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The Sunday Times bestseller Growing up in Liverpool in the 1960s and '70s, when skinheads, football violence and fear of just about everything was the natural order of things, a...

A Rough Trade Book of the Year A Guardian Music Book of the Year 'Beautifully written and meticulously researched' Classic Pop '[An] all-encompassing repository of Cure wisdom' Record Collector The...

A ROUGH TRADE AND UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 'Brilliantly entertaining' MOJO 'A rollercoaster tale' Classic Pop 'Endlessly vivid' i Paper 'A beautifully candid bromance . . . the...

' Words for My Comrades ambitiously sets out to transcend the standard pop star biography, carefully knotting the evolution of hip-hop into a sweeping account of 20th-century radical US politics'...

*THE INCREDIBLE STORY BEHIND THE BETTER MAN FILM* 'It's much more interesting to be a little bit broken and talk about your vulnerabilities.' An intimate, funny and frank account of...

Blur defined the term 'Britpop', providing a soundtrack for the Nineties Cool Britannia movement. Racking up hit upon hit, the Essex quartet - led by Damon Albarn - became a...

The intimate biography of the iconic DJ who was lost too soon. Tim Bergling was a musical visionary who, through his sense for melodies, came to define the era when...

'A fascinating and honest memoir, full of raw emotion and insight.' - Sofia Coppola In Girl in a Band Kim Gordon, a founding member of Sonic Youth and role model...

This is not a book about a rock band. This is not even a book about Mark E Smith. This is a book about The Fall group - or more...

'It's time to write down not only my legacy but also the story of nine dirt-bomb street thugs who took our everyday life-scrappin' and hustlin' and tryin' to survive in...

Schumann: The Faces and the Masks is a groundbreaking account of a major composer whose life and works have been the subject of intense controversy ever since his attempted suicide...

In 1975, Viv Albertine was obsessed with music but it never occurred to her she could be in a band as she couldn't play an instrument and she'd never seen...

Greg Graffin is the lead vocalist and songwriter of Bad Religion, recently described as "America's most significant punk band." Since its inception in Los Angeles in 1980, Bad Religion has...

DISCOVER THE CHARMING MEMOIR FROM THE BELOVED WEST END LEGEND In 1989, a young Michael Ball landed the lead role in the musical Aspects of Love. It was a moment...

When Fun Lovin' Criminals released their debut album Come Find Yourself in 1996, its fusion of hip-hop, funk, blues and rock quickly became one of the most iconic and influential...

'A formidable free-style book that isn't straight biography but a mix of history, street-level investigative reporting, hagiography, Deep South sociology, music criticism, memoir and some fiery preaching' Rolling Stone magazine...

'A wondrous collection of writings to provoke the Bowie fan into deepening their understanding of the man, not just the myth.' Dave Roberts, God is in the TV zine 'Insightful...

'This intimate new book will change the way we think about the King of Rock 'n' Roll' Telegraph 'A rollercoaster of love and loss' Washington Post The long-awaited, candid memoir...

'A refreshingly modest memoir.' - THE TIMES Verse, Chorus, Monster! is the memoir of iconic British musician and Blur co-founder Graham Coxon, charting a life of music, fame, addiction and...

The Sonic Youth frontman takes us from a 1960s childhood rock 'n' roll epiphany, through the subversive world of 1970s punk blasting forth from New York City, to traversing the...

Writing with refreshing passion, and with her own personal story at its heart, Alice Farnham sets out to explore what it means to be a conductor in modern times. Uniquely,...

I am a composer. A composer of classical music. Quite honestly I am not quite sure how that happened to a girl born in Belize and brought up in Tottenham...

Formed as a New York City hardcore band in 1981, Beastie Boys struck an unlikely path to global hip-hop superstardom. Here is that story, told for the first time in...

From the record-breaking success of 1991's 'Black Album' to the band's reinvention with the Load/Reload albums; from bassist Jason Newsted's shock departure to the group's subsequent meltdown as laid bare...

