Individual Composers & Musicians, Specific Bands & Groups

An absolutely masterly work Stephen Fry Alex Ross, renowned author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise, reveal...

Music writer Womack delivers a fascinating, in-depth look at the creation of Abbey Road, the Beatles' penultimate album released 50 years ago.... W...

In conversation with Professor Raymond Holden of the Royal Academy of Music, Sir Mark talks about some of the major issues facing music, musicians ...

WITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHORThe definitive biography of the late Leonard Cohen - singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist.The genius b...

The Hebrew Orphan Asylum Band of New York City, 18741941 is at the same time the story of a boys band and a story of New York City. The band was no...

Never have so many famous drummers been gathered together in one place! Drummer and writer Spike Webb has spent more than three years meeting fell...

The intimate and long-awaited memoir of guitar legend Carlos Santana.In 1967 at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium, a young guitarist played a bli...

The death of Amy Winehouse at the age of 27 was a tragedy.She was one of the brightest music stars in years -a brilliant, original song writer with...

'The truest measure of the man we have thus far' - Mojo'Affectionate, impeccably researched biography' - Mail on Sunday'Head and shoulders above th...

For many fans, David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust era remains the most extraordinarily creative period in his career. As a member of Bowie's legendary ba...

Discover the remarkably honest and captivating story of one of the world's greatest ever singing talents, Sir Tom Jones 'Brilliantly told' SUNDAY T...

The inside story of The Cure'Beautifully realised' Irish TimesComing of age in Thatcher's Britain in the late 70s and early 80s was really tough, e...

A GUARDIAN AND INDEPENDENT BEST MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR At last an expert classicist gets to grips wi...

Robert Plant is one of the few genuine living rock legends. Frontman of Led Zeppelin, musical innovator and seller of millions of records...

A breathtaking, never-before-seen glimpse into life on tour with David Bowie, by the late singer''s official tour photographerIn 1983 David Bowie s...

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES, GRAMMY-NOMINATED BESTSELLERA SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, ROLLING STONE, AND ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR A panoramic ...

A thoughtfully curated and gloriously illustrated retrospective of the bands studio releases, Queen, comes just in time for the 45th anniversary of...

The amazing life of Madness frontman and national treasure, SuggsSuggs is one of pop music's most enduring and likeable figures. Written with the a...

The definitive history of Pink Floyd, one of the world's great bands, by founder member Nick Mason.One of the most fascinating rock bands ever, Pin...

Mozart's greatest works were written in Vienna in the decade before his death (17811791). This biography focuses on Mozart's dual roles as a perfor...

The Jesus and Mary Chains swooning debut Psychocandy seared through the underground and through the pop charts, shifting the role of noise within p...

In The Complete Beatles Songs, Steve Turner shatters many well-worn myths and adds a new dimension to the Fab Four's rich legacy. This beautifully...

Born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, George Michael was raised in a family of Greek Cypriot immigrants in North London, and dreamed of stardom when h...

When punk rock reared its spiky head in the early seventies, Marc Bell had the best seat in the house. Already a young veteran of the prototype Ame...

In January of 1979, the great soul artist Donny Hathaway fell fifteen stories from a window of Manhattans Essex House Hotel in an alleged suicide. ...

Since forming on YouTube in 2012, The Vamps have become one of the biggest bands in the UK. They have travelled the world with massive arena tours,...

Imagine being alongside one of the greatest bands in the history of rock, touring the world and being there as they perform at some of the best and...

Sleater-Kinneys 1997 album Dig Me Out is built on Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownsteins competing guitars, Janet Weisss muscular rhythms, and layered...