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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.

Per gli appassionati e gli studiosi di musica, Carlos Kleiber è una figura leggendaria. Un uomo che ha diretto solo 89 concerti e registrato soli 12 dischi, che aveva un repertorio molto esiguo, ma che nonostante ciò è ritenuto da colleghi, critica e pubblico uno dei più grandi direttori d’orchestra di sempre.

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.

In 1992, the Screaming Trees were expected to become the next big band to come out of the Seattle music scene during the heyday of grunge. Except it never happened. It wasn't because the band didn't have great songs—indeed, the Trees were revered for their ability to write a great song that was both artistically original and commercially viable, which is no easy task. Other Seattle bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden were fans of the Screaming Trees, playing shows with them and collaborating on albums, long before their own bands broke through into the mainstream.

Journalist Aniefiok Ekpoudom travels the country to paint a compelling portrait of the dawn, boom and subsequent blossoming of UK rap and grime. Taking us from the heart of south London to the West Midlands and South Wales, he explores how a history of migration and an enduring spirit of resistance have shaped the current realities of these linked communities and the music they produce. These sounds have become vessels for the marginalised, carrying Black and working-class stories into the light.

"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.

Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996) possessed one of the twentieth century's most astonishing voices. Historian Judith Tick offers a sublime portrait of this ambitious risk-taker whose exceptional musical spontaneity made her a transformational artist. Becoming Ella Fitzgerald clears up long-enduring mysteries. Archival research and in-depth family interviews shed new light on the singer's difficult childhood, the tragic death of her mother, and the year she spent in a girls' reformatory school—where she sang in its renowned choir and dreamed of being a dancer.

El artista que revolucionó la música popular, desde el folk hasta el blues, el rock y más allá. Un ícono capaz de cambiar las maneras de mirar y transitar el mundo de varias generaciones. El único músico que ha ganado el Premio Nobel de Literatura. Bob Dylan ya pasó los ochenta años, pero por todas las cosas que hizo se diría que vivió muchas vidas en una. Todavía sigue elaborando su legado de canciones inmortales (“Blowin´ in the wind” y “Like a Rolling Stone” entre las más conocidas).

«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.

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.

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.

El detrás de escenas de la vida artística de Madonna, la legendaria reina del pop. Madonna Ciccone, mejor conocida como Madonna, nació en 1958 en Michigan, y es un ícono en el mundo del entretenimiento, pero su trajectoria al estrellato no fue fácil. Marcada por una difícil infancia y el ambiente conservador en el que creció, Madonna tuvó que rebelarse contra aquellos a su alrededor para lograr su sueño de ser una estrella. Para vencer los múltiples obstáculos a lo largo de su carrera, Madonna usó su característica actitud rebelde, la cual ha inspirado a millones de personas alrededor del mundo.