Individual Composers & Musicians, Specific Bands & Groups

Few forces in New York hip hop proved as historically important with past, present, and future fandom than the Beastie Boys and Run-DMC. While they...

Canadian musician, artist and producer Devin Townsend's honest and hugely entertaining autobiography tells the story of his life so far. It traces ...

George Gershwin blossomed as an accompanist before his talent as a songwriter opened the way to Broadway where he fashioned his own brand of Americ...

In this companion volume to Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, Christoph Wolff contextualises his famous subject by delving deeply into t...

For more than 40 years, the legendary Oak Ridge Boys (40 million records sold) have been on the road entertaining sold-out audiences with their cla...

An adventurer at heart, in August 2016 Joanna embarked on a solo concert tour of the West Coast of the USA... by bicycle. Over the course of 1,154 ...

This is a way of putting my life out there, because if I were to write a memoir, thered be five volumes before I got to The Beatles. So Im going at...

The best known progressive rock group in the USA, the band have nonetheless made regular trips to Europe where they retain a cult following. Best k...

Kit includes:- 20 heart-shaped magnets in assorted colors featuring fun expressions ranging from the sweet to the sassy- 16-page full-color mini bo...

The meaning of Bob Dylans songs has long been debated by fans, critics and academics. When, in 2016, Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literatur...

*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*The brand new memoir from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Road Beneath My Feet. Taking 36 songs from his ba...

'The sharpest memoir written by one of the Beatles' inner circle.' ObserverDerek Taylor's iconic memoir is a rare opportunity to be immersed in on...

Patti Smith arrived in New York City at the end of the Age of Aquarius in search of work and purpose. Through her poetry, her songs, her unapologet...

The 1970s was the decade that saw the arrival of Alice Cooper as a major force across the media. Chris Sutton, explores the story of Alice Cooper t...

David Toop has become one of our most significant touchstones of contemporary music writing and reportage. Employing intensified studies into World...

Led Zeppelin's blend of rock and heavy metal with other genres of music such as blues, soul, folk, pop, Indian and Celtic ranks them as one of the ...

This signature limited edition numbered and autographed on the first page by Merri Cyr! Available only as a pre-publication order for a limited tim...

Rock City, Narita, Fire Down Under, Restless Breed, Born in America... These are the pioneering, superlative heavy metal records that represent the...

As half of celebrated eighties duo Soft Cell, Dave Ball''''s long career in music has been quite the ride - not least creating the instantly recogn...

Dolly Parton is a country music legend, but also one of America's most beloved celebrities. Her warmth, spirit, and no-nonsense advice is embraced ...

Jane Austen is one of the most beloved authors of all time, and her wit and wisdom transcends the classic literature classroom to resonate with wom...

The Brian Jonestown Massacre are probably best known for their leader Anton Newcombe s incendiary persona, as captured in the controversial 2004 ro...

Ernest Bloch left his native Switzerland to settle in the United States in 1916. One of the great twentieth-century composers, he was influenced by...

No artist's achievement connects more directly with early experience than that of Berlioz. David Cairns draws on a wealth of family papers to recre...

Heinrich Schenker ranks among the most important figures in the development of western music theory in the twentieth century. His approach to the a...

Despite his death in 1993, Zappa's estate has continued to release several albums per year of archive material. Zappa has inspired musicians from m...

Duncan Ferguson. David Moyes. Paul McCartney. A father and a son. A passion for Everton, and a passion for The Beatles. Blues & Beatles is a st...

They were pure rock - and I never saw a band perform quite like they did. They owned the stage and each member had their own special and specific c...

The Sunday Times Number One BestsellerGary Barlow is one of the most successful British musicians and songwriters of all time, but fifteen years ag...

In 1970, Elton John, formerly Reginald Kenneth Dwight, stepped from the obscurity of suburban Pinner, Middlesex, England, into a pop culture reelin...

2019 marks the golden anniversary of the mass musical gatherings that saw the hippie generation at their 1969 zenith. Two events stand out, staged ...

Guitarist Gordon Giltrap is the epitome of what is often referred to as a `musicians musician, in that the respect in which he is held by his peers...

Michael Jackson died on June 25 2009 in Los Angeles, from of acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication (according to Wikipedia). The one-time ...

There's the sun, there's the moon, there's the air we breathe, and there's the Rolling Stones.KEITH RICHARDSSince their formation in 1962, the Roll...

The Times Book of the Year ''There''s no tougher a mind, no more tender a voice than Paul Simon, and there''s no better man than Robert Hilburn to ...