{"title":"Music","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"david-bowie-made-me-gay-100-years-of-lgbt-music-darryl-w-bullock","title":"David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years Of LGBT Music | Darryl W. Bullock","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the birth of jazz in the red-light district of New Orleans, through the rock 'n' roll years, Swinging Sixties and all-singing and all dancing disco days of the '70s, to modern pop, electronica and reggae the LGBT community has played a crucial role in modern music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the turn of the twentieth century, recording technology for the first time brought the messages of LGBT artists from the cabaret stage into the homes of millions. Their personal struggle and threat of persecution during decades of political and historical turmoil - including two world wars, Stonewall and the AIDS crisis - has led to some of the most significant and soul-searching music of the last century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBullock brings to light the colourful legacy that has shaped our musical and cultural landscape, revealing the inspiring and often heartbreaking stories of internationally renowned LGBT artists from Billie Holiday and Dusty Springfield to Frankie Goes to Hollywood and George Michael and of numerous lesser-known names that have driven the revolution from all corners of the globe. A treasure-trove of untold history for all music lovers,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDavid Bowie Made Me Gay\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a moving, nostalgic and provocative reminder of how far the fight for equality has come, and the battles that are still to be waged.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pigeon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31669478326346,"sku":"","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0249\/3828\/3082\/products\/image_68854223-8ea0-4052-a0c0-5dc4ad0005d2.jpg?v=1680268317"},{"product_id":"limited-edition-of-one-steven-wilson","title":"Limited Edition Of One | Steven Wilson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe more I thought about it, the more I realised my career has been unusual. How did I manage to do everything wrong but still end up on the front cover of magazines, headlining world tours and achieving Top 5 albums? How did I attract such obsessive and fanatical fans, many of whom take everything I do or say very personally, which is simultaneously flattering but can also be tremendously frustrating? Even this I somehow cultivated without somehow meaning to. My accidental career.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLimited Edition of One is unlike any other music book you will ever have read. Part the long-awaited memoir of Steven Wilson: whose celebrated band Porcupine Tree began as teenage fiction before unintentionally evolving into a reality that encompassed Grammy-nominated records and sold-out shows around the world, before he set out for an even more successful solo career. Part the story of a twenty-first century artist who achieved chart-topping mainstream success without ever becoming part of the mainstream.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom Abba to Stockhausen, via a collection of conversations and thought pieces on the art of listening, the rules of collaboration, lists of lists, personal stories, professional adventurism (including food, film, TV, modern art), old school rock stardom, how to negotiate an obsessive fanbase and survive on social media, and dream-fever storytelling.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pigeon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39730379489354,"sku":"","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0249\/3828\/3082\/products\/image_644ccfff-b5e6-483b-8df7-2bd1752bdaf5.jpg?v=1649424801"},{"product_id":"tenement-kid-bobby-gillespie","title":"Tenement Kid | Bobby Gillespie","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBorn into a working-class Glaswegian family in the summer of 1961, TENEMENT KID begins in the district of Springburn, soon to be evacuated in Edward Heath's brutal slum clearances.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLeaving school at 16 and going to work as a printers' apprentice, Bobby's rock n roll epiphany arrives like a bolt of lightning shining from Phil Lynott's mirrored pickguard at his first gig at the Apollo in Glasgow. Filled with 'the holy spirit of rock n roll' his destiny is sealed with the arrival of the Sex Pistols and punk rock which to Bobby, represents an iconoclastic vision of class rebellion and would ultimately lead to him becoming an artist initially in the Jesus and Mary Chain then Primal Scream. Building like a breakbeat crescendo to the Summer of Love, Boys Own parties, and the fateful meeting with Andrew Weatherall in an East Sussex field, as the '80s bleed into the '90s and a new kind of electronic soul music starts to pulse through the nation's consciousness, TENEMENT KID closes with the release of Screamadelica, the album often credited with 'starting the '90s'.