Composers Musicians category: 3267 books

Cover of The Remarkable ZZ Top
by Mark Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014

ZZ Top, American rock group famous for its rugged blues-driven guitar works, irreverent music videos, and embrace of its Texas roots, as well as for the musicians’ distinctive facial hair.   ZZ Top was formed in the Houston area in 1969 when singer-guitarist Billy Gibbons, formerly...
Cover of Bob Seger: Remarkable Career and Facts
by Mark Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014

Bob Seger is an American rock and roll singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist. Bob Seger became a household name with a string of hits beginning in the late 70s. His hit songs include "Turn the Page", "Night Moves", and "Old Time Rock and Roll", which is ranked as the...
Cover of A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers
by Will Friedwald
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010

Will Friedwald’s illuminating, opinionated essays—provocative, funny, and personal—on the lives and careers of more than three hundred singers anatomize the work of the most important jazz and popular performers of the twentieth century. From giants like Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Frank...
Cover of All The Songs

All The Songs

The Story Behind Every Beatles Release

by Philippe Margotin, Jean-Michel Guesdon, Scott Freiman
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014

Every album and every song ever released by the Beatles - from "Please Please Me" (U.S. 1963) to "The Long and Winding Road" (U.S. 1970) - is dissected, discussed, and analyzed by two music historians in this lively, fully illustrated work. All the Songs delves deep into...
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Maestro

A Surprising Story About Leading by Listening

by Roger Nierenberg
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009

A conductor reveals powerful leadership lessons by explaining the inner workings of a symphony orchestra Roger Nierenberg, a veteran conductor, is the creator of The Music Paradigm, a unique program that invites people to sit INSIDE a professional symphony orchestra as the musicians and conductor...
Cover of Here, There and Everywhere

Here, There and Everywhere

My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles

by Geoff Emerick, Howard Massey
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2006

Geoff Emerick became an assistant engineer at the legendary Abbey Road Studios in 1962 at age fifteen, and was present as a new band called the Beatles recorded their first songs. He later worked with the Beatles as they recorded their singles “She Loves You” and “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” the...
Cover of Lady Sings the Blues

Lady Sings the Blues

The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography

by Billie Holiday, William Dufty
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011

Originally released by Doubleday in 1956, Harlem Moon Classics celebrates the publication with the fiftieth-anniversary edition of Billie Holiday’s unforgettable and timeless memoir, updated with an insightful introduction and a revised discography, both written by celebrated music writer David...
Cover of Kicking & Dreaming

Kicking & Dreaming

A Story of Heart, Soul, and Rock and Roll

by Ann Wilson, Nancy Wilson, Charles R. Cross
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012

The story of Heart is a story of heart and soul and rock ’n’ roll. Since finding their love of music and performing as teenagers in Seattle, Washington, Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson, have been part of the American rock music landscape. From 70s classics like “Magic Man” and “Barracuda”...
Cover of Not Dead Yet

Not Dead Yet

The Memoir

by Phil Collins
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016

Phil Collins pulls no punches—about himself, his life, or the ecstasy and heartbreak that’s inspired his music. In his much-awaited memoir, Not Dead Yet, he tells the story of his epic career, with an auspicious debut at age 11 in a crowd shot from the Beatles’ legendary film A Hard Day’s...
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Bowie

A Biography

by Marc Spitz
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009

An expansive biography of David Bowie, one of the twentieth century’s greatest music and cultural icons. From noted author and rock ’n’ roll journalist Marc Spitz comes a major David Bowie biography to rival any other. Following Bowie’s life from his start as David Jones, an R &...
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Beethoven's Hair

An Extraordinary Historical Odyssey and a Scientific Mystery Solved

by Russell Martin
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2002

The basis for the movie of the same name, an astonishing tale of one lock of hair and its amazing travels--from nineteenth-century Vienna to twenty-first-century America. When Ludwig van Beethoven lay dying in 1827, a young musician named Ferdinand Hiller came to pay his respects to the great...
Cover of Storms

Storms

My Life with Lindsey Buckingham and Fleetwood Mac

by Carol Ann Harris
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009

A consummate insider as the girlfriend of Lindsey Buckingham, Fleetwood Mac singer and guitarist, Carol Ann Harris leads fans into the very heart of the band’s storms between 1976 and 1984. From interactions between the band and other stars-Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, and Dennis Wilson-to the chaotic...
Cover of No Compromise

No Compromise

The Life Story of Keith Green

by Melody Green
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2008

The 25th Anniversary Edition of Keith Green's inspiring biography, revised and updated by his wife, Melody.  This expanded biography contains many added stories and insights, never before published photos, extra selections from Keith's private journals, and glimpses into Melody's season of grieving...
Cover of Bruce
by Peter Ames Carlin
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012

Peter Ames Carlin’s New York Times bestselling biography of one America’s greatest musicians is the first in twenty-five years to be written with the cooperation of Bruce Springsteen himself; “Carlin gets across why Mr. Springsteen has meant so much, for so long, to so many people” (The New...
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