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David Bowie
A relentless innovator, scoring chart hits while simultaneously incorporating radical and ground-breaking elements into his work.
As with all great pop stars, Bowie's image changed with almost every new album release. This appetite for reinvention, both musically and visually, saw him dubbed the 'chameleon of pop'. But Bowie's influence extended well beyond his discography and make-up drawer. His androgynous qualities and public statements on his sexuality proved liberating for those who were uncertain about their own. Lives of the Musicians: David Bowie covers the years he spent struggling to find the right artistic outlet to the dramatic breakthrough in 1972 with Ziggy Stardust - and afterwards, the excessive lifestyle that nearly cost him his sanity. It continues with his artistic rebirth in Berlin during the late Seventies, the mainstream success he achieved with Let's Dance in 1983 and the artistic price that he paid for it.
She Come By It Natural : Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived her Songs
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE
The world can't seem to get enough of Dolly Parton. Her image is blazoned across T-shirts, she burns on desks as blasphemous candles, and well into her seventies she continues to grace awards stages, arenas and talk shows where women of a certain age are rarely seen.
Yet not so long ago, Dolly was best known by many people as the punch line of a boob joke. So, what happened?
In this affectionate, sharply insightful book, Sarah Smarsh charts Dolly's meteoric rise against the backdrop of her working-class roots. Drawing on her own experience growing up in rural Kansas, Smarsh crafts a resonant portrait of Parton's cultural importance, above all for the often-unheard women who populate her songs: struggling mothers, pregnant teenagers, diner waitresses with deadbeat boyfriends. Candid, intimate and searching, She Come By It Natural captures the enduring appeal of this singular star.
Ronnie James Dio
Životopis heavymetalové ikony pokrývá šest dekád Diovy umělecké dráhy od úplných začátků ve školních orchestrech a následně v kapele Vegas Kings (později přejmenované na Ronnie and the Red Caps), přes angažmá v kapelách Elf, Rainbow a Black Sabbath, a rovněž Diovu sólovou dráhu, až po projekt Heaven & Hell. Součástí knihy je i kompletní Diova diskografie, dále předmluva a nekrolog, které sepsali Diovi přátelé a dlouholetí spoluhráči Jeff Pilson a Claude Schnell.
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The Last Days of John Lennon
The Last Days of John Lennon is the amazing story of John Lennon's life and career, from his earliest days up to his last seconds. It tells the story of the most profound rock-and-roll genius of all time - and of the consummate Nowhere Man who took him from us.
JOHN LENNON ACHIEVED WITH THE BEATLES A LEVEL OF SUPERSTARDOM THAT DEFIED CLASSIFICATION. 'WE WERE THE BEST BLOODY BAND THERE WAS,' HE SAID. 'THERE WAS NOBODY TO TOUCH US.'
In the summer of 1980, ten years after the break-up of The Beatles, Lennon signed with a new label and hired a top producer to recruit the best session musicians, ready to record new music for the first time in years. They were awestruck when Lennon dashed off '(Just Like) Starting Over'. Lennon was back in peak form, with his best songwriting since 'Imagine'.
Even before Lennon left The Beatles, becoming a solo artist and making a life with Yoko Ono in New York City, Mark David Chapman had become obsessed with murdering his former hero. Chapman was convinced that Lennon had squandered his talent and betrayed fans with messages of hope and peace. In December 1980, Chapman quit his security job in Hawaii, signing out as 'John Lennon', and boarded a flight to New York with a handgun and bullets stowed in his luggage. He was never going home again.
Enriched by exclusive interviews with Lennon's friends and associates, including Paul McCartney, The Last Days of John Lennon is a true-crime drama about two men who changed history. One whose indelible songs enliven our world to this day, and the other who ended the beautiful music with five pulls of a trigger.
A lázadás napjai
2012 februárjában Marija Aljohina és társai, a radikális Pussy Riot zenekar a moszkvai Megváltó Krisztus Székesegyházban pár perces provokatív „punk imájukban” azért fohászkodtak, hogy megszabaduljanak Putyin rezsimjétől. Szervezett huliganizmus vádjával letartóztatták és bíróság elé állították őket, aminek híre és képei bejárták a világot. A könyv Marija perét és szibériai börtönéveit meséli el, provokatív dalszövegekkel, börtönnaplójának, kihallgatási jegyzőkönyveinek részleteivel. Végigkövethetjük kitartó harcát a rettenetes börtönviszonyok, az embertelen börtönőrök, sőt az orosz elnök ellen, és megtudjuk, mit ér el egyetlen ember a rendszerrel szemben.
