Lennon: Definitive Biography, The
Harper Paperbacks, December 1992. Trade Paperback. The best and most complete biography about the influential Beatle. As is. Remainder mark on the bottom edge of the print block. More
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Dizzy Gillespie (Jazz Masters)
Spellmount Publishers Ltd, April 1984. Hardcover. More
giving birth to sound - women in creative music
Renate Da Rin, July 2015. Trade Paperback. More
Constanze Mozart: An Unimportant Woman (Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture, and Thought Translation Series)
Ariadne Press (CA), August 1997. Paper Back. More
Elton John's Blue Moves (33 1/3)
Bloomsbury Academic, May 2020. Paper Back. By 1976, Elton John was the best-selling recording artist and the highest-grossing touring act in the world. With seven #1 albums in a row and a reputation as a riveting piano-pounding performer, the former Reggie Dwight had gone with dazzling speed from the London..... More
Louis Armstrong: A Cultural Legacy
Univ of Washington Pr, October 1994. Oversize Softcover. A companion to the touring exhibition includes photos from all stages of Armstrong's career, collages, and paintings from the jazz era. More
Stairway to Heaven: Led Zeppelin Uncensored
Harper Paperbacks, January 2002. Trade Paperback. No one knew Led Zeppelin like Richard Cole. The band's tour manager for more than a decade, Cole was there when they burst onto the music scene, achieved cult status, cut platinum records, and transformed popular music. Second only to the Beatles in sales..... More
Another Little Piece of My Heart: My Years of Rock and Revolution
Bloomsbury USA, April 2015. First Edition. Cloth. "A deeply felt and largely compelling portrait of an age that indelibly marked everyone who took part in it. Indispensable for understanding the culture of the '60s and the music that was at its heart." - starred review, Kirkus Reviews In 1966, at..... More
Drive-By Truckers’ Southern Rock Opera (33 1/3)
Bloomsbury Academic, October 2018. Paper Back. The Drive-By Truckers' Southern Rock Opera takes listeners on a road trip through the American South, with stops along mean old highways and soul-sucking swamps, iconic recording studios and doomed chartered jets, and even Heaven and Hell. Along the way, the Truckers attempt to..... More
Bob Dylan: The Illustrated Record
Outlet, October 1978. Oversize Softcover. More
Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon
Quick American Archives, August 2002. Paper Back. A portrait of the final years of John Lennon's life is based on his journals and interviews with those closest to him, in a volume that discusses his views on parenting, drugs, relationship with Yoko Ono, and contrasting private and public life. Reprint..... More
Grown Up All Wrong: 75 Great Rock and Pop Artists from Vaudeville to Techno
Harvard University Press, November 1998. Hardcover. Two generations of American music lovers have grown up listening with Robert Christgau, attuned to his inimitable blend of judgment, acuity, passion, erudition, wit, and caveat emptor. His writings, collected here, constitute a virtual encyclopedia of popular music over the past fifty years. Whether..... More
Cant Be Satisfied : The Life and Times of Muddy Waters
Little Brown & Co, June 2003. Trade Paperback. The epic, rollicking, up-and-down life of Muddy Waters, who went from Mississippi farmhand to musical legend, who invented electric blues and created the template for the rock-and-roll band and its wild lifestyle, is brought into sharp focus in this widely acclaimed biography..... More
Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell With the Rolling Stones
Da Capo Press, February 2008. Trade Paperback. Recorded during the blazing hot summer of 1971 at Villa Nellcôte, Keith Richards's seaside mansion in southern France, Exile on Main Street has been hailed as one of the greatest rock records of all time. Yet its improbable creation was difficult, torturous...and at..... More
The Letters of Robert Schumann
Ayer Co Pub, June 1971. Hardcover. More
Wendy Carlos' Switched-On Bach (33 1/3)
Bloomsbury Academic, September 2018. Paper Back. So much, popular and scholarly, has been written about the synthesizer, Bob Moog and his brand-name instrument, and even Wendy Carlos, the musician who made this instrument famous. No one, however, has examined the importance of spy technology, the Cold War and Carlos's gender..... More
Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 2020. Hardcover. Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics--an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with..... More
Soundings: All Kinds of Music: A 21st Century Musician's Anthology
University of Plymouth Press, September 2016. Paper Back. More
The Songs of Robert Schumann
W.W. Norton, 1969. First Edition. Cloth. First American edition in price-clipped dustjacket. Dark grey cloth with gold lettering one spine. Title is framed in red rectangle. Sound binding. Clean, without internal markings. Very good+/fine overall. More
Bob Dylan Scrapbook : 1956-1966
N/A, September 2005. Novelty. THE BOB DYLAN SCRAPBOOK is the highly collectable illustrated biography of Dylan's life during the 1950s and 60s. Created in association with Bob Dylan, the SCRAPBOOK is crammed with features including rare photographs, facsimiles of handwritten lyrics and rare memorabilia. The text includes interviews with Dylan..... More
Bob Dylan Scrapbook : 1956-1966
N/A, September 2005. Novelty. THE BOB DYLAN SCRAPBOOK is the highly collectable illustrated biography of Dylan's life during the 1950s and 60s. Created in association with Bob Dylan, the SCRAPBOOK is crammed with features including rare photographs, facsimiles of handwritten lyrics and rare memorabilia. The text includes interviews with Dylan..... More
A Mammal’s Notebook: The Writings of Erik Satie
Atlas Press, July 2014. Hardcover. Humorous and Dadaistic writings from the original Velvet Gentleman and pioneering composerThis is the largest selection, in any language, of the writings of Erik Satie (1866-1925). Although once dismissed as an eccentric, Satie has come to be seen as a key influence on modern music..... More
Englands Dreaming : Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond (Fully Explanded and Updated with new introduction by the author)
St Martin's Griffin, January 2002. Trade Paperback. England's Dreaming is the ultimate book on punk, its progenitors, the Sex Pistols, and the moment they defined for music fans in England and the United States. Savage brings to life the sensational story of the meteoric rise and rapid implosion of the..... More
Mick Jagger: Everybody's Lucifer
David McKay Co, January 1974. First Edition. Cloth. First/first in dustjacket. Not price clipped. Original price of $8.95 on flap. Black cloth covered boards with silver lettering on spine. Mild tanning to end papers. Some foxing & darkening to top textblock edge. A sprinkle of foxing fore-edge. Clean internally without..... More
24-Carat Black's Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth (33 1/3, 152)
Bloomsbury Academic, November 2020. Paper Back. In 1973, the musical collective 24-Carat Black released an unheralded masterpiece on Stax Records-and then disappeared. Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth, a soul-funk concept album primarily written by the ex-Motown arranger Dale Warren, was too bleak, ambitious, or just outright bizarre to reach mainstream audiences. 24-Carat..... More
