Tony Sanchez, "Up and Down with the Rolling Stones: My Rollercoaster Ride with Keith Richards" ISBN: 1843582635 | 2010 | EPUB | 380 pages | 520 KB
This insider’s account of the lives of Brian Jones, Keith Richard, and Mick Jagger in the sixties and seventies has become legendary in the years since its first publication in 1979. Tony Sanchez worked for Keith Richard for eight years – buying drugs, running errands, and orchestrating cheap thrills – and he records unforgettable accounts of the Stones’ perilous misadventures: racing cars along the Cote d’Azur; murder at Altamont; nostalgic nights with the Beatles at the Stones-owned nightclub Vesuvio; frantic flights to Switzerland for blood changes; and the steady stream of women, including Anita Pallenberg, Marianne Faithfull, and Bianca Jagger. Here the Stones as never seen before, cavorting around the world, smashing Bentleys, working black magic, getting raided, having children, snorting coke, and mainlining heroin. Sanchez tells the whole truth, sparing not even himself in the process. With hard-hitting prose and candid photographs, he creates an invaluable primary source for anyone interested in the world’s most famous rock and roll band.
The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light by Carlos Santana English | 2014 | ISBN: 0316244929, 031632874X | 544 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
In 1967 in San Francisco, just a few weeks after the Summer of Love, a young Mexican guitarist took the stage at the Fillmore Auditorium and played a blistering solo that announced the arrival of a prodigious musical talent. Two years later -- after he played a historic set at Woodstock -- the world came to know the name Carlos Santana, his sensual and instantly recognizable guitar sound, and the legendary band that blended electric blues, psychedelic rock, Latin rhythms, and modern jazz, and that still bears his name.
Carlos Santana's unforgettable memoir offers a page-turning tale of musical self-determination and inner self-discovery, with personal stories filled with colorful detail and life-affirming lessons. The Universal Tone traces his journey from his earliest days playing the strip bars in Tijuana while barely in his teens and brings to light the establishment of his signature guitar sound; his roles as husband, father, recording legend, and rock guitar star; his indebtedness to musical and spiritual influences -- from John Coltrane and John Lee Hooker to Miles Davis and Harry Belafonte; and his deep, lifelong dedication to a spiritual path that he developed from his Catholic upbringing, Eastern philosophies, and other mystical sources. It includes his recording some of the most popular and influential rock albums of all time, up to and beyond the 1999 sensation Supernatural, which garnered nine Grammy Awards and stands as arguably the most amazing career comeback in popular music history.
It's a profoundly inspiring tale of divine inspiration and musical fearlessness that does not balk at finding the humor in the world of high-flying fame, or at speaking plainly of Santana's personal revelations and the infinite possibility he sees in each person he meets. "Love is the light that is inside of all of us, everyone," he writes. "I salute the light that you are and that is inside your heart."
Charles R. Cross "Here We Are Now: The Lasting Impact of Kurt Cobain" It Books | English | March 18, 2014 | ISBN: 0062308211 | 192 pages | azw, epub, lrf, mobi | 3,23 mb
Covering a wide scope of areas, Here we are now looks back on the broad impact of Cobain on our society both within that moment and still visible today. I did appreciate the attention that the novel pays to suicide and p e prevention.resources since I can recall how visible those help lines became at the time of his death. A message still needed in a more fractured world of communication.
Robert Shelton, "No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan" English | ISBN: 184938911X | 2011 | EPUB | 368 pages | 11 MB
Robert Shelton met Bob Dylan when the young singer arrived in New York. He became Dylan's friend, champion, and critic. His book, first published in 1986, was hailed as the definitive unauthorised biography of this moody, passionate genius and his world. Of more than a thousand books published about Bob Dylan it is only this one that has been written with the Dylan's active cooperation. Dylan gave Shelton access to his parents Abe and Beatty Zimmerman - whom no other journalist has ever interviewed in depth; to his brother, David; to childhood friends from Hibbing; to fellow students and friends from Minneapolis; and to Suze Rotolo, the muse immortalised on the cover of Freewheelin', among others. No Direction Home took 20 years to complete and when it was finally published the book received widespread critical acclaim. Two decades on, Dylan's standing is higher than at any time since the 1960s and Shelton's book is now seen as a classic of the genre. This new edition, published to coincide with Dylan's 70th birthday on 24th May 2011, includes key images of Dylan throughout his incredible, enduring career, updated footnotes and Bibliography, and a new, selective, Discography.
Lemmy Kilmister, "White Line Fever : Lemmy - The Autobiography" English | ISBN: 067103331X | 2003 | EPUB | 320 pages | 1,1 MB
The warts-and-all autobiography of Lemmy Kilmister, the vicar's son who grew up to front Motorhead, arguably the loudest and most outrageous heavy metal band ever. The group remains at the top of their profession with a new album and tour scheduled for the year 2002.