I Talk Too Much
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'THE ROCK 'N' ROLL AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR' MAIL ON SUNDAY
'Essential for fans and great reading for anyone else' Classic Rock
Break-ups, make-ups, groupies, band politics, court battles, the tragic death of Rick Parfitt . . . This is Francis Rossi as you have never seen him before.
Status Quo have sold over 100 million records worldwide, including 65 hit singles and 32 hit albums. The legendary band's career has mirrored the evolution of rock music. From the struggles of the flower-power '60s, the highs of the denim-clad '70s, the coke- and tequila-induced blur of the '80s, to fighting for musical integrity in the '90s and '00s and a fresh lease of life from new band members in recent years, Rossi has been there for the entirety of Quo's turbulent history.
In I Talk Too Much, Rossi will reveal the truth behind one of the biggest rock bands of all time, as well as the personal highs and lows of a career spanning over 50 years. He lifts the lid on the man behind the music - from humble beginnings in Forest Hill and being labelled a has-been by the press in his twenties to opening Live Aid in 1985 - and why he's still going strong at seventy. Along the way he has fathered eight children with three mothers and beaten both alcoholism and cocaine addiction. Rossi comes clean about the time he almost left the band, what he really thinks about the music industry today and the complexities of his fifty-year friendship with Rick Parfitt.
Painfully honest, riotously funny and frequently outrageous, I Talk Too Much covers the glory years, the dark days and the real stories behind the creation of some of the greatest rock music of all time.
Billie Eilish - 100% neoficiální
Billie Eilish niení jen současný popový fenomén, ale hlavně hlas mladé generace. Láme světové rekordy, vybočuje ze zaběhnutých kolejí a mění nejen hudební scénu a módu od základů. Objev všechno, co o ní prostě musíš vědět, a zjisti,j ak se vyvíjel její styl, co si myslí o slávě a s čím se musela v životě vyrovnat. Kde jinde než v ultimátním průvodci světem nejznámější teenagerky na planetě?
The Rolling Stones In the Beginning
NEW, EXPANDED EDITION CONTAINING NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN PHOTOGRAPHS.
In 1965 the Rolling Stones were big and about to be huge, when Bent Rej was given unprecedented access to a year in the eye of the rock 'n' roll storm, accompanying the band on its first full European outing: the Satisfaction tour.
The Rolling Stones In the Beginning is Rej's collection of more than 300 intimate photographs of the band on stage, on the road and at home, documenting a year in the life of the Rolling Stones as they enjoyed their first taste of popular success.
Long a fan favourite, this brand new edition offers an even closer look into the making of music history with images recently unearthed from Rej's archives.
William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll
William S. Burroughs's fiction and essays are legendary, but his influence on music's counterculture has been less well documented-until now. Examining how one of America's most controversial literary figures altered the destinies of many notable and varied musicians, William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll reveals the transformations in music history that can be traced to Burroughs.
A heroin addict and a gay man, Burroughs rose to notoriety outside the conventional literary world; his masterpiece, Naked Lunch, was banned on the grounds of obscenity, but its nonlinear structure was just as daring as its content. Casey Rae brings to life Burroughs's parallel rise to fame among daring musicians of the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, when it became a rite of passage to hang out with the author or to experiment with his cut-up techniques for producing revolutionary lyrics (as the Beatles and Radiohead did). Whether they tell of him exploring the occult with David Bowie, providing Lou Reed with gritty depictions of street life, or counseling Patti Smith about coping with fame, the stories of Burroughs's backstage impact will transform the way you see America's cultural revolution-and the way you hear its music.
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.
Wild Thing
Almost 50 years after his lonely death, Hendrix is the abiding symbol of musical genius cut tragically short. Wild Thing will be the first biography to bring together the splendour and sadness of his brief life, and to attempt to unravel the circumstances of his death.
