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  • The Beatles

    The Biography

    by Bob Spitz ...
    The definitive biography of The Beatles, hailed as "irresistible" by the New York Times, "riveting" by the Boston Globe, and "masterful" by Time.As soon as The Beatles became famous, the spin machine began to construct a myth -- one that has continued to this day. But the truth is much more interesting, much more exciting, and much more moving -- the highs and the lows, the love and the rivalry, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)

    A Memoir

    by Sly Stone ...
    Not many memoirs are generational events. But when Sly Stone, one of the few true musical geniuses of the last century, decides to finally tell his life story, it can’t be called anything else.As the front man for the sixties pop-rock-funk band Sly and the Family Stone, a songwriter who created some of the most memorable anthems of the 1960s and 1970s (“Everyday People,” “Family Affair”), and a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Taylor Swift

    In Her Own Words

    by Helena Hunt ...
    Series series In Their Own Words
    Get inside the head of one of the most influential musicians of our time with this collection of her most inspiring and revealing quotes.The quotations in this book have been carefully curated from Taylor Swift’s numerous public statements—interviews, op-eds, social media posts, and more. It’s a comprehensive picture of her meteoric rise to the top, her ever-savvy business sense, and her ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Madonna

    A Rebel Life

    by Mary Gabriel ...
    New York Times Editors’ Choice, One of NPR’s Best Books of the YearIn this “infinitely readable” biography, award-winning author Mary Gabriel chronicles the meteoric rise and enduring influence of the greatest female pop icon of the modern era: Madonna (People Magazine)With her arrival on the music scene in the early 1980s, Madonna generated nothing short of an explosion—as great as that of Elvis ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song

    by Judith Tick ...
    **An NPR 2023 "Books We Love" Pick • A Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of 2023A landmark biography that reclaims Ella Fitzgerald as a major American artist and modernist innovator.**Ella Fitzgerald (1917–1996) possessed one of the twentieth century’s most astonishing voices. In this first major biography since Fitzgerald’s death, historian Judith Tick offers a sublime portrait of this ambitious risk ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Mad World

    An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs That Defined the 1980s

    A “hugely entertaining” history of the 1980s New Wave music scene told through new interviews with its biggest artists (Rolling Stone).Mad World is a compelling oral history that celebrates the New Wave music phenomenon of the 1980s via new interviews with 35 of the most notable artists of the period. Each chapter begins with a discussion of their most popular song and leads to stories of their ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ghost Rider

    Travels on the Healing Road

    by Neil Peart ...
    Within a ten-month period, Neil Peart lost both his 19-year-old daughter, Selena, and his wife, Jackie. Faced with overwhelming sadness and isolated from the world in his home on the lake, Peart was left without direction. This memoir tells of the sense of personal devastation that led him on a 55,000-mile journey by motorcycle across much of North America, down through Mexico to Belize, and back ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Kiss & Tell

    A Romantic Resume, Ages 0 to 22

    by MariNaomi ...
    From her father and mother's interracial marriage to her own "you show me yours, I'll show you mine" moments on the playground—from drug experimentation to sexual/identity questions—MariNaomi lays her inner life bare. Kiss & Tell is her funny and frank memoir in graphic form: a fresh and offbeat coming-of-age story unfolding against the colorful backdrop of San Francisco in the '80s and '90s. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • 3 Shades of Blue

    Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

    by James Kaplan ...
    From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the pinnacle of American culture in 1959, told through the journey of three towering artists—Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans—who came together to create the most iconic jazz album of all time, Kind of BlueThe myth of the ’60s depends on the 1950s being the “before times” of conformity, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Scattershot

    Life, Music, Elton, and Me

    by Bernie Taupin ...
    ****NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**An evocative, clear-eyed, and revealing memoir by Bernie Taupin, the lyrical master and long-time collaborator of Elton John**“I loved writing, I loved chronicling life and every moment I was cogent, sober, or blitzed, I was forever feeding off my surroundings, making copious notes as ammunition for future compositions. . . . The thing is good, bad, or indifferent I ... Read more

    $15.99 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 $2.99 USD

  • The Silver River

    A memoir of family - lost, made and found - from the Midnight Oil founding member, for readers of Dave Grohl, Tim Rogers and Rick Rubin

    by Jim Moginie ...
    A moving and inspiring memoir of families lost and rediscovered, by a founding member of legendary band Midnight Oil.For fifty years, songwriter, guitarist and keyboard player Jim Moginie was a driving force behind one of Australia's most iconic rock bands, Midnight Oil. As they made their way through the nascent domestic punk scene and the uncharted musical territory of the Western Desert to the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • On Streisand

