Najnovšie - Biografie - Životopisy - Film, hudba strana 44 z 47
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Face the Music
"Říkají mi, že napsat tak otevřenou knihu chtělo hodně odvahy, jenže já ji psal, protože jsem se potřeboval zamyslet nad svým životem. Vím, že každý někde v mé knížce zahlédne sám sebe, a to, kam ho můj příběh může zavést, je důvod, proč se o něj dělím." Paul Stanley Inspirativní biografie jedné z nejtrvalejších rockových ikon začíná v již 50. a 60. letech minulého století, v době, která byla pro Paula Stanleyho traumatizující a bolestná i kvůli vrozené vadě zvané mikrotie - budoucí frontman skupiny KISS vyrůstal pouze s jedním uchem, byl tedy zčásti neslyšící. Nelehké okolnosti v něm však vzbudily vnitřní touhu uspět v tom nejnepravděpodobnějším oboru: v hudbě. Stanleyho vzpomínky, doplněné dosud nepublikovanými fotografiemi, jsou plnohodnotným a neúprosným portrétem rockové hvězdy. Kytarista a zpěvák zde odhaluje neuvěřitelné vzestupy a stejně neuvěřitelné pády ve svém životě i v kapele. Syrově popisuje bouřlivou dynamiku svých osobních vztahů v uplynulých čtyřech desetiletích. Kronika příběhů skrývajících se za slavnými skladbami je v českém vydání knihy rozšířena o barevnou fotografickou přílohu z koncertů, které skupina KISS odehrála v Čechách v letech 2008-2023.
Brooke Shields is Not Allowed to Get Old
Brooke Shields has spent a lifetime in the public eye. Growing up as a child actor and model, her every feature was scrutinised, her every decision judged. Today Brooke faces a different kind of scrutiny: that of being a 'woman of a certain age'.
And yet, for Brooke, the passage of time has brought freedom. At fifty-nine, she feels more comfortable in her skin, more empowered and confident than she did decades ago in those famous Calvin Kleins. Now, in Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old, she's changing the narrative about women and ageing.
This is an era, insists Brooke, when women are reclaiming agency and power, not receding into the shadows. These are the years when we get to decide how we want to live - when we get to write our own stories.
With remarkable candour, Brooke bares all, painting a vibrant and optimistic picture of being a woman in the prime of her life, while dismantling the myths that have, for too long, dimmed that perception. Sharing her own life experiences with humour and humility, and weaving together research and reporting, Brooke takes aim at the systemic factors that contribute to age-related bias.
By turns inspiring, moving, and galvanising, Brooke's honesty and vulnerability will resonate with women everywhere, and spark a new conversation about the power and promise of midlife.
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Dávné znění / Klopýtání s Gustavem Mahlerem I. + II.
Gustav Mahler je hudební skladatel, který stojí na důležitém předělu mezi tradiční a novou hudbou, konkrétně mezi tonální a atonální kompoziční technikou. Přišel s mnoha novinkami, zůstával však ještě spjat s minulostí – jeho ideálem byl Richard Wagner. Díky původu v inspirativním prostředí jedné z rakouských provincií, kde se mísily vlivy české, židovské a německé kultury, získal Mahler dar neobyčejné citlivosti, která mu umožňovala tušit budoucí zlomy a hrozby a ty intuitivně vkládat do svých děl. To bylo důvodem, proč mu často současníci nerozuměli a proč on sám věděl, že jeho hudba bude pochopena až za padesát let, jak jednou poznamenal. Oblouk, který takto sevřel komplikovaný vývoj nové doby od Gustava Mahlera až po dobu dnešní je v mnoha ohledech plný zajímavých problémů, které se bezprostředně týkají i nás. To poskytuje příležitost podívat se na Mahlerovu tvorbu v širším měřítku, a to s ohledy filosofickými, kulturními a duchovními spíše než úzce muzikologickými. Nabízejí se zde ke konfrontaci otázky po povaze přírody a po našem přístupu k ní v současné technické epoše, po možnostech užívání jazyka k jejímu popisu, po zbožnosti v době vyprázdněných náboženství, po společenských či politických důsledcích lidského jednání, po reakcích na zrod a zánik moderny, po požadavcích na nový styl komponování či myšlení, po osobním vyrovnávání se s podněty složité doby.
Kniha je v českém prostředí první takto komplexně pojatou monografií o Gustavu Mahlerovi.
