Music

Celebrate the incredible career of pop music's biggest star in this sparkling, ten-week Sunday Times bestselling biography, fully up to date and discussing the release of The Tortured Poets Department,...

Ian Johnston is a physicist interested in music and with a belief that the two fields have much to offer one another. The purpose of this book is to show...

Telling the story of two young boys who dreamt of playing rock 'n' roll, and made those dreams come true, this is the autobiography of Status Quo. From their first...

Accompanying a BBC television series, this is a narrative record of life behind the scenes and on the stage of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. It focuses on performances...

Spanning Tom Waits' extraordinary 40-year career, from "Closing Time" to "Orphans", "Lowside of the Road" is Barney Hoskyns' unique take on one of rock's great enigmas. Like Bob Dylan and...

Composer, impresario, Harvard lecturer, television personality, cultural icon and conductor, Leonard Bernstein is one of the most charismatic musicians of the 20th century. He conquered Broadway with such hits as...

A sweeping musical history that goes from the salons of pre-war Vienna to Velvet Underground shows in the sixties. In The Rest is Noise, Alex Ross, music critic of the...

In This Is All a Dream We Dreamed, two of the most well-respected chroniclers of the Dead, Blair Jackson and David Gans, reveal the band's story through the words of...

'Exquisite.' Red Mag'Full of yearning, melancholy and the romance of travel.' Irish Times'Beautiful.' IndependentA unique collaborative publication which documents the lyrics written by Nobel Prize winning author Kazuo Ishiguro for...

Time Must-Read Books of 2024 Independent Best Non-Fiction Books 2024 Mojo Books of the Year 2024 "A vibrant, multifaceted portrait of a music enigma" Guardian "A powerful portrait" Irish Independent...

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, Kanye West created the most compelling body of pop music by an American artist during the period. Having risen from obscurity as...

This is a brilliant exploration of Radiohead's game-changing album, looking at its place in the career of "The World's Best Band" with ten years of hindsight. Radiohead's Kid A never...

The paperback is fully updated with new photos and new text, including an extra chapter. The design is also completely different, with text and photos kept separate to give the...

This encyclopedia covers jazz history, instruments, musicians, techniques and recordings. Featuring over 1,000 photographs, it sets out to be both informative and entertaining. Collectors should be interested in the special...

A glimpse at the real Slim Shady and his music. Rap superstar Eminem's uncensored lyrics are offered here to the reader complete with personal commentary on each controversial song. The...