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Tintabrava: El hombre que quería hacer cantar al mundo
By Ra l Castro Breccia. 2019
Raúl Castro dialoga en estas páginas con su álter ego Tintabrava, y de esa charla surge un relato hermoso y…
poético que repasa las alternativas de una vida luminosa. La historia de Tintabrava es también la nuestra. Es el Uruguay de los 60, el fútbol, los Beatles, el barrio y la murga. Es la militancia estudiantil y los veranos en Solymar. Es el territorio inolvidable de la niñez, los grandes amigos y los primeros amores. Es el trabajo en la fábrica, la cara pintada arriba de un tablado y el vagabundeo por el mundo con una guitarra a cuestas. Es la emoción que surge en cada paso del camino, donde victorias y fracasos se encuentran para enseñarnos la lección más importante, la que guardamos y transmitimos. Desde la niñez de juegos en la calle hasta un presente que plantea desafíos a cada paso, el camino de Tintabrava es el de la lucha por ideales que evolucionan con el tiempo pero siguen siendo los mismos en esencia. Es también un repaso por los hechos fundamentales de nuestra historia como país, contado desde el punto de vista del prójimo y comprometido con la cultura popular. Recorriendo estas páginas, los lectores nos sorprendemos al encontrarnos con personajes entrañables y situaciones memorables, en un territorio donde la imaginación y la realidad se funden para dar paso a la emoción. Esa misma emoción que transmite Tintabrava, "el hombre que quería hacer cantar al mundo", en sus versos.Fantasmas de luz: Crónicas malditas de márgenes y fronteras
By Enrique Symns. 2019
La noche y el lado oscuro de la vida narrados por su cronista más melancólico: Symns conoce los senderos que…
conducen al abismo. "Escribir es más importante que vivir, somos más lo que escribimos que lo que somos", me dijo una vez Enrique Symns. Y este libro lo demuestra. Aquí se reproducen crónicas inolvidables sobre territorios calientes: el Once mundano, el Soldati heavy, la noche después de Cromañón, los panaderos, los libreros y los buscadores de oro. Enrique mete el cuerpo y el alma en cada historia. Escucha y vive lo que le cuentan esos personajes extraviados de su universo: locos soñadores, sabios pistoleros, jóvenes con los ojos envenenados y miradas de araña, parias sin refugio, poetas malditos incurables. En tiempos en que las redacciones se volvieron grises oficinas y los periodistas cada vez salen menos a la calle a buscar historias, o pasan el día en las redes sociales, Symns nos invita a seguir soñando con el periodismo.Rodolfo Palacios «Nadie sale vivo de aquí, pero Symns tiene más vidas que un gato, y en este libro nos cuenta algunos instantes testigos de una poderosa mente, una poderosa alma.»Andrés Calamaro «Enrique fue el escritor más inmerso en un submundo pocas veces tan bien retratado como en sus relatos. Un ambiente de hampones baratos, de agonías subterráneas, de alucinaciones paranoicas y miedos totalitarios.»Indio Solari «Si Borges afirmó que todo periodista escribe para el olvido, desde ese ángulo sólo Symns sería la excepción. Porque fue y sigue yendo más allá de todo límite previsible, lo que me permite ubicarlo entre los grandes chamanes de esa nada absoluta de la que logramos huir gracias a seres como él.»Fernando Noy «En una casa tomada de Londres, en una villa en Río. Asesinos y poetas. Es lo mismo. Todos intentando decir algo y presos de la implacable cárcel del lenguaje. A por ellos y a no dejarse engañar. Nadie sabe nada. Salud, Enrique, a tu juego te han llamado. Y la próxima vuelta va por mi cuenta.»Fito Páez «Symns es un escritor; en este tiempo en que cualquier imbécil se autodenomina "artista" y los ejecutivos imprimen "creativo" en su tarjeta de negocios, Symns es un escritor. Y Symns, como todo escritor, se odia a sí mismo.»Jorge LanataBeastie Boys book
By Michael Diamond, Adam Horovitz. 2018
Formed as a New York City hardcore band in 1981, Beastie Boys struck an unlikely path to global hip hop…
superstardom. Adam "ADROCK" Horovitz and Michael "Mike D" Diamond offer revealing and very funny accounts of their transition from teenage punks to budding rappers. For more than thirty years, this band has had an inescapable and indelible influence on popular culture. Features a collection of voices reminiscent of your favorite mixtape. Bestseller. 2018.Rock `n´ Roll Radio Milwaukee: Stories from the Fifth Beatle
By Bob Barry. 2018
Bob Barry ruled Milwaukee's airwaves in the '60s and '70s. The only time the Beatles performed here, Barry introduced them…
to the audience, and he was the only local personality who spent time in private with the Fab Four. If a band or musician came to town, he met them with a microphone. Chuck Berry, the Animals, Wings, the Rolling Stones--the list goes on. His popular "Bob Barry Calls the World" segment entertained thousands with cold calls to famous personalities, including Bob Hope, Sophia Loren, Elton John and Cher. Through it all, Barry maintained a calm and fun-loving demeanor, even when mocked by the WOKY Chicken or nearly eaten by wolves on the air. Packed with never-before-seen photos, this revealing memoir recalls the iconic DJ's many celebrity encounters, his career highlights and setbacks and the hijinks that made Milwaukee radio rock.The Vamps: Official Book
