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Product Description: This is the first-ever complete, illustrated history of Fleetwood Mac, the legendary band that has sold more than 100 million records worldwide.From this British-American band's blues origins in the 1960s to its pop superstardom in the 1970s and 1980s to its 2015 reunion, Fleetwood Mac has endeared itself to audiences worldwide...read more

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Since their formation in 2010, One Direction has taken the world over by storm. Widely known part as of the new British Invasion, their albums Take Me Home and Midnight Memories have broken numerous records in the music industry. And with their new album Four and highly anticipated concert film Where We Are, scheduled for a December 1st, 2014 release, 1D fans are yearning for more. The One Direction mini wall calendar is a must-have for any Directioner. BrownTrout is committed to sustainability.These mini 18-month wall calendars measure just 7" x 7", which makes them perfect for small spaces. But dont let the small size fool you. The images as just as vivid as those in our larger formats, and these calendars also include an abundance of holidays and moon phases. Each mini calendar includes an opening spread with a gorgeously designed six-month (JulyDecember 2015) calendar.

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Product Description: From the acclaimed author of Rip It Up and Start Again and Retromania--"the foremost popular music critic of this era (Times Literary Supplement)--comes the definitive cultural history of glam and glitter rock, celebrating its outlandish fashion and outrageous stars, including David Bowie and Alice Cooper, and tracking its vibrant legacy in contemporary pop...read more

Product Description: From the acclaimed author of Rip It Up and Start Again and Retromania -- ''the foremost popular music critic of this era'' (Times Literary Supplement) -- comes the definitive cultural history of glam and glitter rock, celebrating its outlandish fashion and outrageous stars, including David Bowie and Alice Cooper, and tracking its vibrant legacy in contemporary pop...read more

From the acclaimed author of Rip It Up and Start Again and Retromania -- ''the foremost popular music critic of this era'' (Times Literary Supplement) -- comes the definitive cultural history of glam and glitter rock, celebrating its outlandish fashion and outrageous stars, including David Bowie and Alice Cooper, and tracking its vibrant legacy in contemporary pop. Spearheaded by David Bowie, Alice Cooper, T. Rex, and Roxy Music, glam rock reveled in artifice and spectacle. Reacting against the hairy, denim-clad rock bands of the late sixties, glam was the first true teenage rampage of the new decade. In Shock and Awe, Simon Reynolds takes you on a wild cultural tour through the early seventies, a period packed with glitzy costumes and alien make-up, thrilling music and larger-than-life personas. Shock and Awe offers a fresh, in-depth look at the glam and glitter phenomenon, placing it the wider seventies context of social upheaval and political disillusion. It explores how artists like Lou Reed, New York Dolls, and Queen broke with the hippie generation, celebrating illusion and artifice over truth and authenticity. Probing the genre's major themes -- stardom, androgyny, image, decadence, fandom, apocalypse -- Reynolds tracks glam's legacy as it unfolded in subsequent decades, from eighties art-pop icons like Kate Bush through to twenty-first century idols of outrage such as Lady Gaga. Shock and Awe shows how the original glam artists' obsessions with fame, extreme fashion, and theatrical excess continue to reverberate through contemporary pop culture.