Leonard Cohen has aimed high: to be all Jewish heroes at once. Like Jacob, he struggled with angels. Like David, he sang psalms and seduced women. But he never ceased doing what he did best: going from city to city and reviving our hearts. Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall follows the singer’s cosmopolitan life from Montreal and New York to the Greek island of Hydra and examines his perpetual dialogues with himself, God, and avalanches.

We see how six decades of radiant pessimism and a few thousand nights in hotel rooms transformed a young Jewish poet who longed to be a saint into an existentialist troubadour in love with women and a gravelly-voiced crooner who taught a thousand ways of dissolving into love.

After more than two decades of research and travels, Christophe Lebold, who befriended the poet and spent time with him in Los Angeles, delivers a stimulating analysis of Cohen’s life and art. Gracefully blending biography and essay, he interrogates the mission Cohen set out for himself: to show us that darkness is just the flip side of light.

The autobiography-of-sorts of Andre Gregory, an iconic figure in American theater and the star of My Dinner with Andre This Is Not My Memoir tells the life story of Andre Gregory, iconic theater director, writer, and actor. For the first time, Andre shares memories from a life lived for art, including stories from the making of My Dinner with Andre. Taking on the dizzying, wondrous nature of a fever dream, This Is Not My Memoir includes fantastic and fantastical stories that take the reader from wartime Paris to golden-age Hollywood, from avant-garde theaters to monasteries in India. Along the way we meet Jerzy Grotowski, Helene Weigel, Gregory Peck, Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, Wallace Shawn, and many other larger-than-life personalities. This Is Not My Memoir is a collaboration between Andre and Todd London, who together create a portrait of an artist confronting his later years. Here, too, are the reflections of a man who only recently learned how to love. What does it mean to create art in a world that often places little value on the process of creating it? And what does it mean to confront the process of aging when your greatest work of art may well be your own life?

'This book is a must for everyone interested in illuminating the idea of unexplainable genius' - QUESTLOVE Equal parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy of J Dilla, a musical genius who transformed the sound of popular music for the twenty-first century. He wasn't known to mainstream audiences, and when he died at age thirty-two, he had never had a pop hit. Yet since his death, J Dilla has become a demigod, revered as one of the most important musical figures of the past hundred years. At the core of this adulation is innovation: as the producer behind some of the most influential rap and R&B acts of his day, Dilla created a new kind of musical time-feel, an accomplishment on a par with the revolutions wrought by Louis Armstrong and James Brown. Dilla and his drum machine reinvented the way musicians play. In Dilla Time, Dan Charnas chronicles the life of James DeWitt Yancey, from his gifted Detroit childhood to his rise as a sought-after hip-hop producer to the rare blood disease that caused his premature death. He follows the people who kept Dilla and his ideas alive. And he rewinds the histories of American rhythms: from the birth of Motown soul to funk, techno, and disco. Here, music is a story of what happens when human and machine times are synthesized into something new. This is the story of a complicated man and his machines; his family, friends, partners, and celebrity collaborators; and his undeniable legacy. Based on nearly two hundred original interviews, and filled with graphics that teach us to feel and "see" the rhythm of Dilla's beats, Dilla Time is a book as defining and unique as J Dilla's music itself. Financial Times Music Book of the Year 2022

In the span of four months in 2012, Tig Notaro was hospitalized for a debilitating intestinal disease called C. diff, her mother unexpectedly died, she went through a breakup, and then she was diagnosed with bilateral breast cancer. Hit with this devastating barrage, Tig took her grief onstage. Days after receiving her cancer diagnosis, she broke new comedic ground, opening an unvarnished set with the words: 'Good evening. Hello. I have cancer. How are you? Hi, how are you? Is everybody having a good time? I have cancer.' The set instantly went viral, and was ultimately released as Tig's sophomore album, Live, which sold one hundred thousand units in just six weeks and was later nominated for a Grammy. Now, the wildly popular star takes stock of that no good, very bad year - a difficult yet astonishing period in which tragedy turned into absurdity and despair transformed into joy. An inspired combination of the deadpan silliness of her comedy and the open-hearted vulnerability that has emerged in the wake of that dire time, I'm Just a Person is a moving and often hilarious look at this very brave, very funny woman's journey into the darkness and her thrilling return from it.

