She began performing as a child, singing to troops during WW2. She has hardly stopped since and, after selling an estimated 100 million records, hers must be one of the longest and most succ... read more
An immense invitation to a dance through the canon of Western classical music, all 1400 years of it. The author, a Cambridge don, taught - amongst others - Judith Weir and Thomas Adés.
A biography of the guitarist and lead singer of The Jam: "...You choose your leaders and place your trust/ As their lies wash you down and their promises rust/ You'll see kidney machines rep... read more
From the 50s to the 70s, Tom Wilson produced a dazzling line-up of folk, rock and jazz artists: Sun Ra, Bob Dylan, Nico, John Coltrane, . This is the first book about him. It features essays... read more
All seven of the author's children are world-class classical musicians. A memoir of raising them and navigating the opportunities and obstacles posed by talent, ambition and race.
DJ takes on another Big Year, this time the one that produced Horses, Blood on the Tracks and The Hissing of Summer Lawns. His book on '95, Faster than a Cannonball, was a riot.
The fabulous singer who spied for the French Resistance, adopted twelve children, marched with Martin Luther King, was awarded the Croix de Guerre and was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'h... read more
How do you write music to serve the socialist state? Yet that is what a generation of Russian composers had to do. Some produced superb music; many more suffered terribly in the Gulag.
A carefully researched account of the fifty women who made up the orchestra. A niece of Mahler's was one, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch MBE another. Friendship, coercion, collaboration, cruelty and... read more
Narrated by Mozart in three periods of his life: as a child in London, as an angst-ridden youth in Paris, and as a man in sight of his own death in Leipzig. Charlatans and aristocrats abound... read more
Morris made his name as a photographer of the reggae and punk scenes of the 1970s: Bob Marley, Lee 'Scratch' Perry, the Sex Pistols, Jimmy Cliff, Patti Smith and many others.
You get the sense that the interviews for this oral history – drawn from several decades of conversations with Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, Steve McQueen, Liam Gallagher, Sarah Lucas, Kate M... read more
Henderson lends an ear to the world around him, to both the audible and the inaudible... the rustling of the Northern Lights, the sound of desert sands, the subterranean boom of a volcano...... read more
From childhood to the 1970s and her marriage to Sonny - therefore doesn't include her account of a surprising publicity stunt in 1979 (?) when she appeared at a boys school not unknown to li... read more
A memoir by the Swedish singer-songwriter who found her voice with Poly Styrene and Viv Albertine, later working with Massive Attack and others in her long career in music.
A celebration of the farewell tour, full of glittering images - including many from the archives - of Elton sporting some of the most outrageous garments ever conceived.