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In his time, the Austrian American composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) was an international icon. His twelve-tone system was considered the future of music itself. Today, however, leading orchestras rarely play his works, and his name is met with apathy, if not antipathy. With this interpretative account, the acclaimed biographer of Toscanini finally restores Schoenberg to his rightful place in the canon, revealing him as one of the twentieth century's most influential composers and teachers.

حين سُئل بوب مارلي عما إذا كان غنيًّا أم لا، التفت إلى المحاور وسأله: "ما تعريف الغِنى من وجهة نظرك؟ النقود؟ وكم من النقود يلزم ليكون المرء غنيًّا؟ الغِنى بالنسبة إليَّ لا يتعلق بالنقود، بل بالحياة، دائمًا"

The fifth in my series of audiobooks of highlights from my printed books. This one is 120 minutes from I'm Coming to Take You to Lunch, the story of how I arranged for Wham!, whom I managed, to go and play in China. This is Part One of the book.

80 Jahre Leben – davon 60 auf der Bühne: Kaum ein anderer deutschsprachiger Künstler steht so konsequent und kontinuierlich für musikalische Präsenz wie Howard Carpendale. Seit Jahrzehnten prägt er mit seiner markanten Stimme und seinem unverwechselbaren südafrikanischen Akzent die deutsche Musiklandschaft – immer authentisch, immer er selbst. »Ti amo«, »Hello again«, »Wie frei willst du sein« – viele seiner größten Hits wecken Erinnerungen und große Emotionen. Als Entertainer der Extraklasse hat Howard Carpendale den Soundtrack gleich mehrerer Generationen geliefert.

Jerome John Garcia (August 1, 1942-August 9, 1995), born in San Francisco, was the co-founder, lead guitarist, and a vocalist for the rock band Grateful Dead (1965-1995), which came to prominence during the counterculture of the 1960s. Garcia was renowned for his musical and technical ability, particularly his skill at playing a variety of instruments and sustaining long improvisations. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994 as part of the Grateful Dead. The following interview was recorded in 1976.

Anthony "Pops" Mitchell has always lived a life of music. He developed his love for music at an early age, teaching himself how to play the organ, singing on corners in New York with friends, and using his vocals as a lead singer and in the background. He writes, produces, and arranges music. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, with ties to Chicago and New York, Anthony is affectionately known to those who love him as "Pops" or "Papa Tony." As a producer, songwriter, organist, arranger, lead, and backup singer, music is his ministry.

Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks is a musical visionary, a poet, and an enduring style icon with a truly phenomenal life story. The Omnibus enhanced Dreams, Visions & Rumours is a celebratory examination of this tale, tracing Stevie's life from her Arizona childhood, the magic moment when she joined Fleetwood Mac, and the hedonistic turbulence that followed.

Tra misteri irrisolti e leggende metropolitane, Massimo Polidoro indaga le storie incredibili dietro alla scomparsa delle star più importanti. Da John Lennon a Elvis Presley, da Kurt Cobain a Luigi Tenco: la storia della musica è stata segnata da morti precoci e improvvise, che in ogni epoca hanno gettato nello sconforto milioni di fan. Ma se dietro alla scomparsa dei loro beniamini si celassero dettagli mai divulgati? E se Jim Morrison fosse in realtà ancora vivo? O Paul McCartney fosse davvero solo un sosia?

In Fela Kuti: Fear No Man, Jad Abumrad—creator of Radiolab, More Perfect, and Dolly Parton's America—tells the story of one of the great political awakenings in music: how a classically trained 'colonial boy' traveled to America, in search of Africa, only to return to Nigeria and transform his sound into a battering ram against the state—creating a new musical language of resistance called Afrobeat.

Rock n Pole is the raw, hilarious, and unfiltered memoir of Aimee Bushong—an aspiring rock star who stripped to fund her music career and refused to give up her dream, no matter how sideways it got. By day, she fronted a gritty indie band. By night, she danced under blacklights and hustled lap dances in Denver’s sleaziest clubs—juggling guitar strings and g-strings, heartbreak and hangovers, hope and humiliation.

