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Not Afraid: The Evolution of Eminem
THE SEQUEL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WHATEVER YOU SAY I AM, CHRONICLING THE PAST TWENTY YEARS OF RAPPER EMINEM'S LIFE, BASED ON EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS WITH THE ARTIST, HIS...
Brothers: A deep and personal family memoir from the co-founder of
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this intimate and open account - nothing like any rock-and-roll memoir you've ever read - Alex Van Halen shares his personal story of family, friendship,...
Geddy Lee's Big Beautiful Book of Bass
Globe and Mail National Bestseller"It's not surprising that sooner or later I'd dive down the proverbial rabbit hole into the world of vintage bass guitars."-Geddy LeeFrom Rush frontman Geddy Lee's...
The Birth of Rock 'n' Roll: The Illustrated Story of Sun Records and
A fascinating look at the history of Sun Records, the label that started Rock n' Roll, told through 70 of its iconic recordings.In Memphis, Tennessee, in the 1950s, there was...
Jean Sablon
The story of Jean Sablon's life and career encapsulates some of the major changes in twentieth-century society, transformations that reshaped the art of the chanson while also opening up hitherto...
Mahler: His Life, Work and World
Gustav Mahler was born on 7 July 1860 in an insignificant outpost of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He grew to become one of the greatest conductors and composers of his time,...
Breaking Down the Walls of Heartache: How Music Came Out
(Book). Popular music's queer DNA is inarguable, from Little Richard's "Tutti Frutti" to David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust, from cross-dressing Kurt Cobain to "female Elvis" k.d. lang. Regardless, gay and lesbian...
Ace Records: Labels Unlimited
To read Ace Records is to explore the history of modern music and to discover the stories of the people that made it. Visually stunning and hugely entertaining, the book...
Dua Lipa: The Unauthorized Biography
Discover the fascinating story behind the rise of a new pop icon: Dua Lipa.When Dua Lipa was eleven, her music teacher told her she wasn't good enough to join her...
BTS: Icons of K-Pop
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Seven men. Seven years. 31 million Twitter followers. 11 billion YouTube views. 13 billion Spotify streams. Sold out world tours. BTS are a global phenomenon - this is their story....
Punk Perfect Awful: Beat: The Little Magazine that Could ...and Did.
Drawing on a decade's worth of pioneering photography and journalism, Punk Perfect Awful is an irreverent love letter to music and the passion that makes it happen.Known for shedding new...
Get the Led Out: How Led Zeppelin Became the Biggest Band in the World
Get the Led Out is the ultimate book on the ultimate band. This lushly illustrated volume starts with a unique day-by-day timeline based on Carol Miller's radio show, revealing quirky...
The Raven
One of the most influential and innovative recording artists of the past three decades, Lou Reed has always offered a shrewd view of life in the big city in all...
Weather Bird
Gary Giddins's magnificent book Visions of Jazz has been hailed as a landmark in music criticism. Jonathan Yardley in The Washington Post called it "the definitive compendium by the most...
The Overrated Book
This work deals with hip lampoons of the music industry by comedians. Put together by the staff of "Chunklet Magazine", this work is a paragon of satire for the holy...
Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill
Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill is an intimate and compelling photographic portrait of Billie Holiday, the consummate jazz and blues singer and one of 20th-century music's most iconic figures, in...
King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King
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The first full and authoritative biography of an American--indeed a world-wide--musical and cultural legend. "No one worked harder than B.B. No one inspired more up-and-coming artists. No one did more...
Hero: David Bowie
His music thrilled the generation it was written for, and has entertained and inspired every generation since. HERO: DAVID BOWIE is an exploration of the man behind the myths and...
Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius
Leonard Cohen's music is studded with allusions to Jewish and Christian tradition, as well as Kabbalah and Zen. In his 1994 classic 'Hallelujah' he opens with the words 'Now I've...
Time of My Life
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A House Full of Music: Strategies in Music and Art
Before John Cage (1912-1992), there was hardly anyone as consistent as he was in questioning the boundaries of music and its connections to other fields of art and the everyday...
Sing Backwards and Weep: The Sunday Times Bestseller
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER"Mark Lanegan-primitive, brutal, and apocalyptic. What's not to love?" NICK CAVE"A stoned cold classic" IAN RANKIN'Mark Lanegan writes like he sings, from the pained heart of a...
I & I: The Natural Mystics: Marley, Tosh and Wailer
The Wailers are the undisputed sovereigns of reggae- and one of the biggest and most influential groups of the twentieth century. In the course of their ten years together, Peter...
