[PDF] Rock Me Amadeus eBook

Author : Seb Hunter
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,87 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Composers
ISBN : 9780718148348

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Once he'd reached his early thirties, Seb Hunter knew it was time to try to grow up - but that, of course, meant attempting to enjoy classical music. Pretending just wouldn't do. His musical tastes had always been catholic, but this was a step into the unknown - down beyond the glass partition and into the record-shop basement. It might as well be beyond the looking-glass; yet our intrepid hero reckons he's up to the task. And, not one to do things by halves, he embarks on a haphazard journey across Europe that takes in hallucinating nuns, a Yoda-like mentor, angry eunuchs, frustrated minstrels, trying really hard not to vomit at the opera in Rome, an assault on the Kremlin and several run-ins with his mother. But will Beethoven roll over? Will Nigel Kennedy return his calls? No. From chanting monks to music played with helicopters via twenty different varieties of Austrian sausage, it's a passionate, unlikely and very funny story. If you've ever wondered whether classical music is all it's made out to be, now you'll never have to listen to any in order to find out - just read this instead.

Author : Peter Shaffer
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 22,67 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Composers
ISBN : 9780141188898

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a genius, the most brilliant musician the world will ever see. But the court of eighteenth-century Vienna doesn t recognize his talents - only Antonio Salieri, the Court Composer, does, and he is tortured by what he hears. Seething with rage at the genius of this flippant buffoon and suddenly aware of his own mediocrity, Salieri declares war and sets out to destroy the man he sees as God s instrument on earth. Peter Shaffer s award-winning play is a rich, exuberant portrayal of a God-like man among mortals, and lives destroyed by envy."

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Page : 119 pages
File Size : 50,68 MB
Release : 1986-04-19
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In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Author : Jimmy Pop
Publisher : WZ Livres
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 29,76 MB
Release : 2015-04-17
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Présentation de l'éditeur - Dingleberry Haze (1994) - Use Your Fingers (1995) - One Fierce Beer Coaster (1996) - Hooray for Boobies (1999) - Hefty Fine (2005) - Show Us Your Hits (2011) - Singles

Author : Ewa Mazierska
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,80 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781845532352

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Falco and Beyond is devoted to the most popular Austrian song-writer, singer and rapper of the twentieth century and one of the most successful European singers of all time. Falco was born in 1957, reached the peak of his popularity in the 1980s with songs such as Der Kommissar, Rock Me Amadeus and Jeanny, with mixed luck attempted to revive his career in the 1990s and died in a car crash in 1998. He sold over 30 million records worldwide and remains a successful posthumous artist. The book attempts to identify the most salient and contradictory features of Falco's art, such as linguistic inventiveness and dexterity, rapping and adopting a posture of a romantic artist. It argues that Falco's songs betray an apocalyptic imagination, picturing the image of an exhausted and unhappy world. It looks at Falco's career and his phenomenon in the context of international and Austrian music business and politics, and investigates how his popularity has been maintained after his death, by means such as records released posthumously, cover versions of his songs, mashup songs and videos, biographies and Falco fandom.

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Page : 92 pages
File Size : 26,27 MB
Release : 1986-02-22
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In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Author : Kylo-Patrick R. Hart
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 39,45 MB
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 184888396X

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To enable readers to grasp the cumulative complexity of contemporary celebrity culture, this book explores dynamics of the celebrity experience in recent centuries and up to the present day.