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Memorias de Joni Mitchell a través de sus conversaciones con Malka Marom y de la relectura comentada por ambas de las letras de las canciones de Mitchell. Una exploración íntima de la vida y la obra de la cantautora Joni Mitchell -nombre artístico al que atiende (y tras el que se oculta) Roberta Joan Anderson- a través de las letras de sus canciones, de largas y profundas conversaciones sobre su obra musical, su poética y sus creaciones pictóricas. Cuando en 1973 se encomendó a la también cantautora Malka Marom que entrevistara a Joni Mitchell.

Hasta 2014, cuando los Rolling Stones cumplían cincuenta y dos años de existencia, había más de sesenta álbumes publicados de la banda, veinticinco documentales, cientos de discos y videos piratas. Hasta el año 2012, había 1.546 sesiones de grabación, 842 títulos registrados y 1.545 versiones capturadas en vivo. Aventura verbal a través de los sonidos, Piedra sobre piedra. Confesiones de un adicto a los Rolling Stones, es un homenaje y, al mismo tiempo, una guía personal que el autor ha construido para subirle el volumen al más exitoso de sus vicios

While documenting his own personal identity struggles with gender and self-identity, British K-Pop singer Oli London explores the root cause of the issue of trans ideology and gender identity, tackling the pressures of social media, the education system, media, and other factors that are pushing a growing number of young people into transitioning. He takes a close look at real world examples and examines laws, research, and data to help lift the lid on the multibillion-dollar gender affirming care industry.

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.

Here, at last, is what can only be described as a riveting compendium of unheard stories, interviews, and quotes directly from the spiritual heart of the Beatles, George Harrison. Sourced from the extensive archives of rock biographer and historian Sripad Jagannatha Dasa, here is the quiet Beatle in his own inspirational words. The innate truth, wisdom, and sincerity of Harrison shine through in this touching audio tribute to the journeyman musician, composer, dedicated bhakti yogi, and humble gardener.

Hanno Bruhn berichtet über die wilden Zeiten als Blues und Rock Musiker. Hierbei geht es in den 60er Jahren los, durch die 70er und rein in die 80er Jahre. Vom Star-Club Hamburg, zur Musik-Szene in Berlin, bis zum Lone-Star-Club in New York. Um Bands wie Cream, über Mungo Jerry, bis Chuck Berry oder z.B. Jürgen Drews. Über Tourneen durch Deutschland, Europa, USA und Canada. Um Groupies, schräge Typen, Alkohol, Joints, Koks und null Kohle. Um Bullen, Vopos und Spitzel, Grenzkontollen und Autoklau. Um Standhaftigkeit, Familienfindung und Traumverlust.

Leaving school and starting his career at Decca Records in 1958 at the age of sixteen, Tony King would soon find himself becoming close friends with Elton John, rekindling John Lennon and Yoko Ono's relationship, mediating a quarrelsome Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and spending time with Freddie Mercury in his final days - a far cry from his childhood days in Eastbourne. Living in an era of seismic social, technological and cultural transformation, King experienced these defining moments as a stalwart in London and New York's gay scenes.

Little Richard was an incredible performer and musical pioneer who revolutionized music for generations to come. For just about anyone else, such words might sound like hyperbole, but for Little Richard, it’s the pure and simple truth. Little Richard, with his jumpy driving sound and innovative vocalizations, certainly earned his title as the “Architect of Rock and Roll.”

The Red Hot Chili Peppers were going to be a one-time act for a friend's album release party. Forty years later the funk rock band is arguably one of the best known and the longest running in the United States. Everything that happened in 1983 set the course for the rest of the band's career. The scrappy band quickly rose to scene-wide fame, playing all over Los Angeles, and gaining fans and media attention wherever they performed.

From DJ gigs in Southampton nightclubs to chart-topping global fame, Craig David found overnight success as a teenager. With no place for feelings of insecurity, he learned to push them down, building a reputation as the man who always had a smile on his face. Further down the line, things began to unravel. All the negative feelings Craig had been ignoring rose to the surface. He had to change his thinking.

"Você lembra da sua mãe?" Escuto essa pergunta há muitos anos. E quase sempre em situações corridas do dia a dia, sem muito espaço para responder. Então resolvi escrever tudo ao alcance da minha memória e compartilhar como se cada ouvinte fosse um amigo ou amiga com quem tenho intimidade e tempo.

Baroque splendour, triumphs and defeats shaped the life of George Frederick Handel. This audio biography tells the story of his astonishing career, from church organist to freelance opera entrepreneur. Music ranging from the little-known early works to the late oratorios illuminates Handel's creative path.

Following its audio biographies of Mahler, Wagner and Verdi, BR-KLASSIK now presents the fourth in the series: an audio biography of Richard Strauss, to coincide with the Strauss anniversary year of 2014. In operas such as "Elektra" and "Salome", the Munich-born composer made masterly use of established traditions, placing them brilliantly into new contexts and also pointing the way ahead especially where musical theatre was concerned.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, highly sensitive as well as homosexual, had a difficult life. He was willing to make the best of it, however, and left behind a multifaceted oeuvre. This audio biography tells the authentic story of Tchaikovsky's lifelong search for happiness.

Giuseppe Verdi, the son of an innkeeper from a poor village in the Po Valley, was a "self-made man". At the age of 26 he produced his first opera at La Scala in Milan, at 35 he became a landowner, and at 48 he was a member of parliament. This audio biography describes Verdi's life in the exciting worlds of the stage, agriculture, music and politics.