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA book filled with the joy and wonder of a rock n roll apostle who would radically reshape the future sounds of fin de siecle British pop, Bobby Gillespie's memoir cuts a righteous path through a decade lost to Thatcherism and saved by acid house.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pigeon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39917125533770,"sku":"","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0249\/3828\/3082\/products\/image_0cc57a28-86e8-43e8-b951-0488b537df3f.heic?v=1657283514"},{"product_id":"dilla-time-dan-charnas","title":"Dilla Time | Dan Charnas","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEqual parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy of J Dilla, a musical genius who transformed the sound of popular music for the twenty-first century. He wasn't known to mainstream audiences, and when he died at age thirty-two, he had never had a pop hit. Yet since his death, J Dilla has become a demigod, revered as one of the most important musical figures of the past hundred years.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt the core of this adulation is innovation: as the producer behind some of the most influential rap and R\u0026amp;B acts of his day, Dilla created a new kind of musical time-feel, an accomplishment on a par with the revolutions wrought by Louis Armstrong and James Brown. Dilla and his drum machine reinvented the way musicians play. In Dilla Time, Dan Charnas chronicles the life of James DeWitt Yancey, from his gifted Detroit childhood to his rise as a sought-after hip-hop producer to the rare blood disease that caused his premature death.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe follows the people who kept Dilla and his ideas alive. And he rewinds the histories of American rhythms: from the birth of Motown soul to funk, techno, and disco. Here, music is a story of what happens when human and machine times are synthesized into something new.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is the story of a complicated man and his machines; his family, friends, partners, and celebrity collaborators; and his undeniable legacy. Based on nearly two hundred original interviews, and filled with graphics that teach us to feel and \"see\" the rhythm of Dilla's beats, Dilla Time is a book as defining and unique as J Dilla's music itself. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pigeon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40228619092042,"sku":"","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0249\/3828\/3082\/products\/image_1912290a-8d98-428d-9225-012d4fc2e8cf.jpg?v=1674829724"},{"product_id":"ten-thousand-apologies-adelle-stripe-lias-saoudi","title":"Ten Thousand Apologies | Adelle Stripe \u0026 Lias Saoudi","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the mountains of Algeria to the squats of South London via sectarian Northern Ireland, Ten Thousand Apologies is the sordid and thrilling story of the country's most notorious cult band, Fat White Family. Loved and loathed in equal measure since their formation in 2011, the relentlessly provocative, stunningly dysfunctional \"drug band with a rock problem\" have dedicated themselves to constant chaos and total creative freedom at all costs. Like a tragicomic penny dreadful dreamed up by a mutant hybrid of Jean Genet, the Dadaists and Mark E.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSmith, the Fat Whites' story is a frequently jaw-dropping epic of creative insurrection, narcotic excess, mental illness, wanderlust, self-sabotage, fractured masculinity, and the ruthless pursuit of absolute art. Co-written with lucidity and humour by singer Lias Saoudi and acclaimed author Adelle Stripe, Ten Thousand Apologies is that rare thing: a music book that barely features any music, a biography as literary as any novel, and a confessional that does not seek forgiveness. This is the definitive account of Fat White Family's disgraceful and radiant jihad - a depraved, romantic and furious gesture of refusal to a sanitised era.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pigeon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40305725472842,"sku":"","price":6.