Composers category: 3267 books
by William McBrien
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
In his life and in his music, Cole Porter was the top—the pinnacle of wit and sophistication. From the 1910s through the ‘50s, from Yale pep rallies through the Broadway triumphs of Anything Goes and Kiss Me, Kate, he delighted audiences with a glittering torrent of song: “I Get a Kick Out of...
by Lise LEVITZKY, Bertrand DICALE
Language: French
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: French
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Gainsbourg inédit
Pendant longtemps, personne ne savait qui était Lise Lévitzky. On croyait pourtant tout connaître de la vie de son premier mari, Serge Gainsbourg, qu'elle avait épousé quand il s'appelait encore Lucien Ginsburg ? Lulu.
Du jour de leur rencontre, le 5 mars 1947,...
Reading Jazz
A Gathering of Autobiography, Reportage, and Criticism from 1919 to Now
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
"Comprehensive and intelligently organized. . . . Jazz aficionados . . . should be grateful to have so much good writing on the subject in one place."--The New York Times Book Review
"Alluring. . . . Capture[s] much of the breadth of the music, as well as the passionate debates...
by Larry Sloman
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
Hailed as “the War and Peace of rock and roll” by Bob Dylan himself, this is the ultimate backstage pass to Dylan’s legendary 1975 tour across America—by a former Rolling Stone reporter prominently featured in Martin Scorsese’s Netflix documentary Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story.
In...
¡Locos por ellos!
Los Beatles en el cine
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 23, 2014
Los conciertos filmados de The Beatles, las jocosas y singulares películas que interpretaron para Richard Lester, sus apariciones televisivas, los cortometrajes vanguadistas de John Lennon con Yoko Ono, la obstinada carrera de Ringo Star como actor, las ambiciones cinematográficas de Paul McCartney,...
Running with Monsters
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Celebrity Rehab star and Thelonious Monster frontman Bob Forrest's memoir about his drug-fueled life in the L.A. indie rock scene of the '80s and '90s and his life-changing decision to become a drug counselor who specializes in reaching the unreachable.
Life has been one strange trip for Bob...
Bruce Springsteen FAQ
All That's Left to Know About the Boss
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Long before he sold 120 million albums globally in a career that has endured artistically and commercially like no other performer's in the rock era, Bruce Springsteen was a working-class New Jersey kid with a dream and a guitar. By the time he was 16, he was playing ShopRite openings and school dances...
Alan Lomax
The Man Who Recorded the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2010
The remarkable life and times of the man who popularized American folk music and created the science of song
Folklorist, archivist, anthropologist, singer, political activist, talent scout, ethnomusicologist, filmmaker, concert and record producer, Alan Lomax is best remembered as the man who...
Рокомотив
Повесть + альбом рок-группы «Проспект Мира»
Language: Russian
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Участники группы «Проспект Мира» совершают путешествие в прошлое… на рок-фестиваль, который для них — реально существующих музыкантов — когда-то в давно прошедшем...
Gone
A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
The spellbinding memoir of a violin virtuoso who loses the instrument that had defined her both on stage and off -- and who discovers, beyond the violin, the music of her own voice
Her first violin was tiny, harsh, factory-made; her first piece was “Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star.” But from...
Paul is alive
La verità definitiva su uno dei misteri più (incredibilmente) longevi del mondo musicale.
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 17, 2016
“Paul Is Alive”, Paul è vivo e vegeto e canta ancora per noi. Qualcuno dice il contrario? Strano a dirsi, ma è proprio così: il “movimento di pensiero” noto come PID, acronimo di Paul Is Dead, sostiene che il buon Paul ci abbia lasciati nel lontano novembre del 1966 (o dicembre ‘65, a...
Renegade
The Lives and Tales of Mark E. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Still going after thirty years, The Fall are one of the most distinctive British bands, their music - odd,spare, cranky and repetitious - an acknowledged influence on The Smiths, The Happy Mondays, Nirvana and Franz Ferdinand. And Mark E. Smith IS The Fall - 47 members have come and gone over the...
by Jack Goldstein
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Are you the world’s biggest Blink-182 fan? Do you know everything there is to know about pop-punk’s greatest band? Or are you new to the scene and want to become an instant expert on the band everyone is talking about? Then this is the book for you. Contained within are 101 amazing facts covering...
by Jeff Apter
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
The Cure emerged in the post-punk 70s and defied all expectations to launch a marathon career marked by hit records and a string of sell-out arena shows. Never Enough traces The Cure's roots in middle-class Crawley, Sussex, and tracks their gradual rise, revealing how their first major album Pornography,...