Títulos en Compositores y músicos

"The King", "The Pelvis", oppure semplicemente Elvis Presley: questo personaggio non ha bisogno di presentazioni. L'uomo che ha cambiato per sempre il modo di intendere la musica, portandola su un piano proletario e rivoluzionario, non ha mai smesso di ammaliare generazioni di fan. Il suo provocatorio movimento del bacino, il suo fascino irresistibile, la sua voce cavernosa. Tutto ha contribuito al successo del re e padre fondatore del rock'n'roll, un simbolo incontrastato della cultura pop e della vita sfrenata.

Nella sua breve quanto tormentata vita Kurt Cobain, riempìva quaderni e quaderni di poesie, schizzi, appunti, annotando i suoi progetti per i Nirvana, le sue riflessioni sulla fama e sulla notorietà, il suo pensiero sulla musica e sull'ambiente di produttori, discografici, fans. Un viaggio intimista per conoscere gli inizi e la fine di una leggenda della musica contemporanea. Lucas Pavetto: Nato in Argentina, si trasferisce in giovane età. Manifesta sin dalla più tenera infanzia una spiccata attitudine per la musica e le arti figurative.

Davide Van De Sfroos girovaga con le sue storie tra immagini, istantanee e memorie, in un audiolibro d'ore segreto che si rivela pagina dopo pagina. I fantasmi e i folletti che abitano i sogni dell'autore lo accompagnano lungo strade dritte e sbiancate dal sole, dentro notti nebbiose, giorni scanditi da sentimenti sempre più forti. Qui si incontrano figure angeliche e folli, frammenti di vita reale e divagazioni fantastiche, esplosioni di gioia e riflessioni nostalgiche, lungo il cammino d'artista di uno straordinario "contastorie".

Aquest famós recull d’històries de Gay Talese, peça de museu del periodisme nord-americà d’ara i d’abans, mostra un Frank Sinatra malhumorat amb un fort refredat que li ha fet perdre la veu. A més a més, conté històries del bevedor i perdedor Patterson, del genial Peter O’Tootle, de les models de Vogue, de Joe Louis i l’anècdota del seu pare amb la màfia siciliana, de la patètica trobada entre Fidel Castro i Muhammad Ali, o dels seus inicis com a periodista.

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.

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...

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Over the Top and Back by Tom Jones, read by Jonathan Pryce. In a career that has spanned six decades, Sir Tom Jones has performed with almost every major recording artist, from Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis and Sinatra, to Robbie...

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.

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...

The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Telling Stories, Tim Burgess's laceratingly frank and vivid memoir. Read by the actor Craig Parkinson, star of the hit film Control. The Charlatans have had three UK Number One albums and seventeen Top Thirty singles. But they've also had to face...

Brian Wilson ist genialer Musiker, der uns unzählige Welthits wie "Surfin USA" oder "Good Vibrations" und das Jahrhundertalbum "Pet Sounds" geschenkt hat. Der amerikanische Rolling Stone hat ihn unter die 20 wichtigsten Künstler aller Zeiten gewählt. Brian Wilson ist auch ein labiler Mensch, der sich mit Tabletten, Drogen und Alkohol immer wieder in Zonen bewegt hat, aus der man ohne fremde Hilfe nicht heil herauskommt.

In the wickedly bittersweet and hilarious You Must Go and Win, the Ukrainian-born musician Alina Simone traces her bizarre journey through the indie rock world, from disastrous Craigslist auditions with sketchy producers to catching fleas in a Williamsburg sublet. But Simone offers more than down-and-out tales of her time as a struggling musician: she has a rapier wit, slashing and burning her way through the absurdities of life, while offering surprising and poignant insights.

Jag är Regina Lund är min självbiografi, och med den vill jag ge dig min berättelse. Om barndomen. Om längtan. Om saknad. Om film. Om musik. Om skådespel. Men också om så mycket annat. Som kärlek till exempel. När jag gifte mig med mig själv år 1995 var det en manifestation för att inspirera människor att älska, respektera och värna om sig själva och sina drömmar för att sedan kunna leva i harmoni med allt levande och ge av sin kärlek till sin nästa och till så många som man önskar, vill och kan.

In this hilarious, candid, and warm debut, Icon for Hire vocalist Ariel Bloomer bares her soul and shares her struggles, coupling accessible autobiography with practical advice and inspiration for navigating the messiest parts of life. From growing up a passionate but troubled spiritual seeker to chasing her rock 'n' roll dreams, Bloomer's journey illustrates the importance of cultivating self-love and the transformational nature of creativity, and how to access the artist inside all of us.

Reflecting on the Beach Boys’ long, fascinating history, this book tells the story behind 50 of the band’s greatest songs from the perspective of group members, collaborators, fellow musicians, and notable fans. The band's music is as influential now as it was 50 years ago, and this retelling of how the iconic rock group found itself in the annals of pop culture couldn't come at a better time.

From the Stooges and MC to Grand Funk Railroad and Ted Nugent, to the White Stripes, Eminem, and Kid Rock, and whole casts of other great bands and performers, Detroit has always produced louder, more rumbling, more subversive rock music than any city in the world. In Detroit Rock City, listeners get to hear the stories straight from the participants themselves: the singers, the guitar slingers, the fans, the reporters, the promoters, even the guys who hand-made amps to be louder and crunchier than the competition’s.

The definitive account of Louis Armstrong - his life and legacy - during the most creative period of his career. Thomas Brothers picks up where he left off with the acclaimed Louis Armstrong's New Orleans, following the story of the great jazz musician into his most creatively fertile years in the 1920s and early 1930s, when Armstrong created not one but two modern musical styles. Brothers wields tremendous skill in making the connections between history and music accessible to everyone.

This is the story of legendary record producer Rick Hall and his historic role in the development of the world-famous "Muscle Shoals sound". Rick Hall made music history when he founded FAME Recording Studios, the first professional recording studio in the entire state of Alabama. After producing and engineering the area's first national hit on Arthur Alexander's Southern soul classic "You Better Move On", Rick went on to earn international fame and eventually a Grammy for a lifetime of achievements.

"Friend, asshole, angel, mutant," singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt "came along and made us gross and broken people seem...I dunno, cooler, I guess." A quadriplegic who could play only simple chords on his guitar, Chesnutt recorded 17 critically acclaimed albums before his death in 2009, including About to Choke, North Star Deserter, and At the Cut. In 2006, NPR placed him in the top five of the 10 best living songwriters, along with Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Paul McCartney, and Bruce Springsteen.