Composers and songwriters Books
Hal Leonard Corporation Very Best Of E.L.O. All Over The World Pvg
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£22.49
Hal Leonard Corporation Music for Piano
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£22.09
Hal Leonard Corporation The Yip Harburg Songbook
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£17.99
Hal Leonard Corporation Guitar PlayAlong Volume 130 Iron Maiden
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£21.59
HarperCollins Publishers I Bificus
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£16.17
Hal Leonard Corporation Best of Gary Moore
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£26.09
G. Schirmer, Inc. 18 Nocturnes
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£13.95
Hal Leonard Corporation John Corigliano Metamusic Three Songs For
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£11.39
Kendall Hunt Publishing Company Essential Skills for Composing Effectively
£47.60
Arcadia Publishing Squires Warren Junior Military Band Images of
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£21.24
History Press Hidden History of Music Row
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£19.79
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Storied South Voices of Writers and Artists
£35.96
Orion Publishing Co Spaceships Over Glasgow
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book is like being in the pub with a friend who has all the best stories * The Skinny *Will provide comfort and inspiration to all those souls abducted by music * The Guardian *Exuberant * Mojo *Candid and articulate * The Herald *Shows how well his infectious enthusiasm and taste for therapeutic noise have served him * Uncut *A love song to rock n roll * The Scots Magazine *It's hard to think of a better book written about the realities of being in a band in the 21st century * Record Collector *
£24.32
Simon & Schuster MJ The Genius of Michael Jackson
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£19.00
Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation Jersey Boys The Story Of Frankie Valli The Four
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£18.04
Hal Leonard Corporation Rhapsody in Black The Life and Music of Roy
Book SynopsisRHAPSODY IN BLACK: THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF ROY ORBISON
£18.99
Hal Leonard Corporation ComposerS Choice Randall Hartsell Early to
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£10.44
Hal Leonard Corporation Elegant People
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£23.75
Hal Leonard Corporation Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Book SynopsisThis landmark album celebrates its fiftieth year in March 2022, and McEuen tells the story of the making of the album, discusses each of its thirty-eight songs, and includes never-before-seen photos taken by the author and his brother Bill McEuen, who produced the album.
£36.10
Hal Leonard Corporation Buddy Guy Guitar PlayAlong Volume 183
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£14.72
Hal Leonard Corporation Youve Heard These Hands from the Wall of Sound to
Book SynopsisYOU'VE HEARD THESE HANDS: FROM THE WALL OF SOUND TO THE WRECKING CREW AND OTHER INCREDI
£25.00
Hal Leonard Corporation Ed Sheeran for Ukulele
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£14.24
Hal Leonard Corporation Confessions of a Vintage Guitar Dealer The
Book SynopsisCONFESSIONS OF A VINTAGE GUITAR DEALER: THE MEMOIRS OF NORMAN HARRIS
£42.60
Hal Leonard Corporation Les Paul in His Own Words
Book SynopsisIn 2009 the legendary Les Paul passed away at the age of 94. In celebration of his life this book capturing Paul''s own reflections on his remarkable inventions and guitar playing was published as a high-end collector''s edition. In 2015 Les Paul reached his centennial and Backbeat Books is pleased to celebrate the legend once more in the first-ever paperback edition of ÊLes Paul in His Own WordsÊ making his fascinating story available to a wide range of readers.ÞThis book is the definitive work on the recording and electric guitar pioneer whose prodigious talents and relentless work ethic single-handedly launched a new era in American popular music. This authentic account of Les Paul''s life is packed with words of wisdom and experience from one of the most important contributors to modern music.
£22.50
Hal Leonard Corporation Making Sight Reading Fun Choral Games for
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£11.50
Hal Leonard Corporation Edna Mae Burnam Step By Step AllInOne Edition
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£14.39
Hal Leonard Corporation Guitar Play Along The Beatles BookOnline Audio
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£21.24
Hal Leonard Corporation Best of the Beatles
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£15.29
Hal Leonard Corporation The Beatles Live at the Hollywood Bowl
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£14.39
Hal Leonard Corporation The Beatles Live at the Hollywood Bowl
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£13.49
Hal Leonard Corporation Emeli Sand Long Live the Angels
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£16.19
Hal Leonard Corporation Queen Cello PlayAlong Volume 8 HalLeonard Cello
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£13.49
Boosey & Hawkes Inc First Suite in E Flat For Military Band
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£15.29
University of Minnesota Press Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie
Book SynopsisCount Basie was one of America’s pre-eminent and influential jazz pianists, bandleaders, and composers, known for such classics as “Jumpin’ at the Woodside,” “Goin’ to Chicago Blues,” “Sent for You Yesterday and Here You Come Today,” and “One O’Clock Jump.” In Good Morning Blues, Basie recounts his life story to Albert Murray, from his childhood years playing ragtime with his own pickup band at dances and pig roasts, to his years in New York City in search of opportunity, to rollicking anecdotes of Basie’s encounters with Fats Waller, Frank Sinatra, Fred Astaire, Sammy Davis Jr., Quincy Jones, Billie Holliday, and Tony Bennett. In this classic of jazz autobiography that was ten years in the making, Albert Murray brings the voice of Count Basie to the printed page in what is both testimony and tribute to an incredibly rich life.
