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Author: Michael Walker Publisher: Spiegel & Grau ISBN: 0812992881 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 266
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Documents the courses of three history-making tours by rock-and-roll artists The Who, Led Zeppelin and Alice Cooper to evaluate how they significantly impacted the music industry, offering insight into the role of period culture and the fundamental changes that each tour incited. By the author of the best-selling Laurel Canyon.
Author: Michael Walker Publisher: Spiegel & Grau ISBN: 0812992881 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 266
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Documents the courses of three history-making tours by rock-and-roll artists The Who, Led Zeppelin and Alice Cooper to evaluate how they significantly impacted the music industry, offering insight into the role of period culture and the fundamental changes that each tour incited. By the author of the best-selling Laurel Canyon.
Author: Michael Walker Publisher: Random House ISBN: 0679644156 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 266
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An epic joyride through three history-making tours in 1973 that defined rock and roll superstardom—the money, the access, the excess—forevermore. The Who’s Quadrophenia. Led Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy. Alice Cooper’s Billion Dollar Babies. These three unprecedented tours—and the albums that inspired them—were the most ambitious of these artists’ careers, and they forever changed the landscape of rock and roll: the economics, the privileges, and the very essence of the concert experience. On these juggernauts, rock gods—and their entourages—were born, along with unimaginable overindulgence and the legendary flameouts. Tour buses were traded for private jets, arenas replaced theaters, and performances transmogrified into over-the-top, operatic spectacles. As the sixties ended and the seventies began, an altogether more cynical era took hold: peace, love, and understanding gave way to sex, drugs, and rock and roll. But the decade didn’t become the seventies, acclaimed journalist Michael Walker writes, until 1973, a historic and mind-bogglingly prolific year for rock and roll that saw the release of countless classic albums, from The Dark Side of the Moon to Goat’s Head Soup; Goodbye Yellow Brick Road; Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.; and The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle. Aerosmith, Queen, and Lynyrd Skynyrd released their debut albums. The Roxy and CBGB opened their doors. Every major act of the era—from Fleetwood Mac to Black Sabbath—was on the road that summer, but of them all, Walker writes, it was The Who, Led Zeppelin, and Alice Cooper who emerged as the game changers. Walker revisits each of these three tours in memorable, all-access detail: he goes backstage, onto the jets, and into the limos, where every conceivable wish could be granted. He wedges himself into the sweaty throng of teenage fans (Walker himself was one of them) who suddenly were an economic force to be reckoned with, and he vividly describes how a decade’s worth of decadence was squeezed into twelve heart-pounding, backbreaking, and rule-defying months that redefined, for our modern times, the business of superstardom. Praise for What You Want Is in the Limo “Required reading . . . 1973 is a turning point in popular music — the border between hippie-ethos ’60s rock ’n’ roll and conspicuous-consumption excess ’70s rock.”—New York Post “Loud and boisterous . . . Like a good vinyl-era single, it’s over before it wears out its welcome. You may even want to flip it over and start again when you’re finished.”—Fort Worth Star-Telegram “You don’t have to love the music or personas of the three bands highlighted here . . . to appreciate the vital roles that all three played in creating the modern rock star. . . . [Walker] is convincing and entertaining in explaining why 1973 was a seminal year in rock.”—The Daily Beast “[There’s] so much rock n' roll history packed inside.”—GQ “Very well written . . . It gives an intellectual immersion into these bands’ lives.”—Led-Zeppelin.org “[Walker] argues for [1973] as a tipping point, when big tours—and bigger money—became a defining ethos in rock music.”—NPR
Author: Steve Fraser Publisher: Basic Books ISBN: 0465097669 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 304
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No political image in recent American history has enjoyed the impact of the "limousine liberal." It has managed to mobilize an enduring politics of resentment directed against everything from civil rights to women's liberation, from the war on poverty to environmental regulation. Coined in 1969 by New York City mayoralty candidate Mario Procaccino, the term took aim at what he and his largely white lower middle class and blue collar following considered the repellent hypocrisy of well-heeled types who championed the cause of the poor, especially the black poor, but who had no intention of bearing the costs of their plight. The metaphor zeroed in on liberal elites who preferred to upset rather than defend the status quo not only in race relations, but in the sexual, moral, and religious order and had little interest in looking after the needs of working people. In The Limousine Liberal, the acclaimed historian Steve Fraser argues that it is impossible to understand American politics without coming to grips with this image, where it originated, why