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R.E.M., the most acclaimed American group of their generation, disbanded in September 2011 with their idealism and dignity intact. In this, the final edition of his best-selling R.E.M. biography, Ton …

French composer Maurice Ravel was described by critics as a magician, conjurer, and illusionist. Scholars have been aware of this historical curiosity, but none so far have explained why Ravel attrac …

‘He wasn’t dead and gone to heaven. He was alive and still in Graceland. Cursed to live another year on god’s earth as Elvis Presley. The man from yesterday trapped in a today of tomorrows…’ As 1968 …

A new and fascinating biography of the most outstanding composer in musical history, covering Bach’s earliest efforst in Eisenach, his cultural inheritance, his series of posts as organist or musicia …

Beatles fans know the ’70s as a bitter time for Lennon and Mc Cartney. Prolific and public animosity demolished any hopes of reconciliation between the two, and the most influential band in the histo …

The book consists of three parts. The first is the background story providing a detailed context surrounding the writing of the works. It also gives details of methodology and the origins of each wor …

Read & Burn is the first serious, in-depth appraisal of one of the most influential British bands to emerge during the punk era. If Wire were briefly a punk band, however, it was largely by historica …

When Pete Doherty was imprisoned for burgling his best friend and bandmate Carl Barat in August 2003 it seemed the light had gone out on Britain’s most exciting new band. Released early and reconcile …

Long Promised Road: Carl Wilson, Soul Of The Beach Boys tells the story of the youngest of the three Wilson brothers, a consummate musician and singer and a natural peacemaker. Robbed of a normal chi …

Well before she married Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann was already an internationally renowned pianist, and she concertized extensively for several decades after her husband’s death. Despite be …