By The Vamps. 2016
Since forming on YouTube in 2012, The Vamps have become one of the biggest bands in the UK. They have…
travelled the world with massive arena tours, sold hundreds of thousands of records, and gained legions of amazing and devoted fans. They have gone from schoolboys to superstardom in just a few years, and for the first time Connor, Brad, Tristan and James tell their story. From life on the road to dealing with their new-found fame, nothing is off-limits.Featuring exclusive behind-the-scenes photography, this is a fully-illustrated joint autobiography: the perfect book for any Vamps fan.Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music
By David N. Meyer. 2007
Born to a wealthy Southern-Gothic family of alcoholics and suicides, Gram Parsons possessed a genius for the American sound. He…
led the Byrds to create the first country-rock album and taught the joys of American roots music to Mick Jagger. His album, Grievous Angel, remains a haunting masterpiece, but before it was released, Parsons, aged twenty-six, died from a lethal mix of morphine and barbiturates. Author David N. Meyer paints an unprecedented portrait of the man who brought together country music and rock and roll. Masterfully told, Twenty Thousand Roadsis a dazzling evocation of an artist, his music and his times.Buffy Sainte-Marie: the authorized biography
By Andrea Warner. 2018
Folk hero. Songwriter icon. Living legend. Buffy Sainte-Marie is all of these things and more. In this, Sainte-Marie’s first and…
only authorized biography, music critic Andrea Warner draws from more than sixty hours of exclusive interviews to offer a powerful, intimate look at the life of the beloved artist and everything that she has accomplished in her seventy-seven years (and counting). Bestseller. 2018.Waiting to Derail: Ryan Adams and Whiskeytown, Alt-Country's Brilliant Wreck
By Thomas O'Keefe. 2018
Long before the Grammy nominations, sold-out performances at Carnegie Hall, and Hollywood friends and lovers, Ryan Adams fronted a Raleigh,…
North Carolina, outfit called Whiskeytown. Lumped into the burgeoning alt-country movement, the band soon landed a major label deal and recorded an instant classic: Strangers Almanac. That's when tour manager Thomas O'Keefe met the young musician. For the next three years, Thomas was at Ryan's side: on the tour bus, in the hotels, backstage at the venues. Whiskeytown built a reputation for being, as the Detroit Free Press put it, "half band, half soap opera," and Thomas discovered that young Ryan was equal parts songwriting prodigy and drunken buffoon. Ninety percent of the time, Thomas could talk Ryan into doing the right thing. Five percent of the time, he could cover up whatever idiotic thing Ryan had done. But the final five percent? Whiskeytown was screwed. Twenty-plus years later, accounts of Ryan's legendary antics are still passed around in music circles. But only three people on the planet witnessed every Whiskeytown show from the release of Strangers Almanac to the band's eventual breakup: Ryan, fiddle player Caitlin Cary, and Thomas O'Keefe. Packed with behind-the-scenes road stories, and, yes, tales of rock star debauchery, Waiting to Derail provides a firsthand glimpse into Ryan Adams at the most meaningful and mythical stage of his career.Sound Pictures: The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin, The Later Years, 1966–2016
By Kenneth Womack. 2018
More than anyone besides the bandmates themselves, George Martin was the man who created the unique sound of the Beatles.…
Sound Pictures offers a powerful and intimate account of how he did so. The second and final volume of the definitive biography of the man, Sound Pictures traces the story of the Beatles’ breathtaking artistic trajectory after reaching the creative heights of Rubber Soul. As the bandmates engage in brash experimentation both inside and outside the studio, Martin toils along with manager Brian Epstein to consolidate the Beatles’ fame in the face of growing sociocultural pressures, including the crisis associated with the “Beatles are more popular than Jesus” scandal. Meanwhile, he also struggles to make his way as an independent producer in the highly competitive world of mid-1960s rock ’n’ roll. As Martin and the Beatles create one landmark album after another, including such masterworks as Revolver, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles (The White Album), and Abbey Road, the internal stakes and interpersonal challenges become ever greater. During his post-Beatles years, Martin attempts to discover new vistas of sound recording with a host of acts, including Jeff Beck, America, Cheap Trick, Paul McCartney, and Elton John, his creative breakthroughs followed by unprecedented commercial success. Eventually, though, all roads bring Martin back to the Beatles, as the group seeks out new ways to memorialize their achievement under the supervision of the man who has come to be known as Sir George. Now, more than fifty years after the Beatles’ revolutionary triumphs, Martin’s singular stamp on popular music has become more vital than ever, as successive generations discover the magic of the Beatles and their groundbreaking sound.Gerardo Nieto: La música tropical en primera persona
