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The Sound of Being Human explores, in detail, why music plays such a deep-rooted role in so many lives, from before we are born to our last days. At its heart is Jude's own story: how songs helped her wrestle with the grief of losing her father at age five; concoct her own sense of self as a lonely adolescent; sky-rocket her relationships, both real and imagined, in the flushes of early womanhood, propel her own journey into working life, adulthood and parenthood, and look to the future.

In Approaching Fire, Michelle Porter embarks on a quest to find her great-grandfather, the Métis fiddler and performer Léon Robert Goulet. Through musicology, jigs and reels, poetry, photographs, and the ecology of fire, Porter invests biography with the power of reflective ingenuity, creating a portrait which expands beyond documentation into a private realm where truth meets metaphor.

En novembre 1948, un jeune artiste français de 24 ans débarque à Montréal. Il a pour nom Charles Aznavour. Poussé par Édith Piaf, il y vient avec son fidèle compagnon Pierre Roche dans l’espoir de remplir un engagement parmi d’autres.

Dream Master covers teacher, rapper, and hero Mega Ran (Raheem Jarbo) and his unbelievable journey, from his humble beginnings in Philadelphia to college and the classroom, then how a focus on video games and hip-hop encouraged a complete career shift and propelled him all the way to stages across the world, and ultimately, to a Guinness World Record.

"Ich wiege 120 Kilo und fühle mich wie ein Schmetterling." In den turbulenten Jahren, in denen Feine Sahne Fischfilet es bis an die Spitze der deutschen Musikszene geschafft haben, heißt es für Frontmann Monchi immer nur Vollgas. Bis die Band eine Pause einlegt und er zum ersten Mal Ruhe hat, um sich mit sich selbst auseinanderzusetzen. Die Waage verrät ihm, dass die Zeit reif ist: Er wiegt 182 Kilo.

In 1968, Vashti Bunyan gave up everything and everybody she knew in London to take to the road with a horse, wagon, dog, guitar and her then partner. They made the long journey up to the Outer Hebrides in an odyssey of discovery and heartbreak, full of the joy of freedom and the trudge of everyday reality, sleeping in the woods, fighting freezing winters and homelessness. Along the way, Vashti wrote the songs that would lead to the recording of her 1970s album Just Another Diamond Day.

Esta nueva biografía, impactante y reveladora como las anteriores, profundiza en los aspectos más importantes de su vida. Desnuda al ser humano que hay detrás de la leyenda, comparte las claves de su extenso legado musical lleno de anécdotas y complicadas decisiones, así como el bagaje existencial de amor, dolor, amistades, traiciones, heridas familiares, sueños rotos, amargura y esperanza.

The story of soul legend P.P. Arnold is one of musical highs, personal lows and extraordinary endurance. From her origins in powerhouse church gospel, the talented singer's performing career began at the age of just seventeen when she joined the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. But little did the young Ikette know that her world was about to be turned upside-down...

Acclaimed biographer Jem Roberts narrates his brilliant new biography of the Beatles and their relationship with comedy. Includes a foreword written and narrated by Kevin Eldon, who also voices George Martin throughout the audiobook. Fab Fools is the full, hilarious story of how John, Paul, George, and Ringo laughed their way to the toppermost of the poppermost in their classic films, cartoons, and even pantomime, not to mention their experimentations with audio comedy through Sir George Martin's Parlophone comedy classics series.

In Simply Stravinsky, Professor Pieter van den Toorn takes a fresh look at the composer and his legacy, providing a compact, exciting, and accessible introduction to the 20th century’s most celebrated composer and his timeless music. From Stravinsky’s apprenticeship in St. Petersburg to his life among the émigré community in Southern California, Professor van den Toorn shows how the composer’s music was tied to his personality and how it came to influence artists from Aaron Copland to Philip Glass.

Lessons born in the Wonder Years nostalgia of a 1980s childhood find their wings decades later in this true coming-of-age story of a singer-songwriter reinventing his life outside the shadow of his mother's dementia. Open Up unfolds during the same day as the number-one best-selling Living Halfway, with all of the heart, vulnerability, and humanity of its literary fraternal twin, but none of the cynicism. Familiar scenes are seen through a different lens, suggesting not only the power of a changed perspective, but also what beauty we might find inside.

