Crown: 5430 books
The Book of Exodus
The Making and Meaning of Bob Marley and the Wailers' Album of the Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Follow the Sacred Journey to Create One of the Lasting Musical Masterpieces of Our Time
Bob Marley is one of our most important and influential artists. Recorded in London after an assassination attempt on his life sent Marley into exile from Jamaica, Exodus is the most lasting testament to...
Higher Ground
Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Soul
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
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...
Light and Shade
Conversations with Jimmy Page
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
This “oral autobiography” of Jimmy Page, the intensely private mastermind behind Led Zeppelin—one of the most enduring bands in rock history—is the most complete and revelatory portrait of the legendary guitarist ever published.
More than 30 years after disbanding in 1980, Led Zeppelin...
by Tori Amos, Ann Powers
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
I choose to fight my battles through my music . . . I was born a feminist. And then at age five, when my strict Christian grandmother punished me, I realized, I’m not penetrating here. I’m just pissing people off. So I had to find another way to penetrate. I had to redefine what that word means....
What Happened, Miss Simone?
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
**Inspired by the Academy Award-nominated Netflix documentary What Happened, Miss Simone?, an intimate and vivid look at the legendary life of Nina Simone, the classically trained pianist who evolved into a chart-topping chanteuse and committed civil rights activist. **
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From music journalist...
Useless Magic
Lyrics and Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Lyrics and never-before-seen poetry and sketches from the iconic musician of Florence and the Machine
Songs can be incredibly prophetic, like subconscious warnings or messages to myself, but I often don't know what I'm trying to say till years later. Or a prediction comes true and I couldn't do anything to stop it, so it seems like a kind of useless magic.
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...
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,...
by Larry Sloman
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
Hailed as “the War and Peace of rock and roll” by Bob Dylan himself, this is the ultimate backstage pass to Dylan’s legendary 1975 tour across America—by a former Rolling Stone reporter prominently featured in Martin Scorsese’s Netflix documentary Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story.
In...
Running with Monsters
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Celebrity Rehab star and Thelonious Monster frontman Bob Forrest's memoir about his drug-fueled life in the L.A. indie rock scene of the '80s and '90s and his life-changing decision to become a drug counselor who specializes in reaching the unreachable.
Life has been one strange trip for Bob...
Gone
A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
The spellbinding memoir of a violin virtuoso who loses the instrument that had defined her both on stage and off -- and who discovers, beyond the violin, the music of her own voice
Her first violin was tiny, harsh, factory-made; her first piece was “Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star.” But from...
Infinite Tuesday
An Autobiographical Riff
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Michael Nesmith’s eclectic, electric life spans his star-making role on The Monkees, his invention of the music video, and his critical contributions to movies, comedy, and the world of virtual reality.
Above all, his is a seeker’s story, a pilgrimage in search of a set of principles to...
The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash
My Life, My Beats
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2008
A no-holds-barred memoir from the primary architect of hip hop and one of the culture's most revered music icons—both the tale of his life and legacy and a testament to dogged determination.
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five fomented the musical revolution known as hip hop. Theirs was...