Music

Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss came to know one another as young conductors in Leipzig in 1887. From then until Mahler's death in 1911 - the year of the first performance of "Der Rosenkavalier" - they kept in touch. Mahler himself described...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306833014Author Brad TolinskiFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette Books

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From his salt of the earth roots to his days as a low-level soccer player, gravedigger and fence mender to his two-decade solo career of Top Ten hits, the author explores Rod Stewart's career and personal life. The rocker's dark side, his self-admitted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946719778Author Polly MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint SAF Publishing LtdPublisher SAF Publishing Ltd

Damon Albarn was the frontman of Blur and the face of Britpop. While his peers have gradually fallen by the wayside, Albarn has survived Britpop to completely re-invent himself as the mastermind behind the global phenomenon that is Gorillaz. With his...

Robbie Robertson's singular contributions to popular music have made him one of the most beloved songwriters and guitarists of his time. With songs like `The Weight', `The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down' and `Up on Cripple Creek', he and his partners in...

Today one of the most successful music stars in the world, Lady Gaga fast became a household name after the release of her first album, The Fame, in 2008. Now noted as much for her flamboyant dress sense and extravagant live performances as her undoubted...

"Now Michael, you're the son of a naval officer, you must behave like a naval officer at all times..." What Captain William Rutherford told his seven-year-old son Michael was to stay with him all his life. Born in 1950, Michael was truly his...

In 'The Ace of Spades', Motorhead's most famous song, Lemmy, the born-to-lose, live-to-win frontman of the band sang, 'I don't want to live forever'. Yet as he told his friend of 35 years, former PR and biographer Mick Wall, 'Actually, I want to go the...

A vivid, first-hand account of Nobel Prize-winning singer and songwriter Bob Dylan as an artist, friend, and celebrity, illustrated with never-before-seen photographs, and told by an engaging raconteur who cut his own swathe through the turbulent...

The first biography written with Paul McCartney's approval and with access to family members and friends closest to him. Superbly evoking half a century of popular music and culture, Paul McCartney is the definitive life of a long-misunderstood genius...

Johnny Cash's death in September 2003 left the music world bereft. His was the most recognisable voice in the history of country music and indeed in the history of recorded music itself. Building musical bridges between the worlds of country, folk, rock...

Sammy Hagar-legendary lead singer of Van Halen, founder of the Cabo Wabo Tequila brand, and one of rock music's most notoriously successful performers-tells his unforgettable story in this one-of-a-kind autobiography of a life at the top of the charts...

In virtually all areas of Dylan's life - his immigrant antecedents, his business dealings, his various addictions and his romantic attachments - Heylin is able to provide a fascinating picture of a man who changed the whole course of popular music in...

Country music singer-songwriter Johnny Cash is an icon to people of all ages the world over. In Cash's first ever authorised biography, Steve Turner sifts the man from the legend and presents an unflinchingly honest picture. "The Man Called Cash" follows...

Vocalist, bassist and songwriter Glenn Hughes is a living, breathing personification of British rock, and the arc of his career and attendant lifestyle make for a compelling story. Starting with the Midlands beat combo Finders Keepers in the 1960s, he...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780761874584Author Gaby CasadesusFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Hamilton BooksPublisher Hamilton Books

From humble beginnings in Middlesex, where money was scarce but dreams were encouraged, to the award-winning godfather of electronica, Gary Numan has seen it all. His incredible story can be charted in two distinct parts . . .The first: a stratospheric...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998697772Author Gary LlamaFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Ovolr! / DebacklePublisher Ovolr! / DebackleWeight(grams) 86g

A collection of 23 interviews from Music magazine ranging in subject from building a career and performance to sources of inspiration and music education. Interviewees include Elly Ameling, Kyung Wha Chung, Glenn Gould, Wynton Marsalis, Jon Vickers,...

Dave Liebman is one of the leading forces in contemporary jazz. Prominently known for performing with Miles Davis and Elvin Jones, he has exerted considerable influence as a saxophonist, bandleader, composer, author, and educator. In addition to his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780310357704Author Scotty McCreeryFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint ZondervanPublisher ZondervanWeight(grams) 254g

Timme Rosenkrantz (1911-1969) was a Danish journalist, author, concert and record producer, radio show host, and entrepreneur with a consuming passion for jazz and little head for business. Known in Denmark and New York as the "Jazz Baron"...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854023301Author Roy MasseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Royal School of Church MusicPublisher Royal School of Church MusicWeight(grams) 396g

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Irving Berlin remains a central figure in American music, a lyricist/composer whose songs are loved all over the world. His first piece, `Marie from Sunny Italy', was written in 1907, and his `Alexander's Ragtime Band' attracted more public and media...

The saxophone, today an emblem of "cool" and the definitive jazz instrument, was largely ignored in the U.S. for more than half a century after its invention in France in 1838. The new sound, Vermazen argues, was finally brought to the American...

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It has long been acknowledged that Richard Wagner was a virulent anti-Semite, yet the composer has also been characterized as an idealistic revolutionary. In this fascinating book, Paul Lawrence Rose argues that for Wagner, as for many other Germans, the...