Subject: Musicians -- Biography (Keywords)

Women have been at the dawn of the blues since Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey were singing about hard knocks and tough love in smoky bars. This book gives an overview of the early days of the blues and its development from the Mississippi Delta to the windy city, Chicago, to becoming the global music...

This title presents an instant impression of ABBA's life, work and legacy, with an array of irresistible facts and figures converted into infographics to reveal the musicians behind the music.

The strange tale of a boy named Flea starts in Rye, NY. It was all very normal. But soon his parents divorced and his mother Patricia remarried a jazz musician. Flea's stepfather frequently invited musicians to his house for jam sessions which sparked Flea's interest in music. The family moved to...

The strange tale of a boy named Flea starts in Rye, NY. It was all very normal. But soon his parents divorced and his mother Patricia remarried a jazz musician. Flea's stepfather frequently invited musicians to his house for jam sessions which sparked Flea's interest in music. The family moved to...

This is a fascinating, evocative memoir by one of the great British songwriters of the past 4 decades, Mike Scott. It is an honest and revealing work that tells the story of a cocky Scot with a sound in his head and his lifelong effort to achieve success.

After her 17th birthday in 1973, Janis Hunter met Marvin Gaye - the soulful prince of Motown with the seductive liquid voice whose chart-topping, socially conscious album What's Going On made him a superstar two years earlier. Despite a 17 year age difference and Marvin's marriage to the sister o...

The trajectory of Suede - hailed in infancy as both 'The Best New Band in Britain' and 'effete southern wankers' - is recalled with moving candour by its frontman Brett Anderson, whose vivid memoir swings seamlessly between the tender, witty, turbulent, euphoric and bittersweet. Suede began by tr...

The 10th January, 2016 will no doubt resonate with David Bowie fans across the globe from now on. The world was shocked to wake to the sudden news of his death from cancer, which he had been secretly battling for eighteen months. With millions mourning his demise, and his back catalogue and curre...

The 10th January, 2016 will no doubt resonate with David Bowie fans across the globe from now on. The world was shocked to wake to the sudden news of his death from cancer, which he had been secretly battling for eighteen months. With millions mourning his demise, and his back catalogue and curre...

This is an authorised biography of the Scottish cult folk hero behind the chart hit 'Year of the Cat'. Using extended interviews with Stewart, and many other 60s folk stars, this is a vivid insider's account.