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Loosely Based On A Made-Up Story (paperback)
This book is inspired by true events but is not a biography.
The truth is My Truth is not The Truth, and that's as honest as I can be. It's partially true, rather than painfully true, and I have possibly been economical with the truth, Your Honour.
Basically, I made this sh*t up . . .
While James Blunt's crimes against music are well-documented, he also has some stories that are not. In Loosely Based On A Made-Up Story, James reveals his most riotous anecdotes to date for your amusement - and his parents' horror - in this highly anticipated non-memoir.
From his questionable Norfolk roots, eccentric family, boarding school antics, misjudged military service, rise to music stardom and tour escapades, James delves into his (surprisingly) fascinating life to date. What do you do when your mother writes irate emails to the future prime minister defending your honour? What does it take to run a male escort agency? And why exactly should you refrain from crowd-surfing? Find out here, folks . . .
Were the stories in this book grossly exaggerated in an attempt to impress? Maybe. But one thing is for certain: you won't want to miss it.
Loosely Based on a Made-Up Story (hardback)
This book is inspired by true events but is not a biography.
The truth is My Truth is not The Truth, and that's as honest as I can be. It's partially true, rather than painfully true, and I have possibly been economical with the truth, Your Honour.
Basically, I made this sh*t up . . .
While James Blunt's crimes against music are well-documented, he also has some stories that are not. In Loosely Based On A Made-Up Story, James reveals his most riotous anecdotes to date for your amusement - and his parents' horror - in this highly anticipated non-memoir.
From his questionable Norfolk roots, eccentric family, boarding school antics, misjudged military service, rise to music stardom and tour escapades, James delves into his (surprisingly) fascinating life to date. What do you do when your mother writes irate emails to the future prime minister defending your honour? What does it take to run a male escort agency? And why exactly should you refrain from crowd-surfing? Find out here, folks . . .
Were the stories in this book grossly exaggerated in an attempt to impress? Maybe. But one thing is for certain: you won't want to miss it.
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Tupac Shakur
The authorized biography of the legendary artist, Tupac Shakur, a “touching, empathetic portrait” (The New York Times) of his life and powerful legacy, fully illustrated with photos, mementos, handwritten poetry, musings, and more.
Artist, poet, actor, revolutionary, legend.
Tupac Shakur is one of the greatest and most controversial artists of all time. More than a quarter of a century after his tragic death in 1996 at the age of just twenty-five, he continues to be one of the most misunderstood, complicated, and influential figures in modern history. Drawing on exclusive access to Tupac’s private notebooks, letters, and uncensored conversations with those who loved and knew him best, this estate-authorized biography paints the fullest and most intimate picture to date of the young man who became a legend for generations to come.
In Tupac Shakur, author and screenwriter Staci Robinson—who knew Tupac from their shared circle of high school friends in Marin City, California, and who was entrusted by his mother, Afeni Shakur, to share his story—unravels the myths and unpacks the complexities that have shadowed Tupac’s existence. Decades in the making, this book pulls back the curtain to reveal a powerful story of a life defined by politics and art—a man driven by equal parts brilliance and impulsiveness, steeped in the rich intellectual tradition of Black empowerment, and unafraid to utter raw truths about race in America.
It is a story of a mother and son bound together by a love for each other and for their people, and the relationship that endured through their darkest times. It is a political story that begins in the whirlwind of the 1960s civil rights movement and unfolds through a young artist’s awakening to rage and purpose in the ’90s era of Rodney King. It is a story of dizzying success and its devastating consequences. And, of course, it is the story of Tupac’s music, his timeless, undying message as it continues to touch and inspire us today.
BTS - The Ultimate Fan Book
Experience the K-Pop phenomenon of BTS in this best-selling fanbook – FULLY UPDATED for 2023!
BTS are much more than just a group of seven talented individuals, they are a band acclaimed for their record-smashing, barrier-breaking, trend-setting dance-pop and hip-hop tunes and personal philosophies. Featuring brand new content and sensational new photos, BTS: The Ultimate Fan Book includes everything you need to know about Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V and Jungkook, as well as the BTS ARMY.
A celebration of the K-Pop phenomenon, exploring in stunning technicolour detail the group's origins, members and super rise to success, this Ultimate Fan Book is beautifully accompanied by photographs showcasing the band's kaleidoscope of personalities and passions that have made them famous. BTS are more than just a boy band – they are a way of life.
Every Man for Himself and God against All
The long-awaited memoir by the legendary filmmaker and celebrated author. Told in Werner Herzog's inimitable voice, this is the story of his epic artistic career, as inventive and daring as anything he has done before.