£999.99
Rowman & Littlefield Chasing Tone: How Rob Turner and EMG
Book SynopsisPrince, Pink Floyd, Metallica, Toto, James Taylor, Keith Richards—these stars and thousands of others all owe a debt of gratitude to Rob Turner who revolutionized the electric guitar and bass.Chasing Tone tells Rob Turner’s story from humble beginnings rewiring his father’s transistor radio components to founding EMG and, finally, to the world’s largest concert stages. Jim Reilly provides a wealth of fascinating insights by weaving together many exclusive interviews with top artists and colleagues, including James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, and Robert Trujillo of Metallica; legendary session musician Leland Sklar; Vernon Reid of Living Colour; Victor Wooten; Béla Fleck; Nili Brosh; Jim Root of Slipknot; and guitar builders Mike McGuire and John Carruthers. Along the way, Reilly not only sheds light on the history of the electric guitar and bass and how EMG pickups forever altered their course but also explores the elusive relationship between builder and creator, showing how these artists found their sound.This book takes a deep dive into the creative process while providing a history of popular music told from a side of the stage previously underexplored.Table of Contents Foreword: Tom Mulhern A Brief Introduction from the Author and Alison Turner Prologue: Friday Nights Chapter One: Just a Kid from Sunny SoCal Chapter Two: Lessons at Every Curve CHASING TONE – THE ARTISTS’ JOURNEY 1: Vernon Reid, Jim Root, & Nili Brosh Chapter Three: Am I Living the Dream? Chapter Four: From Coast to Coast and Across the Seas CHASING TONE – THE ARTISTS’ JOURNEY 2: Joel Landsberg, Chris Pandolfi, Richard Battaglia & Nate Lopez Chapter Five: Welcome to the Big Leagues Chapter Six: Enter Sandman CHASING TONE – THE ARTISTS’ JOURNEY 3: Robert Trujillo, Kirk Hammett, James Hetfield (& Zach Harmon) Chapter Seven: Brother Bill Chapter Eight: Sometimes You Just Leave It Alone – But More Often You Explore CHASING TONE – THE ARTISTS’ JOURNEY 4: Bobby Vega, Victor Wooten Chapter Nine: The Journey Continues Epilogue: A Note from the Author with Thanks Appendix: EMG Artists To Date
£34.80
Rowman & Littlefield Lead Sister: The Story of Karen Carpenter
£23.75
Hal Leonard Corporation Working Class Audio Journal
Book SynopsisWORKING CLASS AUDIO JOURNAL VOLUME 1
£28.96
Hal Leonard Corporation The Sense of Occasion
Book SynopsisIn this fast-moving, candid, conversational, and entertaining memoir, Harold Prince, the most honoured director/producer in the history of the American theatre looks back over his seventy-year (and counting!) career. In 1974, Prince released his first book, Contradictions: Notes on Twenty-Six Years in the Theatre. Although Contradictions has since attained cult status among producers, directors, and actors alike, Prince, in hindsight, believes he wasn't ready to publish such a tome at that point in his career (in fact, doing so was an act of insane arrogance). Although he doesn't regret that effort, he is at last prepared to conclude it, to see where I was right in my assessments and where I was wrong. In Sense of Occasion, Prince returns to this seminal text, invigorating it with fresh insights cultivated through four decades of additional practice. Sense of Occasion gives an insider's recollection of the making of such landmark musicals as West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, Company, Follies, Sweeney Todd, Evita, and Phantom of the Opera, with Prince's perceptive comments about his mentor George Abbott and his many celebrated collaborators, including Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, Stephen Sondheim, John Kander, Boris Aronson, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Angela Lansbury, Zero Mostel, Carol Burnett, and Joel Grey. As well as detailing his titanic successes that changed the form and content of the American musical theatre, Prince even-handedly reflects on the shows that didn't work, most memorably and painfully Merrily We Roll Along. Throughout, he offers insights into the way business is conducted on Broadway, drawing sharp contrasts between past and present. This thoughtful, complete account of one of the most legendary and long-lived careers in theatre history, written by the man who lived it, is an essential work of personal and professional recollection.