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Cher: The Memoir, Part One (Paperback)
THERE IS ONLY ONE CHER …
… and for seven decades she has been showing us why. Cher holds the attention of the world with her voice, her acting, her style, her wit and her unstoppable spirit. Now, for the first time, she tells her story in her own voice - as honest as it is hilarious, as powerful as it is perceptive.
Cher's childhood was anything but normal. As her mother Georgia - blessed with movie-star looks and a knockout voice - moved them around the country over and again in the hope of finding fame, her school life wasn't straightforward. But she always knew she was going to be somebody when she grew up.
Cher's powerful instinct to keep moving eventually landed her in the arms of Sonny Bono. The duo became famous beyond their wildest dreams, from humble beginnings singing backup in Phil Spector's studio through to pop stardom as Sonny and Cher, and then on to the television show that made them household names. But as time passed, fame changed the dynamic of their relationship and Cher evolved from a wide-eyed teenager into a woman. She started fighting for herself, breaking away from Sonny's control - and realising that things were not as they seemed.
Taking risks, making headlines, falling in love, Cher struggled and stumbled while trying to become her own woman. Cher: The Memoir, Part One brings us to the brink of her next chapter, as she begins to chart her own path, finally claiming her rightful place in the world and becoming CHER.
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Dokumentarista
V rukou držíte nejen autorský životopis dokumentaristy, publicisty a spisovatele Martina Mahdala, ale také jedinečné svědectví o tom, jak v České republice vznikají (či spíše často nevznikají) dokumentární filmy. Autor v knize vzpomíná na své autorské začátky, na spolupráci s Českou televizí i na období, kdy hledal své uplatnění na volné noze. Přitom zde připomíná řadu zajímavých osobností, s nimiž měl možnost se setkat, a zároveň přibližuje i některé nepříjemné záležitosti, na které při své tvorbě narazil. Výjimkou mezi nimi nebyly ani korupce a zejména cenzura nebo čistá nechuť oficiálních míst respektovat některé události a problémy na veřejnosti.
Dokumentarista je další ze série knih Martina Mahdala v Olympii, která se opírá o jeho zkušenosti dokumentaristy. Volně tak navazuje na dokumentární publikaci Zákon pěti klasů (Olympia, 2022) a především na knihu Devadesátky (Olympia, 2023), ve které autor přiblížil své tvrdě zaplacené zkušenosti z porevolučního podnikání coby jedna z obětí Berdychova gangu. Stejně jako u předchozích knih mu i při přípravě Dokumentaristy byla nápomocna jeho kolegyně producentka Markéta Adamcová.
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Brothers
In this intimate and open account - nothing like any rock-and-roll memoir you've ever read - Alex Van Halen shares his personal story of family, friendship, music and brotherly love in a remarkable tribute to his beloved brother and band mate.
'A remarkable memoir' Classic Rock
'A highly emotional read' Guardian
In his rough yet sweet voice, Alex recounts the brothers' childhood, first in the Netherlands and then in working class Pasadena, California, with an itinerant musician father and a very proper Indonesian-born mother - the kind of mum who admonished her boys to "always wear a suit" no matter how famous they became - a woman who was both proud and practical, nonchalant about taking a doggie bag from a star-studded dinner. He also shares tales of musical politics, infighting, and plenty of bad-boy behaviour. But mostly his is a story of brotherhood, music, and enduring love.
"I was with him from day one," Alex writes. "We shared the experience of coming to America and figuring out how to fit in. We shared a record player, an 800 square foot house, a mom and dad, and a work ethic. Later, we shared the back of a tour bus, alcoholism, the experience of becoming famous, of becoming fathers and uncles, and of spending more hours in the studio than I've spent doing anything else in this life. We shared a depth of understanding that most people can only hope to achieve in a lifetime."
There has never been an accurate account of them or the band, and Alex wants to set the record straight on Edward's life and death.
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Sonny Boy - A Memoir
From one of the most iconic actors in the history of film, an astonishingly revelatory account of a creative life in full.
To the wider world, Al Pacino exploded onto the scene like a supernova. He landed his first leading role, in The Panic in Needle Park, in 1971, and by 1975, he had starred in four movies?The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, Serpico, and Dog Day Afternoon?that were not just successes but landmarks in the history of film. Those performances became legendary and changed his life forever. Not since Marlon Brando and James Dean in the late 1950s had an actor landed in the culture with such force.
