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Music takes on a new guise in a compelling story of fantastic times when Renaissance composer Geusaldo lived a life suffused with scandal. Glenn Watkins’s vivid tale of adultery and intrigue, withcraft and muder in The Gesualdo Hex: Music, Myth and Memory is not only about art and the artist but also the influence of [...]

An unemployed nearly 40 year old woman, Susan Boyle entered Britain’s Got Talent and overwhelmed the audience and judges when she sang and won. They admitted they were prejudiced the moment she walked onto the stage. Susan would have been considered far too old and not attractive enough for any music agent in the world [...]

Author Robert Milliken presents the Mother of Rock: The Lillian Roxon Story a warts and all look at the first Australian female overseas correspondent and the first Australian journalist to establish a high profile in America.
She was the unchallenged queen of the New York rock scene…Dorothy Parker of Max’s Kansas City’ – Rolling Stone [...]

Bruce Springsteen is seen by many to be the saviour of rock & roll. His Runaway Dream brought together the exuberance of ’50s rock with the thoughtfulness of ’60s rock and then he moulded it all into a distinctive  ’70s style. His concerts: near-religious celebrations of all that is best in music.
To millions of listeners, [...]

Peter Hook debunks many of the myths surrounding The Hacienda, a notorious club in Manchester. Take a wildly witty entertaining rollicking journey that while taking in key events doesn’t pull any punches or lose sight of the personal stories of the people that made the club famous.
Peter Hook, as co-founder of Joy Division and New [...]

The Gilded Stage offers a well-informed insight into the history of Opera, which remains a significant contemporary tradition in western culture because it is all about love and life. Author Daniel Snowman highlights the music, text, drama and spectacle and confirms that opera reflects the classical maturity of our society, its attitudes and philosophies, fashions [...]

Different Drummer: The Life of Kenneth MacMillan is the story of a choreographer with a distinctly dark side.
Kenneth MacMillan’s ballets are in constant demand by world-famous companies, particularly Romeo and Juliet, Manon and Mayerling. However, MacMillan was tormented by an acute sense of being an outsider, at odds with the institutions in which he worked [...]

In Perfecting Sound Forever unravels the strange story of recorded music. Tracing the contours of this history, Greg Milner takes us through the major breakthroughs and glorious failures in the art and science of recording.
From our CD collections to iPods bursting with MP3s to the hallowed vinyl of DJs, recordings are the most common way [...]

Mozipedia is the new biography of the famously enigmatic Morrissey by  Simon Goddard
Steven Patrick Morrissey is one of the most original and controversial voices in the history of popular music. With The Smiths, he led the most influential British guitar group of the 1980s, his enigmatic wit and style defining a generation. As a solo [...]

Part biography, part music history, and part literary mystery, The Cello Suitesweaves together three dramatic narratives.
One autumn evening, not long after ending a stint as a rock music critic, Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Cello Suites. There, in a spine-tingling moment, something unlikely happened: he fell deeply in love with the [...]