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From the author of ‘Abbey Road’ comes the story of how enduring rock icons like Pink Floyd, Bruce Springsteen and many more have remained in the ever changing music game. When Paul McCartney closed Live Aid in July 1985 we thought he was rock’s Grand Old Man. He was forty-three years old. As the forty years since have shown he – and many others of his generation – were just getting started. Hence this is a story without precedent, a story in which Elton John plays a royal funeral, Mick Jagger gets a knighthood, Bob Dylan picks up the Nobel Prize, the Beatles become, if anything, bigger than the Beatles and it’s beginning to look as though all of the above will, thanks to the march of technology, be playing Las Vegas for ever.
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‘Bitter Crop’ is an unconventional portrait of arguably America’s most eminent jazz singer. Acclaimed biographer Paul Alexander shrewdly focuses on the last year of Billie Holiday’s life – with relevant flashbacks to provide context – to evoke and examine the persistent magnificence of her artistry when it was supposed to have declined, in the wake of her drug abuse, relationships with violent men, and run-ins with the law. During her lifetime and after her death, Billie Holiday was often depicted as a down-on-her-luck junkie severely lacking in self-esteem. Relying on interviews with people who knew her and new material unearthed in private collections and institutional archives, ‘Bitter Crop’ limns Holiday as a powerful, ambitious woman who overcame her flaws to triumph as a vital figure of American popular music.
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£22.00
The explosive new book from Britain’s leading investigative biographer, Tom Bower
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£25.00
An Independent Best Non-Fiction Book for 2024
Celebrated music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career of the legendary Joni Mitchell
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£16.99
Informal, raucous and sometimes scandalous, the heroes of classical music are often far from the composed images they’re portrayed as. Take a walk in the shoes of 20 original rock stars from the last millennium and find out what it really takes to write a timeless classical hit.
Cat In The Hat 
The Outsider 
PMC Things Fall Apart 
