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...