£14.99
Hal Leonard Corporation My LAS Vegas: With Elvis, Sinatra, Streisand,
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£18.00
Chicago Review Press Here Comes Everybody: The Story of the Pogues
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£999.99
Chicago Review Press Bowie on Bowie Volume 8: Interviews and
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£23.36
University of North Texas Press,U.S. A Deeper Blue: The Life and Music of Townes Van
Book SynopsisThis is the first serious biography of a man widely considered one of Texas’—and America’s—greatest songwriters. Like Jimmie Rodgers, Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, and Hank Williams, Townes Van Zandt was the embodiment of that mythic American figure, the troubled troubadour. A Deeper Blue traces Van Zandt’s background as the scion of a prominent Texas family; his troubled early years and his transformation from promising pre-law student to wandering folk singer; his life on the road and the demons that pursued and were pursued by him; the women who loved and inspired him; and the brilliance and enduring beauty of his songs, which are explored in depth.The author draws on eight years’ extensive research and interviews with Townes’ family and closest friends and colleagues. He looks beyond the legend and paints a colorful portrait of a complex man who embraced the darkness of demons and myth as well as the light of deep compassion and humanity, all “for the sake of the song.”
£13.46
Select Books Inc The Rhino Records Story: The Revenge of the Music
Book SynopsisIn the 1970s in the backroom of a record store, Harold Bronson and Richard Foos were making history-and so, Rhino Records was born. Harold Bronson's The Rhino Records Story tells the tale of how a little record shop became a multimillion dollar corporation.Trade ReviewBronson's romp is more than just a story of the good ol' days, he offers plenty of interesting lessons on how to stand out in the cut-throat music industry. -- Publishers Weekly
£19.76
Select Books Inc Psychedelic Bubble Gum: Boyce & Hart, The
Book SynopsisFrom the man who wrote the songs that outsold the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in 1967-1968, comes the story of the first decades of his life in Hollywood and New York. Immerse yourself in Grammy, Golden Globe, and Academy Award nominated songwriter Bobby Hart's world as he shares the story behind his success; from humble beginnings comes a musical goliath.Psychedelic Bubble Gum is an exclusive glimpse into Hart's personal journey as he moves on the fast track to fame. This vivid narrative follows Hart's gradual rise in the music industry as half of the duo Boyce and Hart, as he and his friend and partner Tommy Boyce wrote the songs that launched the Monkees to stardom, and eventually reaching over a hundred million in sales. Along the way is all the heartbreak and drama that accompanies fame and fortune—an uprooted life, conflicted morals, and the sacrifice of his wholesome high school sweetheart Becky.With unbending sincerity, Hart details a life of extravagance, betrayal, loss, disillusionment, and an unstoppable personal struggle to find spiritual balance, peace, and love. Psychedelic Bubble Gum is a rollercoaster ride through the 1960s and 1970s during America's whirlwind era of free speech, mysticism, and psychedelic pop culture, and, of course, rock 'n' roll. Packed with intimate behind-the-scenes encounters with pop star royalty, Psychedelic Bubble Gum is tempered by humor, honesty, and a singular understanding of the industry, Trade Review"Hart, in his debut, tells of how his jagged path through the music industry led to heartbreakbut also to happiness. This snappy yet reflective memoir opens with an episode that's emblematic of its narrator. While struggling to make it in Hollywood, Hart listened to the radio and detected an unsatisfying insincerity in the DJ's voice. Hart's desire for authenticity, and his connections in entertainment, would go on to propel him on a remarkable journey through the music world. He left his hometown of Phoenix to start six months of active duty in the U.S. Army Reserve in Monterey, California, and soon found himself entangled in the glamour and grit of Hollywoodthat 'circus of extremes for the senses with its bright lights and colorful characters'while working for a company that manufactured labels for vinyl records. His own recording career, though, began one fateful Saturday, when he booked studio time for himself and became amazed at the possibilities that emerged when he combined his musical background with skillful sound engineering. What followed were years of risk and uncertainty and powerful collaborations with other musiciansas well as love, loss, and friendship. Hart candidly depicts his hyperactive, out-and-about lifestyle as a musician and songwriter who struggled to balance the work that gave his life meaning with his commitment to his family. Sometimes the strain proved too much, and his relationship with his first wife deteriorated as a result. Along the way, countless projects with his songwriting partner, Tommy Boyce, rolled by, as did the tumultuous cultural and historical events of the 1960s. Before long, the duo was writing songs for The Monkees, including '(Theme from) The Monkees ,' 'Last Train to Clarksville,' and 'Valleri.' In the memoir's most captivating pages, Hart recounts the stratospheric rise of that artificially engineered musical group. Particularly engaging are Hart's anecdotes about his own songwriting process; he recounts, for instance, that the song fragment that eventually became 'Last Train to Clarksville' was inspired by a mishearing of the Beatles' 1966 single 'Paperback Writer.' A highly detailed autobiography by a unique figure in American cultural history that will interest historians and pop-culture aficionados alike." Kirkus Reviews
