Rock, Pop & Music Biography

Mary Coughlan / Bloody Mary: My Story (Large Paperback)

Since she rose to international fame in 1985 with her seminal Irish jazz album Tired and Emotional, Mary Coughlan's battles with addiction, the problems in her personal life and career have been...

Mel Bay / Irish Traditional Guitar Accompaniment (Coffee Table Book)

(Waltons Irish Music Books). This essential guide to traditional Irish music accompaniment on guitar takes the player through many typical features such as alternative chords, rolls, keychanging and...

Michael Eric Dyson / Know What I Mean? Reflections On Hip Hop (Hardback)

Whether along race, class or generational lines, hip-hop music has been a source of controversy since the beats got too big and the voices too loud for the block parties that spawned them. America...

Michael Heatley / Dave Grohl : Nothing to Lose

 Updated through the Foo Fighters "Greatest Hits," this guide to his career places the singer/guitarist/drummer in the context of contemporaries and musical styles that have influenced him Dave...

Michael Heatley / David Gray: A Biography (Large Paperback)

 In this first major account of Gray’s life and work, author Michael Heatley examines the cult singer/songwriter’s Manchester roots, his Welsh upbringing, and his unique world-wide...

Michael Jackson / Moonwalk

Moonwalk is the only book about his life that Michael Jackson ever wrote. It chronicles his humble beginnings in the Midwest, his early days with the Jackson 5, and his unprecedented solo...

Michael Ochs / 1000 Record Covers (Hardback)

Record covers are a sign of our life and times. Like the music on the discs, they address such issues as love, life, death, fashion, and rebellion. For music fans the covers are the expression of a...

Michelle Mercer / Will You Take Me As I Am: Joni Mitchell's Blue Period (Hardback)

A revealing, lyrical book that uses Joni Mitchell's groundbreaking albums of the 1970s to explore the development of autobiographical songwriting.         All of our books...

Mike Barson / Before We Was We: The Making of Madness by Madness

In Before We Was We Madness tell us how they became them. A story of seven originals, whose collective graft, energy and talent took them from the sweaty depths of the Hope and Anchor's...

Mike Watkinson / Syd Barrett: Crazy Diamond: The Dawn of Pink Floyd

  This is the first biography of Syd Barrett, the legendary founder of Pink Floyd, who left the band in mysterious circumstances after the first album. Amid stories of his acid-induced...

Mike Zwerin / The Parisian Jazz Chronicles : An Improvisational Memoir (Hardback)

In his Beat-like jaunt through the Parisian and European jazz scene, Mike Zwerin is not unlike Jack Kerouac, Mezz Mezzrow, or Hunter S. Thompson—writers to whom, for different reasons, he...

Moby / Porcelain

  In the late eighties and early nineties, Moby, then an underground DJ and musician, was scraping out a living in New York City. In a scene popular chiefly among working-class...