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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...
Thomas Ades: Full of Noises: Conversations with Tom Service
Author: Thomas Ades Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Thomas Ades is feted from Los Angeles to London, from New York to Berlin, as the musician who has done more...
The Eighth: Mahler and the World in 1910
Author: Stephen Johnson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Thrilling.' - John Banville, Guardian The Eighth Symphony was going to be different from anything Mahler had ever done before: it...
The Dark Stuff
Author: Nick Kent Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 In The Dark Stuff Nick Kent profiles twenty-two of the most gifted and self-destructive talents in rock history. From Brian Wilson...
The Book of Sea Shanties
Author: Nathan Evans Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 An epic journey through sea shanties, high tides and seven seas From the international bestselling singer comes The Book of Sea...
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...
Musical Truth: A Musical Journey Through Modern Black Britain
Author: Jeffrey Boakye Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Music can carry the stories of history like a message in a bottle. Lord Kitchener, Neneh Cherry, Smiley Culture, Stormzy ....
In the Country of Country: A Journey to the Roots of American Music
Author: Nicholas Dawidoff Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and...
How Soon is Now?: The Madmen and Mavericks who made Independent Music 1975-2005
Author: Mr Richard King Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 'If you look at all the people involved - Ivo, Tony Wilson, McGee, Geoff Travis, myself - nobody had a...
Bessie Smith: A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
Author: Jackie Kay Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'The most vivid evocation of Bessie Smith I have ever read' - Ian Carr, BBC Music '[Bessie Smith] showed me the...
A New Heaven: Harry Christophers and The Sixteen Choral conversations with Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Author: Harry Christophers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 The Sixteen have become a household name. They are the Voices of Classic FM, and stars of the BBC Four series...
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...
Jimi
Author: Janie Hendrix Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In celebration of what would be Jimi Hendrix's 80th birthday, this ultimate tribute to one of the most legendary musicians in...
Beyonce
Author: Tshepo Mokoena Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Beyonce is not simply a pop sensation. She is a cultural phenomenon empowering the oppressed and dispossessed, challenging white privilege and...
The Weakness in Me: The Selected Lyrics of Joan Armatrading
Author: Joan Armatrading Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Since the release of her debut album Whatever's For Us in 1972, Joan Armatrading has, across a fifty-year career, traversed styles...
In Good Hands: The Making of a Modern Conductor
Author: Alice Farnham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Writing with refreshing passion, and with her own personal story at its heart,Alice Farnham sets out to explore what it means...
Berkmann's Pop Miscellany: Sex, Drugs and Cars in Swimming Pools
Author: Marcus Berkmann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Marcus Berkmann was for many years the pop critic of the Spectator, waiting like most freelances to get fired. He's also...
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...
The Bach Cello Suites: A Companion
Author: Steven Isserlis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Bach's 6 Suites for solo cello are among the most cherished of all the works in the classical music literature. Shrouded...
Naked at the Albert Hall: The Inside Story of Singing
Author: Tracey Thorn Format: Paperback 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....
Bono on Bono: Conversations with Michka Assayas
Author: Michka Assayas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Bono is one of the most influential musicians at work today. Over the past twenty-five years his band, U2, have sold...
The Foghorn's Lament: The Disappearing Music of the Coast
Author: Jennifer Lucy Allan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A truly unusual and strangely revealing lens through which to view music and history and the dark life of the...
Why Solange Matters
Author: Stephanie Phillips Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Growing up in the shadow of her superstar sister Beyonce, and defying an industry that attempted to bend her to its...
Why Marianne Faithfull Matters
Author: Tanya Pearson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 First as a doe-eyed ingenue with 'As Tears Go By', then as a gravel-voiced phoenix rising from the ashes of the...
Distant Melodies: Music in Search of Home
Author: Edward Dusinberre Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 How does music heard and played over many years inform one's sense of home? In Distant Melodies, Edward Dusinberre, the English...