Tchaikovsky: The Man Revealed
£25.00A tortured genius, a sensitive soul, a great composer burdened by the weight of his private desires
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Paul Simon: The Life
£20.00This is an intimate, candid, and definitive biography written with Simon’s participation and encouragement by acclaimed biographer and music writer Robert Hilburn.
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Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine
£20.00The story of Jann Wenner, Rolling Stone’s founder, editor, and publisher, is an insider’s trip through the backstages of storied concert venues, rock-star hotel rooms, and the political ups and downs of the latter half of the twentieth century, right up through the digital age: connecting the counterculture of Haight Ashbury to the ‘straight world. Supplemented by a cache of extraordinary documents and letters from Wenner’s personal archives, ‘Sticky Fingers’ is the story of a mercurial, wide-eyed rock and roll fan of ambiguous sexuality but unambiguous ambition who reinvents youth culture, marketing the libertine world of the late sixties counterculture in a stylish, glossy package that would stand for decades as a testament to the cultural power of American youth.
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Hero: David Bowie
£9.99His music thrilled the generation it was written for, and has entertained and inspired every generation since. This book is an intelligent exploration of the man behind the myths and the makeup told from the very beginning. Respected music journalist and biographer Lesley-Ann Jones knew David Jones from the days before fame, when he was a young musician starting out, frustrated by an industry that wouldn’t give him a break and determined to succeed. Here she traces the epic journey of the boy from Bromley born into a troubled background, to his place as one of the greatest stars in rock history.
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Ed Sheeran: A Visual Journey
£16.99Take one acclaimed singer-songwriter and pair him with one of the most talented young artists of his generation and what do you get? A stunningly original visual documentary of one of the world’s best-loved and most successful musicians of his generation, now released for the first time in paperback.
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Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd
£16.99As the only member to have been part of the band throughout 50 years of existence, this is Nick Mason’s insightful, self-deprecating take on Pink Floyd’s many highs and lows, from their emergence in the 1960s underground movement to the massive worldwide success of ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ and the rifts and pressures that followed.
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Children Of The Stone
£20.00‘Children of the Stone’ is the unlikely story of Ramzi Hussein Aburedwan, a boy from a Palestinian refugee camp in Ramallah who confronts the occupying army, gets an education, masters an instrument, dreams of something much bigger than himself, and then inspires scores of others to work with him to make that dream a reality.
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Schubert’s Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession
£20.00Ian 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.
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Time Out Of Mind
£20.00In 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.
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Play It Again
£16.99As editor of the Guardian, Alan Rusbridger’s life is dictated by the demands of the 24-hour news cycle. It is not the kind of job that leaves one time for hobbies. But in the summer of 2010, he was able to make his annual escape to ‘piano camp’. Here, he set himself an almost impossible task: to learn, Chopin’s Ballade No.1.