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Can't slow down : how 1984 became pop's blockbuster year / by Matos, Michaelangelo,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-446) and index.A Rolling Stone-Kirkus Best Music Book of 2020 The definitive account of pop music in the mid-eighties, from Prince and Madonna to the underground hip-hop, indie rock, and club scenes. Everybody knows the hits of 1984 - pop music's greatest year. From "Thriller" to "Purple Rain," "Hello" to "Against All Odds," "What's Love Got to Do with It" to "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go," these iconic songs continue to dominate advertising, karaoke nights, and the soundtracks for film classics (Boogie Nights) and TV hits (Stranger Things). But the story of that thrilling, turbulent time, an era when Top 40 radio was both the leading edge of popular culture and a moral battleground, has never been told with the full detail it deserves - until now. Can't Slow Down is the definitive portrait of the exploding world of mid-eighties pop and the time it defined, from Cold War anxiety to the home-computer revolution. Big acts like Michael Jackson (Thriller), Prince (Purple Rain), Madonna (Like a Virgin), Bruce Springsteen (Born in the U.S.A.), and George Michael (Wham!'s Make It Big) rubbed shoulders with the stars of the fermenting scenes of hip-hop, indie rock, and club music. Rigorously researched, mapping the entire terrain of American pop, with crucial side trips to the UK and Jamaica, from the biz to the stars to the upstarts and beyond, Can't Slow Down is a vivid journey to the very moment when pop was remaking itself, and the culture at large - one hit at a time.
Subjects: Popular music.; Nineteen eighty-four, A.D.;
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Glory days [sound recording] : the summer of 1984 and the 90 days that changed sports and culture forever / by Wertheim, L. Jonauthor.(CARDINAL)666090; Abell, Chris,narrator.;
Read by Chris Abell.L. Jon Wertheim captures the summer of 1984 to show it was a watershed moment in the birth of modern sports, a moment when sports began to morph into the wildly popular arena we know today.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Sound recordings..; Sports; Nineteen eighty-four, A.D.;
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Glory days : the summer of 1984 and the 90 days that changed sports and culture forever / by Wertheim, L. Jon,author.(CARDINAL)666090;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-309) and index.Introduction -- Be like Mike -- The great one -- Are the games dead? -- Johnny Mac and Martina -- The Trump card -- Larry versus Magic -- Heir Jordan -- There's a draft in here -- Joy in Wrigleyville -- Wax on, wax off -- The sham of amateurism -- Strokes of genius -- Swooshing in to woo Jordan -- Down goes Tyson -- The dream team -- The victory tour -- The all-sports, all-the-time network -- The brawl to end it all -- The summer of the Mac -- Let the games begin -- Super Saturday -- Mike and Nike -- Wait till next year -- Be like Mike -- Conclusion."A rollicking guided tour of one extraordinary summer, when some of the most pivotal and freakishly coincidental stories all collided and changed the way we think about modern sports"--Summer, 1984. The nation watched Michael Jordan grow from college basketball player to professional athlete and star. ESPN rose to media dominance as the country's premier sports network. The first modern, commercialized, profitable Olympics took place in Los Angeles. Magic Johnson and Larry Bird's rivalry raged, Martina Navratilova and John McEnroe reigned in tennis, Hulk Hogan and Vince McMahon made pro wrestling a business, and Donald Trump pierced the national consciousness as a pro football team owner. Wertheim shows how summer, 1984 was the moment when sports began to morph into the market-savvy, sensationalized, moneyed, controversial, and wildly popular arena we know today. -- adapted from jacket
Subjects: Illustrated works.; Nineteen eighty-four, A.D.; Sports;
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Can't slow down : how 1984 became pop's blockbuster year / by Matos, Michaelangelo,author.(CARDINAL)463320;
The definitive portrait of the exploding world of mid-eighties pop music--including Michael Jackson, Prince, Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, and George Michael--and the time it defined, from Cold War anxiety to the home-computer revolution.
