Stories Of The Street

104 '60s essentials, including: Baby Love • Barbara Ann • Born to Be Wild • California Girls • Can't Buy Me Love • Dancing in the Street • Downtown • Good Vibrations • Hang on Sloopy • Hey Jude • I Heard It Through the Grapevine • It's Not Unusual • My Guy • Respect • Something • Spooky • Stand by Me • Stop! in the Name of Love • Suspicious Minds • A Time for Us (Love Theme) • Twist and Shout • Will You Love Me Tomorrow (Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow) • Yesterday • You Keep Me Hangin' On • and more.

In time for his 80th birthday, stories on the world's most popular blues performer B.B. King is a national treasure. For more than four decades, he has been the consummate blues performer. His unique guitar playing, powerful vocals, and repertoire of songs have taken him from tiny Itta Bena, Mississippi, to worldwide renown. In this comprehensive volume, the best articles, interviews, and reviews about B.B. King's life and career have been gathered. Learn how he first made his mark as a disc jockey in Memphis hawking Pepticon elixir and taking the moniker of the Beale Street Blues Boy; trace his early tours and recordings; see him be swept up in the blues revival; and finally, enjoy his fame as the greatest living exponent of the blues style. He turns 80 in September so the book is timed to take advantage of the well-deserved attention. • Extensively revised second edition • Includes 18 interviews