Biographies

Revisit John and Yoko's love affair and startling collaborations with this book. John Lennon's 'Plastic Ono Band' was arguably the most emotionally honest album ever made. It wasn't merely another rec...

Being Gerry Mulligan: My Life in Music is an intimate chronicle of Gerry Mulligan's life and career, told in his own words. This personal narrative reveals great insight into the musician's complex pe...

Few songs have captured the contradictions and ambiguities of the 1960s as memorably as California Dreamin', the iconic folk music single that catapulted the Mamas & the Papas into rock and roll histo...

What do you do after leaving one of the world's biggest bands? If you're David Lee Roth, you write a memoir, become a radio host, sell a screenplay to a major studio, get certified as an EMT, play Veg...

After February 9, 1964, everyone wanted to be Debbie Gendler. On that date, she was just one of a relative handful of lucky fans who were in the live audience for The Beatles' historic performance on...

In this brilliant biography, acclaimed historian Paul Johnson draws upon his expert knowledge of the era and Mozart's own private letters to conjure Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's life and times in rich de...

The Everly Brothers - a.k.a. Don and Phil to fans with an intimate appreciation for them - seemed to exist almost as an apparition. Emerging within the formative era for young Baby Boomers during the...

The stories of rock musicians who die young are the thing of lore and legend. Accidents, drug overdoses, plane crashes -- all have taken the lives of male rock stars still in their primes. But what be...

Lee Berk was president of his namesake Berklee College of Music for twenty-five years, where he turned a small, family-operated school into the world's largest and most innovative music education inst...

There are people who have gone to college for years and still can't decide on a major. The menu at your favorite fast-food franchise rarely changes and yet people stare up at the overhead menu in a st...

A great collection of biography and musical commentary with hundreds of pieces analyzed. Contains good reference material of Bach's contemporaries. 450 musical examples between the three volumes.

In the poem 'Music,' Ralph Waldo Emerson reminds us that music can be found in all things good and bad; this choral setting is an artful expression of that idea. Rich chords bring warmth, harmonic and...

He lived in the shadow of death, painfully aware of the tuberculosis that would kill him prematurely. But Frédéric Chopin attained immortality with his piano works, which endure as pinnacles of the in...

Renowned nineteenth-century musicologist François-Joseph Fétis assembled this authoritative survey with the assistance of noted violin maker and dealer Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume. Focusing on the work of...

This is far and away the best short guide to Mahler's music, written expressly for music lovers by great scholar who had unparalleled gift for lucid and attractive exposition. The book contains the fu...

This superbly-illustrated biography brings the courtly, elegant world of the eighteenth-century vividly to life, and includes extracts from some of Haydn's best-loved works in simple keyboard arrangem...

A revealing, enlightening and very moving book - and, on second reading even more so.

The life and good times of one of the world's favourite songwriters. If you've ever hummed a popular film or stage song from the mid-1950s on, the chances are you've been humming one of Leslie's. The...

Tales of Boomtown Glory is a collection of the complete lyrics from Bob Geldof's Boomtown Rats and solo albums, accompanied by an introduction and 25 song stories written by Geldof, and exclusive scan...

The very first authorised biography of one of the most invigorating, inventive and independent bands the UK has ever produced.  Written by Enter Shikari expert, Luke Morton, Standing Like Statues tell...

Biographien von 62 der bekanntesten Drummer mit CD: Gene Krupa, Buddy Rich, Kenny Clarke, Max Roach, Louie Bellson, Art Blakey, Philly Joe Jones, Ed Thigpen, Joe Morello, Elvin Jones, Jack DeJohnette,...

Cecil Gray is mainly remembered as a provocative critic and writer on music. Among his books were such titles as Peter Warlock, Sibelius and Contingencies. In this unique volume the writer's daughter...

Pamela Bowden's story gives a unique perspective on the second half of the twentieth century. In this autobiography she presents a fascinating account of her rich musical life; first, her career as a...