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Includes a new chapter on John Cage.

Alex Ross’s award-winning international best-seller, ‘The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century’, has become a contemporary classic, establishing him as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural historians; this is his much anticipated next book on the subject of music.

LZ-’75: Across America with Led Zeppelin

Stephen Davis’s brilliantly written personal account of criss-crossing America with Led Zeppelin on their 1975 tour. A warts-and-all snapshot of the world’s biggest hard-rock band at their peak.

LZ-’75: Across America with Led Zeppelin

Stephen Davis’s brilliantly-written personal account of criss-crossing America with Led Zeppelin on their 1975 tour. A warts-and-all snapshot of the world’s biggest hard-rock band at their peak.

LZ-’75: Across America with Led Zeppelin

Stephen Davis’s brilliantly-written personal account of criss-crossing America with Led Zeppelin on their 1975 tour. A warts-and-all snapshot of the world’s biggest hard-rock band at their peak.

Adventures on the Wheels of Steel: The Rise of the Superstar DJs

DJs like Fatboy Slim, Sasha and Paul Oakenfold are the new pop stars: high priests in the rapidly expanding world of dance music. Drawing on many nights out, this is DJ Dave Haslam’s fascinating collection of portraits of the major players.

Big Star: The Story of Rock’s Forgotten Band

“I want to make an album of real genius, to sit alongside the Stones’ ‘Exile On Main Street’, and Big Star’s ‘Third'” (Peter Buck, R.E.M. 1991)

The definitive biography of Big Star, the most influential band of the last 30 years.

Manchester, England

The definitive account of the pop cult capital of the UK by Dave Haslam, one of Manchester’s top DJs and journalists.

I Know This Much: From Soho to Spandau

I Know This Much – by Gary Kemp, Spandau Ballet’s prime mover – is simply the freshest, most exciting and best-written memoir to arrive for years.

Big Star: The Story of Rock’s Forgotten Band

“I want to make an album of real genius, to sit alongside the Stones’ ‘Exile On Main Street’, and Big Star’s ‘Third'” (Peter Buck, R.E.M. 1991)

The definitive biography of Big Star, the most influential band of the last 30 years.

Hardcore Troubadour: The Life and Near Death of Steve Earle

A biography of a legendary singer and song-writer, written with his exclusive and unfettered cooperation, this is the life behind the award-winning and bestselling albums of Steve Earle, rebel, rocker, Nashville legend.

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