In honor of his fiftieth birthday, the popular singer-songwriter and author shares a collecion of reminiscences about his life, tracing his odyssey from reporter to musical success and offering insights into such topics as plane crash survival, therapy, and starting a band. View More...
In honor of his fiftieth birthday, the popular singer-songwriter and author shares a collecion of reminiscences about his life, tracing his odyssey from reporter to musical success and offering insights into such topics as plane crash survival, therapy, and starting a band. View More...
In honor of his fiftieth birthday, the popular singer-songwriter and author shares a collecion of reminiscences about his life, tracing his odyssey from reporter to musical success and offering insights into such topics as plane crash survival, therapy, and starting a band. View More...
For the millions of fans of Jimmy Buffett's music as well as his bestselling books, Tales From Margaritaville and Where Is Joe Merchant?, here is the ultimate Jimmy Buffett philosophy on life and how to live it. As hard as it is to believe, the irrepressible Jimmy Buffett has hit the half-century mark and, in A PIRATE LOOKS AT 50, he brings us along on the remarkable journey which he took through the Southern hemisphere to celebrate this landmark birthday. Jimmy takes us from the legendary pirate coves of the Florida Keys to the ruins of ancient Cartegena. Along the way, we hear a tale or two ... View More...
A critical biography of Andrew Lloyd Webber, hailed by some for his innovations and melodic extravagance and denounced by others for creating schlock operas relying on spectacle more than musical virtuosity. Photographs of the shows and sketches for costume designs and sets are included. View More...
A critical biography of Andrew Lloyd Webber, hailed by some for his innovations and melodic extravagance and denounced by others for creating schlock operas relying on spectacle more than musical virtuosity. Photographs of the shows and sketches for costume designs and sets are included. View More...
Astor Piazzolla, brilliant, iconoclastic tango musician and composer, has become a national hero in Argentina and a cult figure for classical and jazz lovers worldwide, but only after a lifetime of controversy and struggle.The outspoken, headstrong Piazzolla told his story to journalist and longtime fan Natalio Gorin in the spring of 1990 in a series of frank interviews.Among the firsthand observations of others who knew Piazzolla well are those of his lyricist Horacio Ferrer, his fellow musicians, and his colleagues. Translator Fernando Gonzalez, an Argentine native and American popular music... View More...
The music showcase television programme commemorates 25 years of the best of America's music, from country, blues and folk to rock, bluegrass and tejano. The text documents in words and pictures the performances of more than 500 artists who have appeared on the show. View More...
Bob Marley's life can be considered the archetypal hero's journey--a journey of conviction and courage to transcendence. Rising from humble beginnings yet guided by his talent and an inborn mysticism, Bob Marley became an international figure who helped to introduce the music of Jamaica to the world and, with it, his own metaphysical message, One World, One Love. The force of his personality, his music, his message, and his tragic and too early demise in 1981 at the age of thirty-six all established him in the firmament of individuals whose brief time on earth left the most lasting of legacies... View More...
Having been a songwriter most of my life, condensing my ideas and emotions into short rhyming couplets and setting them to music, I had never really considered writing a book. But upon arriving at the reflective age of fifty, I found myself drawn, for the first time, to write long passages that were as stimulating and intriguing to me as any songwriting I had ever done. And so Broken Music began to take shape. It is a book about the early part of my life, from childhood through adolescence, right up to the eve of my success with the Police. It is a story very few people know. I had no interest... View More...
Having been a songwriter most of my life, condensing my ideas and emotions into short rhyming couplets and setting them to music, I had never really considered writing a book. But upon arriving at the reflective age of fifty, I found myself drawn, for the first time, to write long passages that were as stimulating and intriguing to me as any songwriting I had ever done. And so Broken Music began to take shape. It is a book about the early part of my life, from childhood through adolescence, right up to the eve of my success with the Police. It is a story very few people know. I had no interest... View More...
Having been a songwriter most of my life, condensing my ideas and emotions into short rhyming couplets and setting them to music, I had never really considered writing a book. But upon arriving at the reflective age of fifty, I found myself drawn, for the first time, to write long passages that were as stimulating and intriguing to me as any songwriting I had ever done. And so Broken Music began to take shape. It is a book about the early part of my life, from childhood through adolescence, right up to the eve of my success with the Police. It is a story very few people know. I had no interest... View More...
Sinner. Saint. Outlaw. Rebel.Voice of protest. Man of faith. Johnny Cash is a giant of American music. In a testament to his life and legend, the editors of "Rolling Stone "magazine have compiled Cash." "Since its inception in the late 1960s, "Rolling Stone "has followed Cash's career, writing about him in settings that ranged from San Quentin prison to a glitzy Vegas hotel. Through the years, Rolling Stone has treated Cash not just as a country music star but a rock & roll icon, whose drug-fueled antics, black clothes and rebel stance have made him a hero to generation after generation of roc... View More...
The definitive biography of Bob Marley, newly revised and expanded, with a comprehensive discography and bibliography. Over the past fifteen years" Catch a Fire" has sold hundreds of thousands of copies and has indisputedly established itself as the best book ever written about Bob Marley. For this new revision, Timothy White presents new material on the powerful ongoing influence of reggae in Jamaican society. He reveals previously restricted documents about the C.I.A.'s monitoring of Marley's activities and recounts the ongoing legal battles around Marley's estate and legacy. There's up-to-d... View More...
(Guitar Recorded Versions). This terrific book includes 15 Clapton classics in standard notation and tab, with lyrics and chord symbols: Bad Love * Blue Eyes Blue * Change the World * Forever Man * It's in the Way That You Use It * Layla * My Father's Eyes * Pretending * She's Waiting * Tears in Heaven * Wonderful Tonight * and more. Features lots of great photos View More...
Accompanied by unpublished photographs and a discography, the first full-scale biography of the Grammy Award-winning blues guitarist covers his heroin addiction, his divorce, the accidental death of his four-year-old son, and his renewed fame. View More...
When Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton sat at the piano in the Library of Congress in May of 1938 to begin his monumental series of interviews with Alan Lomax, he spoke of his years on the West Coast with the nostalgia of a man recalling a golden age, a lost Eden. He had arrived in Los Angeles more than twenty years earlier, but he recounted his losses as vividly as though they had occurred just recently. The greatest loss was his separation from Anita Gonzales, by his own account "the only woman I ever loved," to whom he left almost all of his royalties in his will. In Dead Man Blues, Phil Pastra... View More...
In print at last -- the life story of legendary Voice of Prophecy singer, Del Delker. From the story of how a tearful Del rejected the call to The Voice of Prophecy three times, to her close calls with the altar, travels with H.M.S. Richards and the Kings Herald Quartet, and struggles with poor health, this autobiography, entitled simply, Del Delker, chronicles this amazing singer's 55 years of music ministry. Read the rest of the story from Del's own lips and be blessed. View More...
