Auch nach 20 Alben und einer Legion begeisterter Fans hort der unbeirrbare Waits nicht auf, immer wieder neue, mal zartlich poetische, mal raue wuste Songs voll magischer Faszination zu produzieren, die andere Pop-Artisten wie Bruce Springsteen, Rod Stewart, The Eagles, Elvis Costello, Meat Loaf, The Ramones and Johnny Cash reizen, diese in eigenen Versionen zu interpretieren.
Joel McIver erzahlt mit akribischer Genauigkeit Metallicas Geschichte, enthullt die Mythen, die seit Jahren mit der Band umgeben und verrat die ungeschminkte Wahrheit uber seine Entstehung und seine Entwicklung.
Growing up in a small village in the Rhymney Valley, Luke's life was shaped by his Jehovah's Witness upbringing, a path he'd eventually navigate to come out to his parents, knowing he risked losing them.
Diese erfolgreiche Biographie wurde nun uberarbeitet und neu aufgelegt und ist noch immer die umfassendste Chronik der auergewohnlichen Leben und die Karriere von Frank Zappa.
Jazz Revolutionary is the first full biography of Eric Dolphy, passionately tracing his creative life from Los Angeles clubs of the late 1940s and 50s, to New York in the early 1960s, and on to Paris, where sixty years ago he died from the complications of undiagnosed diabetes.
Als ABBA nur sieben Jahre nach ihrem sensationellen Sieg beim Song-Contest 1974 auseinanderbrachen, wurde jedem klar, dass hinter der Fassade der frohlichen, glitzernden Showband aus Schweden vier hochst unterschiedliche Individuen standen.
Manic Street Preachers have established themselves as one the UK's most enduring, intelligent and credible rocks groups, but that quest for greatness has been a difficult, sometimes torturous path; a path which one of their number - the gifted and troubled Richley Edwards - abandoned for destinations still unknown.
The rise and rise of the 'manufactured' pop group has been a reliable and consistent trend over the last 50 years of the pop music charts, and this entertaining account by Nick Brownlee features them all!
Although Vince Guaraldi's playful jazz piano themes for the early Peanuts animated television specials are well known, the composer himself remains largely unheralded.
Peter Freestone war viele Jahre lang Freddie Mercurys personlicher Assistent, lebte mit dem Sanger in London, Munchen und New York und blieb bis zuletzt an seiner Seite.
From humble beginnings in murky, Liverpool clubs in the early sixties, four songwriters emerged who would change the course of popular music forever: The Beatles.
In early 1955, Colonel Tom Parker (the manager of the number-one country music star of the day) heard that an unknown teenager from Memphis had just drawn a crowd of more than 800 people to a Texas schoolhouse and headed south to investigate.
When Elbow won the Mercury Prize in 2008 for their fourth studio album - The Seldom Seen Kid - the accolade followed an organic 17 year long career marked by four classic albums and a cult following that cast them in the role of Manchester's best kept music secret.
When Pete Doherty was imprisoned for burgling his best friend and bandmate Carl Barat in August 2003 it seemed the light had gone out on Britain's most exciting new band.
Over the years, The Fall have given me more pleasure than any other band and, when people ask me why I always say, 'they are always different, they are always the same' John Peel.