it persists, and where it may be taking us. He reveals that the limousine liberal had existed in all but name long before Procaccino gave it one. From Henry Ford decrying an improbable alliance of Jews, bankers, and Bolsheviks in the 1920s to the Tea Party's vehement hatred of Hillary Clinton, the fear of the limousine liberal has stoked right-wing populism for nearly a century. Today it fuses together disparate elements of the conservative movement. Sunbelt entrepreneurs on the rise, blue collar ethnics and middle classes in decline, heartland evangelicals, and billionaire business dynasts have found common cause, despite their real differences, in shared opposition to liberal elites. The Limousine Liberal tells an extraordinary story of why the most privileged and powerful elements of American society were indicted as subversives and reveals the reality that undergirds that myth. It goes to the heart of the great political transformation of the postwar era: the rise of the conservative right and the unmaking of the liberal consensus.
Author: Abby McDonald Publisher: Candlewick Press ISBN: 0763649562 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 288
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On prom night, Bliss, Jolene, and Meg, students from the same high school who barely know one another, band together to get revenge against Bliss's boyfriend and her best friend, whom she caught together in the limousine they rented.
Author: Michael Walker Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN: 1429932937 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 324
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Michael Walker’s Laurel Canyon presents the inside story of the once hottest rock and roll neighborhood in LA. In the late sixties and early seventies, an impromptu collection of musicians colonized a eucalyptus-scented canyon deep in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles and melded folk, rock, and savvy American pop into a sound that conquered the world as thoroughly as the songs of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones had before them. Thirty years later, the music made in Laurel Canyon continues to pour from radios, iPods, and concert stages around the world. During the canyon's golden era, the musicians who lived and worked there scored dozens of landmark hits, from "California Dreamin'" to "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" to "It's Too Late," selling tens of millions of records and resetting the thermostat of pop culture. In Laurel Canyon, veteran journalist Michael Walker tells the inside story of this unprecedented gathering of some of the baby boomer's leading musical lights—including Joni Mitchell; Jim Morrison; Crosby, Stills, and Nash; John Mayall; the Mamas and the Papas; Carole King; the Eagles; and Frank Zappa, to name just a few—who turned Los Angeles into the music capital of the world and forever changed the way popular music is recorded, marketed, and consumed.
Author: Robert Klara Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 1466878584 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 336
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In 1938, Mercedes-Benz began production of the largest, most luxurious limousine in the world. A machine of frightening power and sinister beauty, the Grosser 770K Model 150 Offener Tourenwagen was 20 feet long, seven feet wide, and tipped the scales at 5 tons. Its supercharged, 230-horsepower engine propelled the beast to speeds over 100 m.p.h. while its occupants reclined on glove-leather seats stuffed with goose down. Armor plated and equipped with hidden compartments for Luger pistols, the 770K was a sumptuous monster with a monstrous patron: Adolph Hitler and the Nazi party. Deployed mainly for propaganda purposes before the war, the hand-built limousines—in which Hitler rode standing in the front seat—motored through elaborate rallies and appeared in countless newsreels, swiftly becoming the Nazi party’s most durable symbol of wealth and power. Had Hitler not so thoroughly dominated the scene with his own megalomania, his opulent limousine could easily have eclipsed him. Most of the 770Ks didn’t make it out of the rubble of World War II. But several of them did. And two of them found their way, secretly and separately, to the United States. In The Devil’s Mercedes, author Robert Klara uncovers the forgotten story of how Americans responded to these rolling relics of fascism on their soil. The limousines made headlines, drew crowds, made fortunes and ruined lives. What never became public was how both of the cars would ultimately become tangled in a web of confusion, mania, and opportunism, fully entwined in a story of mistaken identity. Nobody knew that the limousine touted as Hitler’s had in fact never belonged to him, while the Mercedes shrugged off as an ordinary staff car—one later abandoned in a warehouse and sold off as government surplus—turned out to be none other than Hitler’s personal automobile. It would take 40 years, a cast of carnies and millionaires, the United States Army, and the sleuthing efforts of an obscure Canadian librarian to bring the entire truth to light. As he recounts this remarkable drama, Klara probes the meaning of these haunting hulks and their power to attract, excite and disgust. The limousines’ appearance collided with an American populous celebrating a victory even as it sought to stay a step ahead of the war’s ghosts. Ultimately, The Devil’s Mercedes isn’t only the story of a rare and notorious car, but what that car taught postwar America about itself.
