Carol Clerk

Lavishly presented and illustrated, this book explores the bold, colourful and enduring popular designs that were perfected across two World Wars, explains their history, symbolism and social significance, and delves into the colourful lives of the era's most famous practitioners.

A Sourcebook for Old-School Designs and Tattoo Artists

Vintage Tattoos

Stacey Appel

This updated edition now includes details of Madonna's new 2012 album and subsequent World Tour, her advertising campaigns for Louis Vuitton and Dolce & Gabbana, her clothing lines for H&M and her own Material Girl label as well as her Hard Candy album and videos for Celebration, Four Minutes and Beat Goes On.Here is a dazzling exploration of a unique pop-culture goddess. How does she do it? The answer comes in the form of this sumptuous collection of Madonna's style effects. Every visual aspect of Madonna is shown including her wildly inventive catalogue of personae that she and her style army have conjured over the years. The result is an absolutely stunning one-woman fashion show that spans nearly half a century.

Madonna Style

This is Hawkwind… Soyez prudent ! Chaos, drogues, sexe, bagarres, complots, menaces, mutineries et vengeances sont au menu. L’histoire d’Hawkwind est une histoire incomparable où tous les coups sont permis. Lemmy, futur leader de Motörhead et Ginger Baker, légendaire batteur de Cream, ont été tous les deux recrachés comme des noyaux par ce groupe livré au chaos perpétuel. Ils se battaient contre le pouvoir, mais aussi entre eux, comme des chiffonniers, et souvent pour des pacotilles. Mais cette histoire regorge aussi de poésie, de fantastique, de science-fiction haut de gamme, de danseurs et de costumes extravagants, de spectacles hors normes, de sons électroniques et de stridences, de folie psychédélique et de grosses lignes de basse, de light-shows et de riffs hypnotiques. Hawkwind, c’est tout cela jeté dans un énorme shaker, et même beaucoup plus encore. Cette saga chaotique s’étend sur quatre décennies. C’est l’histoire d’un groupe issu de l’underground anglais des années soixante et qui, jusqu’à aujourd’hui, s’est bâti une solide réputation, en jouant dans les festivals gratuits et en donnant des concerts de soutien. Avec l’invention de la transe à base de riffs hypnotiques, Hawkwind était diablement en avance sur son temps. Mick Slattery, premier guitariste du groupe, en frémit encore : « Dikmik bidouillait son générateur, Nik soufflait comme un dingue dans son sax, Dave et moi on jouait en feedback, comme Jimi Hendrix, et Terry massacrait ses fûts. Les stroboscopes jetaient dans ce chaos une pointe de folie furieuse ! » Ce space-rock psychédélique et électronico-punkoïde unique au monde qui flirtait avec l’avant-garde va d’ailleurs initier la scène électro en Angleterre. Les fans de metal et les bikers sont toujours venus grossir les rangs d’un public resté fidèle. Comme par miracle, Hawkwind a survécu. Tel un vieux capitaine de flibuste, Dave Brock maintient le cap, l’œil rivé sur l’horizon.

HAWKWIND La Saga

CAMION BLANC

Hawkwind emerged in 1969 from Ladbroke Grove, the heartland of London’s counterculture, to become a ‘people’s band’ supported by bikers and hippies alike as they staged free gigs, benefits and protests and welcomed the involvement of any number of creative people – writers, poets, dancers – from within their community. They insisted upon all these things even with the Top Three success of 1972’s enduring anthem Silver Machine and the pioneering Space Ritual projects. They have had more line-up changes than their only remaining founder member Dave Brock, can remember. Motorhead’s Lemmy and legendary Cream drummer Ginger Baker were just two of the musicians sacrificed along the way as the band went head to head with the police, customs, the taxman – and each other. With the memories of many of those who were there, this is the story of an extraordinary 35-year career, the music and the band, whose fans still loyally turn out for conventions and are rewarded with ‘private festivals’, set against a background of sex, drugs, madness, writs, rage and revenge.

The Saga of Hawkwind

The Light at the End of the Tunnel : the Official Biography

The Book of the Damned

The story of The Pogues has been as riotous as their most rabble-rousing songs. From the streets of 80s London the Celtic Punks unleashed their hellraising 20-year career and in the process became legends; mythic troubadours whose popularity endures. This Omnibus Enhanced edition of Kiss My Arse has been revamped with an interactive digital timeline which paints the journey of The Pogues with videos and images of live performances, interviews, memorabilia and more. Also included is an integrated Spotify playlist containing the band’s greatest performances. To tell their story author Carol Clerk has interviewed Shane MacGowan, Spider Stacy, Jem Finer, Andrew Ranken, James Fearnley, Cait O'Riordan, and a clutch of associates, friends and fans. All paint a picture of a fiercely loyal group of musicians, their arguments and drunken spats, their love affairs, the drugs, the hirings and the firings, the marriages and deaths… but, above all, the music. This is their story, bared for all.

Kiss My Arse: The Story of the Pogues

Paul Elliott

Immerse yourself in the glorious story of Black Sabbath with the stories of their classic songs, in one beautifully illustrated volume. This celebration of 50 years of Sabbath includes rare-on-the-page memorabilia throughout the book as it tells the story of the band and all their classic songs, as well as the hugely popular hits from Ozzy as a solo artist.

Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne

A fascinating glimpse into the world of Ozzy Osbourne, rock legend, creator of Ozzfest, and star of his own highly popular TV show, reveals an intelligent, compassionate, and brilliant songwriter; traces his illustrious career; and detais his many controversial exploits. Original.

Carol Clerk

About

Books

Join the club