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“All men become brothers . . . Be embraced, ye millions!” The Ninth Symphony, a symbol of freedom and joy, was Beethoven’s mightiest attempt to help humanity find its way from darkness to light, from chaos to peace. Yet the work was born in a repressive era, with terrified Bourbons...

The author of the national bestseller Love is a Mix Tape returns, with a different-but equally personal and equally universal- pin on music as memory."No rock critic-living or dead, American or otherwise-has ever written about pop music with the evocative, hyperpoetic perfectitude of Rob...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR The revelatory account of the pre-fame Beatles—the first volume in a groundbreaking trilogy about the band that revolutionized music “An epic unprecedented in rock ’n’ roll biography . . . And it’s a great read...

The author of The New York Times bestseller This is Your Brain on Music reveals music’s role in the evolution of human culture and “will leave you awestruck.” (The New York Times) Daniel J. Levitin’s astounding debut bestseller, This is Your Brain on Music, enthralled and delighted...

One of Oprah Daily's 20 Favorite Books of 2021 Selected as one of Pitchfork's Best Music Books of the Year “One of the best books of its kind in decades.” —The Wall Street Journal An epic achievement and a huge delight, the entire history of popular music over the past fifty years...

While music has always been an integral part of the lives of the people of the British Isles and the diaspora around the world, an exploration of why this is so has seldom been explored. Celtic Song will take listeners on a journey to the past through a medium that uplifts the spirit and speaks to the heart.

George Harrison met Muhammad Ali in 1964, when both men were on the cusp of worldwide fame. We Shook Up the World is the story of these two larger-than-life figures at a momentous time. A unique blend of biography and cultural history, this book goes to the very heart of the zeitgeist that each man inhabited and reinvented in profound and enduring ways.

Uma viagem no mundo antigo do blues: como nasceu, as suas origens, o seu percurso no mundo. E depois muitas histórias e biografias sobre os seus protagonistas, brancos e negros, que contribuíram para criá-lo e para difundi-lo ao grande público.

In dieser Ausgabe Legendärer Songs geht es um 5 Songs, die auch heute noch von Millionen Hörern gehört werden. Games without Frontiers von Peter Gabriel, Blue Monday von New Order, Go your own way und Dreams von Fleetwood Mac und Breakfast in Amerika von Supertramp. Ich bin sicher, dass auch Du einiges noch nicht über die Songs wusstest. Wie zB bei wem alles New Order sich für "Blue Monday" bedient haben. Ja, klar bei Kraftwerk aber auch bei Giorgio Moroder. Mit welchem Song ? Hör mal rein.

Bereit für die "Metal Gods"? Zusammen mit dem neuen Album von JUDAS PRIEST erscheint die passende Episode "ROCK SCHOOL"! Zu Gast sind Hardcore-Fan Schmier (Frontmann DESTRUCTION) und Scott Travis (Schlagzeuger JUDAS PRIEST) höchstpersönlich! Bloß keine "Panic Attack", aber diese Folge solltest Du nicht verpassen! "ROCK SCHOOL", die Hörbuch-Serie mit Andy Brings, in Kooperation mit dem ROCK CLASSICS-Magazin, veröffentlicht im Hause LAUSCH.

Told with acclaimed New Yorker writer Ariel Levy, Brothers is seventy-year-old drummer Alex Van Halen’s love letter to his younger brother, Edward (maybe “Ed,” but never “Eddie”), written while still mourning his untimely death.

Explore five decades of hey genre that came from the streets. With the invention of sampling and the emergence of DJs in the 1970s, it was time to grab your grandmother's photograph and start making some money. Journey through 50 years of an emergent genre and the artists and albums that made this music what it is today.

Hoje é inimaginável conceber a música brasileira sem as vozes de Cartola e Adoniran Barbosa. Mas, nos anos 1970, a situação era diferente: nenhum deles jamais gravara um LP, e a percepção do mercado era de que lançar discos dedicados aos veteranos era um desperdício de dinheiro. Foi quando entrou em cena o intrépido produtor João Carlos Botezelli, o Pelão, que tomou para si a missão de registrar alguns dos maiores compositores de nossa cultura.

In Revolutions in American Music, award-winning author Michael Broyles shows the surprising ways in which three key decades—the 1840s, the 1920s, and the 1950s—shaped America's musical future. Drawing connections between new styles of music like the minstrel show, jazz, and rock 'n' roll, and emerging technologies like the locomotive, the first music recordings, and the transistor radio, Broyles argues that these decades fundamentally remade our cultural landscape in enduring ways. 

Since exploding on the scene in the late 1970s, Journey has inspired generations of fans with hit after hit. But hidden under this rock 'n' roll glory is a complex story of ambition, larger-than-life personalities, and clashes. David Hamilton Golland unearths the band's true and complete biography, based on over a decade of interviews and thousands of sources.

In the 1990s, amidst the chaos of grunge and boy bands, one young woman was at the epicenter of musical mayhem. In this uproarious memoir, join Lisa as she navigates life in a quirky record store, armed with her encyclopedic music knowledge and a vinyl penchant. Lisa's adventures are a harmonious blend of humor and nostalgia, from the eclectic customers with peculiar tastes to her eccentric but memorable co-workers.

Jewell uncovers how battles to control college radio were about more than music—they were an influential, if unexpected, front in the nation's culture wars. These battles created unintended consequences and overlooked contributions to popular culture that students, DJs, and listeners never anticipated. More than an ode to beloved stations, this book will resonate with both music fans and observers of the politics of culture.

In 1976, under the guidance of legendary label Stiff Records, he transformed himself into the snarling, spectacled artist who defied the musical status quo to blaze the trail for a new kind of rock star with his debut album, My Aim Is True. In Elvis Is King, Richard Crouse examines how the man, the myth, and the music of this arrestingly original album smashed the trends of the era to bridge the gap between punk and rock ’n’ roll.

Black metal is a paradox. A noisy underground metal genre brimming with violence and virulence, it has captured the world's imagination for its harsh yet flamboyant style and infamous history involving arson, blasphemy, and murder.

After twenty years on the road, Eric Krasno has spent time sharing stories with countless artists — and these conversations have become some of his most cherished memories. In Eric Krasno Plus One, the audience is invited to join moments like these in podcast form—topics range from early inspirations to discussions about the state of the music industry, to the challenges of life on the road, backstage shenanigans, and much more.