Composers Musicians category: 3267 books

The Dolls, peddling trans-gender posturing and incendiary rock 'n' roll, were dumped by the record business after making just two albums. But their influence lived on when Malcolm McLaren injected the last of The Dolls' life blood into the Sex Pistols and changed pop forever. From punk to grunge,...

Nicknamed the Queen of the Blues, Bessie Smith rose up from poverty in the American South to become one of the most famous and respected recording artists of her generation. Smith was at the forefront of transitioning blues music from a rural novelty to a legitimate art form that critics and audiences...

As a young man from Meridian, Mississippi, Steve Forbert managed to carve out a niche in New York City’s vibrant club scene, playing now-iconic venues like Gerde’s Folk City and CBGB’s during a time when rootsy rock was fading out and the Ramones, Talking Heads, and other New Wave and punk acts...

Are you the world’s biggest McFly Fan? Do you know everything there is to know about Dougie, Harry, Tom and Danny? Then this is the book for you! In this easy-to-digest eBook are 101 facts about your favourite band do you know all of them?Test yourself and your friends with these handily-packaged...

July, 1967: It seems the entire country stopped to listen to a husky voice steeped in the simmering secrets of the South tell a tragic tale of teenage suicide. So much for the Summer of Love. "Ode to Billie Joe†? knocked the Beatles' "All You Need is Love†? off the top of the charts,...

The private letters to friends and family of one of history's greatest musical minds, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. A wonderful look into the personal life of the great composer.Translated into English and with full notes on names and phrases used in the letters.

When five strangers flunked their X Factor audition in 2010, not even music mogul Simon Cowell could have predicted that just two years later they would have a Number One album around the world. Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, and Louis Tomlinson had all passed initial auditions for...

Le paganisme contemporain relève d’un tiraillement identitaire face à l’américanisation et à la mondialisation. Dans le metal, contrairement aux clichés, il prend le pas sur l’imaginaire satanique avec le succès du pagan metal. Ce style associe l’archaïsme des instruments traditionnels...

The Juno award-winning Wooden Stars both epitomized and transcended the sound of mid-90s indie rock. One of Canada’s greatest bands, they helped build a scene whose members would go on to be associated with some of the country’s most revered acts including Julie Doiron, Islands and Arcade Fire. With...

**Finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. "Profoundly evocative and altogether admirable…The writing and detail are so brilliant that I found the volume revelatory." —Tim Page, Washington Post** Nearly 100 years after bursting onto Chicago’s music scene under...

A woman in the audience once handed Elvis a crown saying, “You’re the King.” “No, honey,” Elvis replied. “There is only one king — Jesus Christ. I’m just a singer.” Gary Tillery presents a coherent view of Elvis’s thoughts through such anecdotes and other recorded facts. We learn,...

Canned Heat's Story of Music Drugs Death Sex and Survival

Eine der besten Biografien des berühmten Musikschriftstellers August Reissmann über das Leben des genialen Komponisten. Inhalt: Vorrede zur dritten Auflage. Erstes Kapitel. Das Haus Mendelssohn. Zweites Kapitel. Die Uebersiedelung nach Berlin. Drittes Kapitel. Mendelssohn's erste Schöpfungen. Viertes...

A vocal group without peer, The Browns were central artists in the changing sound of country and American popular music at mid-century. They were part of major changes in the entertainment business and American culture, participated in the folk music movement in the ‘60’s, and saw the steady birth...