Music
Thro My Eyes: A Memoir
A memoir by Iain Matthews, one of the music industry’s great survivors. He has been making pitch-perfect records for over fifty years.
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You Can Drum But You Can’t Hide
You Can Drum But You Can’t Hide hands you an access all areas pass to the back alleys and living rooms of the musical mavericks synonymous with the city of Manchester.
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The Chameleon Poet: Bob Dylan’s Search For Self
John Bauldie's examination of Bob Dylan covers theformative span of Dylan’s career from his emergence in the early sixties to his conversion to Christianity in the late seventies, tracing each step in the development of the artist and man from youth.
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Bringing It All Back Home
Shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize When you hear a certain song, where does it take you? What is the secret that connects music to our lives? Heart warming, moving and laugh out loud funny, Bringing It All Back Home is the truest book you will ever read about music and the things that really matter. Author Ian Clayton listens to music as a kid to e..
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No One Else Could Play That Tune
The Making and Unmaking of Bob Dylan’s 1974 Masterpiece Wanted Man Study Series: Take II ~ Vol.1 Limited edition monograph in hardback. NO ONE ELSE COULD PLAY THAT TUNE is the perfect companion to the all-singing all-dancing boxed set of the complete New York sessions for Dylan’s fabled Blood On The Tracks: More Blood, More Tracks. Clinton Heylin tra..
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What We Did Instead of Holidays
A History of Fairport Convention and Its Extend Folk-Rock Family
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Leave The Capital
Paul Hanley's history of Manchester music in 13 recordings, and how two recording studios facilitated a musical revolution that would be defined by its rejection of the capital.
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Trouble In Mind
Bob Dylan’s Gospel Years – What Really Happened Rolling Stone Book of the Year Mojo Book of the Year ‘When I get involved in something, I get totally involved. I don’t just play around on the fringes.’ – Bob Dylan In 1979 there was… trouble in mind, and trouble in store for the ever-iconoclastic Dylan. But unlike in 1965-66, the artifactal afterglo..
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Anarchy in the Year Zero
The story of the birth of Punk, with a capital P. How did it happen and why it still matters
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