Biography: arts and entertainment

'The thought behind this book is not just me wanting to tell my story in the standard autobiographical fashion but to create a kind of self-help book that includes my story.

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The Complete Verse of No l Coward brings together the three volumes of verse produced during his lifetime together with previously unpublished material for the very first time.

He was a trailblazing twentieth-century British photojournalist but George Rodger lived in the adventurous tradition of nineteenth-century explorers.

For decades, the Gabor dynasty was the epitome of glamour and fairy tale success.

When Brian Johnston was a schoolboy, his reports were full of phrases such as 'talks too much in school' and 'apt to be a buffoon'.

How might we see ourselves more clearly?

An NPR Best Book of the YearWinner of the Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music CriticismThis is the best book about the Beatles ever written Mashable Rob Sheffield, the Rolling Stone columnist and bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape offers an entertaining, unconventional look at the most popular band in history, the Beatles, exploring what they mean today and why they still matter so intensely to a generation that has never known a world without them.

Combining musical insight with the most recent research, William Kinderman's Beethoven is both a richly drawn portrait of the man and a guide to his music.

It has been 40 years since the untimely death of L.

For over 25 years, Dale Winton (1955-2018) was one of Britain's most popular stars.

Now a major motion picture directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, an artist of the air re-creates his six-year plot to pull off an act of incomparable beauty and imagination.

Giovanni Bottesini (1821–1889) revolutionierte die Welt der klassischen Musik und stellte den Kontrabass in ein neues Licht.

Combien de fois n'est-il pas arrivé à Alain Stanké de vouloir prolonger ses entretiens avec ses invités?

Instagrams hippest grandma shares her thoughts on living and dressing adventurously in this humorous illustrated guide.

The Star Shiner poses the question: Can a young man from a small rural Kentucky town--fleeing a domineering mother and an abusive, alcoholic father--find recognition and happiness in New York city, working with the high-powered fashion and cosmetic industries, and with some of the world's most famous people--without losing his values and his soul?

Rudolph, Frosty, and Captain Kangaroo is a memoir by Judy Gail Krasnow about her father, Hecky Krasnow, the producer of such classic childrens records and holiday tunes as Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, Im Gettin Nuttin for Christmas, Peter Cottontail, Suzy Snowflake, I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus, The Captain Kangaroo March, Smokey the Bear, Davy Crockett, Little Red Monkey, and The Little Engine That Could.

The New York Times bestselling debut book of poetry from Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass.

This collection of new interviews with twenty-five accomplished female composers substantially advances our knowledge of the work, experiences, compositional approaches, and musical intentions of a diverse group of creative individuals.

The Sunday Times bestseller Have you ever wished you could get the dog in your life to behave better?

A new biography of one of the key composers of 20th-century American popular song and jazz, Eubie Blake: Rags, Rhythm and Race illuminates Blake's little-known impact on over 100 years of American culture.

Sir Ronald Harwood (1934-2020) was one of the most prolific playwrights and screenwriters of his generation.

Two-time Academy Award winner Sir David Lean (1908-1991) was one of the most prominent directors of the twentieth century, responsible for the classics The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), and Doctor Zhivago (1965).

The Daytime Emmy-winning television superstar recounts her life and her four decades as Erica Kane on the soap opera All My Children.

Discover the unique, profound, and unlikely yet enduring friendship between two of the most prominent and beloved celebrities of all timeElizabeth Taylor and Michael Jacksonin this exhaustively researchedconsistently absorbing (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) biography.

'A biography as gripping as one of Lee Child's own bestsellers' Ian Rankin 'Very enjoyable' The Times'Vivid and entertaining' TelegraphLee Child is the enigmatic powerhouse behind the phenomenally successful Jack Reacher novels.

Esteemed by many of his most distinguished contemporaries, including Arnold Schoenberg , Alexander Zemlinsky (1871-1942) was a protege of Brahms and Mahler.

Cecil Beaton was one of Britain's greatest cultural icons - not just as a photographer capturing some of the most celebrated portraits of the 20th century but also as designer of the iconic sets and costumes for the films My Fair Lady and Gigi.

Over ten years after WHEN GIANTS WALKED THE EARTH, Mick Wall's seminal biography of the band, comes this major and extensively researched revision, which provides an unflinching look at life inside one of the biggest-selling rock bands of all time, and presents the definitive, final word on Led Zeppelin.

Hollywood-crossroads of filmmaking, mythmaking, and politics-was dominated by one man more than any other for most of its history.

Loren Ghiglione recounts the fascinating life and tragic suicide of Don Hollenbeck, the controversial newscaster who became a primary target of McCarthyism's smear tactics.

#1 New York Times BestsellerThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of Bare Bones, host of the marquee morning program "e;The Bobby Bones Show,"e; comedian and dedicated philanthropist delivers an inspirational and humorous collection of stories about his biggest misses in life and how he turned them into lessons and wins.

The essential book to understanding Donald Trump as a businessman and leaderand how the biggest deal of his life went down.

Recorded by his quartet in a single session in 1964, A Love Supreme is widely considered John Coltrane's magnum opus and one of the greatest jazz albums of all time.

In her long and extraordinary career, Cicely Tyson has not only succeeded as an actor, she has shaped the course of history.

Saccharine for some, poignant for others, Jacques Demy's 'enchanted' world is familiar to generations of French audiences accustomed to watching Christmas repeats of his fairytale Peau d'ane (1970) or seeing Catherine Deneuve and Francoise Dorleac prance and pirouette in Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1966).

Clarence Major is an award-winning painter, fiction writer, and poet-as well as an essayist, editor, anthologist, lexicographer, and memoirist.

Brazen, incisive, and outrageous, Lies Of A Real Housewife, spans the years of early childhood through adulthood.

One hot summer night in 1945, three young American writers, each an enfant terrible, came together in a stuffy Manhattan apartment for the first time.

Shaun Ryder has lived a life of glorious highs and desolate lows.

In her highly anticipated memoir, Margaret A.

From Grange Hill to Top of the Pops, Reggie Yates has been on camera nearly all of his life, but it s as a documentary filmmaker and a pretty fearless one at that where he has truly been making his mark, investigating everything from gun crime in Chicago, to life as a refugee in Iraq.

Nothin' to Lose: The Making of KISS (1972-1975) chronicles, for the first time, the crucial formative years of the legendary rock band KISS, culminating with the groundbreaking success of their classic 1975 album Alive!

Marina Picasso remembers being six years old and standing awkwardly in front of the gates of Picasso's grand house near Cannes.

'Packed with war stories from a golden age of rock, and insights into the stars that made that music' CLASSIC ROCK MAGAZINE'On reading Getcha Rocks Off you realise just how drastically things have changed in the rock industry but books like this perfectly evoke what they were like.

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