By Carlos Hern ndez Grene. 2018
Biografía de la figura de Gerardo Nieto, el exponente y referente de la música tropical uruguaya, desde diversos ángulos. Gerardo…
Nieto es uno de los máximos exponentes y referentes de la música tropical en nuestro país. En estas páginas se hace un repaso por la trayectoria musical del cantante, en sus treinta años de carrera, que no deja de lado aspectos de su vida personal. A través de esta biografía, conoceremos en profundidad el nacimiento de Karibe con K, la orquesta tropical récord de los noventa, pero también el mundo de la música tropical uruguaya desde sus comienzos. Este libro invita a una mirada del género tropical distinta, y en especial a uno de sus protagonistas: Gerardo Nieto.Ma voie: mémoires
By Barbara Hendricks. 2010
" La petite fille aux pieds nus de l'Arkansas issue d'un monde " interdit aux Negroes " a conquis les…
plus grandes scènes internationales. Elle raconte son parcours hors du commun : son enfance, son travail avec Karajan, Bernstein, les coulisses de l'opéra, sa vie en France, ses missions dans les camps de réfugiés, ses rencontres avec Mitterrand, Clinton, Maria Callas, Aung San Suu Kyi. À travers ce destin de femme libre, de chanteuse, de militante et de mère, Barbara Hendricks a tracé sa voie. " -- 4e de couv. 2010.Sounds and sweet airs: the forgotten women of classical music
By Anna R Beer. 2016
Since the birth of classical music, those women who dared to compose have been patronised, had their sex lives scrutinised…
and the veracity of their authorship questioned. 'Sounds and Sweet Airs' reveals the hidden stories of eight remarkable composers, taking the reader on a journey from 17th-century Medici Florence to London in the Blitz. Revealing not just the lives and works of eight exceptional artists, historian Anna Beer also asks tough questions about the silencing of their legacy, which continues to this day. 2016.Beethoven: the man revealed
By John Suchet. 2017
John Suchet shows us the man behind the music in this biography of Ludwig van Beethoven. He reveals a difficult…
and complex character, struggling to continue his profession as a musician despite increasing deafness. Alienating friends with unprovoked outbursts of anger one moment, overwhelming them with excessive kindness and generosity the next, living in a city in almost constant disarray because of war with France - this is the real Beethoven, and Suchet brings him to life. 2017.Je suis faite comme ça: [mémoires]
By Juliette Gréco. 2012
Juliette Gréco se livre et se souvient. Les cafés au Flore avec son ami Maurice Merleau-Ponty et les soirées en…
compagnie de Boris Vian ; ses premiers essais au théâtre, les concerts dans des salles mythiques, de Bobino à l'Olympia, et la conquête de l'Amérique... Sans détour, elle évoque les meurtrissures de son emprisonnement à Fresnes, la déportation de sa soeur et de sa mère mais aussi les rencontres inoubliables qui changeront sa vie - Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Prévert, Queneau, Gainsbourg, Sagan... Juliette Gréco raconte ses révoltes et ses engagements, refusant de se parodier et de s'enfermer dans le mythe. C'est une femme vivante, qui, en dépit de son goût du secret, se prête ici, avec élégance, au jeu des souvenirs. 2011, c2012.Whitney Houston: une vie fabuleuse et tragique
By Mark Bego, Jean-Louis Morgan. 2012
Whitney Houston a été l'une des vedettes les plus influentes des trente dernières années. Ses grands succès musicaux, qui comprennent…
Saving All My Love for You, I Wanna Dance with Somebody et I Will Always Love You, ont été la trame sonore de toute une génération. Ses rôles au cinéma, dans des films tels que The Bodyguard (Le garde du corps), Waiting to Exhale (Où sont les hommes ?) et The Preacher's Wife (La femme du pasteur), ont fait d'elle un véritable phénomène planétaire. Sa mort soudaine à l'âge de quarante-huit ans a mis le monde entier en état de choc. 2012. Titre uniforme: Whitney Houston!Mystérieux Mozart
By Philippe Sollers. 2001
Ghost of a Chance: A Memoir
By Peter Duchin, Charles Michener. 1996
“The story of [Peter] Duchin’s life has an elegiac aura of glamour and tragedy that might have come directly from…
