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This is a surprising, informative, enlightening and at times outrageous must have guide to life from the world's most famous rock stars. Together with the finest selection from the Q magazine archives and new unseen material, this book presents ten rules for life from 50 musicians.

The great eccentric of British psychedelia and unsung national treasure - beloved of everyone from Led Zeppelin, R.E.M. to Stewart Lee and the late Jonathan Demme (who directed Storefront Hitchcock, a 1998 concert film conceived as 'a document not a documentary') - pens an idiosyncratic childhood...

In '1984', writer and musician Ian Wade charts where these artists, including Queen, George Michael, David Bowie, Pet Shop Boys, Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Madonna - who all enjoyed chart success in 1984 - were during that epoch-making year. It studies the impact these groundbreaking musicians...

'All You Need is Love' is a ground-breaking oral history of the Beatles and how it all came to an end. Based on never-before-published or heard interviews with Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and their families, friends, and business associates, this is a landmark book, co...

A comprehensive history of Goth music and culture. John Robb explores the origins and legacy of this enduring scene, drawing on his own experience and interviews with a host of bands, from Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Cure to Throbbing Gristle and Lydia Lunch.

A Rothschild by birth and a baroness by marriage, Pannonica, known as Nica, seemed to have it all - children, a handsome husband and a trust fund. But in the early 1950s she heard a piece by the jazz legend Thelonious Monk and abandoned her marriage to go and find him. This is her extraordinary s...

North London. The 1970s. Amid a grim landscape of bomb sites, squats, public baths and rough pubs, a loose gang of misfits and outsiders started making music together - riding freight trains, spraying graffiti, stealing records, clothes and musical instruments. Escaping the fringes of criminality...

Bessie Smith lived a life of extremes, of success as a great blues singer, and of great personal tragedy. Jackie Kay's biography concentrates on her torrid personal and public life of female lovers, an unhappy marriage and hard drinking.

Through unprecedented access to the guitarist and interviews with his close family, friends and associates, Philip Watson tells Bill Frisell's story for the first time.

More than 365 images chart Smith's singular aesthetic - inspired by her wildly popular Instagram. In 2018, without any plan or agenda for what might happen next, Patti Smith posted her first Instagram photo: her hand with the simple message 'Hello Everybody!' Known for shooting with her beloved L...