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Born in Birmingham, Steve Winwood was already a semi-professional musician, playing keyboards and guitar, while still at school. As lead vocalist with The Spencer Davis Group, he had had two chart-topping singles by the time he was aged eighteen. In 1967 he formed Traffic, long noted as one of the...

Calling all JCats! Read on and find out everything you need to know about your favourite band...Discover how Josh, JJ and Jaymi started out as Triple J - and how they found George and became Union J. Relive their incredible X Factor 2012 journey and read all about the twists and turns on their road...

This comprehensive songbook contains all and every one of the 194 songs that were written and sung by the Beatles during their prolific and productive career. Specially arranged in the original keys from the actual recordings, each song includes chord symbols, guitar chord boxes and complete lyrics...

**“Fine art for font nerds.”—New York Magazine “One of the most engaging homages I have ever seen.”—Steven Heller** Swissted takes rock concert posters of the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s and remixes and reimagines them through a Swiss modernist lens. The result is some of...

Now That's What I Call Christmas features 20 of the greatest Christmas songs of all time, arranged for Piano, Voice and Guitar. From festive pop favourites such as Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You to Elton John's Step Into Christmas and Wizzard's I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday,...

Really Easy Piano with another selection of 50 Popular Songs. This is the perfect book for beginner pianists who want to improve their playing and expand their repertoire with pieces ranging from pop to classical, from The Mamas And Papas to Mozart and Sinead O'Connor to Star Trek. Each of...

The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical provides a comprehensive academic survey of British musical theatre offering both a historical account of the musical's development from 1728 and a range of in-depth critical analyses of the unique forms and features of British musicals, which explore the...

Lily made her rapid ascent to pop stardom through MySpace.com, where she boasts an incredible half a million friends. The brutally honest Londoner is always quick to tell fans exactly what she thinks via her phenomenally successful blog, but despite her quirky street style and loud mouth, she remains...

Included in Publishers Weekly's Big Indie Books of Fall 2017 feature "Morse and Yi (the team behind What Is Punk?) highlight hip-hop's cultural hegemony via an impressively encyclopedic parade of rhyming biographies. Yi's meticulously styled clay figures are as magical as in the previous...

British Rock Modernism, 1967-1977 explains how the definitive British rock performers of this epoch aimed, not at the youthful rebellion for which they are legendary, but at a highly self-conscious project of commenting on the business in which they were engaged. They did so by ironically appropriating...

In the late 1980s, gangsta rap music emerged in urban America, giving voice to—and making money for—a social group widely considered to be in crisis: young, poor, black men. From its local origins, gangsta rap went on to flood the mainstream, generating enormous popularity and profits. Yet the...

Over the past decade, Korean popular culture has become a global phenomenon. The "Korean Wave" of music, film, television, sports, and cuisine generates significant revenues and cultural pride in South Korea. The Korean Popular Culture Reader provides a timely and essential foundation for...

Really Easy Piano: ABBA is a terrific collection of 25 songs by ABBA, designed for the beginner pianist to play. These easy piano arrangements, with song lyrics and chord symbols, are accompanied by background notes and playing hints and tips to enable you to easily and quickly begin performing these...

In the years since their first release, Belle and Sebastian have grown from a secretive cult concern into one of the most beloved and revered pop'n'roll bands in the world. Intelligent and sensitive, witty and original, beautiful and bold, their music inspires the kind of devotion not seen since The...