Musician Biography – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 5

Haydn!

»Meine Sprache versteht die ganze Welt.« JOSEPH HAYDN Joseph Haydn galt als bedeutendster Komponist seiner Zeit. Seine 77 Lebensjahre waren erfüllt von schöpferischer Vitalität und der Lust am musikal…

Bill Milkowski

Legends of Jazz

This elegant volume is a portrait gallery of 50 eminent legends spanning jazz history, from Jelly Roll Morton, perhaps the inventor of the art form, to contemporary axman Joe Lovano, who contributes a for…

Nigel Wood

And Jesus Danced (Twice)

This is the story of the milltown brothers meteoric rise and 'much ignored' demise. It's the story of a good band that got very lucky and then got very unlucky. More broadly it demonstrates the role luck …

Ron Rosenbaum

Bob Dylan

In the wake of the recent hit biopicNo Direction Home, this probing appreciation asks: Do the lyrics of Bob Dylan tell the true story of the ever-changing, ever-radical life and career of the Nobel Prize-…

Jan Gradvall

Melancholy Undercover

With exclusive band interviews and over a decade of deep research, in Melancholy Undercover, renowned music journalist Jan Gradvall explores the secret to ABBA's success.

Thom Yorke, Stanley Donwood

Kid A Mnesia

"Whilst these records were being conceived, rehearsed, recorded and produced, Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood made hundreds of images. These ranged from obsessive, insomniac scrawls in biro to six-foo…

Bruce H Klauber, Andrea Kauffman

Let Me Be Frank

As an American singer, conductor, composer, and actor, Frank Sinatra, Jr. (1944--2016) had a long and successful music career and was recognized for his many contributions to American popular song. Yet, h…

Louis Armstrong (1901-1971)

Satchmo: A Musical Autobiography Part 1

Stephanie Phillips

We Were Here

A long-overdue corrective to the history of rock 'n' roll and alternative music, repopulating it with the extraordinary Black artists and influential figures who steered its courseThe history of rock and …

Terry Teachout

Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong is widely known as the greatest jazz musician of the twentieth century. He was a phenomenally gifted and imaginative artist, and an entertainer so irresistibly magnetic that he knocked the…

Haydn!

»Meine Sprache versteht die ganze Welt.« JOSEPH HAYDN Joseph Haydn galt als bedeutendster Komponist seiner Zeit. Seine 77 Lebensjahre waren erfüllt von schöpferischer Vitalität und der Lust am musikal…

Paul Rappaport

Gliders Over Hollywood

Gliders Over Hollywood tells the exhilarating true story of a blue-collar kid nicknamed 'Rap' who grew up in thrall to rock'n'roll, then found himself right in the middle of many of his heroes' lives as h…

Ann Powers

Traveling

*An ObserverBest New Biographies of 2024*?*Now in paperback!*Celebrated NPR music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career of Joni Mitchell in a lyrical style as fascinating and ethereal as the song…

Sacha Lord

Tales from the Dancefloor

The must-read memoir from the visionary figure behind Manchester's legendary music scene, from The Haçienda to The Warehouse Project.

Martin Porter, David Goggin

Buzz Me in

The inside story of Record Plant Studios--the real "Hotel California"--that reveals how the greatest music of the seventies was recorded and why the artists checked out but rarely left.

Ceka

The Rolling Stones in Comics!

When the Rolling Stones hit the scene in the 60's, it was to play rhythm & blues, nothing more. They were far from imagining that they would change music, let alone become the mouthpiece of a changing wor…

John Robb

Live Forever

The finest book on Britain's most popular rock 'n' roll band'Read on ... It's all true' Noel GallagherFeaturing an exclusive interview with Noel Gallagher and bespoke artwork by celebrated Oasis album des…

Lol Tolhurst

Cured

Cured is a memoir by Lol Tolhurst, a founder member of one of the most revered and successful bands of their generation: The Cure. Lol threads the band's genesis through his suburban schoolboy years with …

Moon Unit Zappa

Earth to Moon

From Moon Unit Zappa, the daughter of musical visionary Frank Zappa, comes a memoir of growing up in her unconventional household in 1970s Los Angeles, coming of age in the Hollywood Hills in the 1980s as…