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The Eclectic Lounge: Reading & Listening

  • Stoned : A Memoir of London in the 1960s
    by Andrew Loog Oldham

    Andrew Loog Oldham is and forever will be best known as the trendy hustler from mid-1960s swinging London who discovered the Rolling Stones and molded their bad-boy tendencies in his own image. ALO has been a personal hero of mine for quite sometime, he walks the talk and backs it up every step of the way.

     
  • 2stoned
    by Andrew Loog Oldham

    In 1963, in a south London hotel, Andrew Loog Oldham discovered an unknown rhythm and blues band called the Rolling Stones and became their manager and producer; by 1967 they had achieved worldwide celebrity, been arrested in a notorious drugs raid and split with the manager that made them. 2Stoned is the remarkable record of these years, when Oldham's radical strategies transformed them into the Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band That Ever Drew Breath. In his first book Stoned Oldham recorded his early years and the meeting with the Stones that changed all their fates; 2Stoned is the story of what followed.

     
  • Let it Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic
    by Jim Derogatis

    Finally, the great American writer gets the book he deserves. Jim DeRogatis's Let It Blurt is a personal journey through the wit and the world and the ferocious spirit of Lester Bangs...it reads like rock and roll.

     
  • The Law of Attraction: The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham
    by Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks

    Within these pages, you’ll learn how all things, wanted and unwanted, are brought to you by this most powerful law of the universe, the Law of Attraction. This was an important book for me - it really brought everything together in my life a wrapped it into a nice little package. Highly recommended.

     
  • Hypnotic Writing: How to Seduce and Persuade Customers with Only Your Words
    by Joe Vitale

    The principles of hypnosis, when applied to copywriting, add a new spin to selling. Joe Vitale has taken hypnotic words to set the perfect sales environment and then shows us how to use those words to motivate a prospect to take the action you want. This is truly a new and effective approach to copywriting, which I strongly recommend you learn. It's pure genius.

     
  • Underground
    by Thelonious Monk

    Underground is a 1968 album by Thelonious Monk. It features Monk on piano, Larry Gales on bass, Charlie Rouse on tenor sax, and Ben Riley on drums.

    Although this album is most widely-known for its provocative cover image, which depicts Monk as a fictitious French Resistance fighter in the Second World War, it contains a number of new Monk compositions, some of which only appear in recorded form on this album. This is the last Monk album featuring the Thelonious Monk Quartet, and the last featuring Charlie Rouse (who only appears on half the tracks).