Hauling a steamship over a mountain in the jungle; walking from Munich to Paris in the dead of winter; descending into an active volcano; living in the wilderness among grizzly bears - Werner Herzog has always been intrigued by extremes of human experience. Here, he illuminates the influences and ideas that have driven his creativity and shaped his unique worldview.
Herzog's life matches the drama of his famous films: the boy growing up in poverty in a small village in the Alps after the Second World War; the teenager travelling the world in search of adventure that almost cost him his life; the director trying to calm his leading actor Klaus Kinski in the Amazonian jungle. And along the way, Herzog tells of ordinary people with extraordinary stories: rural labourers, circus acrobats, child soldiers.
Every Man for Himself and God Against All is at once a personal record of one of the great self-invented lives of our time, and a masterpiece that will enthral fans old and new. In a hypnotic swirl of memory, Herzog untangles and relives his most important experiences and inspirations, telling his story for the first and only time.
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Behind the Seams
Dolly Parton's life told through the clothes that made her who she is today. A covetable companion to Dolly's bestselling coffee-table book Songteller (2020).
A beautifully illustrated celebration of Dolly Parton's iconic sense of style through entertaining personal stories and 450 full-color photographs, including exclusive images from her private costume archive.
In Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones, global superstar Dolly Parton shares, for the first time, the full story behind her lifelong passion for fashion, including how she developed her own, distinctly Dolly style, which has defied convention and endeared her to fans around the world.
Featuring behind-the-scenes stories from Dolly Parton's life and career, and the largest reveal of her private costume archive, this gorgeously photographed book spotlights her most unforgettable looks from the 1960s to now. The sky-high heels, famous wigs, bold makeup, eye-catching stage clothes - she shares them all. Along the way, Parton discusses memorable outfits from her past, from the clothes her mother would sew out of feed sacks (including her "Coat of Many Colors") and the bold dresses and hairdos that shook up Nashville, to the bunny suit on the cover of Playboy, evening wear at Studio 54, costumes from her most famous film and TV roles, and the daring styles that continue to entertain and inspire today.
Filled with candor, humor, and lots and lots of rhinestones, Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones is a shining tribute to one of the most beloved musicians in history, a treasured keepsake for anyone who loves Dolly Parton, and an indispensable guide to forging your own path to beauty and confidence.
Every Man for Himself and God Against All
Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of his epic artistic career in a long-awaited memoir that is as inventive and daring as anything he has done before.
Werner Herzog was born in September 1942 in Munich, Germany, at a turning point in the Second World War. Soon Germany would be defeated and a new world would have to be made out the rubble and horrors of the war. Fleeing the Allied bombing raids, Herzog’s mother took him and his older brother to a remote, rustic part of Bavaria where he would spend much of his childhood hungry, without running water, in deep poverty. It was there, as the new postwar order was emerging, that one of the most visionary filmmakers of the next seven decades was formed.
Until age 11, Herzog did not even know of the existence of cinema. His interest in films began at age 15, but since no one was willing to finance them, he worked the night shift as a welder in a steel factory. He started to travel on foot. He made his first phone call at age 17, and his first film in 1961 at age 19. The wildly productive working life that followed—spanning the seven continents and encompassing both documentary and fiction—was an adventure as grand and otherworldly as any depicted in his many classic films.
Every Man for Himself and God Against All is at once a personal record of one of the great and self-invented lives of our time, and a singular literary masterpiece that will enthrall fans old and new alike. In a hypnotic swirl of memory, Herzog untangles and relives his most important experiences and inspirations, telling his story for the first and only time.
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The Double Life of Bob Dylan Volume 2: 1966-2021
The second volume of Clinton Heylin's magisterial biography takes us from Dylan's 1966 motorcycle accident to the present day. We meet a man who is determined to confound expectations; yet whatever he does only seems to confirm his iconic status to fans and critics alike.
There are peaks and troughs. Long periods of writer's block are followed by sudden bursts of creativity that produce some of the best work of his career, including perhaps his most celebrated album, 1975's Blood On The Tracks. There is the unpredictable recording process, with Dylan often including on his albums the worst takes and leaving off the best songs altogether. On the Neverending Tour he reinvents his songbook on a nightly basis, at times without recognition. Then there are the albums and songs that reveal the genius of an artist whose lyrics draw on centuries of American culture but who refuses to be shackled to his own past.
Today his voice is almost unrecognisable from his 1960s peak, and the man whose songs had been devoted to dissecting his romantic relationships has become focused on mortality, solitude and getting old. Yet his albums continue to top the charts, 2020's Rough And Rowdy Ways being his fourth No. 1 album of the twenty-first century.
