Books for music lovers
By Canongate
Books for music lovers
By Canongate
Kid A Mnesia: A Book of Radiohead Artwork
Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke
£30.00 £28.50While Kid A and Amnesiac were being conceived, rehearsed, recorded and produced, Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood made hundreds of images from obsessive, insomniac scrawls in biro to six-foot-square painted canvases. What emerges is a deeply strange portrait of the years at the start of this century.
Fear Stalks the Land!: A Commonplace Book
Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke
£9.99 £9.49This commonplace book includes faxes, notes, fledgling lyrics, sketches, lists of all kinds and scribblings towards nirvana, sent between the two authors during the creation of Kid A and Amnesiac. This is a document of the creative process and a mirror to the fears, portents and fantasies invoked by the world as its citizens faced a brave new millennium.
Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres
Kelefa Sanneh
£20.00 £19.00“The most elegant history of popular music ever written” Alex Ross
Morning Glory on the Vine: Early Songs and Drawings
Joni Mitchell
£30.00 £28.50“Glorious” Guardian, “Revelatory” New Yorker, “Evocative” Los Angeles Times
Stranger Than Kindness
Nick Cave
£40.00 £38.00“Goes deep into Cave’s creative process, via his artwork, lyrics and photographs, and his ever-succinct commentary” Guardian
Beneath The Underdog
Charles Mingus
£10.99 £10.44“A fascinating insight into Mingus’ mind - unforgettable” The Times
Now And Then
Gil Scott-Heron
£9.99 £9.49“Accessible, intelligent, rhythmic writing which makes poetry seem worthwhile again” The List
The Flame
Leonard Cohen
£16.99 £16.14“We’ll be listening to Cohen – still smirking and smiling – for decades to come, with this collection as our companion” Spectator
What Happened, Miss Simone?: A Biography
Alan Light
£9.99 £9.49“Her willingness to speak her mind shines out of every page” The Times
My Rock 'n' Roll Friend
Tracey Thorn
£16.99 £16.14“As well as providing a portrait of a mercurial and brilliant musician, the book exposes the sexism and hypocrisy of an industry … Entertaining, affectionate and righteous” Guardian