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After the release of the Rolling Stones's psychedelic album Their Satanic Majesties Request in 1967, many feared that the bad boys of rock had sacrificed their raw, bluesy edge to love, peace, and flower power. No need to worry. Salvation was at hand with Beggars Banquet, featuring "Sympathy for the Devil" and "Street Fighting Man." The album was a storming return to Satanism, social revolution, and celebrations of the working man. Author Alan Clayson explores the social and cultural developments of the time, the ways that the changing dynamics of the band affected the music, and how the songs took shape. From the latest swinging happenings down on Carnaby Street, to who Mick was sleeping with, to what Keith was taking, Legendary Sessions: The Rolling Stones: Beggars Banquet is an entertaining trip through rock history. -- Publisher's description

Serge Gainsbourg is synonymous with Je T'Aime...Moi Non Plus on which he and Jane Birkin simulated the sounds of sexual congress. But this 1969 UK no. 1 was but a sideshow in an impressive career as a composer, novelist, film director and actor. The first full biography in English, Alan Clayson's book reveals the entire sordid story. Gainsbourg was an inlikely pop star and an even less likely lover of icons like Birkin, Brigitte Bardot and Catherine Deneuve. But from humble beginnings he went on to write songs for Dionne Warwick and Sacha Distel. A natural at courting controversy, his outrages included a scandalous arrangement of La Marseillaise among songs on female masturbation, incest, Nazism, and, in 1988, a rapping ode to oral sex. He continued to be newsworthy the world over until his body's final rebellion at the age of 61, after a lifetime of violation.

Renowned party animal and phenomenal drummer for The Who, Keith Moon lived fast and died young. Not a typical biography, this compendium of stories, facts, photos, and analysis is divided up by subject and details all aspects of Moon's personal and professional life. Among the topics discussed are his promising film career, his unique drumming style, his obsessions and addictive personality, and a notorious period in the 1970s called "the lost weekend." Interviews and commentary from some of his closest friends and contemporaries, such as Viv Stanshall, Harry Nilsson, Frank Zappa, and Screaming Lord Sutch, and more than 60 photographs fill in the details of Moon's short life.

For many years, John Lennon has been seen as the crazed, eccentric yet obscenely talented "engine room of The Beatles", providing some of the most memorable melodies the music world has ever known. After remaking pop in his own image with The Beatles, the erstwhile would-be artist and Liverpudlian reprobate went on to carve out a significant solo career, the enigmatic Yoko Ono at his side. Following his murder in 1980, in a country to which he was for so long denied entry, his work and life took on mythic status, elevating him to near-godhood, his role as mentor to a musical generation assured. In John Lennon, accomplished author Alan Clayson continues his four-volume study of the four Liverpool lads who rocked the world to discover the truth behind the myth of this most controversial, antagonistic yet publicly adored genius. Book jacket.

A four-part boxed set dedicates a volume to each of the Beatles, discussing their lives and musical backgrounds while drawing on interviews with fellow artists, family members, and friends to provide insight into the unique contributions that each made to the band. 50,000 first printing.

Alan Clayson's Beatles Box was that rarity in Beatles studies: a set of biographies of each of the Moptops by a single expert. Now that set is available in a handy condensed form as The Little Box of Beatles.

The book explores the life and work of Edgard Varese, a French composer who shaped the sound of industrial society, contrasting with Debussy's focus on pastoral themes. It delves into Varese's innovative approaches to music and how his compositions reflected the complexities of modern life, showcasing his significant influence on the evolution of contemporary music.

Well-researched and frank, this full biography includes an account of Harrison's rivalries, drug abuse, religious obsession, marital ructions, artistic plagarism and finally his reputation as a talented, charitable, middle-aged musician.

A frank and often brutal account of how British idols-in-waiting served their apprenticeship for fame in the music, the personalities, the club scene, the sex, the prostitution, the drugs, the return home.