Composers Musicians category: 3267 books

From an idiosyncratic childhood in a sleepy British market town to the top of the international pop charts, this first critical examination of the life of Brian Eno charts a lengthy and colorful journey. Interviews with many key collaborators-such as David Byrne, Robert Wyatt, John Cale, Bryan Ferry,...

This is the remarkable story of how Rod Temperton worked his way up from a fish factory to become one of the most successful songwriters of all time. Temperton first embarked on a career in music with the funk band Heatwave, for whom he wrote the international hits "Boogie Nights" and "Always...

The riveting, untold story of the “Father of Christian Rock” and the conflicts that launched a billion-dollar industry at the dawn of America’s culture wars. In 1969, in Capitol Records' Hollywood studio, a blonde-haired troubadour named Larry Norman laid track for an album that would...

Frank Sinatra was the greatest entertainer of his age, invigorating American popular song with innovative phrasing and a mastery of drama and emotion. Drawing upon interviews with hundreds of his collaborators as well as with "The Voice" himself, this book chronicles, critiques, and celebrates...

Rick James played with Neil Young, self-produced his first album (later picked up by Motown), crossed rock and funk to come up with one of the best-selling albums of the 1980s, became one of the biggest pop stars of the era, turned a young white woman named Teena Marie into an R&B superstar, displayed...

A young girl adopts an abandoned ukulele and her life is transformed. Years later, she lives a quiet librarian-by-day/noisy musician-by-night schedule. Look What I Did! is a light tale of amateur record making and a deeper meditation on the magic gene that some possess, a gene that triggers a drive toward and a delight in making up stuff.

The stirring memoir of one of the greatest pianists of the postwar era—an inspiring tale of triumph over crippling incapacity that rivals Shine. The pianist Leon Fleisher—whose student–teacher lineage linked him to Beethoven by way of his instructor, Artur Schnabel—displayed an exceptional...

Get the 411 on LFO! With a unique rap/pop/hip-hop sound and scorching good looks, these three guys are definitely on their way up. Now, find out all the funkie facts about your fave band, including what it's like on the raod (and opening for the Backstreet Boys and LL Cool J), what kind of...

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...

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,...

"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...

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...

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,...