Bøger af Peter Guralnick

*The long-awaited second volume of the definitive biography of Elvis Presley.

The definitive biography of Elvis and an excellent slice of social history.

Feel Like Going Home brings to life the legendary musicians, songs, and labels of blues and early rock 'n' roll, capturing the drama on and off stage, the wrenching lyrics and the driving rhythms that changed performance, engagement and lives in America and around the world.

Available in this new hardback edition for the first time in decades, Sweet Soul Music was hailed by Newsweek on publication as 'a stunning chronicle.... a panoramic survey of a lost world [and] one of the best books ever written on American popular music'.Since then it has acquired the status of a classic. Pitchfork included it among its '50 Favourite Music Books of All Time,' the Daily Beast placed it on their 'Essential Civil Rights Reading List,' David Bowie named it one of his '100 Must-Read books', while noted author Ta Nehisi Coates, whose work chronicles the contemporary racial divide, called it 'one of the ten books I couldn't live without.'A gripping narrative that captures the tumult and sweep of a music that will forever be linked to the Civil Rights Movement which inspired it, (think of Sam Cooke's 'A Change Is Gonna Come') Sweet Soul Music provides intimate portraits of performers like Cooke, Ray Charles, James Brown, Solomon Burke, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, and Al Green among others, whose passionate gospel-based music embodied the liberating energy of a nation in transition. Through rare interviews, Peter Guralnick tells the definitive story of the music and the musicians, bringing to it the same empathy and insight that has informed all of his other work.As Roddy Doyle writes in his introduction to this new edition: 'Sweet Soul Music delivers all that we love to read in a great, sprawling novel, and still manages to be richly informative, historically and musically precise; it's a work of high scholarship written by a born storyteller.'

The first official history of Sun Records, written for the celebration of their 70th anniversary.

A fascinating look at the history of Sun Records, the label that started Rock n' Roll, told through 70 of its iconic recordings.In Memphis, Tennessee, in the 1950s, there was hard-edged blues playing on Beale Street, and hillbilly boogie on the outskirts of town. But at Sam Phillips' Sun Records studio on Union Avenue, there was something different going on - a whole lotta shakin', rockin', and rollin'. Sun Records: the company that launched Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, and Carl Perkins. The label that brought the world, "Blue Suede Shoes," "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On," "Breathless," "I Walk the Line," "Mystery Train," "Good Rockin' Tonight."The Birth of Rock 'n' Roll: 70 Years of Sun Records is the official history of this legendary label, and looks at its story in a unique way: through the lens of 70 of its most iconic recordings. From the early days with primal blues artists like Howlin' Wolf and B.B. King to long nights in the studio with Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis, you will see how the label was shaped and how it redefined American music. Accompanying the recordings is the label's origin story and a look at the mission of the label today, as well as "Sun Spot" sidebars-a fascinating dive into subjects such as how the iconic logo was created, the legendary Million Dollar Quartet sessions, and how the song "Harper Valley, PTA" funded the purchase of the label.Written by two of the most acclaimed music writers of our time, Peter Guralnick and Colin Escott, and featuring hundreds of rare images from the Sun archives as well as a foreword by music legend Jerry Lee Lewis, this is a one-of-a-kind book for anyone who wants to know where it all started.

"The Birth of Rock 'n' Roll: 70 Years of Sun Records is the official history of this legendary label, and looks at its story in a unique way: through the lens of 70 of its most iconic recordings. From the early days with primal blues artists like Howlin' Wolf and B.B. King to long nights in the studio with Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis, you will see how the label was shaped and how it redefined American music. Accompanying the recordings is the label's origin story and a look at the mission of the label today, as well as "Sun Spot" sidebars - a fascinating dive into subjects such as how the iconic logo was created, the legendary Million Dollar Quartet sessions, and how the song "Harper Valley, PTA" funded the purchase of the label."--Provided by publisher.

