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This is the long-awaited publication of a moving masterwork by one of the greatest photographers of our time. Conceived, designed, written and made by hand as a prototype by master photographer Roy DeCarava (b.1919) in the early 1960s, yet unpublished for nearly half a century, The Sound I Saw has l..

Essential introductions to the work of the world’s greatest directors.Comprehensive, authoritative, yet concise and accessible monographs on leading figures in the history of cinema.Organized chronologically, from the director’s earliest works to their most recent films.Clear and insight..

Essential introductions to the work of the world’s greatest directors.Comprehensive, authoritative, yet concise and accessible monographs on leading figures in the history of cinema.Organized chronologically, from the director’s earliest works to their most recent films.Clear and insight..

In July 1999 Michael Jackson summoned the 23-year-old Arno Bani to a secret photo shoot, having seen and admired his photographs in the Sunday Times fashion pages.700 photographs were the result, originally intended for the cover of Jackson’s 2001 album Invincible, but ultimately by-passed by hi..

Whether it's hanging around with Marillion's Fish in Berlin, seeing Whitesnake fail to ignite 1985's Rock in Rio, talking through old times with Jimmy Page in his Berkshire pile or following Ozzy Osbourne to Moscow, there isn't a rock luminary that Wall hasn't cross-examined or kept the flame burnin..

When 19-year-old Andy Taylor returned from his band's tour of military bases in Germany and saw an advert in Melody Maker in April 1980 asking for a 'live wire guitarist' to audition in Birmingham, he saw his chance. Even he could not have predicted what happened next. The group, Duran Duran, releas..

On 4 December 2008, just a few months before the new season was due to start, the Honda Racing F1 team, which Jenson Button had been driving for since 2006, pulled the plug on their involvement in Formula One. The media at the time reported that it was likely that the factory would be forced to shut..

As far back as stories go, pioneers have reached for the skies. In the last two hundred years, they have mastered the air and made the modern world possible. Today they are bringing outer space within our reach. They're inventors and toymakers, amateurs and adventurers, visionaries, dreamers and, ye..

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HAIL! HAIL! ROCK'N'ROLL is the ultimate guide to what Spinal Tap called 'the majesty of rock, the mystery of roll'. Gloriously irreverent, it is also satisfyingly definitive, with a list of every Glastonbury line-up; a dictionary of obscure genres from Alt.country to Shoegazing; a brutally honest gu..

The Typ 64 is the most mysterious of all the Porschesand perhaps the most significant. It hails from 1938 and represents the complete DNA for all later sports cars from Porsches Zuffenhausen factory. A spectacular car, which incidentally has found a new home in the brand-new Porsche museum. In this ..

Arguably the greatest all-round entertainer of his era, Michael Jackson embodied the paradox of extreme fame: a uniquely gifted singer, dancer and songwriter, his extraordinary talents were matched only by the loneliness, eccentricity and ego-mania of his isolated position atop popular culture. This..