Bright Lights Dark Shadows is the definitive biography of Abba, the world's greatest pop band whose hit musical Mamma Mia! has become the most successful stage show and UK film of all time. This new edition of the best-selling Abba book has been substantially updated and revised to include details Mamma Mia's extraordinary success and the ongoing lives of Bjorn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Agnetha Foltskog, their music and their personal lives. It has also been substantially revised throughout.

The indispensable consumers' guide to the music of Led Zeppelin. An album by album, track by track, run-down of every song released by Led Zeppelin, from their classic first album to their best selling albums of the seventies and beyond. Also includes details of their remastered recordings, compilation albums, live albums and Led Zeppelin on DVD.

Published in the summer of 2013 to coincide with the anniversary of Arctic Monkeys' debut gig in 2003, this is the first fully comprehensive biography of their story to date. Charting both the highs and the lows and including detailed new research and original interviews, this follows the Arctic Monkeys' meteoric rise from awkward, hip-hop loving Sheffield schoolboys to record breaking international chart toppers. Details how innovative fans used the internet to propel the band to success and looks behind the scenes at how their invisible management team silently steered the band to the top. It follows the people and relationships, both inside and outside the band, that have shaped their music and direction. Includes input from band members Alex Turner, Jamie Cook, Matt Helders, Nick Malley, John Ashton and Andy Nicholson as well as former managers, DJs and music industry insiders.

Published to co-incide with what would have been the 70th anniversary of George Harrison's birth. Explores Harrison's work both within and without the Beatles and at the same time examining in detail his private and public passions, from Eastern spiritualism to horticulture, from comedy to film-making, from fast cars to working with UNICEF. His career renaissance in the 80s with the Travelling Wilburys. His last few years which were scarred by two bouts of cancer and a knife attack which almost killed him. His legacy, including his final album and memorial concert.

Herve Bourhis, creator of The Little Book of Rock, turns his unique graphic talents to the legend of The Beatles, told from the very beginning. Bourhis' visual imagination illuminates the individual lives of each band member from their pre-Beatles youth to what would become a rock band of phenomenal worldwide fame. All of the epic details of their story are vividly evoked: the triumphs, the quarrels, the supreme musical creativity and of course the inevitable break-up. The story then goes on to follow the personal destinies of John, Paul, George and Ringo, four Liverpool lads who were by turns ambitious, clever, facetious, arrogant, down-to-earth and supremely talented. Theirs was the ultimate rock band story and Herve Bourhis has done it — and them — full justice in this superb and exuberant graphic biography.

Formed in the 1960s, 'Prog Rock' British group Procol Harum are best known for their multi million selling single A Whiter Shade of Pale which is the most played record by a British artist of the last 70 years. Features exclusive interviews with band members Gary Brooker, Keith Reid, Matthew Fisher, Robin Trower, Dave Ball, Mick Grabham, Geoff Whitehorn, Chris Copping and Dave Bronze. Also includes interviews with Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, film director Alan Parker, as well as former managers, DJs and many others. Tells the story of their formation in Essex in the 1960s, their split on their tenth anniversary in 1977 and their reforming in 1991. Gives details of one of the costliest court cases in British music history whereby a judge awarded a 40% share in the copyright of A Whiter Shade of Pale, to a former organist of the band. Lead singer Gary Brooker and lyricist Keith Reid always claimed credit for the hit, which became part of the soundtrack of 1967. But in his ruling, the judge decided that organist Matthew Fisher was entitled to both credit and royalties. Brings the story right up to date with detail of their album releases and tours over the last decade.

Author Martin Roach reveals how the band members met, played their early gigs, financed their own early EPs and how, with four hit albums under their belt; they still continue to maintain a tight degree of control over their output. Featuring insights into Coldplay's professional insecurities and anxieties and the notoriously angst-ridden personality of lead vocalist Chris Martin, this is an in-depth portrait of one of Britain's most successful bands of the new millennium. Fully illustrated and including a comprehensive discography.

The ABBA brand of deliciously catchy pop music made the Swedish group an international sensation, and changed the landscape of pop music. In a fitting tribute ABBA Treasures will showcase photos and pieces of removable memorabilia to offer fans their own hands-on exploration of the band's career. With new interviews from collaborators and famous fans, and an elegant eye-catching foil cover and slipcase this is the perfect gift for any fan of the group that defined pop music. ABBA Treasures is a wonderful celebration of the kings and queens of the dance floor.

This brand-new small format edition of GodSpeed is much more than a biography, it is unlike anything you have read about Kurt Cobain before. Going beyond the facts, it transmutes Cobain's extraordinary life into an equally exteraordinary work of art.

Robert Shelton met Bob Dylan when the young singer arrived in New York. He became Dylan's friend, champion, and critic. His book, first published in 1986, was hailed as the definitive unauthorised biography of this moody, passionate genius and his world. Of more than a thousand books published about Bob Dylan it is only this one that has been written with the Dylan's active cooperation. Dylan gave Shelton access to his parents Abe and Beatty Zimmerman — whom no other journalist has ever interviewed in depth; to his brother, David; to childhood friends from Hibbing; to fellow students and friends from Minneapolis; and to Suze Rotolo, the muse immortalised on the cover of Freewheelin', among others. No Direction Home took 20 years to complete and when it was finally published the book received widespread critical acclaim. Two decades on, Dylan's standing is higher than at any time since the 1960s and Shelton's book is now seen as a classic of the genre. This new edition, published to coincide with Dylan's 70th birthday on 24th May 2011, includes key images of Dylan throughout his incredible, enduring career, updated footnotes and Bibliography, and a new, selective, Discography.

