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A SUNDAY TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZEPeggy Seeger is one of folk music's most influential artists and songwriters.

A riveting memoir from one of Britain's most beloved writers, Elizabeth Jane Howard, revealing a life as eventful and captivating as her acclaimed novels.

In the '80s, the Birmingham, England, band Duran Duran became closely associated with new wave, an idiosyncratic genre that dominated the decade's music and culture.

Neil Young's Harvest is one of those strange albums that has achieved lasting success without ever winning the full approval of rock critics or hardcore fans.

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Back Home is the story of a group of musicians/songwriterswho formed a band in the early 70s in S.

This collection of Holiday and Inspirational songs is taken from the library of Lauri Allen and spans almost forty years of her writing.

Lit Up Inside contains the lyrics of about one third of the songs that Van Morrison has written over his 50 year career.

It's October 1977, and the Rolling Stones are in a Paris recording studio.

One of the greatest moments of College Rock in the 1980s, Let It Be had a huge impact on the fans who fell under its spell.

Breaking the global record for streams in a single day, nearly 10 million people around the world tuned in to hear Kendrick Lamar's sophomore album in the hours after its release.

The SUNDAY TIMES Top Ten Bestseller#1 Book of the Year, UNCUT#1 Book of the Year, ROUGH TRADEBook of the Year, MOJOOver the course of two albums and some legendary gigs, Joy Division became the most successful and exciting underground band of their generation.

July, 1967: It seems the entire country stopped to listen to a husky voice steeped in the simmering secrets of the South tell a tragic tale of teenage suicide.

This is the album that sent a shockwave of empowerment through the nation's cultural underground.

Winner of 'Best Off West End Production' at the 2011 What's On Stage AwardsWinner of 2011 Laurence Olivier Award for "e;Best New Opera Production"e;The writer, the lover, the artist, the flirt.

Formed in 1968, Jethro Tull are one of rock's most enduring bands.

Whether you're a UFO skeptic, believer, or merely a rock music fan, Alien Rock takes you on a fascinating and irreverent journey exploring the extraterrestrial stories of your favorite rock icons.

It's October 1977, and the Rolling Stones are in a Paris recording studio.

Hailed as a "e;quiet masterpiece"e; upon release, Yo La Tengo's And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out proposed a radical new future for rock music.

With musical scores and helpful charts, noted jazz educator and featured jazz soloist, Jerry Coker, gives the beginning performer and the curious listener insights into the art of jazz improvisation.

A coming of age story inspired by Dizzee Rascal's seminal album.

Writing has taken over my life.

The Stranglers occupy a paradoxical position within the history of popular music.

This is a fascinating and thoroughly researched exploration of the best-selling gospel album of all time.

Released in 1979, AC/DC's Highway To Hell was the infamous last album recorded with singer Bon Scott, who died of alcohol poisoning in London in February of 1980.

Ween now seems like a permanent fixture on the pop-cultural landscape, but when the band first hit MTV in the early '90s, their longevity wasn't so secure.

Highway 61 Revisited resonates because of its enduring emotional appeal.

What is the world that Nine Inch Nails made, and what was the world that made Nine Inch Nails?

Tracing the creation of Exile on Main Street from the original songwriting done while touring America through the final editing in Los Angeles, Bill Janovitz explains how an album recorded by a British band in a villa on the French Riviera is pure American rock & roll.

Geechi Suede and Sonny Cheeba are Camp Lo.

He is known as the Mark Twain of American songwriting, a man who transformed the everyday happenings of regular people into plainly profound statements on war, industrialization, religion, and the human condition.

Beginning with the Weathermen explosion in Greenwich Village and ending with punk, the seventies was the age of extremes; sex, drugs and, of course, rock 'n' roll.

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In the past decades, the pressure to perfect and design our bodies has been unprecedented.

A RECOVERY HISTORY AND ROCK N ROLL BOOK ALL ROLLED INTO ONE It just may just be the Book Baby boomers have been waiting for.

One of the greatest double albums of the vinyl era, Sign 'O' the Times shows Prince at his peak.

Pink Moon explores how Nick Drake's third and final album has puttered and purred its way into a new millennium.

The Stone Roses shows a band sizzling with skill, consumed with drive and aspiration and possessing an almost preternatural mastery of the pop paradigm.

Anna is starting to think she made a mistake in moving to Hull.

When Bruce Springsteen went back on the road in 1984, he opened every show by shouting out, "e;one, two, one, two, three, four,"e; followed by the droning synth chords of "e;Born in the U.

On Saturday, June 28, 1986, George Michael picked up his tasselled leather jacket, walked out of London's Wembley Stadium and cheerfully tore up five years of glittering pop history.

When the Motor City 5 stormed the stage, the band combined the kinetic flash of James Brown on acid with the raw musical dynamics of the Who gone berserk.

For those committed to the beliefs of Christianity perhaps more so for those of the Catholic faith the conception of Jesus is deemed an immaculate, non-sexual event.

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Black Sabbath's Master of Reality has maintained remarkable historical status over several generations; it's a touchstone for the directionless, and common coin for young men and women who've felt excluded from the broader cultural economy.

33 1/3 is a new series of short books about critically acclaimed and much-loved albums of the last 40 years.

In August 1994, Manic Street Preachers released The Holy Bible, a dark, fiercely intelligent album that explored such themes as mental illness, murder and war.

Patti Smith arrived in New York City at the end of the Age of Aquarius in search of work and purpose.

Contradicting assumptions that disco albums are shallow and packed with filler, Donna Summer's double album Once Upon A Time stands out as a piece that delivers on its promise of an immaculately crafted journey from start to finish.