Download or read book Simon Cowell The Man Who Changed the World written by David Nolan and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leona Lewis. Kelly Clarkson. Susan Boyle. JLS. These are some of the biggest names in music today. But they all have a single common denominator of success, and his name is Simon Cowell.Simon's uncanny ability to spot talent - and his way of shooting down those without it - has made him both the most popular and feared reality TV show judge of all time. He's the star of hit shows like Pop idol, American Idol and Britain's Got Talent. And it doesn't end there - he's bringing his biggest success so far, The X Factor, stateside. Simon Cowell looks unstoppable. This in-depth and fascinating biography looks at the man behind the incredible TV talent show phenomenon. A must-read for any fan, it charts his success from the mailroom of EMI to the launch of his own label, Syco, and the incredible journey that has made him the first billion dollar man in British TV. This is his unforgettable true story.
Download or read book History of a Shiver written by Jed Rasula and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-26 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An abrupt break in the prevailing modes of artistic expression, for many, marks the advent of modernism in the early twentieth century, but revisionary attempts to pin down a precise moment of its emergence remain disputed. History of a Shiver proffers a different approach, tracing the first inkling of modernism instead to the nineteenth century's fascination with music. As Jed Rasula deftly shows, melomania--the passion for music--gave rise to concepts like Richard Wagner's "endless melody" and the Gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art, which in turn infused the arts of the fin de siècle with an aura of expectancy, challenging them to induce musical effects by their own means. With each art aspiring to produce the effects of another artistic medium, a synesthetic yearning ran like a shiver through the body of art that would emerge over the next half century. Rasula traces this pan-arts polyphony from German Romantic theory to early experiments in "visual music," encompassing such diverse phenomena as American fixation on Arcadia, early film theory, and the lure of the fourth dimension. All the while, he keeps focus on the paramount historical consequence in elevating music to a new universal aesthetic standard, arguing that Wagnerism was first among modern "isms." In surveying this momentous interplay among arts, History of a Shiver ranges from literature, music and painting to theatre, cinema, dance, photography, and civic pageantry. It retells the story of modernism by recovering not an idea, but a feeling--the hair-raising potential for each painting, literary text, or musical composition to herald an unprecedented domain of human enterprise.
Download or read book 50 Rappers Who Changed the World written by Candace McDuffie and published by Hardie Grant Books. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguably one of the most mainstream music styles today, rap was in fact born centuries ago in West Africa with historians or 'griots' who used to tell stories of the past over the beat of a drum. But it wasn't until the 1970s in New York that rapping as we know it was born and began to flourish. 50 Rappers Who Changed the World profiles some of the genre's biggest influencers, from the 1970s until the present day. From Bronx-based legends Afrikaa Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash in the 70s, to Run-DMC and Public Enemy in the 80s, Biggie, Tupac and Snoop in the 90s, and Eminem and Jay-Z in the 00s, this is a history of music for anyone who loves rap. Featuring MCs like Melle Mel, West Coast legends including N.W.A. and Ice-T, and countless women who changed the game, like Salt-n-Pepa, MC Lyte and Missy Elliot. And today, we have a new breed of artists who are dominating the charts, from J. Cole to Kendrick Lamar, Logic and Cardi B. Filled with a stylish illustrations and short biography of each artist, this book is a celebration of the musicians who shaped the genre and changed the world.
Download or read book Simon Cowell written by Richard Spilsbury and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Simon Cowell.
Download or read book American Idol written by Richard Rushfield and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The currency is fame, and it's bigger than money, more desired than power. Each season American Idol delivers on a promise whose epic scope is unparalleled in the annals of competition: to take an unknown dreamer from the middle of America and turn him or her into a genuine star. It has become not only the biggest show on television, but the biggest force in all of entertainment; its alumni dominate the recording charts and Broadway, win Academy Awards, and sweep up Grammys. In fact, American Idol has reshaped the very idea of celebrity. But it didn't start out that way. When the little singing contest debuted as a summer replacement on the U.S. airwaves, it was packed between reruns and low-cost filler. The promise that it would find America's next pop star produced a hearty round of guffaws from the country's media critics. Now, some ten years and millions of records later, no one is laughing. American Idol: The Untold Story chronicles the triumphs and travails, the harrowing backstage drama and the nail-biting onstage battles that built this revolutionary show. In this revealing book, veteran journalist Richard Rushfield goes deeper inside the circus than any reporter ever has. Candid interviews with Idol alumni, including Simon Fuller and Simon Cowell, shed new light on the show that changed the entertainment industry. And because Rushfield had full access to the people who created the show, starred in it, and kept it atop the pop culture pyramid, this book is the first to take Americans behind the curtain and tell what has really been happening on the world's most watched and speculated-about stage.
