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Brilliant, short-lived, incredibly prolific—Schubert is one of the most intriguing figures in music history. While his music attracts a wide audience, much of his private life remains shrouded in mystery, and significant portions of his work have been overlooked. In this major new biography, Lorraine Byrne Bodley takes a detailed look into Schubert's life, from his early years at the Stadtkonvikt to the harrowing battle with syphilis that led to his death at the age of thirty-one.

Una biografía sobre los orígenes y el auge del cantante. Mi primera vocación, como tú bien sabes, era escribir, nunca cantar. Algo de bueno tuvo el marichalazo que me dio hace cuatro años... Al quitarme las ganas de escribir canciones y marcarme con agorafobia hacia el público, la calle, las miradas y la prensa, al menos me dejó refugiarme en las rimas. Y luego tuve la suerte de que mis libros funcionaron y me contrataron en la revista Interviú para publicar coplas satíricas. Eso me permitió vivir la vida que había soñado siendo adolescente. Joaquín Sabina.

Johnny Cash, country music legend: Life and works in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

Frédéric Chopin, composer and pianist: Life and works in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

At just 15, Tana Douglas ran away to the circus that was rock 'n' roll in the 1970s, taking a job with a young and upcoming band called AC/DC. While still a teenager she headed to the UK and later the US to work for a who's who of bands and artists. Life on the road was exhilarating, hard work, occasionally surreal but never dull, particularly when you were the only woman in the road crew and the #metoo movement was still 40 years away.

Franz Schubert, Austrian composer: Life and works in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

Janis Joplin, blues singer with a legendary voice: Life and works in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

Jim Morrison, sex symbol and singer of the band The Doors: Life and works in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

Ludwig van Beethoven, legendary composer: Life and works in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer: Life and works in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best.

Glen Colson lived through the golden age of Rock & Roll during the sixties, seventies and eighties, working as PR for many of the best loved acts in rock history. Among them Lindisfarne, Genesis, Pink Floyd, The Nice, Elvis Costello, Dr Feelgood, Ian Dury, Nick Lowe, Graham Parker, and Van der Graaf Generator. As the press officer at two of the UK's most iconic record labels, Stiff and Charisma, Glen worked alongside managers who made the music industry tick. Famously dry of wit, Glen's take on the inside workings of the music business is both informative and never short of laughs.

Mythos! Legende! Kult! Das sind die Worte, die man immer wieder im Zusammenhang mit TON STEINE SCHERBEN hört. Mythos! Legende! Kult! Was die Scherben mit ihrem Sänger Rio Reiser ganz sicher waren, ist: Eine Rock-Band, die in ihrer Zeit - von 1970 bis 1985 - die deutsche Zeitgeschichte der 68er mit all ihren Aspekten an vorderster Front erlebt und gemacht haben. Kai Sichtermann, Bassist der TON STEINE SCHERBEN, und seine Co-Autoren haben versucht, diese Geschichte nachzuzeichnen. Dabei herausgekommen ist eine vielstimmige Historie, die die Lebensgeschichte einer ganzen Generation widerspiegelt.

"Amico, stronzo, angelo, mutante", il cantautore Vic Chesnutt "è arrivato e ha fatto in modo che le persone disgustose e disturbate ci sembrassero... non so, più belle, credo". Un tetraplegico che sapeva suonare solo pochi, semplici accordi alla chitarra, Chesnutt ha inciso diciassette album osannati dalla critica, prima della morte avvenuta nel 2009. Nel 2006, NPR lo ha inserito nella top five dei dieci più grandi songwriter viventi, insieme a Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Paul McCartney e Bruce Springsteen.

«Агата Кристи» — одна из самых знаменитых и значимых российских рок-групп, но путь к вершинам рок-славы был нелегким. Им пришлось пережить взлёты и падения, пристрастия к алкоголю и наркотикам, потери друзей и распады семей.

En el tango hay un antes y un después de Astor Piazzolla. Compositor, bandoneonista, formador de grupos inolvidables. Cuando aparecieron sus primeros álbumes, la vieja guardia del género sentenció que “eso” no era tango. Pero el tiempo fue resolviendo la disputa. Temas como “Adiós Nonino”, las Cuatro estaciones porteñas y “Balada para un loco” quedaron adheridos para siempre a las calles de Buenos Aires. Y hay toda una veta piazzolleana en la música de las nuevas generaciones. Piazzolla fue un hombre complejo.

You know his work—Show Boat, Oklahoma!, Carousel, The King and I. But you don't really know Oscar Hammerstein II, the man who, more than anyone else, invented the American musical. Among the most commercially successful artists of his time, he was a fighter for social justice who constantly prodded his audiences to be better than they were.

Bob Dylan. Non è nemmeno più un nome e cognome. È uno spettro, l'evidente incarnazione di qualcosa che non c'è più, che non c'è ancora. Si ama per resa, invidia, ammirazione. Si adora perché non saremo mai come lui, non riusciremo mai a lasciarci tutto alle spalle, non saremo mai così avanti rispetto ai nostri tempi. Forse è impossibile ascoltare Dylan per la prima volta, perché si aspetta di ascoltarlo per la prima volta tutta la vita.

The Great Gate of Kiev resounds to the tumultuous bell rings that end Pictures an an Exhibition, one of the most magnificent and virtuosic of all piano pieces. However, to some of his contemporaries, Modest Mussorgsky was ‘insane’ and ‘a perfect idiot’. Born into a wealthy land-owning family, what drove this tormented man and why did he suffer psychological breakdowns and alcoholism? How did he achieve his command of the realist idiom in his stage works? d, of course, Pictures at an Exhibition.

A las puertas del centenario, la biografía definitiva de B.B. King, considerado -y por muchos llamado- Rey (de reyes) del Blues. He aquí la más vibrante y completa semblanza del que fuera gran pionero y el último en partir de toda una generación de profetas del blues. Riley "Blues Boy" King (1925-2015), más conocido como B.B. King, nació en la más absoluta pobreza en el corazón del Misisipi afroamericano subyugado por la América de Jim Crow.

Gustavo Cerati ya es una bandera del rock latinoamericano. Nacido en Buenos Aires, brilló en los ´80 y ´90 con Soda Stereo, el trío que conformaba con Bossio y Alberti. Cuando decidió disolver la banda, después de una gira legendaria por todo el continente, dio inicio a una carrera solista igual de notable, con discos como “Bocanada”, “Ahí vamos” y “Fuerza natural”.El accidente cerebrovascular que sufrió al término de un recital en Caracas lo hizo estar inconsciente varios años, hasta su muerte en 2014.