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Since her win at the Brit Awards in 2012 for Our Version of Events, Emeli Sandé has gone from strength to strength. From writing songs for artists, including including Alicia Keys, Gabrielle, Leona Lewis, Alesha Dixon, and Cheryl Cole; to performing at the Opening and Closing ceremonies at the London...

Dutch jazz singer, Caro Emerald, set a all-time Dutch chart record with her debut album ‘Deleted Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor’, spending 30 weeks at number one, beating the previous record set by Michael Jackson's ‘Thriller’. In April 2013, her second studio album ‘The Shocking...

Released in 1984, Ride the Lightning was one of Metallica's most influential releases and includes some of the most popular tracks by these mighty masters of metal, including For Whom The Bell Tolls and Fade To Black. This edition contains complete guitar arrangements for all eight songs from...

Formed from the erosion of Joy Division after the suicide of Ian Curtis, New Order were early pioneers of the synthesizer in dance music, coupled with deep bass lines. This book details the start of Factory Records and New Order's connections with Manchester's Hacienda Club, of which they were part...

From the author’s preface: “This book was conceived four years ago, almost to the day, at a time when I was teaching fiddle and mandolin in New York City. It was my idea then, with my students in mind, to compile a book of the most often played, most important and most interesting fiddle tunes...

Express yourself through the beautiful voice of the solo Guitar. Solo Guitar Playing can teach even the person with no previous musical training how to progress from simple single-line melodies to mastery of the guitar as a solo instrument. Fully illustrated with diagrams, photographs, and...

Whether your favourite blues guitarist is Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Blind Blake, John Lee Hooker, Big Bill Broonzy, or Mississippi John Hurt, studying the basic techniques presented in this program is the first step toward being able to capture the essence of their traditional styles.

Maroon 5: Shooting For The Stars uncovers intimate details of the lives and backgrounds of all band members of Maroon 5. Also revealed is the story of their struggle to find early success in the music industry as Kara’s Flowers as well as exclusive interviews with school friends which provide the...

This book traces the remarkable course of a creative career which spanned the drawing rooms of the Imperial Russia and the social ferment of 1960s America, and serve to establish Stravinsky not only as the most celebrated composer of his time but also as one of the defining forces of twentieth-century culture.

This acclaimed collection of photographs includes never before seen images and exclusive interviews with one of the most influential bands of the punk era. Presented in a hardback slipcase with a signed photo from Bob Gruen.

What's it like growing up as the offspring of rock royalty? Living through bizarre backstage and onstage experiences, unconventional childhoods, drugs, debts and mad babysitters, the subjects of this book may have grown up quickly but their backgrounds shaped them in very different ways. In this frank...

Fats Waller (1904-1943) was an outsize man in all respects: five feet eleven inches tall, he weighed 285 pounds. He was the greatest of the Harlem "stride" pianists, he composed hundreds of songs, he led a band which made over 400 recordings and he wrote several Broadway shows. Waller is...

As Years Go By is a richly detailed portrait of Marianne Faithfull, the woman who has lived an incredible life, one that far transcends her best known role as courtesan to the chief rolling stone.

Last Shop Standing: Whatever Happened To Record Shops? documents the sad disappearance of a cultural icon from our high streets. Once a thriving industry, the UK has gone from having over 2000 independent record shops in the 1980s to just 269 in 2009. Written by Graham Jones, who has worked...