Le Freak
An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco, and Destiny
Written by Nile Rodgers

Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $27.00

You will hear a Nile Rodgers song today. It will make you happy. 
 
Today’s pop music—genre-crossing, gender-bending, racially mixed, visually stylish, and dominated by dance music with global appeal—is the world that Nile Rodgers created. In the 1970s and 1980s, he wrote and produced the songs that defined that era and... Read more >

What They'll Never Tell You About the Music Business
The Myths, the Secrets, the Lies (& a Few Truths)
Written by Peter M. Thall

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: January 12, 2010
Price: $19.99

“For someone on the way up, this book is a must; for everyone else, it’s a bible.”—Danny Strick, co-President, SonyATV Music Publishing, Inc.
 
This completely revised and expanded edition of What They'll Never Tell You About the Music Business is a must-have reference not only for aspiring songwriters, record producers, and... Read more >

Come As You Are
The Story of Nirvana
Written by Michael Azerrad

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1993
Price: $19.95

Nirvana came out of nowhere in 1991 to sell  nearly five million copies of their landmark album  Nevermind, whose thunderous sound  and indelible melodies embodied all the confusion,  frustration, and passion of the emerging  Generation X. Come As You Are is the  close-up, intimate story of Nirvana -- the  only book with exclusive in-depth  interviews with bandmembers Kurt Cobain... Read more >

The Vintage Guide to Classical Music

Written by Jan Swafford

Format: Trade Paperback, 624 pages
On Sale: December 15, 1992
Price: $21.00

The most readable and comprehensive guide to enjoying over five hundred years of classical music -- from Gregorian chants, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to Johannes Brahms, Igor Stravinsky, John Cage, and beyond.

The Vintage Guide to Classical Music is a lively -- and opinionated -- musical history and an... Read more >

The Portable Henry Rollins

Written by Henry Rollins

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: February 10, 1998
Price: $19.95

Henry Rollins is an artist whose legendary, no-holds-barred performances encompasses music, acting, and written and spoken word.  As Details magazine said when it named Rollins the 1994 Man of the Year: "through two decades of rage and discipline, Henry Rollins has transformed himself from an L.A. punk rocker into a universal soldier.  His... Read more >

The First Four Notes
Beethoven's Fifth and the Human Imagination
Written by Matthew Guerrieri

Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $13.99

A TIME Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2012
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year
Los Angeles Magazine's #1 Music Book of the Year

A unique and revelatory book of music history that examines in great depth what is perhaps the best-known and most-popular symphony ever written and its four-note opening, which... Read more >

Lynyrd Skynyrd
Remembering the Free Birds of Southern Rock
Written by Gene Odom and Frank Dorman

Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: October 8, 2002
Price: $12.99

The first complete, unvarnished history of Southern rock’s legendary and most popular band, from its members’ hardscrabble boyhoods in Jacksonville, Florida and their rise to worldwide fame to the tragic plane crash that killed the founder and the band’s rise again from the ashes.

In the summer of 1964 Jacksonville, Florida teenager... Read more >

Kiss and Make-Up

Written by Gene Simmons

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: October 22, 2002
Price: $15.00

The God of Thunder returns in the New York Times Bestseller – Now in paperback and hotter than hell!
* More insight from the Demon – Including the making of Destroyer and the truth behind the greatest rock band in the world
* Look for all four special collector's covers
* And more photos


You... Read more >

Stradivari's Genius
Five Violins, One Cello, and Three Centuries of Enduring Perfection
Written by Toby Faber

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 4, 2006
Price: $16.00

Antonio Stradivari (1644—1737) was a perfectionist whose single-minded pursuit of excellence changed the world of music. In the course of his long career in the northern Italian city of Cremona, he created more than a thousand stringed instruments; approximately six hundred survive, their quality unequalled by any subsequent violin-maker. In this... Read more >

Rod
The Autobiography
Written by Rod Stewart
Read by Simon Vance

Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $40.00

The extraordinary life and career of music legend Rod Stewart, in his own words for the first time.
 
With his soulful and singular voice, narrative songwriting, and passionate live performances Rod Stewart has paved one of the most iconic and successful music careers of all time. He was the charismatic lead singer...

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