Biography & autobiography / Composers & Musicians

Onstage, Offstage

by Bubl

He’s sold more than 25 million records. His live shows fill the world’s biggest stadiums to capacity. He has captured hearts everywhere with his classic style. Now, for the first time ever, Grammy Award–winning...

No Regrets

by Ace Frehley, Joe Layden & John Ostrosky

THE MUSIC, THE MAKEUP, THE MADNESS, AND MORE. . . . In December of 1972, a pair of musicians placed an advertisement in the Village Voice: “GUITARIST WANTED WITH FLASH AND ABILITY.” Ace Frehley figured he...

Whole Lotta Led: Our Flight With Led Zeppelin

by Ralph Hulett & Jerry Prochnicky

In September 1968, four English lads gathered together for the first time in a small, stuffy London rehearsal room in a basement filled with wall-to-wall amplifiers. It was their first big tryout as musicians,...

Prince

by Ronin Ro

A fascinating, authoritative biography of one of the most commercial, controversial, and influential musicians of all time

In his three decades-long of recording, Prince has had nearly thirty albums hit the...

Sweet Judy Blue Eyes: My Life in Music

by Judy Collins

A vivid, highly evocative memoir of one of the reigning icons of folk music, highlighting the decade of the ’60s, when hits like “Both Sides Now” catapulted her to international fame.

Sweet Judy Blue...

Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco, and Destiny

by Nile Rodgers

NAMED ONE OF THE TOP 10 ROCK MEMOIRS OF ALL TIME BY ROLLING STONE

From Chic to Daft Punk, Nile Rodgers is the creative force behind some of the biggest hits ever recorded. Here is the story of how global...

Hans von Bülow's Letters to Johannes Brahms: A Research Edition

by Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen

Hans-Joachim Hinrichsen's Hans von Bülow's Letters to Johannes Brahms, originally published in German in 1994, covers the correspondence between Hans von Bülow and Brahms from 1877 to 1892, with Brahms's replies,...

Mile Marker Zero: The Moveable Feast of Key West

by William Mckeen

True tales of writers and pirates, painters and potheads, guitar pickers and drug merchants in America’s southernmost city

For Hemingway and Fitzgerald, there was Paris in the twenties. For others, later,...

It's So Easy: and other lies

by Duff McKagan

A founding member of Guns N’ Roses and Velvet Revolver shares the story of his rise to the pinnacle of fame and fortune, his struggles with alcoholism and drug addiction, his personal crash and burn, and his...

The Complete David Bowie

by Nicholas Pegg

The biggest edition yet – expanded and updated with 35,000 words of new material

Critically acclaimed in its previous editions, The Complete David Bowie is widely recognized as the foremost source of analysis...

101 More Amazing One Direction Facts

by Jack Goldstein

Are you the world's biggest One Direction fan? Do you know everything there is to know about the world's best-loved boy band? Then this is the book for you! In this easy-to-digest eBook are 101 facts about your...

Lennon

by Tim Riley

In his commanding new book, the eminent NPR critic Tim Riley takes us on the remarkable journey that brought a Liverpool art student from a disastrous childhood to the highest realms of fame.

Riley portrays...

One Day It'll All Make Sense (with audio/video enhancements)

by Common & Adam Bradley

Common has earned a reputation in the hip-hop world as a conscious artist by embracing themes of love and struggle in his songs. His journey toward understanding is rooted in his relationship with a remarkable...

Antonio Carlos Jobim: An Illuminated Man

by Helena Jobim

(Book). Charlie Byrd, Herbie Mann, and others brought in bags full of discs from a trip to Brazil in 1961. Stan Getz listened to them and recorded "Desafinado," which stayed for 70 weeks on the Billboard charts....

Jagger: Rebel, Rock Star, Rambler, Rogue

by Marc Spitz

An examination of Mick Jagger’s spectacular life and the cultural revolution he led as the legendary front man of the Rolling Stones.

As the Rolling Stones celebrate their fiftieth anniversary, their legendary...

Here and Now!: The Autobiography of Pat Martino

by Pat Martino

(Book). By age 16, Pat Martino was already working as a member of R&B star Lloyd Price's touring musical revue. By age 18, Martino moved to Harlem, where he quickly earned a reputation as a hard-bopping six-stringer...

The Life and Twelve-Note Music of Nikos Skalkottas

by Mantzourani

Eva Mantzourani provides a comprehensive study of this fascinating yet under-researched composer. The book comprises a critical biography, an exploration of Skalkottas's twelve-note compositional processes and...

Bad Reputation: The Unauthorized Biography of Joan Jett

by Dave Thompson

(Book). Bad Reputation is the unexpurgated story of Joan Jett, the single most exciting rocker of the American 1980s, one of the biggest-selling acts of the age, and one of punk rock's most valued elder statespeeps....

101 Amazing JLS Facts

by Jack Goldstein & Frankie Taylor

Are you the world's biggest JLS fan? Do you know everything there is to know about one of the world's best-loved boy bands? Then this is the book for you! In this easy-to-digest eBook are 101 facts about your...

Tom Waits on Tom Waits: Interviews and Encounters

by Paul , Jr. Maher

This autobiographical portrait of Tom Waits takes shape through a selection of more than 50 interviews. Starting with the first interview—on KPFK-FM’s Folkscene in 1973—Waits speaks out on a variety of...