Ergebnis für "Frank" in Unterhaltung & Stars

In 1967, 21-year-old Pauline Butcher was working for a London secretarial agency when a call came through from a Mr Frank Zappa asking for a typist. The assignment would change her life forever. For three years, Pauline served as Zappa's PA, moving with him, his family and the Mothers of Invention to a log cabin in the Hollywood Hills, where the straight young English girl mixed with Oscar winners and rock royalty. 

Dass Frank Goosen Beatles-Fan wurde, hatte mit Schwarzarbeit zu tun. Mit den Worten "Gib mir kein Geld, gib mir lieber ein paar Platten für meinen Jungen!", ließ Goosen Senior sich Ende der Siebziger von einem Elektrohändler für ein paar nach Feierabend angeschlossene Steckdosen mit Beatles-Scheiben bezahlen. Damit war es um den 13-Jährigen geschehen. Goosen spürt seiner lebenslangen Obsession für die "Fab Four" nach: in der Erinnerung an seine Kindheit und Jugend im Ruhrgebiet und an den Originalschauplätzen in Liverpool - kenntnisreich, berührend-persönlich und irre witzig.

Bestselling author James Kaplan redefines Frank Sinatra in a triumphant new biography that includes many rarely seen photographs. Frank Sinatra was the best-known entertainer of the twenti­eth century—infinitely charismatic, lionized and notori­ous in equal measure.

The legendary Frank Zappa, one of the most influential, innovative and controversial musical artists for the past 20 years, takes us on a wild, funny trip through his life and times. Along the way, Zappa offers his inimitable views on many things such as art, politics, and beer.

Beethoven hat Christian Thielemann auf seinem musikalischen Lebensweg begleitet wie kaum ein anderer Komponist. Es ist das von Grund auf Menschliche an Beethovens Musik, das für Thielemann den Kern ihrer Faszination ausmacht. Der Meisterdirigent, der wie wenige vor ihm in die Werkstatt Beethovens geschaut und die Spuren seines Genies gesucht hat, erklärt, warum wir Beethoven noch immer brauchen und welche enormen Schwierigkeiten sich bei ihm für jeden Dirigenten stellen. Er geht der unübertroffenen Größe seiner Symphonien nach und natürlich der Frage, wie man Beethovens Musik heute spielen kann.

Frank Oceans Album "Blonde" ist für Sophie Passmann ein Souvenir aus einer Zeit, in der nichts gut war. Und doch ist es das Album ihres Lebens. Es erschien in dem Sommer, in dem sie in Arztpraxen saß, mal ominöse, mal seriöse Pillen nahm, sich hektisch verliebte und alles in allem brachial lebte. Song für Song seziert sie das Album und damit ihre Gefühle. Sophie Passmann zeigt, wie eng Musik mit dem verknüpft ist, was man so Leben nennt.

Aristotle Onassis was a born orator, and Jackie Kennedy would sit and listen to him spin off tales and stories - often racy - by the hour. A speaker of seven languages, he could keep a dinner party of some of the world's most sophisticated conversationalists spellbound. Even Jackie couldn't help but drop her reserve and laugh with him. America's First Lady simply never knew anyone quite as free or exotic as Aristotle Onassis, a paradoxical blend of raconteur and ruffian.

The Sunday Times best seller. Frank Turner narrates a searingly honest and brilliantly written account of his journey from pub circuit to Wembley Arena.

In the late 1980s Jon Ronson was the keyboard player in the Frank Sidebottom Oh Blimey Big Band. Frank wore a big fake head. Nobody outside his inner circle knew his true identity. This became the subject of feverish speculation during his zenith years. Together, they rode relatively high. Then it all went wrong. Twenty-five years later and Jon has co-written a movie, Frank, inspired by his time in this great and bizarre band. Frank is set for release in 2014, starring Michael Fassbender, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Domhnall Gleeson and directed by Lenny Abrahamson.

