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This title is not just the greatest book about the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band, it is one of the most important books about the 1960s capturing its zeitgeist – that uneasy mix of excess, violence and idealism. The text gives a history of the Rolling Stones from their early rhythm ‘n’ blues days in west London clubs to the end of the 1960s.
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.
Graham Nash, lead singer and principal songwriter of the Hollies, then member of supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, made the incredible and possibly unique journey from 60s Manchester to swinging London to sunny California. And along the way he created many of the iconic songs which defined a generation that began with the opening salvos of the British rock revolution and ended with the last embers of Woodstock. In this candid and riveting autobiography Nash tells it all.
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.
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.
‘All the Madmen’ tells the story of six stars who travelled to the edge of sanity in the years following the summer of love, and charts how they made some of the most seminal rock music every recorded.
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