Composers and songwriters

Words like "e;inspiring,"e; "e;expansive,"e; and "e;moving"e; are regularly used to describe Sigur Ros's ( ), and yet the only words heard on the record itself are a handful of meaningless nonsense syllables.

From male bisexuality to religion in pop, Little Richard spent the 1950s pioneering ideas that are still too challenging for the mainstream.

It's hard to think of a solo female recording artist who has been as revered or as reviled over the course of her career as Tori Amos.

For over a century the Wagners have presided over the Bayreuth Festival, playing host to many of the greatest and ghastliest figures in the arts and politics amidst family in-fighting and political controversy.

In over thirty years as one of the most original and charismatic figures in modern music, Prince Rogers Nelson has enjoyed huge success and courted considerable controversy.

Britney Spears barely survived 2007.

Dangerous is Michael Jackson's coming of age album.

Finally, after all that waiting, The Future arrived in 1980.

An exploration of Radiohead's game-changing album.

After his breakthrough with Ziggy Stardust and before his U.

Finally, a brilliant exploration of the German rock band Can's 1971 album Tago Mago.

Born without social instincts many people take for granted, brought up in a troubled environment and possessed with an extraordinary musical talent, Mike Oldfield was thrust into the spotlight at the tender age of nineteen.

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Mozart was fascinated, amused, aroused, hurt, and betrayed by women.

This is the album that sent a shockwave of empowerment through the nation's cultural underground.

Smile is not merely a great unfinished album, but a living work of art that is all at once expansive, indeterminate, and resolutely pop.

This book charts the emergence of Kate Bush in the early-to-mid-1980s as a courageous experimentalist, a singularly expressive recording artist and a visionary music producer.

This book marks the tenth anniversary of The Grey Album.

Winner of the Royal Philharmonic Award for Storytelling 2020'A rich, endlessly fascinating book.

Computer World was Kraftwerk's most concise and focused conceptual statement, their most influential record and crowning achievement.

Hangin' Tough, the second album by the New Kids on the Block, has sold more than seventeen million copies worldwide since it was released in 1988.

Smile is not merely a great unfinished album, but a living work of art that is all at once expansive, indeterminate, and resolutely pop.

In this exploration of Cocteau Twins' quintessential album, Chris Tapley traces lines in all directions from Blue Bell Knoll to paint a revealing portrait of the enigmatic trio and their career-long struggles with self-doubt, stubborn principles, and pure experimentation.

The Wild Tchoupitoulas is a definitive expression of the modern New Orleans sound.

Rapturous in its ability to depict the creative process, Words Without Music allows readers to experience that sublime moment of creative fusion when life merges with art.

When 20-year-old Odetta Holmes-classically trained as a vocalist and poised to become "e;the next Marian Anderson"e;-veered away from both opera and musical theater in favor of performing politically charged field hollers, prison songs, work songs, and folk tunes before mixed-race audiences in 1950s coffee houses, she was making one of the most portentous decisions in the history of both American music and Civil Rights.

'Leonard Cohen taught us that even in the midst of darkness there is light, in the midst of hatred there is love, with our dying breath we can still sing Hallelujah.

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids'Magical' GUARDIAN'A gripping tale of the search for meaning in times of turbulence - expressed with Smith's signature poetic flair' VOGUE'Extraordinary .

'Leonard Cohen taught us that even in the midst of darkness there is light, in the midst of hatred there is love, with our dying breath we can still sing Hallelujah.

He is one of the greatest musical talents Britain has ever produced.

The story of a remarkable time and place: Los Angeles from the dawn of the singer-songwriter era in the mid-Sixties to the peak of The Eagles' success in the late Seventies.

Rund 45 Jahre hat es gedauert, bis ich mich entschloss, meine geschriebenen Gedichte, Gedanken und Essays zu veröffentlichen.

Demenz ist ein Thema, mit dem wir sicher im Laufe unseresLebens einmal konfrontiert werden.

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Writing about yourself is a funny businessBut in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind.

*The inspiration for the CNN original series Vegas: The Story of Sin City* ';Outstanding pop-culture history.

Ich liebe Ordnung.

*National Bestseller* Legendary musician Richard Marx offers an enlightening, entertaining look at his life and career.

Die hier veröffentlichten Gedichte sind eine Begleitung der bereits vorliegenden Erinnerungen Willi Kollo – VERGANGENES IST NICHT VERGESSEN, und sie ergänzen sich gegenseitig bei der jeweiligen Lektüre zu einem noch tieferen Verständnis zum Leben und zur Lebenszeit des Autors; ereignisreiche Jahre mit zwei Weltkriegen und einer geteilten deutschen Heimat und einer großen Liebe zur Kultur dieses Volkes.

Glenn Gould was famous for his obsessions: the scarves, sweaters and fingerless gloves that he wore even on the hottest summer days; his deep fear of germs and illness; the odd wooden "e;pygmy"e; chair that he carried with him wherever he performed; and his sudden withdrawal from the public stage at the peak of his career.

Dieses aufschlussreiche Werk bietet eine ausgewogene Betrachtung über Leben und Tod sowie die Möglichkeit eines Weiterlebens nach dem physischen Ende.

Although she called herself "e;just a singer,"e; soprano Lois Marshall (1925-97) became a household name across Canada during her thirty-four year career and remains one of the foremost figures in the history of Canadian music.

Charles Mingus was one of the most innovative jazz musicians of the 20th Century, and ranks with Ives and Ellington as one of America's greatest composers.

Charles Mingus was one of the most innovative jazz musicians of the 20th Century, and ranks with Ives and Ellington as one of America's greatest composers.

Of all the major jazz artists, Thelonious Monk was one of the most original musical thinkers--nonconformist, idiosyncratic, imaginative, eccentric--in a word, unique.

Since John Lennon composed Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds in early 1967, fans and music critics alike have argued over the meaning of the song.