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Business, Economics & LawJanuary 2024Welcome to the club
The life and lessons of a Black woman DJ
by DJ Paulette
In Welcome to the club, Manchester legend DJ Paulette shares the highs, lows and lessons of a thirty-year music career, with help from some famous friends. One of the Haçienda's first female DJs, Paulette has scaled the heights of the music industry, playing to crowds of thousands all around the world, and descended to the lows of being unceremoniously benched by COVID-19, with no chance of furlough and little support from the government. Here she tells her story, offering a remarkable view of the music industry from a Black woman's perspective. Behind the core values of peace, love, unity and respect, dance music is a world of exclusion, misogyny, racism and classism. But, as Paulette reveals, it is also a space bursting at the seams with powerful women. Part personal account, part call to arms, Welcome to the club exposes the exclusivity of the music industry while seeking to do justice to the often invisible women who keep the beat going.
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Women Make Noise
Girl Bands from Motown to the Modern
by ED. JULIA DOWNES
As more and more female solo artists hit the mainstream the question arises: where are the girl bands? Why aren't they getting the attention they deserve? While the media continues to ignore them, in Women Make Noise Julia Downes invites musicians, promoters and high profile artists to discuss their favourite girl bands: not the type who sing along to backing tracks - the real musicians, who can actually play their instruments. Including interviews with classic punk groups like The Raincoats and The Slits, as well as household names like Bjork and Beth Ditto, this timely celebration of the best female bands will show magazines like NME that ignoring girl bands is a major oversight.
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MusicMarch 2021MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE
This Band Will Save Your Life
by Reinhardt Haydn
My Chemical Romance emerged from New Jersey in the aftermath of the 9/11 atrocities to become the standard bearers for a new fusion of punk, glam and emo. After building a committed following with their first two albums, MCR achieved global prominence in 2006 with their platinum-selling album Welcome To The Black Parade. This book tells the definitive story of the groundbreaking band, charting their rise to the apex of the post-millennial rock pantheon.
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PharmacologyApril 2008Emerging Safety Science
Workshop Summary
by Sally Robinson, Robert Pool, and Robert Giffin, Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation, Institute of Medicine
In recent years, the costs of new drug development have skyrocketed. The average cost of developing a new approved drug is now estimated to be $1.3 billion (DiMasi and Grabowski, 2007). At the same time, each year fewer new molecular entities (NMEs) are approved. DiMasi and Grabowski report that only 21.5 percent of the candidate drugs that enter phase I clinical testing actually make it to market. In 2007, just 17 novel drugs and 2 novel biologics were approved. In addition to the slowing rate of drug development and approval, recent years have seen a number of drugs withdrawn from the market for safety reasons. According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), 10 drugs were withdrawn because of safety concerns between 2000 and March 2006 (GAO, 2006). Finding ways to select successful drug candidates earlier in development could save millions or even billions of dollars, reduce the costs of drugs on the market, and increase the number of new drugs with improved safety profiles that are available to patients. Emerging scientific knowledge and technologies hold the potential to enhance correct decision making for the advancement of candidate drugs. Identification of safety problems is a key reason that new drug development is stalled. Traditional methods for assessing a drug's safety prior to approval are limited in their ability to detect rare safety problems. Prior to receiving U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval, a drug will have been tested in hundreds to thousands of patients. Generally, drugs cannot confidently be linked to safety problems until they have been tested in tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of people. With current methods, it is unlikely that rare safety problems will be identified prior to approval. Emerging Safety Science: Workshop Summary summarizes the events and presentations of the workshop.
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Rock & Pop musicMarch 2015Gathered From Coincidence
by Tony Dunsbee
Combining the personal memories and critical analysis of a self-confessed pop addict with a wealth of contemporary documentary evidence, Gathered From Coincidence reconstructs a truly momentous era to tell the story of the music of the Sixties year by year. By tracing in parallel the origins and development of the recording careers of major talents on both sides of the Atlantic – the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, Dusty Springfield and many more besides – this account shows how they traded creativity with one another. All the great Sixties’ hits – as well as a host of less well-known gems – are described in the context of the charts of the day, tracking the ups and downs of different trends as they came and went, such as: rock’n’roll, rhythm & blues, psychedelia, modern folk, the concept album or supergroups. But beyond this, each chapter also places the music in a broader historical and cultural setting of landmark events at home and abroad – the space race, the Profumo affair, the Cold War, Vietnam, the growth of satire – to show how, as the decade unfolded, the paths of pop and current affairs drew ever closer together. If you thought the Sixties were just about the fleeting dreams of hippies in the Summer of Love, then think again! This book will open your eyes to a far-reaching imaginative legacy and how it came to shape pop music as a dazzling art form in its own right.
