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1) Rock concert: an oral history as told by the artists, backstage insiders, and fans who were there
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"A lively, entertaining, wide-ranging oral history of the golden age of the rock concert based on over ninety interviews with musicians, promoters, stagehands, and others who contributed to the huge cultural phenomenon that is live rock. Between 1950 and 1985, the rock concert developed its allure and power as a unifying experience-and became an influential multi-billion-dollar industry. In Rock Concert, acclaimed interviewer Marc Myers sets out to...
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"Four of Dressler's old gangster colleagues have put together a national tour of once-popular rock bands they own a piece of: three nights of concerts by guys (and a few gals) who were big shots back in the 1960s and 1970s, and who are now hoping for one more gasp of glory with this nostalgia exhibition. The Rock of Ages tour has proved itself to be anything but a love fest: plenty of the bandmates have been feuding for forty years, and-perhaps unsurprisingly-drugs...
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New York Times bestselling author Peter Robinson's Chief Inspector Alan Banks must turn to a murder committed in the 1960s in order to solve a present-day homicide as he races to uncover their common link.1969 . . . In an era of free love and rebellion, a dead body is discovered among the detritus of a recently concluded rock festival-a beautiful young woman stabbed so savagely through the chest that a piece of her heart was sliced off.
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7) Aftermath
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When police stop Dustin Webb with a warrant to search his trunk, he knows there must be a mistake. But he's horrified when the officers find explosives, and he can't fathom how they got there. Criminal attorney Jamie Powell was Dustin's best friend growing up. They haven't spoken since he left for basic training, but she's the first person he thinks of when he's arrested. Jamie knows she's putting her career on the line by defending an accused terrorist,...
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Presents a rare, behind-the-scenes look at Jackson as he developed, created, and rehearsed for his sold-out concerts at London's 02 Arena. Drawn from more than one hundred hours of behind-the-scenes footage, the singer, dancer, filmmaker, architect, creative genius, and great artist at work is captured in raw and candid detail as he created and perfected his planned final London shows.
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Nick knows exactly how long it has been since Tris broke up with him - three weeks, two days, and 23 hours. Now she is at his gig, with a new guy. Nick can't understand how she could have moved on so fast. But that night, Nick meets Norah. They have nothing in common except their taste in music. This begins the night of Nick, Norah and Manhattan. Now, this chance meeting will turn into a crusade to find a legendary rock band's secret show, ends up...
11) Shine a light
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A live concert by British rock band The Rolling Stones, in support of their 2005 studio album "A bigger bang."
12) A star is born
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Rock star John Norman Howard has noticed that his career has begun to decline. Too many years of concerts, bad managers and life on the road have made him cynical. Then he meets the innocent, pure and very talented singer Esther Hoffman. John shows Esther the way to stardom while forsaking his own career. As they fall in love, her success only makes his decline even more apparent.
13) Live Aid
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A single-disc overview of the Live Aid boxed set released November 2004. An estimated 85% of the world tuned in to the historic concert on July 13, 1985, and this compilation highlights all of the artists. Released to celebrate event's 20th Anniversary.
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The Beatles were banned from Russia in 1964 - but their music offered hope and inspiration to the entire nation for decades. Finally, Paul McCartney satisfied years of anticipation with his first-ever concert in Russia - wowing a crowd of over 100,000 people in Moscow's legendary Red Square.
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A thrilling account of the Altamont Festival, and the dark side of the '60s.
If Woodstock tied the ideals of the '60s together, Altamont unraveled them.
In Just a Shot Away, writer and critic Saul Austerlitz tells the story of "Woodstock West," where the Rolling Stones hoped to end their 1969 American tour triumphantly with the help of the Grateful Dead, the Jefferson Airplane, and 300,000 fans. Instead, the concert featured a harrowing series of...
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The Mystery, Inc. gang attends a concert by their favorite rock band, The Electric Pickle. When the band's lead singer, Rodney Pickle, vanishes in a puff of smoke and fireworks, and is replaced by a rock 'n' roll zombie, can Velma, Shaggy, Scooby, Daphne, and Fred get to the bottom of this rockin' mystery before the gig is up?
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From the Allman Brothers Band to Frank Zappa, and through the interweaving lives of Bill Graham, Janis Joplin, Grace Slick, and Carlos Santana, author John Glatt chronicles the story of the 1960s' rock music Colossus that stood astride the East and West Coasts-Graham's twin temples of rock, the Fillmore East and Fillmore West.
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History rocked and rock made history during a sold-out three-gig stand at Madison Square Garden in late February 2008, when icons Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood performed together for the first time since their all-too-brief days in the legendary Blind Faith in 1969. Experience the sound and the glory of a performance on that famous stage.
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