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[An] astute reckoning with modern celebrity' - The Times'A wild read' - The Guardian'A great, thorough piece of work' - Pandora SykesPart biography, part social history, Being Britney pieces together a collage of stories, interviews, legends and fan experiences to construct a definitive portrait of one of the biggest stars in recent history. In her unique narrative, acclaimed music author Jennifer Otter Bickerdike provides a sympathetic yet objective re-examination of Britney's trajectory from girl next door to woman trapped by fame. Being Britney is the compelling account of a talented, troubled and talked-about modern icon, whose life, work and individual significance will be recognised for many decades to come.'After years of being framed as a victim, Britney deserves to be celebrated as the fighter, inspiration and enigma she truly is.' - Jennifer Otter Bickerdike

A timely and unique portrait of one of music's most talented, troubled and talked-about modern icons, re-examining the prolific career, publicised life and continued cultural relevance of pop princess Britney Spears.With her canon of best-selling singles, electrifying stage performances and iconic music videos, Britney Spears is undoubtedly a modern pop superstar. But her story has long been clouded by society's dark obsession with beauty, youth and fame - a relentless glare that has threatened to eclipse her musical success.A mother, an entrepreneur; a victim, a fighter; an entertainer, an enigma - Britney's life is as multi-faceted as the very contradictions, pressures and expectations that helped create her. Yet, beyond the eye-catching headlines and front-page fodder, an almost indecipherable question remains: who is the real Britney?Part biography, part social history, Being Britney pieces together a collage of vignettes, stories, interviews, legends and fan experiences to construct a definitive portrait of the artist and her complex, far-reaching orbit. Written by acclaimed music author Jennifer Otter Bickerdike, this unique narrative is the first to provide a sympathetic yet objective re-examination of Britney's cultural impact in the wake of major collective shifts surrounding feminism, celebrity and mental health.Despite her career spanning five presidents, multiple creative reinventions and over 100 million album sales, Britney's ability to come back again and again from highly publicised personal adversity has rarely been acknowledged. However, her successes keep stacking up and her relevance seems to grow with each passing year, culminating in a game-changing Las Vegas residency, a shocking conservatorship battle and a powerful #FreeBritney support campaign.Being Britney is the compelling account of a talented, troubled and talked-about icon, whose life, work and individual significance w ill be recognised for many years to come.

Esta biografía de Jaco Pastorius nos descubre a una figura clave en la renovación de la música de fusión de los últimos años. Estamos ante un músico singular, capaz de tocar batería y piano, además del bajo electrico, el instrumento por el que pasara a la historia de la musica, ya que es el introductor del instrumento como solista. De naturaleza inestable era bipolar-, su desorbitado exito junto al fracaso de su matrimonio, llevo al musico a perder el sentido de la realidad y caer en el delirio propio de su enfermedad hasta que murio en septiembre de 1987 victima de una paliza a la salida de un bar. Jaco es la unica publicacion que existe sobre el bajista.

A jazz-rock phenomenon, the mercurial bassist Jaco Pastorius burst on to the scene in the mid-1970s as a member of Joe Zawinul's band Weather Report. As Bill Milkowski, a close friend of the bassist, explains in his detailed and well-researched biography, JACO, Pastorius's innovative playing brought the bass into the foreground as almost an alternative lead instrument. He soon gained a reputation among both jazz and rock fans which led to gigs with artists like Joni Mitchell, in whose albums HEJIRA and SHADOWS AND LIGHT the bassist played a major part, and fusion guitarist Pat Metheny. But in Pastorius's genius lay the seeds of tragedy: the onset of bipolar disorder, exacerbated by drugs and alcohol, which resulted in several career-derailing onstage incidents. In Milkowski's sympathetic retelling, the trajectory of Pastorius's life becomes one of sickness, recovery, and inevitable descent back into sickness, leading to his ostracism from the music world, homelessness, and his eventual death at 35, at the hands of a club bouncer in his Fort Lauderdale home town. Milkowski's background in jazz writing, coupled with his intimate acquaintance with Pastorius's damaged psyche, makes JACO a heartbreaking account of musical brilliance derailed by madness.

Billie Eilish comparte en este libro la mirada más íntima sobre su vida (tanto dentro como fuera del escenario) a través de espectaculares fotografías y textos personales. Billie Eilish es un fenómeno mundial. Con una llamativa estetica personal y unas letras oscuras y conmovedoras sin igual, Billie destaca entre los grandes iconos de la musica del siglo XXI. Sus canciones, que baten records y ganan grandes premios, y su actitud intransigente y arriesgada, hacen que sus millones de fans crezcan cada mes. Billie Eilish es la extraordinaria combinacion de un talento prodigioso y una popularidad sin igual, una estrella unica de esta generacion. En este impresionante viaje narrativo y visual a traves de su vida, Billie se abre a su audiencia y comparte sus experiencias por primera vez, incluyendo centenares de fotos nunca vistas entre sus paginas. Este magnifico libro captura la esencia de la artista por dentro y por fuera: con recuerdos de su infancia, experiencias sobre su vida de gira, fotos ineditas y mucho mas. Un libro que todo fan debe tener.

n his first full-length autobiography, comedy legend and national treasure Billy Connolly reveals the truth behind his windswept and interesting life. Born in a tenement flat in Glasgow in 1942, orphaned by the age of 4, and a survivor of appalling abuse at the hands of his own family, Billy's life is a remarkable story of success against all the odds. Billy found his escape first as an apprentice welder in the shipyards of the River Clyde.Later he became a folk musician - a 'rambling man' - with a genuine talent for playing the banjo. But it was his ability to spin stories, tell jokes and hold an audience in the palm of his hand that truly set him apart. As a young comedian Billy broke all the rules.He was fearless and outspoken - willing to call out hypocrisy wherever he saw it. But his stand-up was full of warmth, humility and silliness too. His startling, hairy 'glam-rock' stage appearance - wearing leotards, scissor suits and banana boots - only added to his appeal.It was an appearance on Michael Parkinson's chat show in 1975 - and one outrageous story in particular - that catapulted Billy from cult hero to national star. TV shows, documentaries, international fame and award-winning Hollywood movies followed. Billy's pitch-perfect stand-up comedy kept coming too - for over 50 years, in fact - until a double diagnosis of cancer and Parkinson's Disease brought his remarkable live performances to an end.

