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The world bestselling title of 2005, in a hardcover, reduced size, reduced price, special edition: For more than three decades Anton Corbijn has photographed the greatest artists in the music world and beyond. That made him one of the most influential portrait photographers of our days. In Corbijn''s career, however, there has been one constant: the band U2, and their collaboration of 22 years. This publication is dedicated to Bono, Edge, Larry, and Adam, to their longstanding friendship, mutual inspiration, and shared experience of rock history that is part of the history of photography. It was Anton Corbijn who "invented" U2''s public image and he is still shaping it. The long way from their first encounter in February 1982 in New Orleans to their April 2004 Lisbon shooting for the most recent U2 album is documented in a wealth of private and so-called official pictures with hand-written annotations by the photographer.

CARLES A. JUSTE amb SANTIAGO JUSTELo Beethoven retrata en aquest llibre autobiogràfic no només el seu amor per la música, sinó també per la seva ciutat i els personatges d’una època que, com diu ell,

That Old Feeling es el título de una canción popular de Fain & Brouwn perteneciente al Great American Songbook; el repertorio de las grandes canciones norteamericanas del siglo XX; y es precisame

Un artista fundamental en la historia de la música moderna cuenta su azarosa vida. “Please Please Please” fue un grito salvaje que consagró a James Brown como encarnación de una turbulenta sacudida s

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) is one of the most prominent and popular composers to have emerged from Northern EuropeHe atteined monumental status, becoming his countrys primary cultural export, but for such a public figure, much of his life has been shrouded in mistery.This comprenhensive and compelling study includes new material about the composer not previously available

A survey of this popular and distinctive style of concert music.The first overview of Minimalism aimed at a general public Traces the lives of the Minimalist composers, of whom Philip Glass and Steve Reich are the best known, and discusses their most significant works Sets the Minimalists in the context of the artistic milieu from which they emerged, discussing the work of predecessors such as La Monte Young and Terry Riley By looking at the work of their successors, such as John Adams, Michael Nyman, Louis Andriessen and Arvo Part, new light is thrown on the Minimalists themselves Minimalism is arguably the most popular style of concert music that the late twentieth century produced, revered by the widest possible audience, including fans of rock, jazz and classical music. It is an ecstatic and vibrant movement that interweaves classical, popular and non-Western elements to create a highly distinctive style that restores the severed link between composer and audience. The movement is surveyed here from its earliest beginnings, through a study of its principal American exponents - La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass - and on to the ''post-minimalism'' of John Adams, Michael Nyman, Louis Andriessen and Arvo Part.

En 1964, los Who eran un cuarteto de R&B que recorría los clubes de Londres mientras terminaba de pulir su estilo y se preparaba para su gran oportunidad. El grupo no era uno más de los muchos qu

Lola Flores es uno de los personajes de más arrolladora espontaneidad, más intuitivos y también más complejos de cartografiar artística y vitalmente de la España de ese siglo veinte que ya es historia. Un fenomeno abierto a todos los excesos, la abanderada de todas las esencias del topico nacional, la artista genial que escapa a las definiciones, la que cantaba ante Franco en La Granja y la que secunda la huelga de los actores en vida del dictador, la amante generosa y libre que se pone el mundo por montera, y la madre amantisima obsesionada por la felicidad de sus cachorros. Lola de Hacienda, La Faraona, La Niña de Fuego...Una mujer que se invento a si misma, aupandose a la categoria de mito por merecimientos propios y tras sacrificar muchas cosas que no le avergonzaba confesar. Esta biografia repasa las luces y las sombras, la gloria y los episodios mas controvertidos de la vida de una artista que llevaba dentro todas las contradicciones de un siglo convulso, un ser irrepetible, sin precedentes y sin herederos. Todo un caracter.

The Grammy Award-winning musician presents a collection that incorporates the complete lyrics for all twenty-eight songs on her CDs The Diary of Alicia Keys and Songs in A Minor, along with a selection of her original poetry that explores such themes as empowerment and the lasting need for loyalty, honesty, and love. Reprint.

Take That were the original British boy band. They sold out arenas in less time than it took to play one of their chart-topping singles. Gary Barlow was the band''s gifted front man who not only wrote hits such as "Pray" and "A Million Love Songs" but sang them too. Then, the band quit at the very height of their fame. Here, Gary reveals for the first time his ride on the rollercoaster of fame, the truth behind the rumours of the band''s feuding and his fall-out with Robbie, and how he sank into depression only to rise again in one of pop''s greatest comebacks: the record-breaking Take That reunion tour. Candid, confident and down-to-earth, Gary is definitely back for good.

«Solía vivir en una habitación llena de espejos. Todo lo que veía era yo.» Con estas palabras comienza una de las canciones más conocidas de Jimi Hendrix, uno de los mejores guitarristas del siglo XX

El rockero irlandés Bono celebró el sesenta aniversario del nacimiento de Elvis Presley con el homérico poema “Elvis: el David americano”. Aquella letanía ponía de manifiesto las muchas caras de la p

¿Qué decir, una vez pronunciadas las palabras que se estilan, qué decir a los cirujanos? Qué decirles que se refiera a la cirugía, puesto que son cirujanos; y que no se refiera a la misma, puesto que yo no soy cirujano. Hé ahí un problema precisado. Pero se trata de gentes habituadas a toda suerte de confesiones; más aún, que no se contentan con eso: van a buscar la verdad a donde se encuentre. Ponen los ojos y las manos en la misma substancia palpitante de nuestro ser. Elucidar la miseria de los cuerpos, encontrar la pobre carne enferma bajo las más brillantes apariencias sociales, reconocer el gusano que roe la belleza, es su propia ocupación. Siendo así, ¿de qué sirve disimular frente a ellos? ¿Por qué no hacerles simplemente la confesión de las ideas que me llegan, y que son necesariamente ideas desordenadas, de las que uno se deshace, cuando uno puede, para luego construir un discurso de estilo más puro, de líneas netas, que dé la feliz impresión de perfección intelectual y formal?

