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Music Theory Made Simple: Essential Concepts for Budding Composers, Musicians and Music Lovers

Music Will Never Sound the Same Again No longer will music theory be an intimidating notion! Whether you're new to music and want to know the fundamentals to succeed, or whether you already play..

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Music Theory Note by Note: Your Guide to How Music Works-From Notes and Rhythms to Complete Compositions

Take note- You can enjoy music analysis. This concise and clear guide to simplified music theory teaches readers who play music by ear how to read musical notation by guiding them through the bas..

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My Old Man: A Personal History of Music Hall

The former Prime Minister takes a remarkable journey into his family past to tell the richly colourful story of the British music hall in this Theatre Book Prize-shotlisted history. Music hall was ..

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Needles and Plastic: Flying Nun Records, 1981-1988

A richly illustrated Flying Nun discography - all the records from 'Tally Ho!' to Bird-Dog...

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Neue Deutsche Welle

Neue Deutsche Welle (NDW), or "German New Wave," was made extraordinarily popular in the 1970s and 1980s by the likes of Nena's "99 Luftballoons" and Trio's "Da Da Da"-and then left as quickly as it c..

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Never: The Autobiography

Fame didn't actually make me happy. I was an insecure twenty-year-old and being famous made things worse back then. It was an era all about the way you looked and I still don't know how I squeezed thr..

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Neverland: The Pleasures and Perils of Fandom

Vanessa Kisuule is a big Michael Jackson fan. This fixation once gave her great joy, but now it keeps her up at night. In her bracingly honest, energetic and lively book she explores the fall-out from..

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Night Train to Nashville: The Greatest Untold Story of Music City

Set against the backdrop of Jim Crow, Night Train to Nashville takes readers behind the curtain of one of music's greatest untold stories during the era of segregation and Civil Rights. In anothe..

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Nineties Spirit: Music Caught on Camera

David Bowie and Bruce Springsteen, Nirvana and Oasis, Pete Doherty and Phil Collins, Prince and Motoerhead - the internationally acclaimed and renowned music photographer Paul Bergen has seen all the ..

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Oasis Forever: The Essential 'Noel'edge, Quotes, Quizzes & More

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Patti Smith: Before Easter After

A new trade publication of Before Easter After, originally published in a limited edition at $1,000. With hundreds of rarely seen images by Lynn Goldsmith, one of the great photographers of rock 'n' ..

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Pink: Raise Your Glass

Pink is one of the most trailblazing artists of our time. Her breakthrough album, Missundaztood, was released to critical acclaim in 2001 and showcased her unique, powerhouse pop vocals, as well as he..

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Prince and Purple Rain: 40 Years

In Prince and Purple Rain, acclaimed Prince authority Andrea Swensson takes a deep dive into the late artist's most iconic album with a beautiful, slipcased gift book. In 1984, Prince, along ..

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Prince: Updated Edition

Prince unravels the mysteries behind the life of a true musical genius. Through years of research and interviews with ex-Revolution members such as Wendy and Lisa, this is an account of a pop maverick..

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Punk Paradox: A Memoir

From the legendary singer-songwriter of Bad Religion comes a historical memoir and cultural criticism of punk rock's evolution. Greg Graffin is the lead vocalist and songwriter of Bad Relig..

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Quartet: How Four Women Challenged the Musical World

The lives, loves, adventures and trailblazing musical careers of four extraordinary women from a stunning debut biographer.'Fabulous.' Sunday Times 'A rare gift.' Financial Times 'Passionate ... Vivid..

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Queen Uncovered: Unseen photographs, rarities and insights from life with a rock 'n' roll band

For 13 years, Peter Hince lived the rock 'n' roll dream. As head roadie for Queen he had a front row seat and backstage pass to some of the greatest moments in music. Now, he is opening up his in..

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Radiohead: Climbing Up the Walls

FOREWORD BY RADIOHEAD'S ED O'BRIEN Explore the story of Radiohead - perhaps the finest band of a generation - through the lens of legendary Melody Maker chief photographer Tom Sheehan. ..

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Rebel Sounds: Music as Resistance

'Empathy is the currency of all music and Joe Mulhall does a great job of explaining how that quality has been used to generate solidarity for the struggle and sympathy for those who suffer injustice'..

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Reverberation: Do Everything Better with Music

It turns out music isn't just about entertainment-it's a deeply embedded, subtly powerful means of communication. Songs resonate with your brain wave patterns and drive changes in your brain: creating..

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Rolling Stones: Unzipped

More than fifty years after they began, The Rolling Stones continue to thrill and surprise audiences with animated performances of immediacy and boldness. Published to accompany the major touring exhi..

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Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth

A Times Book of the Year A Mojo Book of the Year A Louder Than War Book of the Year A Waterstones Book of the Year A Resident Book of the Year 'A beautifully written, meticulously researc..

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Shooting Star: The Definitive Story of Elliott Smith

'A masterpiece. Beautiful, tragic and immaculately researched.' - Matt Everitt 'Elliott was one of the best songwriters of our day and a formidable musician.' - Beck 'There's an undercurrent..

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Sinead O'Connor: The Last Interview

A significant collection of interviews with the defiant, controversial, and ground-breaking singer, songwriter, and activist throughout her turbulent career . . . A significant collection of inte..

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Sleeping on Islands: A Life in Poetry

Andrew Motion has been close to the centres of British poetry for over fifty years. Sleeping on Islands is his clear-sighted and open-hearted account of this remarkable career. It takes us from s..

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Songbird: An Intimate Biography of Christine McVie

Christine McVie - born Christine Perfect - was the quintessentially English rock star, as both the backbone and the beating heart of Fleetwood Mac. Straddling the band's incarnations to achieve g..

