Rob is good on music: he owns a small record shop and has strong views on what's decent and what isn't. But he's much less good on relationships. In fact, he's not at all sure that he wants to commit himself to anyone. So it's hardly surprising that his girlfriend decides that enough is enough.

Discusses, among other things, guitar solos and losing your virginity to a Rod Stewart song and singers whose teeth whistle and the sort of music you hear in Body Shop. The author writes about 31 songs that either have some great significance in his life - or are just songs that he loves.

This classic book on rock 'n' roll is regarded as one that defined the genre.

A 50-year history of the British music business. Napier Bell, who discovered Mark Bolan, uses his personal insight to describe the industry. An industry where bad behaviour is often encouraged, drugs are rife, and where artists are pushed in the name of profit and ego.

Provides a comprehensive social history of popular music in the United States from the heyday of Tin Pan Alley to the sounds of electronic dance music and teen pop, from the invention of the phonograph to the promise of the Internet. This work offers an analysis and critique of the music itself and the conditions of its production and consumption.

Vina Apsara is a famous and much-loved singer. She is caught up in a devastating earthquake and never seen again by human eyes. This is her story, and that of Ormus Cama, the lover who finds, loses, seeks and again finds her, over and over, throughout his own extraordinary life in music.

As dazzling as the decade they dominated, The Beatles almost single-handedly created pop music. Eloquently giving voice to their time, The Beatles quite simply changed the world. This book goes back to the heart of The Beatles - their records, offering a criticism in which the extraordinary songs of The Beatles remain a central presence.

A memoir, in which, Rob Sheffield, a veteran rock and pop culture critic and staff writer for Rolling Stone magazine, tells the story of his musical coming of age, and how rock music, the first love of his life, led him to his second, a girl named Renee.

33 1/3 is a new series of short books about critically acclaimed and much-loved albums of the last 40 years. Focusing on one album rather than an artist's entire output, the books dispense with the standard biographical background that fans know already, and cut to the heart of the music on each album.

Tells the story of Robert P Williams, spanning his childhood through Take That to his status as rock icon, probing his love life and his family relationships. This book tells the truth about his extraordinary life.

A fascinating survey of cover art (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) Record covers are a sign of our life and times. Like the music on the discs, they address such issues as love, life, death, fashion, and rebellion. For music fans the covers are the expression of a period, of a particular time in their lives. Many are works of art and have become as famous as the music they stand for -

An hilarious & touching coming-of-age from one of Britain's leading music broadcasters, this is the story of a boy's obsessive relationship with pop. A life lived through music, from Stuart's audience with the Beatles (aged 3) to living - and leaving - the sex, drugs (chiefly lager in a plastic glass) and rock and roll lifestyle.

An account of the author's life as the manager and producer of one of the world's greatest rock bands, The Rolling Stones, as well as a story of the whole Sixties scene. Andrew Loog Oldham was a hustler of genius, addicted to scandal, notoriety and innovation.

The definitive biography of Elvis and an excellent slice of social history.

Profiles twenty-two of the most gifted and self-destructive talents in rock history. This book offers intimate portraits of rock stars, from Brian Wilson to Syd Barrett, the Rolling Stones to Neil Young, Iggy Pop to Lou Reed, and others.

Pop singers are rarely as outwardly spiritual as, say, their gospel counterparts; they're forever pointing beyond themselves, though, be it to some better future, some higher ideal, or to some vision of deliverance. This work presents an examination of some of the most popular music ever recorded.

Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung .

A Beatles biography that contains insights into the rise of the Beatles, their final years, the chaos of Apple and the collapse of hippy idealism. It is suitable for those with an interest in pop music, the Sixties and the pleasures and perils of god-like fame.

This biography centres on Emmett Miller, a yodelling blackface performer whose songs prefigured jazz, country, blues and much of the popular music of the 20th century. Tosches pieces together a life - and illuminates the spirit of music makers, from Calloway to Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones.

A guide to the world of contemporary and electronic music.