Music: Styles & Genres

'A must for fans and rock buffs' The Sun'Fascinating read' PowerplayJudas Priest formed in Birmingham in 1969. With its distinctive twin-guitar sou...

Over 400 of the finest examples of metal poster and cover art, spanning the entire 50-year history of metal, and how that art has helped define the...

Ronnie James Dio was a heavy metal icon and frontman of three of the best-selling, most influential and famous rock bands in history: Rainbow, Blac...

On February 25, 1963, Columbia Records released The Barbra Streisand Album. The first song was Cry Me a River, and with that a star was born. Barbr...

Welcome to The Empire theatre1922. When Jack Treadwell arrives at The Empire, in the middle of a rehearsal, he is instantly mesmerised. But amid th...

The Metal God himself, Rob Halford - lead vocalist of Judas Priest and author of the critically acclaimed and reader-beloved autobiography, Confess...

**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award-winning author of J...

'EYEWITNESS GOLD' SUNDAY TIMESWHO - OR WHAT - WAS THE REAL LOVE OF FREDDIE MERCURY'S LIFE? THE SENSATIONAL NEW BIOGRPHAY OF QUEEN'S FRONTMAN Millio...

Fleetwood Mac was a triumph from the beginning-their first album was the UK's bestselling album of 1968. After some low points-when founder Peter G...

George Michael is the single most played artist on UK radio for the last two decades. He has sold 100 million albums world-wide and had seven UK nu...

One hundred years after the death of Enrico Caruso, and the births of Franco Corelli, Giuseppe Di Stefano and Mario Lanza, this landmark history of...

From acclaimed composer and biographer Jan Swafford comes the definitive biography of one of the most lauded musical geniuses in history, Wolfgang ...

In 1741, in just 24 days, the German-born, British-naturalized composer George Frideric Handel wrote an oratorio rich in tuneful arias and choruses...

Seven men. Seven years. 31 million Twitter followers. 11 billion YouTube views. 13 billion Spotify streams. Sold out world tours. BTS are a global ...

Starting with a foreword by Academy Award winner Rami Malek, Freddie Mercury - The Great Pretender, a Life in Pictures gives fans unprecedented acc...

The colorful Punk Professor, new-wave musician, and critic/filmmaker spins a dazzling survey of women in punk, from the genre's inception in 1970s ...

'I was 22 years old, a hard-on with a pulse: wretched, vice-ridden, too much to burn and not enough minutes in a hour to do so'The action begins in...

A stunning collection of poems from one of the most revered rap artists in the world, Tupac Shakur, now the subject of the major motion picture, Al...

In the late 80s, a group of high school dropouts, drug dealers, and ex-cons spoke out against racial injustice and police brutality. They did it th...

Wisdom and musings on creativity and life from one of the worlds most beloved musicians, producers, and mentors, Quincy Jones12 Notes is a self-dev...

George Michael is the single most played artist on UK radio for the last two decades. He has sold 100 million albums world-wide and had seven UK nu...

** Shortlisted for the NME Best Music Book Award 2018 **THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEARA HERALD BOOK...

The definitive biography of one of the worlds most famous women.Madonna is the biggest-selling female recording artist in the world and one of our ...

The story of a fanatical Marc Bolan fan who took his obsession to a completely different level! This is an amazing journey of one man's ambition an...

On January 1, 1967, a new contract between 'Colonel' Tom Parker and his sole client, Elvis Presley, gave Parker a 50 per cent cut of royalties and ...

Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Smiths (1982-1987), Morrissey has been a ...

The complete, definitive and never-before-published catalogue of Hipgnosis, Vinyl Album Cover Art finally does justice to the work of the most i...

From the creators of The Sex Pistols Graphic Novel, Godspeed: The Kurt Cobain Graphic and Eminem: In My Skin comes an explosive new graphic novel a...

Morrissey & Marr: The Severed Alliance is among the most successful - and controversial - rock biographies ever published. Having denounced...

All the photos of David Bowie you could possibly ever need.  The most noteworthy collection of David Bowie images ever accumulated. Whether you wan...

Passionate about music from childhood and much-respected as a teenage guitarist in his native Birmingham, Jeff Lynne rose through the ranks of vari...

'Fantastic' Nick Hornby'Beautifully written' Sunday Times'Truly remarkable' Rolling StoneUnfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink is the long-awaited ...

Rock 'n' roll was born in rural Alabama, 1923, in the form of Sam Phillips, the youngest son of a large family living in a remote colony called the...