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Evolutions of The Wall

Kimi Kärki

Kimi Kärki

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The Arena Concert : Music, Media and Mass Entertainment

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...Everyone said that a show like this could never be toured. Introduction Roger Waters (1943–) is known as a founding member in the British rock group Pink Floyd, of which he was a member from 1965 to 1985. My heartfelt...

Pink Floyd

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Pink Floyd's The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

John Cavanagh

John Cavanagh is a former presenter of The Rock Show on BBC Radio One. He is a regular presenter on several other BBC Radio networks, and is about to release his second album under the name Phosephene. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Bloomsbury Academic, 2003

33 1/3 Books

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...Through a series of interviews with a wide range of people connected to Pink Floyd in their earliest days (including Nick Mason, Peter Jenner, Jenny Fabian, Storm Thorgerson, Duggie Fields and Peter Whitehead), John Cavanagh paints a vivid...

Through a Lens Darkly

Kevin Holm-Hudson

Kevin Holm-Hudson

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The Arena Concert : Music, Media and Mass Entertainment

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...Edward Macan’s seminal musicological survey of progressive rock, Rocking the Classics, notes that between approximately 1968 and 1975, the market for English progressive rock shifted from a primarily British university-bohemian demographic...

Obscured by Pink Floyd

K.J. Donnelly

K.J.Donnelly is a Reader in Film at the University of Southampton, UK. He is the author of Occult Aesthetics: Synchronization in Sound Film (2013), British Film Music and Film Musicals (2007), The Spectre of Sound (2005) and Pop Music in British Cinema (2001); and editor of Film Music: Critical Approaches (2001) and co-editor (with Phil Hayward) of Music in Science Fiction Television: Tuning to the Future (2012). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Magical Musical Tour : Rock and Pop in Film Soundtracks

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...As one of the most successful and ambitious rock groups, Pink Floyd have had an interesting relationship with film throughout their career. They were one of the first rock groups to provide incidental music for films (including...

Rock in Georgia

Nino Tsitsishvili

Nino Tsitsishvili

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume XI : Genres: Europe

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...From its beginnings, rock music in Georgia has reflected and shaped aspirations to be part of Europe and the West that are common among elite groups in Georgian society and among the younger generation. During the time when Georgia was part...

Album-Oriented Rock

Edward L. Macan

Edward L. Macan

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume VIII : Genres: North America

The Continuum International, 2012

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...‘Album-oriented rock’ is one of the most confusing terms of the 1970s rock scene, in part because it shares an acronym, AOR, with ‘album-oriented radio,’ a term that is closely related but not synonymous.Album-oriented radio was an FM radio...

—Capitol Records (US)

David Sanjek

David Sanjek

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume I : Media, Industry and Society

Continuum, 2003

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...The founders of Capitol Records in Los Angeles in 1942 were notable participants in the popular music business: songwriter/performer Johnny Mercer, Paramount Pictures executive (and member of the noted songwriting team De Sylva, Brown...

Progressive Rock

Edward Macan

Edward Macan

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume XI : Genres: Europe

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...Progressive rock (often abbreviated to prog rock or prog), which emerged out of the ashes of late-1960s British psychedelia, is rock music’s most epic and ambitious style; from 1970 to 1975, the period of its greatest vitality...

England

Derek B. Scott

Derek B. Scott

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume VII : Locations: Europe

The Continuum International, 2016

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...Population: 49,997,100 (2000) England forms part of the United Kingdom, having united with Wales in 1536, Scotland in 1707 and Ireland in 1801, though only six northern counties of the latter stayed inside the UK...