Music Biographies & Memoirs

Tom Doyle Softcover | 12.9 x 2.2 x 19.7 cm | 320 pp Nine Eight Books | 2023 | 9781788707824 Kate Bush is the subject of murmured legend and one of the most idiosyncratic musicians of the modern era. Comprising fifty chapters or 'visions', Running Up...

Thurston Moore Hardcover | 16.38 x 3.99 x 23.88 cm | 467 pp Doubleday | 2023 | 9780385548656 From the founding member of Sonic Youth, a passionate memoir tracing the author's life and art—from his teen years as a music obsessive in small-town Connecticut, to...

Edward Tudor Pole Softcover | 12.7 x 2.03 x 19.69 cm | 304 pp Oldcastle Books | 2025 | 9780857306159 Whether house-sharing with Philip Pullman, trading one-liners at RADA with Ralph Richardson, shooting the breeze with Clint Eastwood, partying with Jerry Hall, acting in Edwardian...

Tony King Softcover | 12.8 x 1.8 x 19.8 cm | 272 pp Faber & Faber | 2024 | 9780571371952 The Tastemaker charts the singular life of a man who has been at the beating heart of music's most iconic moments for over sixty years. Leaving...

Softcover | 13 x 3 x 20 cm | 520 pp Penguin | 2014 | 9780241971956 Waging Heavy Peace is the remarkable memoir of rock icon Neil Young. Neil Young is a singular figure in the history of rock and pop culture, inducted not...

Mark Mordue Hardcover | 15.88 x 3.81 x 23.5 cm | 432 pp Atlantic Books | 2021 | 9781838953690 An intensely beautiful, profound and poetic biography of the formative years of the dark prince of rock 'n' roll, Boy on Fire is Nick Cave's creation story, a...

Art Garfunkel Hardcover | 13.46 x 2.79 x 21.08 cm | 256 pp Random House | 2017 | 9780385352475 From the golden-haired, curly-headed half of Simon & Garfunkel - a memoir (of sorts); moving, lyrical impressions, interspersed throughout a narrative, punctuated by poetry, musings, lists...

John Carter Cash  Hardcover | 25 x 3.2 x 32 cm | 384 pp White Rabbit | 2023 | 9781399618786 The life of the Man in Black is revealed through his lyrics and by rare photographs and ephemera, in this beautifully illustrated official hardback edition,...

Paul Rees Hardcover | 16.64 x 3.56 x 23.75 cm | 352 pp Hachette | 2020 | 9780306922855 Unearth a piece of music history with this definitive, no-holds-barred biography of John Entwistle, The Who's legendary bass guitarist. It is an unequivocal fact that in terms...

Hardcover in slipcase | 16.51 x 2.54 x 24.13 cm | 320 pp Faber & Faber | 2022 | 9780571376681 Signed Limited Edition A long-awaited memoir of Blur co-founder, guitar legend and artist Graham Coxon. Among the noise and clamour of the Britpop era,...

Peter Richmond Softcover | 13.97 x 3.25 x 21.59 cm | 576 pp Picador | 2007 | 9780312426613 "I learned courage from Buddha, Jesus, Lincoln, and Mr. Cary Grant." So said Miss Peggy Lee. Albert Einstein adored her; Duke Ellington dubbed her "the Queen." With...

Ian Broudie Hardcover | 16.3 x 3.3 x 24.3 cm | 352 pp Nine Eight Books | 2023 | 9781788709026 Few musicians have lived a musical life as rich as the songwriter and producer Ian Broudie. From recording the glorious uplifting psychedelic pop of his band...

Jimmy McDonough Hardcover | 16.19 x 3.18 x 24.45 cm | 304 pp Da Capo Press | 2017 | 9780306822674 With songs like "Love and Happiness," "I'm Still in Love with You," and "Tired of Being Alone," Al Green is considered by many to be...

Stephen Davis Softcover | 15.24 x 3.3 x 22.86 cm | 384 pp Hachette | 2022 | 9780306846083 In Please Please Tell Me Now, bestselling rock biographer Stephen Davis tells the story of Duran Duran, the quintessential band of the 1980s. Their pretty boy looks made...

Darryl W. Bullock Hardcover | 15.88 x 3.56 x 23.5 cm | 368 pp Omnibus Press | 2023 | 9781913172527  This is the definitive account of the LGBTQ trailblazers of early blues and a fascinating consideration of the intersection between music and LGBTQ history, from...

John Hudson Softcover | 14 x 1 x 21.5 cm | 172 pp Bristol Books | 2012 | 9781909446014 Adge Cutler died on his way home from a gig in 1974 at a time when a major TV breakthrough was within his grasp but...

Sean Latham Hardcover | 15.88 x 2.54 x 22.86 cm | 370 pp Cambridge University Press | 2021 | 9781108499514  Bob Dylan has helped transform music, literature, pop culture, and even politics. The World of Bob Dylan chronicles a lifetime of creative invention that has...

Robby Krieger Softcover | 13 x 4.2 x 19.6 cm | 432 pp White Rabbit | 2022 | 9781474624190 Few bands are as shrouded in the murky haze of rock mythology as The Doors, and parsing fact from fiction has been a virtually impossible task....

Karen Tongson Softcover | 12.9 x 1.1 x 19.8 cm | 138 pp Faber & Faber | 2021 | 9780571369003 In the '60s and '70s, America's music scene was marked by raucous excess, reflected in the tragic overdoses of young superstars such as Jimi Hendrix...

Softcover | 12.7 x 2.54 x 19.69 cm | 394 pp Faber & Faber | 2020 | 9780571339419 What do you do when you realise you have everything you think you've ever wanted but still feel completely empty? What do you do when it all...