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"The only number I had when I came to London was Malcolm McLaren's, who I knew from working with The New York Dolls. Within 24 hours of arriving I had met the Sex Pistols and was crushed in the back of Vivienne Westwood's mini on the way to the ICA to watch a new band called The Clash play their second ever gig." Legendary New York photographer Bob Gruen took his knack of being in the right place at the right time to another level when he arrived in Britain in 1976 and hooked up with emergent punk heroes The Clash. Through the '70s, working as chief photographer for Rock Scene magazine, Gruen had become designated lensman to the decade's most celebrated acts, including The Stones, Elton John, Led Zeppelin and Ike and Tina Turner. He was John and Yoko's personal photographer after they came to New York in '72 and had toured with The Ramones, Blondie and Patti Smith. When he met The Clash, though, a unique synergy of mutual respect and musical passion was established, leading to six years of documenting the globally worshipped band's adventures. Whether Strummer, Jones, Simenon and Heddon were rocking out on stage, meeting Debbie Harry and Warhol, or posing at the top of the World Trade Centre, Gruen was there, up close with his genius for iconic framing, resulting in the ideal marriage of classic band and definitive photographer. This book, previously available only as a limited edition luxury hardback, sold out in months. The softback contains the same stunning rock'n'roll shots, along with the band's funny, poignant commentary on their times in the spotlight as the only band that mattered.

An essential guide for all songwriters and Beatles fans, this book explores John Lennon's songwriting genius with a guided tour through 25 of his Beatles-era hits. Author John Stevens explains Lennon's intuitive talent from a technical point of view, through the lens of songwriting's three basic elements: melody, harmony and lyric. He shows how Lennon fashioned songs that were at once politically and socially relevant during the '60s, yet remain ageless and timeless today. Features in-depth musical analysis of: A Hard Day's Night * Ticket to Ride * Norwegian Wood * Strawberry Fields Forever * Come Together * and more.John Stevens is a songwriting professor at Berklee College of Music. For more than 20 years, he has taught "The Music of John Lennon, " one of the most popular courses in the Berklee curriculum."You've got the Beatles' records and the John Lennon records; now with this book, you can have the Owner's Manual. This will tell you how the songs are built and how they work. Good stuff.

Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon - Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon is the third official compilation album of John Lennon's solo career, coming after 1975's Shaved Fish and 1982's The John Lennon Collection. Because neither collection spanned Lennon's releases up to and including 1984's Milk And Honey, Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon - considered the definitive Lennon retrospective - was compiled to rectify the situation.

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band is John Lennon's first official solo album, released in 1970 after having issued three experimental albums with Yoko Ono and Live Peace In Toronto 1969, a live performance in Toronto credited to The Plastic Ono Band. John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band is generally considered one of Lennon's finest solo albums and a landmark recording.

John Lennon - John Lennon (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980) was best known as a singer, songwriter, poet and guitarist for the British rock band The Beatles. He was christened John Winston Lennon, he later changed it to John Ono Lennon by deed poll in 1969.

John Lennon's jukebox - In 1989, John Lennon's jukebox surfaced in an auction of Beatles memorabilia at Christie's, and was sold for £2,500 to Bristol-based music promoter John Midwinter. Lennon had apparently bought the jukebox – specifically a Swiss KB Discomatic – in 1965, and filled it with forty singles to take with him on tour.

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