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  Classic Rock & Rock Radio...

  Frank Zappa, The Grateful Dead

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  Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 - December 4, 1993) was an American composer, singer-songwriter, guitarist, recording engineer, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa Zappa produced almost all of the more than 60 albums he released with the band, The Mothers of Invention, and as a solo artist. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California. The founding members were Jerry Garcia (lead guitar, vocals), Bob Weir (rhythm guitar, vocals), Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (keyboards, harmonica, vocals), Phil Lesh (bass, vocals), Bill Kreutzmann (drums) and, later, Mickey Hart (drums).The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, improvisational jazz, psychedelia, and space rock, and for live performances of long musical improvisation. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. This fascinating audio program includes actual radio commercials from the 1960s for each of the bands.

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  French Chic - 21 French Style...

  Sophie Claire

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  Discover how YOU can dress like the world's chicest women. Did you know that french women look on average 7 years younger than british women? Have you ever wondered "how do they do it?". Imagine if you knew the style secrets of a parisian woman. Imagine if you could dress french chic and look gorgeous everyday. Effortlessly. We all know. Putting together the right outfit can be such a hassle. The truth is, french women look so gorgeous because of their own style secrets. In french fashion there are so many little known tips and tricks that drastically improve the way you look. Dressing elegantly like a french woman has its own rules. Once you learn them, putting together amazing french chic outfits will be easy. But don't worry. Being chic doesn't mean dressing in a boring and dull way. That is not the essence of french chic. This book is a guide to create your own unique fashion signature. French chic is more than fashion, it's a style of living. It's the french style. In this book you'll learn exactly how to dress and look french chic. You will find 21 easy-to-follow french style lessons that will teach you all the secrets of the chicest parisian women. Every lesson you'll read is geared towards a particular area of fashion and beauty. You'll discover how easy it is to look gorgeous and, most important, feel confident and beautiful. Some French Chic lessons you’ll discover in the book: 9 fashion items you must add to your wardrobe, how to pair your outfit the right way, 8 fashion errors to avoid (most people don’t know them), how to dress according to your unique body shape, French chic’s best colors and fabrics, and skincare and makeup advice.

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  Beyond the Spotlight - : How to...

  Stephen Bull, Alexa Morden

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  This evidence-informed roadmap shows you how to thrive in an industry where rejection is part of the job and only 2 per cent of actors make a living from performing. Beyond the Spotlight is your survival guide and inspiration for building a fulfilling career in the performing arts. Whether your chasing your first role or questioning your place in the industry, Beyond The Spotlight offers guidance and skills for any stage of your career.
  Beyond the Spotlight pulls back the curtain on the performing arts industry, revealing what it really takes to succeed.
  This book helpfully attests to the trials, tribulations (and sometimes triumphs!) of being an actor, through a practical and actionable lens.
  Phil Dunster, Actor & Emmy Award Nominee
  This book is like a long overdue chat with a best friend and a world-class coaching session rolled into one.
  Matt Holt, Award-winning Screen Director
  This book helps free the human underneath the actor, which is vital for happiness, career longevity and mental health.
  Elena Kirschner, Talent Agent

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  A Rare Recording of Film Icon...

  Sophia Loren

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  Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone (born on September 20, 1934), known professionally as Sophia Loren, was an Italian actress considered one of the last major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema. Her career spanned over 70 years, highlighted by her performance in the 1960 film, Two Women, which earned her a Best Actress Oscar. Loren has also received five special Golden Globes, a BAFTA Award, a Grammy Award, and an Honorary Academy Award for lifetime achievements. The following is a recording from 1958 when Loren was 23-years-old.

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  Soulful Stitch - Finding...

  Cas Holmes, Deena Beverley

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  A thoughtful, meditative guide to the ways creative textile art can soothe and comfort us during challenging times.
  Renowned British textile artists Cas Holmes and Deena Beverley, each well known for their richly textured, deeply evocative work in stitch, collaborate for the first time in this important and timely book. Beautifully illustrated with a wealth of work from both artists along with other embroiderers and textile artists from around the world, Soulful Stitch documents a wide range of stitched responses to crisis, both personal and global. With invaluable advice on how to develop your own work in times of trouble, it explores:
  • How the restrictions and trials of everyday life can inform your textile work, enabling you to develop imaginative new approaches.
  • The healing power of stitch to soothe and console, with the simple act of putting needle into fabric providing a mindful route to inner calm.
  • Practical ways to continue with your textile art practice in the face of seismic life changes, finding creative opportunity in difficult situations.
  • How to use found objects, repurposed threads and personal items to create deep emotional resonance in your own work.
  Both authors have recent lived experience of having to navigate new paths through big life challenges, making this book particularly heartfelt. It truly demonstrates how even in the toughest times, creativity in textile art can keep you afloat.

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  Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters

  Lynnée Denise

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  A queer, Black “biography in essays” about the performer who gave us “Hound Dog,” “Ball and Chain,” and other songs that changed the course of American music. 
   
  Born in Alabama in 1926, raised in the church, appropriated by white performers, buried in an indigent’s grave—Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton's life events epitomize the blues—but Lynnée Denise pushes past the stereotypes to read Thornton’s life through a Black, queer, feminist lens and reveal an artist who was an innovator across her four-decade-long career. 
   
  Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters “samples” elements of Thornton’s art—and, occasionally, the author’s own story—to create “a biography in essays” that explores the life of its subject as a DJ might dig through a crate of records. Denise connects Thornton’s vaudevillesque performances in Sammy Green’s Hot Harlem Revue to the vocal improvisations that made “Hound Dog” a hit for Peacock Records (and later for Elvis Presley), injecting music criticism into what’s often framed as a cautionary tale of record-industry racism. She interprets Thornton’s performing in men’s suits as both a sly, Little Richard–like queering of the Chitlin Circuit and a simple preference for pants over dresses that didn’t have a pocket for her harmonica. Most radical of all, she refers to her subject by her given name rather than "Big Mama," a nickname bestowed upon her by a white man. It's a deliberate and crucial act of reclamation, because in the name of Willie Mae Thornton is the sound of Black musical resilience.

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