The music autobiography of autumn 2021 - godfather of electropop Gary Numan's remarkable story

The pop world accelerated and broke through the sound barrier in 1966. Exploring canonical artists like The Beatles, The Byrds, Velvet Underground, The Who and The Kinks, this book goes much deeper into the social and cultural heart of the decade through unique archival primary sources.

The year 1968 encompasses the diverse realms of youth and music, politics and war, economics and the media. It was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. It was also the year of the Martin Luther King's assassination, and the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union. This book shows us how one volatile year helped shape us into who we are.

The Sixties ended a year late - on New Year's Eve 1970, when Paul McCartney initiated proceedings to wind up The Beatles. Music would never be the same again. By December rock had exploded into the mainstream. How did it happen? This book tells you how. It is the story of 1971, rock's golden year.

From the New York Times bestseller, the story of jazz, told through the journeys of three towering artists

A loose history of the rock album told through critiques of a personal selection of nearly 750 albums released from 1955 to 1999.

Offers turbulent relationship between popular music and politics, through 33 songs that span seven decades and four continents, from Billie Holiday singing "Strange Fruit" to Green Day raging against Iraq war. This book explores individuals, ideas and events behind each song, showing how protest music has sound tracked and informed social change.

The iconic life story of Brian Epstein, the 'Fifth Beatle', in his own words - and inevitably the story of the making of the Beatles. Featuring a new introduction by Craig Brown (One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time).

The highly-acclaimed, witty and insightful memoir from the Pogue's frontman Shane MacGowan.

The long-awaited, candid memoir from Peter Doherty, whose talent as a musician has more often been eclipsed by a Herculean appetite for self-destruction: drugs, prison, prostitution, court, murder, death, robbery, car crashes and hospital emergencies.

A Quick Ting On : Afrobeats, the first book of its kind chronicles the social and cultural development of the music genre. Tracing its rich history from the African continent all the way to the musical centre of the Western world.

The diary and essays of Brian Eno republished twenty-five years on with a new introduction by the artist in a beautiful hardback edition. 'One of the seminal books about music .

Provides an introduction to the basic elements in harmony and musical structure. Covers the basics of rhythm and tempo, an introduction to pitch, intervals and transposition, articulation, ornaments, and reiterations.

Provides an introduction to the basic elements in harmony and musical structure. Includes separate chapters on voices, string instruments, woodwind and brass instruments, percussions and keyboard instruments, and instruments in combination. Also covers non-harmony notes, tonal harmony and chromatic chords, and musical structure.

Intended as a beginner's tutor for woodwinds, this book offers tunes to play, instructions, balanced progression and scope for individiual teaching approaches.

An instrumental tutor catering for all brass band instruments, and containing a mixture of material from pop songs to traditional tunes and folk melodies. The book is available in two editions, treble clef and bass clef, and is graded throughout, with exercises and scales, up to Grade 4.

An instrumental tutor catering for all brass band instruments, and containing a mixture of material from pop songs to traditional tunes and folk melodies. The book is available in two editions, treble clef and bass clef, and is graded throughout, with exercises and scales, up to Grade 4.

This cello tutor contains a beginners course in 20 steps, with over 100 popular songs and tunes. It can be used alongside companion tutors for violin and viola and includes duets. The playalong CD of accompaniments is suitable for home practice and has cello and piano accompaniments.

The new edition of this classic music tutorial includes re-set music, new illustrations, extra notes and reinforcement exercises for tricky corners. The CD demonstrates each piece on the flute with piano accompaniments