Rock, Pop & Music Biography

Ronny Bloom / Justin Bieber

    One listen to Justin Bieber's soulful singing voice and you'll be hooked on this gorgeous teen heartthrob! This 16-year-old Youtube phenomenon started out posting his performances...

Ryan Hennessy / Syncopated Blue (Hardback)

Influenced by his father’s and grandfather’s poetry, Ryan Hennessy started writing poems as a young boy growing up in Co. Kildare. As lead singer of Picture This , Ryan’s...

Sarah Davis / Guerilla Guide to the Music Business

Through interviews with industry experts in the US and the UK, The Guerilla Guide gives priceless tips on every aspect of gigging - from rehearsals to foreign tours. It takes you through the...

Sarah Oliver / Rihanna - The Only Girl in the World

   Multi-award winning artist and indisputable queen of R&B, Rihanna is one of the most recognisable and successful singers in the world. With hits such as 'Umbrella', 'Take a Bow' and...

Sarah-Louise James / Adele (Coffee Table Book)

Adele needs no introduction. From humble beginning she has come to be a globally recognised icon. Her first album shot her to fame and the second consolidated her position as a singing/songwriting...

Sean Egan / The Mammoth Book of Bob Dylan

 Bob Dylan's impact on popular music has been incalculable. Having transformed staid folk music into a vehicle for coruscating social commentary, he then swept away the romantic platitudes of...

Sean Smith / Ed Sheeran (Large Paperback)

Ed Sheeran is a true inspiration. His moving and uplifting songs forge a lasting connection with the millions of people around the world who love him and his music.He was the thirteen-year-old...

Sean Smith / George : A Memory of George Michael (Hardback)

 Georgeis the story of two extraordinary lives - the private man and the public legend. Georgios Panayiotou was just eighteen when he decided to adopt the stage name of George Michael...

Sean Smith / George: A Memory of George Michael (Large Paperback)

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Sean Smith / Harry Styles : The Making of a Modern Man (Large Paperback)

'Fascinating and authoritative' The Daily ExpressSunday Times bestselling author Sean Smith tells the extraordinary story of a modern cultural icon: Harry Styles.Harry Styles has grown up...

Sean Smith / Justin : The Biography

In November 2002 Justin Timberlake was just another ex-boy band member trying to make it as a credible solo artist, a career path littered with many corpses. But then in December he released his...

Sean Smith / Justin Timberlake : The Biography (Large Paperback)

 The rise of Justin Timberlake from one-fifth of boy band *N SYNC to one of the world's top male solo artists has been nothing short of meteoric. But how did this precocious curly haired boy...

Sean Smith / Tom Jones - The Life

 From bestselling biographer Sean Smith comes the fascinating and tumultuous true story behind Sir Tom Jones, the nation's treasure, sage of The Voice and living music legend.Celebrating his...

Sean Smith / Tom Jones - The Life (Large Paperback)

 Tom Jones married his childhood sweetheart at the age of 16 and, despite many well-publicized infidelities, the marriage lasted until her death in April 2016. Tracing the years of struggle for...

Sean Smith / Victoria (Large Paperback)

Victoria Beckham is one of the most famous women in the world and an iconic figure for modern women in Britain. She has been a constant source of fascination for the celebrity hungry public since she...

Sean Smith / Victoria - The Unauthorized Biography

 Fashion icon, businesswoman, wife of an internationally-renowned footballer and, of course, member of one of the most successful pop acts in British history, Victoria Beckham is the...

Shaun Ryder / How to Be a Rock Star

 Shaun Ryder is a 1990s rock 'n' roll legend. Now, for the first time, comes his hilarious, swaggering, hugely entertaining account of just what it takes to be a rock star. As lead singer of...

Shaun Ryder / Twisting My Melon

 Shaun Ryder has lived a life of glorious highs and desolate lows. As lead singer of the Happy Mondays, he turned Manchester into Madchester, combining all the excesses of a true rock'n'roll...

Shaun Ryder / Twisting My Melon (Hardback)

 Shaun Ryder has lived a life of glorious highs and desolate lows. As lead singer of the Happy Mondays, he turned Manchester into Madchester, combining all the excesses of a true rock'n'roll...

Sian Solanas / Gareth Gates : Right from the Start (Coffee Table Book)

Over four million fans voted for Gareth Gates in the final of "Pop Idol" and in this illustrated autobiography he takes us back to his childhood in Bradford. He reveals how he has suffered from a...

Sid Bernstein / It's Sid Bernstein Calling (Hardback)

It's Sid Berstein Calling: The Amazing Story of the Promoter Who Made Entertainment History   Tells the story of the man who brought the Beatles to America, chronicling his humble...

Skin with Lucy O'Brien / It Takes Blood and Guts (Hardback)

Skin, the trail-blazing lead singer of multi-million-selling rock band Skunk Anansie, is a global female icon. As an incendiary live performer, she shatters preconceptions about race and gender. As...

Sophie Ellis Bextor - Spinning Plates - HB - BRAND NEW

Spinning Plates: Music, Men, Motherhood and Me Sophie Ellis-Bextor singer - singer, writer and pioneer of the lockdown kitchen disco, reflects candidly on life, love and relationships.In...

Stanley Booth / The True Adventures of The Rolling Stones

Stanley Booth, a member of the Rolling Stones’ inner circle, met the band just a few months before Brian Jones drowned in a swimming pool in 1968. He lived with them throughout their 1969...

