Composers Musicians category: 3267 books
I Would Die 4 U
Why Prince Became an Icon
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Celebrated journalist, TV personality, and award-winning author Touré investigates one of the most enigmatic and fascinating figures in contemporary American culture: Prince.
Celebrated journalist, TV personality, and award-winning author Touré investigates one of the most enigmatic and fascinating...
by Jimmy McDonough
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2003
Neil Young is one of rock and roll’s most important and enigmatic figures, a legend from the sixties who is still hugely influential today. He has never granted a writer access to his inner life – until now. Based on six years of interviews with more than three hundred of Young’s associates,...
Captain Fantastic
Elton John's Stellar Trip Through the '70s
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
The true story of Elton John’s meteoric rise from obscurity to worldwide celebrity in the weird, wild 1970s, based on rare one-on-one interviews with the Rocket Man himself—now the subject of a major motion picture.
In August 1970, Elton John achieved overnight fame with a rousing performance...
Magic City
Trials of a Native Son
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
“A thug is someone who stands on his own. He lives by the decisions he makes and accepts the consequences. A thug is comfortable in his own skin. I wear mine like a glove.”
Trick Daddy was born a thug—just a stone’s throw from downtown Miami, yet a world away from its dazzling beauty...
by Jake Brown
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
With more Top 10 hits than any other female-fronted music group in history, beginning with such '70s classics as "Crazy on You," "Barracuda," "Magic Man," and "Straight On," Rolling Stone hailed Heart's "sister team of Nancy and Ann Wilson. . . [for] shrewdly...
Magical Mystery Tours
My Life with the Beatles
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
"If you want to know anything about the Beatles, ask Tony Bramwell. He remembers more than I do."- Sir Paul McCartney to Donovan in a January 2002 interview
Tony Bramwell's remarkable life began in a postwar Liverpool suburb, where he was childhood friends with three of the Beatles...
by Dafydd Rees, Luke Crampton
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Rock Diary: Led Zeppelin is a uniquely chronological, day-by-day, month-by-month and year-by-year history documenting the complete history of one of the most popular and influential rock groups of all time. This definitive factual story is the ultimate biographical timeline of the legendary quartet of...
Man of Constant Sorrow
My Life and Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
A giant of American music opens the book on his wrenching professional and personal journeys, paying tribute to the vanishing Appalachian culture that gave him his voice.
He was there at the beginning of bluegrass. Yet his music, forged in the remote hills and hollows of Southwest Virginia,...
Ginger Baker: Hellraiser
The Autobiography of the World's Greatest Drummer
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2010
Peter "Ginger" Baker is a legend. A pioneering drummer who has transcended genres, he did much to popularize world music with his fierce passion for the rhythms of Africa. He is that rare thing, a critically acclaimed musician who has enjoyed global success with not one but several supergroups...
Bringing Metal to the Children
The Complete Berserker's Guide to World Tour Domination
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Bringing Metal to the Children is a handbook to all things Heavy Metal, brought to you by insane prankster and guitar god Zakk Wylde, of Ozzy Osbourne and Black Label Society fame.
This “Complete Berzerker's Guide to World Tour Domination” provides tips and tests for the True Rocker—as...
Reading Like a Writer
A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
In her entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and tricks of the masters to discover why their work has endured. Written with passion, humour and wisdom, Reading Like a Writer will inspire...
The Book of Exodus
The Making and Meaning of Bob Marley and the Wailers' Album of the Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Follow the Sacred Journey to Create One of the Lasting Musical Masterpieces of Our Time
Bob Marley is one of our most important and influential artists. Recorded in London after an assassination attempt on his life sent Marley into exile from Jamaica, Exodus is the most lasting testament to...
JONI (EPUB)
The Creative Odyssey of Joni Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
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""Thrilling! I devoured this book."" -- Edie Falco
An illuminating portrait of one of Canada's most brilliant and defiant musical icons.
From the moment Joni Mitchell's career began -- with coffee-house bookings, serendipitous encounters with established...
Never Say No To A Rock Star
In the Studio with Dylan, Sinatra, Jagger and More...
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
In 1974, at the age of seventeen, author Glenn Berger served as "Schlepper" and apprentice to the legendary recording engineer Phil Ramone at New York City's A&R Studios, and was witness to music history on an almost daily and nightly basis as pop and rock icons such as Paul Simon, Bob...