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KISS: Behind the Mask - Official Authorized Biogrphy by Ken Sharp, David Leaf English | 2003 | ISBN: 0446530735 | 448 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Now everything is finally revealed about one of rock music's most outrageous and enduring phenomena. In this definitive, official authorized biography, authors David Leaf and Ken Sharp were given full, unprecedented access to Kiss and their inner circle. Hear the true, uncensored stories from Gene Simmons, the fire-breathing Demon; Paul Stanley, the acrobatic Starchild; Ace Frehley, the axe-slinging Spaceman; and Peter Criss, the levitating Catman drummer. Chronicling the group's amazing story, this one-of-a-kind book also offers interviews with some of the biggest stars in rock music, including Pete Townshend, Alice Cooper, Ted Nugent, Ozzy Osbourne, and many others. The only book that truly captures the inimitable and exuberant spirit of the fiery foursome who gave America its second national anthem, "Rock and Roll All Nite," Kiss: Behind the Mask is a must-have for the band's legion of Kiss Army acolytes. * Dozens of never-before-seen photos * The band's story, told in their own words * Exclusive album-by-album, song-by-song commentary * In unique interviews, today's rock superstars tell why they love Kiss.
John Densmore, "Riders on the Storm: My Life With Jim Morrison and the Doors" ISBN: 0385300336, 0385304471 | 1990 | EPUB/MOBI | 319 pages | 2 MB/7 MB
Here is the book that Rolling Stone called "the first Doors biography that feels like it was written for the right reasons, and it is easily the most informed account of the Doors' brief but brilliant life as a group".
The Beatles Through Headphones: The Quirks, Peccadilloes, Nuances and Sonic Delights of the Greatest Popular Music Ever Recorded by Ted Montgomery English | 2014 | ISBN: 0786478632 | 196 pages | EPUB | 0,4 MB
Most Beatles fans have probably spent most of their time listening to the iconic group's music over a stereo system with external speakers. While the music sounds wonderful this way, this method of listening does not deliver the full sonic picture of what the Beatles created.
To have a complete appreciation of their artistry and innovation, one must listen carefully to the Beatles recordings over high-quality headphones.
Based on hundreds of listening hours, this volume chronicles--album by album and in great detail--the nuances and quirks to be found in a close listening, including mistakes, studio corrections, mumbled phrases and other aural delights and peccadilloes.With brief but incisive reviews of every song the Beatles committed to tape, this pioneering work offers a new and enlightening perspective on the greatest popular music ever written, performed or recorded.
Mavericks of Sound: Conversations with Artists Who Shaped Indie and Roots Music by David Ensminger English | 2014 | ISBN: 144223590X | 260 pages | EPUB | 3,2 MB
In Mavericks of Sound: Conversations with the Artists Who Shaped Indie and Roots Music, music scholar David Ensminger offers a collection of vivid and compelling interviews with legendary roots rock and indie artists who bucked mainstream trends and have remained resilient in the face of enormous shifts in the music world. As the success of the concerts at Austin City Limits have revealed, the fan bases and crowds for indie and roots music often blur and overlap. In Mavericks of Sound, Ensminger brings to light the highways and byways trod by these music icons over the course of their careers and the ways in which their music-making has been affected by, and influenced, the burgeoning indie and roots music movements.
Ranging from seminal modern singer-songwriters to rockabilly renegades and indie rockers, Mavericks of Sound features a set of broad, penetrating, and insightful conversations imbued with a sense of musical history and heritage. Ensminger captures firsthand accounts from singer songwriters like Texas Country musician Tom Russell and first wave indie artist and folk rocker Peter Case; rockabilly artists Junior Brown and the Reverend Horton Heat; American indie rock icons such as 11th Dream Day’s Janet Bean, Pere Ubu’s Dave Thomas, Apples in Stereo’s Robert Schneider, and Swans members Michael Gira and Jarboe; English and New Zealand figures such as folk legend Richard Thompson, The Clean’s David Kilgour and The Waterboys’ Mike Scott; and folk, country and rock legends such as Merle Haggard, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Ralph Stanley, Neko Case, and Yo La Tengo.
Mavericks of Sound is the perfect work for contemporary indie, roots, Americana, country, and folk music fans who want to understand the unique artistry and unbound passion behind America’s musical innovators that readily broke and remolded rules.
