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Me and Mr Jones - My Life with David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars

Van Halen at 50

Formed in Southern California in 1974, Van Halen became one of the best-selling bands in rock history and one of the highest-grossing tou...

Prince and Purple Rain - 40 Years

In 1984, Prince, along with his band, The Revolution, released what would become his best- selling album and a touchstone of 1980s pop cu...

Abba: All The Songs

The definitive recording history of pop megastars, ABBA, told song-by-song and track-by-track. Filled with fascinating photography (some ...

The Gershwins Abroad - or Four Americans in Paris (and several other cities)

World Within a Song - Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music

Paused in Cosmic Reflection - The definitive, fully illustrated story of The Chemical Brothers

The Chemical Brothers emerged in the early 1990s, an electronic music duo consisting of Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons. Alongside The Prodigy...

How to Disappear - A Photographic Portrait of Radiohead

'For years now, I've been taking fugitive snaps of my band, Radiohead. I've tried to catch out my friends with my small black Yashica T4 ...

Female Force - Shania Twain

Dive into the remarkable journey of one of country music's most iconic voices in Female Force: Shania Twain. Through triumphs and tribula...

Who's That Girl? - A Memoir

The memoir from Eve: the multi-platinum, Grammy Award winning, Emmy nominated rapper, singer songwriter, actor, and entrepreneur.

Family Values - Kurt, Courtney & Frances Bean

Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love were notorious for representing the opposite of “Family Values.” To reframe their notoriety, they consented...

Traveling - On the Path of Joni Mitchell

Celebrated NPR music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career of Joni Mitchell in a lyrical style as fascinating and ethereal as th...

A Dysfunctional Success - The Wreckless Eric Manual

Heartbreak Is the National Anthem - How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music

An intimate look at the life and music of modern pop's most legendary figure, Taylor Swift, from leading music journalist Rob Sheffield. ...

Lisa Marie Presley Untitled Memoir

Untitled Memoir by Lisa Marie Presley.

Tchaikovsky's Empire - A New Life of Russia's Greatest Composer

A thrilling new biography of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky—composer of some of the world’s most popular orchestral and theatrical music

Dion - The Rock and Roll Philosopher

Dion DiMucci rose to Rock and Roll fame in the late 1950s as the lead singer of Dion and the Belmonts.This book not only tells the story ...

Rush at 50

Rush at 50 presents an authoritative and illustrated retrospective of one of rock’s most beloved acts, as told through 50 landmark releas...

Kylie Minogue: Album by Album - Stick or Twist

Kylie Minogue is an Australian pop icon who has sold over 80 million records worldwide. The pint-sized pop princess showed us she had the...

Brothers

In this intimate and open account--nothing like any rock-and-roll memoir you've ever read--Alex Van Halen shares his personal story of fa...

Taylor Swift by the Book - The Literature Behind the Lyrics, from Fairy Tales to Tortured Poets

From Robert Frost's road not taken on her debut album to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's albatross on The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swi...

Within You Without You - Listening to George Harrison

Within You Without You: Listening to George Harrison is a highly personal exploration of George Harrison's essential contributions to the...

Harry Styles Is Life - A Superfan's Guide to All Things We Love about Harry Styles

Harry Styles Is Life is a beautifully illustrated guide that explores and celebrates the singer and his music.

Hammer of the Gods

The Beatles - Featuring a Collection of Memorabilia from the Lives of the Fab Four

This astounding visual history of the most famous pop band in the world, The Beatles: Featuring a Collection of Memorabilia from the Live...

McCartney Legacy Vol. 2 - 1974 - 80

The follow-up to The McCartney Legacy, Volume 1, the most complete work on the life and work of Paul McCartney ever published. Volume 2 c...

It Starts with One - The Legend and Legacy of Linkin Park

"Linkin Park is one of the 21st Century's most important--and most underrated--rock bands. When you look at album and streaming numbers, ...

Into the Taylor-Verse - Taylor Swift's Songwriting Journey

Fearlessly jump and fall into the world of Taylor Swift with this illustrated appreciation of her life and work by Swiftian Theory co-fou...

David Bowie - Rock 'n' Roll Chameleon

This re-release of Bowie at 75 (2022) celebrates the rocker’s life in a beautifully produced retrospective detailing 75 key releases and ...

Rebel Girl - My Life as a Feminist Punk

An electric, searing memoir by the original Rebel Girl and legendary frontwoman of Bikini Kill.

Wildfire - My Ten Years Getting High in the Prodigy

Wildfire tells the story of the first decade of The Prodigy from the perspective of original member Leeroy Thornhill, fully illustrated w...

Into the Taylor-Verse - Taylor Swift's Songwriting Eras

A beautifully illustrated, comprehensive collectible for Swifties everywhere that offers an overview of Taylor Swift’s life and work, inc...

