
150 Glimpses Of The Beatles
Though fifty years have passed since the breakup of the Beatles, the fab four continue to occupy an utterly unique place in popular culture. Their ...
View full detailsThough fifty years have passed since the breakup of the Beatles, the fab four continue to occupy an utterly unique place in popular culture. Their ...
View full detailsRosa Bonheur was the very antithesis of the feminine ideal of 19th-century society. She was educated, she shunned traditional 'womanly' pursuits, s...
View full detailsSara Dallin and Keren Woodward met in the school playground when they were four. They became international stars, first as a trio, then, for almost...
View full detailsOne of the most important artists of the late twentieth century, Jean-Michel Basquiat explored the interplay of words and images throughout his car...
View full detailsCool, talented and transgressive, Jean-Michel Basquiat's life is just as fascinating as the work he produced.Delve into 1980s New York as this vivi...
View full detailsFormed as a New York City hardcore band in 1981, Beastie Boys struck an unlikely path to global hip hop superstardom. Here is their story, told for...
View full detailsPhotographs by Terry O'Neill, Norman Parkinson, Michael Ward and Derek Bayes The Beatles ascended like no band before, hurtling to the dizzy height...
View full detailsBass player extraordinaire Charles Mingus, who died in 1979, is one of the essential composers in the history of jazz, and Beneath the Underdog, hi...
View full detailsThree years before he died, David Bowie made a list of the one hundred books that had transformed his life - a list that formed something akin to a...
View full detailsThe first biography of America's greatest twentieth-century sculptor, Alexander Calder: an authoritative and revelatory achievement, based on a wea...
View full detailsIn 1975, Viv Albertine was obsessed with music but it never occurred to her she could be in a band as she couldn't play an instrument and she'd nev...
View full detailsNo other jazz musician has proved so inspirational and so fascinating as John Coltrane. Ben Ratliff, jazz critic for the New York Times, has writte...
View full detailsA relentless innovator, scoring chart hits while simultaneously incorporating radical and ground-breaking elements into his work. As with all great...
View full detailsRobert Wyatt started out as the drummer and singer for Soft Machine, who shared a residency at Middle Earth with Pink Floyd and toured America with...
View full detailsDolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics is a landmark celebration of the remarkable life and career of a country music and pop culture legend. ...
View full detailsElton John and iconic photographer Terry O'Neill worked together for many years, taking in excess of 5,000 photographs. From intimate backstage sho...
View full detailsThe women who shaped and were erased from our history. Forgotten Women is a series of books that uncover the lost herstories of influential women w...
View full detailsIn Girl in a Band Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth and role model for a generation of women, tells her story. She writes frankly about he...
View full detailsKeith Haring remains one of the most important and celebrated artists of his generation and beyond. Through his signature bold graphic line drawing...
View full detailsHigh School is the revelatory and unique coming-of-age story of Sara and Tegan Quin, identical twins from Calgary, Alberta, growing up in the heigh...
View full detailsThis enthralling book is the first biography in English of Bill Evans, one of the most influential of all jazz pianists. Peter Pettinger, himself a...
View full detailsBefore Carrie Brownstein became a music icon, she was a young girl growing up in the Pacific Northwest just as it was becoming the setting for one ...
View full detailsIt's been said Janis Joplin was second only to Bob Dylan as the 'creator-recorder-embodiment of her generation's mythology'. But how did a middle-c...
View full detailsPatti Smith's exquisite prose is generously illustrated in this full-color edition of her classic coming-of-age memoir, Just Kids. New York locatio...
View full detailsFrom rural Japan to international icon - Yayoi Kusama has spent her remarkable life immersed in her art. Follow her incredible journey in this vivi...
View full detailsLady Sings the Blues is the inimitable autobiography of one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century. Born to a single mother in 1915 Baltimo...
View full detailsFrida Kahlo was a colourful Mexican artist who endured great pain and hardship, but used her bright, vivid brushstrokes to express her emotions and...
View full detailsMost famous as the painter who created the Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci is also one of history's greatest geniuses - he was a mathematician, archit...
View full detailsThe fourth of five children, Aretha was born in Tennessee and took the stage at an early age in her father's church choir. She went on to become th...
View full detailsBob Dylan was born in Duluth, Minnesota. As a teenager, he played in various bands and, over time, his interest in music deepened, with a particula...
View full detailsFollowing the death of her mother, Coco spent her early life in an orphanage, where she was taught how to use a needle and thread. From there, she ...
View full detailsAs a child, young David had a head full of songs and ideas. He was inspired by the pop and mod scenes in Britain to pick up the saxophone. After ea...
View full detailsLittle Dolly grew up in Tennessee in a family 'as poor as dirt'. She started performing at an early age, singing on local radio and television. Aft...
View full detailsElla Fitzgerald grew up near Harlem, in New York, where she was surrounded by music and dance. After winning first prize in a talent competition at...
View full detailsWhen Frida was a teenager, a terrible road accident changed her life forever. Unable to walk, she began painting from her bed. Her self-portraits, ...
View full detailsAs a child, little Georgia viewed the world differently from other people. She roamed outdoors with her sketch book, while other girls played. As a...
View full detailsJean-Michel was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a Puerto Rican mother and Haitian father. When he was eight and recovering from an accident in bed, ...
View full detailsWhen Louise was a little girl, her mother died. She learned to express her feelings through drawing - and when she grew up, she turned these drawin...
View full detailsWhen Vivienne was a young woman, she wasn't sure how a working class girl from England could make a living in the art world. But after discovering ...
View full detailsZaha Hadid grew up in Baghdad, Iraq surrounded by music. She was a curious and confident child, who designed her own modernist bedroom at nine year...
View full detailsSpanning Tom Waits' extraordinary 40-year career, from Closing Time to Orphans, Lowside of the Road is Barney Hoskyns' unique take on one of rock's...
View full detailsAs he entered his seventies, the great Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo despaired that his productive years were past. Anguished by the deat...
View full detailsFrom the Yardbirds to Cream, Blind Faith to Derek and the Dominos, and a hugely-successful solo career, Eric Clapton's fifty years in the music bus...
View full detailsMozart’s music has enthralled listeners for centuries. In this brilliant biography, acclaimed historian Paul Johnson draws upon his expert knowledg...
View full detailsThere has never been a band like Pearl Jam. The Seattle quintet has recorded eleven studio albums; sold some 85 million records; played over a thou...
View full detailsMichael Jackson: provocateur, icon, enigma. Who was he really? And how does his spectacular rise, his catastrophic fall, reflect upon those who mad...
View full detailsNo other pop group in recent history has faced fame with such intelligence, humour and shrewdness as the Pet Shop Boys. In 1991, the band toured No...
View full detailsThe Pet Shop Boys are one of the most successful and unusual bands of the last five decades. They are the pop duo that proves pop music can be mode...
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