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This illustrated biography shows how four friends from Liverpool became the most popular musical group in history: The Beatles! Each book comes with a complimentary poster of the band. It also includes a prologue by Jordi Sierra i Fabra.

El presente volumen recoge una rigurosa pesquisa del musicólogo cubano José Reyes Fortún, acerca del desarrollo de los registros fonográficos en Cuba desde mediados del siglo XIX, con su embrionario cilindro de metal cubierto con cera, hasta los diversos soportes digitales contemporáneos de la música y los audovisuales. El autor, además, nos ofrece un resumido panorama de intérpretes solistas y agrupaciones, de diverso formato, cuyas fijaciones discográficas los lanzaron a la popularidad; todo esto mediante emotivas viñetas personales que nos permiten revivir la imagen verdadera de...

Since it was first published in 1975, Mystery Train has cemented itself in the canon of great rock literature, offering one of the most astute, fascinating visions of the genre. Greil Marcus traces the emotional landscape and zeitgeist of an entire continent through the lens of the music of six of the most influential bands and musicians: from the pioneering Harmonica Frank to the tortured universe of blues singer Robert Johnson; from The Band and their dream to create a community grounded in rootlessness to the chaotic friction of Sly and the Family Stone; and from Randy Newman’s struggle...

On October 15, 1967, bass player Steve Boone took the Ed Sullivan Show stage for the final time, with his band The Lovin' Spoonful. Since forming in a Greenwich Village hotel in early 1965, Boone and his bandmates had released an astounding nine Top 20 singles, the first seven of which hit the Billboard Top 10, including the iconic Boone co-writes "Summer in the City" and "You Didn't Have to Be So Nice." Little did Steve Boone know that the path of his life and career would soon take a turn for the bizarre, one that would eventually find him looking at the world through the bars of a jail...