B.B. King: There Is Always One More Time
The ELives in MusicE series meshes biography with discography. This debut title profiles the legendary King of Blues B.B. King. An opening essay charts his life from childhood in the...
Paul Robeson: The Years of Promise and Achievement
A compelling biography of a great American in his formative years The son of a former slave, Paul Robeson (1898-1976) rose to become an All-American athlete, Phi Beta Kappa student,...
Monolithic Undertow: In Search of Sonic Oblivion
'An inspired and intuitive navigation of the drone continuum . . . with a compass firmly set to new and enlightening psychedelic truths' BECKMonolithic Undertow alights a crooked path across...
Moving Mountains: The Little Guide to Pink
"I'm proof that things absolutely can happen." - PinkDubbed the next "Queen of Pop" for her distinctive voice and live acrobatic stage performances, Pink unapologetically smashed her way through the...
Highway to Hell: The Little Guide to AC/DC
Giving Satan tinnitus since 1973!Jacked up to the max with plenty of juice left to squeeze, AC/DC can still ignite their excitable audiences with their supercharged, power-cord hungry rock, even...
The Lost Album of The Beatles: What if the Beatles hadn't split up?
'Daniel Rachel imagines what the next Beatles album might have been like, with painstaking detail and great stories' - David Hepworth, The Guardian'A fantastical journey through what might have been......
Diaries, 1942-1954
James Lees-Milne (1908-97) made his name as the country house expert of the National Trust and for being a versatile author. But he is now best known for the remarkable...
The Great Jazz and Pop Vocal Albums
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Rock on Film: The Movies That Rocked the Big Screen
When the use of Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock" turned 1955's Blackboard Jungle into a teen sensation and a box-office smash, it proved the opening shot in a cinematic...
Desolation: A Heavy Metal Memoir
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...
Oasis: Knebworth: Two Nights That Will Live Forever
***'A wonderful document of the last great gathering of the pre-internet age. No camera phones, no social media, just a band and its fans as one' -NOEL GALLAGHER On 10th...
So Tell Me What You Want: A life working with pop idols Take That,
*One of Waterstones' Best Entertainment Books of the Year 2024*1987. Armed with a Filofax, a brick of a mobile phone and steely determination, 20-year-old Nicki Chapman is walking through the...
Listen: On Music, Sound and Us
'I'm not here to change your mind about Dusty Springfield or Shostakovich or Tupac Shakur or synthpop. I'm here to change your mind about your mind.' There are countless books...
Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of The Velvet Underground
Rebellion always starts somewhere, and in the music world of the transgressive teen whether it be the 1960s of the 2020s, The Velvet Underground represent ground zero. Crystallizing the idea...
Bedsit Disco Queen: How I grew up and tried to be a pop star
I was only sixteen when I bought an electric guitar and joined a band. A year later, I formed an all-girl band called the Marine Girls and played gigs, and...
The Pianist
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...
Acid For The Children - The autobiography of Flea, the Red Hot Chili
Flea, the iconic bassist and co-founder, alongside Anthony Kiedis, of the immortal Red Hot Chili Peppers finally tells his fascinating origin story, complete with all the dizzying highs and the...
Desolation: A Heavy Metal Memoir
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...
Biblical: Rob Halford's Heavy Metal Scriptures
Rob Halford's A-to-Z of Rock and Metal sees Rob to run his lively eye over all facets of the music and metal world. It's a lively encyclopaedia in which Rob...
Me
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Blues People
In this essential and impassioned text, LeRoi Jones traces the intertwined development of blues and jazz music with the history of its creators in 'White America'. As important and relevant...
The World Theatre of Wagner
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Author: Charles OsborneBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan, 1982Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book celebrates 150 years of Wagner productions, providing insights into the impact of his works on...
Ode to Hip-Hop: 50 Albums That Define 50 Years of Trailblazing Music
Celebrate the music that has shaped the culture and given us some of the greatest hits of all time with this vibrantly illustrated anthology, featuring 50 of the most lauded,...
Mr S: The Last Word on Frank Sinatra
George Jacobs is generally considered 'the last of the Rat Pack', a member of the exclusive club that has fascinated us for decades. He was Sinatra's valet and confidant from...
The Motherlode: 100+ Women Who Made Hip-Hop
An illustrated highlight reel of more than 100 women in rap who have helped shape the genre and eschewed gender norms in the processThe Motherlode highlights more than 100 women...