Matt Thorne

Prince es una de las pocas estrellas de la música que actualmente siguen siendo un enigma. Enemigo declarado de la prensa y las entrevistas, con una personaílidad contradictoria y polemica, Prince ha contribuido a crear su propio mito. Matt Thorne, reconocido escritor britanico y seguidor de Prince desde su juventud, ha hecho un trabajo meticuloso y exhaustivo. En Prince analiza el catalogo musical del artista: albumes, canciones, giras, colaboraciones, letras. Ademas incluye entrevistas a sus colaboradores y amigos mas cercanos. En esta biografia poco a poco vamos descrubriendo al Prince que hay detras del mito. Una biografia rigurosa. Los fans de Prince disfrutaran con este libro revelador.

Legendarily reticent, perverse and misleading, Prince is one of the few remaining 80s superstars who still, perhaps, remains unexplained. Now a firm fixture in the pop canon, where such classics as Purple Rain, Sign o the Times and Parade regularly feature in Best Ever Album polls, Prince is still, as he ever was, an enigma. His live performances are legendary (21 Nights at the O2 in 2007) and while recent releases have been modestly successful at best, his influence on urban music, and RnB in particular, has never been more evident. The Minneapolis Sound can now be heard everywhere. Matt Thornes Prince, through years of research and interviews with ex-Revolution members such as Wendy and Lisa, is an account of a pop maverick whose experiments with rock, funk, techno and jazz revolutionised pop. With reference to every song, released and unreleased, over 35 years of recording, Prince will stand for years to come as the go-to book on the Great Man.

After the fall of the kingdom, everyone in England has divided themselves into thirty-nine communities, each based within a castle. This is the way people live now - in a future that seems like the past. Eleanor Conway was chosen to join the Castle Seven - the secret organisation charged with taking part in missions on behalf of the Clearheart Community. But Castle Seven is now Castle Six, following Anderson''s dramatic departure. Anderson has kidnapped Eleanor''s friend Mary and is holding her at Kinder Castle, a castle community run entirely by children. He tells her she''s destined to be Queen of all England one day; but can she trust him? Hearing of her kidnap, and Anderson''s plan to attack a neighbouring castle using his army of unruly children, Eleanor and the Castle Six make preparations for a rescue. But by the time they end their adventure, they''re destined be one less in number.

Welcome to Castle Seven. Could you be the brightest and best in your group? Twelve-year-old Eleanor Conway is chosen to prove just that. Selected to join the secretive Castle Seven organization, she must take part in missions and adventures on her community's behalf.

Entertaining and insightful . . . Thornes prose is a pleasure to read MOJOA juicy account of great rivalriesOBSERVERWhen an artist becomes truly famous, there is almost no one on earth who can understand how their world has changed forever. Perhaps only a young pretender who wants to rule the charts together, or a rival who wants to bring them down from their throne, knows how they feel and how to get into their heads. Someone who wants to invite them onto their TV show, act with them in a movie, make some money by filming a commercial together, duet on a song, or have a secret affair. Or any combination of the above.Famous examines seven moments in music when stars from pop, rock and hip-hop have come together and how the resulting reverberations impacted everything from the culture at large to the decisions of world leaders. The book sheds thrilling new light on the fascinating stories of Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley, Paul McCartney and Diana Ross, Lou Reed and Paul Simon, Chuck Berry and Keith Richards, David Bowie and Tina Turner, Madonna and Tupac Shakur and Ye and Taylor Swift.