"Ho rischiato di morire, ho cambiato la mia vita, ho fatto coming out, sono stato arrestato. Questo libro parla di me, della mia storia, della madre che ho perso, di un padre che non ho mai conosciuto, di un furto di cui mi hanno accusato, parla delle mie vittorie e delle mie sconfitte, dei miei amori e dei miei dolori, parla dell'uomo di cui sono innamorato e che mi sta al fianco da quattro anni. Ho voluto raccontare il mio mondo, le mie emozioni, le mie battaglie, i miei dischi, le mie canzoni, le mie verità e ho voluto farlo nell'unico modo in cui ne sono capace, con spontaneità.

How to Think Like David Bowie offers an entertaining guide to the habits, techniques, and personal qualities that Bowie nurtured to defy convention and stimulate his creativity. You will also find plenty of helpful tips and suggestions so that you can stretch your own potential, lead a more creative life, and nurture your mind.

London. Wham! Pop, glitz and glamour. Two girls with stars in their eyes. Our friendship began one windy day in 1982, outside Finsbury Park tube. It was an instant like at first sight. We were on our way to a Wham! rehearsal. Pepsi was the new girl in the band and over a car stereo, a cassette tape and that journey to Bushey we bonded. We had no idea that we were on the first of many journeys together and that soon we'd be travelling all over the world. What we didn't know was that we were saying yes to a lifetime of connection that has endured whatever we've done, wherever we've been.

Michael "Maika" Jürgens hat einen autobiografischen Roman über sein bewegtes Leben geschrieben. Von der heißen Kindheit und Jugend über Rotlicht bis zum Blaulicht. Eine sympathische, teilweise lustige Sozial- und Milieu-Studie. "Maika" pflegt einen relativ rohen aber lustigen Erzählstil. Diese authentische Geschichte ist von St. Pauli bis hin zum Ruhrpott nachvollziehbar, denn in allen Regionen gab es identische, leicht verrückte Jungs mit der gleichen Sucht nach Freiheit und Leben.

Wie kann ein Mensch, der einmal so erfolgreich war, so dermaßen abstürzen? Das ist die Frage, die den jungen Reporter Oliver Flesch 1996 dazu bewegt, ein Interview mit Gunter Gabriel zu arrangieren - in einer Kneipe im Hamburger Dammtorbahnhof. Nun scheint alles klar: Wer sich frühmorgens in einer Bahnhofskneipe verabredet, nimmt sein Frühstück flüssig zu sich - oder? 10 Jahre treffen die beiden sich wieder, auf Gunter Gabriels Hausboot im Hamburger Hafen, und Gunter Gabriel erzählt Oliver Flesch sein ganzes Leben - mit allen seinen Höhen, Tiefen und Brüchen.

The Beatles, the Bible and Bodega Bay presents two portraits: the young man in London on top of the Apple building (and on top of the world!) as he watches the Beatles perform for the last time, and the older man on a remote Sonoma beach on his knees looking out to sea and into the heart of his Creator.

Convertido en un objeto de culto, este libro reúne incontables horas de conversaciones que durante cinco años mantuvieron el Flaco Spinetta y Juan Carlos Diez. El fruto de esos encuentros es esta hoja de ruta arbitraria que nos permite asomarnos al universo de este artista singular.

El Club de los 27: Morir como una leyenda nos habla sobre los antihéroes que nos fascinan por no ocultar sus debilidades ni sus excesos, su fragilidad y su creatividad. Fueron figuras inteligentes y sensibles, pero atormentadas, que murieron a la temprana edad de 27 años y que, no obstante, nos dejaron como herencia su música y su arte para así cumplir sus deseos de trascender.

Héroes del silencio, una de las bandas de rock más famosas e internacionales de nuestro país, que incluso tras su disolución todavía cuenta con miles y miles de fans acérrimos, tiene por fin el libro que merece. Un grupo obsesionado por la excelencia y quizás esto fue lo que les llevó a ser pioneros en terrenos intransitados entonces en España.