El mar de los deseos

On October 15, 1967, bass player Steve Boone took the Ed Sullivan Show stage for the final time, with his band The Lovin' Spoonful. Since forming in a Greenwich Village hotel in early 1965, Boone and his bandmates had released an astounding nine Top 20 singles, the first seven of which hit the Billboard Top 10, including the iconic Boone co-writes "Summer in the City" and "You Didn't Have to Be So Nice." Little did Steve Boone know that the path of his life and career would soon take a turn for the bizarre, one that would eventually find him looking at the world through the bars of a jail...

The year was 1966. While the young people lived during the most epic time in London, a group caused a sensation: Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Rick Wright and Nick Mason played blues rock like nobody else. After a few months they recorded their first singles: "Arnold Layne" / "Candy And A Currant Bun" and "See Emily Play" / "Scarecrow" and then, their first album: The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn. The prodigious career of Pink Floyd had begun.

Pacho es una de esas personas con ese extraño don para estar siempre en el momento y lugar adecuados. Solo así se explica que llegase a Chicago sin saber muy bien qué hacer, y acabase convirtiéndose en un reputado periodista musical, teniendo la suerte de vivir (de primera mano) el nacimiento del blues de Chicago o el rock and roll de Memphis en los años 50, el soul de Detroit en los 60, la explosión del punk en Nueva York y Londres a finales de los 70, el grunge en Seattle a comienzos de los 90, y entre medias, haber estado en el Verano del Amor en San Francisco, en el festival de...

Quinto volumen de nuestra Historia de la Música, que explora los orígenes y el desarrollo del Romanticismo, guiando al lector a través del complejo conglomerado de géneros y genios que –de Beethoven a Strauss- proliferan en el siglo XIX: la música instrumental, la música vocal y el fascinante mundo de la ópera, analizados con rigor y brillantez en sus formas y escuelas nacionales