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Poisoning Pigeons in the Park - The Songs of Tom Lehrer

Poisoning Pigeons in the Park brings Tom Lehrer into 2023 with this fantastic new collection of the best, funniest and darkest songs from...

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

A cultural phenomenon. A worldwide obsession. An agent of emotional chaos. There's no parallel to Taylor Swift in history: a teenage girl...

Melancholy Undercover - The Book of ABBA

Spice Girls - and the Clothes They Wear

Back in their '90s heyday, the Spice Girls were unstoppable. Their individual style choices and Britpop-tastic attitude aimed a defiant k...

Melancholy Undercover - The Book of ABBA

Over half a century after their songs were recorded, ABBA's songs still make people the world over dance and sing every day, and their ab...

Kate

'An important piece of fashion history.' - Vogue Intimate and elegant photographs taken just before Kate Moss's rise to fame, in a stylis...

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...

Carlos Santana: Love, Devotion, Surrender Collector's Edition [Ce]

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...

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...

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

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...

From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir

Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley tells her whole story for the first time in this raw, r...

Blank Space - Taylor Swift and Contingent Identities

This book examines Taylor Swift's art, her public image, and Swiftie fan communities.

And the Roots of Rhythm Remain

From the legendary producer of Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, REM, and Taj Mahal and author of White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s comes a...

1973 - The Last Year The Beatles Were Fab

1973 was a landmark year for The Beatles. It was 10 years since they scored their first UK gold disc (She Loves You)-ten years since the ...

In the Brewing Luminous: The Life & Music of Cecil Taylor

"Cecil Taylor's life was a string of mysteries that made a beautiful necklace of precious sounds, dances, and poetry he called music. Phi...

Who's That Girl? - A Memoir

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

From Here to the Great Unknown - A Memoir

Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley tells her whole story for the first time in this raw, r...

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...

Unti Cher Memoir

From one of the most iconic and prolific figures in the entertainment industry, award-winning musician and actress Cher recounts the hist...

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 ...

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. ...

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...

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, ...

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...

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...

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 ...

Hammer of the Gods

My Life in Music

A passionate memoir exploring classical music, its restorative qualities and wider cultural influence by the celebrated Music Director of...

Taylor Swift

Your wildest dreams have come true. Get an insider’s look at Taylor Swift’s life and achievements in this gorgeous collectible book for S...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

Over the Influence - A Memoir

"Joanna Levesque, better known as "JoJo", knew she was her family's ticket to financial freedom. Born in Foxborough, MA, to parents who s...

Einstürzende Neubauten's Kollaps

Intended to be "unlistenable," Germany's Einstürzende Neubauten's 1981-debut album Kollaps has attracted listeners four decades after it ...

Remembering Whitney - A Mother's Story of Love, Loss and the Night the Music Stopped

The definitive account of Whitney Houston's astonishing life, ground-breaking career and tragic death - complete with never-before-seen p...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

Cocaine and Rhinestones - A History of George Jones and Tammy Wynette

From Tyler Mahan Coe, creator of the acclaimed country music history podcast "Cocaine & Rhinestones," comes the epic American saga of cou...

Bartok - His Life and Works

The only single-volume biography of B�la Bart�k available in English, this fascinating book offers a fresh perspective on one of the most...

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...

Postcards from Scotland - Scottish Independent Music 1983-1995

By 1983, many of Scotland's post-punk bands had broken up or moved south to chase the major labels in London. That vacuum was filled by a...

Gaston Crunelle and Flute Playing in Twentieth-Century France

Gaston Crunelle (1898--1990) was Professor of Flute at the Paris Conservatory from 1941 to 1969 and taught an entire generation of the wo...

Harold Arlen and His Songs

Harold Arlen's songs like "Over the Rainbow" and "Stormy Weather" form a crucial part of the American soundscape of the twentieth century...

Story of the Century - Wagner and the creation of The Ring

The Ring is one of the most epic and compelling stories of the nineteenth century, created by a composer who was, alongside Dickens, Tols...

Richard Wagner (the stage designs and productions...)

Franz Liszt

Inside out (a personal history of Pink Floyd)

Bartók's years in America

Robbie Williams: Somebody Someday

Once in a while a book is produced that captures the energy and spirit of the world of rock. Somebody Someday was published to massive po...

The Illustrated Elvis

The Elvis Archives

During his lifetime Elvis Presley performed over one thousand concerts, recorded over one thousand different songs, and has had over one ...

The Autobiography

Eric Clapton is far more than a rock star. Like Dylan and McCartney he is an icon and a living legend. He has sold tens of millions of re...

Elvis By The Presleys

The Rolling Stones - In the Beginning

From March 1965 to May 1966, photographer Bent Rej enjoyed access to The Rolling Stones, having become one of the trusted inner circle of...

Johann Sebastian Bach