Music

This extraordinary encyclopedia covers all aspects of traditional music song and dance in Ireland. Six-hundred thousand words in fourteen-hundred main topics.

What story begins in a bedroom in suburban New Jersey in the early '60s, unfolds on some of the country's largest stages, and then ranges across the globe, demonstrating over and over again how Rock and Roll has the power to change the world for the better? This story. The first true heartbeat of UNREQUITED INFATUATIONS is the moment when Stevie Van Zandt trades in his devotion to the Baptist religion for an obsession with Rock and Roll. Groups like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones created new ideas of community, creative risk, and principled rebellion. They changed him forever.

A collection about the female experience in and of music by some of the most intelligent and famous writers of the moment

Biography of the legendary guitarist Rory Gallagher.

The first authoritative cradle-to-grave biography of a worldwide musical and cultural legend.

Built around 16 life-changing gigs and concerts, a passionate investigation of the charged frontier between 20th century music and politics.

A landmark biography of the Polish composer by one of the world's leading authorities on Chopin and his time.

Now, for the first time, esteemed music biographer Mick Wall will provide the definitive insight into America's bestselling band of all time, a band who have sold more records than Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones combined, exploring their meteoric rise to fame and the hedonistic days of the 70s music scene in LA, when American music was taking over the world.

An 'A to Z'-format biography of one of the most successful pop artists of all time.

This is a music autobiography to remember. This is the story of Martyn Ware. The Human League and Heaven 17 were among some of the most pioneering bands of the 1980s, with Ware having played an integral role in each of their numerous successes.

Brian Warfield’s “Wolfetones 55 - The Ramblings of an Irish Ballad Singer” is the first book by the main singer-songwriter of Ireland’s iconic ballad group – The Wolfetones, who have been part of Irish music history for over seven decades.