Music Industry

First as a journalist and then a publicist at Warner Brothers Records for nearly twenty years, Barbara Charone has experienced, first-hand, the cha...

During a seven-decade career that spanned from 19th century Vienna to 1920s Broadway to the golden age of Hollywood, three-time Academy Award winne...

Andrew Lauder is one of British record business's most significant and highly influential figures but outside the music industry few people will pr...

'There's no mistaking the writing of Sylvia Patterson' Sunday Times'One of the finest writers in the world' David QuantickHow does the big stuff in...

Going Deaf for a Living is Steve Lamacqs candid reflection of several decades spent on the frontline of the alternative music scene. As a writer at...

Jim Simpson of Big Bear Records has been involved in the music business for nearly 60 years, as musician, bandleader, promoter, record producer, fe...

Music affects every person.  It is the soundtrack of our happiness, zest for achievement and relationships to others.  Music brings great ideas and...

When the music impresario Bryan Morrison died aged 66 in 2008, after two years in a coma following a polo accident, he left behind his unpublished ...

***Nominated for the 2024 Penderyn Music Book Prize***A Times Book of the YearA Financial Times Book of the YearA Waterstones Book of the Year'Read...

You never knew what you were going to be confronted with when you went on Later Nick Cave Later is a voyage of discovery for us as well a...

Riverdance exploded across the stage at Dublins Point Theatre one spring evening in 1994 during a seven-minute interval of the Eurovision Song Cont...

A journey down the rabbit hole of LA's most subtly toxic industry ... funny, brilliant, coy, playful, and wise. LENA DUNHAM, author of Not That Ki...

A Telegraph Book of the Year As a renowned recording-studio maven, Trevor Horn has been dubbed 'the man who invented the '80s'.His production work ...

A DAILY TELEGRAPH and IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARThe must-read music book of the year, now with a brand new chapter covering the death of Taylor H...

Recently resurrected and now enjoying chart success in the 21st century, when it was formed Trojan Records epitomised the punk DIY ethic over a dec...

THE ILLUSTRATED STORY OF SUN RECORDS AND THE 70 RECORDINGS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD Sun Records: the company that launched Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee ...

'Hilarious, heart-wrenching and packed with British music history.' - COLDPLAY A Virgin Radio Book of the Year It's a life-and-near-death story. Bu...

Music affects every person.  It is the soundtrack of our happiness, zest for achievement and relationships to others.  Music brings great ideas and...

Howard Bloomcalled the greatest press agent that rock and roll has ever known by Derek Sutton, the former manager of Styx, Ten Years After, and Jet...