Composers and songwriters

Who writes the books we read about music that excites us, and why?

Bob Dylan: Performing Artist 1986-1990 And Beyond is the third volume of US critic Paul Williams' widely acclaimed writings on the music and performances of Bob Dylan.

';Ragunath's transformation shows how one person's choice to evolve can change the lives of so many.

Journey are undoubtedly one of America's most successful melodic rock bands, with record sales in excess of 75 million.

A double biography of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, their friendship and love affair.

Before launching the iconic Texas blues-rock trio ZZ Top, a young Billy Gibbons was hustling through the Lone Star State with a band named the Moving Sidewalks.

When Ernst Krenek's opera Jonny spielt auf (Jonny plays on) opened in Leipzig in 1927, it became an instant and spectacular success.

Wir würden mit dir segeln in die weiteste tiefste FerneUnd dann benommen fliegen, fliegen in den Wolken, fliegen.

When he was seventeen years old, Audie Murphy falsified his birth records so he could enlist in the Army and help defeat the Nazis.

As lead singer of The Pogues and as a solo artist, Shane MacGowan is a defining figure of modern Irish music.

His fans adore him, the critics hate him and Barry Manilow just keeps going on!

Dubbed the 'man in black', it's time to look beyond the myth and the rumours of this most charismatic but misunderstood of rock Guitarists.

When he was seventeen years old, Audie Murphy falsified his birth records so he could enlist in the Army and help defeat the Nazis.

Joel McIver's acclaimed Black Sabbath biography, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, concluded in 2011 that its subjects were at a crossroads.

For many fans, David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust era remains the most extraordinarily creative period in his career.

From the 1920s to the 1940s, Leo Sowerby created popular secular works while his sacred compositions led admirers to call him the "e;dean of American church musicians.

Piers Morgan is one of the best-known faces in the media, whose easy charm and boyish good looks have endeared him to the nation.

This book was painstakingly researched over five years using scores of primary interviews and first-hand recollections by those closest to Ronson, including: Suzi Ronson (wife), David and Maggie Ronson (brother and sister), Minnie Ronson (mother), Steve Popovich (manager), Lou Reed, Ian Hunter, Chrissie Hynde, Steve Harley, Joe Elliott and a host of others.

Two years ago, Chloe Sims was a single mum struggling to make ends meet.

Michael Ball is more than a Laurence Olivier Award winner and multiplatinum recording artist; he holds the unique status of being Britain's foremost musical theatre actor.

Alfred Brendel nannte Peter Gülke einmal "den sehr seltenen Fall eines praktischen Musikers, der zugleich Musikwissenschaftler ist und dazu ein Literat von hohen Graden".

Ein Arbeitsbuch für leidenschaftliche Musikhörer und Musikliebhaber ohne Notenkenntnisse.

This insightful biography looks at the turbulent lives, groundbreaking music and lyrics, and powerful brand of hip hop's infamous Wu-Tang Clan.

This comprehensive book documents the nearly half-century-long story of The Rolling Stones-the group many regard as the most eminent rock band ever.

This biography offers students and general readers an insightful look into Jerry Garcia's creative genius as a founding member of The Grateful Dead and the various influences on his work as he contributed to the countercultural movement in the United States.

Here is an up-to-date, thoroughly researched biography of the world's most popular pop-punk band.

This fresh interpretation explains how an untutored musician changed music while at the same time playing an inadvertent role in the youth rebellion that has shaped the Baby Boomer generation into the 21st century.

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Michael Haydn, oft im Schatten seines berühmten Bruders Joseph Haydn stehend, war ein außergewöhnlicher Komponist, dessen Werk und Leben bisher zu wenig gewürdigt wurden.

An in-depth look at the rise of enigmatic Australian rock band TISM, the unexpected success of their 1995 album, Machiavelli and the Four Seasons, and the continued trajectory of their storied career.

I moderne toppidrett er mental form viktig i tillegg til fysisk form.

Bei bisher über 4`000 Auftritten in 19 Ländern erlebte der preisgekrönte Schweizer Boogie- und Bluespianist Nico Brina den Zauber der improvisierten Musik, wie sie auf Menschen wirkt, was sie auslöst in ihren Seelen.

Diese Monographie zeichnet erstmals ein umfassendes Bild des Komponisten, Dirigenten und Musiktheoretikers Adolf Reichel (1816–1896).

­Este libro se fundamenta en conceptos sólidos y  actuales, y tiene un fuerte componente práctico en las diversas actividades en las que participamos como usuarios de la vía pública: peatones, pasajeros, acompañantes, conductores de distintos medios de transporte.

This book is a music-theoretical and critical-theoretical study of late tonal music, and, in particular, of the music of Wagner's Gotterdammerung.

UPDATED 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITIONOffering an intimate and indispensable window onto the gifted and impassioned, yet vulnerable and uncertain human behind the hip-hop legend of Tupac Shakur, this collection of original poems, letters, and conversations from his time spent incarcerated in 1995 reveals the artist and activist as never seen before.

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Chopping Wood is Pete Seeger up close and personal like never before.

Rising up aus der Asche von Kyuss, Queens Of The Stone Age sind eine elektrisierende musikalische Kraft, die eine ganz neue Musik-Bewegung inspiriert haben.

The Isley Brothers' 3+3, dissects The Isleys' 50-year-old undisputed masterwork, an album that firmly established their music dynasty on a global scale, as well as heralding the boldest run of genre-defiant albums of their 67-year career.

This book is a music-theoretical and critical-theoretical study of late tonal music, and, in particular, of the music of Wagner's Gotterdammerung.

Das Buch entführt den Leser auf eine faszinierende Reise durch die facettenreiche Welt der Musik, von ihren Ursprüngen bis zu ihrer vielfältigen Entwicklung.

The Isley Brothers' 3+3, dissects The Isleys' 50-year-old undisputed masterwork, an album that firmly established their music dynasty on a global scale, as well as heralding the boldest run of genre-defiant albums of their 67-year career.