Resultados para "Frank" en Compositores y músicos

Frank Sinatra, also known as The Voice, Ol’ Blue Eyes, Leader of the Pack, and countless other titles, was a man of many faces. Part mobster, part philanthropist, part political activist, and part civil rights leader, Frank participated in powerful institutions and movements that shaped America’s history. Married four times, constantly surrounded by women, Frank was able to sing about loneliness with aching authenticity. He made teen girls swoon, beautiful women tremble, and grown men cry.

All the varieties of power—star, political, sexual, criminal and emotional—are on show in this definitive, untold story of Frank Sinatra and the Mafia. Drawing on an enormous archive of previously unseen records held by international law agencies, the FBI, the CIA and big-city police departments, Rothmiller and Thompson reveal Sinatra’s pact with the Mob in shocking detail. With additional evidence from decades of investigations and testimony, they expose Sinatra’s lifelong association with the Mafia, which he always denied, and its deadly collateral damage.

Rykten om Sinatras maffiakopplingar följde hela hans karriär och den legendariska sångaren hade definitivt kopplingar till en del råa män. Sinatras intima kopplingar till maffian bevisades aldrig, men ryktena avtog inte heller. Var han verkligen en del av maffian? Eller var han, som många trodde, bara en "groupie", förälskad i maffians livsstil men som nöjde sig med att se på från utsidan? 1950 sammankallade den amerikanska senaten en kommitté, känd som Kefauver kommittén, som hade i uppgift att undersöka det växande problemet med organiserad brottslighet i Amerika.

The legendary Frank Zappa, one of the most influential, innovative and controversial musical artists for the past 20 years, takes us on a wild, funny trip through his life and times. Along the way, Zappa offers his inimitable views on many things such as art, politics, and beer.

This is the only authorized biography of the charismatic superstar, as told by his daughter, Nancy Sinatra. With unabashed love and surprising candor, this memoir captures the understanding and depth of feeling that could only come from someone so closely linked to Frank. Accounts of her father's rise to fame as a hit singer, movie star, and international celebrity are as detailed as the stories of scandalous divorces, Frank Jr.' s kidnapping, the false rumors of Mafia connections, and more.

Here is the epic tale of how these artists dominated American popular music over a fifty-year period, a roller coaster ride that gains momentum through the 1930s and '40s, reaches a crest of magical creativity in the 1950s and early '60s, and then crashes down by the early 1970s, a half century when the great American songbook dominated the airwaves and the fight for racial equality came to the forefront.

Born into a family of five, Frank Bello grew up in difficult circumstances. His father abandoned his wife and children. Left with no male role model, Frank found inspiration in heavy metal bass players, following their example and forging a career with Anthrax from his early teens - first as a roadie, and then as the group's bass player.

In the late 1980s Jon Ronson was the keyboard player in the Frank Sidebottom Oh Blimey Big Band. Frank wore a big fake head. Nobody outside his inner circle knew his true identity. This became the subject of feverish speculation during his zenith years. Together, they rode relatively high. Then it all went wrong. Twenty-five years later and Jon has co-written a movie, Frank, inspired by his time in this great and bizarre band. Frank is set for release in 2014, starring Michael Fassbender, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Domhnall Gleeson and directed by Lenny Abrahamson.

As one of the best-known honky tonkers to appear in the wake of Hank Williams’ death, Faron Young was a popular presence on Nashville’s music scene for more than four decades. The Singing Sheriff produced a string of top 10 hits, placed over eighty songs on the country music charts, and founded the long-running country music periodical Music City News in 1963.

In 1967, 21-year-old Pauline Butcher was working for a London secretarial agency when a call came through from a Mr Frank Zappa asking for a typist. The assignment would change her life forever. For three years, Pauline served as Zappa's PA, moving with him, his family and the Mothers of Invention to a log cabin in the Hollywood Hills, where the straight young English girl mixed with Oscar winners and rock royalty.

America has always celebrated its star entertainers, but Frank Sinatra remains a unique American legend. A pop culture fixture for over half a century, Sinatra's music is still cherished, and his persona remains its own archetype of the quintessential American star. Sinatra transcended genres to the extent that his music stands alone as its own kind of American music, with songs like "New York, New York," "Chicago," and "Come Fly With Me" instantly recognizable among all Americans.

