The Sunday Times Culture July 28 2024

The Sunday Times Culture - July 28, 2024  Magazines

Posted by crazy-slim at July 28, 2024
The Sunday Times Culture - July 28, 2024

The Sunday Times Culture - July 28, 2024
English | 58 pages | True PDF | 19.1 MB
VA - Jon Savage's The Secret Public: How The LGBTQ+ Aesthetic Shaped Pop Culture 1955 - 1979 (2024)

VA - Jon Savage's The Secret Public: How The LGBTQ+ Aesthetic Shaped Pop Culture 1955 - 1979 (2024)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 931 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 364 MB
2:36:28 | Electronic, Disco, Dance-pop, Indie Rock, Rock & Roll, Soul, Electro | Label: Ace

Homosexuality has been a part of post-war popular music since its very inception. Until the early 70s, however, it wasn’t talked about openly in that world: it was coded, hidden, secret. This of course mirrored society - during the 50s and 60s, the gay community felt like outcasts: harassed by the police, demonised by the media and politicians, imprisoned simply for being who they were. This compilation spans the time before and after Bowie, reflecting both the coded nature about the topic in the 50s and 60s and the greater openness that occurred in the early 70s. It begins in late 1955, with the extraordinary success of Little Richard; continues through early-60s pop and pop art; Tamla and Soul, Glam Rock, the early 70’s funk and disco that was played in the underground New York clubs, and then moves on to the omnipresence of Disco, in the late seventies.

Asst news and magazines Feb 15  Comics

Posted by Kochet at April 15, 2024
Asst news and magazines Feb 15

Asst news and magazines Feb 15
English | PDF | 8582.5 MB

Margo Guryan - Words and Music (2024)  Music

Posted by Rtax at June 6, 2024
Margo Guryan - Words and Music (2024)

Margo Guryan - Words and Music (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 567 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 280 MB
1:57:44 | Baroque pop, Sunshine Pop, Jazz | Label: Numero Group

Margo Guryan Died in 2021. Her Music Keeps Getting Rediscovered. “Words and Music,” a new anthology, shines light on a little-known but increasingly beloved master of pop and jazz songwriting. In the late summer of 1970, Elton John arrived at Los Angeles International Airport for his debut U.S. shows and was greeted by another wildly talented piano-playing singer-songwriter: Margo Guryan. Her husband, David Rosner, worked for the company that signed John, and together they helped him get sorted in the run-up to his legendary performances at the Troubadour, kicking off a long, spectacular career. Guryan’s career proved less of a spectacle. After modest success as a jazz-pop songwriter, she recorded one album of her own, with Rosner’s encouragement. “Take a Picture” was alive with dazzling melodies, lyrical wit, strikingly intimate vocals and marvelously florid arrangements — a small masterpiece of the microgenre known as sunshine pop. But Guryan was a reluctant performer who refused to tour, and her album, released in 1968, was a commercial flop, after her label barely promoted it. And yet, in a unique twist on a familiar story, the 11 songs of “Take a Picture” became a shared secret around the world; pirate pressings overseas earned her the sobriquet “The Soft Pop Queen of Japan.” In 2000 the LP was officially reissued, followed by others collecting her demo recordings — lean performances that could pass for 21st-century indie-pop.