Individual Composer & Musician
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A Deeper Blue, 1: The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt
$14.95 Read moreThis is the first serious biography of a man widely considered one of Texas’–and America’s–greatest songwriters. Like Jimmie Rodgers, Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, and Hank Williams, Townes Van Zan… [more below]
- Series: North Texas Lives of Musician #1
- Author: Hardy, Robert Earl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 15 2009
- ISBN10: 157441285X
- Language: English
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Elvis Presley: Stories Behind the Songs
$12.99 Add to cartAlthough many of Elvis’ countless solid gold hits feature in the book, the author is also keen to explore the lesser-known album tracks – all of which he feels deserves their special place centre stag… [more below]
- Author: Shepherd, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: December 03 2018
- ISBN10: 0995483434
- Language: English
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Paul McCartney: The Stories Behind the Classic Songs
$29.95 Add to cartPaul McCartney’s songwriting output as a member of the Beatles, mainly with his co-writer John Lennon, has been exhaustively documented over the years. Now, taking 50 key songs from his five-decade ca
- Author: Evans, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1787397378
- Language: English
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Music Comes Out of Silence: A Memoir
$21.99 Read moreAndras Schiff is one of the most important pianists of our time. This stimulating account of his life and work, told in two parts, takes readers on an intimate journey from Schiff’s childhood in Hunga
- Author: Schiff, Andras
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1474615287
- Language: English
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BBC Radiophonic Workshop’s BBC Radiophonic Workshop – A Retrospective
$14.95 Read moreIn 1958, an anonymous group of overworked and under-budgeted BBC employees set out to make some new sounds for radio and TV. They ended up changing the course of 20th-century music. For millions of pe
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Weir, William L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1501389157
- Language: English
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Mick Rock. the Rise of David Bowie. 1972-1973
$20.00 Add to cartA unique tribute from David Bowie’s official photographer and creative partner, Mick Rock, compiled in 2015, with Bowie’s blessing.
In 1972, David Bowie released his groundbreaking album The Rise and- Author: Hoskyns, Barney
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 22 2023
- ISBN10: 383659403X
- Language: English
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Why Patti Smith Matters
$18.95 Read morePatti Smith arrived in New York City at the end of the Age of Aquarius in search of work and purpose. What she found–what she fostered–was a cultural revolution. Through her poetry, her songs, her u
- Series: Music Matters
- Author: Rose, Caryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1477320113
- Language: English
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Prince on Prince: Interviews and Encounters Volume 22
$19.99 Read morePrince on Prince gets behind the controversies to tell the Prince story in his own words.
Prince is among the most respected and influential entertainers of the twentieth century, breaking sexual, ra
- Series: Musicians in Their Own Words
- Author: Lizie, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1641607157
- Language: English
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The Ring of the Nibelung
$30.00 Add to cartA superb new translation of one of the greatest nineteenth century poems: the libretto to Wagner’s Ring cycle
The scale and grandeur of Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung has no precedent and no success- Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
- Author: Wagner, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 0241305853
- Language: English
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Wayward: Just Another Life to Live
$28.99 Read more‘Magical and transporting’
‘A gorgeous account of outsiderness and survival… A quietly defiant and moving work’
Maggie O’Farrell
Sin?d Gleeson ‘An epic in miniature . . . I loved – and lived – every- Author: Bunyan, Vashti
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1474621937
- Language: English
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Moonage Daydream: The Life & Times of Ziggy Stardust
$60.00 Add to cart‘The closest we’ll ever get to a straight up Bowie autobiography — but who’d ever want anything straight-up from Bowie?’ – Rolling Stone
In 2002, David Bowie and Mick Rock created Moonage Daydream, th
- Author: Bowie, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1905662726
- Language: English
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The National’s Boxer
$14.95 Read moreWe all know the Boxer. The fighter who remembers every glove but still remains. That grisly, bruised American allegory who somehow gets up more times than he’s knocked down. This is the fight that nea
- Series: 33 1/3 #162
- Author: Pinkard, Ryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1501378015
- Language: English
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It’s about Time: Jeff Porcaro – The Man and His Music by Robyn Flans
$24.99 Add to cart(Percussion). Jeff Porcaro was a founding member of the Grammy Award-winning band Toto, and he also recorded and toured with a list of artists that reads like a who’s who of popular music in the late … [more below]
- Author: Flans, Robyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1705112293
- Language: English
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Music Production For Beginners 2020 Edition: How to Produce Music, The Easy to Read Guide for Music Producers
$19.99 Add to cartEverything You Need To Know About Making Music In One Place
Not so long ago, studio quality recording, mixing and music production was only available to the rich and famous artists.
However these days
- Author: Swindali, Tommy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: January 05 2020
- ISBN10: 1913397718
- Language: English
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Here and Now!: The Autobiography of Pat Martino
$37.48 Add to cartHERE AND NOW! THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF PAT MARTINO WITH BILL MILKOWSKI
- Author: Martino, Pat
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1617130273
- Language: English
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Lou Reed’s Transformer
$14.95 Add to cartTransformer, Lou Reed’s most enduringly popular album, is described with varying labels: it’s often called a glam rock album, a proto-punk album, a commercial breakthrough for Lou Reed, and an album a… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #131
- Author: Furman, Ezra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 19 2018
- ISBN10: 1501323059
- Language: English
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Mick Rock. the Rise of David Bowie. 1972-1973
$70.00 Add to cartA unique tribute from David Bowie’s official photographer and creative partner, Mick Rock, compiled in 2015, with Bowie’s blessing.
In 1972, David Bowie released his groundbreaking album The Rise and- Author: Hoskyns, Barney
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: June 09 2023
- ISBN10: 3836596229
- Language: English
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Principles of Orchestration
$29.95 Read more“To orchestrate is to create, and this cannot be taught,” wrote Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, the great Russian composer whose genius for brilliant, highly colored orchestration is unsurpassed. But inventi
- Series: Dover Books on Music
- Author: Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 01 1964
- ISBN10: 0486212661
- Language: English
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It’s the World’s Birthday Today
$26.00 Read more#1 German bestseller
“I have no idea how late it actually is. We flew off somewhere this morning, and my cell phone automatically turns off the clock if we’re getting close to a new time zone by plane- Author: Lorenz, Christian Flake
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1644280639
- Language: English
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Listen to My Heart: Life, Love & Roxette
$25.99 Add to cartListen to My Heart is a completely candid and passionate, heartbreaking yet often witty life story of one of rock music’s most resilient lead singers, Marie Fredriksson from Roxette (“It Must Have Bee… [more below]
- Author: Fredriksson, Marie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1948221241
- Language: English
