Music

This title lets you take an extraordinary journey through the coolest hard rock album covers from 1965-90: vinyl's "golden age." Martin Popoff - the world's most renowned heavy metal journalist...

Every Valley is a glittering narrative history of intertwined lives that tells the story behind one of the greatest pieces of music ever written, Handel's Messiah.'A delicious history of music,...

What if you had the chance to tell your hero just how much they meant to you?If Nick Drake came to my houseand knocked upon the doorI'm sure I'd be...

The love story of Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner has been told piecemeal, from one side or the other, but has never been fully explored or explained, until now. The...

Everyone can hum this haunting Irish ballad that inevitably brings a tear to the eye. The most requested Irish song, it has been recorded by a variety of performers ranging...

Imagine you've made it. You and your friends have hit the big time in music and you're going to be a star. But then, quite suddenly, it's over. Your best...

The bestselling guide to teaching yourself the violin just got better Despite being one of the most popular musical instruments for budding musicians, the violin has a reputation as being...

In his brief life, Hank Williams created one of the defining bodies of American music. Songs like Your Cheatin' Heart, Hey Good Lookin' and Jambalaya sold millions of records and...

Few would dispute U2's position as the biggest rock band in the world. Active and relevant for nearly thirty-five years Bono the Edge Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. have...

Many books about Hendrix concentrate on showmanship and rock-and-roll excess but Keith Shadwick's EJimi Hendrix: MusicianE brings to Hendrix's musical legacy as a guitarist singer and composer a depth of...

Guitar legend Jimi Hendrix packed so much into so few years, leaping forward musically with each innovation. Hendrix expert, John McDermott, chronicles each of Jimi's revolutionary recording sessions, enlisting the...

The creator of the unforgettable Girl from Ipanema tenor sax tone this son of Ukranian immigrants took his unique sound through five decades of swing cool bossa and beyond. From...

This comprehensive guidebook covers all that is Celtic in music today, through essays exploring solo artists, bands, singers, and players of specialized instruments, such as harps, pipes, fiddles, drums, squeezeboxes,...

When he died suddenly at the age of twenty-six, Otis Redding (1941-1967) was the conscience of a new kind of soul music. Berry Gordy built the first black-owned music empire...

A National Bestseller!In this intimate memoir, actress and musician Jamie Lynn Spears opens up for the first time, telling her unfiltered story on her own terms. You've read the headlines,...

"Scales & Modes" is a excellent guide for musicians of all genres and players of all instruments. Alongside chords, scales and modes are the building blocks of music and are...

The perfect companion to the other titles in the "Music Made Easy" series ("Play the Guitar", "Play the Piano", "Guitar Chords", "Piano and Keyboard Chords"), this is the ideal guide...

"Play Piano and Keyboard Made Easy" contains everything the new or intermediate piano player needs to know to really get to grips with making music on this most popular of...

"Play Guitar Made Easy" contains everything the new or intermediate guitar player needs to know to really get to grips with making music on this most popular of instruments. Highly...

Introducing a major new feature for print books: sound! Now you can see the chord, then reach for your phone and hear the chord. Using any free QR code reader...

Introducing a major new feature for print books: sound! Now you can see the chord, then reach for your phone and hear the chord. Using any free QR code reader...

The perfect companion to Piano & Keyboard Chords, Advanced Piano Chords is a handy resource for those who feel they are ready to take the next step. The simple and...

Eartha Kitt was a skinny, mixed-race woman with an odd, angular face, who seduced fifties white America into thinking that she was, in the words of Orson Welles, 'the most...

The modern drum-kit has come a long way in the 110 years that have elapsed since it evolved in around 1901 in the bars and brothels of New Orleans -...

Joy Division changed the face of music. The sound of music. The meaning of music. Godfathers of the current alternative scene, they reinvented rock in the post-punk era, creating a...

Popular music grew out of ragtime, vaudeville and the blues to become global mass entertainment. Women like Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith were the original pop divas, yet eighty years...

But how has he kept his appeal all these years? He has succeeded in a world fuelled by drink, sex and drugs, but he is perennially attractive without any of...

Everything you want to know about the fabulousness that is Eurovision!The Eurovision Song Contest is one of the world's longest running TV programmes, and has become a much loved tradition...

From 1978 to 1984, Neil Zlozower was a "fifth member of Van Halen" (says bassist Michael Anthony) - touring, partying with, and photographing the band during the David Lee Roth...

Jazz legend Sonny Rollins will celebrate his 80th birthday this fall, and Saxophone Colossus will be published to mark this occasion and honor his incredibly prolific career. This intimate appreciation...

This book gives you all the information you need to get started on the keyboards. A series of short, illustrated lessons build up your knowledge one step at a time....

Over 500 illustrated chords are covered for Rock, Blues, Soul, Country, Jazz and Classical music. This compact dictionary is designed to fit in your bag and is completed with fingering...

This hardcover book with internal wire-o binding is 6.5in x 8in, a perfect size for readers to keep handy. The binding allows it to lie open flat for easy reference...

As a lead singer of Westlife, one of the most successful pop acts of all time, Shane Filan was on top of the world. Together with the band, he achieved...

In The Doors Unhinged, New York Times bestselling author and legendary Doors drummer John Densmore offers a powerful exploration of the 'greed gene' - that part of the human psyche...

"Gavin's engrossing biography of the singer takes the measure of a gifted, tragic, and infuriating man." -New York Times Book ReviewGeorge Michael was an extravagantly gifted, openhearted soul singer whose...

When They Were Boys takes readers inside the Beatles' journey to super stardom, from the time they met as teenagers to the cusp of their American invasion in 1964. With...

Nicknamed Mr. Show Business, Sammy Davis Jr. was a consummate performer who sang, danced, and acted on film, television, radio, and the stage for over six decades. In this uniquely...

Sir Cliff Richard OBE is the biggest-selling artist of all time, selling over 250 million records around the world since he burst onto the music scene in 1958. But how...

Pink Floyd's THE WALL is one of the most iconic and imaginative albums in the history of rock music, endlessly discussed and dissected. It is loosely based on the life...