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
- Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World - Paperback
- It's No Wonder: The Life and Times of Motown's Legendary Songwriter Sylvia Moy - Hardcover
- The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present - Paperback
- Softly, as I Leave You: Life After Elvis - Hardcover
- Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles - Paperback
- Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm - Paperback
- Solo Yo: The Little Guide to Bad Bunny - Hardcover
- I Never Met a Story I Didn't Like: Mostly True Tall Tales - Paperback
- The Beatles Anthology (25th Anniversary Edition) - Paperback
- Making Michael: Inside the Career of Michael Jackson - Paperback
- She Come by It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs - Paperback
- Bust a Move: Matt Dike, Delicious Vinyl, and the Hip-Hop Hits That First Conquered Pop - Hardcover
- Horror Stories: A Memoir - Paperback
- Ain't Nobody's Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton - Hardcover
- Cat on the Road to Findout - Hardcover
- M Train: A Memoir - Paperback
- Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division - Paperback
- With My Eyes Wide Open: Miracles and Mistakes on My Way Back to Korn - Paperback
- The Little Guide to Taylor Swift: Words to Shake It Off - Hardcover
- With a Little Help from Their Friends: The Beatles and the People Who Made Them - Hardcover
- Devotion - Paperback
- The Half of It: A Memoir - Hardcover
- What Do You Do When You're Lonesome: The Authorized Biography of Justin Townes Earle - Hardcover
- No New York: A Memoir of No Wave and the Women Who Shaped the Scene - Hardcover
- Do What You Fear Most: The History of the Velvet Underground - Hardcover
- Night People: How to Be a DJ in '90s New York City - Hardcover
- Remember the Times: A Memoir - Hardcover
- Gary Stewart: I Am from the Honky-Tonks - Hardcover
- David Bowie and the Search for Life, Death and God: A Spiritual Meditation on His Music and Creativity - Hardcover
- Experienced: On the Road with Jimi Hendrix and Beyond - Hardcover
- Mr. Moonlight: Brian Epstein and the Making of the Beatles - Hardcover
- Mr. S: My Life with Frank Sinatra - Paperback
- Is This It: The Never-Ending Rise and Fall of the Strokes (and Rock 'n' Roll) - Hardcover
- A Little More Love: The Life and Legacy of Olivia Newton-John - Hardcover
- Renaissance of a Boss: Notes from a Creative Reawakening - Hardcover
- After the Flood: Inside Bob Dylan's Memory Palace - Hardcover
- Never Mind the Happy: Showbiz Stories from a Sore Winner - Hardcover
- Restrung: A Memoir of Music and Transformation - Hardcover
- Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics - Paperback
- The Chronicles of Doom: Unraveling Rap's Masked Iconoclast - Paperback
- Only God Can Judge Me: The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur - Hardcover
- Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run - Hardcover
- John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs - Hardcover
- P Fkn R: Bad Bunny Y La Música Como Un Acto de Resistencia / P Fkn R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance - Paperback
- Living in the Present with John Prine - Hardcover
- Remember the Time: Protecting Michael Jackson in His Final Days - Hardcover
- A Life in Lyrics: The Official Creative Legacy of Freddie Mercury - Hardcover
- The Voice in My Head Is God - Hardcover
- Heart Life Music - Hardcover
- Cosmic Music: The Life, Art, and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane - Hardcover