This volume brings together Cowards celebrated verse; from snappy epigrams to seven-hundred-line short stories such as PO 1930 and Not Yet the Dodo; from moving war-time encounters to satirical barbs at familiar Coward targets; and from personal reminiscences to occasional verse such as his tribute to Ivor Novello or his counter-attack on Graham Greene.Includes an introduction by Martin Tickner and Cowards long-time companion; Graham Payn.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. textBy B. MurphyAccurate but the text is weird and requires squinting but you will get used to it I suppose. Achilles last stand is very accurate.0 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy CustomerAwesome8 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Good detailed guidelinesBy CryptoJimIve got the Alfreds Platinum Album Editions for Zeppelins final four studio albums; including Coda. For the most part; theyre thorough and well done; though as is usual with transcriptions directly from recorded versions; there are some simplifications and omissions. Thats fine with me; because I wouldnt want to play a given song exactly as it is on the record anyway; Led Zeppelin certainly never did. So these editions work well as detailed guidelines to the guitar parts of these songs; and its good to have everything up to date and based; or so the publisher says; on archival footage and interviews and so forth. Its good also to have transcriptions of lesser known songs from Zeppelins catalog; such as "Tea for One" and "Carouselambra" (from In Through the Out Door).I have noted some rhythmic oddities in the Presence volume; though. For example; the transcriber places the downbeats in "Candy Store Rock" an eighth note off from how Ive always counted it and how it just naturally feels. To do so; he has to use bars of 7/8 and 9/8; and this just looks and feels very weird. Its a 70s take on rockabilly; and I really doubt that Page and/or Bonham counted it as its shown in the book. Then again; a reviewer of the transcriptions of the first album made a similar observation about "Black Mountain Side;" but he also noted that the transcriber apparently spoke with Jimmy Page; who confirmed that it was correctly noted in terms of rhythm. So maybe this is correct too; but Im dubious. Ive seen this before with transcriptions of Zeppelins songs; I think maybe that because some songs did have complicated rhythms with many meter changes ("The Crunge"); transcribers tend to use different time signatures to notate rhythms that are really just very syncopated within 4/4 (the opening section of "Over the Hills and Far Away;" which is sometimes shown as alternating bars of 9/8 and 7/8; is a good example).Another peculiarity is in the guitar solo in "For Your Life": at the bottom of page 49; theres a bar of 2/4 that; on the record; is very plainly actually a bar of 5/8. That; or theres a pause on the first beat of the following measure of 4/4; but the transcription doesnt show that either (with a fermata; for example).But these are the kinds of little glitches most of these sorts of supposedly note-for-note transcriptions have; and by and large; theyre no big deal. Anyone skilled enough to take on "For Your Life" is probably going to know whats going on and compensate for these little errors. So; overall; well done; Alfred!