    An Opinionated Guide

    by Ethan Mordden ...
    She said, "I became a singer because I couldn't get work as an actress," but Barbra Streisand not only became both but revolutionized the two professions. Her music transformed the smooth, uninflected style of the Frank Sinatras and Ella Fitzgeralds into an engine of dramatic vocalism in which each song is like a miniature three-act play. And Streisand's films changed forever the ideal of how a ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Woman in Me

    Named a Best Book of the Year by Elle, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, NPR, Financial Times, Vanity Fair, and more!“In Britney Spears’s memoir, she’s stronger than ever.” —The New York TimesOver 2 million copies sold of the “moving” (Time), “powerful” (Los Angeles Times), “radiant” (The New York Times), “poignant” (Vogue) #1 New York Ti... ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Gwen Stefani and No Doubt: Simple Kind of Life

    by Jeff Apter ...
    The eclectic Orange County band No Doubt was formed in 1986 by Eric Stefani and John Spence who soon recruited Eric’s younger sister Gwen as co-vocalist. With the addition of Tony Kanal on Bass, they launched a 20 year career that would fuse ska, grunge, alt. rock and shades of several other musical genres into a unique mix.The 1987 suicide of John Spence resulted in the battlefield promotion of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Anvil!

    The Story of Anvil

    In the early seventies, when Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath ruled the world, Steve “Lips” Kudlow and Robb Reiner, two young Jewish boys from the northern suburbs of Toronto, vowed to rock together forever. A decade later, their band Anvil released one of the heaviest records in music history, Metal on Metal, which influenced a whole musical generation, including the world-dominating bands ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • I Slept with Joey Ramone

    A Family Memoir

    by Mickey Leigh ...
    “A powerful story of punk-rock inspiration and a great rock bio” (Rolling Stone), now in paperback.When the Ramones recorded their debut album in 1976, it heralded the true birth of punk rock. Unforgettable front man Joey Ramone gave voice to the disaffected youth of the seventies and eighties, and the band influenced the counterculture for decades to come. With honesty, humor, and grace, Joey’s ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • See A Grown Man Cry/Now Watch Him Die

    by Henry Rollins ...
    Series series Henry Rollins
    Two companion pieces released in one volume, containing selected writing and tour journal entries from 1988-1992. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Sinatra and Me

    In the Wee Small Hours

    This intimate, revealing portrait of Frank Sinatra—from the man closest to the famous singer during the last decade of his life—features never-before-seen photos and new revelations about some of the most famous people of the past fifty years, including Jackie Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Sam Giancana, Madonna, and Bono. “If you are a Frank fan, buy this book” (Jimmy Kimmel).More than a hundred books ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $11.99 USD

  • A Version of Reason

    The Search for Richey Edwards

    by Rob Jovanovic ...
    The missing Manic - an authoritative look into the life and times of Richey Edwards, the Manic Street Preachers' guitarist who disappeared in 1995.The disappearance of Richey Edwards, troubled guitarist with the Manic Street Preachers, is one of rock and roll's great unresolved mysteries. His Vauxhall Cavalier was found abandoned in a service station car park near the Severn Bridge, a notorious ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Bob Dylan: No Direction Home

    No Direction Home took 20 years to complete and has received widespread critical acclaim. Robert Shelton met Bob Dylan when the young singer arrived in New York; he became Dylan's friend, champion, and critic, and his book has been hailed as the definitive unauthorised biography of this moody, passionate genius and his world. Of more than a thousand books published about Bob Dylan, it is the only ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Prince: All the Songs

    The Story Behind Every Track

    by Benoît Clerc ...
    "Prince: All the Songs is a major achievement...[It] may be the definitive single-volume book about Prince for both its breadth and the way it views his life through the songs that were the true essence of his being." - PsychobabbleSpanning nearly 50 years of albums, EPs, B-sides, and more, read the full story behind all of the songs that Prince ever released. Moving chronologically through his ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Lush Life

    A Biography of Billy Strayhorn

    by David Hajdu ...
    Billy Strayhorn (1915-1967) was one of the most accomplished composers in American music, the creator of such standards as "Take the 'A' Train", yet all his life he was overshadowed by his friend and collaborator, Duke Ellington. Through scrutiny of Strayhorn's private papers and more than five hundred interviews, Hajdu revives Strayhorn as one of the most complex and tragic figures in jazz ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Flatlanders

    Now It's Now Again

    by John T. Davis ...
    Series series American Music Series
    “Conservative West Texas spawns radical creativity and lifelong bonds of friendship in this story of an unlikely band” from the renowned music journalist (Kirkus Reviews).A group of three friends who made music in a house in Lubbock, Texas, recorded an album that wasn’t released and went their separate ways into solo careers. That group became a legend and then—twenty years later—a band. The ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus