Composers and songwriters

The basis of a full-length documentary.

They made fans go crazy and censors apoplectic, spent fortunes faster than they made them, forged Rembrandts and hung them in major museums, went on trial for committing statutory rape with necrophiliac teenage girls, reinterpreted Hamlet as an incestuous mamas boy,and swilled immeasurable quantities of spirits during week-long parties on wobbly yachts.

"e;Lexicon Devil is, pure and simple, the finest volume on punk to have seen the light of print.

Bheki Mseleku is widely considered one of the most accomplished jazz musicians to have emerged from South Africa.

Long John Baldry is considered the father of the 60s British blues movement.

Gleah Powers began her adult life at age 14, not as a runaway, but as a "send away" in 1962.

The Memory of Music is a moving and evocative memoir that will appeal to music lovers everywhere.

'Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.

After three decades of living in the sandy beach suburbs of Huntington Beach, Jon Vreeland's heroin addiction has finally destroyed his once promising music career, and estranged himself from his wife and his two daughters.

A hilarious rollercoaster ride of life behind the curtains with Australia's funniest rising star of comedy With a foreword by Chrissie Swan Joel Creasey has known he wanted to be on the world's stage since he was in short pants, and nothing was going to get in his way.

Ted Egan was born in Melbourne and spent his first sixteen years there, described in his The Paperboy's War.

'I reckon throwing that rock through the window of Phelan's butcher shop was one of the best things I ever did.

American-born Gus Pierce arrived in Australia in 1860 and promptly deserted, swimming ashore at Port Phillip.

Nigel's very personal story is told simply and honestly, and with humour and enthusiasm.

The award-winning, much-loved memoir of renowned author and musician Anna Goldsworthy about her first steps towards a life in music.

This remarkable memoir begins with Don Walker's early life in rural Australia and goes up to the late '80s.

The story of an Australian girl who defied convention and became the most famous singer of her era.

"e;The sky was painfully big, but our worlds were small, our lives little.

A memoir from one of Britain’s legendary singers, folklorists, and music historians.

A biography of a German American family who grew wealthy from their Philadelphia beer brewing company in the late nineteenth century.

*** "e;A rip-roaring read.

The BBC Proms is the world's biggest and longest-running classical music festival and one of the jewels in the crown for the BBC.

The BBC Proms is the world's biggest and longest-running classical music festival and one of the jewels in the crown for the BBC.

Possessed by Music is the fascinating story of the Russian composer Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov (1865-1936).

*The Sunday Times bestseller*Fact: Did you know, over its lifespan, your sofa will witness roughly 293 arguments and 1,369 cuddles?

'WHICH IS THE BEST BAND I'VE BEEN IN?

*THE INCREDIBLE STORY BEHIND THE BETTER MAN FILM*'It's much more interesting to be a little bit broken and talk about your vulnerabilities.

Multi-award winning comedienne Angie Le Mar tells us what makes her tick.

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In 2010, recording artist Lil Wayne was at the height of his career.

Michael Auger, Richard Hadfield, Jamie Lambert, Matt Pagan and Thomas J Redgrave had been singing together for just one month when they decided to enter Britain's Got Talent.

On June 25th, 2009, the world was rocked by the tragic, shocking news that Michael Jackson - the biggest and most influential music icon since Elvis Presley - was pronounced dead on arrival at a Los Angeles hospital.

It was never easy for Professor Green.

One of the most easily recognised figures on the Scottish scene, Ronnie Browne was one half of The Corries until the untimely death of his musical partner, Roy Williamson, in 1990.

In this philosophical biography, Liel Leibovitz looks at what it is that makes Leonard Cohen an enduring international figure in the cultural imagination.

A collection of short stories set in and around the RFH on London's South Bank.

'How did I end up here?

For almost thirty years, the Church have crafted music that blends a rich variety of styles in a beautiful, multi-layered sound.

When Robert Forster and Grant McLennan formed the Go-Betweens in Brisbane in 1977, they were determined to be different.

The definitive account of AC/DC's rise to fame, when the ribald lyrics and charismatic stage presence of singer Bon Scott, along with the guitar work of Angus and Malcolm Young, defined a new, highly influential brand of rock and roll.

In his second collection (after Kill All Your Darlings, 2007), Luc Sante pays homage to Patti Smith, Rene Ricard, and Georges Simenon; traces the history of tabloids; surveys the landscape that gave birth to the Beastie Boys; explores the back alleys of vernacular photography; sounds a threnody for the forgotten dead of New York City.

"e;These are stories to cherish, as brilliant and charming as the writer himself.

Everyone knows Mrs Danvers as a byword for menace in Hitchcock's Rebecca and as a poster girl for lesbians in the movies.

The young John Zaradin felt driven to make his life in music against all sensible career advice offered by his peers and parents.