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|author= Tony Fletcher
|title= In the Midnight Hour: The Life & Soul of Wilson Pickett
|rating= 4.5
|genre= Entertainment
|summary= Tamla Motown groups and singers apart, in the mid-sixties there were three major names in the soul music field who mattered above all. James Brown was something of a cult name who rarely bothered about or troubled the singles charts, and Otis Redding was on the verge of shooting into the stratosphere when he died in an aeroplane crash. The other was the man from Alabama, 'the wicked Pickett'.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0190252944</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Chris Paling
|summary=David Bowie's death in January 2016 came as a shock to me: we were much of an age and he'd always seemed so ''vital''. But his final album, ''Blackstar'', seemed to foretell his death and was a commercial success, coming in at number one in the UK Top 100 Albums Chart, and the ''David Bowie Is'' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum is the most successful exhibition ever staged by the V&A. But what of a more relaxing memory of the man who was part genius and part chameleon?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859655504</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Stephen Witt
|title= How Music Got Free: The Inventor, the Music Man, and the Thief
|rating= 4
|genre= Business and Finance
|summary= In the digital age, new technology made recorded music a free-for-all. It was good news for the consumer, but dealt a major blow to the beleaguered music industry. Where people once amassed physical collections, they now had the choice of file-sharing instead. This book describes how everything changed from the mid-1990s onwards. It is however written more with the computer enthusiast or business student than the music lover in mind.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445636786</amazonuk>
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