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    From rock and roll to classical, and everything in between. Our collection of music books takes you behind the music and shows you what life was like backstage.

    Philip Norman: Paul McCartney [2017] paperback

    €6.99€17.80

    'A thorough, objective telling of McCartney's story - in and out of the most famous band ever.' ESQUIREThe first biography written with McCartney's approval and with access to family members...

    Noel Gallagher: Any Road Will Get Us There (If We Don't Know Where We're Going) [2018] hardback

    €7.99€9.99

    'I've been on six-week tours of America and it breaks you open, but to do it straight off the bat, in the middle of winter, with three new girls... I...

    Neil Young: Waging Heavy Peace [2012] hardback

    €9.99

    Waging Heavy Peace is the remarkable memoir of rock icon Neil YoungNeil Young is a singular figure in the history of rock and pop culture in the last four decades,...

    Louis Walsh: Louis Walshs Fast Track To Fame [2007] paperback

    €1.99

    X-Factor judge, Louis Walsh, has managed acts such as Westlife, Girls Aloud, Shayne Ward and G4. He formerly steered Boyzone to chart topping success and also propelled Ronan Keating to...

    Anthony Bozza: INXS - Z1 [2005] hardback

    €2.99

    Now for the first time, INXS band members tell their own story about the meeting (and sometimes clashing) of minds that produced their music. In this gritty, in-depth narrative, one...

    Barney Hoskyns: LOWSIDE OF THE ROAD - Z44 [2019] paperback

    €5.99

    A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century.Spanning Tom Waits' extraordinary...

    Alan Walker: FRYDERYK CHOPIN LIFE AND TIMES - Z49 [2018] hardback

    €14.99

    Sunday Times Classical Music Book of the YearA landmark biography of the Polish composer by one of the world's leading authorities on Chopin and his timeBased on ten years of...

    Viv Albertine: To Throw Away Unopened [2018] paperback

    €5.99€6.99

    At the launch party for her memoir in 2014, the musician Viv Albertine received news that her mother was dying, and spent a few final hours with the woman who...

    Fiona Maddocks: Music for Life [2018] paperback

    €6.99

    How does music reflect the key moments in our lives? How do we choose the works that inspire, delight, comfort or console? Fiona Maddocks selects 100 classical works from across...

    Humphrey Burton: Leonard Bernstein [2017] paperback

    €9.99

    A new edition of Humphrey Burton's celebrated biography of Leonard Bernstein, published to coincide with the centenary of his birth. With a new introduction by the author.'Humphrey Burton's biography remains...

    Peggy Seeger: FIRST TIME EVER Z44 [2017] hardback

    €9.99

    Born in New York City in 1935, Peggy Seeger enjoyed a childhood steeped in music and politics. Her father was the noted musicologist Charles Seeger; her mother, the modernist composer...

    Paul Robertson: Soundscapes [2017] paperback

    €6.99

    In 2008 Paul Robertson, the renowned violinist and leader of the Medici Quartet, suffered a ruptured aorta. After dying for a lengthy period on the operating table, he remained in...

    Robert Schumann: ADVICE TO YOUNG MUSICIANS Z44 [2016] hardback

    €6.99

    Robert Schumann was far ahead of his time, not least in his attitude to children and young people; his 'Advice for Young Musicians', originally created to accompany his famous 'Album...

    Fiona Maddocks: MUSIC FOR LIFE Z44 [2016] hardback

    €8.99

    How does music reflect the key moments in our lives? How do we choose the works that inspire, delight, comfort or console? Fiona Maddocks selects 100 classical works from across...

    Billy Bragg: ROOTS RADICALS AND ROCKERS Z44 [2017] hardback

    €9.99

    Emerging from the jazz clubs of the early '50s, skiffle - a uniquely British take on American folk and blues - caused a sensation among a generation of kids who...

    Viv Albertine: TO THROW AWAY UNOPENED Z44 [2018] hardback

    €5.99€7.99

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS 2018'Fierce, direct, unashamed. She masks nothing ... Scythes through the myths, the distortions, the adornments and finds the rich, distinctive stories...