No music writers have been afforded greater access to Metallica over the years than Paul Brannigan and Ian Winwood, two former editors of Kerrang. Having conducted hundreds of hours of...

In the tradition of classic collections of observations and musings such as Christopher Isherwood's I Am a Camera and Truman Capote's The Dogs Bark , Waiting on the Moon is...

The untold story of OC punk-the loud, rebellious force behind the '90s explosion of the Orange County music scene, featuring stories about legendary bands like Social Distortion, The Offspring, No...

Embrace the art of listening seasonally with BBC Radio 3 presenter Dr Hannah French as she explores Antonio Vivaldi's evergreen work: The Four Seasons . 'The Four Seasons', Antonio Vivaldi's...

'Almost as miraculous as the songs it exists to celebrate.' PETE PAPHIDES 'The only ABBA book that the world will ever need.' TONY PARSONS 'Writing perfection on musical perfection: book...

A PRESTO BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 'Gripping.' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Breathtaking.' SIMON CALLOW 'Vivid.' BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE A colourful and concise telling of the fascinating story behind Richard Wagner's extraordinary...

'Riveting and revelatory.' Philip Pullman 'Wonderfully vivid and touching.' Literary Review 'Warm, wise and unflinching.' Sunday Times 'Witty and heartfelt.' Financial Times Stephen Hough is indisputably one of the world's...

'The greatest book ever written on British independent music' - Guardian 'One of the best British music books of the last ten years' - Mojo Founded by Alan McGee in...

I want to sing this song for you I want to lift your spirits high And in my soul I want to feel The beauty of the days gone by....

FOREWORD BY RADIOHEAD'S ED O'BRIEN Explore the story of Radiohead - perhaps the finest band of a generation - through the lens of legendary Melody Maker chief photographer Tom Sheehan....

'A formidable freestyle book that isn't straight biography but a mix of history, street-level investigative reporting, hagiography, Deep South sociology, music criticism, memoir and some fiery preaching' ROLLING STONE The...

One of the most-streamed female artists of all time, Ariana Grande is the voice of her generation. From her breakout on Broadway to her victorious path dominating the charts with...

The instant Sunday Times bestseller 'A straight-talking yet frequently astonishing memoir' - The Times 'A book as idiosyncratic as it is nostalgic' - The Observer When 'Never Gonna Give You...

Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner, the two greatest opera composers of their time, represent diametrically opposed approaches to life and music, but is it impossible to love them both? These...

Dark, bold, and unapologetically original - Billie Eilish has redefined what it means to be a modern music icon. From her whisper-soft vocals to her powerful, soul-shaking belts, she has...

'This intimate new book will change the way we think about the King of Rock 'n' Roll' Telegraph 'A rollercoaster of love and loss' Washington Post The long-awaited, candid memoir...

One of Guitar World magazines Top 15 rock books of 2011.He was born Eric Patrick Clapton, but you can just call him Slowhand. Over the years, fans of Eric Clapton...

Tells the story of Hikari Oe, the brain-damaged son who inspired the work of novelist Kenzaburo Oe, and who became the world's only disabled prodigy in classical music.

Legendarily reticent, perverse and misleading, Prince is one of the few remaining 80s superstars who still, perhaps, remains unexplained. Now a firm fixture in the pop canon, where such classics...

Rock stars throughout the decades are transformed into dazzling deities from classical, Celtic, Norse and Aztec mythology. Split the deck and find out who can make the loudest noise. Ever...

A lush visual celebration of Pulp's sixth album, This Is Hardcore , featuring unseen photography, behind-the-scenes interviews and revealing visuals. From the mid- to late 1990s, Paul Burgess was invited...

A book of the year for the Times , the Sunday Times, the Independent , the Guardian and the Daily Mail 'Charming . . . heartbreaking, sometimes both funny and...

The true untold story of the Sex Pistols from the man who formed the band and kick-started the cultural revolution that was Punk. NOW A LIMITED SERIES DIRECTED BY DANNY...

This volume forms part of the "Life and Times" series of compact and accessible biographies which cover key political, literary and musical figures. This title is about the life and...