Hendrix revolutionised classic rock, inventing a whole new vocabulary for the guitar. Onstage he pushed the boundaries of Sixties permissiveness, fellating the strings of the guitar with his tongue, lying it flat and straddling it, even setting fire to it. Yet in private he was polite, shy and sweet-natured. Norman will explore these contradictions in a narrative that takes us from Hendrix's roots in Seattle to his louche and glamorous life in Mayfair, when London was the world's most 'swinging' capital and then back to the US with the series of historic outdoor rock festivals that rounded out the decade.
Wild Thing will be a celebration of matchless artistry, and a gripping chronicle of those now mythical times. But it will also investigate the peculiar conditions of his death, part whodunnit as it tells the most cautionary of rock 'n' roll parables. After all these years of rumour and speculation, Jimi's ghost may finally be laid to rest.
Vojtěch Jasný - Filmař v exilu
Příběh posedlosti filmem
Filmový režisér a scenárista Vojtěch Jasný (1925—2019) proslul jako autor jednoho z legendárních děl československého filmového zázraku — baladické moravské kroniky Všichni dobří rodáci (1968). V reakci na sovětskou okupaci odešel do exilu a stal se filmovým kočovníkem západní Evropou a Severní Amerikou. Jeho filmografie čítá přes padesát titulů, z nichž větší část vznikla v zahraničí. Filmový básník domova prošel nesnadnou adaptací na cizí kulturní a produkční prostředí, jež přineslo posun od autorské umělecké režie k zakázkové průmyslové výrobě a rozšířilo jeho působnost o nové oblasti — televizi, dokument, divadlo a učení na filmových školách. Kniha vychází z původního archivního výzkumu a pracuje s konceptem vzájemného působení odborné studie a osobního svědectví. Nedílnou součástí publikace je obsáhlá fotografická a filmografická příloha.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This new critical biography provides a complete picture of German novelist, playwright and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The book offers fresh, thought-provoking interpretations of all the major works, including novels such as The Sorrows of Young Werther and The Elective Affinities, plays such as Egmont and Iphigenia in Tauris, and Goethe's greatest work, Faust. Alongside these works the incidents of his life are analysed, including his love affairs and his meetings with the great people of the age, such as Napoleon Bonaparte.
Jeremy Adler shows how Goethe's encyclopedic interest in many fields influenced later thinkers such as Charles Darwin and Sigmund Freud, Emile Durkheim and Susan Sontag. Goethe has often been called the last Renaissance man. This biography shows that Goethe was in fact the first of the moderns - a maker of modernity.
Bodrogi
Az ország egyik legnépszerűbb színészével és egyben munkatár!sával és régi barátjával beszélget Léner Péter, a József Attila Szín!ház egykori igazgatója, főrendezője, több színházi tárgyú könyv szerzője: színházról, családról, szerelemről, múltról és jelenről. Bodrogi Gyula életének legfontosabb szereplői is megszólalnak a kötetben, melyet ritkán látott színházi és családi fotók egészí!tenek ki.
David Bowies Diamond Dogs
After his breakthrough with Ziggy Stardust and before his U.S. pop hits "Fame" and "Golden Years" David Bowie produced a dark and difficult concept album set in a post-apocalyptic "Hunger City" populated by post-human "mutants." Diamond Dogs includes the great glam anthem "Rebel Rebel" and utterly unique songs that combine lush romantic piano and nearly operatic singing with scratching, grungy guitars, creepy, insidious noises, and dark, pessimistic lyrics that reflect the album's origins in a projected Broadway musical version of Orwell's 1984 and Bowie's formative encounter with William S. Burroughs.
In this book Glenn Hendler shows that each song on Diamond Dogs shifts the ground under you as you listen, not just by changing in musical style, but by being sung by a different "I" who directly addresses a different "you." Diamond Dogs is the product of a performer at the peak of his powers but uncomfortable with the rock star role he had constructed. All of the album's influences looked to Bowie like ways of escaping not just the Ziggy role, but also the constraints of race, gender, sexuality, and nationality. These are just some of the reasons many Bowie fans rate Diamond Dogs his richest and most important album of the 1970s.
