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Don't Rhyme for the Sake of Riddlin': The Authorized Story of Public Enemy...

Russell Myrie

Music reviews & criticism; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Biography: arts & entertainment

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Russell Myrie's Don't Rhyme for the Sake of Riddlin' is the first authorized biography of Public Enemy, the foremost hip-hop... [more]

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No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf

Carolyn Burke

Music: styles & genres; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Biography; Biography: arts & entertainment

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Edith Piaf was one of the most greatly loved singers of the twentieth century. From the start of her exceptional career in... [more]

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The Baroness: The Search for Nica the Rebellious Rothschild

Hannah Rothschild

Jazz; Biography; Biography: arts & entertainment

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A Rothschild by birth and a Baroness by marriage, beautiful, spirited Pannonica - known as Nica - seemed to have it all: children,... [more]

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The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824

Harvey Sachs

Music; Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830)

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A decade after the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars had given way to an era of retrenchment and repression, 1824 became... [more]

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I am Melba

Ann Blainey

Music; Opera; Biography: arts & entertainment

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The story of an Australian girl who defied convention and became the most famous singer of her era. Growing up in Melbourne,... [more]

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Tomorrow is Today: Australia in the Psychedelic Era, 1966- 1970

Iain McIntyre

Music; History; Anthropology

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Extensively illustrated and featuring year by year accounts of developments in music, fashion and society at large. The definitive... [more]

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R Crumb: The Complete Record Cover Collection

Robert Crumb

Art & design styles: from c 1960; Decorative arts; Music; Society & Social Sciences

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Robert Crumb first began drawing record covers in 1968 when Janis Joplin asked him to provide a cover for her album Cheap... [more]

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Not Fade Away: The Life and Music of Buddy Holly

John Gribbin

Rock & Pop music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Biography; Biography: arts & entertainment

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'Buddy Holly and The Crickets had an electrifying effect on us as young lads in Liverpool. We were inspired to learn guitar... [more]

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Here Comes Everybody: The Story of The Pogues

James Fearnley

Music; Rock & Pop music; Autobiography: arts & entertainment

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October 1982: ABC, Culture Club, Shalamar and Survivor dominate the top twenty when the Pogues barrel out from the backstreets... [more]

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Lady Blue Eyes: My Life with Frank Sinatra

Barbara Sinatra

Light orchestral & big band music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Biography; Autobiography: arts & entertainment

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Thirty years after she first heard his voice singing to her from a jukebox at her local drive-in, Barbara began her love affair... [more]

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The Great Animal Orchestra

Bernie Krause

Music; Mathematics & Sciences

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Bernie Krause is the world's leading expert in natural sound. He has spent the last 40 years recording ecological soundscapes... [more]

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Piaf: A Biography

Monique Lange

Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Biography; Biography: arts & entertainment

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Throughout her explosive and tempestuous career, Edith Piaf cast a spell over all who came in contact with her. This tiny... [more]

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The Rolling Stones: Fifty Years

Christopher Sandford

Rock & Pop music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Biography

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In 1962 Mick Jagger was a bright, well-scrubbed boy (planning a career in the civil service), while Keith Richards was learning... [more]

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Life

Keith Richards

Rock & Pop music; Biography; Autobiography: arts & entertainment

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With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics and the songs that roused the world, and over four decades... [more]

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Century of Wisdom: Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the World's...

Caroline Stoessinger

Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Biography; Autobiography: arts & entertainment; The Holocaust

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At 107 years old, Alice Herz-Sommer is the world's oldest Holocaust survivor, as well as the world's oldest concert pianist.... [more]

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Starman: David Bowie - The Definitive Biography

Paul Trynka

Music; Rock & Pop music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Biography: arts & entertainment

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David Bowie - famously described as rock's greatest chameleon - has lived an extraordinary life. From his early years in post-war,... [more]

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All the Mad Men: Barrett, Bowie, Drake, The Floyd, The Kinks, The Who and...

Clinton Heylin

Rock & Pop music; Society & Social Sciences

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By the end of 1968 The Beatles were far too busy squabbling with each other, while The Stones had simply stopped making music;... [more]

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Woolgathering

Patti Smith

Rock & Pop music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Biography; Memoirs

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In this small, luminous memoir, the National Book Award-winner Patti Smith revisits the most sacred experiences of her early... [more]

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Frank: The Making of a Legend

James Kaplan

Music: styles & genres; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Biography; Biography: arts & entertainment

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Who was Frank Sinatra? And how did who he was lead to him creating such incomparable music? In FRANK, fans finally have a... [more]

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Boogie Man: The Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American Twentieth...

Charles Shaar Murray

Music; Blues; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Biography: arts & entertainment

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'You the funkiest man alive.' Miles Davis' accolade was the perfect expression of John Lee Hooker's apotheosis as blues superstar:... [more]

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Gilbert of Gilbert & Sullivan: His Life and Character

Andrew Crowther

Music; Opera; Biography: arts & entertainment

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The life of Sir William Schwenck Gilbert, one half of Gilbert & Sullivan The author of The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado,... [more]

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The Reinvention of Religious Music: Olivier Messiaen's Breakthrough Toward...

Sander Van Maas

Music; Sacred & religious music

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Present-day music studies conspicuously evade the question of religion in contemporary music. Although many composers address... [more]

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Chamber Music: An Essential History

Mark A Radice

Music; Chamber ensembles

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Women of Note: The Rise of Australian Women Composers

Rosalind Appleby

Music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups

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In the early twentieth century being a female composer was a dangerous game; one composer was diagnosed as mentally insane... [more]

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