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.
After 50 years of analysis we are only beginning to understand the quality and complexity of Alban Berg's most important twelve-tone work, the opera Lulu.
Edward MacDowell's European Piano Music is a critical study of the piano music that MacDowell composed during his European sojourn (1876-1888), steeped in reception history and with a special emphasis of programmaticism.
Finalist, 2017 Indie Book Awards for Autobiography/Memoir, Foreword ReviewsPunk Avenue: The New York City Underground 1972-1982 is an intimate look at author Paris-born Phil Marcades first ten years in the United States where drifted from Boston to the West Coast and back, before winding up in New York City and becoming immersed in the early punk rock scene.
Celebrate three decades of the ground-breaking albumJagged Little Pill with this stunning volume featuring photos, interviews, insightful analysis, and celebrity quotes.
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.
Until now, Kathleen Ferrier has been a glorious voice, but through the pages of these fascinating letters and diaries, never previously published, we get to the real person.
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.
The start of a gripping, page-turning, cosy historical murder mystery from Kelly Oliver'A fun, mix of whodunnit and thriller set amid American high society' T.
The first thorough examination of the most renowned and influential organist in early twentieth-century Germany and of his complex relationship to his country's tumultuous and shifting sociopolitical landscape.
The first thorough examination of the most renowned and influential organist in early twentieth-century Germany and of his complex relationship to his country's tumultuous and shifting sociopolitical landscape.
Chronicles the work of Norberto Tavares, a Cabo Verdean musician and humanitarian who served as the conscience of his island nation during the transition from Portuguese colony to democratic republic.
