1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die by Robert Dimery (General Editor)
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Category: Music Books
An inspiring selection of the greatest song recordings ever made. From 'Eight Miles High' to 'Empire State of Mind,' from Mississippi to Mali, and from Ella Fitzgerald to Elton John, 1001 Songs You Must Hear Before you Die is a fascinating introduction to some of the greatest music ever recorded. Update ...Show more
The Long and Winding Way to the Top: Fifty (or So) Songs That Made Australia by Andrew P Street
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Category: Music Books
'Andrew tells us things about the songs that we might not know and things about the songs that no one should ever know. He does it with intelligence and humour, not to mention an acid wit.' - Jimmy BarnesWhich band is Australia's premier act for drunk men to hug to? Which dance floor smash owes its exis ...Show more
Coal Black Mornings by Brett Anderson
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Category: Music Books
Brett Anderson came from a world impossibly distant from rock star success, and in Coal Black Mornings he traces the journey that took him from a childhood as 'a snotty, sniffy, slightly maudlin sort of boy raised on Salad Cream and milky tea and cheap meat' to becoming founder and lead singer of Suede. ...Show more
The Art of Jazz - A Visual History by Alyn Shipton; John Hasse (Foreword by)
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Category: Music Books
Everyone knows jazz is on the cutting edge of music, but how much do you know about its influence in the visual arts? With album covers that took inspiration from the avant-garde, jazz's primarily African American musicians and their producers sought to challenge and inspire listeners both musically and ...Show more
Resistance - A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change and Courage by Tori Amos
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Category: Music Books
Since the release of her first, career-defining solo album Little Earthquakes, Tori Amos has been one of the music industry's most enduring and ingenious artists. From her unnerving depiction of sexual assault in "Me and a Gun" to her post-9/11 album Scarlet's Walk to her latest album Native Invader, he ...Show more
Paul McCartney - The Biography by Philip Norman
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Category: Music Books
The first biography written with Paul McCartney's approval and with access to family members and friends closest to him. Superbly evoking half a century of popular music and culture, Paul McCartney is the definitive life of a long-misunderstood genius. In this masterly biography, history's most successf ...Show more
Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy by Mike Love
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Category: Music Books
Mike Love is a founding member of the Beach Boys and the lead singer and lyricist of their biggest hits. With their lush vocals and endlessly inventive arrangements, the band forged art from songs about cars, surfing and first love. But beneath the Beach Boys' wholesome appearance lurked darker truths: ...Show more
Mister Good Times by Norman Jay
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Category: Music Books
THE LIFE STORY OF THE LEGENDARY BRITISH DJ, NORMAN JAY MBE 'Full of the heart and spirit Norman Jay brings to his music, but it also offers a salutary account of growing up as part of the Windrush generation in London's Notting Hill, the violence and racism he faced, and his success' Observer Mister G ...Show more
Wham! George & Me: Celebrate 40 Years of Wham! with the Sunday Times Bestseller by Andrew Ridgeley
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Category: Music Books
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM ONE HALF OF ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS BANDS For the first time, Andrew Ridgeley tells the inside story of Wham!, his life-long friendship with George Michael and the formation of a band that changed the shape of the music scene in the early eighties. 'I couldn't put ...Show more
SWEAT THE TECHNIQUE by RAKIM
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Category: Music Books
On the heels of Kendrick Lamar's Pulitzer Prize, as the world begins to recognize the creative side of Hip-Hop, comes a writing guide from a musician and The greatest MC of all time, Rakim.The musician and Hip Hop legend--hailed as "the greatest MC of all time" and compared to Thelonious Monk--reimagine ...Show more
Why Dylan Matters by Richard F. Thomas
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Category: Music Books
A GUARDIAN AND INDEPENDENT BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2017. 'At last an expert classicist gets to grips with Bob Dylan' Mary Beard 'Thomas's elegant, charming book offers something for everyone - not just the super-fans' IndependentWhen the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan, the literary world ...Show more
Bowie's Books - The Hundred Literary Heroes Who Changed His Life (HB) by John O'Connell
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Category: Music Books | Reading Level: 3 Biography
David Bowie once said that his idea of perfect happiness was reading. Three years before he died, he made a list of the one hundred books that had transformed his life - a list that formed something akin to an autobiography. From Lolita to Madame Bovary, the Beano to The Iliad, these were the books that ...Show more