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Whitney Houston ocupa uno de los grandes puestos de la historia del pop. Su voz extraordinaria, sus cautivadoras actuaciones y sus récords de ventas la convirtieron en una de las estrellas más brillantes de los años ochenta y noventa. Por si fuera poco, se convirtio tambien en estrella de la gran pantalla con un papel protagonista memorable en El guardaespaldas.

Lemmy's name was synonymous with notorious excess. His blood would have killed another human being. This is the up-to-date story of the heaviest drinking, oversexed speedfreak in the music business who tragically passed away earlier this year. Lemmy had quickly outgrown his local bands in Wales, and tripped through his early career with the Rocking Vicars, backstage touring with Jimi Hendrix, and his time with Hawkwind. In 1975 he went on to create speedmetal and form the legendary band Motorhead. Motorhead stand firm as conquerors of the rock world, their history spanning an insurrectionary forty years. While the Motorhead line-up saw many changes, Lemmy was always the soul of the machine. In the words of drummer Mikkey Dee, 'Lemmy was Motorhead.' White Line Fever has been completely updated post Lemmy's untimely death in 2016, and offers all Motorhead fans who loved his music a sometimes hilarious, often outrageous, highly entertaining ride with the frontman of (what was) the loudest rock band in history. A truly epic finale, and tribute, to Lemmy from those who loved him best.

When Muddy Waters came to London at the start of the '60s, a kid from Boston called Joe Boyd was his tour manager; when Dylan went electric at the Newport Festival, Joe Boyd was plugging in his guitar; when the summer of love got going, Joe Boyd was running the coolest club in London, the UFO; when a bunch of club regulars called Pink Floyd recorded their first single, Joe Boyd was the producer; when a young songwriter named Nick Drake wanted to give his demo tape to someone, he chose Joe Boyd. More than any previous '60s music autobiography, Joe Boyd's "White Bicycles" offers the real story of what it was like to be there at the time. His greatest coup is bringing to life the famously elusive figure of Nick Drake - the first time he's been written about by anyone who knew him well. As well as the '60s heavy-hitters, this book also offers wonderfully vivid portraits of a whole host of other musicians: everyone from the great jazzman Coleman Hawkins to the folk diva Sandy Denny, Lonnie Johnson to Eric Clapton, The Incredible String Band to Fairport Convention.

The acclaimed best selling story of Tamla Motown records - the most successful independent record label in the world. Now acknowledged by critics in both the US and Europe as the definitive account of the rise and fall of the Motown Sound. It covers the careers of all the great Motown artists - The Supremes, Marin Gaye, The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, The Four Top, THe Jackson Five and many more. It tells the story behind all their hits and how the company was run on factory like principles by Berry Gordy who as a result became the richest black American in history. it paints a portrait of gullible artists signing away their rights and, eventually, falling out with Gordy over monetary matters and that many of the back room boys at Motown - the writers and the musicians who played on the records - got a pittance for their efforts.

For the first time, Andrew Ridgeleyone half of one of the most famous bands in the worldtells the inside story of Wham!, his lifelong friendship with George Michael, and the formation of a band that changed the shape of the music scene in the early eighties. In 1975 Andrew took a shy new boy at school under his wing. They instantly hit it off, and their boyhood escapades at Bushy Meads School built a bond that was never broken. The duo found themselves riding an astonishing roller coaster of success, taking them all over the world. They made and broke iconic records, they were treated like gods, but they stayed true to their friendship and ultimately to themselves. It was a party that seemed as if it would never end. And then it did, in front of tens of thousands of tearful fans at Wembley Stadium in 1986. Andrews memoir covers in wonderful detail those years, up until that last iconic concert: the scrapes, the laughs, the relationships, the good, and the bad. Its a unique and one-and-only time to remember that era, that band, and those boys.

HE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFor the first time, Andrew Ridgeley - one half of one of the most famous bands in the world - tells the inside story of WHAM! and his life-long friendship with George Michael.'A joyous celebration of the WHAM! years. For anyone who was a teenager in the early 1980s, it will take you on a nostalgia trip . . . It's an honest but affectionate account of a remarkable duo' Daily Express____________It is 1975, Watford, and two teenagers, George and Andrew, meet for the first time. Bonding over their love for singing, song writing and pop music, together they set out to follow an impossible dream.They didn't know it then, but they were taking their first steps towards forming Wham!, a band that was to become one of the biggest in the world.Wham! were the soundtrack of the 80s; whether it was choosing life or Live Aid, the decade of flamboyance and fun was a party that seemed like it would never end. But it had to stop somewhere - and that was in front of tens of thousands of tearful fans at Wembley Stadium in 1986.In Wham! George and Me, Andrew Ridgeley tells the story of Wham! - from the day they met to that iconic final concert. For the first time, he reveals what it was like being at the centre of a pop hurricane and talks of his love for and friendship with George. It's a story only he can tell.____________'I couldn't put it down. Such a fantastic book' Chris Evans, Virgin Radio'The Wham! star charts his treasured friendship with George Michael, from their meeting at school in 1975 to George's untimely death in 2016. Ridgeley's enthusiasm for life in a chart-topping band is as infectious as their music' Daily Mirror'A lovely book. A love letter to George' Graham Norton, BBC1'All you could want and more!' Magic Radio Book Club

The stories behind every song that John Lennon wrote in his career.

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.