Individual Composers & Musicians, Specific Bands & Groups

'How refreshing, to read a book about music written for a music lover and not a musicologist. In clear, lucid, entertaining prose, Jane Glover make...

Jake Bugg has turned the music scene inside out with the unexpected success of his country folk songs with a rockabilly twist. He's managed to take...

Tales of The Smiths is a comic book retelling of the band members' teenage years, before the group was famous, and includes fascinating digressions...

Franz Liszt was preoccupied with a fundamental but difficult question: what is the content of music? His answer lay in his symphonic poems, a group...

The past 50 years have seen a tremendous arts boom in Seattle, which has given the city not only internationally recognized classical music institu...

Complicated Game offers a unique insight into the work of one of Britain's most original and influential songwriters-and an unprecedentedly reveali...

As charismatic and gifted as he was volatile, Jimmy Martin recorded dozens of bluegrass classics and co-invented the high lonesome sound. Barbara M...

By 1978, the landscape of pop music had changed considerably since Jethro Tulls earlier hit albums Aqualung (1971) and Thick As A Brick (1972). Pun...

CRUEL TO BE KIND is the definitive account of Nick Lowe''s uncompromising life as a songwriter and entertainer, from his days at Stiff Records, to ...

Looking for some beautiful piano music? With fingerings clearly marked and designed for easy reading, these books are the ideal resource for any pi...

Reelin' In The Years is the acclaimed biography of Steely Dan, now updated to include details of Walter Becker passing and Donald Fagen's continued...

A musical force across four decades, a voice for the ages, and a great songwriter, Chrissie Hynde is one of Americas foremost rockers. Inducted int...

An, honest, funny, real and totally revealing autobiography from Tina Arena, celebrating a phenomenally successful 40 years as an internationally a...

Igor Stravinsky lived the life of a celebrity composer in an increasingly celebrity-obsessed age. He was a true modern, a man of his time. In Paris...

I have been seeking P.F. Sloan, but no one knows where he's gone. -from the song 'P.F. Sloan' by Jimmy Webb. Absolutely none of 'em could beat ol'...

Beyoncé: an unofficial biography. Always in the news Beyoncé is a clever, sassy performer who's kept her audience on their feet for over a decade a...

For much of the mid-twentieth century, Roberto Gerhard found himself an outsider. He was airbrushed from much writing on contemporary music in Spai...

Koji Kondos Super Mario Bros. (1985) score redefined video game music. With under three minutes of music, Kondo put to rest an era of bleeps and bl...

Remembered in his native Ireland primarily as a harpsichordist and interpreter of Bachs music, and in the UK as a conductor of the ground-shaking e...

This is the world's first Enseeklopedia' - a treasure trove of stories, music analysis and rare memorabilia. Moreover, it is a long overdue salute ...

Kelly Khumalo is an award-winning Kwaito star who rose to national fame at the age of 21, but due to a string of bad decisions and relationships, s...

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, Kanye West created the most compelling body of pop music by an American artist during the period. ...

Sounds of Glory Volume One is packed with brilliant stories from the biggest names in rock and metal.The New Wave of British Heavy Metal erupted in...

A selection of Hans Keller's writings on Benjamin Britten including previously unseen correspondence and reprints of long unavailable writings. It...

This is the album that sent a shockwave of empowerment through the nations cultural underground. In 1985, Olympia, Washington band Beat Happening r...

Oli Sykes is not one to bite his tongue, and when it comes to music, Bring Me the Horizon take no prisoners. One of the most polarising and eclecti...

The owner of one of the most recognizable faces - not to mention voices - in the entertainment business, Sir Tom Jones is the definition of a natio...

Essays and memoirs by and about one of Britain's leading symphonists. A lively collection by contributions from Roger Scruton, Judith Weir, John Mc...

In the vein of the classic Johnny Cash: The Life, this groundbreaking work explores the wild life and extraordinary musical career of the definitiv...

Achille-Claude Debussy was born into unsettled times: he lived through the political instability of the Commune era, the cultural explosion of the ...

When his twenty-four-hour film The Clock was awarded the Golden Lion at the fifty-fourth Venice Biennale in 2011, his hour had struck. Yet as an ar...