'Utterly fascinating' Daisy Goodwin, Sunday Times Benjamin Franklin took daily naked air baths and Toulouse-Lautrec painted in brothels. Edith Sitwell worked in bed, and George Gershwin composed at the piano in pyjamas. Freud worked sixteen hours a day, but Gertrude Stein could never write for more than thirty minutes, and F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in gin-fuelled bursts - he believed alcohol was essential to his creative process. From Marx to Murakami and Beethoven to Bacon, Daily Rituals by Mason Currey presents the working routines of more than a hundred and sixty of the greatest philosophers, writers, composers and artists ever to have lived. Whether by amphetamines or alcohol, headstand or boxing, these people made time and got to work. Featuring photographs of writers and artists at work, and filled with fascinating insights on the mechanics of genius and entertaining stories of the personalities behind it, Daily Rituals is irresistibly addictive, and utterly inspiring.

A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor-including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother-and how she retook control of her life. Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother's dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called "calorie restriction," eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, "Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn't tint hers?" She was even showered by Mom until age sixteen while sharing her diaries, email, and all her income. In I'm Glad My Mom Died, Jennette recounts all this in unflinching detail-just as she chronicles what happens when the dream finally comes true. Cast in a new Nickelodeon series called iCarly, she is thrust into fame. Though Mom is ecstatic, emailing fan club moderators and getting on a first-name basis with the paparazzi ("Hi Gale!"), Jennette is riddled with anxiety, shame, and self-loathing, which manifest into eating disorders, addiction, and a series of unhealthy relationships. These issues only get worse when, soon after taking the lead in the iCarly spinoff Sam & Cat alongside Ariana Grande, her mother dies of cancer. Finally, after discovering therapy and quitting acting, Jennette embarks on recovery and decides for the first time in her life what she really wants. Told with refreshing candor and dark humor, I'm Glad My Mom Died is an inspiring story of resilience, independence, and the joy of shampooing your own hair.

This bibulous, drug-indulgent and anarchic rock legend was born on a small farm in Tipperary, won a scholarship to Westminster, was rapidly expelled, became a rent boy, then a central figure of punk and the hugely influential star of The Pogues. MacGowan's music, innovative and powerful, is as distinctive as his chaotic, breakdown-scarred, drug and alcohol-fuelled lifestyle. MacGowan has an enormous fan-base hungry for stories of his wild behaviour, but this is also a book that celebrates this unique and charming musician, and offers insight into his remarkable perspective on this world - and the next!

This is a true life story account of Len Garry's childhood memories of his childhood days spent with John Lennon and Paul McCartney and the forming of the band The Quarrymen. Also the day John Lennon met Paul McCartney for the very first time at St. Peter's Church fete on 6th July 1957, this book is a first hand account of what took place on that day plus more stories.

In The Eyeline of Furtherance, charts John Howard's rise from 70's pop idol to a career in A & R and marketing. The '90s opened up new vistas, ever bigger and better opportunities, working with Elkie Brooks, Madness, Barry Manilow and rock 'n' roll heroes Lonnie Donegan and The Crickets. As John puts it, "I was propelled onwards and upwards, not this time by my own ambition, but by the plans of others who had clearly decided that I was going places in a direction I would never have imagined twenty years earlier." John Howard's first book, Incidents Crowded With Life, followed the ambitions of a young gay singer-songwriter in London in the '70s which were realised after being signed by CBS Records and recording his debut LP at Abbey Road studios. En route, he wrote the theme song for a Peter Fonda movie and was heralded as The Next Big Thing. And all the while navigating a series of disastrous personal events, not least when he broke his back in 1976.

My Voyage in Art includes 197 colour images of paintings, watercolours, sculptures and people over a 60 year period accompanied by a detailed essay. Encounters with Roy Lichtenstein, Jim Morrison, Andy Warhol and others illuminate.

