Composers category: 3267 books

Die Fantastischen Vier hatten gerade ihren ersten Hit 'Die Da!?' gelandet, als Andreas Sartorius sich auf den Weg machte, um ein Konzert der Musiker zu besuchen. Nicht weil er ein Fan von ihnen war, sondern weil er gerade die Berufsschule geschwänzt hatte und nichts Besseres mit seiner Zeit anzufangen...

Music provides the soundtrack to our lives. But music’s true excitement is often found on the off-beats. Cedric Hendrix has been a music fan for more than four decades. His life of public service has been enhanced by a seemingly endless search for the best bands playing the perfect songs,...

Trinta anos após o lançamento do seu primeiro disco, a lendária banda Legião Urbana tem a sua história e seus bastidores pela primeira vez contados por um de seus integrantes, o guitarrista Dado Villa-Lobos, também compositor e produtor. Dado Villa-Lobos - memórias de um legionário é tudo...

Stephen John Hartley left school having failed all his exams - he didn't care. He had better things to do. He was guitarist in iconic UK punk band NOTSENSIBLES - they recorded four singles, an album and a John Peel session. The North UK had its own separate punk identify imbued with a DIY ethos...

Жизнь Моцарта и её тайны. Эта работа (закончена в 2005 году) получила огромную известность. Её перевели на несколько языков (включая украинский, немецкий и вьетнамский),...

Siamo nel 1985 e a Los Angeles, due band, gli LA Guns e gli Hollywood Rose, decidono di dar vita alla band più influente degli anni ‘90 dal suono grezzo che ricorda il caro e vecchio rock n’ roll: i GUNS N‘ ROSES. Durante il loro percorso, la rock band ha conosciuto problemi legati a sostanze...

Comprendre comment Bob Dylan swingue avec la Beat Generation ; comprendre ce qu’a de rock un roman de Virginie Despentes ; comprendre ce que Pink Floyd doit à George Orwell. C’est quelque chose d’assez singulier finalement, le rock. On n’en a jamais vraiment fait le tour. Vous le savez mieux...

Liverpool in the 1980s. With prospects for the city's youth bleak, a scheme for unemployed musicians commenced, inadvertently shaping the future for members of Cast, Space, the Lightning Seeds and giving fresh impetus to the idea of song as a saviour for the city. Foremost of the bands to emerge from...

À coups de vinyles de Free Jazz tirés de leurs collections, Guillaume Belhomme et Philippe Robert se sont livré bataille. De cette confrontation est né un fanzine : Free Fight. This is our (new) thing. Ce livre rassemble l’intégralité des textes et photographies publiés dans les 4 volumes édités...

An extraordinary tale of a collaboration between a composing prodigy and a Washington politician, the story of how a Thai schoolboy came to create the entire oevre of an American composer is fabulous in the true sense of the world … a modern mythic journey.   A true story … yet one that beggars...

Jessica Bell never meant to be a rebel. But growing up with two gothic rockers as parents seemed to make it inevitable. In 1980s Australia, Erika Bach and Demetri Vlass founded Ape the Cry and Hard Candy, two of Melbourne’s iconic indie bands. They encouraged Jessica with unreserved love...

Der Wiener Klarinettist Anton Paul Stadler (1753–1812) ist den meisten Musikliebhabern nur im Kontext mit Mozarts singulären Klarinettenwerken ein Begriff. Wer aber war dieser ehemals berühmte, den Komponisten inspirierende und diesem freundschaftlich verbundene Virtuose und Freimaurerbruder? Geboren...

Leicester-born tenor sax man, John Barrow, is one of the journeymen of pop. In a playing career that covers more than twenty years he has worked and recorded with world name artists including: BOY GEORGE / CULTURE CLUB / THE FUN BOY THREE / IGGY POP / MUSICAL YOUTH / JERRY DAMMERS / LAUREL AITKEN...

About the Book In the winter of 2007 Bronx born Latin Pop artist Jon Pare got the opportunity of a lifetime when he met Brian B the man that ended up helping Jon realize his musical dreams by investing 400,000 dollars into Jons project and what transpired from both Jon and Brians hard work was a rollercoaster...