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“A biography that crackles with as much energy as the great bluesman’s songs.” —Ted Drozdowski, Boston Phoenix The epic, rollicking, up-and-down life of Muddy Waters—who went from Mississippi farmhand to musical legend, invented electric blues, and created the template for the...

The must-read memoir from the visionary figure behind Manchester's legendary music scene, from The Haçienda to The Warehouse Project. Tales From the Dance Floor is an electrifying journey into the heart of Manchester’s music culture with its most influential promoter. Over the past three...

Uma viagem no mundo antigo do blues: como nasceu, as suas origens, o seu percurso no mundo. E depois muitas histórias e biografias sobre os seus protagonistas, brancos e negros, que contribuíram para criá-lo e para difundi-lo ao grande público.

The first biography of the thriving and influential rock scene in Chapel Hill, which gave the world artists like Ben Folds Five, Superchunk, and Squirrel Nut Zippers North Carolina has always produced extraordinary music of every description. But the indie-rock boom of the late 1980s and early...

Brought to you by Penguin. Wonderfully engaging, expansive and ambitious, Sound Tracks tells the history of our relationship with music in sixty detective stories, each focusing on the discovery of a musical instrument - or its fragments - in archaeological digs around the world. Taking us from...

While music has always been an integral part of the lives of the people of the British Isles and the diaspora around the world, an exploration of why this is so has seldom been explored. Celtic Song will take listeners on a journey to the past through a medium that uplifts the spirit and speaks to the heart.

The Everly Brothers—aka Don and Phil to fans with an intimate appreciation for them—seemed to exist almost as an apparition. Emerging within the formative era for young Baby Boomers during the blandly regimented '50s, they were a ubiquitous presence, clad in snug suits and skinny ties, hair neatly Brylcreemed, never raising their voices when they sang. The two prim-looking country boys with dark, curiously penetrating eyes and perfectly merged, honey-dipped harmonies, were oddly but comfortably settled as sentimental, soothing, sometimes lovelorn voices of a still-uncharted cultural turf.

Suzi Ronson was working in a Beckenham hair salon in the early seventies when Mrs Jones came in for her weekly shampoo and set. After being introduced to her son David and his wife Angie, Suzi finds herself at the Bowies' bohemian apartment and is soon embroiled in their raucous world. Having crafted his iconic Ziggy Stardust hairstyle, Suzi becomes the only working woman in David's touring party and joins the Spiders from Mars as they perform around the globe.

A bestselling music historian follows Jelly Roll Morton on a journey through the hidden worlds and forbidden songs of early blues and jazz. In Jelly Roll Blues: Censored Songs and Hidden Histories, Elijah Wald takes readers on a journey into the hidden and censored world of early blues and jazz...

The #1 New York Times Bestseller As Taylor releases her 11th album, THE TORTURED POET’S DEPARTMENT, catch up on the full story of Taylor Swift’s stratospheric rise to fame; all any dedicated Swifty needs to know about the pop superstar who’s taking over the world A small-town girl with...

In dieser Ausgabe Legendärer Songs geht es um 5 Songs, die auch heute noch von Millionen Hörern gehört werden. Games without Frontiers von Peter Gabriel, Blue Monday von New Order, Go your own way und Dreams von Fleetwood Mac und Breakfast in Amerika von Supertramp. Ich bin sicher, dass auch Du einiges noch nicht über die Songs wusstest. Wie zB bei wem alles New Order sich für "Blue Monday" bedient haben. Ja, klar bei Kraftwerk aber auch bei Giorgio Moroder. Mit welchem Song ? Hör mal rein.

After February 9, 1964, everyone wanted to be Debbie Gendler. She was one of a handful of lucky fans who were in the live audience for the Beatles' historic performance on the Ed Sullivan Show. Everyone has a story about where they were when they watched the appearance, but very few were there in-person—and even fewer would go on not just to meet the Beatles, but end up building a career around the band. But Debbie did.

As an A&R man at Epic Records, Tom Werman helped introduce the world to REO Speedwagon, Boston, Ted Nugent, and Cheap Trick; he also discovered KISS, Rush, and Lynyrd Skynyrd, but his record label passed on all of them. Then, as an independent producer, he oversaw landmark albums by Mötley Crüe, Twisted Sister, Lita Ford, Jeff Beck, Poison, and many more. All in all, his record-making resume includes twenty-three gold- or platinum-selling albums and cumulative sales of more than fifty-two million copies.

'A revelation. Richard Norris lived the twentieth century and beyond like no one else . . . this is one of the truly great eyewitness accounts of the counterculture' DAVID KEENAN 'A dazzling psychedelic memoir' CAUGHT BY THE RIVER 'Makes you feel like getting up and doing something!' WENDY...

Bereit für die "Metal Gods"? Zusammen mit dem neuen Album von JUDAS PRIEST erscheint die passende Episode "ROCK SCHOOL"! Zu Gast sind Hardcore-Fan Schmier (Frontmann DESTRUCTION) und Scott Travis (Schlagzeuger JUDAS PRIEST) höchstpersönlich! Bloß keine "Panic Attack", aber diese Folge solltest Du nicht verpassen! "ROCK SCHOOL", die Hörbuch-Serie mit Andy Brings, in Kooperation mit dem ROCK CLASSICS-Magazin, veröffentlicht im Hause LAUSCH.

1959 saw Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the other members of Miles’s sextet come together to record the seminal jazz album of all time Kind of Blue. 3 Shades of Blue is a magnificent, blended biography on the meandering paths which led Miles, Coltrane and Evans to the mountaintop...

The National Bestseller One of The Minneapolis Star Tribune's Best Books of the Year “A superb book...[Kaplan is] a master biographer, a dogged researcher and shaper of narrative, and this is his most ambitious book to date.” —Los Angeles Times From the author of the definitive...

Explore five decades of hey genre that came from the streets. With the invention of sampling and the emergence of DJs in the 1970s, it was time to grab your grandmother's photograph and start making some money. Journey through 50 years of an emergent genre and the artists and albums that made this music what it is today.

Jewell uncovers how battles to control college radio were about more than music—they were an influential, if unexpected, front in the nation's culture wars. These battles created unintended consequences and overlooked contributions to popular culture that students, DJs, and listeners never anticipated. More than an ode to beloved stations, this book will resonate with both music fans and observers of the politics of culture.

Hoje é inimaginável conceber a música brasileira sem as vozes de Cartola e Adoniran Barbosa. Mas, nos anos 1970, a situação era diferente: nenhum deles jamais gravara um LP, e a percepção do mercado era de que lançar discos dedicados aos veteranos era um desperdício de dinheiro. Foi quando entrou em cena o intrépido produtor João Carlos Botezelli, o Pelão, que tomou para si a missão de registrar alguns dos maiores compositores de nossa cultura.