Maria Callas was almost as well-known for her personal life - her jet-setting, her staggering weight loss, her tigress-like temperament, her affair with Aristotle Onassis (he threw her over for Jacqueline Kennedy) - as she was for her singing. This musical biography covers Callas' life and career.
George Gershwin lived with purpose and gusto, but with melancholy as well, for he was unable to make a place for himself--no family of his own and no real home in music. He and his siblings received little love from their mother and no direction from their father. Older brother and lyricist Ira managed to create a home when he married Leonore ......
As long as there are teenage boys in the world, there will be an audience for Led Zeppelin, the '70s-era hard rock legend whose "Stairway to Heaven" is one of the most-ever-played songs in the history of American FM radio. This biography presents the Led Zeppelin's legendary guitarist and producer.
A biography about four Essex lads who became award-winning stadium superstars and champions of synth pop/rock. It features interviews with founder member Vince Clarke, engineer-cum-producer Gareth Jones - who together with Mute Records founder/mentor Daniel Miller - played a pivotal role in shaping Depeche Mode's unique sound over theyears.
John Cage was a giant of American experimental music--composer, writer, and artist. He is most widely known for his 1952 composition 4'33,whose three movements continue to challenge the definition of music by being performed without playing a single note. In questioning fundamental tenets of Western music, Cage was often at the center of ......
As one of the best-known honky-tonkers to appear in the wake of Hank Williams's death, Faron Young was a popular presence on Nashville's music scene for more than four decades. The Singing Sheriff produced a string of Top Ten hits, placed more than eighty songs on the country music charts, and founded the long-running country music periodical ......
An Australian, Malcolm Williamson was the first non-Briton to hold the post of Master of the Queen's Music. He was appointed in 1975 as a composer. By the time of his death in 2003 he was unproductive and largely forgotten. This work tells his story, sifting fact from fiction and offering a case for re-evaluating this multi-talented musician.
Famous American, chorus leader, showman, glee club pioneer, golf tournament host, and entrepreneur--the man who taught America how to sing! Fred Waring was all of these and more, an enigma who held together a major musical organization for sixty-seven years, a man at ease on stage but loathe to sit through meetings, a man so earnest in his ......
For a generation of musicians and fans, the late Ray Charles provided the catalyst that fused the genres of jazz, blues and gospel music. This book traces Ray Charles's story from the abject disadvantage of being orphaned, black and blind in the South of the 1930s to the height of international success.
