New York, United States: SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2017. Paperback. Winner of the NOBEL PRIZE in Literature 2016 This is the first spellbinding volume of the three-volume memoir of one of the greatest musical legends of all time. In CHRONICLES Volume I, Bob Dylan takes us back to the early 1960s... More about Chronicles Volume 1
New York, United States: SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2006. Paperback. For the first time in 15 years, a comprehensive, definitive collection of the lyrics of music legend and poet, Bob Dylan. From his early days of protest songs, like Blowing in the Wind, The Times They Are A Changing, to his... More about Lyrics: 1962-2001
New York: Sarah Crichton Books, 2017. -. -. Hardback. "She was like a storm." --Leonard Cohen Joni Mitchell may be the most influential female recording artist and composer of the late twentieth century. In Reckless Daughter, the music critic David Yaffe tells the remarkable, heart-wrenching story of how the blond... More about Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell
Cambridge, Mass., United States: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2009. Paperback. Greil Marcus, author of "Mystery Train", widely acclaimed as the best book ever written about America as seen through its music, began work on this new book out of a fascination with the Sex Pistols: that scandalous antimusical group, invented in... More about Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century
Plume Books, 2015. -. English Edition. Revised Edition. 6th Revised ed. Paperback. In 1975, Greil Marcus's Mystery Train changed the way readers thought about rock 'n' roll and continues to be sought out today by music fans and anyone interested in pop culture. Looking at recordings by six key artists--Robert... More about Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music: Sixth Edition
London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2010. Paperback. A prelude to fame, Just Kids recounts the friendship of two young artists--Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe - whose passion fueled their lifelong pursuit of art. In 1967, a chance meeting between two young people led to a romance and a lifelong... More about Just Kids
Bloomington, IN, United States: Indiana University Press, 2006. -. -. Paperback. Though The Velvet Underground existed for no more than three years with its original lineup, it is considered to be not just the "ultimate New York band" but one of the most influential rock groups ever. Among its devotees... More about The Velvet Underground
-: Scribner Book Company, 2011. -. -. Paperback. Now in paperback, the definitive anthology from a writer who "set the standard for newspaper pop-music criticism" (The Philadelphia Inquirer), the New York Times' first chief pop music critic and Rolling Stone contributor Robert Palmer. Robert Palmer's extraordinary knowledge and boundless love... More about Blues & Chaos : The Music Writing of Robert Palmer
London, United Kingdom: Profile Books Ltd, 2016. -. Paperback. What made Bowie special? What made him the cultural icon he is today? And what made millions of people around the world tune into his peculiar wavelength and find exactly what they'd been looking for all along? These are the questions... More about On Bowie
Glasshoughton, Yorks, United Kingdom: Route Publishing, 2016. -. -. Paperback. The first insider's account of life inside The Fall, Steve Hanley's story unfolds like a novel; from 1979 when he joined his schoolmates Marc Riley and Craig Scanlon in The Fall, he puts us right in the heart of the... More about The Big Midweek : Life Inside The Fall
