Da Capo Press imprint: 567 books
Goodnight, L.A.
The Rise and Fall of Classic Rock--The Untold Story from inside the Legendary Recording Studios
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
A behind-the-scenes journey through the rise and demise of the '70s and '80s classic rock era
Before disco, punk, hair metal, rap, and eventually grunge took it all away, the music scene in Los Angeles was dominated by rock 'n' roll. If a group wanted to hit it big, L.A. was the place to be....
Digging Up Mother
A Love Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Doug Stanhope is one of the most critically acclaimed and stridently unrepentant comedians of his generation. What will surprise some is that he owes so much of his dark and sometimes uncomfortably honest sense of humor to his mother, Bonnie. It was the cartoons in her Hustler magazine issues that...
Brother Ray
Ray Charles' Own Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Ray Charles (1930-2004) led one of the most extraordinary lives of any popular musician. In Brother Ray, he tells his story in an inimitable and unsparing voice, from the chronicle of his musical development to his heroin addiction to his tangled romantic life. Overcoming poverty, blindness, the loss...
Benson
The Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Over the course of his fifty-year career, George Benson has performed for hundreds of millions of fans around the world, received ten Grammy Awards, and recorded with some of the most revered musicians of his era. In 2011, he earned a National Endowment of the Arts Jazz Masters Award. And he has finally...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
The ninth entry in the acclaimed series celebrating the best writing on every style of music, from rock to hip-hop, R&B to jazz, pop to blues, and more.
Best music writing is the definitive guide to the year in music writing, an annual feast of essays, missives, and musings on every musical...
You're Making Me Hate You
A Cantankerous Look at the Common Misconception That Humans Have Any Common Sense Left
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
New York Times bestselling lead singer of Slipknot and Stone Sour's hilarious trawl through the endless backwaters of human stupidity
Corey Taylor has had it. Had it with the vagaries of human behavior and life in this postmodern digital blanked-out waiting room that passes for a world. Reality...
Fab
An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Howard Sounes, the bestselling author of Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan and Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life, turns his considerable reporting and storytelling skills to one of the most famous, talented-and wealthiest-men alive: Paul McCartney.
Fab is the first...
Blowing Smoke
Why the Right Keeps Serving Up Whack-Job Fantasies about the Plot to Euthanize Grandma, Outlaw Chris
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
HAS AMERICA LOST ITS MARBLES?
Television sensation Glenn Beck warns of White House plots to institute fascism, communism, and other terrifying “isms.”
Radio titan Rush Limbaugh charges that a racist Obama regime encourages black schoolchildren to beat up white kids.
Evangelical luminary James...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Best Music Writing has become one of the most eagerly awaited annuals of them all. Celebrating the year in music writing by gathering a rich array of essays, missives, and musings on every style of music from rock to hip-hop to R&B to jazz to pop to blues, it is essential reading for anyone who...
Marathon Woman
Running the Race to Revolutionize Women's Sports
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
A new edition of a sports icon's memoir, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Kathrine Switzer's historic running of the Boston Marathon as the first woman to run.
In 1967, Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to officially run what was then the all-male Boston Marathon, infuriating one...
Fire and Forget
Short Stories from the Long War
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Fire and Forget includes the title story from Redeployment by Phil Klay, 2014 National Book Award Winner in Fiction
These stories aren't pretty and they aren't for the faint of heart. They are realistic, haunting and shocking. And they are all unforgettable. Television reports, movies, newspapers...
Celebrating the Third Place
Inspiring Stories About the Great Good Places at the Heart of Our Communities
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
Nationwide, more and more entrepreneurs are committing themselves to creating and running "third places," also known as "great good places." In his landmark work, The Great Good Place, Ray Oldenburg identified, portrayed, and promoted those third places. Now, more than ten years...
The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz
A True Story of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into the concentration camp, Buna-Monowitz, known as Auschwitz III.
In the summer of 1944, Denis Avey was being held in a British POW labour camp, E715, near Auschwitz III....
No Is a Four-Letter Word
How I Failed Spelling but Succeeded in Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
New York Times bestselling author and six-time WWE champion Chris Jericho shares 20 of his most valuable lessons for achieving your goals and living the life you want.
Chris Jericho has known what he wanted out of life since he was a teenager: to be a pro wrestler and to be in a rock 'n' roll...