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For the first time, music legend Tom Petty’s spouse and muse of 25 years opens up about their intimate, shared lives in this memoir filled with personal anecdotes, and bittersweet reminiscing...

From an acclaimed music journalist, the gripping story of Los Angeles rock from its fifties beginnings to its eighties prime, told through its most influential pacesetter: Lou Adler. From the fifties through the eighties, Lou Adler was the key architect of Los Angeles rock—from the birth of...

Monteverdi and His Constellation, a new William Collins book, full description to follow when available...

The life and times of a living legend, the most successful and influential singer/songwriter of the past fifty years throughout the Spanish-speaking world, who also happens to be an acclaimed Hollywood and Broadway actor, a Harvard Law School graduate with a Master’s degree in international...

Daddy Yankee is a record-breaking rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, and icon. In his first book, ReaDY, published simultaneously in English and Spanish, he shares the story of his journey from Puerto Rico to global fame, his brush with death, the reclaiming of his faith, and how tests of...

An Independent Book of the Month ‘A superb biography’ William Boyd ‘(A) bold and enlightening exploration of Bowie's later career. Sensitive, witty and often very affecting’ The Times ‘A genuine must buy, as rich in critical appraisal as it is in personal history *****’ Classic Pop...

Malka Marom will tell you that art saved her life. As a child, she craved stories and songs more than sustenance, and it's no surprise, perhaps, that they ended up being the central thread of her unusual, often amazing life. In the '60s, with her singing partner, Joso Spralja, another immigrant...

A Simon & Schuster book. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader...

A wild, rollicking, firsthand account of the good ole days of funk from Bootsy Collins, the legendary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame bass guitarist for James Brown, George Clinton, and Parliament-Funkadelic. Funky foreword courtesy of Snoop Dogg. He’s a bona fide funk legend, a rhinestone-clad style...

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Graham Kendrick's life has always been immersed in music. As a songwriter and worship-leader for over five decades, Graham's songs travelled further than he ever imagined - across continents, across denominations, across generations. And behind each one lies a story. In Shine Jesus Shine...

The definitive biography of The Police, one of the most successful and fractious bands in pop history, based on interviews with the trio’s members and those who surrounded them—from Geoff Edgers, national arts reporter for The Washington Post. Every Little Thing excavates the history of the...

A searing memoir of a broken childhood and the hope of escaping it—from the iconic Black Flag frontman and legendary punk musician Henry Rollins What happens when a child grows up in an almost total vacuum of love? That was the reality for Henry Rollins, pioneering punk frontman of the seminal...

A través de anécdotas íntimas y reflexiones profundas, ReaDY narra el apasionante viaje de resiliencia y fe de Daddy Yankee, al tiempo que imparte lecciones sobre cómo sortear los contratiempos, las dificultades y las pruebas de fortaleza para transformar tu vida. Alterado para siempre por...

Nina Simone and the World She Made, a new William Collins book, full description to follow when available...

The unmissable memoir of a life at the heart of 60s culture – from Lennon and McCartney, to the Mersey Beat Poets and more. Who was John Lennon’s first girlfriend? Who is the only woman to have dated Lennon and McCartney? And Tom Wolfe. And Anthony ‘Madchester’ Wilson. And married Roger...

Andrew Hill occupies a unique niche in jazz history: Too iconoclastic to be part of the mainstream, he was initially marketed as part of the “second wave” avant-garde in the 1960s, yet he was too structured and anchored in the tradition to fit comfortably there. He often found himself on the...

From Jennifer Finch, the bassist of L7, comes a candid and clear-eyed memoir that stands apart from the rest with its grounded perspective, raw economy of language, and bracing, edgy wisdom If overcoming obstacles makes for great art, then Jennifer Finch is the consummate artist. She’s a...

Twenty years after his acclaimed postpunk best-seller, Rip It Up and Start Again, Simon Reynolds tells the tale of what happened next: the underground explosion of noisepop, shoegaze, slacker rock, and grunge that reverberated through the late Eighties into the early Nineties. Capturing the...

From the streets of Boston to global stardom, the journey of Aerosmith’s Joe Perry embodies determination, perseverance, and survival through 6 decades of rock music history. Joe Milliken chronicles the guitar hero’s early life and meteoric rise to stardom, then Aerosmith’s collapse and...