Robert Schumann's music reveals his eccentric, unstable and vulnerable character from childhood onwards, but also his sharp, highly developed mind and deep emotions. Schumann's "inner voice" is indeed the focal point of all musical romanticism.

Dion came up out of the Bronx in the 50s and tore through the music charts in a ferocious display of talent. He continued to make great music while slowly returning to his Catholic roots. His hard-won wisdom filters through his stories whether he's recalling how he went shopping with John Lennon and ended up on the cover of Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band or what it was like to travel in the Jim Crow South with Sam Cooke.

In Roadhouse Blues, Bob Batchelor presents an epic tale of one of rock's (and America's) most significant periods, as the "Age of Aquarius" gave way to a new age of mayhem, presidential misdeeds, and murder. Batchelor combines cultural history, musical and lyrical analysis, and a broad stroke of pop-culture mythos to give fresh perspective on a pivotal time. Candid, authoritative, and utterly absorbing, Roadhouse Blues is a biography of a man, a band, and an era that set the tone for the contemporary world.

Ian Fraser Kilmister was born on Christmas Eve, 1945. Learning from an early age that chicks do appreciate a guy with a guitar, and inspired by the music of Elvis and Buddy Holly, Lemmy outgrew his local bands in Wales, choosing instead to head to Manchester to experience everything he could get his hands on. And he never looked back. White Line Fever, a headbanging tour of the excesses of a man being true to his music and his pleasures, offers a sometimes hilarious, often outrageous, but always highly entertaining ride with the frontman of the loudest rock band in the world.

Marcin Prokop w szczerej rozmowie z Artystą dotyka spraw, o których opinia publiczna i fani wcześniej nie mieli szansy usłyszeć. Jak sam mówi, warunkiem powstania tej książki była obietnica 100% otwartości ze strony Borysewicza.

Die Sehnsucht nach der großen Bühne, harte Arbeit, erste Erfolge, bittere Niederlagen, Comebacks und der Weg nach ganz oben: Vanessa Mai legt beeindruckend ehrlich ihre ganze Geschichte offen und zeigt, warum es sich lohnt, für die eigenen Träume zu kämpfen. Musik und Tanz als Lebenselixier – aber wie können Träume Wirklichkeit werden? Der lange Weg zum Ruhm und was es braucht, um Widerstände zu überwinden. Ein Leben im Scheinwerferlicht und wie Vanessa Mai es schafft, sich treu zu bleiben.

Whitney Houston was a rare star. She burst onto the music scene like a supernova one might only see once in a million years. Despite a humble beginning, she rapidly rose to fame on the strength of her voice and unbeatable charisma.

The celebrated musician's evocative and intimate memoir of the magic and vulnerability of her bohemian childhood growing up as the daughter of iconic artist Charles Blackman.

"Apart from herpes and Lulu – everything is eventually swept away." Just one shimmering pearl of wisdom from pop-star and polymath James Maker, whose worldly observations will (like herpes) once again be on everyone’s lips thanks to his award-winning memoir, remastered with new chapters. If you hadn’t heard of rock bands Raymonde or RPLA – fronted by James in the 80s and 90s – you might be forgiven for mistaking AutoFellatio for fiction. But here fact is more fantastical than any novel. We follow our hero from Bermondsey enfant-terrible to Valencian grande dame...

Un honesto relato en primera persona sobre los límites del éxito y el fracaso, del amor y el odio a uno mismo.

Vasco Rossi, il più amato e carismatico tra i nostri rocker il 7 febbraio 2022 compie 70 anni. Il libro è un excursus sulla sua straordinaria carriera realizzato attraverso 70 date particolarmente significative. Come quando, appena tredicenne, vinse il suo primo concorso (L'usignolo d'oro, al Teatro Comunale di Modena). O il giorno in cui ebbero inizio le trasmissioni della mitica Punto Radio.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Die zwei Seiten eines Genies. Eva Gesine Baur erzählt Mozarts dissonantes Leben, ohne zu beschönigen, dass der Schöpfer unfassbarer Musik auch eine schwarze Seite hatte: Sich seines göttlichen Talents bewusst, log, trickste und intrigierte er. Er verschenkte Glückseligkeiten und verteilte Bösartigkeiten. Die Biografie versucht, diesen Abgrund auszuloten. Mozart selbst hat das Problem in die Welt gesetzt, mit der sich seine Verehrer und seine Biografen herumschlagen: Er schrieb Briefe, die seine menschlichen Schwächen bloßlegen.

Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins is the first biography of this legendary country music artist and NASCAR driver who scored 16 number-one hits and two Grammy awards. Yet, even with fame and fortune, Marty Robbins always yearned for more. Drawing from personal interviews and in-depth research, biographer Diane Diekman explains how Robbins saw himself as a drifter, a man always searching for self-fulfillment and inner peace.

Este libro muestra algunas reflexiones de Cabral, una entrevista hecha al artista en 1992, donde hace derroche de esa sabiduría que lo caracterizaba. Facundo Cabral, (edición conmemorativa) es sin dudas una colección invaluable para los seguidores de la obra de este gran hombre y artista.

But before he adopted the stage name "Ezra Charles" in 1983, he was already famous in the music world as Charles Helpinstill, the inventor and manufacturer of the Helpinstill line of piano products. Since the audiobook is in chronological order, it becomes the life story of a musician growing up in the Gulf Coast region of Southeast Texas that spawned several generations of legendary contributors to American music.