Composers Musicians category: 3267 books
Running with Monsters
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Celebrity Rehab star and Thelonious Monster frontman Bob Forrest's memoir about his drug-fueled life in the L.A. indie rock scene of the '80s and '90s and his life-changing decision to become a drug counselor who specializes in reaching the unreachable.
Life has been one strange trip for Bob...
Bruce Springsteen FAQ
All That's Left to Know About the Boss
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Long before he sold 120 million albums globally in a career that has endured artistically and commercially like no other performer's in the rock era, Bruce Springsteen was a working-class New Jersey kid with a dream and a guitar. By the time he was 16, he was playing ShopRite openings and school dances...
Alan Lomax
The Man Who Recorded the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2010
The remarkable life and times of the man who popularized American folk music and created the science of song
Folklorist, archivist, anthropologist, singer, political activist, talent scout, ethnomusicologist, filmmaker, concert and record producer, Alan Lomax is best remembered as the man who...
Рокомотив
Повесть + альбом рок-группы «Проспект Мира»
Language: Russian
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Участники группы «Проспект Мира» совершают путешествие в прошлое… на рок-фестиваль, который для них — реально существующих музыкантов — когда-то в давно прошедшем...
Gone
A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
The spellbinding memoir of a violin virtuoso who loses the instrument that had defined her both on stage and off -- and who discovers, beyond the violin, the music of her own voice
Her first violin was tiny, harsh, factory-made; her first piece was “Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star.” But from...
Paul is alive
La verità definitiva su uno dei misteri più (incredibilmente) longevi del mondo musicale.
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 17, 2016
“Paul Is Alive”, Paul è vivo e vegeto e canta ancora per noi. Qualcuno dice il contrario? Strano a dirsi, ma è proprio così: il “movimento di pensiero” noto come PID, acronimo di Paul Is Dead, sostiene che il buon Paul ci abbia lasciati nel lontano novembre del 1966 (o dicembre ‘65, a...
Renegade
The Lives and Tales of Mark E. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Still going after thirty years, The Fall are one of the most distinctive British bands, their music - odd,spare, cranky and repetitious - an acknowledged influence on The Smiths, The Happy Mondays, Nirvana and Franz Ferdinand. And Mark E. Smith IS The Fall - 47 members have come and gone over the...
by Jack Goldstein
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Are you the world’s biggest Blink-182 fan? Do you know everything there is to know about pop-punk’s greatest band? Or are you new to the scene and want to become an instant expert on the band everyone is talking about? Then this is the book for you. Contained within are 101 amazing facts covering...
by Jeff Apter
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
The Cure emerged in the post-punk 70s and defied all expectations to launch a marathon career marked by hit records and a string of sell-out arena shows. Never Enough traces The Cure's roots in middle-class Crawley, Sussex, and tracks their gradual rise, revealing how their first major album Pornography,...
Christophe et la voix des roses
Un illusionniste en mal de Vérité
Language: French
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Depuis le début de sa carrière, le chanteur Christophe renoue avec une vérité essentielle que semblent figurer quelques motifs roses, semés dans ses chansons et dans l’imagerie qui les accompagne. La rose tout d’abord, qui serait elle-même un symbole, floral et chromatique, de l’équilibre...
Lonely Boy
Tales from a Sex Pistol
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Without the Sex Pistols there would be no punk. And without Steve Jones there would be no Sex Pistols. It was Steve who, with his schoolmate Paul Cook, formed the band that eventually went on to become the Sex Pistols and who was its original leader. As the world celebrates the 40th anniversary of...
MUSIQUES NOIRES
L'histoire d'une résistance sonore
Language: French
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Sous la direction de Jérémie Kroubo Dagnini, vingt intellectuels de haute facture, parmi lesquels Christian Béthune (Université Jean Monnet), Éric Doumerc (Université de Toulouse 2), Steve Gadet (Université des Antilles), Stéphanie Melyon-Reinette (Université des Antilles), Christine Dualé...
JIMI HENDRIX
Room Number 6
Language: French
Release Date: October 6, 2016
La Room Number 6 ? Une chambre située dans une modeste guest-house du fin fond du Népal - lieu de passage des trekkeurs de haut niveau - dans laquelle aurait séjourné Jimi Hendrix. Mais que Diable serait-il allé faire là-bas, en 1967 ? Est-ce une légende de plus, dans la liste des innombrables...
by Hermann Abert
Language: German
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: German
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Hermann Josef Abert (* 25. März 1871 in Stuttgart; 13. August 1927 in Stuttgart) war ein deutscher Musikhistoriker. Seine Mozart-Biografie gehört zu den besten und umfassendsten Werken über den großen Komponisten und umfasst mehrere tausend Bildschirmseiten. Inhalt: Erster Teil - 1756-1782 Vorwort...