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The first memoir to tell the story of John Lennon and Yoko's life from the Beatles split to John's untimely death in 1980 - from the inside. Honest, insightful, humane, revealing, it will bring the lives of two cultural icons to life like never before.'A charmingly modest tale of a long brush with stardom, with all its pleasures and frustrations' Kirkus'A captivating and intimate window into the complicated lives of one of rocks most legendary couples' Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)_____________'Its hard to define the relationship Elliot had with our family. But I ultimately think the best word to describe him is: friend. Perhaps our closest friend. The reason I wanted Elliot to write a book, first and foremost, is because he is a good storyteller. The fact that he was there in the lives of John and Yoko (and mine), is really just icing on the cake. I like hearing him talk, and Im sure you will, too' Sean Ono LennonFrom the moment he interviewed Yoko Ono on his late night radio show in September 1971, Elliot Mintzs life would never the same again. That phone call would lead him to an intense and revealing friendship with Yoko and her husband, John Lennon, until Johns untimely death in 1980, and beyond, to the present day.In 1971, then the talk host on American airwaves, Elliot Mintz was talking to all of the major figures in the burgeoning West Coast music scene when he was asked whether he would interview Yoko about her new album. Their talk quickly lead to other private calls and then to John Lennon, with whom he quickly formed a firm bond. Those conversations became hours-long epics, to the extent that Elliot had another phone line put in, for which only two people had the number - John and Yoko.The aftermath of The Beatles breakup ushered in a tumultuous decade. Elliot witnessed it, or heard all about it, at close hand including the unbearable cost of such fame when John and Yoko separated for what became known as his lost weekend. There was joy when their son Sean was born and the creative rebirth that was the multi-platinum selling triumph, Double Fantasy. But then there was unimaginable tragedy too when John was brutally murdered in December 1980.

Stephen DavisFrom the New York Times bestselling author, the complete story of the last rock supergroup from their drugfueled blast-off in the 1980s to the turbulent life of legendary singer Axl Rose and his fifteen-year, multi-million dollar effort to make the perfect hardrock album. With 90 million of the band's records sold worldwide since 1987, Guns N' Roses prolonged rock music past its sell-by date with controversial albums and immense, often riotous world tours. But the band's complete story has never been fully tolduntil now. In his sixth major rock biography, Stephen Davis details the riveting story of a band that originated in the gutters of Sunset Strip and went on to set attendance records on the biggest stadiums on the planet. Watch You Bleed documents the improbable story of W. Axl Rose, the biggest rock star of his generation. Taken from an abusive father in his infancy, he was raised as "Bill Bailey" in a strictly religious Indiana household by a stepfather who beat him for playing Led Zeppelin songs on the family piano. After quitting high school, and on the run from the police in his hometown, Axl arrived in Los Angeles in the midst of the street battles for supremacy among the top music genres of the eightiespost-punk, thrash, hair metal, and glam. The book also charts the backgrounds of every band member, especially Slash, a Hollywood street kid whose designer mother dated David Bowie. Davis brilliantly captures the birth of Guns' raw power, whichdespite rape charges, drug-induced rampages, and a general appetite for destruction launched the band into the pantheon of rock gods such as Led Zeppelin and theRolling Stones. With a wealth of detail, Davis looks at Axl's unrelenting quest to release the long-awaited, mystery-shrouded Chinese Democracy album, as well as the further adventures of some of the Gunners under the banner of the hard-rocking band Velvet Revolver. For the first time, millions of Guns N' Roses fans will learn the whole truthsometimes funny, sometimes tragicabout the last of the great rock bands. Biography

