Títulos en Compositores y músicos

Figura polémica y esquiva, Loquillo alcanzó el éxito en compañía de Intocables y Trogloditas pero, incómodo ante un personaje que había dejado de ser el suyo, no dudó en abandonarlo. Fue el inicio de una larga travesía en la que muchas veces estuvo cerca de perder el pie y de la que solo consiguió salir tras reinventarse como artista en solitario.

Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon is part memoir, part investigation, and unlike any creative portrait you’ve ever heard before. Recorded over a series of 30 hours of conversation between Simon, Gladwell, and Gladwell’s oldest friend and co-writer, journalist and Broken Record podcast co-host Bruce Headlam, the conversation flows from Simon’s music, to his childhood in Queens, NY, to his frequent collaborators including Art Garfunkel and the nature of creativity itself.

«Il destino mi ha portato la musica, la grande tradizione napoletana e soprattutto le grandi canzoni umoristiche.» Renzo Arbore nel cuore ha da sempre Napoli, il luogo che lo ha ispirato come cantautore e come intrattenitore nel corso della sua lunga e brillante carriera. In queste pagine racconta se stesso attraverso la più intensa delle sue passioni: la canzone napoletana. Ripercorre così origini ed evoluzione di un genere intramontabile grazie alla rievocazione di artisti (alcuni dei quali conosciuti direttamente) come Maldacea.

Eigentlich fängt die Geschichte mit Kevin Keegan an, dem englischen Stürmer mit den wilden Locken. Der wurde in den Siebzigern zu Campinos großem Idol, denn dieser coole Engländer zeigte ihm, auf welcher Seite er zu stehen hatte. Und auch als Campino Punk wurde, war England die Antwort auf alle Fragen, die er hatte. Er verehrte Full English Breakfast, London und sogar die Queen. Was lag näher als die Entscheidung für den besten Fußballverein der Welt, den Liverpool FC?

The long-awaited audio edition of Peter Kay’s best-selling autobiography, The Sound of Laughter, including two completely new and exclusive bonus chapters. Grab a brew and some good-for-dipping biscuits and listen to Peter take a trip down memory lane, including his first-ever driving lesson, his Bolton childhood, the numerous jobs he held, right up until he found fame in the world of comedy.

Sabe usted que Johann Sebastian Bach, en su juventud, caminó cuatrocientos kilómetros solo para conocer a un famoso compositor? Sabe usted que Mozart, cuando apenas comenzaba a caminar, al escuchar el chillido de un cerdo lo interpretó como una nota musical?

Las muy diversas mutaciones en las que se ha embarcado el artista diseccionado en estas páginas, por muchos conocido como C.

All You Need Is Love is a groundbreaking oral history of the one of the most enduring musical acts of all time. The material is comprised of intimate interviews with Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, their families, friends and business associates that were conducted by Beatles intimate Peter Brown and author Steven Gaines in 1980-1981 during the preparation of their international bestseller, The Love You Make, which spent four months on the New York Times bestseller list in 1983 and remains the biggest selling biography worldwide about the Beatles

Pour la première fois, Eddy Mitchell se livre. Il se raconte et nous raconte ici sa vie, depuis le Belleville des années 1950 jusqu'à aujourd'hui. L'enfance, le Golf-Drouot, Johnny Hallyday et Jacques Dutronc, Les Chaussettes Noires, le rock, la scène et le studio, ses succès et sa traversée du désert, les plateaux de cinéma : tout y passe. On retrouve, dans ces mémoires pleins d'anecdotes savoureuses, le ton inimitable de " Monsieur Eddy ", ses passions et son enthousiasme, son humour et ses humeurs, sa liberté. Tout ce qui fait de lui une des personnalités préférées des Français.

Comment peut-on quitter l'homme que toutes les femmes désirent ? Vue de l'extérieur, la vie de Priscilla avait tout d'un conte de fées. Mais derrière les grilles de Graceland se cachait une réalité plus compliquée. Après dix ans de vie commune, Priscilla comprit qu'elle devait quitter l'univers d'Elvis pour se retrouver elle-même.

Con un lenguaje poético y un estilo inigualable, Vibraciones y elucubraciones de un escribidor de canciones son los sentimientos de una leyenda que comenzó en garitos de tercera acompañando al piano a un joven Raphael y acabó obteniendo la admiración del mismísimo Gabriel García Márquez, quien cantaba emocionado sus canciones, que se sabía de memoria. Es también la historia apasionante de un éxito arrollador de millones en ventas e innumerables reconocimientos. Y es, sobre todo, la historia de todas las personas que se enamoraron con sus canciones sonando de fondo.

Yo-Yo Ma was in his late forties when he decided he was truly happy being a musician. It was then he realized that he could use the cello to explore the world, to ask what it means to be human and how we can navigate the future together. Now, he has invited six friends to join him in answering these questions, to explore how they came to understand who they are, how they learned to love what they do in life, and how they would like to live in the world.

In Welcome to the club, Manchester legend DJ Paulette shares the highs, lows and lessons of a thirty-year music career, with help from some famous friends. One of the Haçienda’s first female DJs, Paulette has scaled the heights of the music industry, playing to crowds of thousands all around the world, and descended to the lows of being unceremoniously benched by COVID-19, with no chance of furlough and little support from the government. Here she tells her story, offering a remarkable view of the music industry from a Black woman’s perspective.

From the executive director of music at Billboard, an extensive look inside the 20+ year career of mega-selling rock band Linkin Park, featuring new interviews, exclusive quotes, and insights from the band’s associates and collaborators Linkin Park is one of the 21st Century’s biggest, and...

In their own words they each look back on their shared adventures. Playing music together, riding freight trains, spraying graffiti and stealing records. Walking in one another's footsteps by day and rising up through the city's exploding pub music scene by night. Before We Was We is irreverent, funny and full of character. Just like them.   

In Just Kids, Patti Smith’s first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seventies. An honest and...

Primera biografía en lengua castellana de la más grande cantante de jazz que transformó la canción popular norteamericana A Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996), The First Lady of Jazz, se la conoce y venera por habernos permitido gozar de una de las voces más portentosas, versátiles y amadas de todos los tiempos don del que dan fe sus cinco docenas de álbumes en estudio, un sinfín de grabaciones en directo y casi trescientos singles.

Love him or loathe him, ‘Iron’ Mike Tyson is an icon and one of the most fascinating sporting figures of our time. In this no-holds-barred autobiography, Tyson lays bare his demons and tells his story: from poverty to stardom to hell and back again ‘Might be the most soul-baring book of...

The Woman in Me è un racconto coraggioso che arriva dritto al cuore, una storia che parla di libertà, fama, maternità, sopravvivenza, fede e speranza. A giugno del 2021 il mondo intero è rimasto ad ascoltare col fiato sospeso Britney Spears parlare in tribunale. L’impatto di quel gesto – condividere la sua voce, la sua verità – è stato travolgente e ha cambiato il corso della vita di Britney, e di innumerevoli altri. The Woman in Me racconta per la prima volta quell’incredibile viaggio e la forza interiore di una delle più grandi artiste della storia del pop.

Abarcando desde 1925 hasta 1962, el tiempo que Celia pasó en Cuba, esta es una biografía completa de Celia Cruz, la Reina de la Salsa, como nunca antes se la había visto. En esta primera entrega de la biografía de Celia Cruz, la autora explora con minucioso detalle sus primeros años como...