But Pacino was in his mid thirties by then, and had already lived several lives. A fixture of avant-garde theater in New York, he had led a bohemian existence, working odd jobs to support his craft. He was raised by a fiercely loving but mentally unwell mother and her parents after his father left them when he was young, but in a real sense he was raised by the streets of the South Bronx, and by the troop of buccaneering young friends he ran with, whose spirits never left him. After a teacher recognized his acting promise and pushed him toward New York’s fabled High School of Performing Arts, the die was cast. In good times and bad, in poverty and in wealth and in poverty again, through pain and joy, acting was his lifeline, its community his tribe.
Sonny Boy is the memoir of a man who has nothing left to fear and nothing left to hide. All the great roles, the essential collaborations, and the important relationships are given their full due, as is the vexed marriage between creativity and commerce at the highest levels. The book’s golden thread, however, is the spirit of love and purpose. Love can fail you, and you can be defeated in your ambitions?the same lights that shine bright can also dim. But Al Pacino was lucky enough to fall deeply in love with a craft before he had the foggiest idea of any of its earthly rewards, and he never fell out of love. That has made all the difference.
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Walking Disaster (Paperback)
This candid memoir of punk rock, fame, and endurance from Deryck Whibley, lead singer of Sum 41, follows Whibley's rise from a punk kid in Canada to an international star.
From his earliest days as a kid in Canada, Deryck Whibley was a punk who loved music and couldn't wait to achieve something bigger and better than the humble path that lay before him. Raised by a single mom and constantly moving from place to place, Deryck was used to being the new kid, starting fights (or finishing them), and finding friends who shared his sensibility for chaotic fun and loud music. Sum 41 was born of a group of friends who loved to jam, shared a DIY ethos, and were determined to be rock stars one day.
Walking Disaster is Deryck's story, but it is also the untold story of Sum 41. Deryck takes you backstage, into the recording booth, and through the highest highs and lowest lows of the band whose story is inextricably woven with his own.
With his insightful, earnest, and genuine voice, Deryck gets real about fame, fortune, and the music industry. From winning at the MTV Video Music Awards, being nominated for a Grammy, his high-profile relationships and friendships, contending with invasive paparazzi, and suffering from health issues that brought him to the brink, Deryck offers a forthright and unforgettable memoir.
Walking Disaster
This candid memoir of punk rock, fame, and endurance from Deryck Whibley, lead singer of Sum 41, follows Whibley's rise from a punk kid in Canada to an international star.
From his earliest days as a kid in Canada, Deryck Whibley was a punk who loved music and couldn't wait to achieve something bigger and better than the humble path that lay before him. Raised by a single mom and constantly moving from place to place, Deryck was used to being the new kid, starting fights (or finishing them), and finding friends who shared his sensibility for chaotic fun and loud music. Sum 41 was born of a group of friends who loved to jam, shared a DIY ethos, and were determined to be rock stars one day.
Walking Disaster is Deryck's story, but it is also the untold story of Sum 41. Deryck takes you backstage, into the recording booth, and through the highest highs and lowest lows of the band whose story is inextricably woven with his own.
With his insightful, earnest, and genuine voice, Deryck gets real about fame, fortune, and the music industry. From winning at the MTV Video Music Awards, being nominated for a Grammy, his high-profile relationships and friendships, contending with invasive paparazzi, and suffering from health issues that brought him to the brink, Deryck offers a forthright and unforgettable memoir.
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The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A Goodreads Choice Awards Winner
“Come for the Gilmore Girls anecdotes, stay for the revealing truths about what it takes to build a lifelong career in and out of Hollywood” (The A.V. Club) in this candid and captivating memoir from award-winning and beloved actress Kelly Bishop, spanning her six decades in show business from A Chorus Line, Dirty Dancing, Gilmore Girls, and much more.
Kelly Bishop’s long, storied career has been defined by landmark achievements, from winning a Tony Award for her turn in the original Broadway cast of A Chorus Line to her memorable performance as Jennifer Grey’s mother in Dirty Dancing. But it is probably her iconic role as matriarch Emily in the modern classic Gilmore Girls that cemented her legacy.
