Títulos en Compositores y músicos

Bill Haley, the man who brought rock 'n' roll into the mainstream. His song "Crazy Man, Crazy" was the first rock 'n' roll song to break the Billboard Top 20 in 1953 and was followed by his evergreen "We're Gonna Rock Around the Clock", the first song of its kind to hit number one. His success made him an idol not only in the US but throughout the world, from Canada to the UK, Europe, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and beyond.

Ever wonder what goes into the creation of some of the best music ever recorded? Ever wonder how someone becomes an iconic professional who is universally admired and respected? Al Schmitt on the Record: The Magic Behind the Music reveals answers to those questions and more. In this memoir of one of the most respected engineers of all time, you'll see how a very young boy - mentored by his uncle Harry in New York - progressed through the recording world in its infancy, under the mentorship of Tom Dowd, in its heyday, becoming one of the all-time great recording engineers.

Sympathy for the Drummer: Why Charlie Watts Matters is both a gonzo rush - capturing the bristling energy of the Rolling Stones and the times in which they lived - and a wide-eyed reflection on why the Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band in the World needed the world's greatest rock 'n' roll drummer. Across five decades, Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts has had the best seat in the house.

Inside the chapters of Behind the Boards: Nashville by award-winning music biographer Jake Brown, country music fans for the first time ever are given a front-row seat inside Music Row's most famous recording studios on tours narrated by the town's biggest record producers.

På en scen någonstans i Sverige står en man och vrålar 'Kuken står!'. I innerfickan har han en bibel. Framför honom står ett hav av skrikande fans. Mannen är Eddie Meduza. Han var ett original som alltid gick sin egen väg. En multitalang med en oerhörd produktionstakt, som fullkomligt sprutade ur sig kassetter och sketcher. Men inom honom fanns också ett mörker som bottnade i en oerhört svår barndom och en livslång kamp mot alkoholen. 'Bara man é fantastisk' är en bok om en legend, om en älskad artist som slog publikrekord i folkparkerna och som fortfarande har hängivna fans i massor.

Charlotte Perrelli - Flickan från Småland' är den rörande, roliga och ibland halsbrytande berättelsen om arbetarklasstjejen från Hovmantorp som blev Charlotte Perrelli med hela svenska folket. Redan som liten sjöng Charlotte för att hon inte kunde låta bli. Hon började turnera som 13-åring i dansband, och lyckades ett antal år senare med hjälp av ett stulet telefonnummer starta en karriär som sångerska i Anders Engbergs orkester.

There is no doubt that Yolanda Saldívar pulled the trigger and killed Tejano superstar Selena Quintanilla Pérez on March 31, 1995. But does anyone know what really happened in room 158 of the Days Inn moments before the crime took place? María Celeste Arrarás has many answers, and her unrivaled coverage of the murder, trial, and aftermath made her the undisputed expert on the Selena case.

A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism offers a spirited introduction to the life and work of this legendary but underappreciated musician, composer, and poet. Paul Youngquist explores and assesses Sun Ra’s wide-ranging creative output - music, public preaching, graphic design, film and stage performance, and poetry - and connects his diverse undertakings to the culture and politics of his times, including the space race, the rise of technocracy, the civil rights movement, and even space-age bachelor-pad music.

Today, most of the music fans listen to is streamed via online services and highly compressed. It’s convenient, but, frustratingly, this comes at the cost of quality. Gone are the days when it was technologically necessary to compress music into the smallest possible file size, yet this remains the industry standard. The result is music that is robbed of its original quality - muddy and flat in sound compared to the rich, warm sound artists hear in the studio.

In 1984, at the age of 20, Duff McKagan left his native Seattle - partly to pursue music, but mainly to get away from a host of heroin overdoses then-decimating his closest group of friends in the local punk scene. In LA only a few weeks and still living in his car, he answered a want ad for a bass player placed by someone who identified himself only as "Slash." Soon after, the most dangerous band in the world was born. Guns N' Roses went on to sell more than 100 million albums worldwide.

