Ringo: With A Little Help is the first in-depth biography of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr who kept the beat for an entire generation and who remains a rock icon over fifty years since the Beatles took the world by storm. With A Little Help traces the entire arc of Ringo's remarkable life and career from his sickly childhood to his life as The World's Most Famous drummer to his triumphs addictions and emotional battles following the breakup of the Beatles as he comes to terms with his legacy. Born in 1940 as Richard Starkey in the Dingle one of Liverpool's most gritty rough-and-tumble neighborhoods he rose from a hardscrabblechildhood marked by serious illnesses long hospital stays and little schooling to emerge against all odds as a locally renowned drummer. Taking the stage name Ringo Starr his big break with the Beatles rocketed him to the pinnacle of worldwide acclaim in a remarkably short time. He was the last member of the Beatles to join the group but also the most vulnerable and his post-Beatles career was marked by chart-topping successes a jet-setting life of excess and alcohol abuse and ultimately his rebirth as one of rock's revered elder statesman.

Prince has cut a singular path through the heart of popular music for more than 30 years. After making some of the most inventive albums of the '80s – including 1999 Purple Rain and Sign of the Times– he turned his attention to redefining his role in the music industry changing his name to an unpronounceable symbol declaring war on his record label Warner Bros. and leading the internet revolution. His subsequentcareer has had many ups and downs but he remains a major commercial and artistic force as evidenced by his ability to sell out the O2 Arena in London for 21 nights in succession in 2007. In 2010 he announced that the internetwas “over” and released his latest album 20Ten as a free cover-mounted CD with several European publications. Prince: Chaos Disorder and Revolution is an authoritative chronicle of one of popularmusic's true mavericks. Covering every album every movie and every tour it includes profiles of various key collaborators assesses the artist's various business dealings and details his many and varied side projects –on stage on record on screen and beyond.

Ever since his father gave him a disc recorder at the tender age of 10 Bruce Swedien has known what he wanted to do for the rest of his life.The names of the people he has worked with are too many to list but when one mentions musicians like Count Basie Duke Ellington Oscar Peterson Sarah Vaughan Eddie Harris Quincy Jones Jennifer Lopez and even Michael Jackson a great deal is immediately understood.In this book Swedien generously gives away detailed information from his lifetime in the studio - from a musical technical and very personal perspective.This book has something for everyone who is interested in music especially those curiousabout the stories behind the scenes of some of the best music to ever come out of the recording studio.

Maria Callas was almost as famous for her personal life - her jet-setting her staggering weight loss her tigress-like temperament - as she was for her singing.Of Greek parentage the New York-born internationally famous Callas was the most influential soprano of the 20th century reviving a school of singing - bel canto - that had been forgotten for 75 years. Unlike most of her generation of sopranos she was a superb actress both vocally and physically: her voice encompassed many colours and she embodied each character she portrayed. After seeing or hearing her in a role it was said it was difficult to imagine another singer attempting it so fierce was herindividual stamp. Her status went beyond cult; her triumphs and failures appeared on the front page of newspapers all over the world.This profusely illustrated musical biography covers Callas's life and career. A final third of the book analyzes the tracks on the two CDs describing what made Callas unique what made Callas Callas. Listen for yourselves to La Divina ('the divine one') as the Italians dubbed her and be amazed.

With sales of over 75 million albums and singles Jamaican singer-songwriter and guitarist Bob Marley is one of the world’s best selling artists of all time.A pioneer of the reggae sound Marley rose tofame with his band The Wailers in the 1960s before achieving international stardom with the release of his album 'Exodus' in 1977.This songbook contains twelve of Marley’s greatest hits including Jamming Could You Be Loved and Three Little Birds all arranged for Piano Voice and Guitar.

Personne n'aurait parié un paquet de Jelly Beans là-dessus.

Pourtant, quatre gars des quartiers ouvriers de Liverpool l'ont fait. Ils ont pulvérisé les frontières culturelles de la planète. Et les Beatles firent de la Terre-enfin-un-astre-rond. Cette réalité cosmique s'est manifestée dans la vie de milliards de gens. Viscérale. De Tokyo à Los Angeles. Du Cap à Helsinki. C'était simple comme d'allumer le poste à transistor ou de mettre une galette de vinyle sur un Teppaz. Le monde était Beatles, dans les sixties. Les Fab Four avaient produit un son universel. Rien que ça. S. Nappez /

Auteur-compositeur-interprète de folk anglais, Nicholas Rodney Drake (1948-1974) Bien qu?étant salué par la critique, n?a jamais obtenu l?attention du public de son vivant. Cependant Nick Drake est l?objet d?une reconnaissance posthume, ses trois albums, loin d?être tombés dans l?oubli, suscitent un intérêt croissant auprès des nouvelles générations.

Nick Drake a traversé le monde musical à la vitesse d?une météorite. Artiste lunaire, magicien de la six cordes acoustique, ce féru de poésie se lance très tôt dans l?écriture de chansons. Puis il décide de tout sacrifier à cette passion, abandonne ses études, fait quelques concerts, finit par être signé dans une maison de disques et publie son premier opus : « Five leaves left » (1968). Reconnu par la presse mais boudé par le public, Nick Drake sort deux ans plus tard « Bryter layter ». L?album une nouvelle fois excellent ne parvient pas à séduire le public pas plus que son dernier disque, le crépusculaire « Pink moon » paru en 1972.

Le jeune homme, découragé et en proie à de graves problèmes personnels songe à tout arrêter et retourne vivre chez ses parents. Il y est retrouvé mort à l?automne 74.

Nick Drake est l?objet d?une reconnaissance posthume, ses trois albums, loin d?être tombés dans l?oubli, suscitent un intérêt croissant auprès des nouvelles générations.

- De stars internationales reprennent ses musiques : Tom Verlaine, Kate Bush, REM, Everything but the girl, Beck, Robert Smith, The cure.

- En France, Johan Asherton est un des plus grands admirateurs contemporains de Nick Drake.

- Il a travaillé avec Françoise Hardy.

- Ses musiques sont utilisées en musique de film, dans les spots de pub, la campagne de la Croix rouge française.

- Le seul livre sur Nick Drake en français.

- Devenu une des références du rock dans le monde : de plus en plus cité et joué.

- Il aurait eu 60 ans en juin 2008 : pour ces raisons un livre événement dans le milieu rock et branché. / Variété / Livre /

Ce livre retrace avec précision la carrière de la grande cantatrice, depuis son célèbre Fidelio en 1944, à son ultime concert en 1974. A l'aide de documents iconographiques, la plupart totalement inédits, Sergio Segalini retrace une carrière de légende à travers un texte qui se penche exclusivement sur les aspects purement musicaux du phénomène Callas.