Music

The story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's life is well known. 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 splendour of the Viennese court;...

A moving and inspiring memoir of families lost and rediscovered, by a founding member of legendary band Midnight Oil. For fifty years, songwriter, guitarist and keyboard player Jim Moginie was a driving force behind one of Australia's most iconic rock...

A revealing biography detailing how Katy Perry made her transformation from demure choir girl to sexy household name and one of the most popular female singers in the world today. Accounts of the conflict Katy had growing up with a deeply religious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781567996340Author Stephen MatteoFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint MetroBooks (NY)Publisher MetroBooks (NY)Weight(grams) 1089g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780823083213Author Marley BrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Billboard Books,U.S.Publisher Watson-Guptill Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905139187Author Dee Dee RamoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Helter Skelter PublishingPublisher Helter Skelter PublishingWeight(grams) 225g

Sir Paul McCartney first picked up a guitar as a bereaved teenager in 1956. In the fifty years since he's become the most successful pop music composer in history, enjoying a virtual season ticket to the "Guinness Book of Records". McCartney's...

"These images are great and have been tucked away for years" RONNIE WOOD "The REAL Rolling Stones... Consider this your AAA pass to touring with Mick 'n' Keith 'n' co." THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH Take a look inside rock 'n' roll history...

The biography of the legendary musician and songwriter Lou Reed. Lou Reed wrote songs about drugs, squalor, transgressive sexuality, honourable prostitutes, visionary gutter queens and dollar-hustlers. He also wrote some of the most moving love songs of...

A biography of the influential and chameleon-like rock icon, David Bowie, who created the fantastical rock star and revenge of the suburbs, Ziggy Stardust. It seeks to unravel the Bowie enigma, via interviews, biography and academic analysis.Book...

As news of the 50-year-old pop superstar's demise spread around the world, there were tears, shock and surprise: a hero was dead. One of the greatest pop music icons the world has ever seen, Michael Jackson had millions of fans all around the world and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780793540938Author Stevie Ray VaughanPage Count 88Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 315g

Kenny Ball is arguably the most successful jazz trumpet player this side of the Atlantic. His autobiography is told with all the style, wit, and passion that you would expect of this well-loved star. It includes wonderful stories of his life on the road...

Offers a detailed and rounded portrait of the late Dusty Springfield and provides a major assessment of the musical career of a singer whose reputation remains one of the highest in the business.Book InformationISBN 9781861053435Format HardbackPage Count...

His inimitable voice, the poetry of his trumpet and his mastery of improvisation made Louis Armstrong 'Mr Jazz'. David Bradbury's biography is wonderfully alive and musically authoritative.Book InformationISBN 9781904341468Author David BradburyFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550222982Author Joyce LuckFormat PaperbackPage Count 235Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 490g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714529806Author Erik SatieFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers LtdWeight(grams) 454g

Globally famous opera star Renee Fleming has been described as the "best soprano in the world" by Andre Previn and "the biggest selling soprano in the world" by the head of Universal Classics. More than an entertaining autobiography...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781432729240Author Charles TillinghastFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786863051Author Tanya TuckerFormat HardbackPage Count 345Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 703g

Britain's most articulate singer-songwriter remains a complex individual whose lyrics opt for realism, opinion, waspish wit, irony, asexuality, melancholy and love. In this candid biography, Morrissey's friends and the members of his entourage speak...

Spiced with colorful anecdotes, leavened with humor, and rich with compassion for the struggles of the rank-and-file worker, "Labor's Troubadour" traces the life and work of labor balladeer Joe Glazer. For more than half a century, armed only...

Widely hailed as a genius, Arthur Lee was a character every bit as colorful and unique as his music. In 1966, he was Prince of the Sunset Strip, busy with his pioneering racially mixed band, Love, and accelerating the evolution of California folk-rock by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781858339450Author QuadrillionFormat HardbackPage Count 138Imprint Quadrillion PublishingPublisher Quadrillion PublishingWeight(grams) 848g

"I always thought the job was to be as great as you could be." - Bono This is the story of U2, in their own words and pictures. It is the only authorised, fully comprehensive guide to the biggest band in the world. "We are trying to pin...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861052575Format PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Robson Books LtdPublisher Robson Books LtdWeight(grams) 644g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993229978Author Brian E DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Cambria PublishingPublisher Cambria PublishingWeight(grams) 503g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615445441Author Robert Mamrak PhdFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Pin Oak Bottom PressPublisher Pin Oak Bottom PressWeight(grams) 322g

This first full length biography of Tupac Shakur details each step in Shakur's development, from his early exposure to racism and political activism to his studies of drama to his move from New York to the West Coast and his innovative work with early...

Exotic, talented and an inspirer of devoted passion from both sexes, Violet Gordon Woodhouse was one of the twentieth century s most gifted musicians. In 1888, aged sixteen, she was studying with Oscar Beringer, one of the most notable piano scholars of...

She's adored by her millions of fans, writes and performs songs that move and inspire, but Beyonce is truly known by very few. Now highly acclaimed biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli reveals the woman behind the star. In Becoming Beyonce: The Untold Story...

Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink is the long-awaited memoir from Elvis Costello, one of rock and roll's most iconic stars.Born Declan Patrick MacManus, Elvis Costello was raised in London and Liverpool, grandson of a trumpet player on the White Star...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335449467Author Steve ReichFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 268g

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Paul McCartney is a cultural touchstone. As one half of the legendary Lennon-McCartney song-writing duo he helped transform popular music, moving from the simplistic pop of 'Love Me Do' to the avant-garde symphonies of 'A Day in the Life' to...

In this compelling and moving account of the marvellous Melly's last five years, on- and off-stage, the eminent jazz trumpeter, Digby Fairweather, whose band has accompanied Melley during this period, captures the technicolour Melly as never before. He...