Títulos en Compositores y músicos

Helene Fischer - Die erste Biografie über den Superstar am Schlagerhimmel! Mit über 5 Millionen verkauften Tonträgern zählt sie zu den erfolgreichsten deutschen Schlagerstars. Ihr Album "Farbenspiel" ist eines der meistverkauften Musikalben in Deutschland. Als zweites Kind des russlanddeutschen Ehepaares Maria und Peter Fischer wurde Helene am 05. August 1984 in Sibirien geboren. Schon sehr früh interessierte sich Helene für Musical und Theater und besuchte die Stage & Musical School in Frankfurt, welche sie als staatliche anerkannte Musicaldarstellerin absolvierte. Bereits während der Ausbildung wurde sie entdeckt und seither kennt ihre Karriere nur eine Richtung.

From Reggie “Fieldy” Arvizu, legendary bassist of nu-metal pioneers KORN, comes Got the Life: a no-holds-barred look at his extreme highs, drug- and-booze-fueled lows, and, finally, redemption through a conversion to Christianity. Got the Life is simultaneously an insider’s look at rock...

Can a band comprised of six very talented but very different musicians make a difference with their music? What made it possible for Diamond Rio to weather the storms inherent in the fickle world of fame and fortune and go more than two decades without a single lineup change? Any reader in...

In this heartfelt memoir, six-time Grammy Award-winning artist and star of WE TV’s reality hitBraxton Family Values, Toni Braxton writes about her personal life decisions and their impact on her health, family and career. While Braxton appears to be living a gilded life—selling 60 million...

The Clyde Valley Stompers became, in the 1950s, Scotland's first ever super group. In 1961, at just 20 years of age, Peter 'Pete' Kerr inherited leadership of the Clydes after they moved to London. The band stormed the charts the following year and were launched into the glitzy world of mainstream popular music. Then, to the dismay of the Stompers' legions of fans, the curtain came down. But this is more than just a chronicle of their rise and fall.

"Forkælet med frihed - Lars Ulrich og hans band Metallica" fortæller hele historien om den danske verdensstjernes forunderlige forløb fra hans tid som skoleknægt, tennistalent og heavyrockfan til årtierne som trommeslager og hovedmand bag tidernes største heavy metal-fænomen Metallica, der har solgt mere end 125 millioner albums. I bogen møder vi Lars Ulrich (f. 1963) i studiet, bag scenen, i turnébilen, på redaktionskontoret, i bandhovedkvarteret, på natværtshuset, på hotellet og i hjemmebiografen.

This is the first study to explore fully the myth of America as reflected in the nation's popular music. Beginning with the songs of the Pilgrims and continuing through more than two centuries of history and music, Born in the U.S.A. shows the emerging American myth and gives a close reading of the compositions of songwriters as diverse as William Billings, Henry Clay Work, Irving Berlin, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and Bruce Springsteen.

Biography of legendary singer-songwriter Warren Zevon, spanning his nomadic youth and early recording career to his substance abuse, final album, and posthumous Grammy Awards As is the case with so many musicians, the life of Warren Zevon was blessed with talent and opportunity yet also beset by...

Chris Difford is a rare breed. As a member of one of London's best-loved bands, the Squeeze cofounder has made a lasting contribution to English music with hits such as 'Cool for Cats', 'Up the Junction', 'Labelled with Love', 'Hourglass' and 'Tempted'. Some Fantastic Place is his evocative memoir of an upbringing in South London in the '60s and his rise to fame in one of the definitive bands of the late '70s and early '80s. Read by Chris Difford.

Konstantin Wecker liest aus seinen Büchern, vor allem aus seiner Biografie "Das ganze schrecklich schöne Leben", die 2017 zu seinem 70. Geburtstag erschienen ist.

For the first time, more than 15 years after four boys from London were first thrown together to form what would go on to become one of the most successful and infamous groups of the boyband era, Lee, Antony, Duncan and Simon tell their full, no-holds-barred story in their own inimitable words.

As a writer in Wired magazine puts it, Neil Young is a "folk-country-grunge dinosaur [who has been] reborn (again) as an Internet-friendly, biodiesel-driven, multimedia machine." In Neil Young and the Poetics of Energy, William Echard stages an encounter between Young's challenging and ever-changing work and current theories of musical meaning - an encounter from which both emerge transformed.

When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate raged. Some celebrated, while many others questioned the choice. How could the world’s most prestigious book prize be awarded to a famously cantankerous singer-songwriter who wouldn’t even deign to attend the...

Set against the rainy, muddy back drop known as the Woodstock '94 Music & Art Fair, Peace, Love n' Mud tells the not-so-classic story about a young boy, who despite hailing from a damaged family, must overcome the insurmountable odds stacked against him.

How does a white kid from the New York suburbs, harmonica in hand, end up earning himself a busker's spot on the Harlem sidewalks next to Mr. Satan, a Mississippi-born legend? How did an interracial blues duo fare on the streets of New York during a turbulent, fractious time marked by racially-motivated murders in Howard Beach, Bensonhurst, and Crown Heights?

This audiobook is Nick Carter's autobiography and self-help hybrid, in which he chronicles his struggles with a dysfunctional family and the unimaginable rigors of becoming an internationally successful pop-star at the age of 12. From his battle with addiction to serious health complications and the pain of his younger sister's tragic death, Nick leaves nothing to the imagination and offers true and heartfelt advice to help listeners overcome obstacles in their own lives.

On the twenty-fifth anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death comes a new perspective on one of the most compelling icons of our time—and the only book written by someone who knew him. In early 1991, top music manager Danny Goldberg agreed to take on Nirvana, a critically acclaimed new band from...

"I 1997 blev jeg selv ramt af så mange følgesygdomme, at jeg nær ikke havde overlevet. Jeg lå i koma i tre måneder og blev sendt hjem med besked fra lægerne om, at jeg havde en uge tilbage at leve i. Det er noget, jeg har fået fortalt siden. Jeg husker det ikke selv. Jeg husker blot fragmenter; en hospitalsseng, en kørestol, en åben dør og et ord, som jeg den dag i dag ikke helt forstår, hvad betyder: "mirakel". Det er alt. Jeg var lige fyldt 12 år." I begyndelsen var døden er en bog om at være barn og blive voksen - på trods.

The untold story of 2018 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Sister Rosetta Tharpe, America’s first rock guitar diva Long before “women in rock” became a media catchphrase, African American guitar virtuoso Rosetta Tharpe proved in spectacular fashion that women could rock. Born in Cotton...

A deeply personal memoir of the private Ray Charles - the man behind the legend - by his eldest son. Ray Charles is an American music legend. A multiple Grammy Award-winning composer, pianist, and singer with an inimitable vocal style and a catalog of hits including "What I Say," "Georgia on My...