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One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time
Author: Craig Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020 A Spectator Book of the Year * A Times Book of the...
Tracey Emin
Author: Jonathan Jones Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 This accessible and expertly written introduction and overview of Tracey Emin's life offers a completely up-to-date view on the...
'Til Wrong Feels Right: Lyrics and More
Author: Iggy Pop Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The Godfather of Punk and frontman for The Stooges offers insight into his creative world with this collection of lyrics brought...
Living on a Thin Line
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...
The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting
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Author: Ben Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 An epic quest exposes hidden truths about Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi, the recently discovered masterpiece that sold for $450 million-and...
Twilight of the Gods: A Journey to the End of Classic Rock
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Author: Steven Hyden Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 National Bestseller * Named one of Rolling Stone's Best Music Books of 2018 * One of Newsweek's 50 Best Books of...
1973: Rock at the Crossroads
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...
Energy Follows Thought: The Stories Behind My Songs
Author: Willie Nelson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 For the first time ever, and to help celebrate his 90th birthday in 2023, American icon Willie Nelson provides the stories...
Daisy Jones and The Six: The must-read bestselling novel
Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'I devoured this in a day, falling head over heels for Daisy and the band.' Reese Witherspoon THE...
The Musical Child: Using the Power of Music to Raise Children Who are Happy, Healthy, and Whole
Author: Joan Koenig Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'Wonderful ... we need music in our lives now more than ever' HERBIE HANCOCK 'Joan Koenig is on a...
The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini
Author: Joe Posnanski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Joe Posnanski enters the world of Harry Houdini and his legions of devoted...
Music Bargain Book Box 2
Dive into the melodic stories of the Music Bargain Book Box 2, a curated collection of new books that explore the lives, lyrics, and legacies of some of the most...
This Is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl
Author: Paul Brannigan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'Someone called and said Kurt died. I just f*****g lost it.' He has sold over 40 million albums. He's...
Later ... With Jools Holland: 30 Years of Music, Magic and Mayhem
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...
30-Second Classical Music: The 50 most significant genres, composers and innovations, each explained in half a minute
Author: Dr. Joanne Cormac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Do you know a capella from zarzuela, or your major from your minor? Can you distinguish between a...
Mozart and Beethoven: The Concept of Love in Their Operas
Author: Irving Singer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 An exploration of the sensuous and the passionate, as expressed in operas by Mozart and Beethoven. Music, language, and...
Beethoven: The Relentless Revolutionary
Author: John Clubbe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Beethoven imbibed Enlightenment and revolutionary ideas in his hometown of Bonn, where they were fervently discussed in cafes and at the...
Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop
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...
For the Love of Music: A Conductor's Guide to the Art of Listening
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Author: John Mauceri Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 With a lifetime of experience, profound knowledge and understanding, and heartwarming appreciation, an internationally celebrated conductor and teacher answers the questions:...
Little Book of Yves Saint Laurent
Author: Emma Baxter-Wright Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Little Book of Yves Saint Laurent is the pocket-sized and exquisitely illustrated story of 60 years of innovative fashion design. An...
The First 21: The New York Times Bestseller
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...
Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung
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Author: Min Kym Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 The spellbinding memoir of a violin virtuoso who loses the instrument that had defined her both on stage and off --...
Bessie Smith: A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
Author: Jackie Kay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 'The most vivid evocation of Bessie Smith I have ever read' - Ian Carr, BBC Music '[Bessie Smith] showed...
Beethovens Eroica The First Great Romantic Symphony
Author: James Hamilton-Paterson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 An ode to Beethoven's revolutionary masterpiece, his Third Symphony In 1805, the world of music was startled by an avant-garde and...
Oh yes, oh yes!
Author: Carl Cox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 From warm up DJ at the birth of Acid House to global main stage headline artist today, Carl Cox continues to...
This is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession
Author: Daniel Levitin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The New York Times bestselling book which examines how humans experience music and unravels the mystery of our perennial...
The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs
Author: Julia Bishop Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 Published in cooperation with the English Folk Dance and Song Society, this volume presents the songs with music, and...
Present Tense: A Radiohead Compendium
Author: Barney Hoskyns Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Present Tense is an anthology to savour . . . giving you as sharp a portrait of this unknowable band as...
The B.B. King Reader: Six Decades of Commentary
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...
Young Rembrandt: A Biography
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...
Music in the Castle of Heaven: A Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach
Author: John Eliot Gardiner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such...
Adventures in Modern Recording: From ABC to ZTT
Author: Trevor HornFormat: Hardback, 162mm x 240mm, 552g, 320 pagesPublished: Bonnier Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2022As a renowned recording-studio maven, Trevor Horn has been dubbed 'the man who invented the...
Lady Sings the Blues
Author: Billie Holiday Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 The bluesy, gutsy, no-holds-barred memoir of jazz legend Billie Holiday. 'I've been told that no one sings the word...
Travelling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell
An Independent Best Non-Fiction Book 2024A Mojo Book of the Year 2024"A vibrant, multifaceted portrait of a music enigma" Guardian"A powerful portrait" Irish Independent"Displays a bracing rigour and an exhilarating...
Sound Within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century
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...
Moulin Rouge! The Musical: The Story of the Broadway Spectacular
Author: David Cote Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 A glittering backstage pass to Moulin Rouge! The Musical and itsjourney to Broadway, with contributions from cast and crew, interviews with...
Heavy: How Metal Changes the Way We See the World
Author: Dan Franklin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A weighty discussion of metal, for both passionate fans and neophytes' Guardian 'Heavy opens an ornate portal into a murky subculture,...
Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur
Author: Michael Dyson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 With a new preface by the author. Ten years after his murder, Tupac Shakur is even more loved, contested,...
Life on Air
Author: David Attenborough Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 "The memoirs of the world's leading Natural History programme maker, updated and revised for 2009" "Sir David Attenborough is...
Naked at the Albert Hall: The Inside Story of Singing
Author: Tracey Thorn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In her bestselling autobiography Bedsit Disco Queen, Tracey Thorn recalled the highs and lows of a thirty-year career in pop music....
Swooning
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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: Christ Lawrence Format: Hardback...
Murli la: Songs and Stories of the Tiwi Islands
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...
The Beloved Vision: Music in the Romantic Age
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,...
The Little Book of Eurovision: The Glitz, the Hits, and the Russian Grannies
Author: Alexandra Parsons Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Everything you want to know about the fabulousness that is Eurovision! The Eurovision Song Contest is one of the world's longest...
Keep 'Er Lit: New Selected Lyrics
Author: Van Morrison Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 I want to sing this song for you I want to lift your spirits high And in my soul I want...
Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa
Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 An intimate conversation about music and creativity, between the internationally bestselling writer Haruki Murakami and world-class conductor, Seiji Ozawa....
Bound for Glory
Author: Woody Guthrie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Chronicling some from the point of view of one of the twentieth century's most influential musicians, Woody Guthrie's Bound...
Like Punk Never Happened: New expanded edition
Author: Dave Rimmer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A story of money, sex, stardom, screaming fans and forgotten ideals, Like Punk Never Happened is Dave Rimmer's witty, authoritative, fast-moving...