There is no other living artist whose creative output has remained constantly intriguing, often baffling, sometimes infuriating but always fascinating for over sixty years. Clinton Heylin's definitive, scrupulously researched and revelatory life, based on unprecedented access to the official Tulsa archive and other new sources, paints the fullest and brightest portrait yet of an iconic figure that has defined contemporary culture.
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This Much is True
BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a myriad of unforgettable characters from Lady Whiteadder to Professor Sprout, MIRIAM MARGOLYES, OBE, is the nation's favourite (and naughtiest) treasure. Now, at the age of 80, she has finally decided to tell her extraordinary life story - and it's well worth the wait.
Find out how being conceived in an air-raid gave her curly hair; what pranks led to her being known as the naughtiest girl Oxford High School ever had; how she ended up posing nude for Augustus John as a teenager; why Bob Monkhouse was the best (male) kiss she's ever had; and what happened next after Warren Beatty asked 'Do you fuck?'
From declaring her love to Vanessa Redgrave to being told to be quiet by the Queen, this book is packed with brilliant, hilarious stories. With a cast list stretching from Scorsese to Streisand, a cross-dressing Leonardo di Caprio to Isaiah Berlin, This Much Is True is as warm and honest, as full of life and surprises, as its inimitable author.
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Two Riders Were Approaching: The Life & Death of Jimi Hendrix
Jimmy was a down-at-heel guitarist in New York, relying on his latest lovers to support him while he tried to emulate his hero Bob Dylan. A black guy playing white rock music, he wanted to be all things to all people.
But when Jimmy arrived in England and became Jimi, the cream of swinging London fell under his spell. It wasn't that Jimi could play with his teeth, play with his guitar behind his back. It was that he could really play.
Journeying through the purple haze of idealism and paranoia of the sixties, Jimi Hendrix was the man who made Eric Clapton consider quitting, to whom Bob Dylan deferred on his own song 'All Along the Watchtower', who forced Miles Davis to reconsider his buttoned-down ways - and whose 'Star Spangled Banner' defined Woodstock.
And when his star, which had burned so brightly, was extinguished far too young, his legend lived on in the music - and the intrigue surrounding his death.
Eschewing the traditional rock-biography format, Two Riders Were Approaching is a fittingly psychedelic and kaleidoscopic exploration of the life and death of Jimi Hendrix - and a journey into the dark heart of the sixties. While the groupies lined up, the drugs got increasingly heavy and the dream of the sixties burned in the fire and blood of the Vietnam War, the assassination of Martin Luther King and the election of President Richard Nixon.
Acclaimed writer Mick Wall, author of When Giants Walked the Earth, has drawn upon his own interviews and extensive research to produce an inimitable, novelistic telling of this tale - the definitive portrait of the Guitar God at whose altar other guitar gods worship.
Jimi Hendrix's is a story that has been told many times before - but never quite like this.
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My Thoughts Exactly
So, this is me. Lily Allen.
I am a mother, and I was a wife. I'm also a singer and a songwriter. I have loved and been let down. I've been stalked and assaulted. I am a success and a failure. I've been broken and full of hope. I am all these things and more.
I'm telling my truth because when women share their stories, loudly and clearly and honestly, things begin to change - for the better.
So, this is my story. These are my thoughts exactly.
**Includes an exclusive new chapter**
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Karel Gott
O naprosté obdivuhodnosti umělecké dráhy Karla Gotta vypráví nejnovější publikace Roberta Rohála. Připomíná to nejpodstatnější z téměř šedesátileté kariéry populárního zpěváka.
Přestože Karel Gott zazářil už kolem roku 1960, hvězdný lesk si udržel do současnosti. Popularitě se těší prakticky v celé střední Evropě. Dodnes je obletovaným idolem, což dokládá nejen zájem o jeho koncerty, ale také neskutečná řada alb, která vydal jak u nás, tak v Německu.
Kniha připomíná nejen Gottovy pěvecké začátky, ale prakticky všechny důležité mezníky bezkonkurenčně nejoblíbenějšího zpěváka, který v příštím roce oslaví významné životní jubileum.
Publikaci doplňuje řada dobových fotografií a CD s 20minutovým dokumentem.
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Dánská dívka - 2. vydání
Působivý román napsaný podle skutečného příběhu, nyní i ve filmové podobě s Eddiem Redmaynem a Alicií Vikanderovou v hlavních rolích.
Románové zpracování skutečného příběhu malíře Einara Wegenera a jeho manželky Grety začíná nevinnou prosbou o pomoc, aby se na dalších stranách rozvinulo ve strhující vyprávění o neobvyklé lásce, osobní svobodě a odvaze vzepřít se obecnému mínění.