Subjects: Popular music; Nineteen eighty-four, A.D.;
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Glory days : the summer of 1984 and the 90 days that changed sports and culture forever / by Wertheim, L. JonAuthor(DLC)n 2001102465;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-309) and index."A rollicking guided tour of one extraordinary summer, when some of the most pivotal and freakishly coincidental stories all collided and changed the way we think about modern sports"--.
Subjects: Sports; Nineteen eighty-four, A.D.; Popular culture; Popular culture;
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On nineteen eighty-four [sound recording] : a biography / by Taylor, D. J.(David John),1960-author.(CARDINAL)778493; Armstrong, Charles(Actor),narrator.;
Read by Charles Armstrong.From the author of the definitive biography of George Orwell comes a captivating account of the origin and enduring power of his landmark dystopian novel.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Biographies.; Orwell, George, 1903-1950.; Orwell, George, 1903-1950; Authors, English;
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On Nineteen Eighty-Four:A Biography of George Orwell's Masterpiece / by Taylor, D. J.,author.; Orwell, George,1903-1950.(CARDINAL)141927;
"Since its publication in 1949, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four has been regarded as one of the most influential novels of the modern age. It has shaped the worldview of everyone from politicians and journalists to musicians and TV viewers, and in our era of inescapable surveillance, invasions of privacy, and rampant dishonesty, it is as timely as ever. On Nineteen Eighty-Four, from acclaimed biographer and critic D.J. Taylor, is a deep dive into the origins, creation, and life of Orwell's masterpiece. It stretches from his education, through the Spanish Civil War, and to the Scottish Island of Jura, where the author, newly famous but coping with rapidly declining health, struggled to finish the book that would secure his legacy. This is a brilliant blend of history, biography, and analysis." --]cFrom publisher's description.
Subjects: Influences; Biography & Autobiography.; Biography.; Authors, English.; Criticism & interpretation.; Criticism; Books and reading.; Literary figures.;
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On Nineteen eighty-four : a biography / by Taylor, D. J.(David John),1960-author.(CARDINAL)778493;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-179) and index.Before (1903-1943) -- During (1943-1949) -- After (1949 ad infinitum)"Since its publication nearly 70 years ago, George Orwell's 1984 has been regarded as one of the most influential novels of the modern age. Politicians have testified to its influence on their intellectual identities, rock musicians have made records about it, TV viewers watch a reality show named for it, and a White House spokesperson tells of 'alternative facts.' The world we live in is often described as an Orwellian one, awash in inescapable surveillance and invasions of privacy. On 1984 dives deep into Orwell's life to chart his earlier writings and key moments in his youth, such as his years at a boarding school, whose strict and charismatic headmaster shaped the idea of Big Brother. Taylor tells the story of the writing of the book, taking readers to the Scottish island of Jura, where Orwell, newly famous thanks to Animal Farm but coping with personal tragedy and rapidly declining health, struggled to finish 1984. Published during the cold war -- a term Orwell coined -- Taylor elucidates the environmental influences on the book. Then he examines 1984's post-publication life, including its role as a tool to understand our language, politics, and government. In a current climate where truth, surveillance, censorship, and critical thinking are contentious, Orwell's work is necessary" --
Subjects: Biographies.; Orwell, George, 1903-1950.; Orwell, George, 1903-1950.; Orwell, George, 1903-1950; Authors, English;
