Music

What's not to like in a world gone pop? Caspar Llewellyn Smith has always had impeccable taste in music, and by rights he should have hated Pop Idol - and the culture it represents, but on a journey by sofa through reality TV and manufactured pop, he fell in love with the world of Will Young.

The story of the band who defined a generation and a genre - their history and their key concerts, recordings, members and more.

Jun 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' most famous album, SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND. This landmark publication, written by a record company insider, is a must-have for all Beatles fans.

Welcome to Stats, Records & Rock 'n' Roll, an exploration of the aural beauty of music told through 80 visually stunning infographics - the most popular information medium of the 21st century.

Features popular television shows, actors and actresses, music, and dances, and includes a chronology of events for each decade.

Features popular television shows, actors and actresses, music, and dances, and includes a chronology of events for each decade.

Augments their albums by giving a track-by-track analysis of their output, exploring the creative context behind the music, the albums and the concepts that shaped these masterpieces.

Discusses how jazz legend Miles Davis's seminal album "Kind of Blue" has changed both music and culture since its release in 1959, and explains how it influenced diverse artists such as Steve Reich and the Velvet Underground.

Sidney Bechet ranks among the greatest of the early masters of Jazz, up there with Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Dizzy Gillespie. Born of a Creole family in New Orleans, and very conscious of the evils of slavery, his genius flowered at an early age. He is acknowledged as the greatest player ever ...

Radio broadcasts from the Cotton Club from 1927 onwards brought national recognition to Duke Ellington and his band; recordings of his compositions - particularly Saddest Tale, Echoes of Harlem, Black and Tan Fantasy, and Mood Indigo - spread their fame internationally.

A Rock's Backpages anthology of Radiohead, the most radical and fascinating rock band in modern music history, edited and introduced by Barney Hoskyns.

This book gives an overview of Aimee Mann's career from her earliest days, making it big with 'Til Tuesday and onward through her solo career to date, investigating every recorded track in a comprehensive guide for fans and new listeners keen to investigate a true original and double Grammy winner.

Propelled into stardom at an exhilarating speed due to clever marketing and virtuosity in their musicianship, particularly violinist Darryl Way, the story of Curved Air in the 1970s is of a band that burned brightly before collapsing well ahead of their time.

Stephen Lambe's enlightening book guides the reader through Focus's early history year by year, dealing with all eight Focus albums song by song, while also giving the same treatment to Akkerman and Van Leer's lesser know solo work between 1970 and 1979.

If you are a musician, you need this book, which is rooted in real-life music business experience, not classroom theory. It reveals the secrets of artist development using the creative process as the foundation for success, and provides solid direction for you to plan and evaluate your path to success. ...

Fortune followed fame when their eponymous 1991 album (known to fans as "The Black Album") went straight to No 1 on the Billboard 200. Metallica has released nine studio albums, two live albums, two EPs, twenty-two music videos, and forty-three singles.

The first behind-the-scenes look at one of the most popular bands of the 21st century.

Set against the legendary 1980s scene, this book maps the bipolarities of rap and pop, rebellion and acceptance, glitz and gangsterdom, with an energy and exuberance which is as fresh today as when it was written.

The most talented musical family in the world