Composers and songwriters

Every time I sing a song, I'm actually making love on stage.

The tempestuous, scandalous love affair of the 20th century's Romeo and Juliet was second in fame and notoriety only to that of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and by many accounts, even more corrupt.

From famed celebrity biographer Darwin Porter, this is the most honest and journalistically important biography of Michael Jackson ever published, with a roster of literary reviews that outnumber and outclass any other MJ bio on the market.

This is the first post-mortem, unauthorized insight into Merv Griffin, a failed singer and unsuccessful actor who unexpectedly rewrote the rules of America's broadcasting industry.

The truth about Steve McQueen is spectacularly different from the legend projected by his screen persona and Hollywood's media machine.

Hollywood's Silent Closet provides a banquet of information about the pansexual intrigues of Hollywood between 1919 and 1926, compiled from eyewitness interviews with men and women, all of them insiders, who flourished in its midst.

In this riveting account of Biggies remarkable life, hip hop journalist Cheo Hodari Coker tells the story youve never heard about the dramatic, tension-filled world of Biggie, Tupac, Puff Daddy, and Suge Knight, tracing their friendships and feuds from the beginning to the bitter end.

Spangles, Elephants, Violets & Me is a moving and revealing journey back to the playground of Victoria Cristiani Rossis youth.

One hot summer night in 1945, three young American writers, each an enfant terrible, came together in a stuffy Manhattan apartment for the first time.

This New York Times bestseller is the most intimate possible remembrance of Natalie Wood's tempestuous life and tragic death.

Their relationship was that of fairy tales.

Drawing on their in-depth interviews with Robert Wagner, authors Maychick and Borgo provide us with a rare glimpse into the private and stormy life of a Hollywood legend.

Craig Smith was good looking, charismatic, outgoing a gifted musician whose songs were recorded by some of the biggest names in entertainment.

The basis of a full-length documentary.

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.

Lowell Tarling recorded Martin Sharp's life, and his effect on his friends, over twenty years.

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

The first and best biography of the great Troubadour with artwork by Martin Sharp.

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.

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.

In this unorthodox autobiographical collection of essays the author invites the reader into a world of travel, teaching, education, entertainment, chess, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, despair, political intrigue, faith and Catholicism.