Biography: arts and entertainment

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Since Bob Marley died in 1981, the myths and legends which surround his life have continued to grow.

Ever since he was a kid, Larry Noto dreamt of being a comic.

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Extrait : "L'histoire a des sources ignorées et profondes qui échappent aux plus patientes investigations.

'A delightful memoir' Kate Saunders, The Times'Fabulous .

Now a major motion picture starring Jim Parsons!

Half a century ago a youth appeared from the American hinterland and began a cultural revolution.

In this riveting account of Biggies remarkable life, hip hop journalist Cheo Hodari Coker tells the story youve never heard about the dramatic, tension-filled world of Biggie, Tupac, Puff Daddy, and Suge Knight, tracing their friendships and feuds from the beginning to the bitter end.

Out now the brand-new paperback from Rylan - fully updated to include stories from the last 12 months!

Jeremy Vine is one of the most successful broadcasters of recent years and in 2012 clocks up a quarter of a century at the BBC.

For the past four years Jane Miller, author of Crazy Age: Thoughts on Being Old, has been writing a column for an American magazine called In These Times.

No Strings Attached: My Life Growing up with the Birth of Rock and Roll offers a nostalgic look at life growing up in the fifties and sixties.

Die Zeugnisse Karl Mays über seine Begegnungen mit Sascha Schneider (1870-1927) offenbaren eine Künstlerfreundschaft von tiefster Bedeutung.

Read & Burn is the first serious, in-depth appraisal of one of the most influential British bands to emerge during the punk era.

'a quietly impressive book, which does something most celebrity autobiographies shy away from: it seeks the truth and, more often than not, finds it.

Charting the wayward tale of the UK's most notorious group and written with full co-operation of the band this is the ultimate rock and roll story and is destined to become a classic of the genre.

The warm, funny and entertaining memoir of much-loved TV personality and loveable posh boy, Jamie Laing.

A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!

Meet Rita Gilligan, Hard Rock Cafe s original Rock n Roll waitress and international cultural ambassador and MBE.

Graham Greene's 'long journey through time' began in 1904, when he was born into a tribe of Greenes based in Berkhamstead at the public school where his father was headmaster.

'Brilliantly written.

A captivating lifetime of personal and professional experiences by an American historian, film specialist and documentary filmmaker in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia.

La autobiografía del escritor de ciencia ficción más importante de la Historia.

In 1966-the Year of the Horse, not to mention Revolver and Pet Sounds - John Kim Faye was born out of wedlock to a 40-year-old Korean mother and a 62-year-old Irish father.

Fascinating Portraits of the Secret Lives of Royals.

When Cream broke up in 1968 it was by no means a foregone conclusion that it would be Eric Clapton who would enjoy continued commercial success.

Double acts don't come any closer than the The Two Ronnies.

Christy Brown was born a victim of cerebral palsy.

Joan Triadú (Ribes de Freser, 1921 – Barcelona, 2010) ha deixat una gran petja en la nostra vida col·lectiva i en el nostre sistema cultural.

A memoir of Betty White's first five decades on televisionas irreverent and irresistible as the beloved actress herselffilled ';with inspiring cheerfulness' (The New York Times).

Almost as famous for the legendary excesses of his personal life as for his films, Sam Peckinpah (1925-1984) cemented his reputation as one of the great American directors with movies such as The Wild Bunch and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.

Taiji ist ein grundlegendes Konzept der taoistischen Philosophie und der Name Taijiquan bezieht sich auf den Kampfkunststil, dessen Prinzipien sich aus dieser Philosophie ableiten.

The Sunday Times bestsellerOver her ten years of documentary film making, Stacey Dooley has covered a wide variety of topics, from sex trafficking in Cambodia to Yazidi women fighting back in Syria.

Lively, snapshot-like vignettes form an intimate, literary portrait of the infamously eccentric and influential modern architect Adolf Loos.

'As skilful, stylish and pacy as one would expect from so adept a novelist' Sunday TelegraphEdna O'Brien depicts James Joyce as a man hammered by Church, State and family, yet from such adversities he wrote works 'to bestir the hearts of men and angels'.

February 2024 marks sixty-two years of playing bass and guitar for Jim Wright.

Wiley is Wiley, and if you don t know me, you don t know much.

Before #MeToo, before Riot Grrl, there was Lydia Lunch.

Eine Karriere ohne Scham und SkrupelLeni Riefenstahl ist zweifellos eine Legende, deren zwiespältiger Ruf bis heute anhält.

Jane Darke loves Cornwall.

A funny and brutally honest book about what it means to be a woman and what it takes to be a creator, She Wants It is deeply personal but always universal in its unapologetic recounting of a life lived and raw talent shared.

Imagine having the most wonderful mother, the most caring father, a perfect house and a best friend who is always there for you and never lets you down.

Its 1967, the Summer of Love, and Bob Dylan is holed up in Woodstock with a group of musicians once known as The Hawks, laying down a set of recordings that will soon turn the music world on its head.

Jeffrey Ross is one of the worlds most foremost practitioners of insult comedy.

The must-read summary of Donald Trump's book: "e;Trump: How to Get Rich"e;.