstar in contemporary social history, arguing the case for Madonna as one of the most influential feminists of our times. Ultimately, it is a story not so much about music but of how women are routinely mistreated by the music business and the media. Modern fame has claimed many victims, but what sets this tragedy apart is that it ends on a note of redemption, as the victim of cruel abuse gets the final word. Related by Spears with a degree of understatement that belies her fury, it details how her innocently joyous instinct for pop music was exploited by both the industry and her family to turn her into a cash cow with no control over her own life. Britney Spears: The Woman in Me (Gallery, £25) allows the embattled superstar to tell her own story, and it is not a pretty one. She loves to play with DJ’s and their crowd pleasing tricks.The year’s most riveting music book came from a surprising source. She has the ability to adapt and brings you the masterful art of improvising. Having worked with top jazz & pop musicians - David McAlmont (Amy Winehouse. She is effortless in her playing and her electric energy can be heard on many albums at festivals (Lattitude, Edinburgh) & on stages (Ronnie Scots & Pizza Express) Katy has been gracing stages since a young age. Her delicate, yet strong vocals and charismatic stage presence always ensure some brilliant entertainment, highlighted by her impressive violin playing. After years of friendship and collaborating on a variety of successful projects, Saxophonist Katy and singer/violinist Oriana have partnered once again to create their brand new band ‘Pink Cactus’.Ĭombining their expertise in live performances and love for electronic music, they are the soul of the party.īBC music TV judge Oriana has had three of her original songs signed with leader Spanish electronic label ‘Blanco y Negro’ (Moby, Carl Cox, Don Diablo), charting earlier this year with her track ‘T’en va pas, in collaboration with The S-project.
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