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On October 15, 1967, bass player Steve Boone took the Ed Sullivan Show stage for the final time, with his band The Lovin' Spoonful. Since forming in a Greenwich Village hotel in early 1965, Boone and his bandmates had released an astounding nine Top 20 singles, the first seven of which hit the Billboard Top 10, including the iconic Boone co-writes "Summer in the City" and "You Didn't Have to Be So Nice." Little did Steve Boone know that the path of his life and career would soon take a turn for the bizarre, one that would eventually find him looking at the world through the bars of a jail...

Recognized as the most significant composer from New Spain in the early eighteenth century, Manuel de Sumaya (ca. 1678–1755) oversaw musical activity at Mexico City Cathedral during a time of stylistic change. Sumaya, who was locally born and ordained as a priest, wrote music that mixes the counterpoint and rhythmic vigor of seventeenth-century Hispanic music with more modern Italianate gestures prescient of international taste in the eighteenth century. This edition of all thirty-four villancicos with music by Sumaya conserved in the Estrada Collection at Mexico City Cathedral reveals the...

This book, both a guide and encyclopedia, is a crucial account of the musical journey that will awaken the imagination of the reader, awakening the curiosity of all those sacred, famous, and historic places that the author of this book has visited that have marked the history of rock. The exceptional narrative talent of the author and the evocation of the mythic locations of rock make this an excellent a travel through the threads of music history.

La desastrosa historia de los Hollywood Brats, el grupo de punk que se adelantó a su época pero pereció en el intento. Julio de 1971. Andrew Matheson llega a Londres con dieciocho años desde Canadá, huyendo de un funesto trabajo en una mina de níquel y de un futuro aún más negro, con el sueño de formar un grupo de rock y alcanzar la gloria. Amante de los Rolling Stones y los Kinks, Matheson empieza a reclutar a los músicos con las pintas más fastuosas y provocativas que encuentra a través del tablón de anuncios del 'Melody Maker'. Pronto formará los Hollywood Brats, con Matheson ...