DJ KOOL HERC - WHEN THE BEAT WAS BORN: DJ KOOL HERC & THE CREATION OF HIP HOP - HARDCOVER - PICTURE BOOK THE BEATLES

DJ KOOL HERC - WHEN THE BEAT WAS BORN: DJ KOOL HERC & THE CREATION OF HIP HOP - HARDCOVER - PICTURE BOOK THE BEATLESBefore there was hip hop, there was DJ Kool Herc. On a hot day at the end of summer in 1973 Cindy Campbell threw a back to school party at a park in the South Bronx. Her brother, Clive Campbell, spun the records. He had a new way of playing the music to make the breaksthe musical interludes between verseslonger for dancing. He called himself DJ Kool Herc and this is When the Beat Was Born. From his childhood in Jamaica to his youth in the Bronx, Laban

often referred to as Gypsy Suns and Rainbows and the Cry of Love touring band

including pioneers like Roxanne Shanté

comes the complete story of AC/DC

with its relentless imagery of communal executions

following a pattern of behavior that not only was detrimental to his music but contributed to the eventual breakup of his marriage

Both BLIZZARD OF OZZ and DIARY OF a MADMAN have been restored and remastered from the original tapes for these definitive editions

1967 (Crazy Bone)

highlighted by a previously unreleased "stripped" version of the title song

or aesthetically significant"

publicists

Rolling Stone magazine founder Jann Wenner asked Baron Wolman to be his first chief photographer

"What You Get Is What You See"