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Post by alansarchives on Mar 7, 2019 18:33:25 GMT
Thanks Peter. I do use both American and British chart listings for each album in my book - the discography is only so readers can find a particular song they are after easier if they don't know which year a single came out or which album it is on
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Post by moorlock2003 on Mar 13, 2019 10:41:11 GMT
Moorlock - Rather than confusing readers with lots of charts I only use an artist's home country in each of my books (there are thirty books in all). It is only the chart discography so readers can click on the songs they know quickly. Every single song The Hollies ever did is in the book not just the singles so all the songs you mention have their own section. To me every song is important - A side, B side, album track, unreleased song, live recording, solo track, that's why they are all in my books complete. I left off "Stop in the Name of Love", a US hit that did nothing apparently in the UK. Books are OK, but like Frank Zappa said, reading about music is a far cry from listening to it.
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Post by Gralto on Mar 23, 2019 11:21:08 GMT
Books are OK, but like Frank Zappa said, reading about music is a far cry from listening to it. Each to their own. I personally love both - listen to a mountain of music and devour music books all year. Just finished reading Sandie Shaw's 1991 autobio which was refreshingly different. Alan - forgive my digital naivety here; I saw that your Hollies book is available only as a Kindle e-book. If I purchase a copy, do I receive a file I can open elsewhere? I don't have a Kindle and like many others on here, would be keen to acquire a hard copy when it's ready. But if I grab your e-book, does it give me some flexibility to open and read this on other platforms? Without having seen any of it - congrats on its completion and creation. 7000-8000 words per album is substantial. cheers Simon
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2019 13:36:38 GMT
Books are OK, but like Frank Zappa said, reading about music is a far cry from listening to it. Just finished reading Sandie Shaw's 1991 autobio which was refreshingly different. I couldn't get into that book at all, and found it could've done with a good editor (the stories are there, it's just that they're told in random order and in an incoherent manner). By contrast, both Lulu and Cilla Black wrote two of the best autobiographies around, ditto Suzi Quatro.
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Post by alansarchives on Mar 23, 2019 20:43:03 GMT
Thankyou Gralto! Must admit I'm not very up with technology but I think alas it can only be opened on a kindle. I am planning to get the physical copies done in another month or so when all my final drafts are finished. If you want to have a read beforehand I can send you a copy in a different format (word or pdf perhaps), just send me a personal message on here with your email sometime, but it won't have the links working of course (that's the bit that's going to take me a while to edit out of the physical copies!) I have read a lot of great music books on all sorts of subjects that have really opened my eyes - and others that were diabolical! It all depends on the writer I think.
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Post by davidm on Apr 6, 2019 19:56:40 GMT
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Post by alansarchives on Apr 9, 2019 5:03:29 GMT
Thanks David, I really appreciate you buying a copy! That link will be useful too, thankyou!
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