Oblíbená hra
Leonarda Cohena zná celý svět především jako hudebníka a zpěváka; ne každý už však ví, že geniální kanadský písničkář měl původně literární ambice. Právě o tom vypráví jeho prvotina z roku 1963 silně autobiografický román Oblíbená hra, po němž Cohen o tři roky později vydal už jen knihu Nádherní poražení a svoji romanopiseckou dráhu uzavřel. Oblíbená hra je barevnou mozaikou sestávající z drobných epizod, které pojednávají o dospívání a raném mužném věku bohatého židovského mladíka z Montrealu jménem Breavman. Vzpomínky z dětství se prolínají s rozhovory s protagonistovou dívkou Shell, s líčením jeho vztahu s dlouholetým kamarádem Krantzem či matematickým maniakem a božím prosťáčkem Martinem. Ač mu všichni slouží jako inspirace na cestě k umění, na to, aby se stal umělcem, je musí nakonec opustit a vyrazit do světa na vlastní pěst.
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Jimmy Page - The Definitive Biography
Founder of one of the most influential and successful rock bands of all time, legendary Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page has nevertheless remained an enigma. In this definitive and comprehensive biography of his life so far, Chris Salewicz draws on his own interviews with Page and those closest around him to unravel the man behind the mystery.
Having sold over 300 million copies worldwide, Led Zeppelin was the biggest band of the '70s and has been loved by the legions ever since. From his own conversations with Jimmy, the rest of Led Zeppelin, old girlfriends, tour managers and session musicians to name but a few, Salewicz reveals the many trials and tribulations which transformed the middle class boy from the Surrey suburbs into one of rock's most enigmatic frontmen.
Detailed, thrilling and expertly researched, Salewicz discovers a man who was prepared to die for his art; who justified heroin use so he could harness its narcotic focus whilst making albums, and who overcame numerous death threats during this time. A warrior magician, Salewicz delves into the many skeletons and eccentricities in Page's closet, contextualising him against a background of London gangsters, deaths, and power struggles which Page has continued to rail against to this day, even within his own band.
As entertaining as it is insightful, and from a writer who experienced first-hand the Led Zeppelin furore, this promises to be as close to a Jimmy Page autobiography as fans can get.
TO LIVE IS TO DIE. Cliff Burton élete, halála és a Metallica hőskora
A Metallica mai formájában tökéletes, érett zenészek társasága, de ez nem volt mindig így. Ők is garázsbandaként kezdték, hogy lépésről lépésre jussanak egyre magasabbra, zenei fejlődésük motorja pedig az a Cliff Burton volt, aki kivételes basszusgitárosi és dalszerzői tehetségével húzta a csapatot feljebb és feljebb, a Kill ’Em All albumtól a Ride The Lightningon át a zenekar csúcsteljesítményéig, a Master Of Puppetsig. Cliff élete káprázatosan termékeny és tragikusan rövid volt, mindössze 24 évesen hunyt el, amikor a zenekar turnébusza felborult egy svéd hegyi úton. Halála után a Metallica világsztár lett, de saját bevallásuk szerint soha többé nem éltek meg annyira kreatív időszakot, mint karrierjük első négy évében. Cliff Burton kultusza évről évre nő, és számtalan (nem csak metálos) basszusgitáros hajt fejet munkássága előtt. Életrajzi könyve is sok százezer példányban kelt el, magyarul - a legutóbbi, javított és bővített kiadás alapján - most jelenik meg először.
Můj život s hudbou
Knižní vzpomínky Vladimíra Popelky (*1932) jsou jedinečným svědectvím o české hudbě posledních více než sedmdesáti let. Zvláště pak o hudbě populární jazzu, swingu a hlavně pop music. V této sféře působil Popelka v mnoha rolích, často v době historicky důležité a pozoruhodné, ať už jako jeden ze skladatelů a strůjců úspěchů pěveckého tria Vondráčková Kubišová Neckář, Golden Kids, na konci šedesátých let, dále jako hudební režisér Supraphonu s odpovědností nejenom za mnohé snímky špičkového Tanečního orchestru Československého rozhlasu (TOČRu), ale také například za classical rockové nahrávky Collegia musica klávesisty Mariána Vargy. V letech 1969 až 1972 Popelka jako aranžér odíval do slušivého kabátu hity Karla Svobody pro Karla Gotta, Evu Pilarovou, Hanu Zagorovou nebo Jiřího Korna. O několik let později stvořil zvuk Romantického klavíru Jiřího Maláska série elpíček, která se svým způsobem stala soundtrackem oné doby. Hudební i nehudební příběhy a historky Popelka vypráví poutavě, s odborným nadhledem a typickým humorem.
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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.
