'Ero stato una rockstar. Ero stato un re. La celebrità e i soldi avrebbero dovuto proteggermi e dare un senso alla mia vita. Avrebbero dovuto guarire tutti i miei mali. Ma avevo fallito'. Nell'estate del 1999, Moby pubblicò l'album che definì il millennio, Play. Come gli album che definivano la generazione precedente, Play era onnipresente e catapultò Moby nel regno delle superstar. Improvvisamente si ritrovò a frequentare David Bowie e Lou Reed, Christina Ricci e Madonna, a farsi di ecstasy a colazione (la maggior parte dei giorni), a bere litri di vodka (tutti i giorni) e a dormire con le super modelle (raramente). Era una dieta che non poteva durare. Questa autobiografia è un classico sulla banalità della fama. È scioccante, divertente, estrema e indimenticabile. Non è edificante, ma il lettore avrà difficoltà a distogliere lo sguardo dalle sue pagine.

From one of the most interesting and iconic musicians of our time, a piercingly tender, funny, and harrowing account of the path from suburban poverty and alienation to a life of beauty, squalor and unlikely success out of the NYC club scene of the late '80s and '90s.

There were many reasons Moby was never going to make it as a DJ and musician in the New York club scene of the late 80s and early 90s. This was the New York of Palladium, of Mars, Limelight, and Twilo, an era when dance music was still a largely underground phenomenon, popular chiefly among working class African Americans and Latinos. And then there was Moby--not just a poor, skinny white kid from deepest Connecticut, but a devout Christian, a vegan, and a teetotaler, in a scene that was known for its unchecked, drug-fueled hedonism. He would learn what it was to be spat on, literally and figuratively. And to live on almost nothing. But it was perhaps the last good time for an artist to live on nothing in New York City: the age of AIDS and crack but also of a defiantly festive cultural underworld. Not without drama, he found his way. But success was not uncomplicated; it led to wretched, if in hindsight sometimes hilarious, excess, and it proved all too fleeting. And so by the end of the decade, Moby contemplated the end of things, in his career and elsewhere in his life, and he put that emotion into what he assumed would be his swansong, his goodbye to all that, the album that would in fact be the beginning of an astonishing new phase in his life, the multi-million-sellingPlay.

At once big-hearted and remorseless in its excavation of a lost world and his own place within it,Porcelain is both a chronicle of a city and a time and a deeply intimate exploration of the most gloriously anxious period of anyone's life, when you're on your own and betting on yourself but you have no idea how the story ends, and you live with the honest dread that you're one false step from being thrown out on your face. Moby's voice resonates with honesty, wit, and above all, unshakable passion for his music, passion that steers him through some very rough seas.

Porcelain is about making it, losing it, loving it and hating it. It's about finding your people, and your place, thinking you've lost them both, and then, finally, somehow, when you think it's over, from a place of well-earned despair, creating a masterpiece. As a portrait of the young artist, Porcelain is a masterpiece in its own right, fit for the short shelf of musicians' memoirs that capture not just a scene but an age, and something timeless about the human condition. Push play.

Se c'era uno che difficilmente avrebbe potuto sfondare come DJ e musicista nei club newyorkesi a cavallo tra gli anni Ottanta e i Novanta, quello era Moby. Era la New York del Palladium, del Mars, del Limelight e del Twilo, un'epoca edonistica e sfrenata in cui la dance era ancora un fenomeno underground, radicato soprattutto nella comunità operaia afroamericana e latinoamericana. E poi c'era Moby, che oltre a essere un ragazzino bianco pelle e ossa proveniente dal cuore del Connecticut era un cristiano devoto, vegano e astemio. Non senza complicazioni, Moby trovò la sua strada, una strada accidentata e lastricata di eccessi sciagurati - ma, col senno di poi, anche spassosi - che lo avrebbe portato a un successo quanto mai effimero. Ecco perché sul volgere del decennio Moby contemplava già la fine, della carriera come di altre dimensioni della sua vita, una sensazione che incanalò in quello che pensava sarebbe stato il suo canto il suo addio, l'album che in realtà era destinato a segnare l'inizio di una nuova e sbalorditiva fase, il mega-bestseller 'Play'. Generoso quanto inesorabile nel raccontare un mondo perduto e il ruolo che vi ricopre il suo protagonista, 'Porcelain' è al contempo il ritratto di una città e di un'epoca e una riflessione sul momento più carico d'ansia della vita di ciascuno di noi, quello in cui siamo soli e scommettiamo su noi stessi senza avere la minima idea di come andrà a finire, con il terrore di essere a un passo dal venire scaraventati fuori dalla porta.

An irresistible guide to the meat you eat by the world's most fun and famous vegan.

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. --Albert Einstein

Where's the beef? In the news, that's where. More than ever before, meat is making headlines. Contamination cases are on the rise, obesity has become pandemic, and industrial livestock farming is the cause of 20 percent of all greenhouse emissions. It's no wonder that vegetarianism has moved from the fringes to the mainstream as evidence accumulates in favor of the many benefits of meatlessness.

But 10 Excellent Reasons to Think Twice About Meat is not just for vegetarians, it's for everyone who wants to make informed choices about the food they consume. Multi-platinum musician Moby, one of the world's most famous vegans, brings together ten of the country's leading foodies, doctors, policy makers, business leaders, and activists to create a smart, concise guide to what you should know before you eat meat. Combining hard-hitting facts with a light touch, each chapter is studded with quotes from famous vegetarians, fun facts, and other irresistible food for thought.

For the millions of Americans who are questioning the meat in their diets, this is the fun, accessible guide to setting down the sirloin and reaching for the tofu.

With this release, Moby clearly marks a return to his musical roots. Each new song has its own reflective mood, but continues to possess the same ambient techno/downtempo style Moby fans have grown to love. Titles are: We Are All Made of Stars * In This World * In My Heart * Great Escape * Signs of Love * One of These Mornings * Another Woman * Fireworks * Extreme Ways * Jam for the Ladies * Sunday (The Day Before My Birthday) * 18 * Sleep Alone * At Least We Tried * Harbour * Look Back In * The Rafters * I'm Not Worried at All.