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Live is Life

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Live is LifeEwald Pfleger, der Mastermind der Kultband Opus erzhlt ber sein Leben mit einem Welthit! 'LIVE IS LIFE', 'LIFE IS LIVE' oder 'LIFE IS LIFE'? Egal wie man es schreibt, seit mehr als vierzig Jahren singen Menschen auf der ganzen Welt den Ohrwurm 'Nana Nanana ' Der Buchtitel ist Programm. Seit vierzig Jahren ist der Ohrwurm 'Live Is Life' der Band Opus kreuz und quer ber den Globus unterwegs. Der Hit bringt Menschen zum Mitsingen und sorgt fr ein

Ewald Pfleger, der Mastermind der Kultband Opus erzählt über sein Leben mit einem Welthit! 'LIVE IS LIFE', 'LIFE IS LIVE' oder 'LIFE IS LIFE'? Egal wie man es schreibt, seit mehr als vierzig Jahren singen Menschen auf der ganzen Welt den Ohrwurm 'Nana Nanana ...' Der Buchtitel ist Programm. Seit vierzig Jahren ist der Ohrwurm 'Live Is Life' der Band Opus kreuz und quer über den Globus unterwegs. Der Hit bringt Menschen zum Mitsingen und sorgt für ein positives Lebensgefühl. Ewald Pfleger hat den Song geschrieben und mit der Dynamik, mit der er sich zum Gassenhauer auf nahezu allen Kontinenten entwickelt hat, war auch im Leben seines Schöpfers bald alles anders. In seinem Buch erzählt Ewald 'Sunny' Pfleger seine Geschichte . Es ist die spannende und unterhaltsame Story eines Mannes, der sich bereits als Kind in den Kopf gesetzt hatte, Rockmusiker zu werden. Dieses Ziel erreichte er gemeinsam mit seinen Bandkollegen von Opus, die auch im Buch zu Wort kommen und seine Erinnerungen ergänzen. 'Live Is Life' ist auch eine spannende Zeitreise durch die bunten 1970er Jahre, die hemmungslosen 1980er und führt bis ins Jahr 2025 zu Pflegers 70. Geburtstag. Es ist das Selbstportrait eines nimmermüden Vollblutmusikers, der ebenso begeistert über seine Musik schreibt, wie er persönliche Einblicke in sein Privatleben zulässt. In dieser mit viel Offenheit, Charme und Witz geschriebenen Musikbiografie, finden sich auch zahlreiche Fotos aus dem Privatarchiv des Musikstars . Unter anderem lesen Sie im Buch: Als der Rock'n'Roll ins Südburgenland kam Zum Musikraum umfunktionierter Hobbykeller im Kinderdorf Unbeschwerte Jugendjahre als 'Smiling' - die jüngste Band Österreichs ist sogar in der ZIB Ein begeisterter Schwarzfischer, der dafür eine Jugendstrafe erhielt 1973 'Opus Null' - Vertonung eines Erich-Kästner-Gedichtes ist die erste Komposition für Opus Die Opus-Kommune: die homöopathische Ösi-Variante einer Kommune Von Ibiza aus in die weite Welt: 'Live Is Life' Opus: eine Band als Rock-Visitenkarte Österreichs auf den großen Bühnen der Kontinente In Guatemala beinahe verhaftet, Gefahren im dubiosen Club in Moskau, Erfrierungen am Nordkap und Champagner beim monegassischen Fürsten  Ein Tanz mit Diego Maradona und ein Besuch beim Papst Opus erobert die Oper Wie ein Hit ein Leben verändern kann und bis heute fröhliche Urständ feiert Was Pflegers Opus-Kollegen zu sagen haben Vierzig Jahre österreichische Musikgeschichte samt vielen Anekdoten aus der Branche Wussten Sie? Die erste Aufnahme von 'Live Is Life': Das Lied erlebt auf einem burgenländischen Fußballplatz zuerst ein Hoppala und geht dann von dort aus rund um die Welt. Seit mehr als vierzig Jahren singen Menschen auf allen Kontinenten diesen Ohrwurm.  'Nana Nanana ...'