Download or read book Ecolinguistics and Environment in Education written by Emile Bellewes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-08-08 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the age of ecological crisis, language and discourse are emerging as a new battleground in the environmental debate. With the rise of new environmentalist movements and their subsequent backlash, we are now exposed to a plethora of different and often opposing discourses on the environmental crisis and our relationship with nature. This book argues for the need to develop classroom practices which aid students in critically reviewing and evaluating different perspectives on discourses of environmentalism and sustainability. Remarking that language and humanities teachers are perfectly positioned to play a key role in the development of eco-critical language awareness at this crucial juncture, this book explores how they can help students utilise a critical perspective to navigate the multitude of cultural messages regarding our relationship with nature. Employing ecolinguistics as a form of eco-critical pedagogy, Emile Bellewes presents key concepts underpinning ecolinguistics, before guiding readers through their application in the classroom. Serving as a bridge between critical perspectives on environmental education and forms of discourse analysis, Ecolinguistics and Environment in Education explains how ecolinguistics can be used to carry out detailed linguistic analyses of environmentally significant messages in the classroom.
Download or read book I Don t Mean to Be Rude But written by Simon Cowell and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2004-02 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Simon Cowell written by Chas Newkey-Burden and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2009-10-10 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Simon Cowell Chas Newkey-Burden finds out, interviewing friends and old colleagues, and lifting the lid on the professional and private life of one of Britain's most eligible batchelors.
Download or read book A Culture of Positive Change written by John Iroh and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people, like my colleague, are trapped in jobs they hate to do only to wait agonizingly for the retirement year as it crawls endlessly one year at a time. It seems like too much of misery and yet, the best such people could do is to endure the misery and wait for the due retirement. Most of our youths do not have plans beyond the next weekend. It is possible to design your own retirement and also decide when. Youths can become achievers even before they become adults. It is possible to contribute into the society rather than depend on the society. Everyone can truly have and enjoy a successful and fulfilling life. It is never late to embrace a culture of positive change. A Culture of Positive Change explores your potential-a resource that every person has, to achieve success. It provides guidance to help you discover your unique purpose for living. The wisdom and advice presented on every page challenge you to activate the rich deposit of ability within you and also provides ideas and suggestions about how you can become an achiever-even a celebrity. Chapters focus on the following as well as many other topics leading to success: - It All Begins with a Dream - You Already Possess All You Need to Succeed - Common Traits of Successful People - You Have to Make the Hard Decisions - Hints on Discovering Who You Are - 150 "Success Nuggets" A Culture of Positive Change contains all of the key components required to become a truly prosperous, fulfilled person. You were created to be successful!
Download or read book Sweet Revenge written by Tom Bower and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For this definitive biography, acclaimed journalist and bestselling author Tom Bower was granted unprecedented access to Simon Cowell and those around him--and the result is a fascinating multilayered portrait of one of the world's most intriguing television personalities ever to dominate the music industry. Simon Cowell has made an international name for himself as the no-holds-barred judge on the television phenomenon American Idol. He's been called mean, arrogant, brash, and unapologetic, but his stinging barbs and smug personality have also earned him cheers from fans, as well as millions of dollars, a string of exotic beauties, and industry clout to develop his own projects. But Cowell's true reward is revenge. Sweet Revenge is the ultimate insider's account of Simon Cowell's rise to fame--even as others plotted his downfall--from his cheeky exploits as a British school lad to his failures as a frustrated young music exec in London to his explosive rivalry with Simon Fuller over the genesis of the Idol franchise to the PR disaster that nearly sunk his wildly successful show The X Factor. Conducting more than 150 interviews with industry power players, Cowell's inner circle, and Cowell himself on a private jet, chartered yacht, at his L.A. home, and on the studio lot, Tom Bower pulls back the curtain on a man who is at once insecure, ambitious, easily bored, vain, needy, and driven, a man who will go to any limit to secure his success. Cowell is also revealed as a loyal friend and loving son. His father, to whom Cowell was particularly close, became his most trusted adviser and mentor. Packed with juicy details, exclusive interviews, and never-before-revealed facts, Sweet Revenge presents a complete picture of Simon Cowell that few have ever seen.
