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Rock Almanac; Top Twenty American and British Singles and Albums of the '50s, '60s and '70s
by Nugent, Stephen (Editor)m and Gillett, Charlie (Editor)
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0385112041
- ISBN 13
- 9780385112048
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Anchor / Doubleday, 1978. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. Good. The format is approximately 5.375 inches by 8.25 inches. xiii, [3], 485, [3] pages. Illustrated cover has some wear and soiling. Essays and tabular information. The book compiles a listing of all artists who hit both the UK & American singles and albums charts from 1964-1973 and the chart position of those songs and albums. Steve Nugent was a music aficionado and scientist who joined the anthropology department at Goldsmiths in 1981 and twice took on the role of Head of Department. His contributions to anthropology were wide ranging, spanning political economy, peasant societies, the anthropology of Brazil, historic and visual anthropology. His contributions to anthropology were wide-ranging, and he had a keen interest in music. Marrying these two interests, he and Charlie Gillette put together a compendium of the Top 20 British and American singles and albums of the '50s, '60s, and '70s, titled Rock Almanac (1978). He also collaborated with musician Ian Dury and wrote the song "Billericay Dickie." Charles Thomas Gillett (20 February 1942 - 17 March 2010) was a British radio presenter, musicologist, and writer, mainly on rock and roll and other forms of popular music. He was particularly noted for his influential book The Sound of the City, for his promotion of many forms of "world music", and for discovering and promoting such acts as Dire Straits and Ian Dury. In 2006, Gillett was awarded the John Peel Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music Radio by the Radio Academy. This is an important cross-cultural reference work. This is a choice collections of articles and charted statistical data on rock music of the 50's, 60's and 70's. Among the contributors are Pete Fowler, Anne Folwer, Simon Firth, Paul Gambaccini, Davis Marsh, Mark Sten and Carl Gayle.
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- Bookseller
- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86375
- Title
- Rock Almanac; Top Twenty American and British Singles and Albums of the '50s, '60s and '70s
- Author
- Nugent, Stephen (Editor)m and Gillett, Charlie (Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Trade paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Presumed First Edition, First printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0385112041
- ISBN 13
- 9780385112048
- Publisher
- Anchor / Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- Rock and Roll, Music Radio, Reference Works, Pete Fowler, Anne Folwer, Simon Firth, Paul Gambaccini, Davis Marsh, Mark Sten, Carl Gayle, Albums, Sound-Track, Original-Cast, Chart Toppers, Raggae
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