Biography: Arts & Entertainment

Liverpool in the 1980s. With prospects for the citys youth bleak, a scheme for unemployed musicians commenced, inadvertently shaping the future fo...

Meryl Streep is the most celebrated actress of our time. She's a chameleon who disappears fully into each character she plays. She never tackles th...

As is the case with so many musicians, the life of Warren Zevon was blessed with talent and opportunity yet also beset by tragedy and setbacks. Rai...

A comic book character is born, the youngest of sixteen, into a war torn country. Facing extreme brutality at school and on the streets, not to men...

A spectacular visual biography of one of the most celebrated architects and cultural icons of the twentieth century With his elegant suits and trad...

See how Austin went from being a kid from a small town in Texas singing and messing around on YouTube with his friends to headlining his own shows ...

The book includes a free MP3 audio disc of Robert Lindsay reading the book. This is the inside story of one of Britain's best-loved, best-known act...

After Betty Grable, but before there was Marilyn, America's penchant for popcorn blondes focused on LANA, the ultimate movie star. She had it all: ...

Released by the Jerry Garcia Family estate and made available to the public for the first time, these are some of the most candid, intimate intervi...

'Entertaining...revealing, shocking' BERNARDINE EVARISTO'Sublime' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMSActor and director Zawe Ashton brings us a unique look at ...

The Pet Shop Boys are one of the most successful and unusual bands of the last five decades. They are the pop duo that proves pop music can be mode...

Recorded in 1949, Foggy Mountain Breakdown changed the face of American music. Earl Scruggs's instrumental essentially transformed the folk culture...

'WHICH IS THE BEST BAND I'VE BEEN IN? THE SMALL FACES WERE THE MOST CREATIVE, THE FACES WERE THE MOST FUN,THE WHO WERE THE MOST EXCITING. THESE WER...

With a background in painting billboards, James Rosenquist had a unique perspective on the dual effects of imagery and scale on the viewing experie...

Christian Dior described him as the inspiration for the New Look. Salvador Dali called his work soft sculpture, and Virginia Woolf exclaimed, He i...

With an emphasis on music, this definitive, lavishly illustrated book celebrates beloved living legend Tony Bennett. Tony Bennett, at the age of 9...

No musical partnership has enjoyed greater success during its time span, or bequeathed a more powerful and enduring legacy, than that of Gilbert an...

Do You Mind If I Smoke? tells the story of Fenella Fielding''s remarkable 65-year career in theatre, radio, TV and film. Best known for her 1960s ...