Miles Davis: The Complete Illustrated History By Ashley Kahn, Sonny Rollins, Bill Cosby, Herbie Hancock, George Wein, Robin D.G. Kelley, Francis Davis 2012 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0760342628 | PDF | 71 MB
The first ever illustrated history of the world’s favourite jazz musician. This is the complete history of Miles Davis, the world’s most popular jazz trumpeter, composer, bandleader and musical visionary. Constantly creating, Davis defined and then defied genres from bebop and cool jazz to hard bop and jazz-rock fusion. Davis played with some of the great jazz musicians of the 20th century; legends like Charlie Parker, Dizzie Gillespie and John McLaughlin. But the man who put his name to the world’s best-selling jazz album, Kind of Blue, had a volatile character to match his virtuoso performances. Davis’ story veers from tempestuous relationships with movie stars to heroin addiction and police busts. With contributions from jazz critics, famous fans and Davis’ former bandmates Sonny Rollins and Herbie Hancock, this illustrated history gives the inside track on the great man and his music.
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The best critic of popular culture in America considers the attraction of the Doors, which has endured despite the band's short life, sampling the lasting songs and legendary performances that made Jim Morrison and his band rock 'n' roll legends.
A fan from the moment the Doors' first album took over KMPX, the revolutionary FM rock 'n' roll station in San Francisco, Greil Marcus saw the band many times at the legendary Fillmore Auditorium and the Avalon Ballroom in 1967. Five years later it was all over. Forty years after singer Jim Morrison was found dead in Paris and the group disbanded, one could drive from here to there, changing from one FM pop station to another, and be all but guaranteed to hear two, three, four of the Doors' songs in an hour--every hour. Whatever the demands in the music, they remained unsatisfied, in the largest sense unfinished, and absolutely alive.
There have been many books on the Doors. This is the first to bypass their myth, their mystique, and the death cult of both Jim Morrison--and the era he was made to personify--and focus solely on the music. All these years later, it is a new story.
James Fearnley, "Here Comes Everybody: The Story of the Pogues" ISBN: 0571253962 | 2012 | EPUB/MOBI | 416 pages | 3 MB/4 MB
The Pogues injected the fury of punk into Irish folk music and gave the world the troubled, iconic, darkly romantic songwriter Shane MacGowan. Here Comes Everybody is a memoir written by founding member and accordion player James Fearnley, drawn from his personal experiences and the series of journals and correspondence he kept throughout the band’s career. Fearnley describes the coalescence of a disparate collection of vagabonds living in the squats of London’s Kings Cross, with, at its center, the charismatic MacGowan and his idea of turning Irish traditional music on its head. With beauty, lyricism, and great candor, Fearnley tells the story of how the band watched helplessly as their singer descended into a dark and isolated world of drugs and alcohol, and sets forth the increasingly desperate measures they were forced to take.
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Music Related Biographicals eBooks Collection English | ePUB | MOBi | PDF | Large Books Collection | 240 MB Genre: Music Related, Biography
List of eBooks Included:
A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead - Dennis McNally An ''inside history'' of the Grateful Dead by the group's historian and publicist recounts three decades in the lives of Jerry Garcia et al.
Between a Heart and a Rock Place: A Memoir - Pat Benatar One of the most iconic women in rock music offers a fascinating account of a life spent behind the microphone.
Bob Dylan in America - Sean Wilentz Dylan’s music in the context of its time.
Clapton: The Autobiography - Eric Clapton The great guitarist looks back on his life and his music.
Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney - Howard Sounes The first exhaustive biography of the legendary musician.
I’m with the Band Confessions of a Groupie - Pamela Des Barres One of the firsts: A rare documentation of one of the rock era's liveliest, unofficial conceptual art projects, the groupie life style.
I Am Ozzy - Ozzy Osbourne w/ Chris Ayres Recollections of heavy metal’s “Prince of Darkness.”
I Met the Walrus: How One Day With John Lennon Changed My Life Forever - Jerry Levitan An Account of the Fourteen-year-old's exclusive candid interview with the world's biggest rock star in 1969.
Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music - The Definitive Life - Tim Riley A careful exploration of the man’s musical genius, as well as his many shortcomings in the realm of personal relations.
Life - Keith Richards A big, fierce, game-changing account of the Stones’ nearly half-century-long adventure.
Lips Unsealed: A Memoir - Belinda Carlisle Biography of featured performer of the Go-Go’s, the first all-female band that wrote and played its own songs ever to hit No.1 on the album charts.
Michael Jackson: The Magic, the Madness, the Whole Story, 1958-2009 - J. Randy Taraborrelli An updated version of a 1991 biography now covers Jackson’s last years and his death.
Searching for the Sound - Phil Lesh A frank memoir by the bass player for the Grateful Dead.
The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star - Nikki Sixx Covers Sixx’s diaries from 1986-87 - when Mötley Crüe’s glam-metal was at its peak of popularity and his drug habit was at its worst.
The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945 - Wladyslaw Szpilman A testament to human endurance from the pianist playing the last live music broadcast on Warsaw radio when the Germans invaded.
