Risultati per "Jack" in Compositori e musicisti

'Mightily entertaining' - Heat This audiobook includes an interview with Ozzy Osbourne from 2009. People ask me how come I'm still alive, and I don't know what to say. When I was growing up, if you'd have put me up against a wall with the other kids from my street and asked me which one of us...

“Music is the reward for being alive”, writes Jorma Kaukonen in this candid and emotional account of his life and work. In a career that has already spanned a half-century - one that has earned him induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, among other honors - Jorma is best known for his legendary bands Jefferson Airplane and the still-touring Hot Tuna. But before he won worldwide recognition he was just a young man with a passion and a dream. Been So Long is the story of how Jorma found his place in the world of music and beyond.

An entertaining, heartwarming memoir detailing the adventures and valuable life lessons learned from the author’s four decades of friendship with Ozzy Osbourne and the Osbourne family. Stephen Rea was born in Northern Ireland in 1969, the same year “The Troubles” began. Violence was...

Mit 69 Jahren war Ozzy Osbourne auf einer triumphalen Abschiedstournee, spielte vor ausverkauften Stadien und erhielt begeisterte Kritiken auf der ganzen Welt. Dann das Desaster. Innerhalb weniger Wochen musste er nach einem Krankenhausaufenthalt wegen einer Fingerinfektion seine Tournee – und sein gesamtes öffentliches Leben – aufgeben, da er vom Hals abwärts fast vollständig gelähmt war.

For twenty-five years, millions of Americans watched Jack Perkins on NBC News as a correspondent, commentator, and anchorman. People were familiar with his face, his bearing, and his rich, reassuring bass. Yet at the age of fifty-two and at the height of his career, Jack Perkins disappeared from...

A beautiful genre-bending tribute to the larger-than-life blues singer Bessie Smith. Scotland’s National Poet blends poetry, prose, fiction, and nonfiction to create an entirely unique biography of the Empress of the Blues. There has never been anyone else like Bessie Smith. Born in...

»Im Laufe der Jahre ist allerhand verrücktes Zeug über mich erzählt worden: ›Er hat einer Fledermaus den Kopf abgebissen.‹ Stimmt. ›Er hat einer Taube den Kopf abgebissen.‹ Stimmt auch. Aber dann hörst du Sachen wie: ›Ozzy kam gestern Abend zum Auftritt, aber er wollte erst auf die Bühne, nachdem er fünfzehn Hundewelpen getötet hatte …‹ Fünfzehn Welpen töten? Ich? Ich liebe Welpen. Diese Geschichten verfolgen mich. Jeder Tag meines Lebens war ein Ereignis. Dreißig verfluchte Jahre lang genehmigte ich mir jeden Tag eine tödliche Kombination aus Hochprozentigem und Drogen.

Bessie Smith was born in Tennessee in 1894. Orphaned by the age of nine, she sang on street corners before becoming a big name in travelling shows. In 1923 she made her first recording for a new start-up called Columbia Records. It sold 780,000 copies and made her a star. Smith's life was notoriously difficult. As a young black girl growing up in Glasgow, Jackie Kay found in Bessie someone with whom she could identify and who she could idolise. In this remarkable book Kay mixes biography, fiction, poetry and prose to create an enthralling account of an extraordinary life.

Billie Eilish is one of the music industry's hottest properties right now. Today some people see her as a mainstream act, and many well-known celebrities are talking of how much they like her work. Yet her biggest fans have been there from the start, following her career long before she was the 'next big thing'. But how much do you really know about Billie? How did she start off in the musical world? Who does she consider to be influential on her unique style? And how did she transition from well-kept secret to major stardom?

Are you the world's biggest Foo Fighters fan? Or do you want to discover some interesting facts about Dave Grohl's band, generally considered to be the best rock act in the entire world? If so, then this is the audiobook for you! Contained within are more than one hundred amazing facts about everything, from the band’s formation and early days of recording all the way to their most recent tour. With sections about each member as well as information on their music, awards and much more, you can find the information you want fast.

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 audiobook for you. Contained within are 101 amazing facts covering everything from the band’s early days through the more difficult times (including the infamous plane crash) right up to their 2016 comeback -

A chance encounter at a summer party on Martha’s Vineyard blossomed into an improbable but enduring friendship. Carly Simon and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis made an unlikely pair - Carly, a free and artistic spirit still reeling from her recent divorce, searching for meaning, new love, and an anchor; and Jackie, one of the most celebrated, meticulous, unknowable women in American history. Nonetheless, over the next decade their lives merged in inextricable and complex ways, and they forged a connection deeper than either could ever have foreseen.

The #1 New York Times Bestseller As Taylor releases her 11th album, THE TORTURED POET’S DEPARTMENT, catch up on the full story of Taylor Swift’s stratospheric rise to fame; all any dedicated Swifty needs to know about the pop superstar who’s taking over the world A small-town girl with...

This is the story Bardot’s Belinda Chapple has wanted to tell for twenty years – a cautionary tale of exploitation and heartbreak. In 2000, millions of Australians tuned in to watch Popstars, one of the world’s first reality television competitions, in which five girls were selected from...

John Perry Barlow’s wild ride with the Grateful Dead was just part of a Zelig-like life that took him from a childhood as ranching royalty in Wyoming to membership in the Internet Hall of Fame as a digital free speech advocate. Mother American Night is the wild, funny, heartbreaking, and often...

From beloved indie musician Andrew McMahon comes a searingly honest and beautifully written memoir about the challenges and triumphs of his life and career, as seen through the lens of his personal connection to three pianos. Andrew McMahon grew up in sunny Southern California as a child prodigy...

A New Yorker writer’s intimate, revealing account of Tupac Shakur’s life and legacy, timed to the fiftieth anniversary of his birth and twenty-fifth anniversary of his death. In the summer of 2020, Tupac Shakur’s single “Changes” became an anthem for the worldwide protests against the...