Crown imprint: 1774 books
Mile Marker Zero
The Moveable Feast of Key West
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
True stories of writers and pirates, painters and potheads, guitar pickers and drug merchants in Key West in the 1970s.
For Hemingway and Fitzgerald, there was Paris in the twenties. For others, later, there was Greenwich Village, Big Sur, and Woodstock. But for an even later generation—one...
Alice Cooper, Golf Monster
A Rock 'n' Roller's 12 Steps to Becoming a Golf Addict
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
The man who invented shock rock tells the amazing and, yeah, shocking story of how he slayed his thirsty demons—with a golf club. It started one day when Cooper was watching a Star Trek rerun between concerts, bored and drunk on a quart-of-whiskey-a-day habit; a friend dragged the rocker out of...
Old Gods Almost Dead
The 40-Year Odyssey of the Rolling Stones
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2001
The acclaimed, bestselling rock-and-roll biographer delivers the first complete, unexpurgated history of the world’s greatest band.
The saga of the Rolling Stones is the central epic in rock mythology. From their debut as the intermission band at London’s Marquee Club in 1962 through their...
Life and Def
Sex, Drugs, Money, and God
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2001
Russell Simmons, the original and eternal hip-hop mogul, is one of the most innovative and influential figures in modern American business and culture. When no one outside of inner-city New York had even heard of hip-hop, Simmons saw the seeds of a global force that would change the way people talk,...
Lips Unsealed
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
The women of the iconic eighties band the Go-Go’s will always be remembered as they appeared on the back of their debut record: sunny, smiling, each soaking in her own private bubble bath with chocolates and champagne. The photo is a perfect tribute to the fun, irreverent brand of pop music that...
by DJ Khaled
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
From Snapchat sensation, business mogul, and recording artist DJ Khaled, the book They don't want you to read reveals his major keys to success.
- Stay away from They
- Don’t ever play yourself
- Secure the bag
- Respect the code
- Glorify your success
- Don’t deny the heat
- Keep two rooms cooking at the same time
- Win, win, win no matter what
by Robbie Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
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...
Tune In
The Beatles: All These Years
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Tune In is the first volume of *All These Years—*a highly-anticipated, groundbreaking biographical trilogy by the world's leading Beatles historian. Mark Lewisohn uses his unprecedented archival access and hundreds of new interviews to construct the full story of the lives and work of John Lennon,...
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...
Higher Ground
Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Soul
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
An insightful music writer brilliantly reinterprets the lives of three pop geniuses and the soul revolution they launched.
Soul music is one of America's greatest cultural achievements, and Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, and Curtis Mayfield are three of its most inspired practitioners. In...
Light and Shade
Conversations with Jimmy Page
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...
by Tori Amos, Ann Powers
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
I choose to fight my battles through my music . . . I was born a feminist. And then at age five, when my strict Christian grandmother punished me, I realized, I’m not penetrating here. I’m just pissing people off. So I had to find another way to penetrate. I had to redefine what that word means....
What Happened, Miss Simone?
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
**Inspired by the Academy Award-nominated Netflix documentary What Happened, Miss Simone?, an intimate and vivid look at the legendary life of Nina Simone, the classically trained pianist who evolved into a chart-topping chanteuse and committed civil rights activist. **
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Useless Magic
Lyrics and Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Lyrics and never-before-seen poetry and sketches from the iconic musician of Florence and the Machine
Songs can be incredibly prophetic, like subconscious warnings or messages to myself, but I often don't know what I'm trying to say till years later. Or a prediction comes true and I couldn't do anything to stop it, so it seems like a kind of useless magic.