Titres dans Compositeurs et musiciens

Mountain Notes: A Nature Diary is a captivating, poetic journal that celebrates the rugged beauty of the Dromara Hills in County Down, Northern Ireland where the author returned home to live on her family farm in 2020. Maggie Doyle grew up on this small dairy farm and feels a deep, emotional connection to this landscape and the rhythms of the natural world. Following a thirty-year career in radio production at BBC Northern Ireland, she took early retirement in 2019.

El verano londinense de 1995 fue una locura. Con uñas, dientes, guitarras eléctricas y declaraciones arrogantes, se libraba la batalla del britpop; desde la de Beatles versus Rolling Stones que no se veía una competencia tan feroz como la que protagonizaron Oasis y Blur. Fue memorable: el Reino Unido había recobrado su histórica fortaleza rockera.

Sobre el escenario, bajo las luces y frente a su público, Pastora Soler sintió el silencio y la sombra de la inseguridad. Sin embargo, ese oscuro momento se convirtió en el inicio de una historia de fuerza y superación inspiradora. En este conmovedor relato, Pastora Soler abre su corazón y nos lleva por aquellos momentos que han marcado su vida. Con humildad, valentía y gran honestidad, la autora comparte en estas páginas cómo, a pesar de la angustia y los miedos, aprendió a amarse a sí misma y encontró su auténtica melodía.

The first all-encompassing biography of Elliott Smith, offering an intimate portrait of his life and musical legacy with brand-new interviews, lyrics, and correspondence from the people closest to him, many speaking for the first time Nobody Broke Your Heart is a tender, nuanced narrative of...

“One of the most casually insightful rock bios ever.”—Entertainment Weekly Told in the words of his musical accomplices, fellow-travelers, friends, and lovers, I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead is an intimate and unusual biography of fabled singer–songwriter Warren Zevon, the musical force...

From the house authors of the critically acclaimed oral history on Eddie Van Halen, Eruption, a revealing narrative biography of legendary British guitarist Jeff Beck featuring brand new interviews with the icon himself as well as his famous colleagues, collaborators, and loved ones With his...

“Take the backroads, not the highways,” Minnie Pearl often said—a sentiment that captures her life’s winding journey. Born Sarah Ophelia Colley in 1912, she grew up in Centerville, Tennessee. This small-town upbringing inspired her imagined hometown of Grinder’s Switch. Minnie Pearl’s break came in 1940 when she debuted on the Grand Ole Opry, which marked the beginning of a career that spanned more than fifty years. Garth Brooks remarked, “When she walked out, everybody waited for the ‘How-dee!’ It’s just two syllables, one word, but every time she said it—it felt like it was just for you.”

Nur wenige Künstler schaffen es, sich auf so vielseitige Weise in die Herzen seines Publikums zu spielen wie Manuel Rubey. Er war einst Sänger der deutschsprachigen Band Mondscheiner und ist es aktuell bei der großartigen Allstar-Formation Familie Lässig, er spielt erfolgreich Kabarett, hat im Jahr 2020 mit seinem Buch-Debüt "Einmal noch schlafen, dann ist morgen" (Molden Verlag, Styria) einen Bestseller gelandet und ist überdies im deutschsprachigen Raum gefragter Schauspieler (u.a. Falco, Braunschlag, Aufschneider, Waren mal Revoluzzer).

In Michael Rabin: America's Virtuoso Violinist, Anthony Feinstein tells the poignant story of the life and career of one of history's greatest violinists. As a child prodigy, Rabin had the classical music world at his feet. Notable successes abounded. Yet no sooner had Rabin taken his place alongside such illustrious colleagues as Heifetz, Milstein, and Stern than he abruptly and inexplicably disappeared from the concert stage. For three years, the public saw and heard little of him.

'Last Of the Giants is the mad, funny, dark and often painful story of a lost band from a now-distant time' CLASSIC ROCK MAGAZINE INCLUDES BRAND NEW CHAPTER COVERING GUNS N' ROSES EPIC WORLD TOUR 'Any story about Guns is worth reading. But when the author is Mick Wall it's absolutely essential'...

Confessions of a Serial Songwriter is an amusing and poignant memoir about songwriter Shelly Peiken's journey from young girl falling under the spell of magical songs to working professional songwriter writing hits of her own. It's about growing up, the creative process – the highs and the lows, the conflicts that arise between motherhood and career success, the divas and schemers, but also the talented and remarkable people she's found along the way. It's filled with stories and step-by-step advice about the songwriting process, especially collaboration.

Get the inside scoop on breaking into the music industry from the bassist of MEGADETH, David Ellefson.

Shell Shocked is Kaylan's candid, no-holds-barred journey through the wildest decades of rock and roll. He pulls no punches in recounting the sex, the drug use, and the legendary encounters that defined the era including the jaw-dropping, true story of snorting cocaine off Abraham Lincoln's desk inside the Nixon White House.

Everett True, the journalist credited with discovering Nirvana, Hole, Pavement, and Soundgarden, offers an exclusive, insider's account of one of rock's most influential bands. He famously introduced Kurt Cobain to Courtney Love, performed with Nirvana numerous times, and even pushed Kurt onto the stage at the 1992 Reading Festival in a wheelchair. This is the definitive story, told by the only journalist allowed into the Cobain home immediately after Kurt’s death.

Richard Digby Smith, legendary Island Records engineer, takes listeners deep into the studio during the golden era of rock and reggae. From Bob Marley to Eric Clapton , Led Zeppelin to Free , his memoir captures the raw magic of music creation from inside the control room. This is not just another celebrity name-dropper. It’s an insider's journey through decades of musical evolution, analog machines, world-famous studios, and unforgettable characters.

Il romanzo sulla vita del geniale compositore delle Quattro stagioni. Venezia, 1688. Antonio Vivaldi, chioma rossa come il fuoco, ha dieci anni ed è un bambino fragilissimo, ma quando prende in mano il violino si trasforma. Non lo lascerà mai, neppure quando, di lì a poco, sarà costretto dalla famiglia a prendere la via del sacerdozio. E appena si stancherà di suonare la musica degli altri, comincerà a comporre la sua. Tra la servitù della corte di Mantova, conoscerà la sola donna importante della sua vita, la giovanissima Anna Girò, che avvierà alla carriera di cantante.

Jack Jones is a wordsmith with a guitar. Best known as the singer and guitarist of TRAMPOLENE and lead guitarist with Peter Doherty & The Puta Madres, Jack’s work blends spoken word, raw honesty, and melodic power. Jack’s story is one of survival and defiance. By five he had beaten a bone tumour; by sixteen he was living with Crohn’s Disease. Through it all, the constants have been his blistering guitar playing and his poetry — about the struggles and dreams of everyday life, about love, about fighting adversity, about growing up in Swansea, and about the world as it is.

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Die Fortsetzung des Sensationserfolgs. Im zweiten Band seines grandiosen Tagebuchwerks schildert der große Schauspieler, Sänger und Autor zwei ereignisreiche Jahre. Wir begegnen einem Mann im Zenit seiner Coolness und Gedankenschärfe, der zunehmend Abschied nehmen muss. Nach zwei verlustreichen Jahren möchte Manfred Krug sein Leben ändern. Er will den Kerl, der er ist, "neu erfinden". So entfernt er sich von der Mutter seines nachgeborenen Kindes und kann die lange Trennung von der kleinen Marlene kaum ertragen.

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