Hachette Books: 1744 books
Under the Big Black Sun
A Personal History of L.A. Punk
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Under the Big Black Sun explores the nascent Los Angeles punk rock movement and its evolution to hardcore punk as it's never been told before. John Doe of the legendary band X and co-author Tom DeSavia have woven together an enthralling story of the legendary West Coast scene from 1977-1982 by enlisting...
Poseur
A Memoir of Downtown New York City in the '90s
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Marc Spitz assumed that if he lived like his literary and rock ’n’ roll heroes, he would become a great artist, too. He conveniently overlooked the fact that many of them died young, broke, and miserable. In his candid, wistful, touching, and hilarious memoir, Poseur, the music journalist, playwright,...
Don't Stop Believin'
How Karaoke Conquered the World and Changed My Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
Armed with a keen eye and a terrible singing voice, writer Brian Raftery sets out across the globe, tracing karaoke's evolution from cult fad to multi-million dollar phenomenon. In Japan, he meets Daisuke Inoue, the godfather of karaoke; in Thailand, he follows a group of Americans hoping to win the...
The Time of My Life
A Righteous Brother's Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
From an early age, Bill Medley had a passion for music. School glee club and amateur singing contests soon gave way to the albums of Ray Charles and Little Richard. That raw R&B influence would profoundly shape Medley's musical future.
As the pioneering blue-eyed soul” group the Righteous...
Their Backs Against the Sea
The Battle of Saipan and the Largest Banzai Attack of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
In the midst of the largest banzai attack of the war, US Army Lt. Col. William O'Brien, grievously wounded and out of ammunition, grabbed a sabre from a fallen Japanese soldier and flailed away at a small army of assailants, screaming to his men, "Don't give them a damn inch!" When his body was recovered...
Gregory Peck
A Charmed Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
His first screen test was a disaster, his features were large and irregular, his left ear outsized the right, yet he would one day be headlined as the Most Handsome Man in the World. And most of his leading ladies-among them, Ingrid Bergman, Jennifer Jones, Audrey Hepburn, Sophia Loren, and Ava Gardner-would...
A Hundred or More Hidden Things
The Life and Films of Vincente Minnelli
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
He was the acclaimed director of such cinematic classics as Meet Me in St. Louis, An American in Paris, and Gigi, and equally well known for his tumultuous marriage to the legendary Judy Garland. But to say that Vincente Minnelli's conflicted personal life informed his films would be an understatement....
Trouble Boys
The True Story of the Replacements
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Based on a decade of research and reporting--as well as access to the Replacements' key principals, Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson--author Bob Mehr has fashioned something far more compelling than a conventional band bio. Trouble Boys is a deeply intimate portrait,...
Goodnight, L.A.
The Rise and Fall of Classic Rock--The Untold Story from inside the Legendary Recording Studios
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
A behind-the-scenes journey through the rise and demise of the '70s and '80s classic rock era
Before disco, punk, hair metal, rap, and eventually grunge took it all away, the music scene in Los Angeles was dominated by rock 'n' roll. If a group wanted to hit it big, L.A. was the place to be....
Digging Up Mother
A Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Doug Stanhope is one of the most critically acclaimed and stridently unrepentant comedians of his generation. What will surprise some is that he owes so much of his dark and sometimes uncomfortably honest sense of humor to his mother, Bonnie. It was the cartoons in her Hustler magazine issues that...
Brother Ray
Ray Charles' Own Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Ray Charles (1930-2004) led one of the most extraordinary lives of any popular musician. In Brother Ray, he tells his story in an inimitable and unsparing voice, from the chronicle of his musical development to his heroin addiction to his tangled romantic life. Overcoming poverty, blindness, the loss...
Benson
The Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Over the course of his fifty-year career, George Benson has performed for hundreds of millions of fans around the world, received ten Grammy Awards, and recorded with some of the most revered musicians of his era. In 2011, he earned a National Endowment of the Arts Jazz Masters Award. And he has finally...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
The ninth entry in the acclaimed series celebrating the best writing on every style of music, from rock to hip-hop, R&B to jazz, pop to blues, and more.
Best music writing is the definitive guide to the year in music writing, an annual feast of essays, missives, and musings on every musical...
27
A History of the 27 Club through the Lives of Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
When singer Amy Winehouse was found dead at her London home in 2011, the press inducted her into what Kurt Cobain's mother named the 27 Club. Now he's gone and joined that stupid club,” she said in 1994, after being told that her son, the front man of Nirvana, had committed suicide. I told him...