Composers category: 3267 books
Big Day Coming
Yo La Tengo and the Rise of Indie Rock
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
The first biography of Yo La Tengo, the massively influential band who all but defined indie music.
Yo La Tengo has lit up the indie scene for three decades, part of an underground revolution that defied corporate music conglomerates, eschewed pop radio, and found a third way. Going behind...
Since Then
How I Survived Everything and Lived to Tell About It
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
An honest and revealing memoir from musician David Crosby, founding member of The Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
A true rock-and-roll survivor, David Crosby has not slowed down since his New York Times bestselling memoir Long Time Gone. Reunited with his adult son while awaiting a...
Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot
…. Et Dieu... créa la femme
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2013
In her early life Bardot was an aspiring ballet dancer. She started her acting career in 1952 and after appearing in 16 films became world-famous due to her role in the controversial film And God Created Woman. During her career in show business Bardot starred in 48 films, performed in numerous musical...
by Tony Bennett, Scott Simon
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
At ninety, musician and singer Tony Bennett is as vibrant and productive as ever. In addition to his prodigious musical output, including albums, concerts, and personal appearances, this beloved and enduring artist has written his second book. In 2012’s Life Is a Gift, Tony reflected on the lessons...
Otis Redding
An Unfinished Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
The long-awaited, definitive biography of The King of Soul, timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Redding's iconic performance at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.
Otis Redding remains an immortal presence in the canon of American music on the strength of such classic hits as “(Sittin’...
David Bowie
The Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Dylan Jones’s engrossing, magisterial biography of David Bowie is unlike any Bowie story ever written. Drawn from over 180 interviews with friends, rivals, lovers, and collaborators, some of whom have never before spoken about their relationship with Bowie, this oral history weaves a hypnotic spell...
Deep in a Dream
The Long Night of Chet Baker
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
From his emergence in the 1950s as an uncannily beautiful young Oklahoman who became the prince of cool” jazz seemingly overnight to his violent, drug-related death in Amsterdam in 1988, Chet Baker lived a life that has become an American myth. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and previously...
Go Big or Go Home
The Journey Toward the Dream
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Platinum-award winning country music star Scotty McCreery shares his path from North Carolina to American Idol to the top of the country music scene.
It was just a simple singing competition that would be fun to audition for. Who knew what kind of doors it might open for a sixteen-year-old...
A Cure For Gravity
A Musical Pilgrimage
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2007
"Part memoir, part discourse on the art of music. . . . This is an intelligent, thoughtful look into the mind of an artist."--New York Times Book Review
Since the release of his first best-selling album Look Sharp in 1979, Joe Jackson has forged a singular career in music through...
Prince
A Private View
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Featuring a foreword by Beyoncé Knowles-Carter.
When Prince wanted to document his One Nite Alone tour in 2002, he turned to Afshin Shahidi. Again in 2004, he went along on Prince’s record breaking Musicology Tour. Afshin met Prince in 1989 and became his cinematographer and later his photographer....
The Importance of Being Barbra
The Brilliant, Tumultuous Career of Barbra Streisand
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Controversial, a global icon, a diva among divas---Barbra Streisand, the last genuinely unique show business personality of the twentieth century is the most honored entertainer in the world today. But along with the Tony, two Oscars, six Emmys, eight Grammys, ten Golden Globes, fifty gold albums,...
Adrenalized
Life, Def Leppard, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
A revelatory, redemptive, and “wild...juicy” (Rolling Stone) memoir from the lead guitarist of the legendary hard rock band Def Leppard—the first ever written by one of its members—chronicling the band’s extraordinary rise to superstardom and how they maintained it for three decades.
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by Robert Shelton
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
No Direction Home took 20 years to complete and has received widespread critical acclaim. Robert Shelton met Bob Dylan when the young singer arrived in New York; he became Dylan's friend, champion, and critic, and his book has been hailed as the definitive unauthorised biography of this moody, passionate...
Neil Peart: Cultural Repercussions
An in-depth examination of the words, ideas, and professional life of Neil Peart, man of letters.
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Though Neil Peart is universally acknowledged as one of the greatest living drummers, few studies have been devoted to his writings. Yet, Peart is very much a man of his words. He writes lyrics, travelogues, short stories, essays, and books of cultural criticism. In terms of his...