The Road to Woodstock - Michael Lang Lang, one of Woodstock’s organizers, provides details about how the production was put together and kept running.
The Sinatra Files: The Secret FBI Dossier - Tom Kuntz & Phil Kuntz An American Icon Under Government Surveillance.
Brad Tolinski, "Light and Shade: Conversations with Jimmy Page" English | ISBN: 0307985717, 0753540398 | 2012 | EPUB | 320 pages | 6,8 MB
This “oral autobiography” of Jimmy Page, the intensely private mastermind behind Led Zeppelin—one of the most enduring bands in rock history—is the most complete and revelatory portrait of the legendary guitarist ever published.
More than 30 years after disbanding in 1980, Led Zeppelin continues to be celebrated for its artistic achievements, broad musical influence, and commercial success. The band's notorious exploits have been chronicled in bestselling books; yet none of the individual members of the band has penned a memoir nor cooperated to any degree with the press or a biographer. In Light & Shade, Jimmy Page, the band’s most reticent and inscrutable member, opens up to journalist Brad Tolinski, for the first time exploring his remarkable life and musical journey in great depth and intimate detail.
Based on extensive interviews conducted with the guitarist/producer over the past 20 years, Light & Shade encompasses Page’s entire career, beginning with his early years as England’s top session guitarist when he worked with artists ranging from Tom Jones, Shirley Bassey, and Burt Bacharach to the Kinks, The Who, and Eric Clapton. Page speaks frankly about his decadent yet immensely creative years in Led Zeppelin, his synergistic relationships with band members Robert Plant, John Bonham, and John Paul Jones, and his notable post-Zeppelin pursuits. While examining every major track recorded by Zeppelin, including “Stairway to Heaven,” “Whole Lotta Love,” and “Kashmir,” Page reflects on the band’s sensational tours, the filming of the concert movie The Song Remains the Same, his fascination with the occult, meeting Elvis Presley, and the making of the rock masterpiece Led Zeppelin IV, about which he offers a complete behind-the-scenes account. Additionally, the book is peppered with “sidebar” chapters that include conversations between Page and other guitar greats, including his childhood friend Jeff Beck and hipster icon Jack White.
Through Page’s own words, Light and Shade presents an unprecedented first-person view of one of the most important musicians of our era.
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Keith Richards on Keith Richards: Interviews and Encounters By Sean Egan 2013 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 1613747888 | EPUB | 1 MB
The iconic life and career of the famed guitarist of the Rolling Stones is detailed in this compilation of interviews that spans the last 50 years. Featuring articles from GQ , Melody Maker, and Rolling Stone , as well as interviews that have never previously appeared in print, it charts Keith Richards's journey from gauche, young pretender and swaggering epitome of the zeitgeist to beloved elder statesman of rock. Initially overshadowed by band mates Mick Jagger and Brian Jones, Richards gained popularity as half of the second-most important songwriting team of the 1960s, and in 1967 the drug bust at his house and his subsequent trial and imprisonment made him a household name. His interviews match his outlaw image: free of banality and euphemism, they revel in frank stories of drugs and debauchery. Yet they also reveal an unexpectedly warm, unpretentious, articulate, and honest man. This collection amply illustrates the magic and charm of Keith Richards.
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Christopher Ricks, "Dylan's Visions of Sin" ISBN: 0857862014 | 2011 | EPUB/MOBI | 528 pages | 827 KB/1 MB
'I consider myself a poet first and a musician second' 'It ain't the melodies that're important man, it's the words' There is no shortage of books about Bob Dylan. This one, however, is unique in its approach and the virtuosity of its execution. Ricks examines Dylan's songs through the biblical concepts of the seven deadly Sins, the four cardinal Virtues and the three Heavenly Graces. He does so with what one critic has described as 'an ultimately irresistible combination of laser-like intelligence with a fan's exuberant idolatry'.
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David Ritz "Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin" Little, Brown and Company | English | October 28, 2014 | ISBN: 0316196835 | 528 pages | azw, epub, lrf, mobi | 5,72 mb
Aretha Franklin began life as the golden daughter of a progressive and promiscuous Baptist preacher. Raised without her mother, she was a gospel prodigy who gave birth to two sons in her teens and left them and her native Detroit for New York, where she struggled to find her true voice. It was not until 1967, when a white Jewish producer insisted she return to her gospel-soul roots, that fame and fortune finally came via "Respect" and a rapidfire string of hits. She has evolved ever since, amidst personal tragedy, surprise Grammy performances, and career reinventions.
Again and again, Aretha stubbornly finds a way to triumph over troubles, even as they continue to build. Her hold on the crown is tenacious, and in RESPECT, David Ritz gives us the definitive life of one of the greatest talents in all American culture.