With an introduction by Steve MartinTwo pages into the script and an ache has developed in my gonads - I am both laughing out loud and agonized by the fact that the Withnail part is such a corker that not in a billion bank holidays will they ever seriously consider me.
We are all waiting for something to happen in life ~ waiting to graduate, waiting to get married, to go on a mission, to get healthy, to be healed, waiting to have a baby, waiting to die, waiting to find a job, waiting for a raise, waiting for someone to come home from a mission, waiting to retire, and many more waits in life.
Extracted from five hundred years of musical history, this is a fascinating collection of stories about classical music's most unusual concerts and characters.
The definitive biography of Alberto Giacometti, the greatest sculptor of the twentieth century, and a heroic figure whose vocation sustained him through a life of crippling anxiety and erotic guilt.
In Ghost Milk, Iain Sinclair, "e;our greatest guide to London"e; (The Spectator), chronicles the transformation and disappearance of his beloved East London in the wake of the 2012 Olympics.
The story of how four young bohemians on the make - Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mimi Baez, and Richard Farina - converged in Greenwich Village, fell into love, and invented a sound and a style that are one of the most lasting legacies of the 1960sWhen Bob Dylan, age twenty-five, wrecked his motorcycle on the side of a road near Woodstock in 1966 and dropped out of the public eye, he was recognized as a genius, a youth idol, and the authentic voice of the counterculture: and Greenwich Village, where he first made his mark as a protest singer with an acid wit and a barbwire throat, was unquestionably the center of youth culture.
The legendary band leader and jazz trumpeter, broadcaster and humorist looks back at his extraordinarily rich and varied life and the many colourful characters he has known and played with - from Duke Ellington to Louis Armstrong.
A superbly insightful and moving exploration of Wagner's last opera, by one of Britain's leading intellectuals Wagner's last music-drama tells the story of Parsifal, the 'pure fool, knowing through compassion', who has been called to rescue the Kingdom of the Grail from the sins that have polluted it.
From the backstreets of Buenos Aires to Parisian high society, this is the extraordinary story of the dance that captivated the world - a tale of politics and passion, immigration and romance.
UN RELATO FASCINANTE E INSÓLITO DE LOS GRANDES HITOS DE LA MÚSICA CLÁSICAEl autor nos acerca –con inusual maestría– a los grandes nombres de la música clásica a través de un apasionante viaje musical en torno a las curiosidades que encierran las grandes obras y los compositores que las crearon.
Sumérgete en la rica tradición musical de Argentina con "Mujeres argentinas", una colección excepcional de partituras que rinden homenaje a las mujeres destacadas de la historia y la cultura del país.
Una conexión inspiradora entre personajes y eventos históricos con grandes artistas y canciones del rock¿Qué sorprendente vínculo existe entre determinadas historias y algunas canciones y artistas muy populares como "Losing my Religion" de R.
