Composers & Musicians 9

Are you the world’s biggest One Direction fan? Do you know everything there is to know about the world’s best-loved boy band? Then this is the book for you! In this easy-to-digest eBook are 101 fact……続きを見る

“Honest and moving . . . Her painful tale is engrossing.”ーWashington Post Book World For most of us, it was just another horrible headline. But for Deborah Spungen, the mother of Nancy, who was sta……続きを見る

“I’m doing what I believe I was brought to this world to do: to create music that raises awareness, renews hearts, and generates change. I’ll continue looking to the stars and traveling the globe as……続きを見る

Drawing on interviews with his closest collaborators, Tom Charity's critical biography explores the pain and perseverance of Cassavetes, widely known as a passionate and charismatic film director an……続きを見る

Christophe Sirkis rend hommage à son frère Stéphane. Une silhouette floue dans les contours d’une guitare. Ce n’est plus un enfant, pas encore un adolescent. Il marche regard baissé, dos à la……続きを見る

Morrissey & Marr: The Severed Alliance is among the most successful and controversial rock biographies ever published. Having denounced the book and called for the death of its author Johnny Rog……続きを見る

Dies ist die weltweit meistverkaufte Biografie Syd Barretts, des legendären Gründers von Pink Floyd, der nach einer nur allzu kurzen Karriere zum Idol wurde. Sie beruht auf jahrelangen Recherchen un……続きを見る

Arguably the most important popular British composer of the 20th century, John Barry (1933-2011) enjoyed a career that spanned over fifty years, in which time he won five Academy Awards for pictures……続きを見る

The living embodiment of The Beatles and a musical juggernaut without parallel, Paul McCartney is the patriarch of pop. Ahead of McCartney’s 80th birthday and Glastonbury headline set, acclaimed aut……続きを見る

From the ABC's iconic music show, 'rage', comes a rock biography about what happened when the world's biggest musical acts sat down on Australia's most famous couch. Packed with backstage anecdotes ……続きを見る

**Funny, honest, brilliant and opinionated, A Drink with Shane MacGowan is the highly-acclaimed memoir of a true music icon. 'One of the freshest, most original biographies I've ever read' - Lynne B……続きを見る

Canadian composer Louis Applebaum devoted his life to the cultural awakening of his native land, and this "magnificent obsession" drove him to become a founder of the Canadian League of Composers an……続きを見る

This edition features a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS (abridged list) VOLUME I. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION. PROEM. POLAND AND THE PO……続きを見る

Married to Jay-Z, mother of Ivy Blue and seller of over 75 million records worldwide, Beyoncé has achieved world fame at only 31. She has been part of a sell-out girl band, acted in blockbuster movi……続きを見る

Wynonna Judd has a smile like Elvis Presley’s, a voice comparable to Patsy Cline’s, and a vocal style that’s (almost) all her own. Onstage, she shares the music and the limelight with her Kentucky-b……続きを見る

Mozart's remarkable life was well and richly documented in letters: his own and those concerning him written by others. This volume brings together a fascinating selection, giving us a detailed port……続きを見る

Many people will know something about the life of Lutosławski , but few know anything about Lutosławski the man. In this record of a unique series of conversations which took place in March 1973, Ba……続きを見る

To say Garth Brook is a superstar is a major understatement. Brooks is the best selling solo artist in history with more than 130 million albums sold worldwide. Since he released his debut album in ……続きを見る

For the first time ever, Bono--the biggest rock star in the world--tells his life story. In a series of intimate conversations with his friend Michka Assayas, a music journalist who has been with th……続きを見る

It's the 1980s and the rock landscape is littered with massive hair, synthesizers, and monster riffs, but there is an alternative being born in the sleepy East of America-we just don't know it yet. ……続きを見る

These intimate memoirs of one of the greatest composers of classical music, Ethel Smyth, are first-hand accounts of the remarkable woman’s life in music and in the suffragette movement. Ethel Smyth ……続きを見る

Carter and Ralph Stanley--the Stanley Brothers--are comparable to Bill Monroe and Flatt & Scruggs as important members of the earliest generation of bluegrass musicians. In this first biography of t……続きを見る

Brigid Brophy first published her passionate, profoundly original Mozart the Dramatist in 1964, revisiting it subsequently in 1988. Organised by theme, the text offers brilliant readings of Mozart's……続きを見る

Canned Heat's Story of Music, Drugs, Death, Sex and Survival 続きを見る

Gustav Holst was a leading figure in the new age of English music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His most celebrated work, The Planets, is an orchestral tour de force, but he wrote music……続きを見る

In the months before she died, Florence Ballard, the spunky teenager who founded the most successful female vocal group in history-the Supremes-told her own side of the story. Recorded on tape, Flo ……続きを見る

Glenn Gould, one of the world’s most renowned classical musicians of the twentieth century, was also known as an eccentric geniusーsolitary, headstrong, a hypochondriac virtuoso. Abandoning stage pe……続きを見る

Every time I sing a song, I'm actually making love on stage. Call me 'The Boudoir Singer,' or so claimed Frank Sinatra. The crooner's career spanned more than half a century, earning him millions of……続きを見る

I Know This Much – by Gary Kemp, Spandau Ballet's prime mover – is simply the freshest, most exciting and best-written memoir to arrive for years. Gary's story begins in North London, where the Kemp……続きを見る

Queen is the landmark biography of the brief, intensely lived life and soulful music of the great Dinah Washington. A gospel star at fifteen, she was discovered by jazz great Lionel Hampton at eigh……続きを見る