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Eastman School of Music. Oberlin College.
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Hard Rain: A Dylan Commentary
(An in-depth look at over thirty years of Nobel Prize winn...)
An in-depth look at over thirty years of Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan's recordings including analysis of "The Times They Are A-Changing," "Like a Rolling Stone," and "Tangled Up in Blue." Examinging over thirty years of Dylan's recordings, films, and live concerts to deliver fresh, and sometimes heretical, judgements of his work, Tim Riley persuasively demonstrates that Bob Dylan is the most important American rock 'n' roller since Elvis. He charts the mercurial shifts of the Dylan persona, from acoustic to electric, and assesses the singer's debt to earlier muscians aw well as his influence on such performers as the Byrds, Bruce Springsteen, and Elvis Costello. Includes a new epilogue that examines Dylan's 30th anniversary celebration and his 1998 Grammy Award comeback.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679745270/?tag=2022091-20
Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music - The Definitive Life by Tim Riley (2011-09-20)
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Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music - The Definitive Life
(In his commanding new book, the eminent NPR critic Tim Ri...)
In his commanding new book, the eminent NPR critic Tim Riley takes us on the remarkable journey that brought a Liverpool art student from a disastrous childhood to the highest realms of fame. Riley portrays Lennon’s rise from Hamburg’s red light district to Britain’s Royal Variety Show; from the charmed naivetÉ of “Love Me Do” to the soaring ambivalence of “Don’t Let Me Down”; from his shotgun marriage to Cynthia Powell in 1962 to his epic media romance with Yoko Ono. Written with the critical insight and stylistic mastery readers have come to expect from Riley, this richly textured narrative draws on numerous new and exclusive interviews with Lennon’s friends, enemies, confidantes, and associates; lost memoirs written by relatives and friends; as well as previously undiscovered City of Liverpool records. Riley explores Lennon in all of his contradictions: the British art student who universalized an American style, the anarchic rock ’n’ roller with the moral spine, the anti-jazz snob who posed naked with his avant-garde lover, and the misogynist who became a househusband. What emerges is the enormous, seductive, and confounding personality that made Lennon a cultural touchstone. In Lennon, Riley casts Lennon as a modernist hero in a sweeping epic, dramatizing rock history anew as Lennon himself might have experienced it.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1401324525/?tag=2022091-20
Hard Rain: A Bob Dylan Commentary
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HARDCOVER w/ DUST JACKET
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Madonna Illustrated
(An illustrated, large-format tribute to the Material Girl...)
An illustrated, large-format tribute to the Material Girl features more than one hundred photographs--including shots from her childhood and her salad days in New York--and a discussion of her career. Original.
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Hard Rain: A Dylan Commentary by Tim Riley (1999-06-02) Paperback
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Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include companion materials, may have some shelf wear, may contain highlighting/notes, may not include CDs or access codes. 100% money back guarantee.
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Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music - The Definitive Life by Riley, Tim (September 20, 2011) Hardcover
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Madonna Illustrated by Tim Riley (1992-10-01)
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Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary
(Perhaps the first serious analysis of the Beatles' work a...)
Perhaps the first serious analysis of the Beatles' work and its impact on popular music, Tell Me Why is meticulous in its purpose and long overdue....Of the hundreds of books written about the Beatles none bring the musical knowledge and the familiarity with the period that Riley offers here." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer Album by album, song by song, Tim Riley gives us a new, deeper understanding of the Beatles. Outdistancing the countless tell-all biographies that have been written, Riley's study of the Beatles' music is as rigorous as it is soulful. He explores the entire Beatles catalogue, making clear that the legendary four were not simply teen idols -- that they were, in fact, brilliant musical innovators who created timeless songs and virtually invented the album-as-art. From the Trade Paperback edition.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0394550617/?tag=2022091-20
Tim Riley
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He was trained as a classical pianist at Oberlin College and Eastman School of Music. Since 2009, he has taught digital journalism at Emerson College in Boston. Brown University sponsored Riley as Critic-In Residence in 2008, and his first book, Tell Maine Why: A Beatles Commentary (Knopf/Vintage 1988), which the New York Times said brought "new insight to the act we"ve known for all these years." His television appearances include Morning Joe, Public Broadcasting Service NewsHour, Columbia Broadcasting System Morning and Evening News, Music Television, and the History Channel.
Works
book
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Madonna Illustrated
(An illustrated, large-format tribute to the Material Girl...)
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Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music - The Definitive Life
(In his commanding new book, the eminent NPR critic Tim Ri...)
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Hard Rain: A Dylan Commentary
(An in-depth look at over thirty years of Nobel Prize winn...)
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Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary
(Perhaps the first serious analysis of the Beatles' work a...)
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Hard Rain: A Bob Dylan Commentary
(HARDCOVER w/ DUST JACKET)
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Hard Rain: A Dylan Commentary by Tim Riley (1999-06-02) Paperback
(Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include compa...)
- Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary
- Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music - The Definitive Life by Tim Riley (2011-09-20)
- Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music - The Definitive Life by Riley, Tim (September 20, 2011) Hardcover
- Madonna Illustrated by Tim Riley (1992-10-01)
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Madonna Illustrated
