The definitive oral history of Pink Floyd as told by friends, lovers, family members, and the band themselves through exclusive, never-before-published interviews.In Pink Floyd: Shine On, acclaimed music writer and band confidant Mark Blake tells the definitive story of Pink Floyd for the first time in their own words.Based on Mark’s own extensive archive—from talking to the band over a thirty-five year period and including extensive new interviews...

An illuminating deep-dive into everything Fleetwood Mac—the songs, the rivalries, the successes, and the failures—Dreams evokes the band's entire musical catalog as well as the complex human drama at the heart of the Fleetwood Mac story.Fleetwood Mac has had a ground-breaking career spanning over fifty years and includes some of the best-selling albums and greatest hits of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. But the band’s unique story is one of enor...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

'A definitive tome for both Who fans and newcomers alike’ ***** Q MagazinePete Townshend was once asked how he prepared himself for The Who’s violent live performances. His answer? ‘Pretend you’re in a war.’ For a band as prone to furious infighting as it was notorious for acts of ‘auto-destructive art’ this could have served as a motto.Between 1964 and 1969 The Who released some of the most dramatic and confrontational music of the decade, includi...