Composers category: 3267 books
Homeward Bound
The Life of Paul Simon
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
A revelatory account of the life of beloved American music icon, Paul Simon, by the bestselling rock biographer Peter Ames Carlin
To have been alive during the last sixty years is to have lived with the music of Paul Simon. The boy from Queens scored his first hit record in 1957, just months...
A Light That Never Goes Out
The Enduring Saga of the Smiths
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
The definitive book about The Smiths, one of the most beloved, respected, and storied indie rock bands in music history.
They were, their fans believe, the best band in the world. Hailing from Manchester, England, The Smiths--Morrissey, Johnny Marr, Andy Rourke, and Mike Joyce--were critical...
by Margaret Moser, Bill Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Aerosmith. Elvis Presley. Michael Jackson. Nine Inch Nails. Ozzy Osbourne. U2. What do all of these artists have in common? They're rich and rowdy rock 'n' roll renegades whose wild stunts, dumb quotes, and out-of-control lifestyles are featured in Rock Stars Do the Dumbest Things.
--Where...
American Band
Music, Dreams, and Coming of Age in the Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2007
In the spirit of Friday Night Lights comes the stirring story of a marching band from small-town middle America.
Every fall, marching bands take to the field in a uniquely American ritual. For millions of kids, band is a rite of passage—a first foray into leadership and adult responsibility,...
Verdi With a Vengeance
An Energetic Guide to the Life and Complete Works of the King of Opera
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
Everything you could possibly know about Verdi and his operas, from the brilliant and humorous author of Wagner Without Fear.
If you want to know why La traviata was actually a flop at its premiere in 1853, it's in here. If you want to know why claiming to have heard Bjorling's Chicago performance...
by Buzzy Martin
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
This is the story of lifelong musician Buzzy Martin, music teacher to the hardened criminals inside the walls of San Quentin Prison-and what he learned, note by incredible note.
My Second Chapter
The Matthew Ward Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
How one family’s tragedy ultimately revolutionized contemporary Christian music.
Known for such classics as “Easter Song,” the Second Chapter of Acts was one of the major music groups in the forefront of the Jesus movement. But what happened, in the wake of personal tragedy, to bring...
Special Deluxe
A Memoir of Life & Cars
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
**The perfect gift for music and car lovers, Special Deluxe is Neil Young's New York Times bestselling follow-up to Waging Heavy Peace that “reads like a great Neil Young song plays.” (The Buffalo News) **
In this acclaimed new memoir, New York Times bestselling author Neil Young has...
Where Are You Now, Bo Diddley?
The Stars Who Made Us Rock and Where They Are Now
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2010
From the jumping rock and blues joints of the 1950s to Woodstock and beyond, Where Are You Now, Bo Diddley? takes a close look at forty-seven musicians whose unique contributions to their thrilling era will never be forgotten.
Racing in the Street
The Bruce Springsteen Reader
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2004
For more than three decades, Bruce Springsteen’s ability to express in words and music the deepest hopes, fears, loves, and sorrows of average Americans has made him a hero to his millions of devoted fans. Racing in the Street is the first comprehensive collection of writings about Springsteen,...
You Don't Know Me
Reflections of My Father, Ray Charles
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
A deeply personal memoir of the private Ray Charles - the man behind the legend - by his eldest son.
Ray Charles is an American music legend. A multiple Grammy Award-winning composer, pianist, and singer with an inimitable vocal style and a catalog of hits including "What I Say,"...
Fortissimo
Backstage at the Opera with Sacred Monsters and Young Singers
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
H. L. Mencken declared that “the opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.” It was not meant as a compliment, but to William Murray, former New Yorker staff writer and aspiring opera singer, a bawdy house is an apt metaphor for the opera: a place of confusion, high and low drama,...
Writing Gordon Lightfoot
The Man, the Music, and the World in 1972
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
From acclaimed musician and author Dave Bidini comes a brilliantly original look at a folk-rock legend and the momentous week in 1972 that culminated in the Mariposa Folk Festival.
July, 1972. As musicians across Canada prepare for the nation's biggest folk festival, held on Toronto Island,...
Beethoven
The Man Revealed
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
“An ideal ‘first book’ on Beethoven” from one of the world’s most eminent classical music aficionados (Booklist).
Beethoven scholar and classical radio host John Suchet has had a lifelong, ardent interest in the man and his music. Here, in his first full-length biography, Suchet illuminates...