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Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop. As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El...

Aerosmith es historia viva del rock. Con casi medio siglo de música a sus espaldas, este grupo originario de Boston todavía se pasea por los escenarios de medio mundo después de haber vendido millones de ejemplares de sus álbumes, haber ganado cuatro premios Grammy, ocho American Music Awards, seis premios Billboard y una docena de MTV Video Music Awards. Nada menos. El grupo comandado por Steven Tyler y Joe Perry, voz y guitarra, creadores de algunos de los discos capitales de la historia de la música como "Toys in the Attic" o "Rocks", emblema de alguno de los videojuegos más vendidos ...

"El maestro revolucionario del tango, Astor Piazzolla, se esta transformando rapidamente en un verdadero mito. Maria Susana Azzi y Simon Collier han revelado muchisimos detalles significativos acerca de su vida y su musica. Cada pagina de su libro rebosa de aciertos en torno a la personalidad de Piazzolla, y nos recuerda el afan creador, el teson y la diablura que son necesarias en la creacion de la verdadera belleza."DAVID HARRINGTON, FUNDADOR DEL KRONOS QUARTET"Un documento extraordinario sobre to vida y la musica del maestro argentino del bandoneon. Piazzolla entendia muy bien mi pasion...

In this warm and engaging book, the late, great Sir Roger Moore reflects on life and ageing. Delivered, along with his own hand-drawn sketches, to his publisher shortly before he passed away, in À Bientôt, Roger looks back on his life - and gives it his trademark sideways glance, too. Nostalgic, funny, charming and, most importantly, very human, his reflections on age and ageing encompass all aspects of this universal experience, from reminiscences on childhood and 'what might have been'; keeping abreast of the ever-changing times; senior moments, memory and getting to grips with...