Memoarer & Biografier

<i>People say to me, if you could do it all again, knowing what you know now, would you change anything? I'm like, f*** no. If I'd been clean and sober, I wouldn't be Ozzy. If I'd done normal, sensible things, I wouldn't be Ozzy.</i><br/><br/><i>Look, if it ends tomorrow, I can't complain. I've been all around the world. Seen a lot of things. I've done good... and I've done bad. But right now, I'm not ready to go anywhere.</i><br/><br/>At the age of sixty-nine, Ozzy Osbourne was on a triumphant farewell tour, playing to sold-out arenas and rave reviews all around the world.<br/><br/>Then disaster.<br/><br/>In a matter of just a few weeks, he went from being hospitalised with a finger infection to having to abandon his tour - and all public life - as he faced near-total paralysis from the neck down.<br/><br/><i>Last Rites</i> is the shocking, bitterly hilarious, never-before-told story of Osbourne's descent into hell. Along the way, he reflects on his extraordinary life and career - including his turbulent marriage to wife Sharon, his regrets over Black Sabbath's reunion, his friendships with Slash and Zakk Wylde, and the harrowing final moments he spent with Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister.<br/><br/>Unflinching but surprisingly life-affirming, <i>Last Rites</i> demonstrates once again why Ozzy has transcended his status as 'The Godfather of Metal' and 'The Prince of Darkness' to become a modern-day folk hero and national treasure.

Vem var det som egentligen anlände först till platsen där Olof Palme lönnmördades den 28:e februari 1986? Den här frågan dväljas än idag i debatten då det aldrig har utretts eller klargjorts på ett tillfredsställande sätt. Det som anförts i ärendet håller inte, av flera skäl, för en kritisk granskning. Uppenbarligen existerar det avvikelser som omgående bör förtydligas.<br/><br/> I tidiga vittnesutsagor från nära vittnen återfinns en "yngling" varande bredvid den fallne personen. Den här "ynglingen" kom sedermera att utraderas i efterföljande förhör av anledningar som är okända.<br/><br/> Men år 2023 framträdde den här "ynglingen" och önskade framföra sina upplevelser. Han går under namnet Robert Barestrand och var 16 år gammal vid tiden för mordet år 1986.<br/><br/> Hans utsagor gällande de händelser han genomgick under tonåren kommer att anföras på ett obefläckat vis, skildrande hur Robert kom till insikten om vem som arrangerade och genomförde mordet, och i slutändan även varför. Robert erhöll i samband med allt även kännedom om vad som verkligen hände med M/S Estonia, fartyget som förliste på Östersjön den 28:e september 1994...<br/><br/> Det här en beskrivning av en tonårings resa och hur en ung kille blev djupt intrasslad i händelser som i modern tid utgör nationens mörkaste stunder...

<p>The much-anticipated first book from Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler</p> <p>With over 70 million records sold, heavy-metal pioneers Black Sabbath are one of the most influential bands of all time. From the very beginning, Geezer Butler was at the heart of their success. He named the group, provided the bass behind their distinctive sound and wrote the lyrics that resonated so powerfully with fans around the world.</p> <p>At long last, Geezer is ready to tell his side of the Sabbath story, from early days as a scrappy blues quartet through to the many lineup changes, the record-breaking tours and the international hell-raising with Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Bill Ward.</p> <p>Featuring Geezer's candid reflections on his working-class childhood in Luftwaffe-battered Birmingham, his almost-life as an accountant and his fascination with horror, religion and the occult,<em> Into the Void </em>reveals the softer side of the heavy-metal legend, while holding nothing back.</p> <p>Like Geezer's bass lines and the story of Black Sabbath themselves,<em> Into the Void </em>is original, dramatic and one hell of a ride.</p>

<b>Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley was never truly understood...until now. Before her death in 2023, she'd been working on a raw, riveting, one-of-a-kind memoir for years, recording countless hours of breathtakingly vulnerable tape, which has finally been put on the page by her daughter, Riley Keough.</b>

En masugn sätter fantasin i rörelse. Hyttan suckar och pustar och den som lyssnar noga hör henne också sjunga. Dess inneboende krafter är visserligen tyglade, men bär ändå på djupa hemligheter.<br/> I den här boken skildrar Sture Gustafson sin barndoms Svartå. Sina allra första år bodde familjen mitt emot hyttan i en kåk byggd av slaggsten, järnets restprodukt. Masugnen var en sotig arbetsplats och allra sotigast för de som arbetade i kolhuset. Och därtill kom den obekväma skiftgången. Produktionen måste fortsätta dag och natt. Inget stål hade så goda egenskaper som det som tillverkats på minnets marker i Svartå.<br/> Den stora olyckan är förstås den mest dramatiska av bokens berättelser men författaren ger också läsaren andra bilder av barndomens liv i det gamla brukssamhället. Som när Fridolf Rhudin passerade stationen på sin sista resa eller när balter som flytt sina hemländer slog sig ner i Svartå.

Roparna var namnet på en pietistisk och extatisk väckelse i mitten av 1800-talet. Människor rycktes med, föll i hänryckning, krampade och upplevde ett starkt inre tvång att predika. Även barn, som knappast lärt sig läsa, reste sig upp och predikade.<br/> "Så uppstod en underlig företeelse uti de så kallade roparna, människor som överföllos av spasmodiga ryckningar och skakningar och därunder ropade och skreko mot lyx och utvärtes saker och fördömde kvinnor som hade flätat hår..." (Anders Gustav Törnqvist)

<strong>The hotly anticipated book from 'one of the all-time pop-culture greats' (<em>New York</em> magazine) that chronicles her shocking life and unyielding determination to not only survive but achieve her dreams.</strong> <br/><br/><strong>'Intense and compelling'</strong> SUNDAY TIMES <br/><br/><strong>'A gripping and powerful coming-of-age story'</strong> TELEGRAPH <br/><br/><strong>'A masterpiece'</strong> GREG JAMES, BBC RADIO 1 <br/><br/>Julia Fox is famous for many things: her captivating acting, such as her breakout role in the film <em>Uncut Gems</em>; her trendsetting style, including bleached eyebrows, exaggerated eyeshadow and cutout dresses; her mastery of social media. But all these share the trait for which she is <em>most</em> famous: unabashedly and unapologetically being herself. <br/><br/>This commitment to authenticity has never been more on display than in <em>Down the Drain</em>. Fox recounts her turbulent path to cultural supremacy: her parents' volatile relationship that divided her childhood between Italy and New York City and left her largely raising herself; a possessive and abusive drug-dealing boyfriend whose torment continued even from within Rikers Island; her own trips to jail as well as to a psychiatric hospital; her work as a dominatrix that led to a complicated entanglement with a sugar daddy; a heroin habit that led to New Orleans trap houses and that she would kick only after the fatal overdose of her best friend; her own near-lethal overdoses and the deaths of still more friends from drugs and suicide; an emotionally explosive, tabloid-dominating romance with a figure she dubs "The Artist"; a whirlwind, short-lived marriage and her trials as a single parent striving to support her young son. <br/><br/>Yet as extraordinary as her story is, its universality is what makes it so powerful. Fox doesn't just capture her evolution from grade-school outcast to fashion-world icon, she captures her transition from girlhood to womanhood to motherhood. Family and friendship, sex and death, violence and love, money and power, innocence and experience-it's all here, in raw, remarkable and riveting detail. <br/><br/>More than a year before the book's publication, Fox's description of it as "a masterpiece" in a red carpet interview went viral. As always, she was just being honest. <em>Down the Drain</em> is a true literary achievement, as one-of-a-kind as its author.