
Walking on the Moon
The Untold Story of the Police and the Rise of New Wave Rock
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An unflinching look at the rise of one of the most recognizable names in pop music - The Police
The Police have sold more than 50 million albums, made Rolling Stone's Greatest Artists of All Time list, and finished a triumphant world reunion tour in 2008.
Now British journalist Chris Campion draws on extensive research and new interviews to trace the inside saga of this iconic group, including the unorthodox business strategies employed by manager Miles Copeland that took them to the top and the intense rivalry that drove Sting, Andy Summers, and Stewart Copeland to split at the height of their success in the 1980s.
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- De: David Browne
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 11 h y 10 m
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January 1970: the Beatles assemble one more time to put the finishing touches on Let It Be; Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young are wrapping up Déjà Vu; Simon and Garfunkel are unveiling Bridge Over Troubled Water; James Taylor is an upstart singer-songwriter who's just completed Sweet Baby James. Over the course of the next twelve months, their lives---and the world around them---will change irrevocably.
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Fascinating information, easy to listen
- De NCKitkat en 07-28-11
De: David Browne
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Let’s Go Crazy
- Prince and the Making of Purple Rain
- De: Alan Light
- Narrado por: Fred Berman
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
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Purple Rain is a song, an album, and a film - each one a commercial success and cultural milestone. How did this semiautobiographical musical masterpiece that blurred R&B, pop, dance, and rock sounds come to alter the recording landscape and become an enduring touchstone for successive generations of fans?
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A Must-Read For Any PRINCE Fan
- De Bryan K. Chavez en 05-06-16
De: Alan Light
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Everybody Wants Some
- The Van Halen Saga
- De: Ian Christe
- Narrado por: Fred Berman
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
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How did a pair of little Dutch boys trained in classical music grow up to become the nucleus of the most popular heavy metal band of all time? What's the secret behind Eddie Van Halen's incredible fast and furious guitar solos? What makes David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar so wacky? And, are all those stories about groupies, booze bashes, and contract riders true? The naked truth is laid bare in Everybody Wants Some - the real-life story of a rock 'n' roll fantasy come true.
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Good details of albums and post-1984 career
- De IndyMATT en 12-30-18
De: Ian Christe
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Dig If You Will the Picture
- Funk, Sex, God and Genius in the Music of Prince
- De: Ben Greenman
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
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Ben Greenman, New York Times best-selling author, contributing writer to The New Yorker, and owner of thousands of recordings of Prince and Prince-related songs, knows intimately that there has never been a rock star as vibrant, mercurial, willfully contrary, experimental, or prolific as Prince. Uniting a diverse audience while remaining singularly himself, Prince was a tireless artist, a musical virtuoso and chameleon, and a pop-culture prophet.
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Reads like a indepth career review & analysis
- De herb en 05-18-17
De: Ben Greenman
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Cowboys and Indies
- The Epic History of the Record Industry
- De: Gareth Murphy
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 15 h y 3 m
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Cowboys and Indies is the definitive record-business bible, chronicling the pioneers who set the stylus on the most important labelsand musical discoveries of the last century. The narrative follows all the musical trends and developments from the phonograph to the Internet age as it delves behind the big business of corporate hit machines and the diligent industry of small, curated labels.
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Epic, yet incomplete.
- De Rob G. en 10-14-14
De: Gareth Murphy
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When Giants Walked the Earth
- A Biography of Led Zeppelin
- De: Mick Wall
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 18 h y 11 m
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They were the last great band of the '60s and the first great band of the '70s. They rose, somewhat unpromisingly, from the ashes of the Yardbirds to become one of the biggest-selling rock bands of all time - and eventually paid the price for it, with disaster, drug addiction, and death.
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Very annoying but tolerable for serious fans.
- De M. Allen en 08-14-19
De: Mick Wall
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Iggy Pop
- Open Up and Bleed
- De: Paul Trynka
- Narrado por: William Dufris
- Duración: 14 h y 39 m
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Iggy Pop's legendary career has been tumultuous, reaching great heights with mega-hits and then hitting rock-bottom lows in jail and mental institutions. Along the way, he's become a cult-rock hero, an inspiration for dozens of other famous rockers, and has had a pretty good time of it, too. But the image of Iggy Pop versus the man behind that image, James Newell Osterberg, Jr., is surprisingly contradictory.
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Banal and Boring
- De Michael en 12-03-08
De: Paul Trynka
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Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?
- Larry Norman and the Perils of Christian Rock
- De: Gregory Alan Thornbury
- Narrado por: Stephen R. Thorne
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
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In 1969, in Capitol Records' Hollywood studio, a blonde-haired troubadour named Larry Norman laid track for an album that would launch a new genre of music and one of the strangest, most interesting careers in modern rock. Having spent the bulk of the 1960s playing on bills with acts like The Who, Janis Joplin, and The Doors, Norman decided that he wanted to sing about the most countercultural subject of all: Jesus.