Download or read book Building A Dream written by Beck Martin and published by New World Arts Ltd.. This book was released on 2019-09-27 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to enter the Kingdom of Heaven? How to live the life of your dreams? Ask yourself, would you like to have a pleasure of living life on your terms? Learn how from The X Factor's Mr Friday Night Beck Martin and his global BESTSELLER "Building A Dream" and celebrate the rest of your life like it's Friday Night!
Download or read book Let s re Great Britain written by Al Murray and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Let's re-Great Britain, Al Murray's Pub Landlord sets out his party's vision for the country, and explains how politics actually works. Citizens of Hope & Glory! It's time to bring common sense to the House of Commons. Parliament is a nest of slippery, poisonous vipers and only a bonkers, mental idiot would try to make sense of it. Yet in Let's re-Great Britain, Al Murray, the Pub Landlord, presents his guide to British politics and a vision for a Greater Britain. In it you'll learn and appreciate The Guv's views and policies on: - The jobless: Fix youth unemployment with a pyramid scheme (literally, build some pyramids) - Economics: Cut the deficit by borrowing more, growing a beard and leaving the country - Criminal Justice: Bring back hanging if only for the sake of the rope industry - Immigration: Electrify the English Channel A plain, common-sense vision of an impossibly complicated (and, frankly, dull) subject, this will almost certainly be one day hailed as the new founding text of the nation - a Magna Carta 2.0 from the Landlord of Hope and Glory.
Download or read book I Swear I Was There written by David Nolan and published by Bonnier Zaffre. This book was released on 2016 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Nolan's 'I Swear I Was There' describes the early days of the Sex Pistols, their first gig at the Manchester Free Trade Hall in 1976 and the long-term effects of that first concert.
Download or read book Undertow written by Michael Buckley and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paranoid citizens of a Coney Island beach town face off with the ocean-dwelling Alpha warriors when the underwater race surfaces, forcing 16-year-old Lyric Walker into an unlikely relationship with an Alpha prince as the two prepare to face an enemy far more dangerous than any Alpha. 384pp.
Download or read book If I Could Tell You Just One Thing written by Richard Reed and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Reed built Innocent Drinks from a smoothie stall on a street corner to one of the biggest brands in Britain. He credits his success to four brilliant pieces of advice, each given to him just when he needed them most. Ever since, it has been Richard's habit, whenever he meets somebody he admires, to ask them for their best piece of advice. If they could tell him just one thing, what would it be? Richard has collected pearls of wisdom from some of the most remarkable, inspiring and game-changing people in the world - in business, tech, philanthropy, politics, sport, art, spirituality, medicine, film, and design. From Hollywood greats like Judi Dench and Richard Curtis, to entrepreneurial legends like Richard Branson and Simon Cowell; from sports stars and TV personalities like Andy Murray and James Cordon to political activists and born survivors like Mandela's Comrades and Katie Piper, Richard has picked some of the world's most interesting brains to give you a lesson in how to live, how to love, how to create and how to succeed.
Download or read book The Unauthorized Guide to Doing Business the Simon Cowell Way written by Trevor Clawson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a job in the mail room at EMI Music Publishing Cowell rose through the ranks swiftly and after becoming a record producer at the firm, left to set up his own company. Following the collapse of his first business and a time at BMG, Cowell went on to pioneer the Popstars TV talent show, and subsequently co-produce Pop Idol and more recently The X Factor. As a music producer he has achieved sales of over 25 million albums, over 70 top 30 records, and 17 Number 1 singles. His band 'Westlife' has achieved an impressive 10 Number 1 hits alone. The Sunday Times Rich List recently estimated that he earned £33.5m in one year alone, thanks to the global success of the 'Pop Idol' brand. The 10 Secrets of the International Music Mogul are: Work Your Way Up – get to know your industry Don’t Be Defeated – how to overcome set backs in business Grab Opportunities – respond to the market Know Your Market – and consistently produce the product they want Think Differently – take your product and spin it in different formats Get Your Name on the Credits – and reap the rewards Don’t Look Back – learn from missed opportunities but keep moving forwards Say it How It Is – straight talking saves time in business Build a Personal Brand – and be respected for what you do well if nothing else Use Your Contacts – there is no shame to pulling strings in business
Download or read book My Wild Life written by Simon Cowell and published by Michael O'Mara. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true, heart-warming story of how a reluctant City trader left a life of champagne and bonuses to follow his dream of rescuing animals and setting up a wildlife sanctuary, becoming one of the world's leading experts on rescuing wildlife.