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Sonic Life: The new memoir from the Sonic Youth founding member

The Sonic Youth frontman takes us from a 1960s childhood rock 'n' roll epiphany, through the subversive world of 1970s punk blasting forth from New York City, to traversing the globe with a band who c..

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Sound Bites: The bendy path of classical music from Ancient Greece to today

Ed Le Brocq invites you to come on a journey with him through a living tradition that spans a millennium - the tradition of Western classical music. Have you ever wondered where our music com..

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Sound Tracks: Uncovering Our Musical Past

A History of the World in 100 Objects meets Sapiens- the first archaeological history of humanity's musical heritage, in fifty detective stories. Here is the history of humankind's relationship w..

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Soundtrack from Saturday Night Fever

Saturday Night Fever is simultaneously one of the biggest-selling albums of all time and one of the most reviled. How can a record create such a polarizing reaction? Australian writer Clinton Wa..

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Starman: Bowie's Stardust Years

In 1972, the rock 'n' roll messiah ZIGGY STARDUST was born. His provocative play on sexual identity and gender roles laid the foundation for David Bowie's ascent to legendary status as one of the most..

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Straight from the Heart

We all know the name, and we all know that voice, but what the world doesn't know is how Bonnie Tyler came to be the vocal powerhouse that took the music industry by storm. Now, after nearly 50 years..

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Superstar Guitars: (Slipcase Edition)

Foreword by James Dean Bradfield, Manic Street Preachers A collection that has to be seen to be believed, Superstar Guitars is an up-close and personal look at dozens of the most famous gui..

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Supreme Sirens: Iconic Black Women Who Revolutionized Music

From the author of Supreme Models and Supreme Actresses comes the third installment of the celebrated series, Supreme Sirens: Iconic Black Women Who Revolutionized Music. This will be the first-ever a..

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Taylor Swift by the Book: The Literature Behind the Lyrics, from Fairy Tales to Tortured Poets

From Robert Frost's road not taken on her debut album to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's albatross on The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift's lyrics are filled with literary connections. Make sur..

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Taylor Swift Style: Fashion Through the Eras

Dazzling. Incomparable. Unforgettable. The definitive book of Taylor Swift's fashion evolution. For Taylor Swift, fashion and music go hand-in-hand - each playing a powerful role in shaping the n..

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Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography

Help your little one dream big with a Little Golden Book biography about Taylor Swift, the Grammy Award-winning and multiplatinum artist. Little Golden Book biographies are the perfect introduction to..

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Taylor Swift: The Whole Story

The updated story of Taylor Swift's stratospheric rise to fame; all any dedicated Swifty needs to know about the pop superstar who's taking over the world with her Eras tour A small-town girl with ..

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The Bach Cello Suites: A Companion

A unique Companion to J S Bach's iconic Cello Suites from internationally-renowned cellist Steven Isserlis. 'Isserlis is the master of the material, yet always able to make it accessible . . . It..

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The Beach Boys

'There's love in the music and people can relate to the love, regardless of whether you're two years old or 92 years old. For me, music is about love. Love is the message I want to share. I hope peopl..

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The Beatles: Featuring a Collection of Memorabilia from the Lives of the Fab Four

At one time the most famous pop band in the world, The Beatles still hold center stage. Anyone who lived through the 1960s remembers them, and the digital remastering of their output has ensured that ..

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The Book of ABBA: Melancholy Undercover

Over half a century after their songs were recorded, ABBA's songs still make people the world over dance and sing every day, and their ability to evoke every emotion has made them the ultimate soundtr..

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The Cello and the Nightingales: The Life of Beatrice Harrison

In 1924, Beatrice Harrison broadcast a miracle to the world: a wild nightingale singing with her cello. Over a million people tuned in to hear the nightingale that night, and the BBC went on to broadc..

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The Double Life of Bob Dylan Volume 2: 1966-2021: 'Far away from Myself'

The second instalment of the definitive biography of one contemporary culture's most iconic and mysterious figures - musical revolutionary, Nobel Prize-winner, chart-topping recording artist In 2..

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The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, And Count Basie Transformed America

From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping and spellbinding portrait of the longtime kings of jazz-Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie-who, born w..

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The Liverbirds: Our life in Britain's first female rock 'n' roll band

In the early '60s, four friends from Liverpool formed a band. But this is not the 'fab four' story we know . . .Mary, Sylvia, Valerie and Pamela - also known as The Liverbirds - were one of the world'..

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The Lost Album of The Beatles: What if the Beatles hadn't split up?

'Daniel Rachel imagines what the next Beatles album might have been like, with painstaking detail and great stories' - David Hepworth, The Guardian 'A fantastical journey through what migh..

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The Lost Music of the Holocaust: Bringing the music of the camps to the ears of the world at last

For more than thirty years Francesco Lotoro, an Italian pianist and composer has been on an odyssey to recover music written by the inmates of Adolf Hitler's concentration camps and the gulags of Stal..

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The Name Of This Band Is R.E.M

An electrifying cultural biography of the greatest American rock band of the millennium, whose music ignited a generation-and reasserted the power of rock and roll - by the New York Times bestselling ..

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The Point of Distraction

A memoir by the 2019 Wellcome Prize winner Will Eaves that looks at the creation of eight piano pieces. 'A wonderfully sensitive and probing meditation on the writing of words and music' Rolf Hind,..

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The Rolling Stones Rare and Unseen: Foreword by Keith Richards, afterword by Andrew Loog Oldham

The Rolling Stones, uncovered - containing many never-before-seen images. Legendary photographer Gered Mankowitz helped to shape the very image of the Stones, shooting record covers, portraits an..

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