Individual Composers & Musicians, Specific Bands & Groups

Schumann: The Faces and the Masks is a groundbreaking account of a major composer whose life and works have been the subject of intense controversy...

Leonard Cohen opens in Los Angeles on the last night of the man s life in 2016. Alone in his final hours, the beloved writer and musician ponders h...

***With consultant editor Tony Visconti. David Bowie''s story has never been told quite like this.Tracing the star''s encounters with fellow icons ...

Taking readers behind Bob Dylan's familiar image as the enigmatic rebel of the 1960s, this book reveals a different view--that of a careful craf...

Lilian Terry has lived music. As a performer, she has shared the stage with Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone. She cofounded the European Jazz Federa...

The manager who shepherded Van Halen from obscurity to rock stardom goes behind the scenes to tell the complete, unadulterated story of David Lee R...

When Freddie Mercury died in 1991, aged just 45, the world was rocked by the vibrant and flamboyant star's tragic secret that he had been battling ...

Born into a Jewish family in Lvov, Poland in the early-1930s, Nelly Ben-Or was to experience, at a very young age, the trauma of the Holocaust. Thi...

'A glorious plum-pudding of a book, to be consulted, with pleasure and profit, over and over again' Sir Jeremy Isaacs Michael Steen's 'Great Compos...

On October 13, 2016, it was announced that Bob Dylan had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, recognizing his countless contributions to mu...

Sell-out tours in packed stadiums, records going platinum on pre-orders alone, three-hour long concerts night after night, girls, booze, drugs - Le...

Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov (18651936), the Russian composer, is principally associated with his first ballet Raymonda, the apex of his coop...

A new collection with contributions from performing musicians and Grainger scholars and a detailed Catalogue of Works. In the thirty years since h...

The Allman Broithers Band was formed in 1969 by Duane and Gregg Allman, along with Berry Oakley, Dickey Betts, Butch Trucks, and Jaimoe. Their mus...

The Beatles have been at the top for fifty years, their music remains exciting, their influence is still huge, their acclaim and achievements canno...

Without a doubt, it is the most detailed account of the awesome pleasures and perils of rock and roll stardom I have ever read. It is completely co...

From the early days of The Rolling Stones, with a relatively baby-faced 'Keef' sporting a hounds-tooth jacket, to his heroic piratical look of the ...

John L. Williams draws on original research and interviews to provide a portrait of a young woman on the cusp of stardom, whose rise to fame was in...

Why is Mozart the best known and most popular of all the great Western classical composers? More than 250 years after his birth, his reputation sta...

Jerome Just one more Song! A Local, Social & Political History in the Repertoire of a Newfoundland-Irish Singer. This timeless Songs collectio...

These 450+ questions will test even the biggest Bowie fanatics knowledge of Aladdin Sane, Ziggy Stardust and the Thin White Duke. In what film did ...

Important insight into the work of a truly great songwriter.Updated to include the albums Western Stars and Letter To You and packed full of insigh...

Shelved for over 20 years, Sam Cookes Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963, stands alongside Otis Reddings Live in Europe and James Browns Live at ...

In Janelle Monáes full-length debut, the science fiction concept album The ArchAndroid, the android Cindi Mayweather is on the run from the authori...

Were all familiar with the image of a fierce and scowling Beethoven, struggling doggedly to overcome his rapidly progressing deafness. That Beethov...

Cypress Hill is considered the first-ever Latin American hip hop group, and has sold over 20 million albums to date, with this graphic novel relea...

It amazes me that after all these years and countless books, the scope of subject matter on The Beatles is so amazingly large that writers always f...

An American drummer, a bass player from Newcastle and a guitarist a decade older than the other two, with little in common other than their musical...

Evenings with Led Zeppelin chronicles the 500-plus appearances Led Zeppelin made throughout their career. From their earliest gig in a Denmark...