The definitive shelf: musicians telling their own stories, and the biographers who filled in what they left out. Across genres, across eras — the books that get you inside the life behind the music.
Music Biography & Memoir Books
- Lullaby Legends: ABC of Harry Styles: A Rhyming Biography - Board Book
- I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon - Paperback
- Sonic Life: A Memoir - Paperback
- Orbit: Phish - Paperback
- Freddie Mercury: An Intimate Memoir by the Man Who Knew Him Best - Paperback
- Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell - Paperback
- Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany - Paperback
- Nirvana's in Utero - Paperback
- The Wu-Tang Manual - Paperback
- Prince: All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track - Hardcover
- Vj: The Unplugged Adventures of Mtv's First Wave - Paperback
- The Little Guide to Harry Styles: The New King of Pop - Hardcover
- Willie Nelson on Willie Nelson: Interviews and Encounters - Paperback
- Shakey: Neil Young's Biography - Paperback
- Bts: A Graphic Biography - Hardcover
- Better Do It Now Before You Die Later: Sonny Simmons with Marc Chaloin - Hardcover
- My Life with Earth, Wind & Fire - Paperback
- Rod: The Autobiography - Paperback
- Beneath the Underdog: His World as Composed by Mingus - Paperback
- Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc. - Paperback
- Walk This Way - Paperback
- All You Need Is Love: The Beatles in Their Own Words: Unpublished, Unvarnished, and Told by the Beatles and Their Inner Circle - Paperback
- Don't Say Please -- The Oral History of Die Kreuzen - Paperback
- Patti Smith on Patti Smith: Interviews and Encounters - Paperback
- Teenage Dreamer: The Little Guide to Olivia Rodrigo - Hardcover
- The Long Hard Road Out of Hell - Paperback
- Para Selena, Con Amor = To Selena, with Love - Paperback
- Hal Blaine & The Wrecking Crew - Paperback
- Classical Music for Dummies - Paperback
- The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana - Hardcover
- Moments in Time: Jeff Porcaro Stories - Hardcover
- Under the Ivy: The Life and Music of Kate Bush - Paperback
- Pretend We're Dead: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Women in Rock in the '90s - Hardcover
- A Fabulous Disaster: From the Garage to Madison Square Garden, the Hard Way - Hardcover
- Celia En El Mundo: 1962-2003 / Celia for the World (1962-2003) - Paperback
- Yes I Can: The Story of Sammy Davis, Jr. - Paperback
- Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times (Revised and Updated Edition) - Paperback
- My Cross to Bear - Paperback
- Woody Guthrie: A Life - Paperback
- Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone - Hardcover
- Frederic Chopin, Son of Poland, Early Years - Paperback
- My Effin' Life - Hardcover
- Dancing with Muddy: Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, and My Lucky Life in and Out of the Blues - Paperback
- Supersonic: The Complete, Authorized, and Uncut Interviews - Hardcover
- Substance: Inside New Order - Paperback
- I Lived to Tell It All - Mass Market Paperbound
- Lady Sings the Blues: Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography - Paperback
- The Day the Music Died: The Last Tour of Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens - Paperback
- Agents of Fortune: The Blue Oyster Cult Story - Paperback
- Loser: The Real Seattle Music Story: 20th Anniversary Edition - Paperback