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Erscheinungsjahr: 13.03.2025
Autoren: Pfleger, Ewald
Seitenzahl/Blattzahl: 224
Keyword: 80iger Musik; Achtziger; Austropop; Bandbiographie; Hitparade; Live is live; Nr. 1 Hit; Nummer-eins-Hit; Opus; Österreichische Musikgeschichte
Fachschema: Kunst~Pop (Musik)~Musikgeschichte~Schauspieler - Schauspielkunst
Fachkategorie: Musikgeschichte~Musiker, Sänger, Bands und Gruppen~Biografien: Kunst und Unterhaltung~einzelne Schauspieler und Darsteller
Interesse Alter: empfohlenes Alter: ab 16 Jahren
Altersempfehlung / Lesealter: 18
ab Alter: 16
Länge: 220 mm
Breite: 148 mm
Höhe: 21 mm
Gewicht: 497 gr
Produktform: Gebunden
Genre: Belletristik
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Hubert Herring
Belleville, US
★★★★★ 5
great resource for high school parents
Format: Paperback
A terrific book -- on many levels. It is, first, a series of excellent suspense stories, with vivid characterizations of the students seeking admission to Wesleyan. The author found some fascinating students to follow, with the result that the reader really cares what happens to them. Even more important -- especially to someone about to embark on the college hunt -- he provides an invaluable insight into how the admissions process works. The admissions game, I now realize thanks to this splendid tale, is a crazy-quilt mixture: at Wesleyan, at least, the process focuses on the individual, quirks and all, far more than I imagined. At the same time, the process comes off as frighteningly random -- with so much depending on which admissions officer reads the application, and what that person focuses on in the few minutes available. The book is also a vivid reminder that admissions officers are people, too -- people of infinite variety. So it was a pleasure to read -- and it will also prove immensely useful to parents. One common theme kept repeating: take the hard courses, even if it means lower grades. Another: having a passion is a real plus, but the rest of the record can't be a disaster. But those are just the beginning.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2003
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Brian Tarbox
Lake Worth, US
★★★★★ 4
Very accurate view of admission (I worked there); compelling read, enlightening even for people who think they already know
Format: Kindle
I was a Senior Interviewer during my senior year at Wesleyan 1981 and so I worked with many of the main characters in the book. Although the book describes a later time period it rang entirely true to me. The volume of applications...the controlled chaos...the searching for a hook or a champion for an application was very familiar. At least at Wes it seemed (and seems) that unless one's application has some unusual feature that the school is looking for that year (a particular athlete or a particular musician or a particular tough background that was overcome) the road to admission will be challenging. An area that did surprise me was the emphasis on the family of the applicant...and the degree to which an applicant was held to a higher standard if their parents were deemed to be college fluent. I guess this makes sense and actually provides a leveling of the playing field but it was surprising none the less. It may also be surprising to some that these days you don't just need to convince the gatekeepers that you could be successful at the school..you must also show how your presence would enhance the school. This is of course an enormous burden for most teenagers. Like it or not this is the reality at many "top" schools. If you or your child is applying to college you owe it to yourself to read this book....either to understand the game or to make an informed decision not to play.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2013
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P. Meltzer
Battle Creek, US
★★★★★ 5
What is better? The overachieving 6 or underachieving 8?
Format: Hardcover
First, let me say that I thought that this was an excellent book and would recommend it to anyone who is at all interested in the college admissions process. Second, I was surprised at how many of the reviewers seemed shocked--shocked!--that applicants got bonus points for coming from minority backgrounds. Was this some kind of revelation? However one thing that surprised me a little bit is how--even moving beyond race entirely--the more advantages you have had in life, the more disadvantageous it will be for your admissions process. For example, I was unaware that having successful parents would be, in essence, held against you on the theory that more would be expected of you. While other reviewers have (jokingly?) said that they would advise their white kids not to check the "Caucasian" box, I might advise my (still very young) kids to say that their parents have been unemployed their whole life. I suppose that the main issue which this whole process really boils down to is the following: As a college applicant, is it more important to succeed in life relative to the world around you (i.e. relative to your classmates, to others of your race, to others of your geographical area, to your own parents' life and accomplishments, etc.) or is it more important to succeed absolutely and not on a relative scale. This book clearly informs us that the answer is the former and not the latter. Whether that should be the answer is another question. For example, say that a student's entire life could be distilled into 2 numbers each on a sliding scale from 1-10. The first number is simply your academic performance (grades, SAT's, course load, etc.) The second number is your background (race, economic circumstances, gender, etc.) In the case of Wesleyan, it seems clear to me that they would rather have a student whose first number was, say, a 6 if his or her second was a 2 (take Mig for example in Steinberg's book) than a student whose first number was an 8 if the second number was a 9 or 10 (take Tiffany Wang for example). Whether that is the right approach is certainly a legitimate issue for discusion and I'm not saying that it's not. I suppose that one of the things that would be interesting to know (even though one never really can know of course) is whether those numbers will change in the future. For example, if one were to know that Mig would always be a 6 and Tiffany would always be an 8, would that change the analysis as to which is the right approach? I suspect that part of the reason that a school like Wesleyan would favor the overachieving 6 over the underachieving 8 is due to the hope or expectation that those trends will continue in the future and that one day the 6 will actually be ahead of the 8. And maybe that's the way it works. Who knows.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2003
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Jeremy W.
Lake Worth, US
★★★★★ 5
You will find out how a selective private college evaluate and admit students
Format: Paperback
I'm a high school counselor and college advisor. Fifteen years ago when I started my college counseling position, I struggled to understand or explain to students and their parents how a selective private college evaluate and admit students. It was this book that helped me understand the essence of selective private college admissions. Compared to other dry theory books, this book tells the admissions practice as stories that are easy to read, understand, and associate with. I highly recommend this book to students, parents, and new counselors.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2024
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M. Tucker
Carnegie, US
★★★★★ 3
Who edited this mess?!?!?!?
Format: Kindle
This is a very interesting work of nonfiction. I found it intriguing and read it very quickly. I actually got invested in these students and their stories and their journey to get admitted to the college that was right for them. BUT, and this is a big but, this book is so poorly edited, it is disgraceful! If a person were reading this for research purposes, and it could be useful for just that, good luck to them. The dates are all over the place. At one point, the kids are being considered for the class of 2004, then it makes a reference to the current year as 2000, then it reverts back to 2004 for a long while, then it mentions how the kids--currently at their various chosen colleges--reacted to the events of 9/11/01. What the hell? It's very confusing. It makes it very difficult to keep things in context.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2013

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