All Media Guide / Backbeat Books, April 2002. Reprint. Trade Paperback. (Book). Easy to use and fun to explore, this 1,400-page tome is the most complete guide ever published on the artists and recordings that really rock. Compiled by dozens of music critics, it reviews and rates more than 14,000..... More
Rough Guides, November 1995. Trade Paperback. Critical biographies cover the legends of the genre as well as today's hottest young players. Included are nearly 3,000 recommendations of recordings. {6 & 3/4' x 9 & 1/4'} Clean & sound. [754 pages]. More
Donald I. Fine, Inc., May 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. {6 & 1/4' x 9 & 1/4'} In edgeworn jacket with some faint foxing at margins. Front flap is not clipped. Brick red paper covered boards with gold lettering along edge. Previous owner's name in ink upper left corner of front..... More
Pantheon Books, November 2000. Reprint. Hardcover. A comprehensive anthology bringing together more than one thousand of the best American and English song lyrics of the twentieth century; an extraordinary celebration of a unique art form and an indispensable reference work and history that celebrates one of the twentieth century's most..... More
Little Brown & Co, January 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. From Bing Crosby's early days in college minstrel shows and vaudeville, to his first hit recordings, from his 11 year triumph as star of America's most popular radio show, to his first success in Hollywood, Gary Giddins provides a detailed study..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. A BOOK OF THE YEAR, ROLLING STONE, NPR, PITCHFORK, THE TIMES (LONDON), TELEGRAPH "An astoundingly intimate book-length conversation on art and grief spanning the duration of the pandemic years . . . As with Cave's music, you might flinch, but you..... More
Bloomsbury Academic, June 2022. Paper Back. Moon Pix was conceived during a hallucinatory waking nightmare in the South Carolina home of Chan Marshall one fateful day in 1997. Spirits violently swam up around her house, looming at the windows, beckoning her to join them. Her and her acoustic guitar warded..... More
Dutton, May 2023. Hardcover. The mysterious true story of Connie Converse--a mid-century New York City songwriter, singer, and composer whose haunting music never found broad recognition--and one writer's quest to understand her life This is the mesmerizing story of an enigmatic life. When musician and New Yorker contributor Howard Fishman..... More
Insight Editions, June 2023. Hardcover. In 1956, photographer Alfred Wertheimer was asked to photograph the then twenty-one-year-old Elvis Presley just as his career was about to explode. This book features the collection of photos taken by Wertheimer, offering a snapshot of the young Elvis Presley's remarkable rise to fame and..... More
Gotham, August 2008. Hardcover. From the "New York Times" bestselling author, the complete story of the last rock supergroup? from their drugfueled blast-off in the 1980s to the turbulent life of legendary singer Axl Rose and his fifteen-year, multi-million dollar effort to make the perfect hardrock album. With 90 million..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 2023. Hardcover. In exhilarating, transformative prose, the poet Patrick Mackie reveals a musician in dialogue with culture at its most sweepingly progressive. Mozart is one of the most familiar and beloved icons of our culture, but how much do we really understand of his music..... More
Random House / Rolling Stone Press Book, October 1983. Reprint. Trade Paperback. {6' x 9'} Mild user wear. 5th printing. [648 pages]. More
Liveright, August 2023. Hardcover. In his time, the Austrian American composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) was an international icon. His twelve-tone system was considered the future of music itself. Today, however, leading orchestras rarely play his works, and his name is met with apathy, if not antipathy. With this interpretative account..... More
Knopf, 1992. Oversized Hardcover. Grey pictorial boards. More
Simon & Schuster, August 2023. Hardcover. Selected writings on three decades of popular music from one of the most influential critics of his generation. Spanning three decades worth of astute, acerbic, and overall astounding music writing, Kick Out the Jams is the first large-scale anthology of the work of renowned..... More
University of Texas Press, May 2023. Hardcover. How Tammy Wynette channeled the conflicts of her life into her music and performance. With hits such as "Stand By Your Man" and "Golden Ring," Tammy Wynette was an icon of American domesticity and femininity. But there were other sides to the first..... More
University of Texas Press, May 2023. Hardcover. A stirring defense of Sinéad O'Connor's music and activism, and an indictment of the culture that cancelled her. In 1990, Sinéad O'Connor's video for "Nothing Compares 2 U" turned her into a superstar. Two years later, an appearance on Saturday Night Live turned..... More
University of Texas Press, March 2023. Paper Back. Surveying the range of Sun Ra's extraordinary creativity, this book explores how the father of Afrofuturism brought "space music" to a planet in need of transformation, supporting the aspirations of black people in an inhospitable white world. Sun Ra said he came..... More
Knopf, November 2022. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - Bono--artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2--has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he's lived, the challenges he's faced, and the friends and family who..... More
Phaidon Press, November 2022. Hardcover. As seen in Harper's Bazaar UK, Guitar World, and Design Week The 100 most iconic guitars from around the globe, from early modern beginnings to cutting-edge electric models The guitar is the iconic instrument at the heart of all popular music. From Delta blues on..... More
Harper Perennial, December 2005. First Thus. Paper Back. "Maynard Solomon writes with the grace of a novelist, the insight of a philosopher, and the precision of a detective. We come to know Mozart personally, as a musical genius, but more than that, as a living, breathing, thinking person." --Yo-Yo Ma..... More
Music Sales Corp, May 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. One of fourteen children born to a schoolmaster and a domestic servant with family roots in what is now the Czech republic. Schubert was the quintessential Viennese composer. The poetry of his music, its love of dance rhythms and its emotional ambiguity..... More
Plume, September 1983. Trade Paperback. First published in 1943, this autobiography is also a superb portrait of America's Depression years, by the folk singer, activist, and man who saw it all. Woody Guthrie was born in Oklahoma and traveled this whole country over--not by jet or motorcycle, but by boxcar..... More
Univ of North Carolina Pr, February 2021. Paper Back. In the summer of 1978, the B-52's conquered the New York underground. A year later, the band's self-titled debut album burst onto the Billboard charts, capturing the imagination of fans and music critics worldwide. The fact that the group had formed..... More
The Haber Corperation, 2002. First Edition. Pamphlet. {9'x 12'} Quarto sized pamphlet. Signed, 'Joe Cocker, 2003' on front cover, unfortunately a bit rubbed from not the best storage. Else very good overall. More
