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  • Chuck Berry

    An American Life

    by RJ Smith ...
    The definitive biography of Chuck Berry, legendary performer and inventor of rock and rollBest known as the groundbreaking artist behind classics like “Johnny B. Goode,” “Maybellene,” “You Never Can Tell” and “Roll Over Beethoven,” Chuck Berry was a man of wild contradictions, whose motives and motivations were often shrouded in mystery. After all, how did a teenage delinquent come to write so ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Fela: This Bitch Of a Life

    by Carlos Moore ...
    African superstar composer singer and musician as well as mystic and political activist Nigerian Fela Kuti born in 1938 was controversy personified. He was swept to international celebrity on a wave of scandal and flamboyance and when he died of AIDS in 1997 more than a million people attended his funeral. But what was he really like this man who could as easily arouse violent hostility as he ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Bobby Womack My Story 1944-2014

    by Bobby Womack ...
    The man who could make you cry when he sang' - RONNIE WOOD. Bobby Womack was born on 4 March 1944, and died on 27 June 2014, aged 70. In a career that spanned two centuries and seven decades, the soul singer, songwriter and guitarist carved a niche for himself that has rarely been equalled, and never surpassed. He is, quite simply, irreplaceable.A phenomenally gifted musician, his incredible ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals

    Series series Music in American Life
    A No Depression Most Memorable Music Book of 2022The forceful music that rolled out of Muscle Shoals in the 1960s and 1970s shaped hits by everyone from Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin to the Rolling Stones and Paul Simon. Christopher M. Reali's in-depth look at the fabled musical hotbed examines the events and factors that gave the Muscle Shoals sound such a potent cultural power. Many artists ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Blues Brothers

    An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic

    The story of the epic friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of improv, and the making of a comedic film classic that helped shape our popular culture“They’re not going to catch us,” Dan Aykroyd, as Elwood Blues, tells his brother Jake, played by John Belushi. “We’re on a mission from God.” So opens the musical action comedy The Blues Brothers, which hit theaters on June ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?

    An Oral History of the '60s Girl Groups

    Featuring over 300 hours of new interviews with 100+ subjects, an oral history of the girl groups (such as The Ronettes, The Shirelles, The Supremes, and The Vandellas) that redefined the early 1960sThe girl group sound, made famous and unforgettable by acts like The Ronettes, The Shirelles, The Supremes, and The Vandellas, took over the airwaves by capturing the mixture of innocence and rebellion ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Wrecking Crew

    The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret

    by Kent Hartman ...
    ***Winner of the Oregon Book Award for General Nonfiction and Los Angeles Times bestseller"It makes good music sound better."-Janet Maslin in The New York Times***"A fascinating look into the West Coast recording studio scene of the '60s and the inside story of the music you heard on the radio. If you always assumed the musicians you listened to were the same people you saw onstage, you are in for ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Meaning of Mariah Carey

    by Mariah Carey ...
    **The Instant #1 New York Times BestsellerThe global icon, award-winning singer, songwriter, producer, actress, mother, daughter, sister, storyteller, and artist finally tells the unfiltered story of her life in The Meaning of Mariah Carey**It took me a lifetime to have the courage and the clarity to write my memoir. I want to tell the story of the moments - the ups and downs, the triumphs and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • More Myself

    A Journey

    by Alicia Keys ...
    An intimate, revealing look at one artist’s journey from self-censorship to full expressionAs one of the most celebrated musicians in the world, Alicia Keys has enraptured the globe with her heartfelt lyrics, extraordinary vocal range, and soul-stirring piano compositions. Yet away from the spotlight, Alicia has grappled with private heartache—over the challenging and complex relationship with her ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Motown

    Music, Money, Sex, and Power

    by Gerald Posner ...
    In 1959, twenty-nine-year-old Berry Gordy, who had already given up on his dream to be a champion boxer, borrowed eight hundred dollars from his family and started a record company. A run-down bungalow sandwiched between a funeral home and a beauty shop in a poor Detroit neighborhood served as his headquarters. The building’s entrance was adorned with a large sign that improbably boasted ... Read more

    $9.99 USD $8.99 USD

  • Unknown Pleasures

    Inside Joy Division

    by Peter Hook ...
    In Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division, Peter Hook, bassist for the legendary, groundbreaking band Joy Division, takes readers backstage with the group that helped define the sound of a generation and influenced artists such as U2, Radiohead, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.Unlike other books about Joy Division, Factory Records, or lead singer Ian Curtis—who took his own life just before the band ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Lost Supreme

    The Life of Dreamgirl Florence Ballard

    In the months before she died, Florence Ballard, the spunky teenager who founded the most successful female vocal group in history-the Supremes-told her own side of the story. Recorded on tape, Flo shed light on all areas of her life, including the surprising identity of the man by whom she was raped prior to her entering the music business, the details of her love-hate relationship with Motown ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On Time

