In September of 1967, I walked up to John Lennon's home south of London. John was asleep, but his housekeeper, Dorothy, let me wait in his garage until he awoke. John came out and invited me in. We spoke about meditation, movies, and music and he invited me to drive into London in his Rolls-Royce, where I witnessed my very first recording session. It was "I Am The Walrus." 44 Years later, I read online about John's tooth coming up for auction, offered by the family of Dorothy, who was now ...

On September 29, 1967, Mr. Bonzai attended his very first recording session at the invitation of John Lennon. The location was London's EMI Studios, now Abbey Road, and the song was I Am the Walrus. In attendance were George, Paul, Ringo, producer George Martin, and engineer Ken Scott. This privileged session with the most influential rock band in history set the stage for a life exploring the world of music and recording. In 1980, Mr. Bonzai settled in Hollywood to begin this collection o...

Join the crew at Ryan Recording – Mr. Bonzai, Cart, Layla and Smilin’ Deaf Eddie – as they struggle for respectability and profits in the music industry. It’s a satiric and whimsical journey through the hidden world of recording, filled with colorful characters and bizarre sessions. Illustrated.

“Santa Claus would have to travel at 40,000 miles a second to reach all of the children on Christmas Eve.” — Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California Imagine flying through space – circling our world at 40,000 miles a second! You can see the Earth as Santa Claus sees it on Christmas Eve – there goes North America in the blink of an eye – now Europe, Asia, South America, Africa, Australia, Antarctica! Again and again he circles our planet until every child has been touched by the spi...

When we went to the Palace to get The Beatles their OBEs. John Lennon had some acid with him. 'I'm gonna slip it into the Queen's tea,' he told me. 'I want to open her mind and try to get her to declare war on somewhere nice and warm so we can all go and fight on the beaches.' After Jane Asher dumped Paul McCartney he literally used to cry on my shoulder. We hit the bottle together. Hard. 'I had everything and I threw it all away,' he would say. Alistair Taylor was with The Beatles from th...

Inconvenient monster alarms, a sparkly array of princess guests, and spot-on slapstick pacing make for a party readers will celebrate in this sequel to the New York Times bestseller The Princess in Black.Today is Princess Magnolia’s birthday party, and she wants everything to be perfect. But just as her guests are arriving . . . Brring! Brring! The monster alarm! Princess Magnolia runs to the broom closet, ditches her frilly clot...

Kabyl's family has run a careful supply business, keeping the essentials in stock in order to help her town and the villages around it survive the long, dark winter.Rumors of beasts beyond the standard shifters are beginning to surface, and when regulars don't show up for their fuel rations, Kabyl has to brave the dark and the cold to find out if natural death has taken her family's friends or if there is something darker than death in the land of snow.A wellness check turns ...

Takahiro’s group finds themselves in a hopeless predicament, facing off against the Skanda Iino Yuna’s overwhelming power. But thanks to Mana’s sacrificial play, they successfully overcome Iino’s strength. However, as a result, a landslide splits the party in two and half the group is washed away by the river raging below the cliff.When Lily manages to find Takahiro and the others who were separated, yet another cheater launches a sudden attack on them. With Takahiro’s forces scatt...

The author found an abandoned, 50-year-old grain silo and made it into a 5-story round house. In this true story he tells his challenges and triumphs in completing this difficult task of transformation without any blueprints. Numerous photographs from the project are shown so the reader can visualize this unique building project.

Christmas brings a deadly threat—and a chance at love—to a Lakota lawman in the New York Times–bestselling author's suspenseful Western romance.When Border Patrol helicopter pilot Dante Thunder Horse is shot out of the sky, he barely makes it out of the wreckage alive. And just as the shooter tries to finish him off, he's saved by paleontologist Emma Jennings. It's nothing short of a Christmas miracle, and now Dante must now return the favor by keeping his ...

When Sandra Sinclair, recently widowed and the mother of twelve-year-old Jane, meets wealthy lawyer Joe Gillette, he wins her over with his kind and conscientious attitude. Falling in love faster than she ever thought possible, Sandra agrees to marry. But soon after they move into their new home, things begin to change, and Joe's controlling behavior causes her to question her decision. When her new husband becomes seriously abusive, Sandra decides that she and Jane must leave. When Joe ma...

This new volume of The Year's Best Science Fiction carries on the proud tradition, with stories by Pat Murphy, Bruce McAllister, Bruce Sterling, Kate Wilhelm, Alexander Jablokov, Walter Job Williams, Paul J. McAuley, Neal Barrett, Jr., Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Silverberg, James Patrick Kelly, Octavia E. Butler, Howard Waldrop, Pat Cadigan, Lucius Shepard, Karen Joy Fowler, Joseph Manzione, Ian Watson, Susan Palwick, Michael Flynn, Dean Whitlock, R. Garcia y Robertson, Gene Wolfe,...