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Bloomsbury presents David Bowie and the Search for Life, Death and God by Peter Ormerod, read by Chris Bianchi The story of how David Bowie's search for meaning inspired him to write the music that defined a generation. In this wide-ranging biography, Peter Ormerod explores the quest for...

Michala Petri er international, verdenskendt blokfløjtevirtuos. Hun var såkaldt vidunderbarn, debuterede som 11-årig, forlod skolen efter 4. klasse og pendlede til Tyskland for at påbegynde studier dér. Hendes mor var på mange måder forud for sin tid og satte som effektiv coach dagligdagen og studierne i system, og Michalas ungdom var fokuseret på sund livsstil, musikuddannelsen og en solistisk karriere. I en tilværelse med konstant rejseaktivitet, succes og ansvar blev erfaringerne fra musikken hendes guide, og hun finder stadig gennem den en kilde til viden og livsfylde.

Learn how this group of Australian mates became one of the few truly legendary rock and roll bands in history. Author Susan Masino traces the band's roots, from their beginnings in Sydney, Australia in the early 1970s to trail-blazing the United States mainstream to the devastating death of lead singer Bon Scott in 1980. After that tragedy, the band pulled together and rebounded to the top of the charts with new front man, Brian Johnson, and their watershed album, Back in Black. 

A Rolling Stone journalist presents the story of the late singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle. When Justin Townes Earle died of an overdose alone in his Nashville apartment, his death sent waves of grief through the country-Americana music community. The son of alt-country hellraiser Steve...

Cuando en el verano de 1959, María Callas, la cantante más famosa de su época, embarcó junto a su marido en el fabuloso yate Christina, propiedad de Aristóteles Onassis, no podía imaginar que iniciaba su más peligroso y definitivo viaje. Carmen Ro recrea en esta novela aquellos días en los que la Callas encontró la pasión de un amor prohibido. La mujer escondida tras la diva emerge en las páginas de un diario de viaje. En ellas, María muestra sin tapujos el vértigo de los momentos prohibidos y el secreto de un amor adúltero nunca imaginado, mezclados con el dolor de un pasado traumático.

Bloomsbury presents Make My Funk the P-Funk by Daniel Bedrosian, read by Kenneth Medford. P-Funk keyboardist Daniel Bedrosian brings to life the recording and musical activity of Parliament-Funkadelic in 1975, an epoch-making year marked by the release of three seminal albums: Chocolate City...

Bloomsbury presents Magnum Opus: The Unbelievable 15-Year Saga of Guns N’ Roses’ Chinese Democracy by James Greene, read by Christopher Ragland. By 1993, Guns N’ Roses had hit practically every benchmark possible for a rock n’ roll band. Their eight-year journey had included an explosive...

To listen to The Stone Fiddle is to enter into Paddy Tunney's sense of himself, to step into a lost world preserved only in his memory and imagination. As Bill Meek wrote in The Irish Times, 'Paddy Tunney's book is much more than a collection of songs ... only infrequently can a study be said to reveal a culture from within. When such an event occurs, the result can be electrifying, and such is the effect of The Stone Fiddle, undoubtedly a piece of literature, and yet so directed by the oral tradition that the pages dance with a degree of life denied to most literary works.'

Bogen rummer ærlige, rørende og humoristiske fortællinger bag de Lilholt-sange, der har sat lydspor til generationers fester, forelskelser og hverdage. Fra barndommens Aalborg til de store festivalscener og fra livets glæder til dets sorger deler folkesangeren gavmildt ud af sine oplevelser, anekdoter og refleksioner. Ingen ord der helt slår til er fuld af minder og fortællinger om livsmod og venskaber.

Mit dem eingängigen Pop-Song Lemon Tree gelang der deutschen Band Fools Garden Mitte der 90er Jahre ein echter Welthit. Für Sänger und Songschreiber Peter Freudenthaler, Jahrgang 1963, öffnete sich mit dem Song die Tür zur internationalen Musikwelt und zu einer Karriere, die er sich nie hätte träumen lassen. In seiner Autobiographie nimmt er uns mit auf diese Reise: Von der behüteten Kindheit und Jugend in Pforzheim und den Anfängen als Schulband bis zur Geburt des Zitronenbaums , vom plötzlichen Erfolg als Popstar und Chartstürmer und dem Leben auf Tournee bis zu aktuellen Songs.

Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe—here is the first book to bring these two all-American icons together. Their friendship and on-and-off intimate relationship, kept secret because of powerful others in their lives, spanned seven tumultuous years. At one point, he even proposed marriage. In Frank & Marilyn, we follow Sinatra and Monroe from one explosive relationship to another, their marriages and love affairs eventually leading to a tangled relationship with each other, sparking a nasty rivalry between Frank and Marilyn’s ex-husband (and one-time friend of Frank), Joe DiMaggio.

One person knows David Bowie better than he knows himself--ex-wife Angela Bowie. For ten tempestuous years she traveled and lived with Bowie, overseeing his career, promoting his music, and launching him from in-crowd cult hero to rock superstar. Having outlasted the gag order that was part of their divorce settlement agreement, Angela produced this candid, scandalous, and uncompromising memoir. In Backstage Passes she recounts the jet-setting, hard-partying world they shared.

In dieser Zeit wurde ich Berufsmusiker. Meine Erfahrungen, meine Erlebnisse, Hoffnungen, Träume und Enttäuschungen werden in dieser Biografie mit größter Ehrlichkeit und Kompromisslosigkeit beschrieben. Ein berührendes Werk voll Selbsterkenntnis und Tiefenschärfe. Ich durchschritt viele Stadien der Entwicklung in Begleitung der besten Musiker Luxemburgs: Jean Roderes von RTL, Fausti Cima, Johnny Glesener und vielen anderen.

“Narrator [Hannah] Church delivers a performance that is both tender and resonant. Her warm, emotionally nuanced voice draws listeners into the heart of Parton’s journey, capturing not just the facts of her life, but the spirit behind them. Church’s pacing is thoughtful and deliberate...

"Black Bear" offers what fans have waited decades to read: the authentic Merrill Osmond, unfiltered and unforgettable. For the first time, Merrill Osmond, the distinctive lead voice of The Osmonds' biggest hits including "One Bad Apple," "Crazy Horses," and "Love Me For A Reason", shares his complete life story. This intimate memoir takes listeners from Utah to the world's largest stages, revealing what really happened behind the scenes of one of music's most successful families.

One afternoon David Singer was performing at the White House and that evening he was back behind the wheel of a New York City taxi. He shared the stage at Carnegie Hall with legends of classical music, only to find himself weeks later scaling fences and evading guard dogs to sell welding supplies before dawn.

Exploding on the music scene in the early 1970s, the rock group KISS combined raw energy with theatrical showmanship—not to mention face painting! Founding member Gene Simmons—an outrageous star whose superlong tongue, legendary sexual exploits, and demonic makeup have made him a rock icon—recounts his own story as well as the history of the band. In KISS and Make-Up, Simmons shares a wild, shocking, and unbelievable tale about an immigrant boy from Israel who studied to be a rabbi but was saved by rock and roll and became one of the most notorious rock stars in the world.

Read by the author, A Year on Earth With Mr. Hell is the critically acclaimed début memoir by Young Kim. The book explores a liberated woman’s erotic experience in a clandestine affair without the clichéd political and cultural stereotypes of modern gender roles. It has garnered accolades from none other than The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Times London, Bret Easton Ellis, Nick Hornby, Edmund White, Greil Marcus, Rachel Seville Tashjian, Matthew D’Ancona, Liya Kebede, and Michael Bracewell.

From Mozart to Janis Joplin – meet the greatest music icons of all time. These five-minute portraits bring to life the passion, genius, and legacy of the artists who defined generations. Featuring Bach, Beethoven, Wagner, Whitney Houston, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash and many more!

The Lockdown Interviews brings you more than 20 hours of in depth interviews with some of your favorite artists. Conducted during the lockdown of 2020 and into 2021, these long-form interviews bring you a unique perspective of some amazing acts that emerged during the New Wave era. From John Taylor remembering the early days and struggles of Duran Duran, to Andy McCluskey of OMD opening up to the fact that after selling over ten million albums worlwide and touring for a decade, he found himself flat broke.