Pop & Rock

Jérôme Soligny Hardcover | 15.88 x 6.35 x 23.5 cm | 704 pp Monoray | 2023 | 9781800960633 In David Bowie Rainbowman, Jérôme Soligny tells the story of David Bowie the musician with the help of those intimately involved with the creation of his music. ...

Simon Reynolds Softcover | 13 x 3.4 x 19.6 cm | 416 pp White Rabbit | 2024 | 9780306833786 Futuromania is a celebration of music that feels like a taste of tomorrow: the vanguard genres and heroic innovators who prefigure and shape pop music's future. It...

Bob Stanley Hardcover | 16.2 x 3.6 x 24 cm | 392 pp Nine Eight Books | 2023 | 9781788705417 Everyone has their favourite era of the Bee Gees' career, but so much is still unclear about this celebrated but often misunderstood band. This...

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...

William & Jim Reid Hardcover | 23.4 x 3 x 15.4 cm | 304 pp White Rabbit |  2024 | 9780306835513 For five years after they'd swapped sought-after apprenticeships for life on the dole, brothers William and Jim Reid sat up till the early hours...

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...

Simon Spence Softcover | 11.1 x 2.3 x 17.8 cm | 204 pp Backstage Books | 2024 | 9781739477936 Available in two editions, with cover photographs by Jill Furmanovsky and Roger Sargent. Feeling Supersonic is a compendium, a celebration and a roadmap to the remarkable...

Jenny Boyd Hardcover | 16.4 x 3.8 x 24.3 cm | 432 pp John Blake | 2023 | 9781789466713 There have been innumerable 'rock star' biographies and music histories before, but there is no book that presents the deepest, innermost thoughts from some of the...

Bob Dylan Hardcover | 18.73 x 3.3 x 23.18 cm | 352 pp Simon & Schuster | 2022 | 9781451648706 The Philosophy of Modern Song offers Bob Dylan's extraordinary insight into the nature of popular music. He offers us sixty essays focusing on songs by...

Paul Cox, Fabrice Couillerot & Robert Smith Hardcover | 20 x 2.79 x 27 cm | 256 pp ACC Art Books | 2024 | 9781788842747 The Cure: Stills follows the changing faces of one of the leading British rock bands during the post-punk and new-wave movements of...

Steve Wide Hardcover | 17.7 x 1.55 x 21.67 cm | 96 pp Smith Street Books | 2022 | 9781922417206 A Field Guide to Britpop explores a scene fuelled by north–south rivalries, tribal fashion and a good cup of tea. Author Steve Wide documents...

Paul Bergen Hardcover | 28.19 x 2.79 x 34.29 cm | 256 pp teNeues | 2022 | 9783961714124 This is the most comprehensive and exhaustive collection of pictures of the music of the 1990s. David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, Nirvana, Oasis, Pete Doherty, Phil Collins, Prince, Motörhead...

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....

Opher Goodwin Softcover | 12.95 x 1.14 x 19.69 cm | 136 pp Sonicbond Publishing | 2024 | 9781789523140  One of the most pivotal albums in the evolution of rock music, few other recordings have had more impact than the 1965 Bob Dylan classic, Bringing...

John Van der Kiste Softcover | 12.95 x 1.27 x 19.81 cm | 136 pp Sonicbond Publishing | 2024 | 9781789523096  Released in 1969, Let it Bleed was The Rolling Stones’ eighth studio album (tenth in the USA). The second in a sequence of four...

Matt Lee & Craig Kallman Hardcover | 23.4 x 2.21 x 28.19 cm | 256 pp Welbeck Publishing | 2021 | 9781787393073 Matt Lee has been collecting Rolling Stones memorabilia for more than two decades. He amassed so much that he had to move...

John Robb Softcover | 12.95 x 3.56 x 19.3 cm | 400 pp Unbound | 2023 | 9781800182189  Do You Believe in the Power of Rock & Roll? is a history of alternative rock from John Robb, with the music still ringing in his ears. This...

Ian Preece Softcover | 15.88 x 5.33 x 23.5 cm | 720pp Onmibus Press | 2020 | 9781785586309 If there's a cultural artefact capable of withstanding the vagaries and fickleness of the digital age as well as the printed book, it's the vinyl record... In...

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...