Nosotros, los artistas, somos la gente capaz de cambiar la estructura molecular del corazón y de la cabeza de quienes habitan este planeta.Más que unas memorias, un testimonio visceral. Sin protección es un libro honesto, divertido y desgarrador.Todo empieza en Pittsburgh, donde un joven Billy canta en el coro gospel de su iglesia y va a terapia desde los cinco años para corregir su afeminamiento. Acosado en la escuela y abusado por su padrastro, Porter se aferra a su talento excepcional y, con el apoyo de algunos angeles que encuentra por el camino, logra convertirse en el artista galardonado de Broadway y Hollywood que se pasea por la alfombra roja, con sus looks espectaculares que rompen todos los moldes. Un relato poderoso que nos habla de raza, sexualidad, trauma y la capacidad el arte para sanar.

Widely described as 'punk's poet laureate', Ian Dury is a cultural icon. With his band The Blockheads, he exploded onto the television screen in 1978, appearing on Top of the Pops with his hit single 'What a Waste', followed later that year by 'Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick'. By now Ian was thirty-six and had worked hard for many years to reach this moment, struggling all the while to find acceptance inspite of the disability he suffered as a result of childhood polio. And yet fame, when it came, almost destroyed him.

This fully revised and updated edition is an inside look at all the places where jazz and blues live, from national clubs to unmarked holes in the wall, in 25 cities and the Mississippi Delta. With city-by-city listings for clubs, festivals, musicians'' homes, historic theaters, record stores, and radio stations--and with brief histories of the music in each particular city--Bird''s guide is an essential "where-to" for jazz and blues fans everywhere. Photos. Where did Charlie Parker first play with Dizzy Gillespie? What are the coolest clubs in Chicago? Which city has the largest jazz museum? Where is Howlin'' Wolf buried? The answers can be found in "The Da Capo Jazz and Blues Lover''s Guide to the U.S.," an insiders look at all the places where jazz and blues live, from national clubs to unmarked holes in the wall, in twenty-five cities and the Mississippi Delta. With the most up-to-date listings for festivals, historic theaters, record stores, and radio stations-plus anecdotes from club owners and musicians--this is the essential "where-to" for jazz and blues fans everywhere.

Birkin's diary entries ultimately expose the toxic reality behind one of the 20th century's most glamorous couples' Sunday TimesJane Birkin - actor, singer, songwriter and model - attained international fame with her decade-long musical and personal relationship with Serge Gainsbourg that featured their internationally controversial hit song 'Je t'aime...moi no plus'. She has also enjoyed a notable career as a movie actress in Blow-Up, Death on the Nile and Evil Under the Sun.Munkey Diaries re-creates the flamboyant era of Swinging London and Saint-Germain-des-Pres in the 1970s, and lets us into the everyday life of an exceptional woman. There are intimate revelations about Jane's tumultuous life with her first husband, the composer John Barry, and her romantic and professional collaboration with Gainsbourg, as well as keen insights into a working life as an actor, singer and songwriter.

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"Remarkable new study...Its central submission, that we have hitherto disregarded or misinterpreted the most profound intuitions of a unique composer, certainly carries conviction. And even after one reading there are already musical passages that this Schubert enthusiast finds himself hearing in quite a new way". - Bayan Northcott, BBC "Music Magazine". "A sensitive and richly allusive commentary...likely to change the way we listen to certain works". - Brian Newbould. The old stereotypes of Schubert as Bohemian artist and unselfconscious creator have been replaced over the past half-century with a picture of a difficult man in difficult times. The author aims to redress the balance, concentrating firstly on works where Schubert''s beliefs are clearly expressed (masses, other religious music, songs amounting to "Geistliche Lieder"). This also prompts an examination of instrumental masterpieces ("Unfinished and Great C Major Symphonies", and the "Wanderer Fantasy"), which show that Schubert''s religious side encompasses awe and terror as well as wonder. Schubert''s ''complete voice'' is thus clearly heard, rather than the sombre one currently emphasised in both literature and concert. Leo Black is a former BBC chief producer for music.

Las biografías de compositores e intérpretes suelen conceder excesiva atención a la música, cuando no a las propias memorias de los artistas, en perjuicio de una comprensión cabal y pondera­da de la

La historia de Keith Richards está llena no solo de canciones míticas de la historia del rock, sino de un modo de vivir a caballo entre la élite musical y los calabozos y las comisarías. Se puede decir que Keith Richards las ha visitado en un puñado de paises europeos, en Canada y en Estados Unidos, que le han detenido en pubs, en su casa, en la carretera y hasta en el escenario; que se ha sentado tantas veces ante los jueces que es dificil hacer un recuento, que ha rozado la cadena perpetua por trafico de heroina (falso), que a su alrededor han dejado este mundo gente que vivia peligrosamente junto a el, codo con codo, empezando por Brian Jones y que ha tenido a su lado, siempre, a pesar de todo, a su amigo de Dartford, a Mick, que nunca le ha dejado, ni en los peores momentos.