„Uděláš pro mě něco?" zeptala se Greta a netušila, co tím rozpoutá. Potřebovala dokončit obraz, a protože jí nepřišla na závěrečné sezení modelka, neviděla jinou možnost, než použít jako náhradní model svého muže. Sotva si však Einar oblékne punčochy, dámské šaty a střevíce, v jeho nitru se cosi změní: uvědomí si, že je ve skutečnosti ženou, nikoli mužem, a zatouží po změně pohlaví.
Není to však snadné. Einarův příběh se odehrává ve dvacátých letech, kdy lidé jako on často končí v ústavech pro choromyslné. V pařížských salonech možná dekadence dostupuje vrcholu, ale ve většinové společnosti stále převládá názor, že cítit se jako zajatec ve vlastním těle může jen psychopat, a toho je nutné razantně léčit.
Einar už ale sní svůj velký sen a nechce se jeho splnění vzdát. Kolik osobní odvahy, pochopení a podpory bude potřebovat, aby se mohl vnitřně osvobodit? Jak silná musí být láska ženy, která je ochotna vyhovět tak nevšednímu přání svého muže? Jaké jsou pocity člověka, který by rád unikl své předem dané identitě?
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Lacná kniha Dánská dívka - 2. vydání
Působivý román napsaný podle skutečného příběhu, nyní i ve filmové podobě s Eddiem Redmaynem a Alicií Vikanderovou v hlavních rolích.
Románové zpracování skutečného příběhu malíře Einara Wegenera a jeho manželky Grety začíná nevinnou prosbou o pomoc, aby se na dalších stranách rozvinulo ve strhující vyprávění o neobvyklé lásce, osobní svobodě a odvaze vzepřít se obecnému mínění.
„Uděláš pro mě něco?" zeptala se Greta a netušila, co tím rozpoutá. Potřebovala dokončit obraz, a protože jí nepřišla na závěrečné sezení modelka, neviděla jinou možnost, než použít jako náhradní model svého muže. Sotva si však Einar oblékne punčochy, dámské šaty a střevíce, v jeho nitru se cosi změní: uvědomí si, že je ve skutečnosti ženou, nikoli mužem, a zatouží po změně pohlaví.
Není to však snadné. Einarův příběh se odehrává ve dvacátých letech, kdy lidé jako on často končí v ústavech pro choromyslné. V pařížských salonech možná dekadence dostupuje vrcholu, ale ve většinové společnosti stále převládá názor, že cítit se jako zajatec ve vlastním těle může jen psychopat, a toho je nutné razantně léčit.
Einar už ale sní svůj velký sen a nechce se jeho splnění vzdát. Kolik osobní odvahy, pochopení a podpory bude potřebovat, aby se mohl vnitřně osvobodit? Jak silná musí být láska ženy, která je ochotna vyhovět tak nevšednímu přání svého muže? Jaké jsou pocity člověka, který by rád unikl své předem dané identitě?
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Biografie zo sveta filmu a hudby sú fascinujúcou kategóriou literatúry, ktorá sa zameriava na skúmanie života a kariéry osobností zo sveta filmu a hudby. Tieto biografie nám ponúkajú jedinečný pohľad do života slávnych hercov, režisérov, hudobníkov a ďalších tvorcov, a ukazujú nám ich cestu k úspechu, ale aj výzvy, s ktorými sa stretávali.
V biografiách zameraných na film sa dozvieme viac o slávnych hercoch a herečkách, ako napríklad ich detstve, vzdelaní, prvých krokoch vo svete filmu a postupnom stúpaní k vrcholom ich kariéry. Tieto príbehy nám tiež poskytujú pohľad do zákulisia filmových štúdií, natáčacích procesov a vzťahov medzi hercami a režisérmi. Biografie filmových tvorcov a režisérov nám zase umožňujú spoznať ich tvorivý proces, ich vízie a prístup k filmovému umeniu.
Biografie v oblasti hudby sa zameriavajú na životy hudobných ikon, ako sú speváci, skladatelia, hudobní producenti a ďalší umelci. Tieto knihy nám poskytujú podrobný pohľad na ich pôvod, rodinné prostredie, hudobné začiatky a cestu k úspechu. Okrem toho sa dozvieme aj o ich hudobných vplyvoch, tvorivých procesoch, vzniku ikonických albumov a koncertných tour. Biografie hudobníkov nám tak ponúkajú hlbšie porozumenie ich hudobnému odkazu a významu pre populárnu kultúru.
Tieto biografie sú často napísané na základe rozsiahlych rozhovorov so samotnými osobnosťami, ich rodinnými príslušníkmi, priateľmi a spolupracovníkmi. Autori týchto kníh sa snažia čitateľom priblížiť emocionálne a profesionálne aspekty života týchto osobností, a tak nám umožňujú získať hlbší vhľad do ich osobnosti a životného príbehu.
