Composers Musicians category: 3267 books
Justin Bieber
King of Pop
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Justin Bieber Singer-songwriter Talent manager YouTube RBMG My World (EP) Never Say Never: The Remixes Baby (Justin Bieber song) London, Ontario Island Records School Boy Records Stratford, Ontario Jeanne Sauvé Aboriginal peoples in Canada Ne-Yo Scooter Braun So So Def Recordings Teriy Keys...
The Tao of Willie
A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2006
Born in small-town Texas during the Great Depression, Willie Nelson was raised to believe in helping his neighbors and living without pretense. After many hardscrabble years as a poorly paid songwriter (often watching his work become a gold mine for other performers), Willie finally found his own...
by Jimmy Cai
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on January 27, 1756 in Salzburg, Austria, and died a premature death on December 5, 1971 as a 35-year old. His musical brilliance was seen very early in his life when, as a four or five year old he wrote his first composition Andante in C. During his short lifespan...
My Own Devices
True Stories from the Road on Music, Science, and Senseless Love
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
**“I love the way Dessa puts words together. In her songs, in her poetry, in her short stories, and now in this beautiful and candid memoir. Wanna be an artist? Get this book.”
--Lin-Manuel Miranda
"Dessa writes beautifully about a wide range of topics, including science, music, and...
I SLEPT WITH JOEY RAMONE
Histoire d'une famille punk rock
Language: French
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Quand les quatre bras cassés du Queens qui avaient choisi de troquer à l’unisson leurs patronymes respectifs pour celui de Ramone donnèrent leur premier concert dans un local de répétition, ils ne se doutaient pas que, comme le dit Jim Jarmush, ils allaient « signer l’arrêt de mort du rock...
Falco: Die Wahrheit
Wie es wirklich war - sein Manager erzählt
Language: German
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Horst Bork lernte Hans Hölzel alias Falco kennen, als der junge, nur im Wiener Untergrund bekannte Künstler dem A&R-Manager seine Aufnahmen vorspielte. Bork nahm Falco unter Vertrag und erlebte aus nächster Nähe dessen sensationellen Aufstieg in Europa, Japan und Amerika mit. Er lernte ihn...
All We Are Saying
The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
Twenty years ago David Sheff climbed the back steps of the Dakota into the personal thoughts and dreams of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. From the kitchen to the studio and up those fateful Dakota steps, Sheff recorded 20 hours of tape, discussing everything from childhood to the Beatles.
Sheff...
Christoph Waltz
Die Biografie
Language: German
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Thorsten Wortmann nimmt den Leser mit auf eine Reise durch die langjährige Karriere des charismatischen Schauspielers und beleuchtet seine wichtigsten Stationen – von seinen ersten Gehversuchen im deutschsprachigen Fernsehen mit Nebenrollen in DERRICK, TATORT und DER ALTE über die erste große...
Why Mahler?
How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Although Gustav Mahler was a famous conductor in Vienna and New York, the music that he wrote was condemned during his lifetime and for many years after his death in 1911. “Pages of dreary emptiness,” sniffed a leading American conductor. Yet today, almost one hundred years later, Mahler has displaced...
ANTHOLOGIE DU METAL
Tome 2
Language: French
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Après le tome 1 de l’Anthologie du metal qui retraçait le parcours des pionniers de la scène, du thrash, de la NWOBHM, du death ou encore du black metal, ce second volume s’intéresse plus particulièrement au doom, au power metal, au metal symphonique, au néo-metal, aux avant-gardistes, ainsi...
Bob Dylan - No Direction Home
Sein Leben, seine Musik 1941-1978
Language: German
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Robert Shelton lernte Bob Dylan kennen, als dieser 1961 ins Greenwich Village nach New York kam. Im Laufe der Zeit wurde er sein Freund und Kritiker. Sheltons Biografie über Dylan, erstmals erschienen 1986, gilt heute als Klassiker des Genres. Und von den über 1.000 Büchern, die über das Genie...
Franz Liszt
Musician, Celebrity, Superstar
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811–1886) was an anomaly. A virtuoso pianist and electrifying showman, he toured extensively throughout the European continent, bringing sold-out audiences to states of ecstasy while courting scandal with his frequent womanizing. Drawing on new, highly revealing documentary...
Marie Malibran
Histoire d'une cantatrice
Language: French
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Extrait : "Ainsi les poètes chantent les artistes. Ainsi Lamartine chantait la Malibran au moment où celle-ci, succombant dans son printemps aux suites d'un accident dramatique dont la nouvelle avait terrifié l'Europe, venait de quitter la terre, emportant avec elle le secret des accents si souverainement...
Parental Discretion Is Advised
The Rise of N.W.A and the Dawn of Gangsta Rap
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Experience the stunning rise, fall, and legacy of N.W.A. and how they put their stamp on pop culture, black culture, and hip-hop music forever i****n this “incredibly vivid look at one of music’s most iconic groups” (Associated Press).
In 1986, a group was formed that would establish...