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.
Musicians, singers, bands & groups
Threepenny Memoir: The Lives of a Libertine
The extraordinary life and times of Carl Barat, Libertine.
Threepenny Memoir: The Lives of a Libertine: Unabridged edition
The extraordinary life and times of Carl Barat, Libertine.READ BY CARL BARAT!
Threepenny Memoir: The Lives of a Libertine
‘Looking back at The Libertines is like catching flashes of sunlight between buildings as you race by on a train. An old film reel where the spools are weathered and worn, leaving empty frames on the screen…’
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.
Ginger Geezer: The Life of Vivian Stanshall
The extraordinary story of Vivian Stanshall, lead singer of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, true British eccentric.
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.
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: Unabridged edition
I Know This Much – written and read by Gary Kemp – Spandau Ballet’s prime mover – is simply the freshest, most exciting and best read memoir to arrive for years
I Know This Much: From Soho to Spandau: Unabridged edition
I Know This Much – written and read by Gary Kemp – Spandau Ballet’s prime mover – is simply the freshest, most exciting and best read memoir to arrive for years
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.
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.
Patti Smith
Patti Smith was a poet, a punk prophet, a feminist icon, a living work of art and the first woman rock-outsider to come from the New York underground and become a star.
Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era
Just as ‘The Last Party’ caught Britpop in the 90s, and ‘Easy Riders’ and ‘Raging Bull’ portrayed Hollywood in the 70s, so ‘Always Magic in the Air’ brilliantly captures the sweet, baby-boom music scene of New York in the 60s.
Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment
In one corner, a godless young warrior, Voltaire’s heralded ‘philosopher-king’, the It Boy of the Enlightenment. In the other, a devout if bad-tempered old composer of ‘outdated’ music, a scorned genius in his last years. The sparks from their brief conflict illuminate a turbulent age.
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.