The Gloria Estefan Collection: Piano/Vocal/Chords

The quality of the product was very good (new). It was very hard to find such a comprehensive collection of Miami Sound Machine / Gloria Estefan sheet music and I would have given it 4 stars. However my complaint is that once received, the back of the book clearly shows a US retail price of $19.95. Yet Amazon / TQP sold it for $39.84!

just a good book

I thought this might be an insightful book about the "rise and fall" of The Stone Roses. Instead I received a literary course in band management. It's too bad Mick Middles could only speak to a bitter and hindsightful ex-manager to piece together such a complicated yet simple story. Had more interviews been done with the band I might have enjoyed the book. In short this book would be appropriate for anyone interested in exploiting a young talented band. For those who are interested in understanding The Stone Roses, buy another book.

Mick Middles biography is an excellent and comprehensive attempt to catalogue the rise and fall of the legendary Manchester band. Fuller than John Robb's book - The Stone Roses and the Resurrection of British Pop - Breaking into Heaven: The Rise and Fall of the Stone Roses traces the roots of the band back to the early childhoods of Ian Brown and John Squire through the punk inspired Patrol era to the heady days of 1989 when the Stone Roses looked likely to conquer the world. The portrait of Gareth Evans, the Stone Roses' ebullient manager at the height of their success, is amusing and revealing, and the postscript on Ian Brown's up and down career since the demise of the band is also fascinating. A must for any true Stone Roses fan.