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Music to Die for

Music to Die for

Mick Mercer

Packed with discographical information, web addresses, line-ups, and often contributions from the bands themselves, this is the first edition of a book that will be turned to again and again and will undoubtedly appear in new editions as ...
Fashioning Gothic Bodies

Fashioning Gothic Bodies

Catherine Spooner

The circumstances preceding her eventual departure from The Sisters of Mercy underscore this point; according to Mick Mercer: 'Having felt her contribution, already spread over four years perhaps merited more than the paltry £300 a month ...
Goth: Undead Subculture

Goth: Undead Subculture

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This is clearly demonstrated by the testimonies of individual goths interviewed in Mick Mercer's Gothic Rock (1991). An interviewee named Hemlock states, "Whilst some people see us and say we're all the same because we all wear black, ...
Mercer: The Songs of Johnny Mercer

Mercer: The Songs of Johnny Mercer

Johnny Mercer

Rich textures, sophisticated harmonies and inventive rhythms make these arrangements ideal for hobbyists, advancing students, professional musicians or any Popular Performer.
The Hex Files: The Goth Bible

The Hex Files: The Goth Bible

Mick Mercer

The Cassandra Complex, Project Pitchfork, and Girls Under Glass. Everything is here from pop to atmospherics. George Lindt, Barfuesserstr. 27, 35037 Msarburg/ Lahn.(Fax: +49 (0) 6421/161809) from a hardy perennial herb you'd better have ...
The Music of the Goth Subculture: Postmodernism and Aesthetics

The Music of the Goth Subculture: Postmodernism and Aesthetics

Charles Allen Mueller

Mick Mercer asserts, “It was a movement that flummoxed those outside it. Punk had a political point and whether you liked it or not, the argument for its appearance, existence and survival was pretty obvious. Goth eluded mental capture in this ...
The Johnny Mercer Centennial Sheet Music Collection: ...

The Johnny Mercer Centennial Sheet Music Collection: ...

Johnny Mercer

(P/V/G Composer Collection). Johnny Mercer (1909-1976) was not only one of America's greatest lyricists - he helped define the American South from the outside in. His words paint rich and vivid portraits of life in his native Georgia.
Johnny Mercer: Southern Songwriter for the World

Johnny Mercer: Southern Songwriter for the World

Glenn T. Eskew

Johnny Mercer: Southern Songwriter for the World provides a compelling chronological narrative that places Mercer within a larger framework of diaspora entertainers who spread a southern multiracial culture across the nation and around the ...
Bahama Burnout: A Mick Sever Mystery

Bahama Burnout: A Mick Sever Mystery

Don Bruns

Sent to get the inside story on the opening of the new Highland Studio, Mick finds this is hardly the Phoenix-rising-out-of-the-ashes story he expected.
The Baptist Summit at Mercer University: 19-20 January 2006, ...

The Baptist Summit at Mercer University: 19-20 January 2006, ...

Mercer University. Baptist Summit

Baptist Summit (1st : 2006 : Mercer University) The Baptist Summit at Mercer University : 19-20 January 2006, three addresses / by R. Kirby Godsey, Walter B. Shurden, and William D. Underwood. — 1st ed. p. cm. ISBN-13: 978-0-88146- 061-2 ...
The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer

The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer

Johnny Mercer

The seventh volume in Knopf’s critically acclaimed Complete Lyrics series, published in Johnny Mercer’s centennial year, contains the texts to more than 1,200 of his lyrics, several hundred of them published here for the first time.
National Library of Medicine Current Catalog: Cumulative listing

National Library of Medicine Current Catalog: Cumulative listing

National Library of Medicine (U.S.).

93.17022 Mercer, Ellen Robertson. sec An International psychiatric directory Mercer, Susan O. Elder suicide : a national survey of prevention & intervention programs / by Susan O. Mercer. – Washington, D.C. : Public Policy Institute, AARP, ...
Our Huckleberry Friend: The Life, Times, and Lyrics of ...

Our Huckleberry Friend: The Life, Times, and Lyrics of ...

