Rob Sheffield

You know the songs by heart. Youve traded the friendship bracelets. Youve worn the cowboy boots and the bejewelled bodysuits.Now, get the inside track on this generations biggest super star Taylor Swift.An intimate look at the life and music of modern pop's most legendary figure, Taylor Swift, from leading music journalist Rob Sheffield.A cultural phenomenon. A worldwide obsession. An agent of emotional chaos. There's no parallel to Taylor Swift in history: a teenage girl who turns into the world's favorite pop star, songwriter, storyteller, guitar hero, live performer, changing how music is made and heard. An all-time great on the level of The Beatles, Prince, or David Bowie.Heartbreak Is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music is the first book that goes deep on the musical and cultural impact of Taylor Swift. Nobody can tell the story like Rob Sheffield, the bestselling and award-winning author of Dreaming the Beatles, On Bowie, and Love Is a Mix Tape. The legendary Rolling Stone journalist is the writer who has chronicled Taylor for every step of her long career, from her early days to the Eras Tour. Sheffield gets right to the heart of Swift and her music, her lyrics, her fan connection, her raw power.At once one of the most beloved music figures of the past two decades and one of the most criticized, Taylor Swift is known as much for her life beyond her music as she is for her hitsthe most public of stars, yet also the weirdest and most mysterious. In the tradition of Sheffield's Dreaming the Beatles, Heartbreak Is the National Anthem will inform and delight a legion of fans who hang on every word from Taylor and every word Rob writes on her.

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He encontrado esta cinta con la letra rizada de Renée en la etiqueta. Intuyo que la noche va a ser larga. Estamos solos Renée, las canciones que ella eligió y yo. Todas esas melodías me recuerdan a ella. No es la primera vez que hacemos esto. A veces nos

LOVE IS A MIX TAPE: LIFE AND LOSS, ONE SONG AT A TIME

On Bowie is a thoughtful and loving meditation on the life of the late David Bowie that explores his creative legacy and the enduring and mutual connection he enjoyed with his fansInnovative. Pioneering. Brave. Until his death in January 2016, David Bowie created art that not only pushed boundaries, but helped fans understand themselves and view the world from fantastic new perspectives.When the shocking news of his death on January 10, 2016 broke, the outpouring of grief and adulation was immediate and ongoing. Fans around the world and across generations paid homage to this brilliant, innovate, ever-evolving artist who both shaped and embodied our times.In this concise and penetrating book, highly-regarded Rolling Stone critic, bestselling author, and lifelong Bowie fan Rob Sheffield shares his own feelings about the passing of this icon and explains why Bowies death has elicited such an unprecedented emotional outpouring from so many.

UMA HISTÓRIA REAL E COMOVENTE SOBRE O AMOR E A MORTE ATRAVÉS DA TRILHA SONORA DE UMA GERAÇÃO"Este é o mais divertido, o mais triste, enfim, o melhor livro sobre rock n roll que eu já li."— Chuck Klos

An NPR Best Book of the Year Winner of the Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music CriticismThis is the best book about the Beatles ever written MashableRob Sheffield, the Rolling Stone columnist and bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape offers an entertaining, unconventional look at the most popular band in history, the Beatles, exploring what they mean today and why they still matter so intensely to a generation that has never known a world without them.Dreaming the Beatles is not another biography of the Beatles, or a song-by-song analysis of the best of John and Paul. It isnt another expose about how they broke up. It isnt a history of their gigs or their gear. It is a collection of essays telling the story of what this ubiquitous band means to a generation who grew up with the Beatles music on their parents stereos and their faces on T-shirts. What do the Beatles mean today? Why are they more famous and beloved now than ever? And why do they still matter so much to us, nearly fifty years after they broke up?As he did in his previous books, Love is a Mix Tape, Talking to Girls About Duran Duran, and Turn Around Bright Eyes, Sheffield focuses on the emotional connections we make to music. This time, he focuses on the biggest pop culture phenomenon of all timeThe Beatles. In his singular voice, he explores what the Beatles mean today, to fans who have learned to love them on their own terms and not just for the sake of nostalgia. Dreaming the Beatles tells the story of how four lads from Liverpool became the worlds biggest pop group, then broke upbut then somehow just kept getting bigger. At this point, their music doesnt belong to the pastit belongs to right now. This book is a celebration of that music, showing why the Beatles remain the worlds favorite thingand how they invented the future were all living in today.

