Motion Pictures from the Fabulous 1980's

Motion Pictures from the Fabulous 1980's
Author: Terry Rowan
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2015-06-27
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1329246500

The decade of the 1980s and its movies and events that shape this Comeback decade. The Reagan Years. Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Cher, and Madonna. The Berlin Wall coming down..

Motown

Motown
Author: Bill Dahl
Publisher: Krause Publications
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2001
Genre: Soul music
ISBN:

Details the careers of legends such as Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, The Jackson 5, and The Temptations. Features an A-to-Z listing and biography of nearly every Motown group since Motown's beginning in 1959.

Mary Wells

Mary Wells
Author: Peter Benjaminson
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2012-11-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 161374529X

Complete with never-before-revealed details about the sex, violence, and drugs in her life, this biography reveals the incredibly turbulent life of Motown artist Mary Wells. Based in part on four hours of previously unreleased and unpublicized deathbed interviews with Wells, this account delves deeply into her rapid rise and long fall as a recording artist, her spectacular romantic and family life, the violent incidents in which she was a participant, and her abuse of drugs. From tumultuous affairs, including one with R&B superstar Jackie Wilson, to a courageous battle with throat cancer that climaxed in her gutsiest performance, this history draws upon years of interviews with Wells's friends, lovers, and husband to tell the whole story of a woman whose songs crossed the color line and whose voice captivated the Beatles.

Every Chart Topper Tells a Story

Every Chart Topper Tells a Story
Author: Sharon Davis
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 459
Release: 2012-01-06
Genre: Music
ISBN: 178057410X

The seventies witnessed great changes not only in dress style but also in music. The psychedelia of the late sixties had mutated into glam rock by the early seventies, while the latter half of the decade is best remembered for the punk and disco explosions which gripped both Britain and America. The number-one singles of the decade are recalled in Every Chart Topper Tells a Story: The Seventies, from artists as diverse as Gary Glitter, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix, Diana Ross, The Bee Gees, T-Rex, Commodores, Donny Osmond, The Three Degrees and Abba. It is the ideal volume both for those wanting a trip down memory lane and for serious music connoisseurs.

Fantastic Fist/MowTown

Fantastic Fist/MowTown
Author: Gabe Soria
Publisher: Penguin Workshop
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2019
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1524784338

Wandering the city streets at night, you discover an abandoned game palace located in a basement storefront. Presented with a magical game token, you select one of two games you wish to play, Fantastic Fist or MowTown. Your decisions control whether you beat the game, or die. In Fantastic Fist you fight goons and crooked cops to rescue your partner, taken from you in the middle of your wedding. In Mowtown you mow lawns with a vengeance, establishing yourself as the hot new lawncare mogul in town. Both games feature unique challenges and life-like game play that will delight readers, and the most important choice in either game for those now trapped inside them, is the one that will keep them alive.

The Motown Story

The Motown Story
Author: Don Waller
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Total Pages: 262
Release: 1985
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

To Be Loved

To Be Loved
Author: Berry Gordy
Publisher: Rosetta Books
Total Pages: 587
Release: 2013-12-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0795333706

The story of Motown Records and how it changed the course of American music, as told by its founder—“an African American culture hero of historic stature” (The New York Times). Berry Gordy Jr., who once considered becoming a boxer, started a record company with a family loan of $800 in 1959. Gordy’s company, Motown Records, went on to create some of the most popular music of all time. By the time he sold the company nearly thirty years later, it was worth $61 million and had produced musical legends including Jackie Wilson, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, the Temptations, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Stevie Wonder, and the Jackson 5. Here, the revolutionary who shattered the color barrier in the American entertainment industry and forever changed the way the world hears music, shares his story of ambition and vision. From humble beginnings, Gordy amassed a fortune and became a musical kingmaker in the cultural heydays of the 1960s and ’70s. Quelling rumors and detailing his relationships with the artists he managed, Gordy pens “a vivid recreation of a great period and a seminal company in popular music” (Kirkus Reviews).

1977

1977
Author: Michael Fitzalan
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2017-10-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0244004528

A teenager and the punk revolution, a clash of hormones and The Undertones; what was it really like in London in the aftermath of the punk explosion. Looking back on the summer of Seventy six and reeling from the power of punk in the following year, Michael reveals the excruciating details of growing up in the punk period.

All Music Guide

All Music Guide
Author: Vladimir Bogdanov
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 1508
Release: 2001
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780879306274

Arranged in sixteen musical categories, provides entries for twenty thousand releases from four thousand artists, and includes a history of each musical genre.

Art of the Cut

Art of the Cut
Author: Steve Hullfish
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2024-07-18
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 104003649X

This is the second volume of the widely acclaimed Art of the Cut book published in 2017. This follow-up text expands on its predecessor with wisdom from more than 360 interviews with the world’s best editors (including nearly every Oscar winner from the last 30 years). Because editing is a highly subjective art form, and one that is critical to the success of motion picture storytelling, it requires side-by-side comparisons of the many techniques and solutions used by a wide range of editors from around the world. That is why this book compares and contrasts methodologies from a wide array of diverse voices and organizes that information so that it is easily digested and understood. There is no one way to approach editorial problems, so this book allows readers to see multiple solutions from multiple editors. The interviews contained within are carefully curated into topics that are most important to film editors and those who aspire to become film editors. The questions asked, and the organization of the book, are not merely an academic or theoretical view of the art of editing but rather the practical advice and methodologies of actual working film and TV editors, bringing benefits to both students and professional readers. The book is supplemented by a collection of downloadable online exclusive chapters, which cover additional topics ranging from Choosing the Project to VFX. In addition to the supplementary chapters, access to the full-color, full-resolution images printed in the book—and other exclusive images—is included.