Individual Composers & Musicians, Specific Bands & Groups

When news filtered through the media that Stuart Cable, the drummer with a larger than life personality - and an even larger head of curly hair - h...

It''s Dilla Time. Finally. Dilla Time is the story of the invention of a new kind of time, a new kind of sound, by the most influential music produ...

Michael Jackson may be the King of Pop but his influence extends much further. From his childhood years with the Jackson 5 through his astonishing...

Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (17821871) was long considered one of the most typically French as well as one of the most successful of the opera com...

Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (17821871) was long considered one of the most typically French as well as one of the most successful of the opera com...

Long before he sold 120 million albums globally in a career that has endured artistically and commercially like no other performer's in the rock er...

Since 1973 KISS has recorded over 20 studio albums; been recognized as an innovator in rock presentations; witnessed a firestorm of rumors and con...

The Grateful Dead rose out of San Francisco's '60s underground rock scene with an unprecedented sound and image. Its members steeped in rock folk...

Matt Johnson - founder, songwriter and visionary lynchpin of iconic band The The - created some of the most vital music of his era, be it the inten...

Culled from the archives of ÊGuitar PlayerÊ magazine one of the most credible and longstanding music publications ÊGuitar Player Presents Clapton...

Roy Cape is a Trinidadian saxophonist active as a band musician for more than fifty years and as a bandleader for more than thirty. He is known thr...

The Beatles' North American tours turned the entertainment business on its ear and forever changed the landscape of the concert touring industry. I...

ÊDecember 8 1980: The Day John Lennon DiedÊ follows the events leading to the horrible moment when Mark David Chapman ä the paunchy mentally ill ...

George Jones's nearly 60-year recording and performing career has had a profound influence on modern country music and influenced a younger generat...

Dottie Dodgion is a jazz drummer who played with the best.  A survivor, she lived an entire lifetime before she was seventeen. Undeterred by hardsh...

First time in paperback and e-book! The jazz musician-composer-arranger Mary Lou Williams spent her sixty-year career working inand stretching beyo...

The British singer, songwriter and musician Peter Hammill is one of the key figures in the history of progressive rock. As the leader and main crea...

Formed as shambolic art-punk four-piece Seymour whilst attending London's Goldsmiths University, the rechristened Blur released their debut album L...

''It was a huge adventure and a hell of a ride, with all its comedy, absurdity, exhaustion, madness and sadness... It was a different world. And Jo...

Formed at their Oxfordshire secondary school in the mid-eighties, Radiohead have gone on arguably to be not only the most important rock group of t...

In April 1967, the Bee Gees launched themselves onto the international music scene with the release of 'New York Mining Disaster 1941'. Whilst that...

One of the most influential hard rock bands of all time, Motoerhead mixed rock, punk, and heavy metal into an aggressive blend of pure explosive en...

It's Chris Jagger's turn to lift the lid on one of the most colourful and exotic periods in British cultural history as he unrolls an insider's tal...

Few, if any bands, have been as prolific or consistently creative as Genesis were in the 1970s, both together and apart. Across that decade, the mo...

Bud Powell was not only one of the greatest bebop pianists of all time, he stands as one of the twentieth century''s most dynamic and fiercely adve...

Pierre Boulez is acknowledged as one of the most important composers in contemporary musical life. This collection explores his works, influence, r...

Tony Sanchez worked for Keith Richards for eight years buying drugs, running errands and orchestrating cheap thrills. He records unforgettable acco...

The Sunday Times bestseller. David Bowie was arguably the most influential artist of his time, reinventing himself again and again, transforming mu...

The candid, hilarious, shocking, occasionally horrifying, and surprisingly moving New York Times bestselling autobiography of punk legends NOFX, th...

Updated to include details of the group's recent concerts under the direction of Ralf Hutter. David Buckley examines the cult enigma that is Kraft...

By 1979, the Ronnie James Dio era of Rainbow was no more. The accessible sound of the bands Down To Earth album signified Ritchie Blackmores explic...

Ornette Colemans career encompassed the glory years of jazz and the American avant-garde. Born in segregated Fort Worth, Texas, during the Great De...

Syd Barrett was the lead guitarist, vocalist, and principle songwriter in the original line up of Pink Floyd. During his brief time with the band (...

The all-embracing, whaddya got? nature of rebellion in Fifties America included pop music's unlikely challenge to entrenched notions of masculinity...

The all-embracing, whaddya got? nature of rebellion in Fifties America included pop music's unlikely challenge to entrenched notions of masculinity...

Harry T. Burleigh (1866-1949) played a leading role in American music and culture in the twentieth century. Celebrated for his arrangements of spir...