Barney Hoskyns Bücher

1972 veröffentlichte David Bowie das geniale Konzeptalbum The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars und präsentierte sich einer konsternierten Welt als androgyne, wimperngetuschte Kunstfigur in Glitzerklamotten, die die Grenzen zwischen männlich und weiblich, hetero und schwul, Fakten und Fiktion einriss, bis nur noch ein funkelndes Spektakel fantastischer Selbstinszenierung blieb. Album und Bühnenspektakel machten den stillen Londoner zu einem der größten Stars der Welt. Begleitet wurde er auf diesem Glam-Trip in die Stratosphäre des Pophimmels von seinem Landsmann, dem Londoner Fotografen Mick Rock . Rock lag künstlerisch und persönlich auf einer Wellenlänge mit Bowie, wurde Teil seiner Entourage und arbeitete in den Jahren 1972/73 als Leibfotograf des Sängers . Diese einzigartige, 2015 noch unter Bowies Mitwirkung entstandene Sammlung zeigt das Beste aus Mick Rocks Bowie-Portfolio , von spektakulären Liveshows, legendären Studio-Porträts, Coverfotos bis hin zu Bildern aus Promofilmen, aus dem Backstage-Bereich und vom Tour-Alltag; sie zeigen Bowie, die Kunstfigur , aber auch den nicht minder facettenreichen Menschen jenseits cooler Rock-Posen – eine leidenschaftliche Hommage an einen brillanten und inspirierenden Künstler, dessen kreative Vision bis heute fortlebt. Auch das Cover ist ein Tribut an Bowies Persönlichkeit: es schillert in allen Facetten und zeigt je nach Blickwinkel einen anderen Bowie.

Tom Waits war nie Mainstream und zählt doch zu den einflussreichsten Musikern der Welt, zu seinen Verehrern gehören so unterschiedliche Künstler wie Metallica und Bob Dylan. Akribisch wie niemand zuvor geht der Journalist Barney Hoskyns dem Phänomen Tom Waits auf den Grund.

Say It One Time for the Brokenhearted was the first of many titles by renowned UK music journalist Barney Hoskyns. Thirty years after its publication he revisited the modern-day classic for this revised and expanded anniversary edition that marks the book's first publication in the US. Fascinated by the collision of country and soul music in the Southern states, Hoskyns and photographer Muir MacKean set out on a journey through the American South to explore the phenomenon of primarily black singers and primarily white musicians joining forces in the 1960s to create musical magic in an era of racial tension. From Memphis to Muscle Shoals to Nashville, they sat down with dozens of the architects of what's come to be known as Country Soul to capture a story that is as inspiring as it is historically important.

Starting out as a backing group for Ronnie Hawkins, before being propelled on to the world stage by Bob Dylan, The Band literally changed the course of music with their first two albums. schovat popis

What emerges is a compelling portrait of the four musicians themselves, as well as a fresh insight into close-knit entourage that protected them, from Peter Grant to Richard Cole to Ahmet Ertegun, giant figures from long-vanished world of 1970s rock. This book is a history, adventures, myths and realities of this legendary and powerful of bands.

British rock historian Hoskyns examines the long and twisted rock & roll history of Los Angeles in its glamorous and debauched glory. The Beach Boys, The Doors, the Eagles, Joni Mitchell, and others populate the pages of this comprehensive and extensively illustrated book.

' Present Tense is an anthology to savour . . . giving you as sharp a portrait of this unknowable band as you could hope for . . . Radiohead fans will love it' Classic Rock A Rock's Backpages anthology of Radiohead, the most radical and fascinating rock band in modern music history, edited and introduced by Barney Hoskyns. For over 25 years, Radiohead have been the most radical and fascinating rock band in the world. Fearless in their desire to change and shape-shift, the Oxfordshire quintet has - through the nine studio albums from 1993's Pablo Honey to 2016's A Moon-Shaped Pool - consistently stretched the boundaries of what 'rock' means and does. Anchored in Thom Yorke's soaring voice and elliptical lyrics, and in the compositional genius of guitarist/keyboardist Jonny Greenwood, Radiohead continue to astonish as they approach their fourth decade. Present Tense collects the best writing on this most literate of pop groups, from the earliest local reports about On A Friday - Radiohead's first moniker - through the inspired commentary of Mark Greif and Simon Reynolds to the trenchant profiles of Will Self, John Harris and others. It's an anthology that goes a long way towards explaining what Rock's Backpages editor Barney Hoskyns describes as the band's 'seriousness, emotional grandeur and willingness to stare humanity's dystopian hi-tech future in the face'.