Philip Norman
1) Mick Jagger
Author
Publisher
Asa
Pub. Date
2013
Language
Portuguese
Formats
Description
Mick Jagger é a estrela do rock que melhor encarnou o ideal de sexo, drogas e rock'n'roll. Nesta que é a mais completa biografia do líder dos Rolling Stones até à data, Philip Norman refaz os passos da sua consagração e revela como ele se tornou um semideus do rock, escandaloso e milionário. A partir de uma pesquisa minuciosa e de inúmeras entrevistas, Norman reconstitui a infância de Mick: de rapaz dos Home Counties, passando por rebelde...
Author
Language
English
Description
For more than a quarter century, biographer 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 being a Beatle was never enough. Drawing on previously untapped sources, and with unprecedented access to all the major characters, Norman presents the comprehensive and most revealing portrait of John Lennon
...Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Since the age of twenty-one, Paul McCartney has lived one of the ultimate rock-n-roll lives played out on the most public of stages. Now, Paul's story is told by rock music's foremost biographer, with McCartney's consent and access to family members and close friends who have never spoken on the record before. PAUL McCARTNEY reveals the complex character behind the façade and sheds new light on his childhood--blighted by his mother's death but...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Despite being hailed as one of the best guitarists of his era, George Harrison, particularly in his early decades, battled feelings of inferiority. He was often the butt of jokes from his bandmates owing to his lower-class background and, typically, was allowed to contribute only one or two songs per Beatles' album out of the dozens he wrote. Now, acclaimed Beatles' biographer Philip Norman examines Harrison through the lens of his numerous self-contradictions....
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Jimi Hendrix's death, the best-selling author of Shout! delivers a compelling new biography of the legendary guitarist. Celebrated as the most innovative guitarist ever to play, Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) is renowned for symphonic solos and virtuosic picking (sometimes, with his teeth). But, as Philip Norman describes, before Hendrix was setting guitars aflame onstage, he was a shy kid in Seattle, plucking...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
For half a century Eric Clapton has been acknowledged to be one of music's greatest virtuosos, the unrivalled master of an indispensable tool, the solid-body electric guitar. His career has spanned the history of rock, and often shaped it via the seminal bands with whom he's played: the Yardbirds, John Mavall's Bluesbreakers, Cream, Blind Faith, Derek and the Dominoes. Winner of 17 Grammys, the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame's only three-time inductee,...
8) Mick Jagger
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Philip Norman write about the most notorious yet eniigmatic rock icon of all time. Throughout five decades of fronting the Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger has been seen as the ultimate arrogant superstar. Norman reveals a man far more complex...human, vulnerable, often impressive, sometimes endearing.
9) Cleo y Leo
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
200L
Language
Español
Description
Ben and Mom lose Grandma's dog Cleo but come up with a possible solution.