Music: Styles & Genres

From their humble beginnings as friends in high school, to playing strip clubs in nothing but well-placed socks, through a struggle to find the rig...

The son of a sheet-metal worker who led a big band on weekends, Lou Gramm rose from humble, working-class roots in Rochester, New York, to become o...

Matt Lee has been collecting Rolling Stones memorabilia for more than two decades. He amassed so much that he had to move house; he now has his own...

That Thin, Wild Mercury Sound is the definitive treatment of Bob Dylans magnum opus, Blonde on Blonde, not only providing the most extensive accoun...

Always enigmatic and outside of the mainstream, most people associate Hawkwind with 'whoosh' noises, `Silver Machine', Lemmy and the sometime recog...

Formed in 1964 and still going strong in 2020, the Who are one of the most popular and enduring bands in the history of rock. The legendary debut a...

Sympathy for the Drummer: Why Charlie Watts Matters is both a gonzo rush capturing the bristling energy of the Rolling Stones and the times in whic...

DON'T MISS SYLVIA PATTERSON'S BRAND NEW MEMOIR, SAME OLD GIRL, COMING SPRING 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2016 'Celebratory and el...

Deck out your belongings with this fun collection of *NSYNC swag! Kit includes:10 button pins5 magnets32-page book on *NSYNC history, with full-col...

Peter Gabriel rose to fame as the lead vocalist and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis. After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a suc...

To have been alive during the last sixty years is to have lived with the music of Paul Simon. The boy from Queens scored his first hit record in 19...

When times are particularly difficult, and you are likely to slip into despair, some of the greatest pop songs can provide true comfort to make it ...

Nik Cohn began to write this book in the late 1960s with a simple purpose: to catch the feel, the pulse of Rock. Nobody had written a serious book ...

This book is the authorized chronicle of the Atlanta Rhythm Section, the legendary southern rock band that created such memorable hits as Champagne...

This is an in-depth study of the visceral slacker classic from 1987, an album that influenced enormously the nascent alternative scene. Dinosaur Jr...

A SUNDAY TIMES, ROUGH TRADE, ROLLING STONE, MOJO AND UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZENew York, 2001. 9/11 plunge...

A nostalgic collection of portraiture and interviews featuring not only your favorite artists from the 1980s, but also artists you should know. The...

Laurence Juber shares his life with Wings and his solo career ''on six strings'' in new book. Guitar With Wings: LJ''s Musical Journey on Six Stri...

Cover songs operate as a form of cultural discourse across various musical genres and different societal, historical and political conditions. C...

Big Man tells the fascinating story of Clarence Clemons, the larger-than-life saxophone player of the E Street Band. Clarence and his longtime frie...

Known to many as GODinski, Michael Gudinski is unquestionably the most powerful and influential figure in the Australian rock'n'roll music business...

Revealed for the first time here is the correspondence that Percy French, one of Irelands most influential songwriters, wrote to his fiancée and se...

ÊNew York TimesÊ Bestseller ÊA Perfect Union of Contrary ThingsÊ is the authorized biography of musician and vintner Maynard James Keenan. Co-autho...

*THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER*As seen on Apple TV - 1971: The Year That Music Changed EverythingThe Sixties ended a year late - on New Year'...

Since the 1960s, British progressive rock band Jethro Tull has pushed the technical and compositional boundaries of rock music by infusing its musi...

In 1978, Laurence Juber was plucked from the London studio world by Paul McCartney, who asked him to play lead guitar in what was to become the fin...

Before The Sex Pistols, before The Clash, before The Ramones, there was Patti Smith. The poet laureate of punk, she burst onto a vacuous music scen...

REVISED, UPDATED AND WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY PAUL ABBOTTThis edition of Suburban 100 includes new lyrics from the critically acclaimed albums, 22 D...

Bob Dylans cultural production in the second half of the twentieth century, his songs, but also his changing images and self-fashionings have infor...

Finally, a brilliant exploration of the German rock band Can's 1971 album Tago Mago. This hugely unique and influential album deserves close analys...