1,989円 Dylan Kwabena Mills, better known as Dizzee Rascal, has evolved from cutting-edge pioneer of grime and hip-hop into one of Britain's biggest pop stars. And the East London rapper, songwriter and record producer did it without compromising his startlingly original vision and persona. Paul Lester t...

1,709円 During the late 1950s and early 1960s, after the shock of Elvis Presley and before the Beatles spearheaded the British Invasion, fourteen gifted young songwriters huddled in midtown Manhattan's legendary Brill Building and a warren of offices a bit farther uptown and composed some of the most beg...

1,950円 ***Winner of the Oregon Book Award for General Nonfiction and Los Angeles Times bestseller "It makes good music sound better."-Janet Maslin in The New York Times*** "A fascinating look into the West Coast recording studio scene of the '60s and the inside story of the music you heard on the radio....

1,088円 A vibrant, sympathetic portrait of the once and future king of rock 'n' roll by the award-winning author of Shiloh and In Country To this clear-eyed portrait of the first rock 'n' roll superstar, Bobbie Ann Mason brings a novelist's insight and the empathy of a fellow Southerner who, from the fir...

1,856円 From The Beatles' patronage of his 1968 debut album to his Grammy awards for Hourglass James Taylor has remained a universally acclaimed songwriter of effortless eloquence and power. In this major biography the late Timothy White explores the myths and reality behind the personal journey of legen...

1,326円 A rambling trip through a colourful and melodic St. John's childhood combined with a how-not-to-do-it-yourself guide to the music business and a thoughtful and sometimes poignant look at the way a legendary Canadian band creates music all of these threads and many others are pulled together by wr...

595円 “I have been like a blind man groping in the dark, and you have opened my eyes to the splendour and beautiful truth of a love, which I felt but dimly as in a dream, until we met…” For over 70 years the secret romance between the famous Sir Granville Bantock, a British conductor and composer who ...

1,243円 “This book is the real story.”ーRobby Krieger “[John] Densmore's is the first Doors biography that feels like it was written for the right reasons, and it is easily the most informed account of the Doors' brief but brilliant life as a group. . . . Densmore is a fluent, articulate writer who both ...

777円 Decoded is a book like no other: a collection of lyrics and their meanings that together tell the story of a culture, an art form, a moment in history, and one of the most provocative and successful artists of our time. Praise for Decoded “Compelling . . . provocative, evocative . . . Part autobi...

496円 When a proud mum posted a video of her 12-year-old son singing on YouTube in 2007, she knew her family and friends would love it. But what Patricia Mallette could not have predicted was that, six years later, her home movie would have been viewed 3 BILLION times and propelled her young son to an...

1,657円 Ben Sidran: A Life in the Music is much more than a musician's memoir; it's a picaresque story about a personal quest, the search for meaning at the beginning of a new millennium. Sidran delves into the complex relationships between African-Americans and Jews, fathers and sons, history and hope, ...

1,917円 The life (1912–1988) and career of Gil Evans paralleled and often foreshadowed the quickly changing world of jazz through the 20th century. Gil Evans: Out of the Cool is the comprehensive biography of a self-taught musician whom colleagues often regarded as a mentor. His innovative work as a comp...