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A panoramic exploration of the ways in which pop and rock were transformed by the pioneering visionaries of classical music.The worlds of pop and rock owe a much greater debt to the classical canon than we realise. A direct and fascinating lineage draws from the experimentalism of Pierre Henry to Th...

A Financial Times, Irish Times, Mojo and Uncut Book of the Year‘I doubt I’ll ever read a better account of the history and sociology of popular music than this one.'' Brian Eno''Boyd’s book is the Proust of music history – à la recherche of much music lost, here regained and affirmed in our...

The definitive biography of MF DOOM, charting the reclusive and revered hip-hop artist's life, career, and eventual immortality. Packed with behind-the-scenes content, for fans of hip-hop biographies like Dilla Time.A Rough Trade and Clash Book of the Year'Excellent, detailed. Hip-hop writer SH Fern...

On the 50th anniversary of Talking Heads, acclaimed music biographer Jonathan Gould presents the long-overdue, definitive story of this singular band, capturing the gritty energy of 1970s New York City and showing how a group of art students brought fringe culture to rock’s mainstream, forever cha...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping and spellbinding portrait of the longtime kings of jazz—Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie—who, born within a few years of one another, overcame racist exclusion and violence to become the most popu...

A compendium of other musics, channelled from the spirit world, the fairy kingdom, outer space, secret societies and occult lodges.This unique collection of esoteric earworms gathers, and reproduces, music from other worlds. Here you'll find tunes hummed, strummed, and sung by spirits, sprites, and ...

The Ring is one of the most epic and compelling stories of the nineteenth century, created by a composer who was, alongside Dickens, Tolstoy and Victor-Hugo, also one of the century’s master storytellers. But the story of how Wagner created the work is one full of intrigue and triumphs against unl...

On December 31, 2020, the world was shocked to learn about the death of hip-hop legend MF DOOM. Born in London and raised in the suburban enclave of Long Beach, New York, Daniel Dumile Jr.'s love of cartoons and comic books would soon turn him into one of hip-hop's most enigmatic, prolific, and infl...

‘Always up close and personal, always tenacious and informed by deep background, and always vivid and veracious’ The TimesThe greatest popular songs, whether it’s Aretha Franklin singing ‘Respect’ or Bob Dylan performing ‘Blind Willie McTell’, have a way of embedding themselves in our ...

In 1943, German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra should be formed among the female prisoners. Almost fifty women and girls from eleven nations were drafted into a hurriedly assembled band that would play marching music to other inmates, forced labourers who left ...

'Fabulous. What a ghost story! A ripping read.' IAIN SINCLAIR, author of London Orbital'Vividly celebrates Bowie as not just a chameleonic visionary, but a nomadic one, a creature informed by place and circumstance" STUART MACONIEBOWIE IS STILL OUT THERE.Following open heart surgery, poet and writer...

The joyous and electric, Women's Prize for Non-Fiction-longlisted memoir from beloved music icon Neneh CherryA SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN, EVENING STANDARD, UNCUT AND ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024Top of the Pops, December 1988. The world sat up as a young woman made her debut- gold br...

After the publication of Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors, his long awaited first original book, cult critic Ian Penman with I Am Called Erik Satie I Like Everyone Else, a three-part study of the composer and pianist.Composer, pianist and writer Erik Satie was one of the great figures of Belle Époqu...

The diary and essays of Brian Eno republished twenty-five years on with a new introduction by the artist in a beautiful hardback edition.At the end of 1994, musician, producer and artist Brian Eno resolved to keep a diary. His plans to go to the cinema, theatre and galleries fell through quickly. Wh...

The extraordinary true story of intertwined lives that lies behind Handel's Messiah, the most performed piece of classical music ever writtenLondon - Dublin, 1741-42.An actress mired in scandal plans her escape from an abusive husband.A penniless sea captain sets out to rescue the city's abandoned i...

The untold history of the extraordinary women who drove the modern dance movement and changed cultural narratives about sex, power and women's rights.'Don't let them tame you!' ISADORA DUNCANThe story of modern dance is a story of subversion - of forms challenged and hierarchies toppled in the pursu...

The story of the love and jealousy between two geniuses behind The Beatles, who merged their souls and multiplied their talents to produce one of the greatest bodies of creative work in history.'The first new Beatles story in decades - and the one that will make your heart burst.' CAITLIN MORAN'Ian ...

"Will has finally written his masterpiece. I'm glad I could be of assistance." —LAWRENCELawrence is the greatest pop star who never made it, his dreams of glory thwarted over the past five decades by bad luck and self-sabotage. At 61, he set off on a new mission: to escape poverty, obscurity and t...

1959 saw Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans and the other members of Miles''s sextet come together to record the bestselling jazz album of all time: Kind of Blue.3 Shades of Blue follows the paths of Miles, Coltrane and Evans to the mountaintop of 1959 and their roads on from there. It''s a book...

'It's been an honour to have been associated with Jill for 30 years' Noel Gallagher'If you look at Jill's Oasis photographs they form one of the great essays in the history of photography' Gail Buckland, author, curator, photo-historianDramatic, iconic, tumultuous: this is the story of Oasis, as see...

Celebrating 50 years of Iron Maiden, this magnificent visual book, incorporating commentary by band members past and present, and never-before-seen photography from the Iron Maiden archives, chronicles the evolution of heavy metal’s most prestigious band.Iron Maiden is an institution. Hailed as pi...

A radiant new memoir from beloved artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award Winner Just Kids. God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper, writes Patti Smith in this indelible account of her life as an artist. A post-Second World War childhood unfolds in a condemned housing...