Stephen Miller / Johnny Cash: The Life of An American Icon

  From his legendary 50s Sun recordings to his classic 'American' albums of the late 90s, Johnny Cash has always been the country voice of rock. This is his amazing story - Stephen Miller's...

Stephen Morris - Record Play Pause : Confessions of a Post-Punk Percussionist : The Joy Division Years - PB

Record Play Pause: Confessions of a Post-Punk Percussionist: The Joy Division Years Before he was responsible for some of the most iconic drumming in popular music, Stephen Morris grew up in...

Steve Turner / Cliff Richard : The Biography (Hardback)

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Steve Turner / The Man Called Cash (Hardback)

 One of the most influential figures in American music and pop-culture, Johnny Cash is an icon to people of all ages. Steve Turner sifts the man from the legend and presents a picture of the...

Steve Turner / The Man Called Cash : The Life Love and Faith of an American Legend

 Country music singer-songwriter Johnny Cash is an icon to people of all ages the world over. In Cash's first ever authorised biography, Steve Turner sifts the man from the legend and presents...

Sting / Broken Music

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Stormzy / Rise Up : The #Merky Story So Far

In four years Stormzy has risen from one of the most promising musicians of his generation to a spokesperson for a generation. Rise Up is the story of how he got there. It’s a story about...

Susan Janic / Jonas Brothers Forever: The Unofficial Story of Kevin, Joe & Nick (Coffee Table Book)

The Jonas Brothers have gone from obscurity to superstardom in the course of a year, and there’s simply no stopping them. From their top-selling albums, to their sensational sold-out tours,...

Suze Rotolo / A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties

"A Freewheelin' Time" is Suze Rotolo's firsthand, eyewitness, participant-observer account of the immensely creative and fertile years of the 1960s, just before the circus was in full swing and Bob...

The 10 Commandments : The Rock Star's Guide to Life (Hardback)

 A surprising, informative, enlightening and at times outrageous must have guide to life from the world's most famous rock stars. Together with the finest selection from the Q magazine archives...

The Best of The Chieftains (Coffee Table Book)

This is a guide to the album from the legendary Irish group, The Chieftains. Here are exact transcriptions of all the tracks from the album, in melody line arrangements with occasional chord symbols...

The Nolans / Survivors - Our Story

Four sisters, four very different characters. But they have always been there for each other, through the hard times as well as the good. Now they describe growing up performing from as young as...

Tim Burgess / Telling Stories

Telling Stories by Tim Burgess of The Charlatans is one of the decade's most revealing rock books. The Charlatans. Madchester. Britpop. Taking on the world. Here are the highs, the lows, the joys,...

Tim Ewbank / Cliff: An Intimate Portrait of a Living Legend (Hardback)

Fifty years ago he was just the boy Harry Webb, performing in a local youth club. Now he is Sir Cliff Richard, the first rock star to be knighted, with a massive international fan base and a top ten...

Tina Turner / My Love Story (Large Paperback)

 Astonishing, soul-baring - the must-read memoir by rock's greatest survivor' DAILY MAIL***The full, dramatic story of one of the most remarkable women in music history, celebrating Tina...

Treasures of Take That (1 Book Box Set)

Treasures of Take That (1 Book Box Set) Take That is one of the most popular bands on the planet. Formed at the start of the 90s in the golden age of boy bands, they totally transcended the genre and...

Victor Bockris / Keith Richards : The Unauthorised Biography (Large Paperback)

For over 30 years, Keith Richards has been the Rolling Stones' guitarist, songwriter, and singer, as well as a highly respected solo artist. Keith Richards, based on Victor Bockris's exclusive...

Victoria Beckham / Learning to Fly (Hardback)

Since she was eight years old Victoria wanted to be a star. This autobiography covers her childhood, marriage and motherhood, the Spice Girls and her current career.       This...

Victoria Mary Clarke / A Drink with Shane MacGowan

This bibulous, drug-indulgent and anarchic rock legend was born on a small farm in Tipperary, won a scholarship to Westminster, was rapidly expelled, became a rent boy, then a central figure of punk...

Vincent Power - Send 'Em Home Sweating : The Showbands Story - PB 1st Ed 1990

Vincent Power examines the unique Irish phenomenon of the showbands - The Royal, the tragic Miami, Melody Aces, The Freshmen, Clipper Carlton, the Cadets - who , surprisingly to modern eyes and ears,...

Virginia Hanlon Grohl / From Cradle to Stage: Stories from the Mothers Who Rocked and Raised Rock Stars (Hardback)

While the Grohl family had always been musical—the family sang together on long car trips, harmonizing to Motown and David Bowie—Virginia never expected her son to become a musician, let...

Will Friedwald - SINATRA - THE SONG IS YOU - Music Biography - HB1995

A hardcover copy, Scribner US, 1995 of the definitive study of the music of Frank Sinatra. The Song is You - A Singer's Art. Sinatra was , along with Presley, one of the formative influences on...

Will Friedwald / Sinatra! The Song is You: A Singer's Art (Hardback)

A musical biography documents Frank Sinatra's legacy through seven decades, including The Skinny Years in the 1930s and 1940s; The Hat Years of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s; and the Tux Years of the...

Will Romano / Mountains Come Out of the Sky: The Illustrated History of Prog Rock (Coffee Table Book)

From its artful beginnings (Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd, the Mothers of Invention, and those progressive forebearers, the Sgt. Pepper-era Beatles), through the towering guitar solos, monumental...