Johnny Mercer

Combines Johnny Mercer's popular song lyrics with a survey of his life and a collection of letters, sheet music, photographs, and other memorabilia. This book is a collection of Mercer lyrics and memorabilia.
Last of the Giants: The True Story of Guns N' Roses

Last of the Giants: The True Story of Guns N' Roses

Mick Wall

And this is where Mick Wall first met them, and became part of their inner circle, before famously being denounced by name by Axl Rose in the song 'Get in the Ring'. But this book isn't about settling old scores.
The Blackwater Lightship: A Novel

The Blackwater Lightship: A Novel

Colm Toibin

She watched Mick Joyce going into the garden, finding Manus and lifting him on his shoulders, making him laugh and shout; Cathal and his friend followed them as they moved around the garden. She remembered that each time Mick had ...
AC/DC: Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be

AC/DC: Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be

Mick Wall

Mick Wall penetrates the closed world of Aussie rock legends AC/DC. AC/DC moved to Britain from Sydney in 1975, and soon set up a residency at London's Marquee Club.
Metallica: Enter Night: The Biography

Metallica: Enter Night: The Biography

Mick Wall

Mick Wall moves on from Led Zeppelin to produce a definitive doorstop on Metallica.
Portrait of Johnny: The Life of John Herndon Mercer

Portrait of Johnny: The Life of John Herndon Mercer

Gene Lees

An intimate biography of the great songwriter, this is also a deeply affectionate memoir by one of Johnny Mercer's best friends.
The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney

The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney

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In District and Circle, Heaney remembers the dead Mick Joyce ('Out of your element'; 'To Mick Joyce in Heaven', DC 8) as he remembered the casualty of the Troubles who would not honour the tribal demarcations, but in this recent memory ...
Portrait of Johnny: The Life of John Herndon Mercer

Portrait of Johnny: The Life of John Herndon Mercer

Gene Lees

An intimate biography of the great songwriter, this is also a deeply affectionate memoir by one of Johnny Mercer’s best friends. “Moon River,” “Laura,” “Skylark,” ”That Old Black Magic,” “One for My Baby,” ...
Footprints: The Life and Work of Wayne Shorter

Footprints: The Life and Work of Wayne Shorter

Michelle Mercer

Filled with musical analysis by Mercer, enlivened by Shorter's vivid recollections, and enriched by more than seventy-five original interviews with his friends and associates, this book is at once an invaluable history of music from bebop ...
Automobile Topics

Automobile Topics

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On the second day Frank Kulick with a Special Ford cleaned up things in general and particularly Burman and his Blitzen Benz ... Class "C" cars — Won by Ralph De Palma (Mercer); second, G. P. Brainerd (Cole); third, John F. Beach (Mercer).
Skylark: The Life and Times of Johnny Mercer

Skylark: The Life and Times of Johnny Mercer

Philip Furia

A portratit of the Johnny Mercer traces the twentieth-century American songwriter's southern background, contradictory personality, struggle with alcoholism and depression, turbulent marriage, and love affair with Judy Garland.
Skylark: The Life and Times of Johnny Mercer

Skylark: The Life and Times of Johnny Mercer

Philip Furia

Skylark is the story of the tormented but glorious life and career of Johnny Mercer, and the first biography of this enormously popular and influential lyricist.
The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Musicology

The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Musicology

Derek B. Scott

103–24); Roy Orbison: seePeter Lehman, Roy Orbison:The Invention of an Alternative Rock Masculinity (Philadelphia, 2003); Mick Jagger: see Sheila Whiteley, 'Little Red Rooster v.The HonkyTonk Woman: Mick Jagger, Sexuality, Style ...
Reading with Mercer Mayer (Author Study) Gr. 1-2

Reading with Mercer Mayer (Author Study) Gr. 1-2

Natalie Regier

The Mercer Mayer Book Centre can be set up as an independent activity centre for students who are always finished their work early, or it can be a part of all the students' regular Language Arts program.
Kentucky's Bluegrass Music

Kentucky's Bluegrass Music

James C. Claypool

(Courtesy of Doc and Julie Mercer.) This is a picture of the restored Monroe family home place on Jerusalem Ridge. The site is overseen by a nonprofit foundation. The property's overseers, Doc and Julie Mercer, live in a house nearby and ...
In the Eye of All Trade: Bermuda, Bermudians, and the ...

In the Eye of All Trade: Bermuda, Bermudians, and the ...

Michael J. Jarvis

30, 2006), and julia E. Mercer, Bermuda Settlers ofthe 17th Century: Genealogical Notesfrom Bermuda (Baltimore, 1982), 35-41. On the Tucker family, see Mercer, Bermuda Set— tlers, 223-227, and Robert Dennard Tucker, The Descendants ...

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