Until recently, glam rock has been a mere footnote in popular music history: a style-over-substance lark in an otherwise serious industry. Glam Rock: Music in Sound and Vision reveals the true story of how glam carved out a place as a diverse musical style and how it related to the artistic, political, economic, emotional, sexual, and commercial scenes of the late twentieth century. Committed to spectacle but also to musical ingenuity, glam delivered an exhilarating burst of color that off...

Before The Beatles landed on American shores in February 1964 only two British acts had topped the Billboard singles chart. In the first quarter of 1964, however, the Beatles alone accounted for sixty percent of all recorded music sold in the United States; in 1964 and 1965 British acts occupied the number one position for 52 of the 104 weeks; and from 1964 through to 1970, the Rolling Stones, Herman’s Hermits, the Dave Clark Five, the Animals, the Kinks, the Hollies, the Yardbirds and the...

Prima edizione in audio: ogni minuto un’emozione!Segui le indagini del primo profiler della storia del giallo e scopri chi ha compiuto l’efferato crimine.“La strana morte del signor Benson” è il primo di una serie di dodici gialli che vedono protagonista l’eccentrico e intellettuale Philo Vance, detective improvvisato e fine investigatore della natura umana.Alvin H. Benson viene ritrovato morto nel soggiorno della sua lussuosa residenza: un proiettile sparato frontal...