Dave Laing

"The Guerilla Guide to the Music Business (2nd edition), the ultimate handbook to surviving and succeeding in today's music industry, is crammed full of new information and interviews. Whether you are a guitar band, a hiphop crew, a singer or DJ, it provides a no-nonsense guide to planning your career and shows you how to keep control of your own professional destiny." "Through interviews with key personnel in the USA and the UK, The Guerilla Guide gives priceless tips on every aspect of gigging from rehearsals to foreign tours. It takes you through the process of recording, from home-made demos to releasing your own finished product and radio promotion. And it explains career opportunities in songwriting, television music, games themes and more!" "The Guerilla Guide to the Music Business also explains what managers, publishers, PR people, accountants and lawyers can do for you, and when and why you will need their services. It's a book that will help you enjoy what you do, avoid too many pitfalls and maybe even help you have a hit or two along the way."--Jacket.

Stimulating and informative cultural history of the century in popular music.

Here, in Buddy Holly, Ellis Amburn presents the most comprehensive biography ever written about this legendary figure, a young man who transformed the course of American music with his shocking blend of country and western and rhythm 'n' blues. Having devoted the last five years of his life to this work - crisscrossing the rural paths of the United States from Texas to Iowa to Minnesota - Amburn portrays Holly as a mythic antihero, whose rebellious, dramatic life was a reaction against the constricting values of America in the 1950s, when his music was regarded as the work of the devil. From his wild days as a juvenile delinquent, to his first romances, to his early associations with then virtually unknown singers like Elvis Presley and Waylon Jennings, Holly emerges as a deeply tortured, driven individual and a brilliantly talented young man in a hurry to make it as a star.