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In this memoir, singer-songwriter Patti Smith shares tales of New York City : the denizens of Max's Kansas City, the Hotel Chelsea, Scribner's, Brentano's and Strand bookstores and her new life in Brooklyn with a young man named Robert Mapplethorpe--the man who changed her life with his love, friendship, and genius.
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"Popular music was in a creative upheaval in the late 1970s. As the singer-songwriter and producer Chris Stamey remembers, the old guard had become bloated, cartoonish, and widely co-opted by a search for maximum corporate profits, and we wanted none of it. In A Spy in the House of Loud, he takes us back to the auteur explosion happening in New York clubs such as the Bowery's CBGB as Television, Talking Heads, R.E.M., and other innovative bands were...
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[2018]
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Illustrated edition.
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English
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Patti's Smith's exquisite prose is generously illustrated in this full-color edition of her classic coming-of-age memoir, Just Kids. New York locations vividly come to life where, as young artists, Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe met and fell in love: a first apartment in Brooklyn, Times Square with John and Yoko's iconic billboard, Max's Kansas City, or the gritty fire escape of the Hotel Chelsea. The extraordinary people who passed through their...
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[2009]
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"The history of jazz is anecdotal"-this insight by O'Neal, a photographer and the president of independent jazz label Chiaroscuro Records, inspired him to assemble this historical portrait of jazz in Harlem. Between 1985 and 2007, O'Neal interviewed 42 jazz greats, only four of whom are still alive. With 475 black-and-white photographs, the artist captures Harlem jazz in the 1930s and 1940s, but the greatest value of the book lies in its interviews...
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