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  The Beatles 101 - A Pocket Guide...

  Vikki Reilly

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  A brief history of all things Fab Four, from their songs, albums, and films to their milestones, controversies, and more. 
   
  The Beatles are not only a rock ‘n’ roll group, but a social and cultural phenomenon that have captivated music fans for decades. For many, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr changed everything. 
   
  This guide distils their amazing story into 101 informative and entertaining chapters, taking you from their rough and ready early Liverpool days through their world-shattering success in sound, stage and screen, to an afterlife that could never have been predicted when they first started out. Here, you’ll find facts and figures about their chartbusting songs, albums and films, meet the people that helped them along the way, and visit milestones and controversies such as their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show, meeting Elvis Presley, John Lennon’s “Bigger than Jesus” comments, experimenting with drugs and the avant-garde, and starting up Apple. 
   
  The Beatles 101 is a perfect introduction for new fans, a refresher for superfans, and ideal reading for quizmasters everywhere.

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  Who Goes There - 50th...

  Nick Nickygriffiths

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  Who Goes There; is the sequel to Nick's hugely popular Doctor Who memoir, Dalek I Loved You (Gollancz, 2007 & 2008). It's a travel book with Doctor Who at its core. Nick travels England and Wales, seeking locations used in the show, both Classic (pre-relaunch) and New. Being an odd kind of show, its locations too are odd. This is no glamorous trip. Dungeness Nuclear Power Station, anyone? A flooded china clay pit in Cornwall? As he travels, so Nick discovers another side to our well-trodden country, which is no less evocative. Then he goes to the pub. As in Dalek I Loved You, the travel writing is backed up by Nick's childhood reminiscences and contemporary musings. A companion website offers photographs from the trip, a Google map of the locations and details of the nearest pub. In this innovative way, readers are invited to follow in his footsteps. Scariest of all, given two other books in the pipeline (both humour books, for Arcturus Publishing), Nick has just 21 days in which to write it. Who Goes There isn't just for Who fans - it's for anyone who fancies a trip off the beaten path. And a very funny book.

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  Louie Anderson: Big Underwear

  Louie Anderson

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  In his new special, Louie reflects on his experiences traveling across the country, and his journey to a healthier lifestyle. Whether discussing what to do with his massive collection of big underwear, or looking back on the hilarious details of his parents’ idiosyncrasies, Louie keeps his audience in an uproar. The special was taped on November 12, 2017 at the Palace Theatre in Los Angeles, California.

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  Inflammatory

  Nick Di Paolo

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  If you believe in Safe Spaces, run to yours now, as Nick Di Paolo once again shows why he’s the master of slaughtering sacred cows and being absolutely hilarious while doing so. Laugh along as he treats subjects as sensitive as domestic violence, transgender bathrooms and black parenting with all the sentimentality of a Bill Belicheck press conference. In an increasingly humorless society, Di Paolo’s voice is needed now more than ever.

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  Expressive Intersections in...

  Heather Platt, Peter H. Smith

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  “This exceptionally fine collection brings together many of the best analysts of Brahms, and nineteenth-century music generally, in the English-speaking world today.” —Nineteenth-Century Music Review   Contributors to this exciting volume examine the intersection of structure and meaning in Brahms’s music, utilizing a wide range of approaches, from the theories of Schenker to the most recent analytical techniques. They combine various viewpoints with the semiotic-based approaches of Robert Hatten, and address many of the most important genres in which Brahms composed. The essays reveal the expressive power of a work through the comparison of specific passages in one piece to similar works and through other artistic realms such as literature and painting. The result of this intertextual re-framing is a new awareness of the meaningfulness of even Brahms’s most “absolute” works.   “Through its unique combination of historical narrative, expressive content, and technical analytical approaches, the essays in Expressive Intersections in Brahms will have a profound impact on the current scholarly discourse surrounding Brahms analysis.” —Notes

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  Las Vegas Connection: Andrew...

  Bart Torres

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  Bart Torres interviewed comedian Andrew Dice Clay in 2010; the night before he started a headlining residency at the famous Las Vegas Hilton. Clay talked about how it felt to have a residency at what was famously Elvis Presley’s home theater, and how he idolized rock stars like Elvis rather than comedians growing up. He also shared some impressions, including one of Elvis.

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