Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch by John Bayley

The Crafty Cockney: Eric Bristow: The Autobiography

Eric Bristow is taken into account to be the best darts participant of all time and person who pioneered the game’s flow from the pub directly to the television display. He used to be an unmistakable determine at the oche in the course of his Eighties heyday, together with his trademark blonde highlights and crimson artful Cockney t-shirt, and have become popular not only for the variety of global titles he received yet for his conceitedness on degree and rancid it.

Robert Plant: A Life

Robert Plant through Paul Rees is the definitive biography of Led Zeppelin's mythical frontman. As lead singer for one of many greatest and such a lot influential rock bands of all time—whose track "Stairway to Heaven" has been performed extra occasions on American radio than the other track—Robert Plant outlined what it skill to be a rock god.

Over the process his twenty-year occupation, British track journalist and editor Paul Rees has interviewed such greats as Sir Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, Bono, and AC/DC. Rees now bargains an entire portrait of Robert Plant for the 1st time, exploring the forces that formed him, the ravaging highs and lows of the Zeppelin years—including his courting with Jimmy web page and John Bonham—and his lifestyles as a solo artist today.

Illustrated with greater than dozen pictures, Robert Plant: A lifestyles is the never-before-told tale of a proficient, advanced song icon who replaced the face of rock 'n' roll.

Handel: The Man & His Music

During the last twenty years a whole revolution in Handel's prestige has taken position. he's now visible either as a giant determine in tune, and as one of many world's favourite composers, with snatches of his paintings accompanying weddings, funerals, and tv ads across the world. notwithstanding undoubtedly one of many maximum and best-loved of all composers, George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) had bought little consciousness from biographers sooner than Jonathan Keates’s masterful biography seemed in 1985.

There Goes Gravity: A Life in Rock and Roll

From a mythical tune journalist with 4 many years of extraordinary entry, an insider's behind-the-scenes examine the key personalities of rock and roll.

Lisa Robinson has interviewed the most important names in music--including Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, John Lennon, Patti Smith, U2, Eminem, woman Gaga, Jay Z and Kanye West. She visited the teenage Michael Jackson again and again at his Encino domestic. She spent hours speaking to John Lennon at his Dakota apartment--and in recording studios simply weeks earlier than his homicide. She brought David Bowie to Lou Reed at a personal dinner in a ny eating place, helped the conflict and Elvis Costello get their checklist bargains, was once with the Rolling Stones on their jet in the course of a daunting hurricane, and was once mid-flight with Led Zeppelin whilst their journey supervisor pulled out a gun. A pioneering woman journalist in an unique boys' membership, Lisa Robinson is a preeminent authority at the personalities and affects that experience formed the song international; she has been well-known as rock jounralism's final insider.

A keenly saw and lovingly mentioned glance again on years spent with numerous musicians behind the curtain, after hours and at the highway, There is going Gravity records a life of riveting tales, advised jointly the following for the 1st time.