A revealing insight into the life and wotks of Claude Debussy (1862-1918), whose music fromed a link between the Romantic and Modern eras.Examines the way in which Debussys innovative compositional methods reflected developments in the written and visual arts of the periodDiscusses many of Debussys compositions, including his enchanting opera Pelleas et Melisande and the evocative orchestral suite La MerTraced hoe Debussys often controversial works were created, performed and perceived, and how their influence has endured into the twenty-first century.

El 5 de septiembre de 1946 nació en la colonia británica de la isla de Zanzíbar quien fue el vocalista de una de las más afamadas bandas de rock. La voz la ponía Farrokh Bulsara, más conocido como Freddie Mercury, y al conjunto lo llamaron Queen.Freddie Mercury. Su vida contada por el mismo, nos conduce por el recorrido de uno de los grupos mas emblematicos del ultimo tercio del siglo xx. Incitados por un casi incontrolable, ambicioso y directo Mercury, Queen lograron el exito, y se convirtieron en la banda mas grande de la generacion de los setenta en adelante. La historia, contada por el mismo, muestra como en muchas ocasiones el grupo estuvo a punto de separarse, pero siempre permanecio unido gracias a su afan por romper con las barreras musicales establecidas. Freddie Mercury, hombre de pocas palabras, nos transmite, a traves de sus entrevistas -muchas de ellas ineditas hasta ahora- mucho mas que lo que nos puede ofrecer una biografia al uso. No hay mejor retrato que el que muestran sus propias palabras. Por eso, en este libro, el mismo habla sin tapujos sobre los duros comienzos del grupo, los problemas con la prensa, la presion de las giras, las disputas internas de la banda o su agitada vida personal (y sexual).

La pasión y la erudición se hermanan en esta biografía para recorrer la compleja y a veces dramática vida de Bill Evans, uno de los pianistas más influyentes e innovadores en la historia del jazz y, segun muchos entendidos, uno de los grandes musicos del siglo xx. Su peculiar manera de recrear la tradicion, sus armonias impresionistas, sus lineas melodicas sincopadas y polirritmicas continuan sonando como un eco indeleble en los pianos de nuestro tiempo. Pero a los estilos jazzisticos dominantes en su epoca (bebap, cool, improvisacion modal), Evans aporto sobre todo un intenso e irrepetible lirismo que el critico Gene Lees ha descrito mediante un dictamen lapidario: era el poeta del jazz. En la poesia sonora se proyectaba un personaje dificil y en cierto modo atormentado que, sin embargo, nunca dejo de ser entrañable para quienes lo tuvieron cerca: los testimonios aqui recogidos de sus amigos y colegas nos presentan a un ser humano excepcional que se entrego a la musica con una mezcla de pureza, energia y modestia no demasiado comun entre quienes viven iluminados por la luz de los focos. Peter Pettinger, pianista de formacion clasica con importantes grabaciones a sus espaldas, narra la trayectoria personal y profesional de Evans.

Benjamin Britten A portrait of the life and work of Benjamin Britten.A portrait of the life and work of Benjamin Britten (1913-76), the greatest English composer of his time, and the first of his generation to enjoy a wide international reputation Discusses how Britten''s political and social convictions and sexuality directly or indirectly inspired much of his art Looks at Britten''s reinvention of English opera and his work as a pioneer of music for film and radioBenjamin Britten (1913-76) was the greatest English composer of his time, and the first of his generation to enjoy a wide international reputation. With the great success of Peter Grimes (1945) he effectively reinvented English opera and was a pioneer of music for film and radio. For much of his life, however, British critics dismissed his music merely as ''clever''. Hounded by malicious gossip, the details of his private life were fascinating: the author explores with sophistication the complex ways in which his sexuality and his political and social convictions directly or indirectly inspired much of his art. In this masterly biography, Michael Oliver creates a portrait of a great artist and discusses the contradictions between his quintessential English character and his world stature, his outsider status and his membership of the establishment, his artistic daring and his constant regard for musical forms and traditions.

A colourful biography of George Gershwin, arguably the 20th-century''s greatest songwriter. Rodney Greenberg A colourful biography of George Gershwin (1898-1937), arguably the 20th century''s greatest songwriter Places Gershwin''s compositions within the context of the musical developments of his time Shows how a teenage song-plugger became internationally renowned in a career that spanned only two decades George Gershwin (1898-1937), one of the twentieth century''s greatest songwriters, was among the first composers to realize the exciting potential of combining elements of jazz and popular song with the forms and instrumentation of symphonic music. Ever defensive about his lack of formal training, by his thirties Gershwin was the dominant voice of the Broadway musical and, following the success of Rhapsody in Blue, enjoyed praise by such ''classical'' luminaries as Arnold Schoenberg. This expert biography places Gershwin''s music within the context of his frenetic lifestyle to show how a teenage song-plugger became internationally renowned in a career that spanned a mere two decades. It also brings home the realization that Gershwin''s tragic death aged only 38 robbed us of untold musical treasures.