Now, Bishop reflects on her remarkable life and looks towards the future with The Third Gilmore Girl. She shares some of her greatest stories and the life lessons she’s learned on her journey. From her early transition from dance to drama, to marrying young to a compulsive gambler, to the losses and achievements she experienced—among them marching for women’s rights and losing her second husband to cancer—Bishop offers a rich, genuine celebration of her life.
Full of witty insights and featuring a special collection of personal and professional photographs, The Third Gilmore Girl is a warm, unapologetic, and spirited memoir from a woman who has left indelible impressions on her audiences for decades and has no plans on slowing down.
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Skandální Sarah
Kniha sleduje závratnou kariéru a bouřlivý osobní život proslulé herečky Sarah Bernhardtové. K jejím přátelům patřily největší osobnosti francouzské intelektuální elity té doby, jako byl Théophile Gautier, Gustave Doré či Victor Hugo. Postavila se po boku Émila Zoly v Dreyfusově aféře, za první světové války pořádala vystoupení pro vojáky na frontě a až do své smrti diktovala pravidla společenského života. Příběh této světoznámé legendy je zároveň i barvitou historií zlaté éry přelomu 19. a 20. století.
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Avicii: The life and music of Tim Bergling
ow can you tell when a new star is born?
When Tim Bergling, better known as Avicii, struck an iconic pose with his arm in the air, he did more than get the crowd to dance - he redefined electronic music. This official photo book pays tribute to Tim Bergling's musical career and traces his life in almost 200 images from his childhood to some of his biggest gigs, including rare personal moments behind the scenes.
During his short life, Avicii became one of the biggest stars of his time. He began his career at the age of 16 by posting remixes on internet forums, which eventually led him to sign with a record label. His breakthrough came in 2011 with the song Levels, which became an international super hit. He staged more than 800 concerts all over the world and worked with stars including Madonna, Coldplay, Lenny Kravitz and Robbie Williams. When he died in 2018 at the age of 28, he had forever changed the musical landscape.
The book also includes an essay written by Mans Mosesson, the official biographer of Tim Bergling.
Under A Rock
At its heart, Under A Rock is a love story. The codependent bond between Chris Stein and Debbie Harry carried Blondie through their many tribulations: terribly misogynistic music scenes, greasy record execs, bitter band mates, gruelling schedules, and hard drug abuse abound, and Chris lays it all bare with blunt sincerity and humour. Ultimately, Chris and Debbie broke up, but their bond never dissipated; they remain closest of friends, and continue to tour and promote their various projects together to this day.
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Stray Kids - Here to STAY
Get to know K-Pop's reigning superstars!
With phenomenal talent and an edgy yet anthemic sound, Stray Kids have topped the Billboard charts, won over fans across the world, and proven they are here to STAY!
This new book, featuring dozens of full-color photos, is a vibrant celebration of Bang Chan, Lee Know, Changbin, Hyunjin, Han, Felix, Seungmin, and I.N. Explore their diverse musical influences while getting to know the band’s individual singers, rappers, dancers, and producers.
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Rebel Girl
An electric, searing memoir by the original riot grrrl and legendary frontwoman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre.
Hey girlfriend I got a proposition, goes something like this: Dare ya to do what you want.
Kathleen Hanna’s rallying cry to feminists echoed far and wide through the punk scene of the 1980s, ’90s, and beyond. Her band, Bikini Kill, embodies this iconic time, and today their gutsy, radical lyrics of anthems like ‘Rebel Girl’ and ‘Double Dare Ya’ are more powerful than ever. But where did this transformative voice come from?
In Rebel Girl, Hanna’s raw and insightful new memoir, she takes us from her tumultuous childhood home, to her formative college years in Olympia, Washington, and on to her first years on tour, fighting hard for gigs and for her band. As Hanna makes blindingly clear, being in a ‘girl band’, especially a punk girl band, in those years was not a simple or a safe prospect. Male violence and antagonism threatened at every turn, and surviving as a singer who was a lightening rod for controversy took limitless amounts of determination.
But the relationships she developed during those years buoyed her – including with her bandmates Tobi Vail, Kathi Wilcox, and Billy Karren; her friendship with Kurt Cobain; and her introduction to Joan Jett – and they were a testament to how the true punk world nurtured and cared for its own.Hanna opens up about falling in love with Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys and her debilitating battle with Lyme disease, and she brings us behind the scenes of her later bands, Le Tigre and The Julie Ruin.