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Who the hell is Pansy O'Hara? : the fascinating stories behind 50 of the world's best-loved books / by Bond, Jenny.(CARDINAL)488253; Sheedy, Chris.(CARDINAL)488254;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-318).Fiction: Pride and prejudice, Jane Austen, 1813 ; Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, 1818 ; Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens, 1838 ; Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë, 1847 ; Vanity fair, William Makepeace Thackeray, 1847 ; Crime and punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866 ; War and peace, Leo Tolstoy, 1867-1869 ; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, 1885 ; The hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle, 1902 ; Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie, 1904 ; The great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925 ; Winnie-the-Pooh, A. A. Milne, 1926 ; All quiet on the western front, Erich Maria Remarque, 1929 ; Gone with the wind, Margaret Mitchell, 1936 ; The hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien, 1937 ; The grapes of wrath, John Steinbeck, 1939 ; For whom the bell tolls, Ernest Hemingway, 1940 ; Nineteen eighty-four, George Orwell, 1949 ; The catcher in the rye, J. D. Salinger, 1951 ; From here to eternity, James Jones, 1951 ; Casino Royale, Ian Fleming, 1953 ; Lord of the flies, William Golding, 1954 ; Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 1955 ; The cat in the hat, Dr. Seuss, 1957 ; Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak, 1957 ; To kill a mockingbird, Harper Lee, 1960 ; The spy who came in from the cold, John Le Carré, 1963 ; Valley of the dolls, Jacqueline Susann, 1966 ; The godfather, Mario Puzo, 1969 ; The day of the Jackal, Frederick Forsyth, 1971 ; Carrie, Stephen King, 1974 ; Jaws, Peter Benchley, 1974 ; Midnight's children, Salman Rushdie, 1981 ; The color purple, Alice Walker, 1982 ; Hollywood wives, Jackie Collins, 1983 ; Bridget Jone's diary, Helen Fielding, 1996 ; Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone, J. K. Rowling, 1997 ; True history of the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey, 2000 ; The Da Vinci code, Dan Brown, 2003.
Subjects: Biographies.; Authors, American; Authors, American; Authors, English; Authors, English; Authorship.; Best sellers.;
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Shakespeare's tremor and Orwell's cough : the medical lives of great writers / by Ross, John J.(John James),1966-(CARDINAL)600851;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-277) and index.The hardest knife ill-used : Shakespeare's tremor -- Exil'd from light : the blindness of John Milton -- dying from the top down : the dementia of Jonathan Swift -- Some sweet poisoned breeze had passed into her lungs : the Brontës and tuberculosis -- dismal labyrinth of doubt : the strange death of Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Perilous outpost of the sane : the many maladies of Herman Melville -- Sex and the dead : brucellosis, arsenic, and William Butler Yeats -- Medical misadventures of an amateur M.D. : Jack London's death by hubris -- An infamous private ailment : the venereal afflictions of James Joyce -- "The disease which was bound to claim me sooner or later" : Orwell's cough.Were Shakespeare's shaky handwriting, his obsession with venereal disease, and his premature retirement connected? Did John Milton go blind from his propaganda work for the Puritan dictator Oliver Cromwell, as he believed, or did he have a rare and devastating complication of a very common eye problem? Did Jonathan Swift's preoccupation with sex and filth result from a neurological condition that might also explain his late-life surge in creativity? What Victorian plague wiped out the entire Brontë family? What was the cause of Nathaniel Hawthorne's sudden demise? Were Herman Melville's disabling attacks of eye and back pain the product of "nervous affections," as his family and physicians believed, or did he actually have a malady that was unknown to medical science until well after his death? Was Jack London a suicide, or was his death the product of a series of self-induced medical misadventures? Why did W. B. Yeats's doctors dose him with toxic amounts of arsenic? Did James Joyce need several horrific eye operations because of a strange autoimmune disease acquired from a Dublin streetwalker? Did writing Nineteen Eighty-Four actually kill George Orwell? The Bard meets House, M.D. in this fascinating untold story of the impact of disease on the lives and works of some the finest writers in the English language. In Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough, John Ross cheerfully debunks old biographical myths and suggests fresh diagnoses for these writers' real-life medical mysteries. The author takes us way back, when leeches were used for bleeding and cupping was a common method of cure, to a time before vaccinations, sterilized scalpels, or real drug regimens. With a healthy dose of gross descriptions and a deep love for the literary output of these ten greats, Ross is the doctor these writers should have had in their time of need. --
Subjects: Biographies.; Authors, American; Authors, American; Authors, English; Authors, English; Diseases and literature.; Literature and medicine.;
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