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‘An intimate and obsessive book, but one not only for the fans: this is a story about fresh starts and second chances and how to navigate them as an adult’ Mariana Enriquez 'Rodge has been absolutely brilliant. He's a big fan but not too close. He was very much a fly on the wall' Brett...

The thrilling story of underground rock in the late 1980s and early 1990s, tracing the emergence of shoegaze and grunge as the era’s defining sounds, from acclaimed music writer Simon Reynolds, author of Rip It Up and Start Again. Twenty years after his celebrated postpunk best-seller, Rip It...

Dieses Hörbuch macht hörbar, warum Bach-Musik überall zu Hause ist, weil sie zugleich festlich, tröstlich und voller Energie klingt. Der Autor und Herausgeber Bert Alexander Petzold nimmt Sie mit auf eine faktenreiche Kulturreise und vermittelt verständlich, unterhaltsam und klar strukturiert Basiswissen, das sofort greifbar wird. Sie lernen, wie Bach Themen entwickelt, Stimmen verschränkt und Spannung aufbaut, sodass selbst ein kurzer Choral wie eine große Erzählung wirken kann.

Wie wurde Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart zum musikalischen Ausnahmetalent, das bis heute weltweit als Inbegriff der Wiener Klassik gilt? Dieses Sachbuch zeigt Ihnen den Menschen hinter dem Genie und führt in eine Zeit, in der ein waches Kind Europas Bühnen eroberte und Musikgeschichte schrieb. Der erfahrene Autor und Herausgeber Bert Alexander Petzold lädt zu einer faktenreichen Kulturreise ein und vermittelt verständlich, unterhaltsam und klar strukturiert Wissen zu Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Wer Georg Friedrich Händel hört, spürt sofort die große Bühne. Dieses Hörbuch lädt Sie ein, Händel neu zu entdecken, als Komponisten genialer Barockopern und Oratorien in London, als Meister von Drama, Melodik und Textverständlichkeit, dessen Musik bis heute Festtage und Konzertsäle prägt. Der erfahrene Autor und Herausgeber Bert Alexander Petzold nimmt Sie mit auf eine faktenreiche Kulturreise und vermittelt verständlich, unterhaltsam und strukturiert Basiswissen, das sofort Orientierung gibt.

Warum begeistert Antonio Vivaldi bis heute mit einer Musik, die sofort ins Ohr geht und dennoch voller Raffinesse steckt? Dieses Hörbuch führt Sie mitten hinein in die Welt eines katholischen Priesters und bedeutenden Violinisten des Barock, der mit virtuosen, schwungvollen Stücken die europäische Instrumentalmusik neu formte und mit „Die Vier Jahreszeiten" ein Klangbild schuf, das weltweit fasziniert.

The definitive biography of The Police, one of the most successful and fractious bands in pop history, based on interviews with the trio’s members and those who surrounded them—from Geoff Edgers, national arts reporter for The Washington Post. Every Little Thing excavates the history of the...

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW UPDATED WITH A NEW CHAPTER In his first and only official autobiography, music icon Elton John reveals the truth about his extraordinary life, from his rollercoaster lifestyle as shown in the film Rocketman, to becoming a living legend. Christened...

Der Müllner-Peter von Sachrang ist eine Legende. Er war Arzt, Apotheker und ein ausgezeichneter Musiker, dessen Werke heute noch gespielt werden. In dem kleinen Dorf im Aschauer Tal an der Grenze zwischen Bayern und Tirol erlebt er die napoleonische Besatzung. Als junger Mann soll er Priester werden. Er entschließt sich gegen diesen Weg und bringt damit die ganze Gemeinde gegen sich auf. Aber stets hilft ihm seine Begabung einen Weg in die Herzen der Menschen zu finden. Ebenso schwer hat er es mit der Frau an seiner Seite.

This candid memoir of music, fame, endurance, “true triumphs, and challenges” (Matt Pinfield, DJ and TV host) from Deryck Whibley, lead singer of Sum 41, follows his rise from a punk kid to an international star. With a new afterword. From his earliest days growing up in Canada, Deryck...

A New York City Book Awards winner From an award-winning artist who was featured in Humans of New York comes a bold personal narrative about overcoming family trauma, addiction, poverty—and forging a creative life in the greatest city in the world. Born in Brooklyn in 1963, Patrick Dougher...

Despite the ups and downs of his personal life and professional career—even in the face of deafness—Beethoven remained remarkably consistent in his most basic convictions about his art. This inner consistency, writes the music historian Mark Evan Bonds, provides the key to understanding the composer's life and works. Discarding tired myths about the composer, Bonds proposes a new way of listening to Beethoven by hearing his music as an expression of his entire self, not just his scowling self.

Ludwig van Beethoven, a genius composer, one of the most recognized and influential of all composers. Ludwig van Beethoven is a crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Classical music. Beethoven displayed his musical talents at an early age and was taught by his father Johann van Beethoven and by composer and conductor Christian Gottlob Neefe.

Bob Marley's life is the stuff of legend. Raised in the slums of Kingston, Jamaica, Marley (1945-1981) wrote songs that inspired millions. So Much Things to Say tells Marley's life story like never before. Roger Steffens traveled with the Wailers and interviewed Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer extensively. Now, drawing on 40 years of intimate interviews with band members, family, lovers, and confidants - many speaking publicly for the first time - Steffens crafts a riveting oral history depicting Marley's life.

The Sunday Times top ten bestselling memoir of Tracey Thorn's 30-year pop career with Marine Girls and Everything But The Girl, and her collaborations with Paul Weller, Massive Attack and Todd Terry. 'I was only sixteen when I bought an electric guitar and joined a band. A year later, I formed an all-girl band called the Marine Girls and played gigs, and signed to an indie label, and started releasing records. Then, for eighteen years, between 1982 and 2000, I was one half of the group Everything But the Girl.

The New York Times bestselling memoir from legendary rapper Gucci Mane spares no detail in this “cautionary tale that ends in triumph” (GQ). For the first time, Gucci Mane tells his extraordinary life story in his own words. It’s “as wild, unpredictable, and fascinating as the man...

Gottfried Fischer, seines Zeichens Bäckermeister, wohnte über Jahre im gleichen Haus wie die Familie Beethoven...

Roger Daltrey is the voice of a generation. That generation was the first to rebel, to step out of the shadows of the Second World War... to invent the concept of the teenager. This is the story from his birth at the height of the Blitz, through tempestuous school days to his expulsion, age 15...

Before he was the charismatic singer of Black Veil Brides and an accomplished solo artist under the Andy Black moniker, he was Andrew Dennis Biersack, an imaginative and creative kid in Cincinnati, Ohio, struggling with anxiety, fear, loneliness, and the impossible task of fitting in. With his trademark charm, clever wit, and insightful analysis, Biersack tells the story of his childhood and adolescence and the discovery of the artistic passions that would shape his life.

How can so many people pledge allegiance to punk, something with no fixed identity? Depending on who and where you are, punk can be an outlet, excuse, lifestyle, escapism, conversation, community, ideology, sales category, social movement, punishable offense, badge of authenticity, reason to drink beer forever, or an aesthetic of belligerent incompetence. Sam McPheeters championed many different versions. Over the course of two decades, he fronted Born Against, released dozens of records and fanzines, and toured 17 times across the northern hemisphere.