She also writes candidly about the Riot Grrrl movement and its decline, documenting with love its grassroots origins but critiquing its later exclusivity.In an uncut voice all her own, Hanna reveals the darkest, hardest times along with the most joyful – and how it all fuelled her revolutionary art, from the 1980s to today.
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My My!
On the fiftieth anniversary of Waterloo the song, not the battle - one super-fan sits down to listen to the ABBA Gold album from start to finish, looking back over the half-century he has spent in the company of ABBA's music, and attempting to unlock the secrets of its hold on him and on all of us.
Partly a highly personal work of musical criticism, partly a history ABBA told throughcolourfulvignettes, and partly the record of Giles time spent trampling around damply in Sweden,braving the hardcore fans on ABBA Day in the Netherlands and somewhat reluctantly attendinga sing-along screening Mamma Mia, this is Giles mission to get to the very heart of ABBA. Starting out in the glam rock Seventies, its pages will inevitably contain possibly unwise quantities of satin and Spandex, and also descriptions of *trigger warning*cat dresses.
Nineteen tracks yield nineteen chapters, from ';Dancing Queen' to ';Knowing Me, Knowing You', to ';Take A Chance on Me', and onwards, eventually circling back (as all roads from ABBA eventually do) to ';Waterloo', the album's final track. For Giles Smith, listening to each song gives rise to thoughts on pop music and the ways it attaches itself to us (and we to it), autobiographical reflections on the times, and ruminations on ABBA themselves - their story, their phenomenon, and the evolution of their presence in our lives.
It's a book about growing old, and the things that never do. And it's a book about fashion, snobbery, authenticity, critical judgement, the passage of time and the triumphant ability of truly great pop music to transcend all of those things forever.But it's also a book about the development of one of popsgreatest and best-loved albums,and an unabashed tribute to the power of a major-to-minor modulation and a well-placed glissando.
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Down With the System
The incredible first memoir by System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian
With nearly 40 million record sales, three albums topping the Billboard charts, a Grammy win and a legion of fans, System Of A Down are one of the biggest metal bands on the planet. At their core has always been Serj Tankian, whose journey from the streets of Beirut to rock superstardom is as remarkable and unlikely as you'll get.
By dint of luck, circumstance, struggle, and more than a little talent, Serj has had the chance to live an extraordinary life. In Down With the System, he retraces this remarkable and unlikely journey, and explores what it's taught him - about music, about art, about activism, and about himself. From teaming up with Tom Morello to push social justice causes on unsuspecting metalheads, arguing with LAPD officers over the best way to quell his rioting fans, and traveling with Anthony Bourdain through Armenia one meal at a time, Down With the System is an immigrant's tale, an activist's awakening, and rock memoir unlike any other.
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Iveta - Fotografie tvořené s láskou
„V ateliéru mi vyprávěla o střípcích svých dnů a já jsem naslouchal a fotografoval.“ Miloš Schmiedberger
Autor knihy, známý fotograf a blízký přítel Ivety Bartošové, sdílí vzpomínky na jejich společné roky. Publikace je doplněna o desítky dosud nepublikovaných fotografií, které zachycují Ivetu v různých obdobích jejího života.
Čtenář se tak může ponořit do nitra zpěvačky a prožít s ní její radosti i strasti. Autor se zaměřuje na Ivetinu osobnost, její sny a touhy, a snaží se přiblížit čtenáři, jaká Iveta skutečně byla.
Kniha je určena všem fanouškům Ivety Bartošové, ale i těm, které zajímá příběh talentované ženy, s níž osud nemilosrdně zacházel.
All You Need Is Love
All You Need is Love is a ground-breaking oral history of the Beatles and how it all came to an end. Based on never-before-published or heard interviews with Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and their families, friends, and business associates, this is a landmark book, containing stunning new revelations, about the biggest band the world has ever seen.
In 1980-1981 former COO of Apple Corp, Peter Brown and author Steven Gaines interviewed everyone in the Beatles' inner circle and included a small portion of the transcripts in their international bestselling book The Love You Make, which spent four months on the New York Times bestseller list. But left in their archives was a treasure trove of unique and candid interviews that they chose not to publish, until now. A powerful work assembled through honest, intimate, sometimes contradictory and always fascinating testimony, All You Need is Love is a one-of-a-kind insight into the final days, weeks, months and years of the Beatles phenomenon.
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21,95 €
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.