En el mundo del clubbing al dj que abre noche y le va calentando la pista al selector sonoro estrella -ese que siempre actúa en el mejor momento de la madrugada- se le conoce popularmente como warm-up. Esto equivaldria en castellano, y cogiendolo prestado al mundo del rock, a la siempre meritoria labor del telonero. Los periodistas musicales cumplen una labor similar, con su trabajo informativo van subiendole la temperatura a la escena; provocando que sea mas apetecible asistir a determinados festivales y sesiones, y elevando el talento de los artistas hasta lugares casi irreales. Fernando Fuentes -periodista musical por vocacion, vicio y devocion- continuando en su habitual linea de meterse en jardines sonoros y literarios, de los que sale siempre a duras penas, aborda en este libro lo acontecido en las lides de la prensa musical especializada en sonidos electronicos en España durante la decada -2000-2010- en la que todo sucedio. Como protagonista directo de este fenomeno -y contando con la inestimable colaboracion de los maestros y colegas dueños de las opiniones mas acreditadas- ofrece una vision profunda, variada y cruda de la genesis, consolidacion y actual decadencia de la escena informativa española dedicada a la difusion de sonidos entendidos como avanzados. El proposito de este compendio no es otro que reunir en un solo documento -agil, coral y bien documentado- un recorrido real que sirva ademas de tributo a todos esos profesionales que un buen dia decidieron entregar los mejores años -y mas largas madrugadas- de sus vidas a la promocion y difusion de musicas presuntamente no convencionales en este pais tan poco amigo de las vanguardias, sean del tipo que fueren, como es España.

Everyone knows who the Spice Girls are. The group became the most famous pop trademark of the 1990s, and for a while they were the biggest-selling act on planet pop. This is the first book to examine the life and times of the Spice Girls in a way that puts the group and their music into a broader social and historical context. Combining meticulously researched biographical narrative with an insiders account of pop in the 1990s and 2000s it will open a window onto the backstage lot of Spice world and much more besides.

WALKING DISASTER is a riveting story of excess lived in the limelight told with candour humility and a thoughtful introspection rarely found in rock memoirs An unlikely rock and roll success story Derek is an unassuming intelligent sensitive and insightful creative who is most at home in Sum 41 s ecosystem bringing their high energy shows to crowds around the globe on marathon tours that typically last a year or more He isn t the fame seeking type but he has had to contend with an unexpected degree of tabloid and paparazzi attention throughout his career due to two high profile relationships one with Paris Hilton and the other his four year marriage to pop singer Avril Lavigne His life prior to the band is just as compelling Raised in a single parent household under difficult circumstances Whibley found solace and an avenue for his musical gifts in punk rock Deryck s father abandoned him and his mother just after he was born after which his mother remarried His stepfather who worked in construction and dealt drugs was violent and abusive When Deryck s mother eventually fled with her son and filed for divorce they were forced to live at a campsite in Western Canada for a year hiding from his stepfather who had vowed to kill them both Introspective

From the band that lived by the motto "Anything worth doing was worth overdoing" -- Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Tom Hamilton, Brad Whitford, and Joey Kramer -- comes a quarter century of rock godhood: the life, the music, the truth, the hell, the lost years, and the raunchy, unsafe sex. And, of course, the drugs. But after crashing in a suffocating cloud of cocaine, crystal meth, and heroin, Aerosmith rose up from the ashes to become clean and sober -- and reclaim their rightful title as World Champion Rockers. Learn how they did it in a book that is pure Aerosmith unbound: where they came from, what they are now, and what they will always be -- a great American band.

Un apasionante ensayo sobre la influencia de Wagner, en ocasiones luminosa, otras veces nefasta, en la literatura, las artes, el cine, la vida intelectual y la política.Para bien o para mal, Wagner es la figura mas influyente en la historia de la musica. Creaciones tan colosales como El anillo del Nibelungo, Tristan e Isolday Parsifal sirvieron en el arte como modelos de obras osadas en la forma, como ejemplos en la creacion de mitos, la libertad erotica y especulacion mistica. EnWagnerismo, Alex Ross restaura la magnifica confusion de lo que significa ser wagneriano: un pandemonio de genios, locos y profetas que luchan por el legado multifacetico del compositor, y convierte la experiencia de lectura en un constante descubrimiento a traves de esas figuras, de Nietzsche, Van Gogh, Dali y Buñuel a Baudelaire, Virginia Woolf o Proust.En muchos sentidos,Wagnerismo cuenta una historia tragica. Un artista que podria haber rivalizado con Shakespeare en alcance universal se ve arruinado por una ideologia de odio. Aun asi, su sombra perdura sobre la cultura del siglo XXI y sus motivos miticos recorren peliculas de superheroes y fantasia. Ni una apologia ni una condena,Wagnerismo es una obra de apasionante descubrimiento, que nos ofrece una idea mas honesta de como actua el arte en el mundo.