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September 2013Empire of Dirt
The Aesthetics and Rituals of British Indie Music
by Wendy Fonarow
Inside the culture of an artistically influential music community
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The ArtsRADIOHEAD
Life in a Glasshouse
by John Aizlewood
Voted second-best artist of the 2000s by the readers of Rolling Stone, Radiohead is recognised as not only one of the most eminent alternative rock bands, but also one of the most forward-thinking and experimental. After gaining attention with the slow-burning success of their single "Creep", the band have continued to ceaselessly move forward, rejecting the “MTV eye-candy lifestyle” set out for them and choosing to alter and refine their sound with every subsequent release.Three-and-a-half decades later, the band manages to remain one of the most prominent names on the music scene. However, when they formed as On A Friday in 1985, they were considered musical outliers from the detached and indistinguishably instrumented era of shoegaze, with their earlier work earning mixed reviews from critics and audiences alike. It was a long road until the group scored the international attention and acclaim that they can boast today. Author John Aizlewood writes for Mojo, Q and Classic Rock. During a 25-year career, he has written about music for The Guardian, Blender, The Observer, Melody Maker, Sounds, FHM, The Sunday Times and a host of others. His books include Love Is The Drugand Playing At Home; he is a critic on the widely acclaimed Rock Icons series and lives near London.
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Handicrafts, decorative arts & craftsDAVID BOWIE: STARMAN
A Colouring Book
by Illustrations by Coco Balderrama, Text by Laura Coulman
Featuring 30 iconic looks from every phase of his fashion evolution, David Bowie: Starman: A Colouring Book offers a uniquely creative way to remember David Bowie, the daring, chameleonic icon who changed popular music forever. Whether posing as Ziggy Stardust or Aladdin Sane, Goblin King or China Boy, Thin White Duke or huge-hearted hero, Bowie’s career is a veritable kaleidoscope of ever-changing colours, styles and sounds. Peppered with quotes, facts and memories of Bowie from those who knew him best, – essential reading for fans of every generation.
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HumourOctober 2012Never Mind the Botox
by Mitch Stansbury
We, four suburban forty-somethings, had all but ignored live music, proper live music, for twenty years - The Banshees, Buzzcocks and The Smiths happened so long ago that they might have been in a different life. Live music now was a mum from Doncaster pretending to be the blonde one from Abba, and we needed help. Thankfully, it came, as our children found indie-rock, and demanded to see it up close. A night at Wembley with The Killers kick-started a five year odyssey of seventy nights, a hundred bands, and all of this – Superheroes in spandex, Viking Metallers in a strip-club, cross-dressing sax players, foam-parties, typewriter solos, half-eaten birds, demented babysitters, homicidal ticket-touts, terrifying body-art, the world’s laziest roadie, and of course, some dad-dancing. We’ve met an 80’s legend playing drums in a punk covers band, and been stalked by a masked man in a gay night-club. We’ve been derailed by the Pope, and insulted by a singer who then bought us all a drink, and even, briefly, had rock stars’ arse in our hands. Well, in my hands. Fleeting it may have been, but he hasn’t called, or even sent a text. Never Mind the Botox is a journey of mild, middle-aged rebellion, as once or twice a month, we try not to stand out in a crowd thirty years younger - we usually fail. Sometimes the children keep us company, others we leave them at home, but there is always, along the way, some fun to be had. And so what if we can’t hear the next morning. Old-people need rock’n’roll too.
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Biography & True StoriesOctober 2020Hope Street
How I Became a Champion of England
by Campino
The story actually starts with Kevin Keegan, the Liverpool forwardwith the extravagant perm who became Campino’s idol during the1970s because he showed him which side he needed to be on.And when Campino became a punk musician, England was the answerto all his questions. He adored full English breakfast, Londonand even the Queen. What could be more obvious than the decisionfor the best football team in the world, Liverpool FC? This earlypassion has summed up all the contradictions of his backgroundas the son of an English mother and a German judge. Didit also have to do with the love for his mother and the austerity ofhis Prussian-bred father? - In his first book, Campino talks aboutall this, his German-English family and his burning passion for LiverpoolFC, which has quite a lot to do with his love of music. In it,a musician shows himself as a narrator who writes about tragedyand comedy, about loyalty and happiness - and about how it feelsto finally, finally be Champions of England.