Frank Sinatra has been a legend in many people’s lifetimes. In the course of his long career of successes, failures, and even greater comeback triumphs, he has remained one of the most enduring performers in 20th-century show business history. Michael Freedland’s biography gives a full portrait of this unorthodox singer’s life, from his tough beginnings as an unpromising youth in the Italian quarter of Hoboken, New Jersey, to his unprecedented hero-worship as a singer whose unique vocal styling and unerring eye for a hit song made him a fit rival to his idol Bing Crosby.

Cerphe's Up is an incisive musical memoir by Cerphe Colwell, a renowned rock radio broadcaster for more than 45 years in Washington, DC. Cerphe shares his life as a rock radio insider in rich detail. His story includes promotion and friendship with a young unknown Bruce Springsteen; his years at radio station WHFS 102.3 as it blossomed in a new freeform format; and candid interviews with famous musicians.

It began in Hollywood's golden age, when Ava was emerging as a movie star. But she fell in (and out of) love too easily. Mickey Rooney married her because he wanted another conquest. Artie Shaw treated her like a dumb brunette, giving her a reading list on their honeymoon. Neither marriage lasted a year. Then, after being courted by Howard Hughes and numerous others, along came Frank Sinatra. His passion for Ava destroyed his marriage and brought him close to ruin.

Dass Frank Goosen Beatles-Fan wurde, hatte mit Schwarzarbeit zu tun. Mit den Worten "Gib mir kein Geld, gib mir lieber ein paar Platten für meinen Jungen!", ließ Goosen Senior sich Ende der Siebziger von einem Elektrohändler für ein paar nach Feierabend angeschlossene Steckdosen mit Beatles-Scheiben bezahlen. Damit war es um den 13-Jährigen geschehen. Goosen spürt seiner lebenslangen Obsession für die "Fab Four" nach: in der Erinnerung an seine Kindheit und Jugend im Ruhrgebiet und an den Originalschauplätzen in Liverpool - kenntnisreich, berührend-persönlich und irre witzig.

Unbreakable Rhythm isn’t your typical rock-star memoir. It’s not about fame, excess, or ego — it’s about purpose, perseverance, and using your platform to lift others. From playing massive festivals and television stages to hosting life-changing workshops for young people around the world, Frank Zummo shares his journey from humble beginnings to international success — and how music became a vehicle for healing, hope, and connection.

Frank Oceans Album "Blonde" ist für Sophie Passmann ein Souvenir aus einer Zeit, in der nichts gut war. Und doch ist es das Album ihres Lebens. Es erschien in dem Sommer, in dem sie in Arztpraxen saß, mal ominöse, mal seriöse Pillen nahm, sich hektisch verliebte und alles in allem brachial lebte. Song für Song seziert sie das Album und damit ihre Gefühle. Sophie Passmann zeigt, wie eng Musik mit dem verknüpft ist, was man so Leben nennt.

Rea Garvey – Musiker, Songwriter, Sohn, Suchender – erzählt die bewegende Geschichte seiner Herkunft: Irland. Ein Land, in dem Regen und Licht, Glaube und Zweifel, Freiheit und Tradition untrennbar verwoben sind. Vom wilden Lachen in einem überfüllten Bungalow voller Geschwister bis zu nächtlichen Techno-Ekstasen in Belfast, von heimlichen Rebellionen gegen den autoritären Vater bis zu Momenten reiner Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben – Rea öffnet die Türen zu Erinnerungen, die ihn geformt haben.

Shell Shocked is Kaylan's candid, no-holds-barred journey through the wildest decades of rock and roll. He pulls no punches in recounting the sex, the drug use, and the legendary encounters that defined the era including the jaw-dropping, true story of snorting cocaine off Abraham Lincoln's desk inside the Nixon White House.

On 23 September, 2005, at the Joiners Arms in Southampton, Frank Turner played his last gig with his hardcore band, Million Dead. On the laminates that listed the tour dates, the entry for 24 September simply read: 'Get a job.' Deflated, jaded and hungover, Frank returned to his hometown of Winchester without a plan for the future. All he knew was that he wanted to keep playing music.