Mehr als 5000 Songs wurden in der Zeit von 1960 bis 1990 hinter dem "Eisernen Vorhang" - vor allem in Ungarn, Polen und Ost-Deutschland - im Bereich Rock- und Popmusik produziert.
Die Jazzlegende Louis Armstrong erlangte als Trompeter, Sänger und Entertainer Weltruhm, viele seiner Songs und Interpretationen, wie etwa »What a Wonderful World«, machten ihn unsterblich.
Erste autorisierte und einzige deutsche Ausgabe von Springsteens LyricsBruce Springsteens Lyrics erscheinen zusammengenommen als Kapitel eines großen amerikanischen Romans, den er in den 1970ern begonnen hat und der in diesem Buch nachvollzogen wird.
Wer ihn auf »Katzeklo« reduziert und nur seine TV-Talks kennt, verpasst das Wichtigste: Helge Schneider ist nicht nur ein begnadeter Sänger, Multiinstrumentalist, Autor von Romanen und Hörspielen, er ist auch Schauspieler, Zeichner und Filmemacher – und dabei immer ein verblüffender Sprach- und Logikakrobat.
»Schon der Name BOWIE klang mir nach rätselhafter Eleganz, wie das Losungswort zu einem exklusiven, dabei wenig angeberischen, irgendwie klaren Reich des Sehens und Hörens.
Recognising one of the most-honoured performers of all time, A Celebration of Dolly Parton: The Activity Book is 2021's follow-up to A Celebration of David Attenborough: The Activity Book and The Unofficial Michelle Obama Activity Book.
PICTURING PRINCE sees the late icon's former art director, STEVE PARKE, revealing stunning intimate photographs of the singer from his time working at Paisley Park.
The defining sounds of popular music - blues, rock 'n' roll, punk, hip-hop - were shaped and driven by rebel voices: whether that was Robert Johnson and Billie Holiday in the 1920-40s, or the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Joe Strummer in the 1960s and 70s.
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.
HIS LIFE WAS A WORK OF ARTNow, artists and musicians who worked with David Bowie during his lifetime - or who were his contemporaries - pay tribute to the icon through their own words on what it was like to work in collaboration with a man whose fluid artistic genius repeatedly broke boundaries, right up until his death.
Picturing Price sees the late icon's former art director, Steve Parke, revealing stunning intimate photographs of the singer from his time working at Paisley Park.
During a regression to find out the reason for the unusual emotional attachment that she'd had since the age of sixteen to Sir Edward Elgar - both his music and the man himself - Ann Merivale was knocked for six at finding herself in the life of Helen Weaver, his first fiancée.
