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Bruce H Klauber, Andrea Kauffman

Let Me Be Frank

As an American singer, conductor, composer, and actor, Frank Sinatra, Jr. (1944--2016) had a long and successful music career and was recognized for his many contributions to American popular song. Yet, h…

Louis Armstrong (1901-1971)

Satchmo: A Musical Autobiography Part 1

Haydn!

»Meine Sprache versteht die ganze Welt.« JOSEPH HAYDN Joseph Haydn galt als bedeutendster Komponist seiner Zeit. Seine 77 Lebensjahre waren erfüllt von schöpferischer Vitalität und der Lust am musikal…

Stephanie Phillips

We Were Here

A long-overdue corrective to the history of rock 'n' roll and alternative music, repopulating it with the extraordinary Black artists and influential figures who steered its courseThe history of rock and …

Terry Teachout

Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong is widely known as the greatest jazz musician of the twentieth century. He was a phenomenally gifted and imaginative artist, and an entertainer so irresistibly magnetic that he knocked the…

Haydn!

»Meine Sprache versteht die ganze Welt.« JOSEPH HAYDN Joseph Haydn galt als bedeutendster Komponist seiner Zeit. Seine 77 Lebensjahre waren erfüllt von schöpferischer Vitalität und der Lust am musikal…

Deborah Voigt

Call Me Debbie

"A startlingly frank look at the life of one of our generation's most prominent operatic stars."---Associated PressIn Call Me Debbie, internationally renowned opera singer Deborah Voigt describe…

Paul Rappaport

Gliders Over Hollywood

Gliders Over Hollywood tells the exhilarating true story of a blue-collar kid nicknamed 'Rap' who grew up in thrall to rock'n'roll, then found himself right in the middle of many of his heroes' lives as h…

Sacha Lord

Tales from the Dancefloor

The must-read memoir from the visionary figure behind Manchester's legendary music scene, from The Haçienda to The Warehouse Project.

Gregg Allman

My Cross to Bear

For the first time, rock music icon Gregg Allman, one of the founding members of The Allman Brothers Band, tells the full story of his life and career in My Cross to Bear. No subject is taboo, as one of t…

Stephen Cleary

I Put a Spell on You

The mesmerizing autobiography of one of the most revered soul, jazz, and blues divas of our time-the late Nina Simone

Duff McKagan, Chris Kornelis

How to Be a Man: (And Other Illusions)

One wouldn't usually turn to a veteran of Guns N' Roses for advice on how to live, but Duff McKagan is not a typical rock musician. He got sober at thirty, went back to school, got smart about money, fell…

Marcus O'Dair

Different Every Time: The Authorized Biography of Robert Wyatt

Robert Wyatt started out as the drummer and singer for Soft Machine, who shared a residency at Middle Earth with Pink Floyd and toured America with the Jimi Hendrix Experience. He brought a jazz mindset t…

Lol Tolhurst

Cured

Cured is a memoir by Lol Tolhurst, a founder member of one of the most revered and successful bands of their generation: The Cure. Lol threads the band's genesis through his suburban schoolboy years with …

Ceka

The Rolling Stones in Comics!

When the Rolling Stones hit the scene in the 60's, it was to play rhythm & blues, nothing more. They were far from imagining that they would change music, let alone become the mouthpiece of a changing wor…

Ann Powers

Traveling

*An ObserverBest New Biographies of 2024*?*Now in paperback!*Celebrated NPR music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career of Joni Mitchell in a lyrical style as fascinating and ethereal as the song…

Moon Unit Zappa

Earth to Moon

From Moon Unit Zappa, the daughter of musical visionary Frank Zappa, comes a memoir of growing up in her unconventional household in 1970s Los Angeles, coming of age in the Hollywood Hills in the 1980s as…

Kate Kennedy

Cello

"[T]he story of four cellists who suffered various forms of persecution, injury, and misfortune"--

Martin Porter, David Goggin

Buzz Me in

The inside story of Record Plant Studios--the real "Hotel California"--that reveals how the greatest music of the seventies was recorded and why the artists checked out but rarely left.