Music Express: The Rise, Fall & Resurrection of Canada's Music Magazine

Music Express: The Rise, Fall & Resurrection of Canada's Music Magazine

Music Express: The Rise, Fall & Resurrection of Canada's Music Magazine

Music Express: The Rise, Fall & Resurrection of Canada's Music Magazine

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Overview

The glory days of rock from the perspective of Canada’s original music magazine.

The story of Music Express is told through the unique perspective of Keith Sharp, the magazine’s founder and editor. During its seventeen-year existence, Music Express rose from a small, Calgary-based regional magazine to an international publication. The interviews, anecdotes, and stories cover the golden era of Canadian music, with the rise to global status of such icons as Bryan Adams, Loverboy, Rush, Celine Dion, and Triumph. Their stories, as well as many more, are captured together with an array of classic rock photography that provides a unique time capsule.  

       From Sharp’s Calgary roots in 1976 to the heady heights of his publication’s growth, he details foreign adventures covering the likes of David Bowie in Australia, KISS in West Germany, and Iron Maiden in Poland, along with other high-profile interviews including U2, Paul McCartney, Iron Maiden, and Rod Stewart.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781459721944
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Publication date: 05/27/2013
Pages: 264
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Keith Sharp is a former sportswriter for the Calgary Herald who launched Alberta Music Express as a hobby in July 1976, going full time with Music Express in 1978. Sharp also launched Access Magazine in June 1995. The native of Manchester, England, runs themusicexpress.ca and lives in Toronto.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD BY ALAN FREW (GLASS TIGER):
PROLOGUE:

  1. Ankle Deep In Cow Manure
  2. Fanning The Flames Of Confederacy
  3. A Music Mag Is Born
  4. Canada Rocks!
  5. Enter The Dragon Lady
  6. Here Comes Loverboy
  7. A Pivotal Year
  8. Heading For The T.Dot
  9. Junkets, Riots And A Beatle Death
  10. The Network Targets Loverboy
  11. Memphis Meeting With A Blues Brother
  12. The Pulse Of Canadian Rock
  13. M.E Has A Better Idea
  14. Beer Wars At Kingswood
  15. How Not To Invade Europe!
  16. Hanging Out At The Madison
  17. Much Music Debut
  18. Racking Up Air Mileage Points
  19. Live Aid – Can Aid – First Aid!
  20.  Can-Aid Gets Kicked Into Touch
  21. Attacking The USA
  22.  Surviving The Eastern Bloc
  23. Planting Our US Roots
  24. Chasing Bowie’s Glass Spider
  25. Meeting A Beatle
  26. Adams In East Berlin
  27. A Concert For Joey
  28. The Junos Get An Insight
  29. “So Paul, What About That Wings Reunion”
  30. Say Bonjour’ To Celine
  31. Glass Tiger Shatters
  32. Adams Conquers The Planet
  33. Still Surviving!
  34. What Do You Say To A Bare Naked Lady
  35. And In The End
  36. Epilogue

What People are Saying About This

(April Wine) - Brian Greenway

Keith was always a good friend to all Canadian musicians. We shared our dreams with him. It's interesting to read what he was going through at the same time [he was living] his dream.

The Stampeders (band)

The memories you have compiled over the years are eternally embedded in our history. I for one am glad you decided to ROCK with us, rather than those others Stampeders in your initial sports assignments.

From the Publisher

The memories you have compiled over the years are eternally embedded in our history. I for one am glad you decided to ROCK with us, rather than those others Stampeders in your initial sports assignments.

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