It's an album-by-album, track-by-track run down of every Beatles song on record and includes The Beatles Live At the BBC album, various compilations and the three best-selling Anthology sets released in 1995 and the 1 compilation, the Love medley CD and the re-mastered back catalogue albums.

This superb new collection of photographs shows a fascinating variety of blues, folk and rock performers as they appeared at events across North America during the second half of the 20th century. The pictures were all taken by Herb Wise, a man who learned his craft from his friend David Gahr, the revered photographer of American folk music performers. Gradually Herb Wise too became a fixture at many of the leading music festivals and, over the years, his easy, unobtrusive style resulted in a wealth of revealing and affectionate photographs. Bob Dylan, Frank Zappa, David Bowie, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Joan Baez, Taj Mahal, John Lee Hooker, Ray Charles, Steve Winwood, Blondie and many more are all featured, performing or relaxing, onstage and off.

This a cappella collection of pieces for mixed choir by Eric Whitacre is the first available printed music compilation of its kind for the composer. The book includes pieces of varying difficulty, wide-ranging in theme, from the iconic Sleep and Water Night to the quietly angelic Lux Aurumque (Light and Gold) and the recent Nox Aurumque (Night and Gold). A Boy and a Girl and This Marriage are both wonderfully tender pieces and the inclusion of the early Go, Lovely Rose marks the beginning of a journey through Whitacre's choral output from his first success to the present day.

This is an evocative photo book of Oasis during their first, traumatic and wildly exciting year together. Between March 1994 and April 1995 the Gallagher Brothers Noel and Liam, together with Paul 'Bonehead' Arthurs, Paul 'Guigsy' McGuigan and drummer Tony McCarroll spearheaded the movement known as Britpop. Photographer Paul Slattery captured them on film every inch of the way, in the UK and on their first tours of the US and Japan, on video shoots and on radio and TV appearances. Now this fascinating photo-journal is available in a new smaller format.

This is a spectacular photographic record of Led Zeppelin at their peak! No one has captured the romance and mystique of Led Zeppelin on film more successfully than American photographer Neal Preston. His stunning collection of photographs shows Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham in full flight, both on and off stage. Preston was very much part of Led Zeppelin's inner circle. Camera at the ready, his unparalleled access to Zeppelin allowed him to document everything: their majestic performances from the sides of the stage, their travels on private jets, full band rehearsals and private pre-show moments in cloistered dressing rooms. The result is this powerful collection of colour and black and white images that stands as the ultimate visual record of the greatest band of the Seventies.

Despite being in the limelight for over 20 years and selling nearly 200 million records, Freddie Mercury was a very private person — avoiding interviews as he was painfully shy and uncomfortable in the company of anyone who might intrude upon his famous 'royal family' of close friends. This book takes us on the journey of Queen — three academics and a frustrated art student, tired of having no money, taking on the music industry on their own terms. Spurred on by an almost uncontrollable, ambitious and forthright Mercury, Queen succeeded, becoming the biggest band of the generations to come.The story, told in his own words shows how on many occasions, the band almost split, but was always kept together by their shared love of breaching musical boundaries. Freddie's own personal story is one of pursuing a dream, dealing with wealth and fame, looking back and having no regrets, coming to reflect on his thoughts on getting old, his legacy and death. Though Freddie talked rarely to others about himself, the interviews published — and some unpublished up until now, compiled in this book, together with an intriguing insight into the man who outwardly exuded confidence and arrogance but behind that public perception spent periods alone and searching for happiness.

This is the b format edition of the critically acclaimed biography. Cloaked in mystique, Joy Division's extraordinary vocalist Ian Curtis tragically took his own life in 1980, leaving just two haunting albums an a depleted band that would famously evolve into New Order. In this in-depth biography of the late singer, the authors have gained exclusive access to Ian Curtis's family and many others close to him. Mick Middles was the first journalist to interview Joy Division for the music press and formed a close association with the band that continues to this day.

This picture book features photographs of Michael Jackson's world tour, and contains a report on the opening shows which hit Wembley in July 1997 and continued in Europe. A colour poster is also included.

U2 are the biggest band in the world and this diary is the single most comprehensive resource that details all of the relevant day-to-day events that have shaped U2 into the band it is today. It presents the complete history of the band from 1950s Dublin to the present day. It provides the important stories behind the 'who, what, when and where' including stories and insights about key moments in U2s development that have never been told before.Through interviews and far-reaching research, author Matt McGee will shed light on stories including the band's 1978 victory in a St Patrick Day's talent content which led to their first studio session with CBS and Bono's visit to Central America in 1986, which led directly to several songs on The Joshua Tree. It also includes details of the birth of Zoo TV on the island of Tenerife, U2's struggle to finish the Pop album and its impact on Universal Music and Bono's behind-the-scenes manoeuvres to gain support for his ONE Campaign in the early 2000s. It contains input from fans who have contributed their memories and personal photographs of the band.

This is an updated edition of the electrifying biography about four Essex lads who became award-winning stadium superstars and champions of synth pop/rock. This groundbreaking book features in-depth interviews with founder member Vince Clarke, engineer-cum-producer Gareth Jones — who together with Mute Records founder/mentor Daniel Miller — played a pivotal role in shaping Depeche Mode's unique sound over theyears, latter-day producer Mark Bell and contains never before seen interviews with Miller and the band members themselves. With additional input from pivotal suynth pioneers Gary Numan, John Foxx, Karl Baros (ex-Kraftwerk) and Thomas Dolby, this is a unique portrait of a band that almost lost control when their lives went off the rails, singer Dave Gahan's herion addiction nearly killed him and musical mastermind Alan Wilder left for good. Their story is brought right up to date with details of Dave Gahan's solo success, their album sales that top 70 million copies and their record breaking stadium concerts.