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Whitney Houston was an American singer, actress, producer, and model. In 2009, Guinness World Records cited her as the most awarded female act of all time. Houston was one of the world's best-selling music artists, having sold over 200 million records worldwide. She released six studio albums,...

Jimi Hendrix is still widely revered as the most gifted guitarist in the history of rock. His fluency on an electric guitar was breathtaking, and he had a way with words that somehow paralleled his music. Fortunately, Jimi gave many interviews during his short life. Here is what he had to say... I...

Le 27 octobre 2013, le monde du rock est en deuil. Lou Reed, surnommé le « King of New York » par son ami David Bowie, s’est éteint à l’âge de 71 ans. On associe souvent le Velvet Underground et le tube « Walk on the Wild Side » à ce grand musicien et compositeur new-yorkais, mais son...

Barney McKenna, ‘Banjo Barney from Donnycarney’, was one of the founder members of the Dubliners. But he was also famous for another reason: he was capable of bringing any conversation to a sudden stop by uttering something so completely unexpected as to reduce everyone present to bemused silence....

Eine Biografie des berühmten Komponisten und eine der ersten, die jemals verfasst worden sind.

Jeff Worley, guitarist and founding member for the multi-platinum selling rock band, Jackyl has put in over 25 years on the road as a professional musician. Along with selling millions of records he and his band also hold two Guinness World Records and have been featured on two television shows, TruTV's...

As one-third of the Wailers, icons of reggae music, the late Winston Hubert McIntosh, better known as Peter Tosh, continues to gain many fans all over the world. By way of his hugely successful solo career, many people knew Tosh to be a hard-hitting, unapologetic and controversial artiste, who spoke...

Many years after Halifax, West Yorkshire, where Edward Christopher Sheeran was born in 17 February 1991, he is now a well know English singer, songwriter, guitarist, record producer and even an actor (he made a small participations as a Lannister soldier on Game of Thrones). But is as a singer...

In their own words (and we all know how colorful those can be), the five members of the notorious Osbourne clan tell the amazing story of the first family of rock. OZZY talks about his first beer, his legendary career,and why he's the only sane member of the Osbourne family. SHARON explains...

The definitive group biography of the Wailers—Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Bunny Livingston—chronicling their rise to fame and power. Over one dramatic decade, a trio of Trenchtown R&B crooners swapped their 1960s Brylcreem hairdos and two-tone suits for 1970s battle fatigues and dreadlocks...

Chaque mouvement musical a ses fers de lance : des groupes qui cristallisent l’essence d’un zeitgeist, d’un état d’esprit et d’époque. Iron Maiden est de cette trempe : ils sont [devenus] le heavy metal.La Vierge de Fer est une machine insatiable. Mais au-delà de l’aspect statistique,...

Detailed account of Manson's life, including his attempt to break into the LA scene of the mid '60s, to his bizarre relationship with the Beach Boys, his obsession with The Beatles, his demo releases from prison which achieved quadruple platinum sales, the resultant lawsuit to ban his royalties, his influence on Guns n' Roses, and his links with ne-Nazi rock underground.

As part of the Hot Boys, Lil Wayne got his first taste of success. The group was made up of several of Cash Money's rising stars—B.G., Juvenile, Turk and Wayne. Their debut album, Get It How U Live, sold more than 400,000 copies. Their next effort, Guerilla Warfare (1999), did even better, eventually...

Cit. : « Le lendemain de la bataille de Bautzen, le samedi 22 mai de 1813, naquit le petit Richard Wagner dans la ville de Leipzig. C’était un incident infime. Il ne préoccupait même pas beaucoup les habitants du second étage de la maison du Lion blanc et rouge, sur le Brühl, où ce poupon...