Van Halen by Neil Zlozower
Category: Music
From 1978 to 1984, Neil Zlozower was a "fifth member of Van Halen" (says bassist Michael Anthony) - touring, partying with, and photographing the band during the David Lee Roth era (hereafter DLR), at the height of their powers. This is the era everybody agrees on, which spawned two diamond platinum alb ...Show more
Abba - Thank You for the Music by Charles Ginger (Editor)
Category: Music
They say the winner takes it all, and when it came to fame, fortune and writing their name into the annals of pop music, ABBA certainly did. But just how did four young Scandinavian singers join forces to become the biggest- selling pop band in history? From their early days as budding artists to winn ...Show more
Eruption - The Eddie Van Halen Story by Paul Brannigan
Category: Music
A searching, affectionate and in-depth look at the life and legends of the late, great guitar god.
This Wheel's on Fire : Levon Helm and the Story of the Band by Stephen (CON) Levon; Davis Helm
Category: Music
Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey by Bill Brewster
Category: Music
"Last Night a DJ Saved My Life" was the first comprehensive history of the disc jockey, a figure who has become a powerful force shaping the music industry--and since its original publication, the book has become a cult classic. Now, with five new chapters and over a hundred pages of additional material ...Show more
Hal Leonard Guitar Method Book 1 Second Edition by Will Schmid
Category: Music
(Guitar Method). The second edition of this world-famous method by Will Schmid and Greg Koch is preferred by teachers because it makes them more effective while making their job easier. Students enjoy its easy-to-follow format that gives them a solid music education while letting them play songs right a ...Show more
Juke Box Hero - My Five Decades in Rock 'N' Roll by Lou Gramm; Scott Pitoniak
Category: Music
Lou Gramm rose from humble, working-class roots in Rochester, New York, to become one of rock's most popular and distinctive voices in the 1970s and '80s, singing and cowriting more than a dozen hits with the band Foreigner. Songs such as "Cold As Ice," "I Want to Know What Love Is," "Waiting for a Girl ...Show more
Revenge of the She-Punks - A Feminist Music History, from Poly Styrene to Pussy Riot by Vivien Goldman
Category: Music
With her visceral style, Goldman blends interviews, history, and her personal experience as one of Britain's first female music writers in a book that reads like a vivid documentary of a genre defined by dismantling boundaries. The colorful "Punk Professor", new-wave musician, and critic/filmmaker spins ...Show more
Fryderyk Chopin - A Life and Times by Alan Walker
Category: Music
A landmark biography of the Polish composer by a leading authority on Chopin and his time. Based on ten years of research and a vast cache of primary sources located in archives in Warsaw, Paris, London, New York, and Washington, D.C., Alan Walker's monumental Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times is the mo ...Show more
Iron Maiden: Album by Album by Martin Popoff
Category: Music | Series: Album by Album Ser.
Required reading for any metalhead, Iron Maiden is a compendium of in-depth, entertaining, and profusely illustrated conversations about all sixteen of the legendary metal band's studio albums. This new book from prolific rock journalist Martin Popoff pays tribute to the Iron Maiden's studio discography ...Show more
Death Cab for Cutie by Autumn De Wilde
Category: Music
Over the course of six albums, from celebrated indie releases to #1 on the "Billboard" charts, Death Cab for Cutie's open-hearted pop has earned a large and devoted audience. This text collects 200 of the author's candid and compelling images and conversations with and personal ephemera from the band. ...Show more
Ultimate Metallica by Ross Halfin
Category: Music
Metallica collects the best of Halfin's amazing images, taken over the years with access granted exclusively to him as friend to the band. His candid, on stage and backstage, on and off tour photographs are supplemented by text from numerous people close to the band-managers, engineers, roadies, music w ...Show more