Individual Composers & Musicians, Specific Bands & Groups

___________________6 JULY, 1972David Bowie appears on Top of the Pops for a third time.His quiff is big, bold, and the colour of fire. His make-up ...

In the mid-1960s, a new generation of young Turkish musicians combined Western pop music with traditional Anatolian folk to forge the home-grown ph...

Roy Orbison emerged as an artist alongside his Sun Records contemporaries in the early days of rock 'n' roll. He did not possess the good looks of ...

When the world's greatest pop band played their final public concert, in January 1969, there were no tickets or posters printed. When John Lennon, ...

The central experience of the Ramones and their music is of being an outsider, an outcast, a person whos somehow defective, and the revolt against ...

A new biography of Shostakovich that views him through the intimate music of his string quartets Most previous books about Dmitri Shostakovich have...

ÊBruce Springsteen ä Like a Killer in the SunÊ originally published in Italian is the definitive book on the work of Bruce Springsteen showing h...

Come Together is a compelling account of a crucial period of post-Sixties Beatle history, providing a new look at the Lennon-McCartney relationship...

At the one-year anniversary of his death, legendary musician Prince''s first wife shares a uniquely intimate, candid, and revelatory look inside th...

In 2016, Bob Dylan received the Nobel Prize in Literature for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition. This ...

In this revised edition of his definitive biography of Dolly Parton, Stephen Miller has updated his original book on the superstar. Going behind ...

With a career spanning more than four decades, Loudon Wainwright III has established himself as one of the most enduring singer-songwriters who eme...

Taken from the acclaimed BBC Radio 6 Music show, The First Time invites you inside the lives of some of the music world's most notable legends. Fro...

Of all the biggest-name composers Handel probably wrote the most truly great music that no one knows about. This book takes the curious listener t...

The guitarist and composer Pat Metheny ranks among the most popular and innovative jazz musicians of all time. In Pat Metheny: The ECM Years, 1975-...

An engaging journey into the wild and wonderful world of drumming.-CLEM BURKE, Blondie To have a great band you need a great drummer. For the firs...

BEYONCE needs only a one-word introduction. Universally recognised and with a platform the world over, she is a singer, an artist, an activist and ...

An unauthorised biography of the most pro-actively political rock band on the planet. Founder member and guitarist Tom Morello has given author Joe...

Musician, novelist, poet, actor: Nick Cave (b. 1957) is a Renaissance man. His wide-ranging artistic outputalways uncompromising, hypnotic, and in...

Bob Sawyer - one time guitarist with both Iron Maiden & Praying Mantis tells his story covering the previously unchartered depths of the early ...

Roger Daltrey is the voice of a generation.That generation was the first to rebel, to step out of the shadows of the Second World War... to invent ...

Following a hugely successful touring exhibition throughout 2011-12, Paul Harries, Britain's pre-eminent rock photographer, has now selected the be...

Richard Wagner remains, almost 130 years after his death, the most controversial composer in the history of music. Creator of huge and hugely ambit...

By distinctively combining sardonic wit, romanticism and timeless tunes, they produced such classics as 'Orgasm Addict', 'What Do I Get?' and 'Ever...

Popoff''''s easy to read book utilises his celebrated timeline with quotes methodology, allowing for drop-ins on all aspects of Alice''''s busy lif...