Popular Music, Easy listening

Joe Longthorne is one of the UK's leading live entertainers, and an icon of his era. In the golden days of Joe's career, he was one of television'...

As a young girl toiling in a South Wales tin works, Dorothy Squires dreamt of being a singing star, but was ridiculed by all around her. At the ten...

Sixty extraordinary years of Eurovision, from Céline Dion to Dustin the Turkey, from Abba to Conchita Wurst - the drag acts, the bad acts and all t...

Aled Jones, a choirboy with a remarkable voice, achieved more as a teenager than many adult singers do in a lifetime. His prodigious talent propell...

The Singer's Singer is the highly-anticipated story of one of Britain's most iconic singers, the man who recorded the very first James Bond theme s...

Five decades in the music industry, 100 albums, 10 Grammys, the Kennedy Center Honors, and the Country Music Hall of Fame. Add high-profile activis...

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

Ol' Blue Eyes. The Chairman of the Board. Leader of the Rat Pack. By any name, Frank Sinatra was one of the most popular entertainers of the twenti...

The Ultimate Easy Piano Songlist is a bumper collection of over 40 of the best-selling songs from the 50s to the present day, all specially arrange...

Like Fela Kuti and Bob Marley, singer, composer, and bandleader Thomas Mapfumo and his music came to represent his native country's anticolonial st...

Piano Meditations is a beautiful collection of 12 original piano compositions that have been inspired by paintings of a meditative nature. By best-...

Streisand: A Biography is much more than the story of the world's greatest living performer, how she got there, and why she remains at the top afte...

The Real Singing Cowboys profiles contemporary cowboy--and cowgirl--singers and musicians who are, or have been, authentic working cowboys or ranch...

More than seven years after his death, Michael Jackson continues to fascinate the world. Shana Mangatal was one of Jacksons constant and true rocks...

Outside his native France, the view of Serge Gainsbourg was once of a one-hit wonder lothario. This has been slowly replaced by an awareness of how...

Thriller, Born in the USA, Brothers in Arms, Faith, The Joshua Tree, Graceland the 80s saw some great albums both from recording artists who had b...

Ever since the birth of rock & roll, popular music has done more to define the spirit of each passing decade than any other form of popular cul...

The third edition of Popular Music and Society is fully revised and updated, deftly exploring the study of popular music in the context of wider de...

Comparatively little is known about the musical cultures of the British armed forces during the Great War. This groundbreaking study is the first t...

She said, I became a singer because I couldn't get work as an actress, but Barbra Streisand not only became both but revolutionized the two profess...

Thomas Adès composed the score for the 2019 film Colette starring Keira Knightley and Dominic West, which is based on the life of the French noveli...

Nevermind, Achtung Baby, Use Your Illusion 1&2 the 90s saw some classic albums produced by artists such as Nirvana, U2, Gun n Roses and Red Ho...

London. Wham! Pop, glitz and glamour. And two girls with stars in their eyes.Our friendship began one windy day in 1982, outside Finsbury Park tube...

In her first-ever book, Australian singer-songwriter Delta Goodrem shares the intimate stories behind each of the tracks on her sixth studio album,...

Since launching his career at the Village Voice in the early 1980s Greg Tate has been one of the premiere critical voices on contemporary Black mus...

Since launching his career at the Village Voice in the early 1980s Greg Tate has been one of the premiere critical voices on contemporary Black mus...

When Rodgers and Hart's Pal Joey opened at the Barrymore on Christmas day, 1940, it flew in the face of musical comedy convention. The characters a...

The drum kit has provided the pulse of popular music from before the dawn of jazz up to the present day pop charts. Kick It, a provocative social h...

To the tune of Yankee Doodle, the American obsession with politics was born alongside America itself. From the end of the Revolutionary War through...

''I will always believe in the strength we have as women.'' As the queen of pop music since the glory days of Destiny''s Child to her incredible so...

After The Beatles stormed America, every Hollywood and European production company descended on London to be part of the new swinging scene... and ...

In the ''60s and ''70s, America''s music scene was marked by raucous excess, reflected in the tragic overdoses of young superstars such as Jimi Hen...

In 1967, a 20-year-old David Jones decided to change his name to avoid confusion with the lead singer of the Monkees. He decided on 'Bowie'. By thi...

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...

Coming to London aged thirteen from desperate poverty in Jamaica; pregnant at fifteen; fifteen years later singing in Boney M, one of the biggest i...

Coming to London aged thirteen from desperate poverty in Jamaica; pregnant at fifteen after being abused by a family friend; fifteen years later si...

The guitarist and composer Pat Metheny ranks among the most popular and innovative jazz musicians of all time. In Pat Metheny: The ECM Years, 1975-...

The definitive guide to the decade when swinging London was the film capital of the world After The Beatles stormed America, every Hollywood and Eu...