Dylan Jones is een gevierde redacteur en auteur wiens werk is gevormd door zijn uitgebreide ervaring in mode en journalistiek. Zijn schrijven duikt vaak in de hedendaagse cultuur en onderzoekt de complexiteiten ervan met een scherp oog. Jones' proza onderscheidt zich door zijn doordachte aanpak en zijn vermogen om de tijdgeest te vangen, en biedt lezers een boeiend perspectief op de wereld. Zijn diepe kennis en unieke stijl maken hem tot een belangrijke stem in actuele zaken en culturele commentaren.
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Een 45-jarige Britse popliefhebber beschrijft de opkomst van de succesvolle mp3-speler van Apple, de iPod, zijn ontmoetingen met popsterren en zijn favoriete muziek.
Future classic pop cultural history of the 80s, told through the ten defining singles - one from each year - of the decade číst celé
"Drawn from over 180 interviews with friends, rivals, lovers, and collaborators, some of whom have never before spoken about their relationship with Bowie, this oral history weaves a hypnotic spell as it unfolds the story of a remarkable rise to stardom and an unparalleled artistic path."--Provided by Publisher
Jim Morrison was the lead singer of the Doors and a rock rebel of the 1960s who died in Paris on 7 July 1971. Since his death he has become the quintessential counter-culture pop hero. In researching this biography the author has travelled the world to interview those who were close to Morrison. The result is a detailed and personal portrait of a man whose self-destructive life-style ran parallel with his irrepressible creativity, in a reflection of his impulse towards self-degradation paradoxically twinned with an urgent desire to break on through.
The true story of former criminal defence lawyer Dylan Rhys Jones' experience of defending Rhyl serial killer Peter Moore, found guilty in 1996 of murdering four men and seriously assaulting many more, and referred to by the judge when sentencing as as dangerous a man as it is possible to find. -- Y Lolfa
"Drawn from over 180 interviews with friends, rivals, lovers, and collaborators, some of whom have never before spoken about their relationship with Bowie, this oral history weaves a hypnotic spell as it unfolds the story of a remarkable rise to stardom and an unparalleled artistic path."--Provided by Publisher.
Dylan Jones' luminous excavation of Jimmy Webb's song 'Wichita Lineman' offers a portal into a defining moment of American cultural history.
One of the most creative entrepreneurial periods since the Sixties, the era of the New Romantics grew out of the remnants of post-punk and developed quickly alongside club culture, ska, electronica, and goth. The scene had a huge influence on the growth of print and broadcast media, and was arguably one of the most bohemian environments of the late twentieth century. Not only did it visually define the decade, it was the catalyst for the Second British Invasion, when the US charts would be colonised by British pop music - making it one of the most powerful cultural exports since the Beatles. In Sweet Dreams, Dylan Jones charts the rise of the New Romantics through testimony from the people who lived it. For a while, Sweet Dreams were made of this
Just who does David Cameron think he is? In a series of interviews, award-winning journalist Dylan Jones attempts to find out. From the Conservative Party's bouts of internal backstabbing to Cameron's family life, this book lays bare the forces which shape the leader of Her Majesty's Opposition.
Part oral history, part narrative pop culture, part celebration of the music of 1995
