Composers Musicians category: 3267 books

Cover of I Am Charlie Wilson
by Charlie Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015

The long-awaited New York Times bestselling memoir of seven-time Grammy-nominated artist Charlie Wilson, the iconic R&B and Funk singer-songwriter-producer and former lead singer of The Gap Band—interwoven with his recollections of collaborating with fellow artists such as Stevie Wonder, Kanye...
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Moscow Nights

The Van Cliburn Story-How One Man and His Piano Transformed the Cold War

by Nigel Cliff
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016

Gripping narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic story of a remarkable young Texan pianist, Van Cliburn, who played his way through the wall of fear built by the Cold War, won the hearts of the American and Russian people, and eased tensions between two superpowers on the brink of nuclear war. In...
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Man on the Run

Paul McCartney in the 1970s

by Tom Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014

An illuminating look at the most tumultuous decade in the life of a rock icon—the only McCartney biography in decades based on firsthand interviews with the ex-Beatle himself. As the 1970s began, the Beatles ended, leaving Paul McCartney to face the new decade with only his wife Linda by...
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Reckless

My Life as a Pretender

by Chrissie Hynde
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015

Chrissie Hynde, for nearly four decades the singer/songwriter/ undisputed leader of the Pretenders, is a justly legendary figure. Few other rock stars have managed to combine her swagger, sexiness, stage presence, knack for putting words to music, gorgeous voice and just all-around kick-assedness...
Cover of Testimony
by Robbie Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016

**The New York Times Bestseller On the 40th anniversary of The Band’s legendary The Last Waltz concert, Robbie Robertson finally tells his own spellbinding story of the band that changed music history, his extraordinary personal journey, and his creative friendships with some of the greatest...
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by Philip Norman
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012

Author Phillip Norman, whose previous bestseller, John Lennon: The Life, was praised as a “haunting, mammoth, terrific piece of work” (New York Times Book Review) and whose classic Shout! is widely considered to be the definitive biography of the Beatles, now turns his attention to the iconic...
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Lynyrd Skynyrd

Remembering the Free Birds of Southern Rock

by Gene Odom, Frank Dorman
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2002

The first complete, unvarnished history of Southern rock’s legendary and most popular band, from its members’ hardscrabble boyhoods in Jacksonville, Florida and their rise to worldwide fame to the tragic plane crash that killed the founder and the band’s rise again from the ashes. In...
Cover of Rock Diary: Buddy Holly
by Dafydd Rees, Luke Crampton
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011

Rock Diary: Buddy Holly is a unique, chronological, day-by-day, month-by-month and year-by-year history of the life and career of one of the most popular and influential musicians of all-time. This definitive factual story is the ultimate biographical timeline of one of the architects of rock ‘n’...
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Light and Shade

Conversations with Jimmy Page

by Brad Tolinski
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012

This “oral autobiography” of Jimmy Page, the intensely private mastermind behind Led Zeppelin—one of the most enduring bands in rock history—is the most complete and revelatory portrait of the legendary guitarist ever published. More than 30 years after disbanding in 1980, Led Zeppelin...
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To a Young Jazz Musician

Letters from the Road

by Wynton Marsalis, Selwyn Seyfu Hinds
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009

In To a Young Jazz Musician, the renowned jazz musician and Pulitzer Prize—winning composer Wynton Marsalis gives us an invaluable guide to making good music–and to leading a good life. Writing from the road “between the bus ride, the sound check, and the gig,” Marsalis passes on wisdom...
Cover of Rory Gallagher: His Life and Times
by Marcus Connaughton
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012

Rory Gallagher is a hero and icon of rock music. He inspired guitar players from The Edge to Johnny Marr, Slash to Gary Moore, Johnny Fean to Philip Donnelly, Declan Sinnott to Brian May. He toured incessantly and sold over 30 million albums worldwide. Acknowledged as one of the world’s leading...
Cover of Deal: My Three Decades of Drumming, Dreams, and Drugs with the Grateful Dead
by Bill Kreutzmann, Benjy Eisen
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015

The Grateful Dead are perhaps the most legendary American rock band of all time. For thirty years, beginning in the hippie scene of San Francisco in 1965, they were a musical institution, the original jam band that broke new ground in so many ways. From the music to their live concert sound systems...
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Redemption Song

The Ballad of Joe Strummer

by Chris Salewicz
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008

With exclusive access to Strummer's friends, relatives, and fellow musicians, music journalist Chris Salewicz penetrates the soul of an rock 'n roll icon. The Clash was--and still is--one of the most important groups of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Indebted to rockabilly, reggae, Memphis...
Cover of The Sun & The Moon & The Rolling Stones
by Rich Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016

A gritty, one-of-a-kind backstage account of the world’s greatest touring band, from the opinionated music journalist who was along for the ride as a young reporter for Rolling Stone in the 1990s ONE OF THE TOP FIVE ROCK BIOGRAPHIES OF THE YEAR—SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS...
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