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*Author is the maintainer of Gaim, and provides excellent insight into the application *Practice building and extending Gaim, while learning GTK toolkit and network protocols *Tutorials are based on OS Gaim project: the #1 Sourceforge project out of 86, 116 present on Sourceforge *In one 7 day period (from 8/23/04-8/30/04), it was downloaded nearly 55, 000 times. Typing "gaim" into google brings up over 900, 000 hits

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THE DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF CORONATION STREET NOW IN PAPERBACK. Coronation Street was reluctantly commissioned in 1960 as a twice-weekly stop-gap until a new programme could be found to fill its airtime. Half a century later, the gritty working class serial broadcasts five times per week and remains one of the television schedules' biggest ratings-pullers. Sean Egan has been granted access to the show's creators, producers, directors, writers an...

William Goldman is one of the world's most popular storytellers. Amongst his more than two-dozen motion picture screenplays are such iconic works as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Stepford Wives, All the President's Men and A Bridge Too Far. His acclaimed novels include The Temple of Gold, Boys and Girls Together, The Princess Bride and Marathon Man. His non-fiction embraces The Season and Adventures in the Screen Trade, considered th...

Some albums are so extraordinary that they influence generations of aspiring artists and even redefine entire genres. Such a description applies to Are You Experienced.In this revelatory book, now UPDATED AND EXPANDED, Sean Egan tells the story of the making of the Jimi Hendrix Experience's classic 1967 debut. His interviews with key figures and access to diary entries help create the definitive study of one of the most important, groundbreaki...

Fleetwood Mac was a triumph from the beginning—their first album was the UK's bestselling album of 1968. After some low points—when founder Peter Green left, some fans felt that the band continuing was sacrilege—Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks joined, and their 1977 album, Rumours , became one of history's immortals, a true classic that remained on the charts for years and in the public's affection forever. In the press, the ethereal Calif...

In The Clash: The Only Band That Matters, respected music critic Sean Egan examines The Clash's career and art through the prism of the uniquely interesting and fractious UK politics of the Seventies and Eighties, without which they simply would not have existed. Tackling subjects such as The Clash's self-conscious tussles with their record label, the accusations of sell-out that dogged their footsteps, their rivalry with the similarly leaning...

Leiber & Stoller. Mann & Weil. Greenwich & Barry. Bobby Hart. Chip Taylor. Holland-Dozier-Holland. Tony Macaulay. Stock, Aitken & Waterman. Few would recognise them in the street but their melodies and lyrics are embedded in the minds of music lovers worldwide. With the aid of lengthy and exclusive interviews with some of the biggest names in the history of rock and pop songwriting, Sean Egan's The Guys Who Wrote 'em seeks to put rig...

THE ESSENTIAL STONES COMPANION. The Rolling Stones are still going strong after five decades. The Utmost Guide to The Rolling Stones leaves no stone unturned in exploring all aspects of the tumultuous career of The Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band in the World. The Story: From the blues clubs of 60s West London to the world tours and millionaire mansions. The Music: 50 essential songs and the stories behind them, plus the albums, bootlegs, soundtra...

Presents some of the best interviews David Bowie has granted in his near five-decade career. Each featured interview traces a new step in his unique journey, successively freezing him in time in all of his various incarnations, from a young novelty hit-maker and Ziggy Stardust to plastic soul player, 1980s sell-out, and the artistically reborn and beloved elder statesman of challenging popular music.

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Over 30 landmark interviews, accounts and memoirs of the Beatles and their entourage, recording how they inadvertently became counter-cultural figureheads and a focus for radical social change. The pieces include Paul Johnson's 'The Menace of Beatlism', Maureen Cleave's 'Beatles Bigger than Christ', News of the World feature suggesting the band were a spent force - just before they unleashed Sgt Pepper the world - plus interviews with their ci...

In these 15 tales describing the adventures, escapades, highjinks, and setbacks of children and teenagers, Egan acutely captures the 1970s.

Una guía elaborada por una magnífica selección internacional de más de 40 especialistas y críticos musicales que recorren lo más relevante de más de un siglo de música. El análisis exhaustivo de álbumes, singles y canciones clave procedentes de más de 50 países ofrece una visión en profundidad de las repercusiones de los artistas más destacados de la música popular. Incluye los mejores músicos, compositores, cantantes y las figuras más influye...

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Sick of Being Me is the alternately exhilarating and harrowing story of guitarist Paul Hazelwood, from his childhood on a London council estate, where he nurtures his dreams of stardom, to his agonising realisation on the cusp of his thirties that talent doesn't necessarily bring success. Egan spurns sensationalism to portray the reality of the life of a struggling musician. Similar authenticity informs the drug scenes, which reveal the touchi...