Composers category: 3267 books
It's a Long Story
My Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
The definitive autobiography of Willie Nelson
"Unvarnished. Funny. Leaving no stone unturned."
. . . So say the publishers about this book I've written.
What I say is that this is the story of my life, told as clear as a Texas sky and in the same rhythm that I lived...
by Wynonna Judd, Patsi Bale Cox
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2007
From the heart of one of the world’s most beloved entertainers comes an engaging memoir of professional triumph, private heartbreak, and personal victory.
It didn’t take Wynonna Judd long to find her purpose—or her voice. She picked up her first guitar at nine and in less that ten years...
Wild Tales
A Rock & Roll Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
From Graham Nash—the legendary musician and founding member of the iconic bands Crosby, Stills & Nash and The Hollies—comes a candid and riveting autobiography that belongs on the reading list of every classic rock fan.
Graham Nash's songs defined a generation and helped shape the history...
The Soloist (Movie Tie-In)
A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2008
The New York Times bestselling true story that inspired the major motion picture—an “unforgettable tale of hope, heart and humanity”(People).
Journalist Steve Lopez discovered of Nathaniel Ayers, a former classical bass student at Julliard, playing his heart out on a two-string violin...
Bowie
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
An expansive biography of David Bowie, one of the twentieth century’s greatest music and cultural icons.
From noted author and rock ’n’ roll journalist Marc Spitz comes a major David Bowie biography to rival any other. Following Bowie’s life from his start as David Jones, an R &...
Mick
The Wild Life and Mad Genius of Jagger
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
“He’s a smart little mother******,I’ll give him that.” —KEITH RICHARDS on MICK JAGGER
IS he Jumpin’ Jack Flash? A Street Fighting Man? A Man of Wealth and Taste? All this, it turns out, and far more. By any definition, Mick Jagger is a force of nature, a complete original—and...
Can't Buy Me Love
The Beatles, Britain, and America
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2007
That the Beatles were an unprecedented phenomenon is a given. In Can’t Buy Me Love, Jonathan Gould explains why, placing the Fab Four in the broad and tumultuous panorama of their time and place, rooting their story in the social context that girded both their rise and their demise. Nearly twenty...
The Wrecking Crew
The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
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...
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
The Life and Times of Warren Zevon
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
When Warren Zevon died in 2003, he left behind a rich catalog of dark, witty rock 'n' roll classics, including "Lawyers, Guns and Money," "Excitable Boy," and the immortal "Werewolves of London." He also left behind a fanatical cult following and veritable rock opera...
And I Don't Want to Live This Life
A Mother's Story of Her Daughter's Murder
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
“Honest and moving . . . Her painful tale is engrossing.”—Washington Post Book World
For most of us, it was just another horrible headline. But for Deborah Spungen, the mother of Nancy, who was stabbed to death at the Chelsea Hotel, it was both a relief and a tragedy. Here is the incredible...
Me and a Guy Named Elvis
My Lifelong Friendship with Elvis Presley
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2006
On a lazy Sunday in 1954, twelve-year-old Jerry Schilling wandered into a Memphis touch football game, only to discover that his team was quarterbacked by a nineteen-year-old Elvis Presley, the local teenager whose first record, "That’s All Right," had just debuted on Memphis radio. The...
Riders on the Storm
My Life with Jim Morrison and the Doors
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
“This book is the real story.”—Robby Krieger
“[John] Densmore's is the first Doors biography that feels like it was written for the right reasons, and it is easily the most informed account of the Doors' brief but brilliant life as a group. . . . Densmore is a fluent, articulate writer...
by Gene Simmons
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2001
You wanted the truth, you got the truth—the hottest book in the world!
Fueled by an explosive mix of makeup, costumes, and attitude, KISS burst onto the music scene thirty years ago and has become a rock institution. The band has sold more than eighty million records, has broken every concert...
Broken Music
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2009
Having been a songwriter most of my life, condensing my ideas and emotions into short rhyming couplets and setting them to music, I had never really considered writing a book. But upon arriving at the reflective age of fifty, I found myself drawn, for the first time, to write long passages that were...