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Miles Davis, Trompeter und Jazz-Legende: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!

Achim Reichel, seit weit über 60 Jahren auf der Bühne zuhause, blickt zurück auf sein Leben. 2024 feierte er zu seiner größten Verwunderung seinen 80. Geburtstag - und es ist viel passiert, was sich zu erzählen lohnt: In den Sechzigern feiert er als Frontmann der Rattles Erfolge, wird in den Siebzigern Vorreiter des Krautrocks, veröffentlicht ein Album mit Shantys und Seefahrersongs, vertont Balladen von Goethe und Fontane, arbeitet mit Jörg Fauser und veröffentlicht seine großen Hits "Aloha Heja He" und "Kuddel Daddel Du".

Selena Quintanilla Pérez nació en 1971 en Lake Jackson, Texas, en una familia de ascendencia mexicana y cheroqui. Su talento para el canto no tardó en revelarse y desde los nueve años formó parte de una banda de música junto con sus hermanos. Desde el restaurante de comida mexicana de su padre hasta los principales escenarios de música, Selena se convirtió en la reina del tex-mex, la música texana. Durante toda su vida reivindicó su mestizaje y sus raíces latinas y norteamericanas.

“Famous People Who’ve Met Me” narrated by the author is an outrageous collection of true stories starring oddball characters, behind the scenes gurus, scoundrels, and brilliant superstars in the music business straight out of Minnesota. The unique memoir does more than just recount tales; it’s a true in-depth character study as told through the eyes of musician, agent, concert promoter, and manager Owen Husney.

Johnny Cash, country music legend: Life and works in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

Frédéric Chopin, composer and pianist: Life and works in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

Janis Joplin, blues singer with a legendary voice: Life and works in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

Franz Schubert, Austrian composer: Life and works in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

When an impressionable young man is powerfully drawn to the blues, and an innocuous instrument enters his life, the die is cast. A happy-go-lucky life will never be the same again. What follows is a crazy series of adventures, spanning continents, musical styles and a wonderful cast of people from many walks of life. Alongside incredible stories and laugh-out-loud situations, you will find a thoughtful take on the power of music in different cultures.

In 1951, the Schmitt Brothers won an international singing competition, besting the top 40 quartets in the U.S. and Canada. They blasted to fame in 18 short months and didn’t stop singing for 35 years—making them the first to win on their first try and the longest performing quartet to retain its original members. But there’s more to the story.

Jim Morrison, sex symbol and singer of the band The Doors: Life and works in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer: Life and works in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

Glen Colson lived through the golden age of Rock & Roll during the sixties, seventies and eighties, working as PR for many of the best loved acts in rock history. Among them Lindisfarne, Genesis, Pink Floyd, The Nice, Elvis Costello, Dr Feelgood, Ian Dury, Nick Lowe, Graham Parker, and Van der Graaf Generator. As the press officer at two of the UK's most iconic record labels, Stiff and Charisma, Glen worked alongside managers who made the music industry tick. Famously dry of wit, Glen's take on the inside workings of the music business is both informative and never short of laughs.

Ludwig van Beethoven, legendary composer: Life and works in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

Mythos! Legende! Kult! Das sind die Worte, die man immer wieder im Zusammenhang mit TON STEINE SCHERBEN hört. Mythos! Legende! Kult! Was die Scherben mit ihrem Sänger Rio Reiser ganz sicher waren, ist: Eine Rock-Band, die in ihrer Zeit - von 1970 bis 1985 - die deutsche Zeitgeschichte der 68er mit all ihren Aspekten an vorderster Front erlebt und gemacht haben. Kai Sichtermann, Bassist der TON STEINE SCHERBEN, und seine Co-Autoren haben versucht, diese Geschichte nachzuzeichnen. Dabei herausgekommen ist eine vielstimmige Historie, die die Lebensgeschichte einer ganzen Generation widerspiegelt.

In 1992, the Screaming Trees were expected to become the next big band to come out of the Seattle music scene during the heyday of grunge. Except it never happened. It wasn't because the band didn't have great songs—indeed, the Trees were revered for their ability to write a great song that was both artistically original and commercially viable, which is no easy task. Other Seattle bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden were fans of the Screaming Trees, playing shows with them and collaborating on albums, long before their own bands broke through into the mainstream.

A moving and inspiring memoir of families lost and rediscovered, by a founding member of legendary band Midnight Oil. For fifty years, songwriter, guitarist and keyboard player Jim Moginie was a driving force behind one of Australia's most iconic rock bands, Midnight Oil. As they made their way...

Journalist Aniefiok Ekpoudom travels the country to paint a compelling portrait of the dawn, boom and subsequent blossoming of UK rap and grime. Taking us from the heart of south London to the West Midlands and South Wales, he explores how a history of migration and an enduring spirit of resistance have shaped the current realities of these linked communities and the music they produce. These sounds have become vessels for the marginalised, carrying Black and working-class stories into the light.

Darkness—that’s what Bozena Gasior remembers feeling when she first heard her two-year-old son’s autism diagnosis. What followed was a cacophony of despair and cries, not knowing what to do, say, or feel. It was the day she thought that part of her son’s life had died. But one eventful day some four years later, his fingers touched the piano keys for the first time, and she felt something—a glimmer of light shining down, illuminating her home and family.

"Amico, stronzo, angelo, mutante", il cantautore Vic Chesnutt "è arrivato e ha fatto in modo che le persone disgustose e disturbate ci sembrassero... non so, più belle, credo". Un tetraplegico che sapeva suonare solo pochi, semplici accordi alla chitarra, Chesnutt ha inciso diciassette album osannati dalla critica, prima della morte avvenuta nel 2009. Nel 2006, NPR lo ha inserito nella top five dei dieci più grandi songwriter viventi, insieme a Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Paul McCartney e Bruce Springsteen.