By 1993, Guns N' Roses had hit practically every benchmark possible for a rock n' roll band. Their eight-year journey included an explosive and game-changing debut record, a self-indulgent but even more successful double album release, a handful of raucous global tours, and various front page controversies over their lyrics, drug addictions, and lead singer Axl Rose's rattlesnake temper. The most captivating part of the Guns N' Roses story was just beginning, however.

Read the true story of Universal Music Russia’s first CEO and his quest to bring Western popular music to post-Soviet Russia in an account that Publishers Weekly calls "an exciting and colorful look at a dynamic period in Russia’s cultural history" and Library Journal calls an "absorbing illustration of the mutuality of music and politics." When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Russia opened its borders, and Russian audiences were hungry for Western popular music and the values it espoused. David Junk was one of the first idealistic, young Americans to seize this opportunity.

Le canzoni di Lucio Battisti sono state la colonna sonora di un'epoca, ma non sono rimaste cristallizzate nel passato: hanno attraversato le generazioni, tramandate dai genitori ai figli e ai nipoti come un'eredità familiare preziosa. Perché l'ascesa di un artista ventenne, in grado di cambiare la mentalità e la percezione di un intero Paese con la sola forza della sua musica, è una storia sempre attuale.

In this wide-ranging biography, Peter Ormerod explores the quest for spirituality that powered David Bowie's creativity from his earliest recordings to his death-defying final album. Taking Bowie's spiritual explorations and faith seriously, Ormerod shows us how this quest for meaning propelled him through his darkest moments and biggest successes, lending his music a timelessness and depth that has spoken to so many people across the world.

Clad in black with dark shades, Roy Orbison had a mystique, style, and voice that were unmistakable and singularly different from his famous peers of the 1950s and '60s. Born in Vernon, Texas, Roy was the son of a guitar-playing oil worker. Already a music fan by age six, Roy went on to form a high school band. Honky-tonk gigs followed. Then a contract at Elvis Presley's label, Sun Records, where Roy found mentors and friends among the likes of Carl Perkins. Following a shift to Monument Records, he shared a bill with a group called the Beatles, who were huge fans of his.

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 memoir about a lifelong rock & roll love affair. Volume I spans my innocent emotional beginnings in Pittsburgh, PA, my sources of inspiration for songwriting, the great rock and roll and inside story of Tucson's Grodes, the tale of our 'underground classics of the Psychedelic Era,' 'Let's Talk About Girls' and 'Cry A little Longer' -- and my reflections on music, love and life. You'll meet some very special girls and women, including my first wife, Jeri, and an amazingly talented 'love of my life,' second wife, Patti. Come live vicariously my life of 'sex, drugs and rock & roll!

Ever wonder what that '90s song "Peaches" is really about? How about that other hit from Presidents of the United States of America, "Lump"? We've got the answers, along with the stories behind "Mr. Jones," "Wicked Game," "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" (evil stepmother alert!) and other memorable songs from the decade directly from the singer-songwriters who made them.

In this new book, authors Matt Richards & Mark Langthorne dig deep to find out exactly who Sir Cliff Richard really is. In profiling his life and career, his success, his relationships and his beliefs, they uncover a man of contradictions: the rock & roller who rejected sex and drugs, the poster boy for Christianity, the public performer who's really a ruthless and calculated businessman, the star who's both a National Treasure and a figure of fun.

Punk’s not dead in rural West Virginia. In fact, it blares constantly from the basement of Rob and Nat Rufus—identical twin brothers with spiked hair, black leather jackets, and the most kick-ass record collection in Appalachia. To them, school (and pretty much everything else) sucks. But what can you expect when you’re the only punks in town? When the brothers start their own band, their lives begin to change: they meet friends, they attract girls, and they finally get invited to join a national tour and get out of their rat box little town. But their plans are cut short.