Individual Composers & Musicians, Specific Bands & Groups

An engrossing new biography of Franz Liszt, the musical revolutionary who became the worlds first international megastarMakes a significant contrib...

This book offers a comprehensive account of Carl Nielsen as a composer viewed from the point of a musicologist with an international background and...

As the 1960s ended, Herbie Hancock embarked on a grand creative experiment. Having just been dismissed from the celebrated Miles Davis Quintet, he ...

This edition of Messa da Requiem is based on Verdi's autograph score and other authentic sources. The appendixes include two pieces from the compos...

Set against a backdrop of world-changing historical and political events, Fire and Rain tells the extraordinary story of one pivotal year in the ...

An artist in every sense of the word, Lhasa de Sela wowed audiences around the globe with her multilingual songs and spellbinding performances, mix...

Andrea Corr''s Barefoot Pilgrimage is a compelling and honest memoir. In part, an exercise in coming to terms with and making sense of l...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER & BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR''Charming, heartfelt . . . there''s a real poignancy to Ridgele...

'In what is the most comprehensive biography of the group to date, Browne compiles a fun and fast-paced music history.... an authoritative chronicl...

The perfect introduction to the Master. One hundred and thirty-five years after his death, Richard Wagners music dramas stand at the cent...

Notoriously reticent about his early years, violinist Jascha Heifetz famously reduced the story of his childhood to Born in Russia. First lessons a...

Popular music was in a creative upheaval in the late 1970s. As the singer-songwriter and producer Chris Stamey remembers, the old guard had become ...

ÊRolling Stones GearÊ is the first book to historically document all of the Rolling Stones' musical equipment. It's also the story of the Rolling S...

Rise of the Super Furry Animals tells the story of the greatest psychedelic pop band of our time. Welsh speakers with a lust for global c...

In Why the Grateful Dead Matter, veteran writer and lifelong Deadhead Michael Benson argues that the Grateful Dead are not simply a successful rock...

Jet Harris was a member of probably the most successful instrumental band in the world, The Shadows. The good, bad and sad days are all here. The ...

In Girl in a Band Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth and role model for a generation of women, tells her story. She writes frankly about ...

From bestselling biographer Sean Smith comes the fascinating and tumultuous true story behind Sir Tom Jones, the nations treasure, sage of The Voic...