£999.99
Select Books Inc Surf City: The Jan and Dean Story
Book SynopsisThe Jan and Dean Story is a personal story of the iconic musician and entrepreneur Dean Torrence. As a memoir The Jan and Dean Story has elements of humor, tragedy and redemption. It tells their story from the early high school friendship struck up between Jan Berry and Dean Torrence and their ascent to the dizzying heights of stardom riding the crest of the surf” craze. The Jan and Dean Story is as much about the culture of the 1960s as it is about music. Dean has lived an incredible life and continues to promote a lifestyle and surf culture that is now universally admired and followed throughout the world.The story also recounts Jan’s tragic car accident and his ability to recover enough to continue to perform will be inspiring to many readers even those not familiar with surf music. For pop culture addicts and music buffs alike this book is indispensable. As early teen icons, Jan and Dean left an indelible mark on the music of the 60’s and the American psyche.Dean Torrence is still touring and creating music and often appears with the Beach Boys and other groups from the heyday of surf music.Trade Review"Over the years, we have had so much fun, fun, fun and so many memorable interactions. Whether it was onstage in Hawaii at the KPOI Million Dollar Party in July 1964, or on the T.A.M.I. Show in October 1964 that Jan & Dean hosted, we [The Beach Boys] enjoyed a healthy rivalry as well as friendship...I'm certain you, the reader, will have a great time reading this story that Dean shares with us of his life experience, his Surf City Saga."--From the foreword by Mike Love, The Beach Boys "Some of the happiest times of my life have been in the company of Dean Torrence, and if there was one thing better than being onstage with him all those summer nights, it was getting to hear him tell his wonderful stories in the dressing rooms, all-night diners and back-road taverns after the shows. Now you're lucky enough to hear those stories, in a beautiful voice you've loved for years."--Bob Greene, author of When We Get to Surf City: A Journey Through America in Pursuit of Rock and Roll, Friendship, and Dreams "Dean Torrence was there for the birth of Surf Music and played a massive role in both performing and defining it. If there was such a thing as Surf Music royalty, then Dean Torrence is it. And, of course, whenever I have the opportunity to play that cool music with Dean, I always keep some extra reverb on hand just for him...!"--Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, Doobie Brothers "...and we had a good time doing it...didn't we..."--Lou Adler, Ode Records
£15.15
Avery Publishing Group Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington
Book SynopsisA major new biography of Duke Ellington from the acclaimed author of Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington was the greatest jazz composer of the twentieth century—and an impenetrably enigmatic personality whom no one, not even his closest friends, claimed to understand. The grandson of a slave, he dropped out of high school to become one of the world’s most famous musicians, a showman of incomparable suavity who was as comfortable in Carnegie Hall as in the nightclubs where he honed his style. He wrote some fifteen hundred compositions, many of which, like “Mood Indigo” and “Sophisticated Lady,” remain beloved standards, and he sought inspiration in an endless string of transient lovers, concealing his inner self behind a smiling mask of flowery language and ironic charm. As the biographer of Louis Armstrong, Terry Teachout is uniquely qualified to tell the story of the public and private lives of Duke Ellington. A semi-finalist for the National Book Award, Duke peels away countless layers of Ellington’s evasion and public deception to tell the unvarnished truth about the creative genius who inspired Miles Davis to say, “All the musicians should get together one certain day and get down on their knees and thank Duke.”
£17.00
Boutique of Quality Books These Are My People
Book SynopsisWhat would it be like to be a part of country music history? Singer/songwriter and manager Merle Kilgore could have told you. He awed his fans with tales of his life in the music business, always with a supporting cast of impossibly famous friends. At age fourteen Merle carried the guitar for Hank Williams Sr. Four years later he wrote his first song, and Webb Pierce turned it into a million-seller. He double-dated with Elvis Presley, wrecked hotel rooms with Johnny Cash, held seances with Johnny Horton, and convinced Audrey Williams to put Hank Jr. on the road at fourteen-years-old. Merle became a prolific songwriter, entering the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. He co-wrote his signature accomplishment, Ring of Fire with June Carter Cash. This work is listed by CMT as one of the top four all-time country music songs. These are just a few of the amazing stories of Merle's life, showcased in These Are My People, written by his grandson Mark Rickert.
£15.15
Top Reads Publishing, LLC Intimate Conversations
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£39.56
