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Philip Norman

    13. duben 1943
    George Harrison
    Beyond
    John Lennon
    Rave on: The Biography of Buddy Holly
    Mick Jagger
    Paul McCartney: biografie
    • Jaký je historicky nejúspěšnější skladatel Paul McCartney? Nejuznávanější autor biografií hudebních legend ho vykresluje jako složitého, nejistého workoholika, který má potřebu stále si něco dokazovat. Autor se nevyhýbá ani tématům, jako je složitý vztah s Johnem Lennonem, deprese po rozpadu Beatles nebo dojemná smrt jeho ženy Lindy. To a mnohem více najdete v první a jediné biografii schválené Paul McCartneym a jeho nejbližšími.

      Paul McCartney: biografie
    • Mick Jagger

      • 480 stránek
      • 17 hodin čtení
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      Po celých pět desetiletí, kdy stojí v čele Rolling Stones, je Mick Jagger vnímán jako nanejvýš arogantní, narcistická superstar, jejíž sexuální apetit a povýšené zacházení s ženami si v ničem nezadá s Casanovou a jejíž údajné bezhlavé užívání drog odstartovalo jeden z nejslavnějších skandálů v historii rocku. I když je nyní dědečkem se sedmi křížky na krku a rytířem britské monarchie, zůstává i nadále vzorem pro každého mladého rockového zpěváka, který vystoupí na pódium. Mistrovská biografie Philipa Normana ukazuje, že tato nejznámější a přitom stále tajemná rocková ikona není jen pouhým mýtickým arcisvůdcem, ale je mnohem složitější osobností. Konečně zde máme skutečný příběh o tom, jak král popových manipulátorů Andrew Oldham proměnil plachého studenta ekonomie jménem Mike Jagger v moderního Antikrista…

      Mick Jagger
    • Rave on: The Biography of Buddy Holly

      • 352 stránek
      • 13 hodin čtení
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      Through extensive interviews with those who knew Buddy Holly, including his widow, this biography paints a detailed portrait of the influential musician who revolutionized American music before his untimely death in a plane crash. It captures his vibrant personality, artistic journey, and the impact he had on the music industry, offering readers a deep understanding of his legacy and the profound loss felt by those who loved him.

      Rave on: The Biography of Buddy Holly
    • John Lennon

      • 864 stránek
      • 31 hodin čtení
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      For more than a quarter century, Philip Norman's internationally bestselling Shout! has been unchallenged as the definitive biography of the Beatles. Now, at last, Norman turns his formidable talent to the Beatle for whom belonging to the world's most beloved pop group was never enough. Drawing on previously untapped sources, and with unprecedented access to all the major characters, here is the comprehensive and most revealing portrait of John Lennon that is ever likely to be published. This masterly biography takes a fresh and penetrating look at every aspect of Lennon's much-chronicled life, including the songs that have turned him, posthumously, into a near-secular saint. In three years of research, Norman has turned up an extraordinary amount of new information about even the best-known episodes of Lennon folklore? his upbringing by his strict Aunt Mimi; his allegedly wasted school and student days; the evolution of his peerless creative partnership with Paul McCartney; his Beatle-busting love affair with a Japanese performance artist; his forays into painting and literature; his experiments with Transcendental Meditation, primal scream therapy, and drugs. The book's numerous key informants and interviewees include Sir Paul McCartney, Sir George Martin, Sean Lennon? whose moving reminiscence reveals his father as never before? and Yoko Ono, who speaks with sometimes shocking candor about the inner workings of her marriage to John. Honest and unflinching, as John himself would wish, Norman gives us the whole man in all his endless contradictions? tough and cynical, hilariously funny but also naive, vulnerable and insecure? and reveals how the mother who gave him away as a toddler haunted his mind and his music for the rest of his days

      John Lennon
    • Beyond

      • 368 stránek
      • 13 hodin čtení
      4,4(5)Ohodnotit

      BEYOND is the first in a series, a sci-fi fantasy adventure set in a mysterious and sometimes nightmarish world, weaving fast action narrative around plucky children fighting against a brutal system. By turns comic and absurd, there is a dark undercurrent that sweeps up from time to time to engulf the unwary.

      Beyond
    • From the author of the million-copy selling Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation and the bestselling John Lennon: The Life comes a revealing portrait of George Harrison, the most undervalued and mysterious Beatle. číst celé

      George Harrison
    • This is the story of Elton John, whose career began as Reg Dwight pounding the piano in a Pinner pub, but who achieved massive fame with his performance at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales. This edition updates his story.

      Sir Elton. The definitive biography of Elton John
    • A beautifully written and insightful portrait of a musical legend by one of our most acclaimed biographers

      Buddy
    • A biography of rock superstar Elton John by the author of "Shout! The True Story of the The Beatles", "Stones", "The Skater's Waltz" and "The Life and Good Times of the Rolling Stones"

      Elton