    Humphry Burton: MENUHIN Z44 [2016] paperback

    €16.99

    Since 2000, when this biography was first published, Menuhin's name has not faded from public attention, as often happens in the decades after the death of a popular performing artist....

    Brix Smith Start: The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise [2017] paperback

    €6.99

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE 2017The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise is the extraordinary story, in her own words, of Brix Smith Start. Best known for her...

    Mike Love: Good Vibrations [2017] paperback

    €5.99

    Mike Love is a founding member of the Beach Boys and the lead singer and lyricist of their biggest hits. With their lush vocals and endlessly inventive arrangements, the band...

    Mike Love: GOOD VIBRATIONS MYLIFE A S A BEACH BOY [2016] hardback

    €9.99

    Mike Love is a founding member, lyricist and vocalist of The Beach Boys, considered to be the most popular American band in history, with 13 Gold Albums, 55 top-100 singles,...

    Philip Glass: Words without Music [2015] hardback

    €12.99

    Rapturous in its ability to depict the creative process, Words Without Music allows readers to experience that sublime moment of creative fusion when life merges with art. Biography lovers will...

    Moby: Porcelain [2016] paperback

    €6.99

    There were many reasons Moby was never going to make it as a DJ and musician in the New York club scene of the late 1980s and early 90s. This...

    Edward Dusinberre: BEETHOVEN FOR A LATER AGE [2016] paperback

    €5.99

    'They are not for you but for a later age!' Ludwig van Beethoven, on the Opus 59 quartetsBeethoven's sixteen string quartets are some of the most extraordinary and challenging pieces...

    Edward Dusinberre: BEETHOVEN FOR A LATER AGE Z44 [2016] hardback

    €9.99

    'They are not for you but for a later age!' Ludwig van Beethoven, on the Opus 59 quartets Beethoven's sixteen string quartets are some of the most extraordinary and challenging...

    Deborah Curtis: Touching From a Distance [2014] paperback

    €5.99

    The only in-depth biographical account of the legendary lead singer of Joy Division, written by his widow. Includes a foreword by Jon Savage and an introduction by Joy Division drummer,...

    Kevin Cummins: Assassinated Beauty [2014] hardback

    €9.99

    In the early nineties, a group of disaffected and fiercely political young men from the Welsh valleys exploded onto a British music scene still in thrall to rave and acid...

    Barney Hoskyns: SMALL TOWN TALK [2017] paperback

    €5.99

    Think 'Woodstock' and the mind turns to the seminal 1969 festival. But Woodstock itself was over sixty miles away, and already a key location in the rock landscape as a...

    Luke Jennings: FABER POCKET GUIDE TO BALLET Z49 [2014] paperback

    €9.99

    The essential, easy-to-use classical ballet guide - spanning nearly two centuries of classical dance - with entries for more than eighty works from ballet companies around the world, from Giselle...

    Fiona Maddocks: HARRISON BIRTWHISTLE WILD TRACKS Z44 [2014] hardback

    €12.99

    'Anyone with the smallest interest in composition - not just concertos but novels, buildings, lives, you name it, should read this absorbing, spiky, dazzling book.' Adam Thirwell, TLS Books of...

    Rupert Christiansen: The Faber Pocket Guide to Opera [2014] paperback

    €7.99

    This new edition of leading opera critic Rupert Christiansen's perennially popular Pocket Guide has between extensively revised, and incorporates many more operas from all periods, including recent works by Philip...

    Alfred Brendel: PIANISTS A-Z Z44 [2013] hardback

    €5.99€9.99

    'This book distils what, at my advanced age, I feel able to say about music, musicians, and matters of my pianistic profession.' Ever since Alfred Brendel bid farewell to the...

    Simon Reynolds: Shock and Awe [2017] paperback

    €6.99

    A Guardian, Sunday Times, Mojo, Daily Telegraph and Observer Book of the YearLonglisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize 2017As the sixties dream faded, a new flamboyant movement electrified the...

