Books
When we are not listening to music, we like to read about music. We work with Paul and his team at the fantastic City Books just up the road from us to apply our curated approach to an ever changing but choice selection of books about the music and musicians whose records we sell. Below are some of our current favourite books to inspire and inform your musical taste.
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Celebrating the emotional connection that audiences form with film music, exploring the evolution of film scoring from silent films to the present day, and examining how what we hear has an impact on what we see, Mark talks to some of his favourite composers and delves into the movie music he lov...
A unique photo chronicle by Polly Samson of the creation, recording and live performance of David Gilmour's album Luck and Strange.
Featuring both colour and black-and-white photography by Polly Samson, this photobook chronicles the making of the fifth studio album by guitarist and songwriter Dav...
The first full-length biography of Alice Coltrane, the jazz musician and spiritual leader who laid the groundwork for new age, ambient and electronic music.
Musician, wife, mother, daughter, sister, grandmother, collaborator, guru, iconoclast: Alice Coltrane is one of the most forward-looking yet...
A landmark exploration of David Bowie as an everlasting cultural force and changemaker, by acclaimed writer Paul Morley.
In the ten years since the death of David Bowie in 2016 there has been no loss of interesting and fascination with his life, music and driven, complex personality. He is defini...
A radiant new memoir from beloved artist and writer Patti Smith.'God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper', writes Patti Smith in this indelible account of her life as an artist. A post-Second World War childhood unfolds in a condemned housing complex described in Dickensian detail: consump...
Phill Brown is the sound engineer and producer who – over an illustrious 50-year career – has worked with many of the biggest names in rock and roll. In this reissued and updated version of his 2011 memoir, Phill describes the ups and downs of a professional recording studio, working on sessions ...
