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 En esta edición, el lector podrá encontrar el análisis pormenorizado de las canciones de U2 y de todos los álbumes del grupo, crónicas de los mejores conciertos, la historia de las asombrosas giras

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.

Diana Scrimgeour Authorized by U2, this is a lavishly illustrated history of U2Us live career, with more than 500 exclusive photos from the U2 archive.

Diana ScrimgeourFor 25 years, they have been at heart a live band. From their early pub gigs in Dublin and their first show in London in 1979 at the Moonlight Club, they have gone on to play over a thousand shows on the road. Their raw energy tore down the barriers between artist and audience. They have raised the bar for live rock shows again and again and again. Authorized by the band, including over 500 photos hand-picked from the official archive, this is the story of the creative juggernaut known as U2. From the 11 o'clock Tick Tock and Unforgettable Fire tours that first put the band on the map, through the breakout Joshua Tree and LoveMart tours of the 1980s and the increasingly extravagant ZooTV and PopMart tours of the 1990s, to the more intimate, "forward to basics" Elevation shows of the new millennium, it is the live performances that have defined U2.

Esta es la historia de U2, explicada con sus propias palabras e imágenes. El texto fue creado a base de más de 150 horas de entrevistas exclusivas con Bono, Edge, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen Jr y el manager Paul McGuinness, y guiado durante dos años por Neil McCormick, critico de rock del Daily Telegraph. En 1975, cuatro adolescentes de la escuela Mount Temple en Dublin se reunieron en una cocina llena de gente para hablar de formar una banda. Mas de treinta años mas tarde, Bono, Edge, Adam Clayton y Larry Mullen Junior aun estan juntos, unidos por una lealtad intensa, un idealismo apasionado y una creencia implacable en el poder de rock and roll para cambiar el mundo.Un viaje epico que los ha llevado de los clubs de Dublin a los estadios del mundo; en cuyo transcurso U2 ha vendido mas de 130 millones de albumes, ha sido numero uno en todo el mundo, ha revolucionado el directo, ha encabezado campañas politicas y ha hecho la musica que define la epoca en la que vivimos. Desde los dias anarquicos de sus origenes punk de los setenta, pasando por su subida al estrellato en los ochenta con el rock epico de The Joshua Tree, las ironias oscuras posmodernas de Achtung Baby en los noventa, y hasta su resurgimiento en el siglo veintiuno como el grupo rockero mas grande y audaz. Un cuent

"I always thought the job was to be as great as you could be." -- Bono This is the story of U2, in their own words and pictures. It is the only authorised, fully comprehensive guide to the biggest band in the world. "We are trying to pin down something elusive, something that represents where we are, emotionally, physically, spiritually, but is also fresh and exciting. If it is not absolutely the best it can be, then why bother?" -- Adam Clayton. In 1975, four teenagers from Mount Temple School in Dublin gathered in a crowded kitchen to discuss forming a band. The drum kit just about fit into the room, the lead guitarist was playing a homemade guitar, the bassist could barely play at all and nobody wanted to be the singer. Over thirty years later, Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jnr are still together, bound by intense loyalty, passionate idealism and a relentless belief in the power of rock and roll to change the world. "We wore it as a stubborn badge of pride that we weren''t prepared to fall into line with every other group and take the fashionable stance of the day. We were uncool because we were hot, we just erupted as a live band." -- The Edge.Told with wit, insight and astonishing candour by the band themselves and manager Paul McGuinness, with pictures from their own archives, ''U2 By U2'' allows unprecedented access into the inner life of the greatest rock band of our times. Bad haircuts, worse hangovers, prayer meetings and wild parties, encounters with presidents and popes, intimate accounts of the creation of all their classic songs, it is all here in a beautifully-presented book overseen by the band with the same passion for substance, style and immaculate attention to detail familiar from their musical career. "I have read a lot of rubbish about U2. Whenever I see us described in some mythic sense as masters of our own destiny, it makes me laugh. Being in U2 is more like riding a runaway train. We are just ordinary guys, hanging on to this thing for our lives." -- Larry Mullen Jnr.

In 1975, four teenagers from Mount Temple School in Dublin gathered in a crowded kitchen to discuss forming a band. The drum kit just about fit into the room, the lead guitarist was playing a homemade guitar, the bassist could barely play at all and nobody wanted to sing. Over thirty years later, Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr are still together, bound by intense loyalty, passionate idealism and a relentless belief in the power of rock and roll to change the world.In a epic journey that has taken them from the clubs of Dublin to the stadiums of the world, U2 have sold over 130 million albums, been number one all over the world, revolutionized live performance, spearheaded political campaigns and made music that defines the age we live in.From the anarchic days of their Seventies punk origins through their Eighties ascent to superstardom with the epic rock of ''The Joshua Tree'', the dark post-modern ironies of ''Achtung Baby'' in the Nineties and their 21st-Century resurgence as rock''s biggest and boldest band, this is a tale of faith, love, drama, family, birth, death, survival, conflict, crises, creativity . . . and a lot of laughter.Told with wit, insight and astonishing candour by the band themselves and manager Paul McGuinness, with pictures from their own archives, ''U2 by U2'' allows unprecedented access into the inner life of the greatest rock band of our times.

A passionate, critically incisive biography of one of the most influential rappers of all time, Tupac Shakur, and how he came to dominate hip-hop in the 1990s.In 1996 Tupac Shakur, a talented rapper and actor, was murdered in Las Vegas. No one has ever been arrested for the crime. Tayannah Lee McQuillar and Professor Fred L. Johnson examine Tupacs story, from his family roots in Lumberton, North Carolina, and Virginia through his meteoric rise to fame and tragic fall.Shakur was a hero to the poor, the imprisoned, the hopeless, and the voiceless. But there was another side of him, revealed as his life spun out of control, as the whispered warnings from friends went unheeded and the denunciations of critics grew louder. His death ended an era when American rappers used their art to speak the truth to corporate, government, and judicial power.

Quincy Jones, Vibe Magazine, the Editors of Vibe Magazine"The tragedy of Tupac is that his untimely passing is representative of too many young black men in this country....If we had lost Oprah Winfrey at 25, we would have lost a relatively unknown, local market TV anchorwoman. If we had lost Malcolm X at 25, we would have lost a hustler nicknamed Detroit Red. And if I had left the world at 25, we would have lost a big-band trumpet player and aspiring composerjust a sliver of my eventual life potential." From the Foreword by Quincy Jones The real story of Tupac's murder may not ever emerge. This may be the only lasting testament to the many faces of Tupac Shakurof a life lived fast and hard, of a man cloaked in contradictions. A young man who was just starting to come into his own. "I believe that everything you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer for it. But in my heart, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven." Tupac Shakur, June 1996

In this title Mark Sturdy uncovers Pulp''s history, speaking to members, ex-members and associates of the band. Many of people interviewed have never spoken at length to the media before and the result is an exhaustive exposition of Pulp''s story, both before and after their mid ''90s breakthrough.

Writing his own story Martin Kemp talks frankly about his upbringing in working-class Islington, stardom and success with Spandau Ballet and the break up of the band. He writes openly about his film career, the huge success of The Krays, his tremendous fight against brain cancer and on to today with fame again in EastEnders. This is a stunningly written account of a fascinating life written with candour and wit.