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Ian Bostridge focuses on the context, resonance and personal significance of Schubert’s ‘Winter Journey’, which is possibly the greatest landmark in the history of Lieder. Using each of the 24 songs as a starting point, the book brings the work and its world alive for connoisseurs and new listeners alike.
Quirky and wonderfully candid, Neil Young’s second book of reminiscences is as compelling as his first book. He returns with more unforgettable stories about his six decades in the music business – but this is not your average rock biography. He centres this work on one of his life’s passions, cars, using the framework of all the cars he’s ever owned to construct a narrative of his life and career, exploring and demonstrating how memories are attached to objects. Young also expresses regret for the environmental impact of his past cars, and now passionately advocates the use of clean energy. ‘Special Deluxe’ is a mix of memoir and environmental politics by one of the most gifted and influential artists of our time.
It has been said ‘Most pop stars have to be dead before they reach the iconic status that Morrissey has reached in his lifetime’. This title covers his life from birth until the present day.
In 1997, having failed to release a single new song in seven long years, Dylan put out the equivalent of two albums in a single package. He called it ‘Time Out of Mind’. So began the renaissance, artistic and personal, that culminated in 2012’s acclaimed ‘Tempest’. In the concluding volume of his groundbreaking study, Ian Bell explores the unparalleled second act in a quintessentially American career. It is a tale of redemption, of an act of creative will against the odds, and of a writer who refused to fade away.
It was the greatest invention in the history of pop music – the rock god who came from the stars – which struck a young David Bowie like a lightning bolt from the heavens. When Ziggy the glam alien messiah fell to Earth, he transformed Bowie from a prodigy to a superstar who changed the face of music forever. But who was Ziggy Stardust? And where did he really come from? In a work of supreme pop archaeology, Simon Goddard unearths every influence that brought Ziggy to life – from H.G. Wells to Holst, Kabuki to Kubrick, and Elvis to Iggy. This book documents the epic drama of the Starman’s short but eventful time on Planet Earth and why Bowie eventually had to kill him.
Published to mark the beginning of the Britten centenary year in 2013, this is the definitive biography of Britain’s greatest modern composer. In the eyes of many, Benjamin Britten was our finest composer since Purcell (a figure who often inspired him) 300 years earlier.
This is the autobiography of the legendary megastar, who has sold more than 200 million albums and singles worldwide. After more than 50 years in the music business, Rod Stewart takes a candid and romping look back at his life both on and off the stage.
This is the story of Alex James’s transition from a leading light of the Britpop movement in the 1990s, to gentleman farmer, artisan cheese-maker and father of five.
Winner of the 2010 Non-Fiction National Book Award Patti Smith’s evocative, honest and moving coming-of-age story of her extraordinary relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe
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