Marv Marinovich, Author, Steve Turner, Author, Edythe M. Heus, Author William Morrow & Company $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-018539-8
For decades, coaches have sent athletes eager to improve their strength and performance straight to the gym to pump some iron. According to authors Marinovich and Heus, such advice couldn't be more wrong.""America's obsession with heavy weight...
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Steve Turner, Author . W Publishing $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8499-1820-9
Published in time for the first anniversary of Johnny Cash's death, this eminently readable biography of the Man in Black feels more honest about its subject than most authorized biographies, perhaps because Cash himself was more honest about...
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Steve Turner, Author . Westminster/John Knox $19.95 (254p) ISBN 978-0-664-22983-2
In 1967, drug guru Timothy Leary proclaimed, "[T]he message from Liverpool is the Newest Testament, chanted by Four Evangelists—saints John, Paul, George, and Ringo." Leary certainly captured the feelings of a generation pursuing...
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Steve Turner, Author Ecco $24 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-019821-3
Originally published in the U.K. in 1998, this biography surveys the ups and downs of Marvin Gaye's life, taking an admiring but not enamored stance concerning the Motown singer's contribution to American music. London-based music writer Turner...
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Steve Turner, Author Viking Books $25 (192p) ISBN 978-0-670-85147-8
The Irish singer/songwriter from East Belfast is now 47 years old. And though he has been on the contemporary music scene since his debut with the group Them in 1964, he has remained an enigma, refusing to make himself a target for the press or fans.
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Steve Turner, Author, Judy Collins, Introduction by , foreword by Judy Collins. Ecco $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-000218-3
This carefully crafted and finely probed book will stand as the definitive look at what is perhaps the most popular hymn in American history—a song that Turner argues has "more than eleven hundred currently available albums featuring...
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Steve Turner. IVP, $17 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-0-8308-3768-7
Popular culture is often seen as, at worst, immoral and vapid and, at best, unrelated to spirituality. Turner, a pop-music journalist (who wrote the book U2: Rattle and Hum), argues that such views are faulty because popular culture is not only a...
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Steve Turner. Ecco, $27.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-06-247548-0
Fifty years ago, in 1966, the Beatles did something that would forever change the way recording artists approach their work: they decided to quit touring and devote their creative energies to pushing musical and technical boundaries in the studio....
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