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Masters of Music Pop Vol 20 By Ian Hartley What's next for pop music? Will the charts be dominated by the antics of Lady Gaga, or the smooth R&B of Beyoncé, Brandy or Rihanna or the strong vocals of Madonna and Pink? What about the alternative rock sounds of R.E.M., Nirvana, Pearl Jam or the indie music explosion with Fleet Foxes, the Fray or Radiohead? The answer is that pop music will be all of the above and continue to be such an intriguing genre and intricate part of the music industry and society as a whole. In this art book on Pop we feature the lives, the legends and the pop music of; -Lady Gaga -Beyoncé -Black Eyed Peas -Gwen Stefani -One Direction Fashion Industry Broadcast's "MASTERS OF MUSIC" is a series: Masters of Music - Vol 14 Rock Masters of Music - Vol 15 Rock Masters of Music - Vol 16 Rock Masters of Music - Vol 17 Rock Masters of Music - Vol 18 Pop Masters of Music - Vol 19 Pop Masters of Music - Vol 20 Pop Masters of Music - Vol 21 Pop Masters of Music - Vol 22 Legends Masters of Music - Vol 23 Legends Masters of Music - Vol 24 Legends Masters of Music - Vol 25 Legends Masters of Music - Vol 26 RNB Masters of Music - Vol 27 Punk Masters of Music - Vol 28 Hip Hop Masters of Music - Vol 29 Jazz Masters of Music - Vol 30 Dance Fashion Industry Broadcast is the number one destination on the web for the latest in music, fashion, style, creative arts, creative media, models, celebrity biographies and much more. Our site is available globally in 13 languages and is updated daily. Not a minute goes by without our passionate team scouring the globe for the latest breaking news and insider gossip. Fashion Industry Broadcast publishes on a vast array of media platforms art books, eBooks, apps for mobiles and television documentaries. We cover all the key areas of popular culture, style and media arts. Our products are sold globally in over 100 countries through our partnerships with people like Amazon, Apple, Google and many more. You can purchase all of our products directly from the FIB site, please have a browse. www.fashionindustrybroadcast.com A very special video rich multimedia App version with hundreds original music videos, interviews, and rare live performances, is available through Apple's iTunes App store for just $4.99 per edition. Look for "MASTERS OF MUSIC" on the Apple App store. Contact info@fashionindustrybroadcast.com Author Ian Hartley Fashion Industry Broadcast is the number one destination on the web for the latest in music, fashion, style, creative arts, creative media, models, celebrity biographies and much more. Our site is available globally in 13 languages and is updated daily. Not a minute goes by without our passionate team scouring the globe for the latest breaking news and insider gossip. Fashion Industry Broadcast publishes on a vast array of media platforms art books, eBooks, apps for mobiles and television documentaries. We cover all the key areas of popular culture, style and media arts. Our products are sold globally in over 100 countries through our partnerships with people like Amazon, Apple, Google and many more. You can purchase all of our products directly from the FIB site, please have a browse. www.fashionindustrybroadcast.com A very special video rich multimedia App version with hundreds original music videos, interviews, and rare live performances, is available through Apple's iTunes App store for just $4.99 per edition. Look for "MASTERS OF MUSIC" on the Apple App store. Contact info@fashionindustrybroadcast.com Author Ian Hartley Forward Paul G Roberts & Samantha Mayfair Art Direction Samantha Mayfair Design Samantha Mayfair Video Link Editing Astrid Lynn Ingram Project Management Pip Dalton
About the Author: About the Author Ian Hartley Sydney Australia based Ian Hartley is a multi faceted creative talent with a vast and varied resume. Ian was too young to be a child of the sixties, but came into his fore in the early seventies, where he started the decade as the curator of the Yellow House Galleries in Potts Point Sydney Australia.The following year taking over the reins of the University of New South Wales student newspaper Tharunka, during the halcyon days of student unrest at the tail end of the Vietnam War. The seventies were a busy time for Ian, as a regular exhibitor at Clive Evatt's Hogarth Galleries in Paddington, he soon became established as an avant-garde multi media artist. A prime mover in Sydney's 70's burgeoning Punk and New Wave underground, publishing and editing his own magazine "Spurt!" chronicling that period of musical revolution. Next, co-establishing the trendy, groundbreaking Skin Deep clothing Store, located in Sydney's then exciting, CBD. The profits from that venture enabling him to establish a performance space, Institute of Contemporary Events, (I.C.E.) which fast gained a reputation as the place to see the cutting edge avant-garde of musicians and performers, from all over Australia. Hartley has also had video installations at the Festival of Sydney and The Museum of Modern Art in NYC. Winning two AFI awards, One for the video clip for his 12-inch single "Bang Bang", performed by his own band, The Love Cage, and for his experimental film "Kau Boys" that soon went on to be played alongside such luminaries as Jean Luc Godard in several European Video festivals. He later went on to publish and edit several magazines, ranging from Sydney's Town Magazine, through to the before mentioned punk publication Spurt! Ian has created many theatrical and cinematic installations, as well as, for several years, designing many of Sydney's restaurants and clothing stores and later as an avant-garde nightclub designer, creating and marketing some of Sydney's landmark night-clubs and bars, for over twenty years, including Jamison St, Soho Bar, Base, Dome, Site, Orb, Palladium, Kinselas, Peppermint Lounge, The Civic Hotel, Q Bar and Candy's Apartment. He has been commissioned to write a history of the Sydney Underground, from the 1950's Onwards, and is a regular contributor to Copenhagen's Red Door magazine.