Composers Musicians category: 3267 books
by Mark Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014
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...
by Mark Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
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...
by Will Friedwald
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
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...
All The Songs
The Story Behind Every Beatles Release
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...
Maestro
A Surprising Story About Leading by Listening
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...
Here, There and Everywhere
My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles
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...
Lady Sings the Blues
The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography
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...
Kicking & Dreaming
A Story of Heart, Soul, and Rock and Roll
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”...
Not Dead Yet
The Memoir
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...
Bowie
A Biography
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 &...
Beethoven's Hair
An Extraordinary Historical Odyssey and a Scientific Mystery Solved
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...
Storms
My Life with Lindsey Buckingham and Fleetwood Mac
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...
No Compromise
The Life Story of Keith 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...
by Peter Ames Carlin
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
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...