Author: William Goerl Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1312959959 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 130
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Wheels of Gold - 2015 Edition - A Complete Guide to Starting a Million Dollar Limousine Business. Industry Leader Shares Insider Secrets to Starting Your Own Limo Business. Must Read if your in the business and need to earn more, or you're thinking about buying your first limousine and want to avoid costly mistakes. 10th Anniversary Edition: How to Get Ahead in the Online World
Author: RebeccaH Heels Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781981887873 Category : Languages : en Pages : 104
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Lt. Col Reid McQueen writes the Bounty Hunter Report. As he fights Crime through the Good, the Badd, Ugly, sexy and Hunts down the serial Clown killer "Joe Butterfly" with help from the Mountain bike racers and his bounty Hunter Team; "Rebeccas Angels" and his Grandmother the "DUTCHESS" and his wonder dog "KING" with his Talented Arabian horse "FANDANCER" and the Face Book Gangstas Liberty Ranger, Sailor Soonmoon and Jenny Lindy Lindbergh in their LIMO "Raven WitCh" and the red Bird 1970 Road Runner. RebeccaHHeels the Atomic Blonde, Lone Ranger Silver Bullet Kickboxing tornado, undercover Lt. Col. Reid McQueen takes on them all on! In this face paced thriller my "Face Book Gangstas" you want be able to put this book down; Up-coming book thriller in this series my "Digital Bloodhounds" "TRUMP CARD CALLING BOUNTY HUNTER REPORT" Fan Club of Lt. Col. Reid McQueen "FACE BOOK GANGSTAS" for information on joining log on to www.BountyHunterReport.com for news letter and book signing appearances and news on the Bounty Hunter Report;
Author: Billy Pistole Publisher: Page Publishing Inc ISBN: 1644628821 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 87
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Growing up in a small Redneck Cowboy town in California, this guy managed to live quite an unexpected life—tromping cotton in winter, branding cattle in the summer, a stint in the US Army, and with wheels moving all the time. Join this veteran as he rubs elbows (and more) with some of the world's most recognized, famous, and infamous. Hop alongside this veteran limo driver and take a ride. Some trips stranger than fiction. At times you may be laughing out loud; other stories might have you wishing to grab the door and run. Even the "not" famous is just as offbeat/colorful in their behavior and lifestyle. This collection of stories is part memoir and part documentary, always with a keen eye on the varied state of human disarray. Hop on in for the ride of your life, and as always, seat belts are optional.
Author: John Pfeiffer Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1440562296 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 149
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Everything you need to know before your her big day! From one dude to another, the advice in Dude, You're Getting Married! will get you laughing and help you get your s**t together before the big day. From feigning interest in table linens to trimming down the guest list (without uninviting everyone on your side) to organizing a wild, yet fiancee-approved, bachelor party, Pfeiffer makes sure you won't get scarred in the minefield of wedding planning. While the months leading up to the big day can be filled with meltdowns and screaming matches, Dude, You're Getting Married! will be there to ensure that you make it to the altar in one piece.
Author: Michael Walker
Author: Michael Walker
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