Musik

Manuel de Falla: His life & Works

Gonzalo Armero / Jorge de Persia

Manuel de Falla's music perfectly reflected the full-blooded passion and intellectual aspirations of early 20th century Spanish culture. His personal life seemed to echo the spirit of his time...

Carlos Aldama's Life in Batá

Umi Vaughan / Carlos Aldama

<p>Batá identifies both the two-headed, hourglass-shaped drum of the Yoruba people and the culture and style of drumming, singing, and dancing associated with it. This book recounts the lif...

Letters to Kurt

Eric Erlandson

Bruce Springsteen

Peter Basham

Bruce Springsteen grew from a dishevelled, bearded singer of youthful street ballads to become the hottest name in the rock world - twice. The resilience of the New Jersey troubadour has seen him ...

Jethro Tull

Raymond Benson

The Legendary Jethro Tull - How many rock bands from the sixties can you name that are still around today? Probably not that many. There are a couple — the Rolling Stones, Santana-but most have ...

Behind the Rainbow: The Tragic Life of Eva Cassidy

Johan Bakker

Eva Cassidy's story is one of the most compelling and poignant in recent music history. In this thoughtful and probing biography, Johan Bakker explores her brief performing career and the fame...

Blinking Lights and Other Revelations: The Story of Eels

Tim Grierson

Blinking Lights is the first biography of an extraordinary band, Eels. Writer, Tim Grierson, gives an in-depth examination of their extensive career, insight into their remarkable lives, and a det...

U2: A Diary

Matt McGee

This new and updated edition of U2 A Diary brings U2s story up to date with information about the band's ground-breaking film, U2 3D, recording sessions for No Line on the Horizon and the stor...

Joel-Francois Durand in the Mirror Land

Jonathan W. Bernard

<p>The second part of this volume comprises four essays on Durand’s music, contributed by three of his former composition students -- Christian Asplund, Eric Flesher, and Ryan M. Hare -- a...

The Kings of Leon: Sex on Fire (New Edition)

Michael Heatley

Beatlemania! The Real Story of the Beatles UK Tours 1963-1965

Martin Creasy

Between 1963 and 1965 The Beatles undertook six amazing UK tours and met many fans along the way, whose memories of these encounters tell the real story of what actually happened when the Fab Four...

Fever: Little Willie John's Fast Life, Mysterious Death, and the Birth of Soul

Susan Whitall

No More Sad Refrains: The Life and Times of Sandy Denny

Clinton Heylin

Clinton Heylin's biography No More Sad Refrains, draws on hours of interviews with Sandy's closest friends and musical collaborators, access to her diaries and unreleased work, to produce ...

Stone Roses: 'Talking'

Brian Chapman

Manchester's Stone Roses woke up a stagnant late-Eighties music scene with an eponymous debut album of danceable rock that set the charts ablaze and remains a fixture in critics' lists tod...

Too Much, Too Soon The Makeup Breakup of The New York Dolls

Nina Antonia

The Dolls, peddling trans-gender posturing and incendiary rock 'n' roll, were dumped by the record business after making just two albums. But their influence lived on when Malcolm McLaren ...

Richard Rodney Bennett: The Complete Musician

Paul Harris / Anthony Meredith

Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, in the enormous diversity of his activities, is arguably the most complete musician of all time. Not only does he have a remarkable 300 commissioned concert works to hi...

Nileism

Allan Brown

Next year sees the 30th anniversary of The Blue Nile&apos;s first work together. Four albums – containing a total of just 33 songs – have followed since. Yet scarcity has served only to in...

Stuart Adamson

Allan Glen

The book that fans of the Skids, Big Country and the Raphaels have been waiting for - a critical perspective not only of Adamson&apos;s music and its wider cultural influence, but also the exc...

The Ballad of Bob Dylan

Daniel Mark Epstein

Scott: The Curious Life & Work of Scott Walker

Paul Woods

The extraordinary personal and professional journey of Scott Walker who went from golden-voiced sixties pop-singer to iconoclastic musical adventurer. Author Paul Woods examines how the celebrated...