Titoli in Compositori e musicisti

WINNER OF THE SILVER ARIAS AWARD 2024 IN THE BEST AUDIO BOOK OR READING CATEGORY 'Love this book! It triggers so many memories of the rave era. Thoroughly recommended.' - FATBOY SLIM 'Captures the hedonism and humour of the nineties with a laugh-out-loud honesty. The perfect Ibiza holiday read...

'The rock memoir of the decade' Daily Mail In his first and only official autobiography, music icon Elton John reveals the truth about his extraordinary life, which is also the subject of the smash-hit film Rocketman. The result is Me - the joyously funny, honest and moving story of the most...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE The celebrated first memoir from arguably the most influential singer-songwriter in the country, Bob Dylan. “I’d come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right...

The quintessential depiction of 1980s New York and the downtown scene from the artist, actor, musician, and composer John Lurie “A picaresque roller coaster of a story, with staggering amounts of sex and drugs and the perpetual quest to retain some kind of artistic integrity.”—The New York...

‘Each of us is born, I believe, with a unique mission, a purpose in life that only we can fulfill. We are linked by a shared responsibility: to help our human family grow kinder and happier.’ Tina Turner, one of the world’s most beloved artists and entertainers, reveals the deep wisdom...

From the executive director of music at Billboard, an extensive look inside the 20+ year career of mega-selling rock band Linkin Park, featuring new interviews, exclusive quotes, and insights from the band’s associates and collaborators Linkin Park is one of the 21st Century’s biggest, and...

Darren Hayes was always a storyteller. As a child, in suburban Queensland in the 1970s, he told himself he was going to be a pop star - and he did it. Throughout Savage Garden's astonishing success - which included multiple Australian number 1s, cracking the US charts and selling more than 35...

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Quite possibly the best living writer in Britain' Daily Telegraph Much attention has been paid to so-called late style – but what about last style? When does last begin? How early is late? When does the end set in? In this endlessly stimulating investigation...

‘This is the truth as we know it. I have read so much about what people think they know about Michael, but this is about what really happened.’ Jermaine Jackson You Are Not Alone is an intimate, loving portrait of Michael Jackson, illuminating the private man like never before. It is an...

Norteña. Memorias del comienzo es la historia de un enamoramiento: el de Julieta Venegas con la música. Criada en Tijuana, en ese paisaje singular donde el desierto se encuentra con el mar y una frontera divide —o junta— dos países y dos formas de vida, Julieta recorre los primeros años que la formaron como artista: cómo aprendió a escuchar, cómo aprendió a tocar, cómo fue encontrando su propio sonido. La música llega primero como herencia familiar, como alegría compartida, como el idioma que su familia ya hablaba antes que ella.

Warum berührt Ludwig van Beethoven bis heute, als wäre seine Musik gerade erst geschrieben worden? Dieses Hörbuch führt Sie mitten hinein in die Welt eines musikalischen Erneuerers und Visionärs, der aus Bonn nach Wien aufbrach und die Wiener Klassik nicht nur fortführte, sondern sprengte. Sie entdecken das Genie hinter dem Mythos, verstehen die Kraft seiner Ideen und erleben, wie aus persönlicher Krise Kunst wurde, die Generationen Mut macht.

Weaving together more than a hundred interviews with Davis's bandmates, family members, friends, and peers, this book powerfully reconstructs Davis's extraordinary life and career. Washita Love Child thoroughly and finally restores the "red dirt boogie brother" to his rightful place in rock history, cementing his legacy for generations to come.

Dieses Hörbuch macht hörbar, warum Bach-Musik überall zu Hause ist, weil sie zugleich festlich, tröstlich und voller Energie klingt. Der Autor und Herausgeber Bert Alexander Petzold nimmt Sie mit auf eine faktenreiche Kulturreise und vermittelt verständlich, unterhaltsam und klar strukturiert Basiswissen, das sofort greifbar wird. Sie lernen, wie Bach Themen entwickelt, Stimmen verschränkt und Spannung aufbaut, sodass selbst ein kurzer Choral wie eine große Erzählung wirken kann.

Wie wurde Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart zum musikalischen Ausnahmetalent, das bis heute weltweit als Inbegriff der Wiener Klassik gilt? Dieses Sachbuch zeigt Ihnen den Menschen hinter dem Genie und führt in eine Zeit, in der ein waches Kind Europas Bühnen eroberte und Musikgeschichte schrieb. Der erfahrene Autor und Herausgeber Bert Alexander Petzold lädt zu einer faktenreichen Kulturreise ein und vermittelt verständlich, unterhaltsam und klar strukturiert Wissen zu Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

'A roadmap for a new generation' VOGUE 'Radical, funny and fearless’ VANITY FAIR THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER An electric, searing memoir by the original Riot Grrrl and legendary frontwoman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre Kathleen Hanna’s rallying cry to feminists echoed far and wide through the...

This is the memoir of a teenage mod from the East End of London. A journey of discovery for a schoolboy dabbling with punk, funk, record shops, discos and clothes, and then...WHAAAM! An unstoppable wave of like-minded kids fall headlong in love with 60s mod culture, revived and reformatted for the 70s and 80s generation. Eddie Piller was one such kid. His life was changed forever.

Ronnie James Dio was a heavy metal icon and frontman of three of the best-selling, most influential and famous rock bands in history: Rainbow, Black Sabbath and Dio. Rainbow in the Dark is a rollercoaster ride through the extraordinary highs and lows of Dio's life, and takes us from his early days as a street gang leader and Doo-wop singer in '60s Vegas through to his breakout success with Rainbow and Black Sabbath in the '70s and the stadiums of US metal in the '80s - ending in Dio's dressing room at Madison Square Garden, in June 1986, at the peak of his worldwide fame. 

An epic tale of sex, drugs, and country music almost 40 years in the making, Gary Stewart: I Am From the Honky-Tonks is the eighth and final biography by Jimmy McDonough (Shakey: Neil Young’s Biography, Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country Queen), America’s greatest chronicler of popular culture...

A smart, funny, and refreshingly candid memoir from Mark Hoppus, the vocalist, bassist, and founding member of pop-punk band blink-182. Narrated in his own voice, the audiobook offers an intimate and immersive experience that fans won’t want to miss. This is the story of an angst-filled kid...

De un estilo crudo y frontal, este talentoso francés fue un novelista y dramaturgo que además de poeta, músico de jazz, ingeniero y traductor, escribió teatro, letra y música de canciones, cuentos y novelas. Tanto sus admiradas diez novelas como sus actuaciones de jazz lo elevaron a la fama en la literatura y en la música.