"Martin Bailey has written some of the most interesting books on Vincent's life in France, where he produced his greatest work" - Johan van Gogh, grandson of Theo, the artist's brother Studio of the South tells the story of Van Gogh's stay in Arles, when his powers were at their height. For Van Gogh, the south of France was an exciting new land, bursting with life. He walked into the hills inspired by the landscapes, and painted harvest scenes in the heat of summer. He visited a fishing village where he saw the Mediterranean for the first time, energetically capturing it in paint. He painted portraits of friends and locals, and flower still life paintings, culminating in the now iconic Sunflowers. He rented the Yellow House, and gradually did it up, calling it 'an artist's house', inviting Paul Gauguin to join him there. This encounter was to have a profound impact on both of the artists. They painted side by side, their collaboration coming to a dramatic end a few months later. The difficulties Van Gogh faced led to his eventual decision to retreat to the asylum at Saint-Remy. Based on extensive original research, the book reveals discoveries that throw new light on the legendary artist and give a definitive account of his fifteen months in Provence, including his time at the Yellow House, his collaboration with Gauguin and its tragic and shocking ending.

Adamo is the greatest composer of musicals ever but despite intensive investigations, his/her identity remains unknown. Royalties of more than a billion pounds have amassed over the years. Adamo composes a final musical about the world's youth in revolt and promises to reveal his/her identity. The world's youth identify with the musical "One for a heartbeat, One for Eternity", and from countries far and wide they petition the United Nations for a symbolic holding of hands despite ideological differences. The Adamo enigma is the catalyst for people from diverse backgrounds, from the very cradle of humankind in faraway Swaziland to the sophisticated Western cultures, to be drawn into the fascinating intrigue. Inextricably Merri Fencham from South Africa, Pierre Villeyand - the scion of a French dynasty and famous conductor, sangoma Vusi Dlamini - a Swazi royal prince, and others are drawn into the web of intrigue. And overall, the ancient influences of the ancestors, the "Toothless Ones", confound Western stereotypes.... The drive of destiny cannot be denied as the ancient wisdom of Africa and modern technology meld into an awe-inspiring finale at the Royal Albert Theatre.

The most incandescent example of Bombshells is Marilyn Monroe. Her strange combination of ghostly pale skin, childlike face and innate erotic cunning render her hard to date. Unlike modern actresses we can't sense the stylist in her clothes, the heavy hand of a makeup artist or a photographer's over bearing concept. Clearly and hauntingly, her image belongs to her and it is equal parts spectral nymph, mid century beach bunny, haughty heiress and child star. With an hourglass body and a face like Shirley Temple the oddity of Monroe is her wholesomeness. She could sell diamonds or milk. She looked naked in a white cotton dress and perfectly dignified in the nude. She her clothes. Some say she sawed off one stiletto shoe heel a fraction lower to deepen the sway of her hips. Clearly she wasn't happy, and this just serves to deepen the myth and her lure. Her own words, "Being a sex symbol is heavy load" could speak for all of the women who traded infamy for scandal and some scrap of security. Bettie Page, the underground queen of silk stockings, light bondage and leopard skin bikinis claimed very practical reasons for being a pin-up model, preferring the work to "pounding a typewriter eight hours a day." They were a breed that we have not seen the like of again. Bombshells. Marilyn Monroe Brigitte Bardot Raquel Welch Sophia Loren Bettie Page Ursula Andress Mata Hari Elizabeth Taylor Jane Russell Fashion Industry Broadcast is a leading global publisher of lifestyle titles, this multi edition set has been created as a hard cover colour coffee table books for $45.00, e-books for $9.99 from Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble Nook, Apple iBook's, Google books, Stanza and Kobo, Apps for mobile devices and a TV documentary series is also in the works. A very special video rich multimedia App version with 1000+ original videos, interviews, runway shows, behind the scenes at fashion shoots and advertisements, is available through Apple's iTunes App store and other major App stores for just $2.99 per edition. Look for "STYLE ICONS" on the Apple App store. Contact [email protected] Authors Introduction Anna Johnson Publisher & Editor Paul G Roberts Art Direction Samantha Mayfair Design Tarne Sheed Video Link Editing Alice Hoffman Ross Project Management Pip Dalton

