Fred Goodman Livres

An artist in every sense of the word, Lhasa de Sela wowed audiences around the globe with her multilingual songs and spellbinding performances, mixing together everything from Gypsy music to Mexican rancheras, Americana and jazz, chanson fran�aise, and South American folk melodies. In Canada, her album La Llorona won the Juno Award and went gold, and its follow-up, The Living Road, won a BBC World Music Award. Tragically, de Sela succumbed to breast cancer in 2010 at the age of thirty-seven after recording her final album, Lhasa.Tracing de Sela's unconventional life and introducing her to a new generation, Why Lhasa de Sela Matters is the first biography of this sophisticated creative icon. Raised in a hippie family traveling between the United States and Mexico in a converted school bus, de Sela developed an unquenchable curiosity, with equal affinities for the romantic, mystic, and cerebral. Becoming a sensation in Montreal and Europe, the trilingual singer rejected a conventional path to fame, joining her sisters' circus troupe in France. Revealing the details of these and other experiences that inspired de Sela to write such vibrant, otherworldly music, Why Lhasa de Sela Matters sings with the spirit of this gifted firebrand.

The narrative explores the music industry's struggle to adapt following the rise of free online music in 1999, highlighting the failures that ensued over the next decade. Central to this story is Edgar M. Bronfman Jr., the heir to Seagram’s, whose controversial decisions led to the dismantling of his family's empire. His ambitious efforts to transform the music industry and restore his reputation reveal the complex dynamics between media companies and music consumers during a pivotal era.

"The story of notorious manager Allen Klein, revealing new, behind-the-scenes details about some of the biggest rock bands in history"--$c Provided by publisher.

Set against the backdrop of 1964, the narrative explores the transformation of the American music industry from a time when rock and roll was marginalized to its emergence as a billion-dollar powerhouse. It delves into the absence of a rock press and artist management in the early days, highlighting the pivotal moments and key figures that contributed to this seismic shift. The book examines the cultural and commercial factors that fueled the rise of rock music, ultimately reshaping the landscape of the music business.

Longtime rock critic and journalist Fred Goodman digs into the contradictions and ambiguities of a generation that spurned and sought success with equal fervor when it came to the financial management and manipulation of the rock "industry". "On par with the best work of David Halberstam".--Frederic Dannen, author of Hit Men. of photos.

For rock music and film buffs alike, this is the ultimate authority on the intersecting worlds of rock & roll and cinema, told in a compelling narrative by an award-winning author, highlighting essential films from the Beatles to Lady Gaga. "Rock movies" are a unique class of film that can be defined by an original comedy like The Beatles' A Hard Day's Night; by a semibiographical look at an artist and a movement, like Inside Llewelyn Davis; a musical drama like Purple Rain; or the ultimate cult movie, Rocky Horror Picture Show. Highlighting such diverse and influential works as these movies and dozens more, Rock on Film tells the evolution of rock music through the lens of cinema. Author Fred Goodman's history, insights, and reviews are collected in a lengthy narrative essay "Between the Sprockets: A History of Rock on Film," a countdown of 50 must-see rock films, and a series of original interviews with directors such as Cameron Crowe, Penelope Spheeris, John Waters, and more on how rock has influenced the images and moods in their movies. Rock on Film is illustrated throughout by more than 200 full-color and black-and-white rarely seen images that bring the history of rock music in the movies to vivid life.