The Official Charts - the Sixties

The Official Charts - the Sixties
Author: Graham Betts
Publisher:
Total Pages: 543
Release: 2019-08-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781731485595

The Official Charts: The Sixties is an essential gathering together of all the UK's Official charts, week-by-week, as the full published chart, chronicling the shifting fashions and trends of that most memorable of decades. That means more than 500 weeks of singles charts. These are the charts recognised by the music industry as their official rundowns (as curated today by the Official Charts Company - and made available at OfficialCharts.com). This means the charts broadcast by BBC Radio 1 and Top Of The Pops, and published by music industry magazine Music Week. This is the first time the full charts have been gathered together in the same place in a printed volume and is the latest in a series of books which, over the coming months, will make up a collection of volumes spanning every week of the UK's Official singles and albums charts from 1952 to the present day. Also included are the accompanying EP Charts, which were published between March 1960 and December 1967. Published at the same time as this title is the companion volume, The Official Albums Charts: The Sixties. The additional volumes on the rest of the UK's great chart decades are coming your way very soon.

The Official Albums Charts - The Eighties

The Official Albums Charts - The Eighties
Author: Graham Betts
Publisher:
Total Pages: 550
Release: 2019-03-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781724487087

The Official Albums Charts: The Eighties is an unmissable collection of all the UK's Official charts, week-by-week - full Top 75s, chronicling the great variety of music reflected by the most popular albums, on vinyl, CD, cassette (even 8-Track), in this most memorable of decades. These are the rundowns recognised by the music industry as their official charts, as curated today by the Official Charts Company and available at OfficialCharts.com - and including the Official Compilation Albums Charts from 14 January 1989.This is the first time these Top 75s and Top 100s have been gathered together in the same place in a printed volume and is the first in a series of books which, over the coming months, will make up a collection of volumes spanning every week of the UK's Official albums and singles charts from 1952 to the present day. Published at the same time as this title is the companion volume, The Official Singles Charts: The Eighties. Additional volumes on the rest of the UK's great chart decades are coming your way very soon.

Hit Singles

Hit Singles
Author:
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2004
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780879308087

(Book). This entertaining book presents the U.S. and U.K. Top 20 charts side by side, month by month showing how rock and pop developed on each side of the Atlantic. Fully updated, it lists the hits from 1954 through 2003. Alongside every song listing, readers will find important facts such as the artist's name and nationality, current and previous month's chart position, record label, weeks on the chart, and simultaneous position on the other side of the pond. Includes an alphabetical listing of song titles with artists, and an alphabetical listing of artists with song titles and chart-entry dates, enabling easy cross-referencing to help you track down any Top 20 record since 1954.

Men Out of Focus

Men Out of Focus
Author: Marko Dumančić
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2020-12-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1487531850

Men Out of Focus charts conversations and polemics about masculinity in Soviet cinema and popular media during the liberal period – often described as "The Thaw" – between the death of Stalin in 1953 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. The book shows how the filmmakers of the long 1960s built stories around male protagonists who felt disoriented by a world that was becoming increasingly suburbanized, rebellious, consumerist, household-oriented, and scientifically complex. The dramatic tension of 1960s cinema revolved around the male protagonists’ inability to navigate the challenges of postwar life. Selling over three billion tickets annually, the Soviet film industry became a fault line of postwar cultural contestation. By examining both the discussions surrounding the period’s most controversial movies as well as the cultural context in which these debates happened, the book captures the official and popular reactions to the dizzying transformations of Soviet society after Stalin.

This Day in Music

This Day in Music
Author: Neil Cossar
Publisher:
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2014-08
Genre: Rock music
ISBN: 9781783055104

Births, deaths and marriages, No1 singles, drug busts and arrests, famous gigs and awards... all these and much more appear in this fascinating 50 year almanac.Using a page for every day of the calendar year, the author records a variety of rock and pop events that took place on a given day of the month across the years.This Day in Music is fully illustrated with hundreds of pictures, cuttings and album covers, making this the must-have book for any pop music fan.

