Composers category: 3267 books
Beethoven's Hair
An Extraordinary Historical Odyssey and a Scientific Mystery Solved
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2002
The basis for the movie of the same name, an astonishing tale of one lock of hair and its amazing travels--from nineteenth-century Vienna to twenty-first-century America.
When Ludwig van Beethoven lay dying in 1827, a young musician named Ferdinand Hiller came to pay his respects to the great...
by Chris Perez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 6, 2012
En este tributo sincero, a Chris Perez le cuenta la historia de su relación con la estrella de música Selena.
Una de las superestrellas más impresionantes y adoradas en la historia de la música latina, Selena fue un fenómemeno del espectáculo quien compartió todo lo que era con sus millones...
by Cyndi Lauper
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Legendary singer, songwriter, actress, and activist Cyndi Lauper offers a personal account of the journey that led her to become an international superstar in this “moving story of an American musical original” (Kirkus Reviews).
Icon Cyndi Lauper offers a poignant account of the journey...
His Way
An Unauthorized Biography Of Frank Sinatra
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • With a new afterword by the author in honor of Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthday
This is the book that Frank Sinatra tried—but failed—to keep from publication, and it’s easy to understand why. This unauthorized biography goes behind the iconic myth of Sinatra...
Aaliyah
More Than a Woman
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2002
Don’t miss the inspirational biography behind the exciting new Lifetime movie Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B, starring Alexandra Shipp as the extraordinary singer Aaliyah.
Aaliyah Dana Haughton was that music business rarity: a teen idol who transformed herself into a critically acclaimed...
I Got Your Back
A Father and Son Keep It Real About Love, Fatherhood, Family, and Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2009
The final collaboration from Eddie and Gerald Levert: an intimate glimpse into their lives, their passions, and their musical legacy. But most important, I Got Your Back gets inside the special and rare father-son bond that these two R&B legends shared. Eddie and Gerald put their hearts and souls...
Storms
My Life with Lindsey Buckingham and Fleetwood Mac
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
A consummate insider as the girlfriend of Lindsey Buckingham, Fleetwood Mac singer and guitarist, Carol Ann Harris leads fans into the very heart of the band’s storms between 1976 and 1984. From interactions between the band and other stars-Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, and Dennis Wilson-to the chaotic...
Beethoven
Anguish and Triumph
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Jan Swafford’s biographies of Charles Ives and Johannes Brahms have established him as a revered music historian, capable of bringing his subjects vibrantly to life. His magnificent new biography of Ludwig van Beethoven peels away layers of legend to get to the living, breathing human being who...
Petty
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
The New York Times Bestseller
*One of Rolling Stone's 10 Best Music Books of 2015*
An exhilarating and intimate account of the life of music legend Tom Petty, by an accomplished writer and musician who toured with Petty
No one other than Warren Zanes, rocker and writer and friend,...
Dream Boogie
The Triumph of Sam Cooke
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2008
One of the most influential singers and songwriters of all time, Sam Cooke was among the first to blend gospel music and secular themes--the early foundation of soul music. He was the opposite of Elvis: a black performer who appealed to white audiences, who wrote his own songs, who controlled his...
No Compromise
The Life Story of Keith Green
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2008
The 25th Anniversary Edition of Keith Green's inspiring biography, revised and updated by his wife, Melody. This expanded biography contains many added stories and insights, never before published photos, extra selections from Keith's private journals, and glimpses into Melody's season of grieving...
Johnny Cash
The Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
The national bestseller celebrated as "the ultimate Johnny Cash biography....Rock writer great Robert Hilburn goes deep." -- Rolling Stone
In this, the definitive biography of an American legend, Robert Hilburn conveys the unvarnished truth about a musical superstar. Johnny Cash's...
The Facts of Life
and Other Dirty Jokes
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
If you had to give America a voice, it’s been said more than once, that voice would be Willie Nelson’s. For more than fifty years, he’s taken the stuff of his life-the good and the bad-and made from it a body of work that has become a permanent part of our musical heritage and kept us company...
by Peter Ames Carlin
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Peter Ames Carlin’s New York Times bestselling biography of one America’s greatest musicians is the first in twenty-five years to be written with the cooperation of Bruce Springsteen himself; “Carlin gets across why Mr. Springsteen has meant so much, for so long, to so many people” (The New...