To be a star you need to rouse the senses, but to be a siren you must touch the heart. Their vulnerability, their daring and their sheer courage match the intensity of human beauty concentrated in the most famous female sex symbols of the twentieth century. To say they had real social power would be an injustice. Mata Hari, wrongly accused of espionage, wound up decapitated after her execution, with her head embalmed and kept in the museum of anatomy in Paris. It's hardly a state funeral or a fitting homage to a woman who wriggled public consciousness out the Victorian era dressed as Hindu priestess. Hollywood royalty such as Grace Kelly and Elizabeth Taylor seemed to exercise more choice; having come from cultivated backgrounds and targeted their ambitions on the "costumed" work of big screen acting and the social mobility of ambitious marriages. Here we present the lives and legends of the Sirens. STYLE ICONS Vol 4 Sirens Grace Kelly Jane Fonda Gina Lollobrigida Madonna Rita Hayworth Ava Gardner Marlene Dietrich Betty Grable Lauren Bacall Jayne Mansfield Fashion Industry Broadcast is a leading global publisher of lifestyle titles, this multi edition set has been created as a hard cover colour coffee table books for $45.00, e-books for $9.99 from Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble Nook, Apple iBook's, Google books, Stanza and Kobo, Apps for mobile devices and a TV documentary series is also in the works. A very special video rich multimedia App version with 1000+ original videos, interviews, runway shows, behind the scenes at fashion shoots and advertisements, is available through Apple's iTunes App store and other major App stores for just $3.99 per edition. Look for "STYLE ICONS" on the Apple App store. Contact [email protected]

It is said that music gives a soul to the Universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. Before Rock there was Rock and Roll... Elvis Presley came out of nowhere, hip snaking onto an almost empty stage, with Little Richard, black and gay, lurking in the wings. He singlehandedly took he underbelly of America... dirt-poor greaser, glorifying it. Elvis was all four Jungian archetypes rolled into one - the child- the wise man, the fool or trickster and lastly, the sexual being, desirable, yet unobtainable. In his wake spawning countless scores of look and sound alikes. In this edition we feature the man himself as well as the mighty Creedence Clearwater Revival, Deep Purple, Foo Fighters, Guns n Roses and the indefatigable Iggy Pop. Fashion Industry Broadcast is a leading global publisher of lifestyle titles, this multi edition set has been created as a hard cover colour coffee table books for $45.00, e-books for $9.99 from Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble Nook, Apple iBook's, Google books, Stanza and Kobo, Apps for mobile devices and a TV documentary series is also in the works. A very special video rich multimedia App version with 1000+ original videos, interviews, runway shows, behind the scenes at fashion shoots and advertisements, is available through Apple's iTunes App store and other major App stores for just $2.99 per edition. Look for "MASTERS OF MUSIC" on the Apple App store. Contact [email protected] Author Ian Hartley Credits Art Direction Samantha Mayfair Design Samantha Mayfair Video Link Editing Alice Hoffman Ross Project Management Pip Dalton

Deep Purple and Aerosmith along with the Rolling Stones, filled Sports arenas all around the world, in an orgy of excess. The Who smashed their amplifiers as they exploded into an attention-seeking heap, not unlike naughty schoolboys, while Iggy Pop buried his Jewishness in an avalanche of broken glass. Good old boy country Rockers such as Creedence Clearwater Revival, sang about grapevines and gumbo. The sublimely angelic Jimi Hendrix cut down a mountain with the palm of his hand. For every androgynous David Bowie, there was an equally insensitive Alice Cooper... David Bowie fell to Earth, Bruce Springsteen CAME from the Earth. If Bob Dylan was riding freight cars, then Springsteen was in a speeding, souped up, forties Hudson careening down a Lonesome Highway. Ginger Baker, the drummer from super group Cream was once accused that his band gave birth to heavy Metal, he replying that if he did, then he surely should have aborted it. If anyone did conceive that genre, then the blame must fall squarely on the shoulders of Led Zeppelin, the fathers of Air Guitar, who dragged the sixties beat blues, kicking and screaming into the Seventies, and who even now forty something years later still hold sway and a kind of mythical worship like the Gods of ancient times. Jimi Hendrix Led Zeppelin Nirvana Oasis Pink Floyd Queen The Ramones Fashion Industry Broadcast is a leading global publisher of lifestyle titles, this multi edition set has been created as a hard cover colour coffee table books for $45.00, e-books for $9.99 from Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble Nook, Apple iBook's, Google books, Stanza and Kobo, Apps for mobile devices and a TV documentary series is also in the works. A very special video rich multimedia App version with 1000+ original videos, interviews, runway shows, behind the scenes at fashion shoots and advertisements, is available through Apple's iTunes App store and other major App stores for just $3.99 per edition. Look for "MASTERS OF MUSIC" on the Apple App store. Contact [email protected]