Anti Diva

Anti Diva
Author: Carole Pope
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2023-08-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1039010474

Throughout her career, Carole Pope has blazed a trail for the diva and anti-diva in all of us, and here she offers a no-holds-barred look at her adventures in the music scene – on the concert stage, in the recording studio, and in the bedroom. Known for ushering Canada from the punk movement of the 1970s to the new wave sound of the 1980s with Rough Trade, she candidly shares her thoughts on AIDS, sexuality and sexual politics, and the new breed of music divas that dominates the charts today.

The Official Albums Chart - the Seventies

The Official Albums Chart - the Seventies
Author: Graham Betts
Publisher:
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2019-10-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9781790557028

The Official Albums Charts: The Seventies is an unmissable collection of all the UK's Official charts, week-by-week, as full Top 75s and chronicling the great variety of music reflected by the most popular albums, on vinyl, CD, cassette (even 8-Track), in this most memorable of decades. That all adds up to more than 500 weeks of album charts. These are the rundowns recognised by the music industry as their official charts (and as curated today by the Official Charts Company - and made available at OfficialCharts.com). That means the charts broadcast at the time by BBC Radio 1 and Top Of The Pops, and published by music industry magazine Music Week.This is the first time these Top 75s have been gathered together in the same place in a printed volume and is the latest in a series of books which, over the coming months, will make up a collection of volumes spanning every week of the UK's Official albums and singles charts from 1952 to the present day. Published at the same time as this title is the companion volume, The Official Singles Charts: The Seventies. The additional volumes on the rest of the UK's great chart decades are coming your way very soon.

The Virgin Book of British Hit Singles

The Virgin Book of British Hit Singles
Author: Martin Roach
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 664
Release: 2008
Genre: Popular music
ISBN: 0753515377

From Arctic Monkeys and ABBA to the Zutons and Ziggy Stardust, from 'Anarchy in the UK' to 'Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah' - and over 30,000 hit singles in between - this collector's must-have contains everything you could possibly want to know about every single to reach the charts since 1952. Packed full of charts, lists, facts and timelines as well as up-to-date information, extensive cross references and analysis from Martin Roach this is the perfect book for music buffs, downloaders glued to iPods and budding Mark Ronsons. This new edition, previously published by Guinness World Records, is the first to be published under the Virgin brand with a whole new look. With new feature material covering a huge range of areas, bands and history from industry-insider Martin Roach, it's an essential part of any serious music fan's collection.

The Bee Gees in the 1960s

The Bee Gees in the 1960s
Author: Andrew Mon Hughes
Publisher: Decades
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2021-10-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9781789521481

In April 1967, the Bee Gees launched themselves onto the international music scene with the release of 'New Yok Mining Disaster 1941'. Whilst that haunting classic would be the first of many hits, the Bee Gees consisting of brothers Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb had been releasing records since 1963. As extraordinary as it sounds, with more than ten years of performing and four years of recording behind them, the Gibb twins, Robin and Maurice, were just seventeen while elder brother Barry was only twenty. In an incredible career the Bee Gees would go on to sell over 200 million records, making them among the best-selling music artists of all time, they would be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Australian Recording Industry's Hall of Fame, and the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and receive lifetime achievement awards from the British Phonographic Industry, the American Music Awards, World Music Awards and the Grammys. According to Billboard magazine the Bee Gees are one of top three most successful bands in their charts' history. Few musical groups have provided the soundtrack to our lives like the Bee Gees, and it all started in the fascinating decade that was the 1960s.

The Complete Book of the British Charts

The Complete Book of the British Charts
Author: Neil Warwick
Publisher: Omnibus Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781844490585

The updated third edition of the only chart book that lists singles, EPs, and albums in one volume.The official UK chart began in 1952 and this epic work of reference includes absolutely every charting album, single and EP up to December 2003. The hits are arranged by artist and are identified by country of origin, label, chart position, and number of weeks in the chart. Also includes a †̃Statistics' section.