    Simon Reynolds: Shock and Awe [2016] hardback

    €9.99

    As the sixties dream faded, a new flamboyant movement electrified the world: GLAM! In Shock and Awe, Simon Reynolds explores this most decadent of genres on both sides of the...

    John Bridcut: ESSENTIAL BRITTEN Z44 [2012] paperback

    €6.99

    Benjamin Britten was one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century. He wrote a feast of music from an early age, first achieving international fame in 1945 with his...

    Ian Bostridge: Schubert's Winter Journey [2015] paperback

    €10.99€20.45

    Franz Schubert's Winterreise is at the same time one of the most powerful and one of the most enigmatic masterpieces in Western culture. In his new book, Schubert's Winter Journey:...

    Robz. Chapman: Psychedelia and Other Colours [2017] paperback

    €9.99

    A Guardian, Mojo and Rough Trade Book of the YearFifty years on from the psychedelic summer of love, acclaimed music writer Rob Chapman explores what was really going on during...

    Norman Lebrecht: WHY MAHLER - - Z44 [2010] hardback

    €9.99

    A century after his death, Gustav Mahler is the most important composer of modern times. Displacing Beethoven as a box-office draw, his music offers more than the usual listening satisfactions....

    Ian Bostridge: SINGERS NOTEBOOK Z44 [2011] hardback

    €9.99

    Ian Bostridge is one of the outstanding singers of our time, celebrated for the quality of his voice but also for the exceptional intelligence he brings to bear on the...

    Stephen Walsh: MUSORGSKY AND HIS CIRCLE Z44 [2013] hardback

    €9.99

    The extraordinary group of Russian composers who came together in St Petersburg in the 1860s - long known as 'The Mighty Handful', but, as the moguchaya kuchka, better translated as...

    Dorian Lynskey: 33 REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE Z44 [2012] paperback

    €7.99€9.99

    33 Revolutions Per Minute tracks the turbulent relationship between popular music and politics, through 33 pivotal songs that span seven decades and four continents, from Billie Holiday singing 'Strange Fruit'...

    Dorian Lynskey: 33 Revolutions Per Minute [2011] paperback

    €9.99

    Why 33? Partly because that's the number of rotations performed by a vinyl album in one minute, and partly because it takes a lot of songs to tell a story...

    Michael Tanner: The Faber Pocket Guide to Wagner [2010] paperback

    €6.99

    Richard Wagner remains, almost 130 years after his death, the most controversial composer in the history of music. Creator of huge and hugely ambitious operas, which have an immense immediate...

    Stuart Isacoff: TEMPERMENT Z44 [2007] paperback

    €6.99

    The piano is the best loved of musical instruments, thanks in part to the elegant symmetrical design of its ivory and ebony keyboard that ensures each pitch is reliably equidistant...

    Amanda Petrusich: It Still Moves [2009] paperback

    €3.99

    From country to blues, jazz to soul, bluegrass to the more recent alternative takes on these genres, It Still Moves looks at the paths trodden in American roots music and...

    Faber: HAYDN POCKET GUIDE Z44 [2009] paperback

    €5.99

    Joseph Haydn is one of the greatest and most innovative of all composers, yet in some ways he is still curiously misunderstood. This engaging new Pocket Guide assesses what Haydn's...

    Nick Kent: Apathy for the Devil [2010] paperback

    €6.99

    Pitched somewhere between Almost Famous and Withnail & I, "Apathy for the Devil" is a unique document of this most fascinating and troubling of decades - a story of inspiration,...

    John. Bridcut: BRITTENS CHILDREN Z44 [2007] paperback

    €6.99

    Britten's Children confronts the edgy subject of the composer's obsessional yet strangely innocent relationships with adolescent boys. One of the hallmarks of Benjamin Britten's music is his use of boys'...

    Arnold Schoenberg: Fundamentals of Musical Composition [1999] paperback

    €9.99

    Fundamentals of Musical Composition represents the culmination of more than forty years in Schoenberg's life devoted to the teaching of musical principles to students and composers in Europe and America....

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