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Author: Dave Davies Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The all new, must-read memoir by legendary Kinks guitarist Dave Davies Dave Davies is the co-founder and lead guitarist of epoch-defining...

Author: Andrew Grant Jackson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 1973 was the year rock hit its peak while splintering-just like the rest of the world. Ziggy Stardust travelled to...

Author: Lesley-Ann Jones Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 On 12 July 1962, the Rollin' Stones performed their first-ever gig at London's Marquee jazz club. Down the line,...

Author: Mark Cooper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 'You never knew what you were going to be confronted with when you went on Later...' Nick Cave 'Later... is a...

Author: Bob Stanley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 656 Let's Do It is the definitive history of the birth of Pop, from 1900 to the mid-fifties. The story begins in...

The follow-up to The McCartney Legacy, Volume 1, the most complete work on the life and work of Paul McCartney ever published. Volume 2 continues to paint the portrait of...

Author: Nikki Sixx Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Nikki Sixx is one of the most respected, recognizable, and entrepreneurial icons in the music industry. As the founder of Motley...

A gritty, revealing heavy metal memoir by Lamb of God's lead guitarist and co-lyricist, which explores both his life in music and his tumultuous path through addiction and into recovery.DESOLATION...

*A Times Best Music Book of 2023 - 'For Bowie nuts this is research-heavy heaven'*'[Soligny] has talked to just about anyone who had anything to do with Bowie's music... Reading...

Author: Allan Marett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Aboriginal musicians receive songs both from an eternal realm known as The Dreaming and from the ghosts of deceased ancestors. Songs,...

Author: Tom Doyle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Kate Bush: the subject of murmured legend and one of the most idiosyncratic musicians of the modern era. Comprising fifty chapters...

Author: Ngarukuruwala Women's Group Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 A joint project with the Indigenous Literary Foundation, Murli la is a beautifully designed gift book that celebrates the culture...

Author: Kate Molleson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The twentieth century was the century of modernity; in a world undergoing rapid transformation, musicians drew upon new technologies, social revolution...

Author: Audrey Golden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 Factory Records has become the stuff of legend. The histories of the label have been told from many perspectives, from visual...

Author: Tony King Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The Tastemaker charts the singular life of a man who has been at the beatingheart of music's most iconic moments for...

Author: Richard Kostelanetz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 348 B.B. King is a national treasure. For more than five decades he has been the consummate blues performer. His...

Simon Reynolds's first book in eight years is a celebration of music that feels like a taste of tomorrow. Sounds that prefigure pop music's future - the vanguard genres and...

Author: Onno Blom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 278 Rembrandt's life has always been an enigma. How did a miller's son from a provincial Dutch town become the greatest artist...

Author: Katie Mockridge Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Whenever you need life advice, just think: What would a drag queen do? Containing 75 essential lessons, Be Drag Fabulous will...

The all new, must-read memoir by legendary Kinks guitarist Dave Davies'BOOK OF THE DAY' - Guardian'This powerful tell-all from the Kinks guitarist puts the spotlight on his own bad behaviour,...

Author: Professor Stephen Walsh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Everyone loves romantic music: the sweet melody of a Schubert song, the heroine dying for love in an Italian opera,...

Author: Alanis Morissette Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Celebrating its 25-year anniversary in 2020, singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette's Grammy-Award winning album Jagged Little Pill has come to define a generation....

When Tom Breihan launched his Stereogum column in early 2018, "The Number Ones"-a space in which he has been writing about every #1 hit in the history of the Billboard...

Radicalism and Music offers a convincing argument for music's transformational impact on the radicalization, reinforcement, and motivational techniques of violent political activists. It makes a case for the careful examination...

Author: Lenny Kaye Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 'A true testimonial and epic love letter to the soul saving power of rock & roll . . . Read it...

Author: Mark Blake Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Pete Townshend was once asked how he prepared himself for The Who's violent live performances. His answer? 'Pretend you're...

Daisy Jones and the Six meets Patricia Highsmith in this addictive, intense novel about the brutal and ferocious road to glory, from the award-winning author of My Husband . Ever...

Author: Joan Koenig Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'Wonderful ... we need music in our lives now more than ever' HERBIE HANCOCK 'Joan Koenig is on a wonderful mission...

Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who seems so ordinary,...

'Essential reading' RECORD COLLECTOR 'Darcus Beese is a formidable cat' CHUCK D 'An inspiration' ANNIE LENNOX The must-read memoir from Darcus Beese - the first black president of Island Records...

An intimate conversation about music and creativity, between the internationally bestselling writer Haruki Murakami and world-class conductor, Seiji Ozawa. An intimate conversation about music and creativity, between the internationally bestselling...

Set against the backdrop of Jim Crow, Night Train to Nashville takes readers behind the curtain of one of music's greatest untold stories during the era of segregation and Civil...

Author: Dylan Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The Eighties were about big ideas writ large - new money, new style, gender fluidity, gay pride, attritional politics, the 'special...

Author: Sarah Adams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A burnt-out pop star stranded in small-town Kentucky can't help falling for her unlikely knight in shining armour - the notoriously...

A dazzling exploration of Romantic music unlike any other, from one of the most exciting writers about classical music Chopin's Piano begins in November 1838, when George Sand, her children...

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Paul Kelly Format: Paperback...

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Paul Kelly Format: Paperback...

A History of the World in 100 Objects meets Sapiens- the first archaeological history of humanity's musical heritage Wonderfully engaging, expansive and ambitious, Sound Tracks tells the history of our...

The funny, revealing, highly original and Sunday Times bestselling memoir from Jarvis Cocker The Sunday Times bestselling hit memoir from Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker. 'It's real gold... its storytelling first...

Author: Stephen Morris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A unique and thoughtful musical memoir' Observer 'Gritty coming-of-age story . . . plenty of anecdotes to...

The Metal God, himself, Rob Halford--lead vocalist of Judas Priest and author of the critically acclaimed and reader-beloved autobiography, Confess --delivers yet again, now with the bible of hard rock...

Celebrate the culture of cool with this compact, paperback edition of the heartfelt tribute to Soul Train , a worldwide phenomenon of dance, music, and fashion. From Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson...

'Johnny Cash ... Every man could relate to him, no man could be him, and only one man could get inside his head - Robert Hilburn' BONO People don't just...

The emergence of Russian classical music in the nineteenth century in the wake of Mikhail Glinka comprises one of the most remarkable and fascinating stories in all musical history. The...

The powerful memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds.'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival...

It's 2013. You're a teenager squinting at your laptop in the dead of night, flicking between iTunes and YouTube and PirateBay. Endless reams of artists unspool at the click of...

Author: Steven Hyden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In 1999, as the end of an old century loomed, five musicians entered a recording studio in Paris without a deadline....

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