Ergebnis für "Homer" in Komponisten & Musiker

Join rock-legend, former Shihad frontman and lead singer of The Adults Jon Toogood in this unflinching and no-holds-barred memoir. This is more than a rock story. Toogood looks back on a 37-year career that helped define New Zealand rock music, and the personal cost that came with it. From a...

The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One—and since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016. The audio is narrated by an all-star lineup including Bob Dylan, Jeff Bridges, Steve Buscemi, John Goodman, Oscar Isaac, Helen...

The New York Times bestseller Nikki Sixx is one of the most respected, recognizable, and entrepreneurial icons in the music industry. As the founder of Mötley Crüe who is now in his twenty-first year of sobriety, Sixx is incredibly passionate about his craft and wonderfully open about his life...

In a career that spanned decades, John Denver earned international acclaim as a singer, songwriter, actor, and environmental activist. Songs like "Take Me Home, Country Roads", "Rocky Mountain High", and "Annie's Song" have entered the canon of universal anthems, but at his start John Denver was a young man with little more than a fine voice, a guitar, and a dream. Growing up in a conservative military family, he was not expected to drop out of college and head to Los Angeles, where the music scene was flourishing. Nor was he expected to succeed.

The beloved Julie Andrews has captured our hearts on screen for decades, but she has never told the story of her life before fame—until now. In Home: A Memoir of My Early Years, Julie takes her readers on a warm, moving, and often humorous journey from a difficult upbringing in war-torn...

In Feels Like Home, Grammy award-winning singer Linda Ronstadt effortlessly evokes the magical panorama of the high desert, a landscape etched by sunlight and carved by wind, offering a personal tour built around meals and memories of the place where she came of age.

INCLUDED IN TIME'S 100 MUST READ BOOKS OF 2025 The concluding volume of Peter Guralnick's critically acclaimed Elvis Presley biographies 'Guralnick knows the intricacies of this story more than anyone, except perhaps the Colonel and Presley themselves' GUARDIAN In early 1955, Colonel Tom Parker...

Tales of adventure, misadventure, love and loss - this collection of non-fiction short stories from the Australian rock legend turned writer is vintage Jimmy. Outrageous, witty, warm and wise, Killing Time shares more than forty yarns reflecting an epic life - from an encounter with a soul...

A memoir from singer-songwriter Madison Beer, chronicling the past decade of her life spent in the spotlight--the ups, the downs, and the in-betweens that you won't see on social media. Discovered at twelve years old, Madison Beer was one of the first artists to have her entire life documented...

A SUNDAY TIMES POP BOOK OF THE YEAR A DAILY TELEGRAPH MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR A DAILY MAIL MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR A TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR ('Of the many Led Zeppelin biographies marking the band's 50th anniversary, this is the most illuminating') OBSERVER BEST BOOKS OF 2018 'An enthralling...

An entertaining, heartwarming memoir detailing the adventures and valuable life lessons learned from the author’s four decades of friendship with Ozzy Osbourne and the Osbourne family. Stephen Rea was born in Northern Ireland in 1969, the same year “The Troubles” began. Violence was...

According to Eric Clapton, John Mayer, and the late Stevie Ray Vaughn, Buddy Guy is the greatest blues guitarist of all time. An enormous influence on these musicians as well as on Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck, he is the living embodiment of Chicago blues.

In acht colleges van een uur behandelt Leo Samama de ontwikkelingen van de Nederlandse klassieke muziek vanaf het einde van de Renaissance tot het begin van onze eeuw. Daarbij komen ook de maatschappelijke aspecten aan de orde die in ons land tot zo'n kenmerkend eigen muziekleven hebben geleid, met weinig pracht en praal, maar niet minder allure. En hoewel ook in de late 20e en de vroege 21e eeuw de staat en de politiek een breed ontwikkelde muziekcultuur niet ondersteunden, staat het muziekleven hier te lande nog steeds bekend als vooruitstrevend en nieuwsgierig.

He wrote one of the biggest hits of our age in ‘about an hour’ in his childhood bedroom. He would go on to collaborate with some of the greatest musicians of all time, from Aretha Franklin to Stevie Wonder. He was a pop star who bleached his hair blonde, wore tiny shorts and, at the same...

The hugely popular singer/songwriter duo Johnnyswim share their story like never before, showing listeners how to find home wherever they are in this stunning debut. Foreword by Chip and Joanna Gaines Work and life partners Amanda Sudano Ramirez and Abner Ramirez are known for translating the...

In this memoir, iconic singer Linda Ronstadt weaves together a captivating story of her origins in Tucson, Arizona, and her rise to stardom in the Southern California music scene of the 1960s and ‘70s. Tracing the timeline of her remarkable life, Linda Ronstadt, whose forty-five year career...

'No ordinary pop biography, this is a very personal exploration of a very unusual artist' – Dorian Lynskey 'A beautiful, frequently extraordinary book. Part biography, part social commentary and part love letter, it somehow does full justice to the magnificent man it examines' – James...

There is no shortage of earnest books about the cultural significance of musicians like David Bowie, Bob Dylan, and John Lennon. But George Michael does not attract such attention. The music he produced is not generally deemed worthy of serious analysis, yet such dismissals overlook how...

Dmitri Sjostakovitsj (1906-1975) was een van de meest markante figuren in het muziekleven van de Sovjet-Unie. Zijn gehele loopbaan stond in het teken van de ontwikkelingen van zowel het nieuwe staatsbestel dat in 1917 was ingesteld als ook de culturele uitgangspunten die vanuit de politiek werd vastgesteld. De aanloop van zijn carrière wordt gekenmerkt door de totale vrijheid en experimenteerdrift die toentertijd beschouwd werd als passend bij een nieuwe staat en een nieuwe maatschappij.

In 1986, Ricky Ross started a full-time career in music, which has lasted for over 35 years. His earlier working life was spent in youth work and teaching in his home city of Dundee, and his adopted home of Glasgow. It was in these two cities where he spent his formative years learning how to write and play songs. Having always written about the people and places who've made an impact on his life, it's no surprise that this is how he has approached Walking Back Home, his first-ever memoir.