Fleetwood Mac have had a chart-topping career that spans over fifty years and includes some of the biggest-selling albums and greatest hits of the 20th and 21st centuries. But the band's story is one of enormous triumph and also unimaginable tragedy. There has never been a band in the history of music riven with as much romantic drama, sexual tension and incredible highs and lows as Fleetwood Mac.Dreams is a must-read for casual Fleetwood Mac fans and die-hard devotees ali...

Interest in Pink Floyd remains as intense as ever even 40 years after the release of Dark Side of the Moon, with lavish box-sets collecting demos and out-takes, and Roger Waters’ world tours of The Wall playing to packed stadiums.Now, Mark Blake’s superbly comprehensive and engrossing history of the group, rightly acclaimed as the definitive book on the band, has been fully revised and extended with new interviews to bring the story up to date with the recent appearances of David Gi...

Freddie Mercury was rock’s most dazzling showman, a legendary entertainer who in 1991, at the age of just forty-five, became the first major music star to die of AIDS. Mercury’s soaring four-octave voice was a defining element in Queen’s unique sound, crucial to the success of the band’s fifteen studio albums, from Queen (1973) to Made in Heaven (1995). He was also a supremely talented songwriter and musician who wrote many of the band’s greatest hits, including ‘Killer Queen’, ‘We Are the...

Sphärische Sounds und monumentale KlangschöpfungenDer Erfolg von Pink Floyd lässt sich nur mit Superlativen beschreiben. In den Sixties gegründet, eroberten sie in jedem Jahrzehnt ein neues Publikum, das ihre Meisterwerke als Kulturgut etablierte.Der Rockhistoriker und Pink-Floyd-Spezialist Mark Blake hat in jahrelanger Arbeit Originaltöne zusammengetragen und eigene Interviews geführt, die sich nun zu einem schillernden Porträt vereinen. Dabei kommen nicht ...

In his own words-from rock's most legendary bad boy.Rock 'n' roll legend and Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has quite a few things to say: about Mick Jagger, the Stones, sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll, and life itself. Sample these nuggets of wit and wisdom chipped from the tablets of Stone:On etiquette: "I've never turned blue in someone else's bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners."On Mick Jagger: "My aim is alw...

'You want it all? There's not much missing here. 9/10.' - Classic Rock'An engaging mix of humour and detailed critical analysis ... great fun. 4/5.' - MojoFrom the award-winning author of Bring It On Home: Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin and Beyond and Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd comes MAGNIFICO! THE A TO Z OF QUEEN.Addressing the phenomenal success of Bo...

Queen von A bis Z: Fakten, Listen, Anekdoten Die große Queen-Geschichte wurde schon oft erzählt - nicht zuletzt in dem äußerst erfolgreichen Biopic "Bohemian Rhapsody" aus dem Jahr 2018. Mark Blake, der bereits mehrere Bücher über Queen und Freddie Mercury verfasste, widmet sich in seinem A-Z vor allem den weniger bekannten Tatsachen und fördert dabei eine beeindruckende Fülle an Informationen zutage, die viele Fans überraschen dürfte. Dabei umreißt auch "Magnifico!" das Gesamtwerk der Ban...

Mark Blake draws on his own interviews with band members as well as the group's friends, road crew, musical contemporaries, former housemates, and university colleagues to produce a riveting history of one of the biggest rock bands of all time. We follow Pink Floyd from the early psychedelic nights at UFO, to the stadium-rock and concept-album zenith of the seventies, to the acrimonious schisms of the late '80s and '90s. Along the way there are fascinating new revelations about Syd Barrett...

Der Stoff, aus dem Legenden sind - altbewährt und neu bewertet 2014 erschien mit "The Endless River" das letzte Album von Pink Floyd - eine Würdigung des 2008 verstorbenen Keyboarders Rick Wright, eine Rückbesinnung auf die gemeinsame Arbeit und ein Zeichen dafür, dass das letzte Wort über die britischen Rocklegenden eben doch noch nicht gesprochen wurde. Ganz genauso verhält es sich auch mit diesem Buch: Auch wenn man glaubte, schon alles über Pink Floyd zu wissen, beweist doch Mark Blake...

The authorized biography of the most notorious rock manager of all time, Peter Grant, best known for his work with Led ZeppelinPeter Grant is the most famous music manager of all time. Often acknowledged as the "fifth member of Led Zeppelin," Grant's story has appeared in fragments across countless Zeppelin biographies, but none has explored who this brilliant and intuitive manager yet flawed and sometimes dangerous man truly was. No one has successfully captured th...

The acclaimed, definitive biography of Pink Floyd, from their iconic beginnings in psychedelic, Swinging London to their historic reunion at the Live8 concert ("The most complete, insightful, and current account of Pink Floyd...nearly as essential as the music itself." -- Austin Chronicle)Mark Blake draws on his own interviews with band members as well as the group's friends, road crew, musical contemporaries, former housemates, and university coll...

Oftmals wird vergessen, dass hinter allen erfolgreichen Interpreten ein Manager steckt, der die Strippen zieht, Hindernisse aus dem Weg räumt und seinen Schützlingen die nötigen Rahmenbedingungen sichert. Neben dem gewieften Colonel Parker, der Elvis Presley betreute, gab es nur ein - in diesem Fall wörtliches - Schwergewicht, das bis heute einen legendären Ruf genießt: Peter Grant, der Mann, durch den Led Zeppelin zu den Rockgöttern der Siebziger wurden. Riesenerfolge, astronomische Gagen...