Rock, Pop & Music Biography

Mark Kermode / How Does It Feel?: A Life of Musical Misadventures (Large Paperback)

Following a formative encounter with the British pop movie Slade in Flame in 1975 , Mark Kermode decided that musical superstardom was totally attainable. And so, armed with a homemade electric...

Mark Putterford / Metallica: "Talking" (Large Paperback)

Brand leaders of ultra-metal for over two decades, Metallica have survived and thrived where others have failed by treating triumph and disaster with equal disdain. Heading happily into the new...

Mark Putterford / Phil Lynott: The Rocker

The classic bestseller re-issed in a B format paperback edition. This eye-opening biography traces Lynott's life from 1950s Dublin through to Thin Lizzy and his tragic death. Using dozens of frank...

Mark Ribowsky / He's a Rebel: Phil Spector (Large Paperback)

 Phil Spector created the "wall of sound," produced the Beatles' last record, persuaded the Ramones to go "pop," made the Righteous Brothers sound respectable, and was a millionaire by the age...

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 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...