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In his first and only official autobiography, music icon Elton John reveals the truth about his extraordinary life, from his roller-coaster lifestyle as shown in the film Rocketman, to becoming a living legend.

I Led Zeppelin sono stati i grandi protagonisti della nascita dell'hard rock tra la fine degli anni '60 e per tutti i '70...

With astounding access to all the key players of the time, including members of Green Day, The Offspring, NOFX, Rancid, Bad Religion, Social Distortion, and many others, renowned music writer Ian Winwood at last gives this significant, substantive, and compelling story its due. Punk rock bands were never truly successful or indeed truly famous, and that was that - until it wasn't. Smash! is the story of how the underdogs finally won and forever altered the landscape of mainstream music.

As lead singer and songwriter for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Anthony Kiedis has lived life on the razor's edge. Much has been written about him, but until now we've only had his songs as clues to his experience from the inside. In Scar Tissue, Kiedis proves himself to be as compelling a memoirist as he is a lyricist, giving us a searingly honest account of the life from which his music has evolved.

In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl's halftime show. The experience was so exhilarating that Bruce decided to write about it. That's how this extraordinary autobiography began. Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing to this audio the same honesty, humor, and originality found in his songs.

This is the story of Alex James’s transition from a leading light of the Britpop movement in the 1990s, to gentleman farmer, artisan cheese-maker and father of five. All Cheeses Great and Small is the follow-up memoir to Alex James's first book, Bit of a Blur, the story of his excessive pop star lifestyle during the nineties. But now Alex has grown up, fallen in love and got married.

From Prince's superstardom to studio seclusion, this second book in the award-winning Prince Studio Sessions series spotlights how Prince, the biggest rock star on the planet at the time, risked everything to create some of the most introspective music of his four-decade career. Duane Tudahl takes us on an emotional and intimate journey of love, loss, rivalry, and renewal revealed through unprecedented access to dozens of musicians, singers, studio engineers, and others who worked with him and knew him best.

Leone Magiera ci dà, in questo volume, una visione del tutto inedita di Herbert von Karajan. Amico e collaboratore del Maestro per molti anni, Magiera, oltre ad analizzare in profondità la sua tecnica direttoriale e molte delle più famose interpretazioni, ci racconta, nei suoi incontri con Karajan, della personalità più nascosta e segreta del grande Maestro austriaco. Ne risulta un aspetto umano pressoché sconosciuto, con risvolti mai narrati precedentemente.

Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers a masterclass on the art and craft of songwriting. He writes over 60 essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between ranging from Hank Williams to Nina Simone. He analyses what he calls the trap of easy rhymes, breaks down how the addition of a single syllable can diminish a song and even explains how bluegrass relates to heavy metal. These essays are written in Dylan’s unique prose.

John Cooper Clarke is a phenomenon: Poet Laureate of Punk, rock star, fashion icon, TV and radio presenter, social and cultural commentator, reluctant national treasure. At 5 feet 11 inches (116lb, 32in chest, 27in waist), in trademark suit jacket, skin-tight drainpipes and dark glasses, with jet-black back-combed hair and mouth full of gold teeth, he is instantly recognisable. As a writer his voice is equally unmistakable and his inimitable dry Salford drawl shines through the prose.

Pioneers of Britain's nascent rock and metal scene back in the late 1970s, Iron Maiden smashed its way to the top, thanks in no small part to the high-octane performances, operatic singing style and stage presence of its second but twice-longest-serving lead singer, Bruce Dickinson. As Iron Maiden's front man - first from 1981 to 1993, and then from 1999 to the present - Dickinson has been, and remains, a man of legend.

The definitive biography of the Everly Brothers, one of the greatest and most influential acts in popular music history, based on dozens of exclusive and archival interviews, as well as long-lost global reporting. Blood Harmony: The Everly Brothers Story is the first biography that’s focused on the dramatic, complicated relationship of these two famous and strikingly talented brothers, and explores how the evolution of their relationship played out in the much-loved music they created—through some sixty years of performing.

"Dearly Beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called life." When Prince spoke those words over celestial organ sounds in the opening moments of "Let's Go Crazy," he wasn't just inaugurating yet another Billboard Hot 100 hit—one of forty-seven in his career; he was also giving voice to the deep-seated and richly complex spiritual underpinning of his art.

A collection of stories about the influence music can have on a person, a crowd, or a culture, from John Schmid. John Schmid is the founder and director of Common Ground Ministries, a singing ministry with a focus on on prisons in the Ohio Prison System.

Out of the Blue is an utterly compelling and honest memoir reaching back into Anthony's family and his childhood to starting up his first band, The Cockroaches, with his two brothers while still a teenager himself. Anthony's university studies in early childhood education led him to forming the extraordinary band, The Wiggles, with fellow students and a former bandmate. Over the years, The Wiggles has experienced incredible successes, unlooked-for failures and exciting and timely reinventions.

Venecia, 1957. A los treinta y cuatro años, Maria Callas ha llegado a la cúspide de su carrera como soprano, pero la perfección artística que representa en el escenario está empezando a pasarle factura. Llega exhausta a la mansión de su amiga Elsa Maxwell, donde conoce al magnate griego Aristóteles Onassis en una fiesta. Contra todo pronóstico, se enamoran e inician un romance apasionado y tormentoso que durará diez años. Una novela mágica sobre la gran cantante, una artista extraordinaria con todas sus contradicciones.

손열음의 이번 책은 타 클래식 입문서와는 다른 세 가지의 차별점이 있다. 첫째, 클래식 매니아뿐만 아니라 음악을 사랑하는 사람이라면 누구나 읽을 수 있는 쉬우면서도 밀도 높은 글이라는 점. 둘째, 청중의 눈을 포함해서 연주자의 눈으로 음악을 바라보는 방법에 대해 소개하고 있다는 점. 그리고 마지막으로 대중들이 평소 궁금해했던 비밀스러운 영역인 '연주자의 삶'을 진솔하고 담백하게 고백하고 있다는 점이다.

Herbert Butros Khaury (April 12, 1932 - November 30, 1996), also known as Herbert Buckingham Khaury, and known professionally as Tiny Tim, was an American musician and musical archivist. He is especially known for his 1968 hit recording of "Tiptoe Through the Tulips," a cover of the popular song from the 1929 musical Gold Diggers of Broadway. Tiny Tim was renowned for his wide vocal range, in particular his far-reaching falsetto. The following interview was recorded in July 1988.

Rick Logan was a long time rock and roll star or more of a twinkle at this stage in his career. His venues may have diminished, but his dedication and enthusiasm were still as strong as ever. He had just finished a gig in a casino in Tennessee and was on his way to North Carolina in a borrowed 1964 Ferrari 250 LM, when he had a run in with the local law. He was sentenced to thirty days of community service and became a ward of the Mountain Pines Nursing Home.

Janey shares how she got her break in the music business, the highs and lows of being a backing singer and what it was like touring with bands in the 80’s and 90’s. And from being crammed in a minibus with Mari Wilson's band, to living the dream flying first class around the world, playing stadium gigs with George Michael and WHAM! Later on Janey became known as a co-presenter on Steve Wright in the Afternoon.