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Hagiography not Biography
- De Keith Howard en 10-29-18
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Michael Jackson, Inc.
- The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of a Billion-Dollar Empire
- De: Zack O'Malley Greenburg
- Narrado por: Kaleo Griffith
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
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Michael Jackson, Inc. reveals the incredible rise, fall, and rise again of Michael Jackson's fortune - driven by the unmatched perfectionism of the King of Pop. Forbes senior editor Zack O'Malley Greenburg uncovers never-before-told stories from interviews with more than 100 people, including music industry veterans Berry Gordy, John Branca, and Walter Yetnikoff; artists 50 Cent, Sheryl Crow, and Jon Bon Jovi; and members of the Jackson family.
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The King Lives...Life,Legacy and Love
- De Amazon Customer en 06-22-17
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Seven Dirty Words
- The Life and Crimes of George Carlin
- De: James Sullivan
- Narrado por: Alan Sklar
- Duración: 10 h y 17 m
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In Seven Dirty Words, journalist and cultural critic James Sullivan tells the story of Alternative America from the 1950s to the present, from the singular vantage point of George Carlin, the Catholic boy for whom nothing was sacred.
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Carlin's CV with no Depth or Insight
- De Dubi en 01-23-14
De: James Sullivan
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The History of Rock & Roll
- Volume 1: 1920-1963
- De: Ed Ward
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 15 h y 32 m
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Ed Ward covers the first half of the history of rock & roll in this sweeping and definitive narrative - from the 1920s, when the music of rambling medicine shows mingled with the songs of vaudeville and minstrel acts to create the very early sounds of country and rhythm and blues, to the rise of the first independent record labels post-World War II, and concluding in December 1963, just as an immense change in the airwaves took hold and the Beatles prepared for their first American tour.
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Author's blindspots mar this book
- De Mark Clark en 03-28-17
De: Ed Ward
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High Voltage
- The Life of Angus Young – AC/DC's Last Man Standing
- De: Jeff Apter
- Narrado por: John Derum
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
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The first biography to focus exclusively on Angus Young - from his remarkable rise from working-class Glasgow and Sydney to the biggest stages in the world. Angus Young, the cofounder and the last remaining original member of AC/DC, has for more than 40 years been the face, the sound and sometimes the exposed backside of the trailblazing rock band.
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Excellent book
- De Anonymous User en 09-21-18
De: Jeff Apter
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Walking on the Moon
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- Cory
- 01-15-14
OK, OK, we get it... you don't like the Police.
Considering the Police's definitive place in the history of New Wave, it's initially surprising to hear them described as such mediocre, opportunistic, and profoundly flawed human beings. However, as the story unfolds, it becomes obvious that author Campion has a serious axe to grind, as his seemingly comprehensive tome on the band devolves into a feature-length exercise in character assassination, tinged liberally with a not-insignificant helping of judgement and smirk.
Much of the early section of the band's history casts them as ruthless manipulators of the punk movement, a group of schemers masquerading as serious-minded musicians to cash in on whatever trend could be ridden to riches, all the while insulting their audience's intelligence and good will. Campion seizes on the regular instances of disharmony - particularly between Sting and Stewart Copeland - as if this were proof positive that, beneath their marginal talents, this ground-breaking band could be reduced to a bad marriage that stayed together for the sake of kids. The only positive words are effusively heaped on Henri Padovani, the Police's original but fundamentally limited guitar player. Which, I guess, makes Andy Summers the homewrecker.
Of some distraction is the interspersing of New Wave historical information, and even here, the focus is squarely on Miles Copeland (the Police's manager), A&M Records (the Police's original label) and Copeland's Faulty Products / I.R.S. stable of performers (ie. Squeeze). Not only is this shockingly inadequate coverage of New Wave (even as an overview), but these sections veer away from the Police narrative regularly, leaving the listener wondering when the main story will resume.
In the later segments, Sting's solo career is cast as a cold and calculating exploration of jazz/world music and black musicians bordering, it is imagined, on racist exploitation. Too, Copeland's post-Synchronicity adventures are dismissed as desperate grasps at respectability, while Summers drifts aimlessly as an aging relic, lost without the band as his meal ticket.
Fred Berman's narration is clear and straightforward, though on multiple occasions he seems to unconsciously slip into a weak Sting vocal impression (the only character in the story for whom he does this), which at least underscores the prominent role Sting plays in the life and subsequent demise of the band. In being forced to deliver this literary hate-fest, he could probably be excused that one eccentric habit.
In a more honest assessment, I would assume that Campion would ultimately confess that, once upon a time, Sting stole his prom date, Summers wrecked his car, and Copeland shot his dog. Little else could explain this pointlessly negative hatchet job of a history. What could otherwise have been an effective and objective account of the Police's career (and the complicated dynamic between its headstrong members) is reduced to preachy diatribe (the word "petulant" is trotted out with exceeding regularity), which has the listener eventually hoping to quit walking on the moon and instead float out into the serene vacuum of space.
