This Kanye West biography, written for readers at the high school level and older (young adult), covers the rapper and producer’s early life and career, from his birth in Georgia and upbringing mostly in the Chicago area, to his breaking into rap laying tracks for other artists and as a producer, to his later success...
One has to admire – the smiling, head-shaking, befuddled and bemused kind of admiration – the sheer chutzpah that leads an author to promise that by following the instructions in his book, you will be guaranteed to release a number one hit song on the UK charts. These guys have managed to actually do that...
Perhaps the most interesting feature of this Bach biography is the comparison the author makes between the composer and the great English scientist Sir Isaac Newton. I can see the sense in that. Both approached their fields with mathematical precision and at the same time with a whiff of the arcane. Newton’s Principia Mathematica has...
I am old enough that the Beatles were a current and very hot band when I started tuning into the radio. This was around the turning point in their music, when they stopped playing pop songs with catchy tunes and uninspired lyrics and moved into more creative and dangerous territory. Sgt. Pepper was the first...
This George Harrison biography, written by the former Beatle’s widow, Olivia Harrison, draws upon his collection of photographs, letters, journals, and other documentation. She follows Harrison’s life from his boyhood in Liverpool, where he grew up poor and learned to play guitar, through his incredible career with the Beatles, and on to his subsequent career...