Nightmare in the Pacific - The World War II Saga of Artie Shaw and His Navy Band

Hope I Get Old Before I Die - Why rock stars never retire

From the author of Abbey Road comes the story of how enduring rock icons like Pink Floyd, Bruce Springsteen and many more have remained i...

Between Composers - The Letters of Norma Beecroft and Harry Somers

Between Composers unveils the previously unpublished correspondence between Canadian composers Norma Beecroft and Harry Somers from 1959 ...

Serge Gainsbourg's Paris

A guide to the home city of singer, songwriter and actor Serge Gainsbourg, from birth at L'Hôtel-Dieu de Paris in April 1928, to his fina...

Songbird - An Intimate Biography of Christine McVie

A revealing portrait of keyboardist, lyricist, vocalist, and “mother figure” of beloved British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, Christi...

All You Need Is Love: The Beatles in Their Own Words - Unpublished, Unvarnished, and Told by the Beatles and Their Inner Circle

An oral history of The Beatles from never-before-seen interviews. All You Need Is Love is a groundbreaking oral history of the one of the...

7:42 P.M.: The Art of Chris Mars - The Art of Chris Mars

Each of the many paintings presented in 7:42 P.M. is a visual novella about the challenges and possibilities of the human condition. It i...

Soundtrack from Saturday Night Fever

"Fever was a supernova for disco, for the Bee Gees, for their Svengali figure Robert Stigwood, producer of the film and is its true auteu...

Olivier Messiaen - A Critical Biography

Drawing on a range of sources and fields, the rich life story of this polymathic composer. This groundbreaking biography offers fresh per...

A Continual Farewell - My Life in Letters with Tony Wilson

A Continual Farewell tells the story of the relationship between Factory Records' Tony Wilson and his first wife, Lindsay Reade, through ...

Rockin' the Kremlin - My Incredible True Story of Gangsters, Oligarchs, and Pop Stars in Putin's Russia

Thisis the true story of Universal Music Russia's first CEO and his quest to bring Western popular music to post-Soviet Russia. With many...

Bruce Springsteen at 75

Beginning with his 1973 debut LP Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. and continuing through his latest release and tour, Bruce Springsteen i...

Elvis Presley Treasures - The Story of the King of Rock 'n' Roll Told Through His Personal Mementos

An intimate look at one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century, the King of Rock 'n' Roll, through 100 personal and iconic object...

Kahlil Joseph and the Audiovisual Atlantic - Music, Modernity, Transmedia Art

"Examining the work of critically acclaimed audiovisual artist Kahlil Joseph, Kahlil Joseph and the Audiovisual Atlantic generates ground...

S.O.B.'s Don't Be Swindle

This book chronicles the Kyoto/Kansai 1980s hardcore punk scene through the album Don't Be Swindle by S.O.B., with a focus on Kyoto's mai...

Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band's Kogun

A study of the 1974 album Kogun by the Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band, this book assesses not just its importance in jazz history...

Coke Studio (Season 14)

This book reviews the 13 songs of Coke Studio's 14th season and highlights how those innovations resulted in a successful reboot of the s...

Strings Attached - A Memoir of Betrayal, Bigamy, and Self-Discovery

She arrived in apartheid South Africa on Christmas Day, eager to discover where her cello playing could take her. From the stage, she saw...

Taylor Swift

Your wildest dreams have come true. Get an insider’s look at Taylor Swift’s life and achievements in this pocket-sized collectible book f...

Anton Bruckner and the Reception of His Music - A History of Dichotomies and Controversies

A bold, deeply researched, and long-needed debunking of the platitudes and prejudices that have long clouded our view of the personality ...

The Music of Mzilikazi Khumalo - Language, Culture, and Song in South Africa

"Biographical essays on Mzikilikazi Khumalo's (1932-2021) songs, arrangements, and major works for orchestra and opera are contextualized...

Mahler's Symphonic World - Music for the Age of Uncertainty

A new analysis of Mahler's symphonies, placing each within the context of his musical way of being in and experiencing the world. Between...

Einstürzende Neubauten's Kollaps

Perhaps the best musical encapsulation of the Cold War as experienced in the walled city of West-Berlin, Kollaps is a product of its time...

The Queen Bee

The debut memoir from the hip-hop icon Lil' Kim When teenager Kimberly Denise Jones - better known as Lil' Kim - burst onto the hip-hop s...

Taylor Swift Is Life - A Superfan's Guide to All Things We Love about Taylor Swift

Along with the values, lifestyle, and aesthetic of Swiftie culture, this colorful and youthful book includes an A to Z of all things Tayl...

The Rolling Stones Rare and Unseen - Foreword by Keith Richards, afterword by Andrew Loog Oldham

A collection of Mankowitz's photography of The Rolling Stones. Hundreds of photographs accompanied by Gered's memories and revealing insi...

Adolf Busch - The Life of an Honest Musician [2 volume set] - Revised edition

Monumental biography of one of the major musicians of the twentieth century.

Sonic Life - The new memoir from the Sonic Youth founding member