All the varieties of power—star, political, sexual, criminal and emotional—are on show in this definitive, untold story of Frank Sinatra and the Mafia. Drawing on an enormous archive of previously unseen records held by international law agencies, the FBI, the CIA and big-city police departments, Rothmiller and Thompson reveal Sinatra’s pact with the Mob in shocking detail. With additional evidence from decades of investigations and testimony, they expose Sinatra’s lifelong association with the Mafia, which he always denied, and its deadly collateral damage.

Mit ihren strohblonden Haaren, dem coolen Sex-Appeal und lässigen Straßenimage ist Debbie Harry viel mehr als nur eine Frau in einer Band. Sie ist eine Mode-, Musik- und Kunstikone, das Gesicht einer ganzen Ära. Als Sängerin von Blondie führte sie eine der einflussreichsten und erfolgreichsten Bands der späten Siebziger und frühen Achtziger an, einer Zeit, als New York im Fokus der Aufmerksamkeit stand. Sie war Stammgast im Studio 54, auf dem Cover des Rolling Stone, Objekt von Warhols berühmten Siebdrucken und Anführerin der Musikvideo-Revolution.

Al Franken, Giant of the Senate is a book about an unlikely campaign that had an even more improbable ending: the closest outcome in history and an unprecedented eight-month recount saga, which is pretty funny in retrospect. It's a book about what happens when the nation's foremost progressive satirist gets a chance to serve in the United States Senate and, defying the low expectations of the pundit class, actually turns out to be good at it.

For the first time, we catch a glimpse of the real Frank Sinatra, in his own words, with his daughter: patriarch, businessman—and the most famous entertainer in the world. This is the only authorized biography of Frank Sinatra, the charismatic superstar. Told by his daughter, Nancy Sinatra, this memoir captures the understanding and depth of feeling that could only come from someone so closely linked.

Born into a family of five, Frank Bello grew up in difficult circumstances. His father abandoned his wife and children. Left with no male role model, Frank found inspiration in heavy metal bass players, following their example and forging a career with Anthrax from his early teens - first as a roadie, and then as the group's bass player.

This is the only authorized biography of the charismatic superstar, Frank Sinatra. Told by his daughter, Nancy Sinatra, with unabashed love and surprising candor, this memoir captures the understanding and depth of feeling that could only come from someone so closely linked. Accounts of her father's rise to fame as a hit singer, movie star, and international celebrity are as detailed as the stories of scandalous divorces, her brother's kidnapping, the false rumors of Mafia connections, and more.

Captured forever in a unique memoir, Frank Langella's myriad encounters with some of the past century's most famous human beings are profoundly affecting, funny, wicked, sometimes shocking, and utterly irresistible. With sharp wit and a perceptive eye, Mr. Langella takes us with him into the private worlds and privileged lives of movie stars, presidents, royalty, literary lions, the social elite, and the greats of the Broadway stage.

Frank Sinatra’s very name seems synonymous with legend. Sinatra grew up in hardscrabble Hoboken, New Jersey, and rose to prominence as one of music’s first superstars. While becoming one of the best-selling artists of all time, he remade popular music in his own image. From his crooning days on a street corner in Hoboken to his waltzing across the world stage, the swagger of Frank Sinatra was unmistakable.

Frank Muller was one of the most talented narrators to ever record a book. As Stephen King said, "[When Frank reads], the blind will see, the lame will walk, and the deaf will hear."

By rights, Ozzy Osbourne should not be alive. He spent forty years on a hell-raising, bat-biting, ant-snorting*, drink and drug-fuelled bender. He broke his neck going two miles an hour on a quad bike and died twice in a chemically induced coma. And yet - at 62 years old - he is healthier and happier than ever. He is a walking medical miracle. So who better to offer the public medical advice and support?

Everyone knows Michael Jackson - the myth. This is the revealing true story of Michael Jackson - the man. To Frank Cascio, Michael Jackson was many things - second father, big brother, boss, mentor, and teacher, but most of all he was a friend. Though Cascio was just a few years old when he first met Jackson in 1984, at the peak of the pop star’s career, Jackson was at the center of his life for the next twenty-five years.