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- Joseph S. Wentz
- 12-07-14
Great Book For a Nap
This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?
This book was supposed to be about the Police....which about 45 to 50 percent of it is, but it keeps going in other directions, besides what it's supposed to be focusing on.
What could Chris Campion have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?
More about the group, than what management did. This isn't supposed to be about the Police's management.
What does Fred Berman bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Fred Berman does a fantastic job.
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
Kind of disappointed....sorry.
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- Jeffrey
- 05-12-14
Torture for the author?
Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
The book succeeds in the most important way - it's an interesting historical portrait most of the time.
What was most disappointing about Chris Campion’s story?
What's disappointing is that Chris Campion comes off as a hate filled troll. Is he a failed musician himself? It sure sounds that way. He's one of those bitter old proto-hipsters who thinks Punk Rock was the be-all-end-all, instead of the corporate fashion product it was created to be. At least New Wave was honest about its shallowness, while giving us far more diverse and interesting music.
Which character – as performed by Fred Berman – was your favorite?
As usual, Fred Berman did a fine job narrating.
What else would you have wanted to know about Chris Campion’s life?
I don't really want ot know anything else about the author's life, except why did he bother to write this book? It's filled with so much venom directed at the entire Police organization, it's kind of baffling why Campion would torture himself.
Any additional comments?
Again, good for historical context, especially Miles Copeland's then-revolutionary marketing techniques - and I'm sure most of it is true - but all the positive aspects of the Police and their music have been completely swept away in favor of character assassination.
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- Nicholas Robinson
- 11-12-20
Author Needs Gruntles—Lots of Gruntles
Specifically, this author is majorly disgruntled, about *something*. It's either that he attempted to become a professional musician at some point (and failed) or he couldn't get all three Police members' autographs for eBay.
Aside from this "biography" digressing from the topic at hand—namely, the band named The Police—the author is extraordinarily snippy about just about every single person in this book, aside, maybe, from a couple of transvestite punk rockers, a subject which seems to fascinate him. Much ink—or in this case, decibels—is spilled, for example, over just one of them, someone named "Wayne County" or something; I didn't quite catch it despite it occupying fully ten minutes of the book.
But the author's venom spills into everything. A "plan" becomes a "scheme." Other negative adjectives are liberally sprinkled throughout: "tawdry," "morose," "preening," "passive-aggressive" (this last is used multiple times to describe Sting).
Unlike some reviewers, I was prepared to overlook the negativity if the subject matter was adequately explored but the author goes off with regularity on extended tangents, mostly about minor characters who don't move the narrative forward much and tend to come and go with little meaning. "Filler" is one possible explanation, but these tangents are unpleasant more than interesting, and it seems that everyone in this book gets treated equally venomously . . . if the author is to be believed, the late 70s/early 80s was a mightily unpleasant time to be alive.
A curious book which I couldn't finish—so many gruntles, so little time.
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- Joanne
- 01-03-16
Meanspirited Tell-All
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
It's from an outsder's perspective, and add's little value to fan's perspective as he seems to despise everyone equally. Waste of time.
Has Walking on the Moon turned you off from other books in this genre?
Possibly.
Which character – as performed by Fred Berman – was your favorite?
None.
Any additional comments?
If a book is a Kitty Kelly / Perez Hilton-type tell-all, say so. I wouldn't have purchased it if I'd known.
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- Paul
- 12-04-19
Agenda-driven hit piece
I had always known that Sting, Stewart and Andy were pains in the ass, but this book seemed to be little more than an attempt at character assassination. If you already hate the Police, this book is for you. If you’re looking for an honest insider look at the band and the musicians behind the music, look elsewhere. I should have done more research on this author before burning a credit on it.
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- C Christopher Taylor
- 05-15-18
A good read, especially if you like band bios!
Very interesting look behind the public face of The Police. I think even a very casual fan (which I am, at the time they were popular I had only a cursory interest in their music-mainly because, for a time, you couldn't turn on pop radio without hearing their songs) would find entertaining.
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- Dave
- 11-09-15
Smear job!!
Would you try another book from Chris Campion and/or Fred Berman?
NO!
Has Walking on the Moon turned you off from other books in this genre?
No but thankfully made me aware of Chris Campion. So I will not make the mistake of downloading another one of his books.
Have you listened to any of Fred Berman’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
he was great
What character would you cut from Walking on the Moon?
the author
Any additional comments?
This book seems like it was written by a pissed ex-girlfriend or maybe a rival band. I don't think The Police are angles but come on. And its not just the band that this guy shits on. In the end its a sad outlook on the world. Hay Chris brighten up sunshine!
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