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Gary Barlow is one of the most successful British musicians and songwriters of all time, but 15 years ago, as he himself admits, he hit rock bottom - he was out of shape, out of work, depressed. Food for him had become an addiction, a means not only of comfort but almost of self-medication as he grappled with the cruel twists of fate of musical stardom. In 2003, as he struggled with the disappointment of an underperforming solo career alongside the tireless media taunts; Gary turned to food.

Er gibt Einblicke in die Gedanken- und Gefühlswelt der Künstlerin und erweist sich dabei als verständnisvoller Freund, aber auch kritischer Beobachter. Das Buch lebt zugleich von vielen einzigartigen Erinnerungsstücken, Zitaten, Briefen und Bildern.

Few people knew that Freddie Mercury kept a diary. When he died in 1991, he left behind seventeen handwritten notebooks chronicling his life and times, which he had begun to write in 1976 when Queen were at the height of their global fame. His final entry was made just weeks before his death. Only four of his nearest and dearest ever knew what became of those diaries. To one of them, Freddie secretly entrusted the collection just before he died. A mind-blowing listen, they constitute the closest thing to a Freddie Mercury autobiography that the world will ever know.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named a Notable Book of the Year by NPR and The Washington Post From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of life in and out of the kitchen. Stanley Tucci grew up in an Italian American family that spent...

Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of his epic artistic career in a long-awaited memoir that is as inventive and daring as anything he has done before Werner Herzog was born in September 1942 in Munich, Germany, at a turning point in...

Charles Casillo studies Monroe’s life through the context of her times - in the days before feminism. Before there was adequate treatment for bipolar disorder. Starting with her abusive childhood, this biography exposes how - in spite of her fractured psyche - Marilyn managed to transform each celebrated love affair and each tragedy into another step in her journey towards immortality. Casillo fully explores the last two years of her life, including her involvement with both John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert, and the mystery of her last day.

Celebrated actor, personality, and all-around nerd, Wil Wheaton updates his memoir of collected blog posts with all new material and annotations as he reexamines one of the most interesting lives in Hollywood and fandom--and now for the first time in audio, narrated by Wil himself, with an...

The definitive chronicle of underground music in the 1980s tells the stories of Black Flag, Sonic Youth, The Replacements, and other seminal bands whose DIY revolution changed American music forever. Our Band Could Be Your Life is the never-before-told story of the musical revolution that...

Here is the story of Jerry Weintraub: the self-made, Brooklyn-born, Bronx-raised impresario, Hollywood producer, legendary deal maker, and friend of politicians and stars. No matter where nature has placed him--the club rooms of Brooklyn, the Mafia dives of New York's Lower East Side, the wilds...

Opera is the fastest growing of all the performing arts, attracting audiences of all ages who are enthralled by the gorgeous music, vivid drama, and magnificent production values. If you've decided that the time has finally come to learn about opera and discover for yourself what it is about opera that sends your normally reserved friends into states of ecstatic abandon, this is the book for you.

In attempting to find out why we're not having the sex we want, Sofie asks the questions: can we blame a lacking sex education? Is it all just sexual trauma? Where's the radical sexual liberation we were promised? What are we going to do about this? Should she have slept with that guy in that bush that one time? How do you overcome being a 35 year-old virgin (when it comes to queer sex, that is)? How do the socially awkward and the neurodiverse have sex?

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.

From a comedian and host of hit TED podcast, How to Be a Better Human, a hilarious and enlightening guide to laughing your way into a fuller life “Warning: this book may cause repeated smiling. It’s a delightful read about how we can bring more levity into our lives.” —Adam Grant, author...

Nach seinem gefeierten Debüt "Aus dem Dachsbau", das mit dem Literaturpreis der Landeshauptstadt Wiesbaden ausgezeichnet wurde, erzählt TOCOTRONIC-Sänger Dirk von Lowtzow von einem Jahr des äußeren Stillstands und der inneren Aufruhr. Musiker:innen treten nicht mehr auf, Alben werden verschoben, Galerien, Kinos und Museen geschlossen, die Menschen sind auf die eigenen vier Wände und sich selbst zurückgeworfen. Dirk von Lowtzow inspiziert die Kunst- und Kulturszene im Stillstand, ein Leben ohne Publikum.

Deutschlands bekannteste Blondine in einer völlig neuen Rolle: Mutter. Was ihr auf dem Weg dahin so alles passiert ist, beschreibt sie gewohnt trocken, geradlinig und ehrlich in diesem Hörbuch. "Die Katze" steht für Blondinenwitz und Trinkgeldausschnitt, für Kodderschnauze und viel Schalk im Nacken. Was passiert mit der personifizierten Tussi, wenn sich auf einmal Nachwuchs ankündigt?

In this warm, intimate and humorous book, rich with nostalgia and unexpected intimate detail, Gary Barlow unpacks the people, music, places, things and cultural phenomena that have made him the man that he is. From the working men's club where it all began through to the sold out stadium tours, this is the story of Gary's life told through music.

Who was Jeffrey Epstein? Donald Trump has called the ongoing interest in the details about Epstein’s web of clients and enablers a “hoax.” But in this book, a Pulitzer Prize–nominated journalist delivers the most comprehensive account yet of the disgraced financier’s life and death...

Anna Kendrick's autobiographical collection of essays amusingly recounts memorable moments throughout her life, from her middle-class upbringing in New England to the blockbuster movies that have made her one of Hollywood's most popular actresses today. Expanding upon the witty and ironic dispatches for which she is known, Anna Kendrick's essays offer her one-of-a-kind commentary on the absurdities she's experienced on her way to and from the heart of pop culture.

Fünfzig Jahre ist es her, dass Sylvester Stallone als Rocky Balboa die Stufen des Philadelphia Art Museum hinaufgerannt ist. Seitdem sind er und diese Stufen zu Symbolen für Widerstandsfähigkeit und Entschlossenheit geworden und haben Millionen Menschen auf der ganzen Welt dazu inspiriert, ihre Träume zu verwirklichen. In »The Steps« erzählt Stallone jetzt davon, wie er seine eigenen Träume verfolgt hat. Er schildert seine Anfänge – seine schwierige Geburt, seine noch schwierigere Kindheit, Jahre des Kampfes in der Schule, in denen er sich unverstanden fühlte.

Die spannendsten Fälle schreibt das Leben. Er spielt mit in dem oscar-prämierten Film "Die Fälscher", mit Kevin Costner macht er während der Drehpausen im Wohnwagen Musik, als Kommissar im Kroatien-Krimi begeistert er regelmäßig ein Millionenpublikum. Das Leben von Lenn Kudrjawizki ist aufregend und abwechslungsreich und doch so viel mehr als eine reine Schauspielerbiografie. Schon als Kind hört Lenn von seinem Großvater die Geschichten seiner jüdischen Familie von Krieg, Flucht und Vertreibung. Seine Jugend in der DDR erlebt er wechselvoll und voller Umbrüche.