Elvis Presley was much more than a cultural icon; he was a reliable barometer of the world in which he grew up. Long before the cultural revolutions of the '60s and '70s, Elvis was sparking a dynastic change of hands in American society. In this audiobook, you will learn about the life, the legend, and the unmistakable icon - Elvis Presley.  

När Javiera Muñoz träffar sitt livs stora kärlek är hon en ung och framgångsrik artist. År 2000 slår hon igenom i Melodifestivalen. Den nya stora kärleken visar sig snart vara någon annan än hon trott. Mannen som hon förälskat sig i tar kontroll över hennes tillvaro och bryter ner henne både fysiskt och psykiskt. Det går så långt att han nästan lyckas ta livet av henne. 2018 somnade Javiera Muñoz in efter en lång kamp mot anorexia. Hon blev 40 år gammal.

Leila K slog igenom med låten Got to get sommaren 1989. Hon hade kaxighet och utstrålning som få och verkade född till att stå på scen. Förortstjejen från Göteborg blev snabbt en internationell stjärna. Under en turné med Rob’n’Raz flydde hon till Ibiza. De följande åren släppte Leila K flera solohittar, men karriären överskuggades allt mer av skandaler. Vägen utför blev allt brantare och kantades av fängelsestraff. Efter en tids tystnad stod det klart att Leila K levde som hemlös på Stockholms gator.

In John Prine, Eddie Huffman traces the long arc of Prine’s musical career, beginning with his early, seemingly effortless successes, which led paradoxically not to stardom but to a rich and varied career writing songs that other people have made famous. He recounts the stories, many of them humorous, behind Prine’s best-known songs and discusses all of Prine’s albums as he explores the brilliant records and the ill-advised side trips, the underappreciated gems and the hard-earned comebacks that led Prine to found his own successful record label, Oh Boy Records.

Le molte pieghe dell'attualità si possono costruire come un Origami di carta, ma anche ascoltare. Appuntamento col settimanale della Stampa, come se fosse una voce.

Vent'anni senza Fabrizio De André. Ernesto Assante e Gino Castaldo ricordano Faber, il cantautore italiano scomparso l'11 gennaio 1999, raccontando i primi concerti e la sua timidezza, le collaborazioni artistiche e le sperimentazioni, i dischi e le storie che ci ha lasciato l'artista genovese.

I saggi, si sa, sono poco convenzionali. A Torino ce n'è uno che suona il flauto sotto un ponte sul Po. Non lo fa per esibizione ma solo per il piacere "acustico" di sentire il gioco dei riverberi sull'acqua. Incontrarlo vuol dire ascoltare parole che vengono da lontano, meravigliarsi per la casualità della bellezza ed "entrare in risonanza" con lo spirito del fiume.

Born to interracial American parents in Sweden, Jason Diakité grew up between worlds - part Swedish, American, black, white, Cherokee, Slovak, and German, riding a delicate cultural and racial divide. It was a no-man’s-land that left him in constant search of self. Even after his hip-hop career took off, Jason fought to unify a complex system of family roots that branched across continents, ethnicities, classes, colors, and eras to find a sense of belonging.

What do you do when you realise you have everything you think you've ever wanted but still feel completely empty? What do you do when it all starts to fall apart? The second volume of Moby's extraordinary life story is a journey into the dark heart of fame and the demons that lurk just beneath the bling and bluster of the celebrity lifestyle. In summer 1999, Moby released the album that defined the millennium, PLAY. Like generation-defining albums before it, PLAY was ubiquitous, and catapulted Moby to superstardom.

Redan som femåring fick Christina Lindberg sitt första arvode. När hon var elva vann hon sin första talangtävling och två år senare fick hon ett skivkontrakt. Hon har uppträtt med flera av Sveriges största artister och slagit rekord på Svensktoppen tillsammans med Lasse Stefanz och succén "De sista ljuva åren". Men att gå från barnstjärna till countrydrottning var ingen enkel resa. Framgången hade ett högt pris. Bakom alla succéerna hotade de mörka molnen: en ständig rädsla för att hennes bakgrund och de svåra ätstörningarna skulle avslöjas.