Individual Composers & Musicians, Specific Bands & Groups

Can you find the King of Rock n' Roll? This fabulous, fun and comically-illustrated book features scenes based on Elvis' remarkable, star-studded l...

Lou Reed made it his mission to rub people the wrong way, whether it was with the noise rock he produced with the Velvet Underground in the late 19...

This is the first serious biography of a man widely considered one of Texasand Americasgreatest songwriters. Like Jimmie Rodgers, Woody Guthrie, Ro...

The remarkable life story of the legendary singer, from impoverished Iowa farm boy to superstardom.Andy Williams is one of the greatest singers of ...

George Jones lived a storied life, but his career was not without controversies. This book reveals fascinating, intimate details about the life of ...

The Sex Pistols have defined the look, sound, and feel of the punk movement since they formed in London in 1975. Together for less ...

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It is a common article of faith that Mozart composed the most beautiful music we can know. But few of us ask why. Why does the beautiful in Mozart ...

Luigi Dallapiccola is widely considered a defining figure in twentieth-century Italian musical modernism, whose compositions bear passionate witnes...

Lou Reed made it his mission to rub people the wrong way, whether it was with the noise rock he produced with the Velvet Underground in the late 19...

Multiple Academy and Grammy award winner Leslie Bricusse is one of the worlds greatest composer-lyricists, and has been honoured as a member of the...

During Americas Swing Era, no musician was more successful or controversial than Artie Shaw: the charismatic and opinionated clarinetist-bandleader...

A rare case among history's great music contemporaries, Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) and Richard Strauss (1864-1949) enjoyed a close friendship until ...

La Boheme, Tosca, Turandot, Madama Butterfly - Puccini's operas are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire. 'Nessun dorma...

Deluxe photo book compiled by Blackmore biographer Jerry Bloom-the perfect companion to his 2006 biography Black Knight, as it portrays Blackmore''...

French-born Tucson chanteuse Marianne Dissard is a charismatic performer whose unique American desert noir chanson stems from her collaborations wi...

This is the first English language biography of Ottorino Respighi, the most performed Italian composer of the twentieth century. Best known for hi...

George Cory and Douglass Cross wrote just one hit song, I Left My Heart in San Francisco. They were unknown before they wrote it--and were unkno...

Through interviews conducted with surviving members of Soviet orchestras, through his reading of philosophers, psychoanalysts, and neurologists, Jo...

A compelling portrait of rock's greatest guitarist at the moment of his ascendance, Stone Free is the first book to focus exclusively on the happie...

After three decades as a professional musician, Marvin B Naylor took his talents out into the streets of Winchester, playing his fingerstyle guitar...

Erika Nielsen knew that her real language was music - her truest voice, the cello - by the time she was three years old. She knew she would become ...

The Beach Boys: All The Songs is a detailed look at the recorded output of this most unique and influential popular music group. From the 1962 debu...

The very first full biography of The Association, one of the most successful bands to come out of the mid-1960s US folk-rock boom, with some of the...