Music

"The best book yet about The Doors." --Booklist The inside story of the Doors, by cofounder and keyboard player Ray Manzarek. Includes 16 pages of photos. "A refreshingly candid read...a Doors bio worth opening." --Entertainment...

Composer Johanna Beyer's fascinating body of music and enigmatic life story constitute an important chapter in American music history. As a hard-working German émigré piano teacher and accompanist living in and around New York City during the New Deal...

On the tenth anniversary of his death, The Dirty Version is the first biography of hip hop superstar and founding member of the Wu-Tang Clan, Ol' Dirty Bastard, to be written by someone from his inner circle: his right-hand man and best friend, Buddha...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061767913Author Steven TylerFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 635g

John Philip Sousa (1854-1932) is an American icon. Most famous for his military marches, the composer-bandmaster led a disciplined group of devoted musicians on numerous American tours and around the world, shaping a new cultural landscape. Paul E...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767911863Author Dennis McNallyFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598510263Author Bob DolganFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Gray & Company PublishersPublisher Gray & Company PublishersWeight(grams) 290g

The American singer and guitarist Ramblin' Jack Elliott (1931- ) is a seminal figure in the folk music revivals of the United States and Great Britain. Declared an American treasure by former President Bill Clinton, Elliott has traveled and performed for...

Healey Willan (1880-1968) played a major role in the development of music in Canada for more than fifty years. As a teacher and organist-choirmaster he inspired generations of singers, musicians, and composers. As a composer he created some 800 works,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781574670738Author Carol MontparkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Amadeus PressPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 535g

Yet another in our illustrious series of Illustrated Biographies, here are hundreds of classic, rare and previously unseen photos of Springsteen narrated by a talented editor - and bookseller.Book InformationISBN 9781566490962Author Chris RushbyFormat...

We think we know the story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's life. Austrian-born to a tyrannical father who worked him fiercely; unhappily married to a spendthrift woman; a child-like character ill at ease amid the aristocratic splendor of the Viennese court;...

This is the first publication of the joint illustrated diary kept by the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and his wife Cecile, during their honeymoon and the early months of their marriage in 1837. It covers both travels in the Rhineland and Black...

Neil Young's musical evolution has been as versatile as rock itself: pioneering country-rocker with Buffalo Springfield; seminal folk-rocker with Crosby Stills Nash & Young; gentle acoustic guitarist; crashing hard rock electric guitarist; grunge...

Shortly before his death, Percy Grainger (1882-1961) lodged over twenty unpublished sketches in his Australian Museum. Self-Portrait of Percy Grainger draws exclusively from these sketches, revealing for the first time an illuminating portrait of the...

On January 16, 1938 Benny Goodman brought his swing orchestra to America's venerated home of European classical music, Carnegie Hall. The resulting concert - widely considered one of the most significant events in American music history - helped to usher...

Son of a town trumpeter, Jacob Obrecht became one of the most prominent composers in Europe in the late fifteenth century. In Born for the Muses, Rob Wegman enlarges our picture of the social and cultural conditions that framed his world, drawing on a...

In this exhaustive and insightful reference text rock writer and cultural critic George Case details the key names dates figures and features of one of the biggest and most mythologized rock-and-roll groups of all time: Led Zeppelin. Here finally ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060515805Author AerosmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 408g

Dorothy Fields was best known as a lyricist, one of the few women who played a central role in the great period of American popular song from 1920 to 1960. Fields first became prominent writing the lyrics for Cotton Club shows in Harlem in the late 1920s...

From humble beginnings Adele has come to be a globally recognised icon. Her first album shot her to fame and the second consolidated her position as a singing/songwriting superstar with lasting, global appeal. She has already won more than 40 industry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316042734Author Peter GuralnickFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 953g

Buck Owens was the top-selling country act of the 1960s, with more than thirty top ten singles and fifteen consecutive #1 hits. Inventor of the Bakersfield Sound, he was hugely popular not only with country fans but with rock fans too. The Beatles...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307473424Author Harry BelafonteFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 414gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Teenage Head was a full-on, balls-to-the-wall, three-chord band that obliterated categories and labels with their sonic assault, and everywhere they played they converted the merely curious to the insanely devoted. And they almost became world famous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307338563Author Cynthia LennonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400031436Author John Eliot GardinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 765gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616208950Author Richard ThompsonFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Algonquin BooksPublisher Algonquin BooksWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307985750Author Brad TolinskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 283g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316403559Author David RitzFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & Company

This heartbreaking tale uncovers a mystery in the life of one of the most important personalities of the twentieth century guitarist Andr (c)s Segovia (1893-1987). He married the widowed Paquita Madriguera (1900-1965) famous child prodigy pianist and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061133923Author Murry EngleheartFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint It BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

"Anthems We Love is not just a tale of artistic adventure, it's also a manual for artists and fans alike. There is no formula. Just these inspiring stories of the heart . . . " —Cameron Crowe, Academy Award–nominated director, producer, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250618863Author Pat SimmonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639365531Author Bob StanleyFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 549g

The music of the Dutch composer Alphons Diepenbrock (1862-1921) is one of the glories of European late-Romantic culture, although is hardly known outside his native Netherlands. This translation makes Leo Samama's masterly study of Diepenbrock available...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374607371Author Nick CaveFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487586959Author Pearl McCarthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 95g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487598228Author Timothy J McGeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 336g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802158055Author Daniel de ViseFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint Black CatPublisher Black Cat