    A Princely Life in Funk

    by Morris Day ...
    A memoir by Morris Day of The Time centering around his lifelong relationship and association with Prince"A vital, illuminating, and wildly entertaining autobiography." -Billboard"Great book! Great storytelling!" -LENNY KRAVITZ"Lean, slick, cooler than Santa Claus, and surprisingly tender, this book not only traces Day's history in Minneapolis funk, but doubles as an intimate recollection of his ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The One

    The Life and Music of James Brown

    by RJ Smith ...
    The definitive biography of James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, with fascinating findings on his life as a Civil Rights activist, an entrepreneur, and the most innovative musician of our timePlaying 350 shows a year at his peak, with more than forty Billboard hits, James Brown was a dazzling showman who transformed American music. His life offstage was just as vibrant, and until now no biographer ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs

    by Greil Marcus ...
    The legendary critic and author of Mystery Train “ingeniously retells the tale of rock and roll” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).Unlike previous versions of rock ’n’ roll history, this book omits almost every iconic performer and ignores the storied events and turning points everyone knows. Instead, in a daring stroke, Greil Marcus selects ten songs and dramatizes how each embodies rock ’n’ ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Twilight of the Gods

    A Journey to the End of Classic Rock

    by Steven Hyden ...
    National Bestseller * Named one of Rolling Stone's Best Music Books of 2018 * One of Newsweek's 50 Best Books of 2018 * A Billboard Best of 2018 * A New York Times Book Review "New and Noteworthy" selectionThe author of the critically acclaimed Your Favorite Band is Killing Me offers an eye-opening exploration of the state of classic rock, its past and f... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Higher Ground

    Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Soul

    by Craig Werner ...
    An insightful music writer brilliantly reinterprets the lives of three pop geniuses and the soul revolution they launched.Soul music is one of America's greatest cultural achievements, and Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, and Curtis Mayfield are three of its most inspired practitioners. In midcentury America it was soul music—particularly the dazzling stream of recordings made by these three stars ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Time Is Tight

    My Life, Note by Note

    The long-awaited memoir of Booker T. Jones, leader of the famed Stax Records house band, architect of the Memphis soul sound, and one of the most legendary figures in music.From Booker T. Jones's earliest years in segregated Memphis, music was the driving force in his life. While he worked paper routes and played gigs in local nightclubs to pay for lessons and support his family, Jones, on the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Sweet Soul Music

    Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom

    A gripping narrative that captures the tumult and liberating energy of a nation in transition, Sweet Soul Music is an intimate portrait of the legendary performers--Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, James Brown, Solomon Burke, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, and Al Green among them--who merged gospel and rhythm and blues to create Southern soul music. Through rare interviews and with unique insight, Peter ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Detroit 67

    The Year That Changed Soul

    Series series The Soul Trilogy
    First in the award-winning soul music trilogy—featuring Motown artists Diana Ross & the Supremes, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, and others.Detroit 67 is “a dramatic account of twelve remarkable months in the Motor City” during the year that changed everything (Sunday Mail). It takes you on a turbulent journey through the drama and chaos that ripped through the city in 1967 and tore it apart in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Be My Baby

    A Memoir

    “Do I have to tell you that Ronnie’s got one of the greatest female rock-and-roll voices of all time? She stands alone.”—Keith RichardsBe My Baby is the behind-the-scenes story—newly updated, and with an especially timely message—of how the original bad girl of rock and roll, Ronnie Spector, survived marriage to a monster and carved out a space for herself amid the chaos of the 1960s music scene ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Let Love Rule

    **THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“I see my story as a suite of songs that have a magical connection.”**Let Love Rule is a work of deep reflection. Lenny Kravitz looks back at his life with candor, self-scrutiny, and humor.“My life is all about opposites,” he writes. “Black and white. Jewish and Christian. The Jackson 5 and Led Zeppelin. I accepted my Gemini soul. I owned it. I adored it. Yins and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Soulless

    The Case Against R. Kelly

    by Jim DeRogatis ...
    The essential account of R. Kelly’s actions and their consequences, a reckoning two decades in the makingIn November 2000, Chicago journalist and music critic Jim DeRogatis received an anonymous fax that alleged R. Kelly had a problem with “young girls.” Weeks later, DeRogatis broke the shocking story, publishing allegations that the R&B superstar and local hero had groomed girls, sexually abused ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last Sultan

    The Life and Times of Ahmet Ertegun

    The definitive biography of Ahmet Ertegun—founder of Atlantic Records, the man behind stars from Ray Charles to the Rolling Stones.Brilliant, cultured, brash, and irreverent, Ahmet Ertegun was a legend in the music world. Blessed with great taste and sharp business acumen, he founded Atlantic Records and brought rock ’n’ roll into the mainstream. He quickly became as renowned for his incredible ... Read more

    $15.99 USD