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0249\/3828\/3082\/products\/image_22c4a2dc-4b93-4cc7-ad82-aeeed8717a16.jpg?v=1682072359"},{"product_id":"faith-hope-and-carnage-nick-cave-sean-o-hagan","title":"Faith, Hope And Carnage | Nick Cave \u0026 Seán O’Hagan","description":"","brand":"Pigeon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55101271245173,"sku":"","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0249\/3828\/3082\/files\/ECE2F747-EA1D-4FFA-9E05-5B2B001D3545.jpg?v=1740147182"},{"product_id":"thank-you-falettinme-be-mice-elf-agin-sly-stone","title":"Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) | Sly Stone","description":"","brand":"Pigeon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55101294346613,"sku":"","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0249\/3828\/3082\/files\/04D75292-9C28-4431-A49D-E3385F9C8B35.jpg?v=1740147838"},{"product_id":"music-is-history-questlove","title":"Music Is History | Questlove","description":"","brand":"Pigeon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55101297459573,"sku":"","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0249\/3828\/3082\/files\/FDCDC9BB-05BF-4A1B-BB87-6CAB94F3EA49.jpg?v=1740147893"},{"product_id":"dylan-goes-electric-elijah-wald","title":"Dylan Goes Electric! | Elijah Wald","description":"","brand":"Pigeon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55101302210933,"sku":"","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0249\/3828\/3082\/files\/768839BB-F975-4FD3-A550-0965A7A69A45.jpg?v=1740148053"},{"product_id":"stick-to-my-roots-tippa-irie","title":"Stick To My Roots | Tippa Irie","description":"","brand":"Pigeon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55246222590325,"sku":"","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0249\/3828\/3082\/files\/3B596D67-DFA9-40A5-9BAB-4453924289DD.jpg?v=1744207372"},{"product_id":"girl-in-a-band-kim-gordon","title":"Girl In A Band | Kim Gordon","description":"","brand":"Pigeon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55254034612597,"sku":"","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0249\/3828\/3082\/files\/89584A23-A9F6-445E-AC6E-F2FD906E12A6.jpg?v=1744379850"},{"product_id":"phew-eh-readers-tom-hibbert","title":"Phew, Eh Readers? | Tom Hibbert","description":"","brand":"Pigeon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55254039921013,"sku":"","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0249\/3828\/3082\/files\/D5367704-D822-4A7A-BD6B-89741C472F0A.jpg?v=1744380020"},{"product_id":"3-shades-of-blue-james-kaplan","title":"3 Shades Of Blue | James Kaplan","description":"","brand":"Pigeon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55254047621493,"sku":"","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0249\/3828\/3082\/files\/5DF8361D-9457-4DFF-832A-FEE38A223258.jpg?v=1744380206"},{"product_id":"dust-grooves-eilon-paz","title":"Dust \u0026 Grooves | Eilon Paz","description":"","brand":"Pigeon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55254053323125,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0249\/3828\/3082\/files\/DB27102C-B4FE-4025-AC7D-9A193A61FF87.jpg?v=1744380398"},{"product_id":"unapologetic-expression-andre-marmot","title":"Unapologetic Expression | André Marmot","description":"","brand":"Pigeon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55353928352117,"sku":"","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0249\/3828\/3082\/files\/CD2E4D97-A740-48E4-A23E-B73E9B521ABE.jpg?v=1746695094"},{"product_id":"welcome-to-the-club-dj-paulette","title":"Welcome To The Club | DJ Paulette","description":"","brand":"Pigeon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55358889296245,"sku":"","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0249\/3828\/3082\/files\/01D12729-3051-405C-9DFB-52A56CF9DA0E.jpg?v=1746791755"},{"product_id":"my-life-in-reggae-david-rodigan","title":"My Life In Reggae | David Rodigan","description":"","brand":"Pigeon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56912292118901,"sku":null,"price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0249\/3828\/3082\/files\/6D5FCBD5-5547-4B84-ABC7-B3E99C4744F6.jpg?v=1773829300"},{"product_id":"the-chronicles-of-doom-sh-fernando-jr","title":"The Chronicles Of DOOM | SH Fernando Jr.","description":"","brand":"Pigeon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56912308601205,"sku":null,"price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0249\/3828\/3082\/files\/AF9B274B-8D61-43A5-9254-CE5A866E5386.jpg?v=1773829415"},{"product_id":"living-in-a-d-a-i-s-y-age-austin-mccoy","title":"Living In A D.A.I.S.Y. Age | Austin McCoy","description":"","brand":"Pigeon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56912329539957,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0249\/3828\/3082\/files\/60876C35-302C-4B2B-9C38-3BE53201B56C.jpg?v=1773829606"},{"product_id":"even-the-good-girls-will-cry-melissa-auf-der-maur","title":"Even The Good Girls Will Cry | Melissa Auf Der Maur","description":"","brand":"Pigeon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56912338092405,"sku":null,"price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0249\/3828\/3082\/files\/E9CFF869-DA8A-47D5-BB9F-9BD13B52E4A0.jpg?v=1773829683"},{"product_id":"in-another-world-the-four-seasons-of-talk-talk-graeme-thomson","title":"In Another World : The Four Seasons of Talk Talk | Graeme Thomson","description":"","brand":"Pigeon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57233623286133,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0249\/3828\/3082\/files\/9781917923613.jpg?v=1780041705"}],"url":"https:\/\/pigeonbooks.live\/collections\/music.oembed","provider":"Pigeon Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}