Omnibus Press imprint: 314 books

Most pop stars' fame used to end with their 25th birthday, but Adam Faith just kept on being interesting until the day he died aged 62. Born in working-class Acton, Adam Faith defined the post-war aspiration for stardom. Enjoying an unprecedented run of seven top five hits, his chiselled features...

From humble beginnings in murky, Liverpool clubs in the early sixties, four songwriters emerged who would change the course of popular music forever: The Beatles. Within only a decade they created an arsenal of songs which set the template for all popular music that followed, and, over half a century...

Forty years ago one of the world's best-loved rock'n'roll bands. The Faces, formed from the ashes of The Small Faces and the Jeff Beck Group, featuring a charismatic, raspy-voiced front man in Rod Stewart alongside Ron Wood, Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagan and Kenney Jones. They offered a welcome antidote to...

David Bowie: The Golden Years chronicles Bowie’s creative life during the 1970s, the decade that defined his career. Looking at the superstar's life and work in a year by year, month by month, day by day format, and placing his works in their historical, personal and creative contexts. The...

The definitive biography of one of pop music's most private stars. Annie Lennox of the Eurythmics has always been an enigma, ill at ease with the trappings of fame, and giving away little about herself, but now the writers have given her the biography she deserves: compelling, sympathetic, unflinching and fair.

Fatboy Slim, the Prodigy, the Chemical Brothers - these are just a few of the major names in contemporary dance culture whose work owes a huge debt to Kraftwerk. Pioneers of electronic minimalism in the '60s, '70s, and '80s, Kraftwerk redefined pop music. When they split up in the early 1980s, founding...

Here is the complete, no-holds-barred biography of the late, great self-made Essex lad himself!The abrasive Dury always met life head on, in his relationships and in his music, and this acclaimed biography does not shrink from chronicling some of his darker moments as well as his triumphs. Author...

American singer and TV personality Kelly Rowland rose to fame as one of the founding members of the American girl group Destiny's Child. She sold forty million albums and twenty million singles with the group, and more than four million solo albums and eighteen million solo singles. This biography...

Author Phillip Sheppard reveals the sevret power of music in your child's development, physical coordination, math ability and social skills.

Howard Gray. A series of biographies of great composers which present the subjects against the social background of their times. Each draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings and - where they exist - photographs, to build up a complete picture of the composer’s life.

The life and times of Dizzy Gillespie

Amy Amy Amy unravels the all too short life and career of one of Britain's most brilliant and troubled stars. Amy Winehouse's erratic journey to fame from her North London family home, through her meteoric rise to stardom and the two seminal albums that captured the world has been consistently...

Just like Memphis for Rock'n'Roll, Dusseldorf is regarded as the Mecca for electronic music. The capital of North Rhine-Westphalia became the centre of an analog electronic movement which changed the course of all popular music to come. Electri_City is the oral account of the city's most influential...

Michael Jackson The Visual Documentary is the most comprehensive book ever published on the world's greatest pop superstar. From the fifties to his death in 2009, it is a complete record of Michael s moves, grooves and music. Illustrated with hundreds of colour and black and white photographs, it includes...