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Far Above The World: 'Magical and inspired, like Bowie himself' Jonny
'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...
No Minor Chords: My Days in Hollywood
Not many people remember that Andre Previn started his career as a film score composer in Hollywood - arriving at the age of 18. He was a quick learner, and...
The Beethoven Quartet Companion
While the Beethoven string quartets are to chamber music what the plays of Shakespeare are to drama, even seasoned concertgoers will welcome guidance with these personal and sometimes enigmatic works....
The Avalanches' Since I Left You
Capturing the fraught moment in popular music history as reflected in and anticipated by Since I Left You (2000), the debut studio album from electronic music group The Avalanches. Since...
A Little Bit of Bowie: An Unofficial Celebration of the Most
Delve into the wild and wonderful world of the most influential musical artist ever with this essential guide to David Bowie Whether you're a lifelong fan or just discovering the...
A Book of Days: The New York Times bestseller
**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** 'Beautiful ... A work of creative homage to writers, poets, friends and family' OBSERVER A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by...
Year of the Monkey
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids 'Magical' GUARDIAN 'A gripping tale of the search for meaning in times of turbulence -...
Stories I Might Regret Telling You
'With disarming candour and courage, Martha tells us of finding her own voice and peace as a working artist and mother. Her story is made more unique because of the...
Gallagher: The Fall and Rise of Oasis: the new 2025 biography of one
'Brilliant...an absolute classic' Paul Ross 'Harrison usefully tracks the brothers' post-Oasis careers and the toxifying feud between them' Ludovic Hunter Tilney, Financial Times ' Harrison...goes further than most in getting...
Cat On The Road To Findout: The Official Autobiography
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Embark on an extraordinary journey through the life, music and spiritual adventures of Yusuf/Cat Stevens, one of the iconic figures of our time. CAT ON...
Cat On The Road To Findout: The Official Autobiography
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Embark on an extraordinary journey through the life, music and spiritual adventures of Yusuf/Cat Stevens, one of the iconic figures of our time. CAT ON...
Remarkable Life of Leonard Cohen
This fascinating biography draws on scores of new interviews conducted with Cohen's band members past and present, his business associates, editors, friends, fans, producers, colleagues, enemies and peers. A surprisingly...
The Beatles in America: The Stories, the Scene, the Memories
This is the definitive, fully illustrated account of the Beatles' concerts and controversies, and of how the United States dominated their lives in so many ways. Written by one of...
Eruption: The Eddie Van Halen Story
Arriving in California as a young boy in the early 1960s, Edward Van Halen and his brother Alex were ripe for the coming musical revolution. The sons of a Dutch,...
Becoming Beyonce: The Untold Story
She's adored by millions of fans, writes and performs songs that move and inspire, but Beyonce is truly known by very few. Now highly-acclaimed biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli reveals the...
Magnifico!: The A to Z of Queen
'You want it all? There's not much missing here. 9/10.' - Classic Rock 'An engaging mix of humour and detailed critical analysis ... great fun. 4/5.' - Mojo From award-winning...
Our Secrets Are The Same: Friendship & Fame at the Heart of Simple
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...
Hercules!: The A to Z of Elton John
Comprising a vivid and varied series of miniature biographies, revealing profiles, thought-provoking essays and a multitude of previously unknown anecdotes and quotes, Hercules!: The A to Z of Elton John...
Oasis Talking Shite
A hilarious unofficial tribute to the most opinionated and entertainingly cantankerous band in rock and roll history. Hello and listen up. In 1994, with the shock of the lightning that...
Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 Mystery
Years after its release, Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea remains one of the most beloved and best-selling albums in all of indie music, hailed as a...
Big Man
Breaking a decades-long silence, Clarence "Big Man" Clemons, superlative saxophonist and right-hand man to Bruce Springsteen, reveals all about life both and off the road with one of the world's...
Nothing Compares to You: What Sinead O'Connor Means to Us
An intimate and evocative celebration of the life and legacy of music and political icon Sinead O'Connor, featuring writers including Neko Case, Sinead Gleeson, Rayne Fisher-Quann, Porochista Khakpour, and more....
Don't Stop: Why We (Still) Love Fleetwood Mac's Rumours
Fleetwood Mac's iconic album Rumours is more popular and acclaimed now than ever and attracts listeners across generations- Don ' t Stop celebrates the album's unlikely creation, surprising longevity, and...
Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording
Through his pioneering work in the legendary country-punk band, Uncle Tupelo, to his enduring legacy as the creative force behind the unclassifiable sound of Wilco, Jeff Tweedy has weaved his...
Confessions of a Video Vixen
Part tell-all, part cautionary tale, this emotionally charged memoir from a former video vixen nicknamed 'Superhead' goes beyond the glamour of celebrity to reveal the inner workings of the hip-hop...
Bunnyman: A Memoir: The Sunday Times bestseller
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...
Curepedia: The Story of The Cure
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...
Our Secrets Are The Same: Friendship & Fame at the Heart of Simple
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: A Political History of Tupac Shakur
' 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'...
Life of Blur
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...
Tim - The Official Biography of Avicii: the subject of new Netflix
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...
Girl in a Band: tenth anniversary edition
'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...
Excavate!: The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall
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...
RAW: My Journey into the Wu-Tang
'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
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...
Different Aspects: The magical memoir from the West End legend
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...
The Fun Lovin' Criminal
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...
Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for the Real James Brown
'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...
Far Above The World: 'Magical and inspired, like Bowie himself' Jonny
'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...
Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis: The long-awaited memoir
'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...
Verse, Chorus, Monster!
'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...
Sonic Life: The new memoir from the Sonic Youth founding member
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...
In Good Hands: The Making of a Modern Conductor
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,...
Becoming a Composer
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...
Beastie Boys Book
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...
Tearing Down the Orange Curtain: How Punk Rock Brought Orange County
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...
The Rolling Year: Listening to the Seasons with Vivaldi
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...
The Book of ABBA: Melancholy Undercover
'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...