"Ich war schon immer der Meinung, dass Sun Records und Sam Phillips die entscheidensten, erhebensten und stärksten Platten aller Zeiten produziert hatten. Bei Sun Records sangen die Künstler um ihr Leben und hörten sich an, als kämen sie aus der rätselhaftesten Ecke des Planeten. Wenn man sie hinter sich ließ und den Blick zurück warf, konnte man zur Salzsäule erstarren." Bab Dylan, Chronicles Die Biografie über das visionäre Genie, das den revolutionären Weg von Sun Records im Alleingang lenkte. Vom Autor der von der Kritik gefeierten Elvis-Presley-Biografie "Last Train to Memphis" und "Careless Love" endlich in deutscher Sprache: Sam Phillips: der Mann, der den Rock¿n¿Roll erfand. Die Musik, die er in seinem winzigen Memphis-Studio mit so unterschiedlichen Künstlern wie Elvis Presley, Ike Turner, Howlin' Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis und Johnny Cash prägte, brachte einen Sound hervor, der noch nie zuvor gehört worden war. Er schuf eine einzigartige Mischung aus schwarzen und weißen Stimmen, die voller Leidenschaft die Vitalität der amerikanischen Volkstradition verkündete und gleichzeitig ein für alle Mal einen neuen, integrativen Musikstil proklamierte. Mit umfangreichen Interviews und persönlichen Beobachtungen aus erster Hand, die sich über einen Zeitraum von 25 Jahren erstreckten, sowie umfangreichen Interviews mit nahezu allen legendären Sun Records-Künstlern, liefert uns Guralnick ein leidenschaftliches, ungeschöntes Porträt eines amerikanischen Originals. Der Autor Peter Guralnick begleitete Sam Phillips und seine Weggefährten über viele Jahre hinweg, um einen umfassenden Einblick in Sun Records und dessen gesamtes Umfeld zu erlangen. Er beschreibt Sam Phillips' schweren Start, aber natürlich auch seinen unglaublichen Aufstieg. Besonders spannend ist dabei, auch bisher eher unbekannte Seiten von Sam Phillips kennen zu lernen. Seine große Liebe zum Radio, seine Motivation, im Tonstudio immer ausgefeiltere Aufnahmetechniken zu entwickeln oder sein Drang zu waghalsigen Expansionsmanövern weit über die Grenzen seiner Wahlheimatstadt Memphis hinaus. Gleichzeitig zeigt Peter Guralnick aber auch die Schattenseiten von Sam Phillips auf, die es im Wirken außergewöhnlicher Persönlichkeiten vielleicht immer gibt. Wir lernen in diesem Buch einen Geschäftsmann mit einem unvorstellbaren Antrieb und einem unbändigen Durchhaltevermögen kennen, aber natürlich auch einen ganz persönlichen Sam Phillips. Doch dieses Buch ist mehr als nur eine Biografie über Sam Phillips. Es ist eine Biografie über die Entstehung der amerikanischen Popkultur. Es ist die Biografie einer Musikszene, die unsere heutige Kultur so entscheidend geprägt hat wie keine zuvor und keine danach. Es ist die Biografie über ein Amerika, in dem der Blues und der Rock'n'Roll in kleinen Schritten, aber ganz entscheidend für die Gleichberechtigung von Menschen aller Hautfarben gekämpft hat.

By the bestselling author of Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll and Blues Hall of Fame inductee, essays on the role of inspiration, timing, and fate that led to the creative successes (and failures) of his favorite artists

Examines the cultural factors which have influenced the musical careers and styles of such individuals as Jerry Lee Lewis, Muddy Waters, and Johnny Shines.

LOST HIGHWAY spotlights Ernest Tubb, Hank Snow, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Merle Haggard, and others in a tribute to American country music, the blues, and their revolutionary offspring, rockabilly. "You put the book down feeling that its sweep is vast, that you have read of giants who walked among us".--Lester Bangs, LOS ANGELES HERALD EXAMINER. 140 photos.

How one man discovered B. B. King, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley, and how his tiny label, Sun Records of Memphis, revolutionised the world.