the imagination of F. Scott Fitzgerald.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “This book brings back marvelous memories of a very special time.”—Frank Sinatra Called “a living compendium of a hundred years of social history” by The New York Times Book Review, Peter Duchin has lived through tremendous highs and dismal lows. Orphaned by his glamorous parents, the Newport debutante Marjorie Oelrichs and the famous bandleader Eddy Duchin, he was raised in the privileged, old-money world of Averell Harriman, the diplomat and former governor of New York. He grew up to be one of America’s preeminent bandleaders, effortlessly entertaining and charming partygoers at thousands of society galas, from the White House to Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball. In Ghost of a Chance, he looks back on a life that another man may not have survived. And as he relates the frank, often surprising recollections of the many friends and famous figures who made up the strange family of his youth, Duchin chronicles the changing face of social life in America. Praise for Ghost of a Chance “A tale told with wit and charm . . . It is a sprightly, engaging, and at times hilarious look back at a life spent in music, show business, and what used to be called society.”—The Boston Globe“A bittersweet gem of a book.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer“Peter Duchin’s glamorous story is about absent fathers, surrogate mothers, and dwelling on the edges of money and power in a tuxedoed world.”—Gay Talese“A great read.”—Frank SinatraRock Diary: U2
By Dafydd Rees, Luke Crampton. 2011
Rock Diary: U2 is a unique, chronological, day-by-day, month-by-month and year-by-year history documenting the complete history of one of the…
most successful rock groups of all time. This definitive factual story is the ultimate biographical timeline of Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr., from their earliest days performing as Feedback in Dublin in 1976 to their latter-day triumphs as the most successful touring act in the world. Every challenge and triumph, recording sessions and tours, music videos, television, film and radio appearances, all UK and US singles and albums chart and gold/platinum sales achievements, every major award ever won, all solo side projects - all are included in this highly-detailed, comprehensive rock diary. Simply the best value for the complete history - and backstory - of this iconic band. This is the seventh volume in the unrivaled Rock Diary series which also includes individual, comprehensive biographies on all the rock greats including Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, the Beatles, Coldplay, Pink Floyd, Lady Gaga - even Spinal Tap.Rock Diary: The Rolling Stones
By Dafydd Rees, Luke Crampton. 2011
Rock Diary: The Rolling Stones is a unique, chronological, day-by-day, month-by-month and year-by-year history documenting the complete life and career…
of rock music's most enduring and timeless group. This definitive factual story is the ultimate biographical timeline of the legendary band from the very first meeting of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards as teenagers, through its groundbreaking musical peaks and lineup changes in the '60s, '70s and '80s, to its position today as a quartet cornerstone of popular culture. Every triumph, and tragedy (and drug bust), essential recording sessions and tours, television, film and radio appearances, music videos, all UK and US singles and albums chart and gold/platinum sales achievements, every major award ever won, all solo side projects - all are included in this highly-detailed, comprehensive rock diary. Simply the best value for the complete history - and backstory - of this iconic band. This is the fifth volume in the unrivaled Rock Diary series which also includes individual, comprehensive biographies on all the rock greats including Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, the Beatles, Coldplay, U2, Lady Gaga - even Spinal Tap.Rock Diary: Elvis Presley
By Dafydd Rees, Luke Crampton. 2011
Rock Diary: Elvis Presley is a unique, chronological, day-by-day, month-by-month and year-by-year history documenting the complete history of the most…
popular performer of the rock era. This definitive factual story is the ultimate biographical timeline of The King - from his earliest blue collar days in Tupelo, Mississippi and Memphis, to his unmatched rise to lead the freshman class of rock 'n' roll, from his film career in Hollywood to his astonishing live comeback, and his subsequent sad decline and death. Also a continuing, detailed timeline on the events and triumphs which make up Presley's extraordinary legacy, right up to the present day. Every Elvis fact, each recording session and tour, television, film and radio appearances, all US and UK singles and albums chart and gold/platinum sales achievements, every major award, his personal highs and lows and family life - all are included in this detailed, comprehensive rock diary. Simply the best value for the complete history - and backstory - of this iconic star. This is the second volume in the unrivaled Rock Diary series which also includes individual, comprehensive biographies on all the rock greats including Buddy Holly, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Coldplay, U2, Lady Gaga - even Spinal Tap.