Pop is an abbreviation of the word popular, it doesn't mean good or tasteful, it just means popular. Pop Music is a reflection of it's time... if contemporary society deems to crown a suburban mime artist as reigning Queen of Pop then so be it. Pop has come a long way since it's early bleating's, from the anthemic teen angst of the early sixties, to the languid internalization of Coldplay and the airbrushed soul of Beyonce. Pop is now blurred into red carpet supermarket magazines, slotted between weight loss and divorces. It's hard work staying there, staying on top, as Michael Jackson was to find, from his troubled child stardom with the Jackson 5, to his emperor's new clothes period, culminating in his eventual death by media. That he managed to survive for over 30 years on top is an accomplishment in anyone's eyes. One could ask the question: Will Justin Bieber exist after, or even before, I finish writing this introduction? Whatever the answer will be to that question you can be sure that everyone will still be talking about Pop music. Michael Jackson Kylie Minogue JLo Adele Ke$ha Katy Perry Fashion Industry Broadcast is a leading global publisher of lifestyle titles, this multi edition set has been created as a hard cover colour coffee table books for $45.00, e-books for $9.99 from Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble Nook, Apple iBook's, Google books, Stanza and Kobo, Apps for mobile devices and a TV documentary series is also in the works. A very special video rich multimedia App version with 1000+ original videos, interviews, runway shows, behind the scenes at fashion shoots and advertisements, is available through Apple's iTunes App store and other major App stores for just $2.99 per edition. Look for "MASTERS OF MUSIC" on the Apple App store. Contact [email protected] Author Ian Hartley Foreward Paul G Roberts & Samantha Mayfair Art Direction Samantha Mayfair Design Samantha Mayfair Video Link Editing Astrid Lynn Ingram Project Management Pip Dalton

Pop music is such an interesting musical genre in that it has gone through so many transformations and includes so many subgenres. There are elements of rhythm and blues, doo wop, folk, girl groups, funk, surf, soul, psychedelic, bubble gum, hard rock, acoustic, jazz and everything in between - all blended together in a musical smorgasbord. Elvis Presley brought with him his roots in gospel and blended that with rockabilly and rock'n'roll. Jerry Lee Lewis brought the piano to the forefront. The Everly Brothers brought harmonies and Buddy Holly a rockabilly mixture. It began as a melting pot of musical genres and remains that way to this day. There have been some defining moments in pop music history. From the first time a electric guitar was utilized to the first pop single to use a drum machine or synthesizer, it seems that the genre is always re-inventing itself. We had the great R&B groups of the fifties, girl groups of the sixties and vocal harmonies of the Platters, and of Simon and Garfunkel. The folk music scene was very influential., especially Peter Paul and Mary, Pete Seeger and Bob Dylan, and so were the surf melodies of the Beach Boys, the instrumentation of the Ventures and the legendary vocals and pop songs of the Supremes - all add to this broad musical landscape. A horn section a la Chicago and Blood, Sweat and Tears, the string section of Electric Light Orchestra and the George Martin-led strings of the Beatles all helped to transform the genre. Amy Winehouse Jamiroquai Justin Timberlake Massive Attack Bruno Mars LMFAO Fashion Industry Broadcast is a leading global publisher of lifestyle titles, this multi edition set has been created as a hard cover colour coffee table books for $45.00, e-books for $9.99 from Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble Nook, Apple iBook's, Google books, Stanza and Kobo, Apps for mobile devices and a TV documentary series is also in the works. A very special video rich multimedia App version with 1000+ original videos, interviews, runway shows, behind the scenes at fashion shoots and advertisements, is available through Apple's iTunes App store and other major App stores for just $3.99 per edition. Look for "MASTERS OF MUSIC" on the Apple App store. Contact [email protected]