Уникальное произведение мировой мемуарной литературы - многотомные воспоминания герцога Сен-Симона (в этом издании публикуются отрывки). Они охватывают период от 1690-х годов до 1723 г. Издание снабжено комментариями и пояснениями лингвистического и ис...
Книга посвящена короткой, но яркой жизни Владимира Высоцкого. Легенды и реальность, правда и вымысел, прошлое и настоящее – все переплелось в этой книге. Автор рассказывает о жизни и творчестве актера, певца, поэта, основываясь на известных фактах его ...
In this astonishingly honest biography of Marlene Dietrich from birth to age 73, her daughter Maria Riva reveals the truth about her mother as it contrasts with the sometimes embellished stories of the Dietrich legend. She does this with love, a sense ...
Jerry Hopkins biography of rock legend Jimi Hendrix brings a wild mix of emotions to Hendrix fans and haters alike. Hopkin's fluent writing and somewhat accurate portrait of the rocker is hampered by myths and speculations by those who opposed him and ...
It appears that Flowers in the Dustbin author James Miller has just about had his fill of rock & roll. After chronicling a succession of triumphs in the development of the genre and its allied ancestors and offspring, here the veteran music scribe and ...
As the most notorious member of the Rolling Stones, Richards would seem to be the perfect subject for a titillating biography. Bockris, author of The Life and Death of Andy Warhol ( LJ 9/1/89), has plenty of material to work with: Richards was a pionee...
First published in Great Britain, this oversized, colorfully illustrated book focuses on the last four years of Jimi Hendrix's professional life. Before he died in 1970, he treated the world to some of the best guitar playing and in terpretations of mu...