Music

When we crashed over the line two and a half minutes later, there was a short, disbelieving silence and I could feel my knee trembling behind its sarcastic `Disco' patch. A song I'd written had just been played to the finish, and what's more, it hadn't...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635901962Author Sasha Frere-JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E)Weight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062442581Author Bobby BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Whenever you hear the prevalent wailing blues harmonica in commercials, film soundtracks or at a blues club, you are experiencing the legacy of the master harmonica player, Little Walter. Immensely popular in his lifetime, Little Walter had fourteen Top...

Synopsis coming soon.......Book InformationISBN 9780671034047Author Jeff TamarkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria Books

This is a definitive assessment of the life and work of jazz musician John Coltrane, based on new interviews with his colleagues and never-before-published material. John Coltrane was a key figure in jazz, a pioneer in world music, and an intensely...

A new biography of Shostakovich that views him through the intimate music of his string quartets Most previous books about Dmitri Shostakovich have focused on either his symphonies and operas, or his relationship to the regime under which he lived, or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781761046308Author Hau LatukefuFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House Australia

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Rust in Peace details the making of Megadeth's iconic record, Rust In Peace, which was released in 1990, at an incredible time of flux and creativity in the rock world. Relayed by the lead vocalist and guitarist songwriter of Megadeth himself, Dave...

Franz Schubert (1797-1828) was born in Vienna of immigrant parents. During his short life he produced an astonishing amount of music. Symphonies, chamber music, opera, church music, and songs (more than 600 of them) poured forth in profusion. His 'Trout'...

Most people know that The Beatles (1960-1970) were the most famous pop group of all time, who were at the heart of 1960s counterculture and whose songs transformed the music world. What, perhaps, they don't know is that they have spent more than 1300...

A household name, an Australian rock icon, the elder statesman of Ozrock - there isn't an accolade or cliche that doesn't apply to Jimmy Barnes. But long before Cold Chisel and Barnesy, long before the tall tales of success and excess, there was the true...

A Rough Trade Book of the Year 'From lists to experiences and stories, there are no rules. A good song is a good song whoever writes it and however the writing happens.'Over the past three decades, Tim Burgess has cultivated a lyrical style that is equal...

Pianist George Shearing is that rare thing, a European jazz musician who became a household name in the US, as a result of the 'Shearing sound' - the recordings of his historic late 1940s quintet. Together with his unique 'locked hands' approach to...

The raw material and interviews behind Anthony Scaduto's iconic biography of Bob Dylan draw an intimate and multifaceted portrait of the singer-songwriter who defined his era When Anthony Scaduto's Bob Dylan: An Intimate Biography was first published in...

ENew York TimesE Bestseller EA Perfect Union of Contrary ThingsE is the authorized biography of musician and vintner Maynard James Keenan. Co-author Sarah Jensen's 30-year friendship with Keenan gives her unique insight into his history and career...

In Horseshoes and Hand Grenades, John Corabi recounts his life from the mean streets of Philadelphia to the Sunset Strip. Take a look behind the scenes at Corabi's time fronting Moetley Crue, Union, and The Dead Daisies, as well as his time playing...

Spanning more than fifty years of modern music history, Peter Asher: A Life in Music highlights every turn in Peter Asher's amazing career. Over a dozen years of research has gone into telling his story, with numerous interviews conducted with Asher,...

'Explodes in to life from the opening paragraph' RECORD COLLECTORThink you know the story of Jim Morrison and The Doors? This revelatory and explosive biography from critically acclaimed rock journalist Mick Wall will make you think again.'The pick of...

The first large-scale study of the music of Herbert Howells, prodigiously gifted musician and favourite student of the notoriously hard-to-please Sir Charles Villiers Stanford. Herbert Howells (1892-1983) was a prodigiously gifted musician and the...

" . . . a rare kind of biography and autobiography: a clear and elegant exposition of fact, as well as a humane portrait of a great piano virtuoso, composer, teacher, and democratic soul, as told to and seen through the eyes of one close to him." -Mark...

Part One: The History (What do we know?) This brief historical introduction to Bach explores the social, political and religious factors that formed the original context of his life and work, and considers how those factors affected the way he was...

When Rust in Peace was released in 1990, the future of Megadeth was uncertain. Fresh off their performance at the record-breaking Monsters of Rock festival, and with knockout new albums from Slayer, Anthrax, and Metallica dominating the charts, the...

From Art Blakey to Ziggy Modeliste, Cindy Blackman Santana to Sheila E, Drum Legends Alphabet rolls together an A to Z of the greatest, most influential drummers to ever sit behind a kit. Bombastically illustrated and written with flair, this celebration...

The story of a fanatical Marc Bolan fan who took his obsession to a completely different level! This is an amazing journey of one man's ambition and determination to bring to the people the sounds, the performance, the songs, the stage craft, and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783940822079Author Alan BurridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Jeske, Otger, u. Matthias Mader. I.P. VerlagPublisher Jeske, Otger, u. Matthias Mader...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989446297Author Ken BabbsFormat HardbackPage Count 518Imprint Tsunami PressPublisher Tsunami PressWeight(grams) 152g

Universally recognized as one of the greatest blues artists, Memphis Minnie (1897--1973) wrote and recorded hundreds of songs. Blues people as diverse as Muddy Waters, Johnny Shines, Big Mama Thornton, and Chuck Berry have acknowledged her as a major...

For the last 50 years, Clive James has been writing remarkable songs - witty, moving, sometimes satirical, often thrillingly poetic - with his musical partner, Pete Atkin. They've written more than 200 together, releasing the first album of their work in...

It started off so well. As Jon Lord enthused in the October 1975 issue of Melody Maker: 'Tommy can't be so bad for us with so many good ideas. All I can say is when you hear the album (Come Taste The Band) you'll change your mind. Whether you like the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540064233Author Pelle BerglundFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398409392Author Felix WarnockFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781574670684Author Paul RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Amadeus PressPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 662gDimensions(mm) 227mm *...

After John Coltrane, there was no more revered and profoundly influential saxophonist on the planet than Michael Brecker. For those coming of age in the 1970s, during that transitional decade when the boundaries between rock and jazz had begun to blur,...

Most people know that Prince (1958--2016) was an iconic singer-songwriter whose creative brilliance transformed music for more than four decades. What, perhaps, they don't know is that his real name actually was Prince; that he once simultaneously held...

Aristotle. Socrates. Descartes. And now, Chenoweth. (How about some women, am I right?)From television actress, Broadway star, and New York Times bestselling author Kristin Chenoweth comes I'm No Philosopher, But I Got Thoughts, an inspiring high-design,...

Neil Young's Harvest is one of those strange albums that has achieved lasting success without ever winning the full approval of rock critics or hardcore fans. Even Young himself has been equivocal, describing it in one breath as his "finest" album,...

Since his untimely death in 1974 at the age of twenty six, Nick Drake has not only gained a huge international audience, which eluded him during his lifetime, but has also come to represent the epitome of English romanticism. Drake's small but much-loved...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312373078Author Marc ShapiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm)...