The Smiths: The Early Years
by Paul Slattery

English
159 pages
Omnibus Press
ISBN: 978-1-84609-858-1
First line: Taking photographs of bands for a living, I have seen an awful lot of them, good and bad, but I was smacked round the face with the sound and performance that The Smiths gave that night at ULU in May 1983.
Back cover blurb:
For [...]

Posted on January 29th, 2008 by Love
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Movie Icons: Cary Grant
by FX Feeney and Paul Duncan (ed.)

English
192 pages
Taschen
ISBN: 978-3-8228-2212-8
First line: He is the most self-invented man in movies, this side of Charlie Chaplin.

Thoughts: Much like the book on James Dean, this book on Cary Grant was chock-full of photos, but not so much actual text (a fair few quotes, by and [...]

Posted on November 30th, 2007 by Love
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Movie Icons: James Dean
by FX Feeney and Paul Duncan (ed.)

English
192 pages
Taschen
ISBN: 978-3-8228-2220-3
First line: He died at age 24 in a car crash, testing a new, lightweight, ultra-swift Porsche Spyder en route to a weekend race in Northern California.
Thoughts: Full of photos, but not so full of actual text (though there are quotes and a [...]

Posted on November 30th, 2007 by Love
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