The happiest, saddest, sweetest book about rock n roll that Ive ever experienced.Chuck Klosterman Mix tapes: We all have our favorites. Stick one into a deck, press play, and youre instantly transported to another time in your life. For Rob Sheffield, that time was one of miraculous love and unbearable grief. A time that spanned seven years, it started when he met the girl of his dreams, and ended when he watched her die in his arms. Using the listings of fifteen of his favorite mix tapes, Rob shows that the power of music to build a bridge between people is stronger than death. Youll read these words, perhaps surprisingly, with joy in your heart and a song in your headthe one that comes to mind when you think of the love of your life. Praise for Love is a Mixtape A memoir that manages, no small feat, to be funny and beautifully forlorn at the same time.The New York Times Book Review Humorous, heartbreaking, and heroic.Entertainment Weekly The finest lines ever written about rock n roll . . . Like that song on the radio, every word of Robs book is true. Love is a mix tape.Rolling Stone Many of us use pop culture as a mirror of our emotional lives, but Sheffield happily walks right through the looking glass.Los Angeles Times Sheffield writes with such aching remembering, you feel like you are invading his privacy . . . and its the truth of those details that make this memoir so touching.Newsweek

From the bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape and Turn Around Bright Eyes, "a funny, insightful look at the sublime torture of adolescence".Entertainment WeeklyThe 1980s meant MTV and John Hughes movies, big dreams and bigger shoulder pads, and millions of teen girls who nursed crushes on the members of Duran Duran. As a solitary teenager stranded in the suburbs, Rob Sheffield had a lot to learn about women, love, music, and himself. And he was sure his radio had all the answers.As evidenced by the bestselling sales of Sheffields first book, Love Is a Mix Tape, the connection between music and memory strikes a chord with readers. Talking to Girls About Duran Duran strikes that chord all over again, and is a pitch-perfect trip through 80s music-from Bowie to Bobby Brown, from hair metal to hip-hop. But this book is not just about music. Its about growing up and how every song is a snapshot of a moment that youll remember the rest of your life.

You know the songs by heart. Youve traded the friendship bracelets. Youve worn the cowboy boots and the bejewelled bodysuits.Now, get the inside track on this generations biggest super star Taylor Swift.An intimate look at the life and music of modern pops most legendary figure, Taylor Swift, from leading music journalist Rob Sheffield.A cultural phenomenon. A worldwide obsession. An agent of emotional chaos. Theres no parallel to Taylor Swift in history: a teenage girl who turns into the worlds favorite pop star, songwriter, storyteller, guitar hero, live performer, changing how music is made and heard. An all-time great on the level of The Beatles, Prince, or David Bowie.Heartbreak Is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music is the first book that goes deep on the musical and cultural impact of Taylor Swift. Nobody can tell the story like Rob Sheffield, the bestselling and award-winning author of Dreaming the Beatles, On Bowie, and Love Is a Mix Tape. The legendary Rolling Stone journalist is the writer who has chronicled Taylor for every step of her long career, from her early days to the Eras Tour. Sheffield gets right to the heart of Swift and her music, her lyrics, her fan connection, her raw power.At once one of the most beloved music figures of the past two decades and one of the most criticized, Taylor Swift is known as much for her life beyond her music as she is for her hitsthe most public of stars, yet also the weirdest and most mysterious. In the tradition of Sheffields Dreaming the Beatles, Heartbreak Is the National Anthem will inform and delight a legion of fans who hang on every word from Taylor and every word Rob writes on her.

Con apenas 14 años e interpretando temas country con su guitarra, Taylor Swift se convirtió en la novia de América. Luego cambió su estilo hacia un pop espectacular, cargado de emoción y lleno de influencias de la musica de los ochenta y los noventa para convertirse en una artista intergeneracional y en la cantante mas aclamada y popular del planeta. Pura fuerza y creatividad y con la capacidad musical de reinventarse en cada disco, Taylor Switf es hoy un fenomeno cultural de alcance mundial y la cantante que mejor conecta con varias generaciones de fans, gracias a su musica fascinante y a unas letras en las que vuelca su experiencia y sus sentimientos. Como escritor musical preferido y de mayor confianza de Taylor Swift, Rob Sheffield ha disfrutado durante años de la amistad de la cantante y ha llegado a conocerla mejor que cualquier otro periodista del mundo del espectaculo. En "Heartbreak is the National Anthem", la primera biografia en profundidad de Taylor Swift, Sheffield fusiona reportaje y critica de una manera que solo el puede hacer, repasa los momentos mas iconicos de la vida de la cantante, su evolucion como interprete y compositora y descubre como su vida personal forma parte de las letras de sus canciones.

Con apenas 14 años e interpretando temas country con su guitarra, Taylor Swift se convirtió en la novia de América. Luego cambió su estilo hacia un pop espectacular, cargado de emoción y lleno de influencias de la musica de los ochenta y los noventa para convertirse en una artista intergeneracional y en la cantante mas aclamada y popular del planeta.Pura fuerza y creatividad y con la capacidad musical de reinventarse en cada disco, Taylor Switf es hoy un fenomeno cultural de alcance mundial y la cantante que mejor conecta con varias generaciones de fans, gracias a su musica fascinante y a unas letras en las que vuelca su experiencia y sus sentimientos.Como escritor musical preferido y de mayor confianza de Taylor Swift, Rob Sheffield ha disfrutado durante años de la amistad de la cantante y ha llegado a conocerla mejor que cualquier otro periodista del mundo del espectaculo. En Heartbreak is the National Anthem, la primera biografia en profundidad de Taylor Swift, Sheffield fusiona reportaje y critica de una manera que solo el puede hacer, repasa los momentos mas iconicos de la vida de la cantante, su evolucion como interprete y compositora y descubre como su vida personal forma parte de las letras de sus canciones.