Music

When Leonard Cohen passed away in late 2016, he left behind many who cared for and admired him, but perhaps few knew him better than longtime friend Eric Lerner. Lerner, a screenwriter and novelist, first met Cohen at a zen retreat where the two quickly...

How do you define success? If you let somebody else define what success is, you re a sucker. I m no sucker. Chuck Prophet started out as a post-punk California kid who helped kick-start the alt-country genre when he joined Dan Stuart s Green On Red,...

Although together for only five years The Yardbirds exerted tremendous influence on the music and style of the '60s and for decades beyond. Their impact has been felt throughout the rock genre from psychedelia to blues-rock heavy metal and the music...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592407156Author Jesse JarnowFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Gotham BooksWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 153mm * 25mm

This title is one of a series of books which focus on epic albums of our time. Here, Andrew Hultkrans looks at Love's album "Forever Changes".About the AuthorAndrew Hultkrans is editor-in-chief of Bookforum magazine. Over the years, his writing has...

Described by the Manchester Evening News as "One of Britain's most popular conductors", Anthony Inglis was born into the Royal Air Force with nine of his relatives, senior and distinguished pilots in the service. His family history however, did not stop...

'One of the most sought-after tenors with the stamina and heft for Wagner and the ardent warmth for Italian opera'New York TimesJonas Kaufmann is a phenomenon. With his musicality, his vocal technique and his expressive powers - to say nothing of his...

Crosby, Stills & Nash created some of the most indelible songs and beautiful harmonies of the late 1960s and early 1970s: Suite: Judy Blue Eyes," Woodstock," Teach Your Children." This copiously illustrated account of the trio's personal and musical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606996904Author Ed PiskorFormat HardbackPage Count 114Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 532g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473410537Author Lance GilbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Lance GilbertPublisher Lance GilbertWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Roger Steffens toured with Bob Marley for two weeks of his final tour of California in 1979 and the music icon was the first guest of Steffens' award-winning radio show. In So Much Things To Say, Steffens draws on a lifetime of scholarship to tell the...

His Master's Voice is the inspiring true story of Brian McLaughlin's 38-year career rising through the ranks at iconic record store HMV, and the personal journey that saw him become one of the most successful business leaders in the UK. With no topic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853037385Author Michael FreedlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)...

'A masterpiece. Beautiful, tragic and immaculately researched.' - Matt Everitt'Elliott was one of the best songwriters of our day and a formidable musician.' - Beck'There's an undercurrent of real sadness in a lot of his music ... and that's just really...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901927580Author Steve HanleyFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Route PublishingPublisher Route PublishingDimensions(mm) 216mm * 135mm * 40mm

With her debut album Switched-On Bach, composer and electronic musician Wendy Carlos (b. 1939) brought the sound of the Moog synthesizer to a generation of listeners, helping to effect arguably one of the most substantial changes in popular music's sound...

A candid exploration of the genius, shame, and celebrity of Whitney Houston a decade after her passing On February 11, 2012, Whitney Houston was found submerged in the bathtub of her suite at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. In the decade since, the world...

'Vintage Sharon . . . fiery and passionate' - HEAT 'The formidable Mrs O is just as honest and open in this second instalment of her life story as the first . . . a real page-turner' - WOMAN 'Shazza goes even deeper to reveal the secrets behind the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age 2007.Book InformationISBN 9780767921404Author Jim DeRogatisFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913172305Author Tony FletcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Omnibus PressPublisher Omnibus PressWeight(grams) 210g

Like no record before or since, "Gentlemen" is fraught with the psychological warfare, bedroom drama, Catholic guilt, reprehensible deception and the shame that coincide with relationships gone seriously wrong. This story explores what happens when...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612198934Author Johnny CashFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing

Ornette Coleman's career encompassed the glory years of jazz and the American avant-garde. Born in segregated Fort Worth, Texas, during the Great Depression, the African American composer and musician was the zeitgeist incarnate. Steeped in the Texas...

Hound Dog Taylor made guitars howl and hips shake. A founding father of lo-fi blues rock-that gritty, stripped-down sound played on cheap guitars with no bass-Taylor and his band The HouseRockers played loud, wild gut-bucket boogie that was raw and...

Schumann: The Faces and the Masks is a groundbreaking account of a major composer whose life and works have been the subject of intense controversy ever since his attempted suicide and early death in an insane asylum. Schumann was a key figure in the...

A detailed and long-overdue study of Frank Bridge's music and its socio-cultural and aesthetic contexts The English composer, violist, and conductor Frank Bridge (1879-1941), a student of Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, was one of the first modernists...

Laura Nyro was a pioneering singer-songwriter of the 1960s and 1970s whose songs were covered by the Fifth Dimension, Blood, Sweat and Tears, and Three Dog Night. This biography uncovers details of her life including her romance with Jackson Browne and...

In the tradition of Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential comes an insider's look into the cloistered world of classical music. Now a major Amazon.com TV series starring Gabriel Garcia Bernal.From her debut recital at Carnegie Hall to performing with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312310028Author Anne EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Behind the glamour and the crowds. Beyond the movies and the records. Apart from all who knew him, wanted to know him, or just wanted to be near him.Billy Stanley knew Elvis Presley as a brother-and as a man of deep faith. From the day Billy Stanley...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979097638Author Rick JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Amber Communications GroupPublisher Amber Communications GroupWeight(grams) 565g

'Steve beautifully communicates his vulnerabilities in his music -- he does the same in this powerful story' Niall Breslin As lead singer and songwriter of hugely successful Irish rock band Kodaline, Steve Garrigan plays to thousands of fans worldwide -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578943848Author Paul SalleyFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Lotown PublishingPublisher Lotown PublishingWeight(grams) 998g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for NAACP Literary Non-Fiction Award 2009.Book InformationISBN 9780812969085Author Wynton MarsalisFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Random House USA...

Canadian siblings Margo, Michael and Peter Timmins and Michael's childhood friend, Alan Anton, first started making music together over thirty years ago. Sixteen studio albums and five live albums later, Cowboy Junkies are still touring the world. Based...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062442185Author Helene HanffFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

A thrilling and tumultuous, behind-the-scenes account of house music in NYC.The Beat, the Scene, the Sound follows DJ Disciple and his behind-the-scenes account of how DJs, promoters, fans, and others transformed house music from a DIY project into an...

A grinding celebration of the metal gods Judas Priest in all their sumptuous glory. A photo-stuffed coffee table book with the entire fifty plus year history in meticulous timeline order - a rock-hard reference book, with the facts presented mostly...

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2021 | LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2022'A thrilling work' TA-NEHISI COATES'Lovely and lyrical . . . warm and wonderful' KILEY REIDA queen of punk before her time. A duo on the brink of stardom. A night that...

Wagner's Ring is a great masterpiece. But because of the work's rich complexity it is difficult to think sensibly about its text and music. Deryck Cooke, author of The Language of Music and completer of Mahler's Tenth Symphony, displays his masterly...