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Music books

September 2024

  • Neneh Cherry

    Book of the day
    A Thousand Threads by Neneh Cherry review – life’s rich pageant

  • Haruki Murakami, Cher, Neneh Cherry, Angela Merkel and Alan Hollinghurst Autumn Books

    From a new Murakami to a memoir by Cher: the best books of the autumn

  • Ronnie Wood, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones.

    Book of the day
    Hope I Get Old Before I Die by David Hepworth review – living legends

  • Jesus and Mary Chain’s Jim Reid and William Reid in 1987

    Book of the day
    Never Understood: The Jesus and Mary Chain review – if the Gallaghers were Scottish

August 2024

  • Nicki Chapman

    So Tell Me What You Want by Nicki Chapman review – breaking pop’s glass ceiling

  • Jordan Stephens.

    Book of the day
    Avoidance, Drugs, Heartbreak and Dogs by Jordan Stephens review – not so chill

  • Lawrence and Will Hodgkinson, Lower Marsh, SE1, in one of their happier moments together.

    Book of the day
    Street-Level Superstar: A Year With Lawrence by Will Hodgkinson review – portrait of a wayward would-be pop star

  • Paul Simon, third from left, with Miriam Makeba and Ladysmith Black Mambazo during the African Graceland tour, emerges as something of a hero in the book.

    ‘Steam will come out of readers’ ears!’: Joe Boyd on his epic, enraging history of global music

  • The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable review – compelling tale of Vivaldi’s musical protege

  • Book of the day
    And the Roots of Rhythm Remain: A Journey Through Global Music by Joe Boyd review – the Proust of music

  • Earth to Moon by Moon Unit Zappa review – rock and a hard place

  • ‘The drugs were so new, they weren’t illegal yet’: the debauched rise of New York’s wildest bar

  • Audiobook of the week
    The Piano Player of Budapest by Roxanne de Bastion audiobook review – music and survival

July 2024

  • Joni Mitchell in Window<br>Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell looks out of a window at her Laurel Canyon home, 1970. (Photo by Henry Diltz/Corbis via Getty Images). THIS PIC IS £100 PER USAGE - FROM GETTY. James.Arnold@gettyimages.com

    Travelling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell by Ann Powers review – the myriad faces of a musical maverick

  • The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour<br>LOS ANGELES - OCTOBER 1: Little Richard appears on The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour. Image dated October 1, 1971. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images)

    The Secret Public: How LGBTQ Resistance Shaped Popular Culture (1955–1979) by Jon Savage review – pop’s coming out period

  • CS Lewis - English novelist and author of the Chronicles of Narnia, Clive Staples Lewis 1898 - 1963ha7464-001.jpg

    In brief: CS Lewis’s Oxford; True Love; Loosely Based on a Made-Up Story – review

  • Joni Mitchell photographed for Vogue in 1968.

    Book of the day
    Travelling by Ann Powers review – a dazzling life of Joni Mitchell

June 2024

  • A goldfish pond with lilies made from the pages of books

    Summer reading: 50 of the best new books to dive into

    Fresh debuts, long-awaited sequels, must-read memoirs ... the best new books of the season. Plus our pick of paperbacks and children’s fiction
  • Jerrold Northrop Moore began his Elgar researches as a student by interviewing people who had known the composer.

    Jerrold Northrop Moore obituary

    American musicologist who settled in Worcestershire and wrote extensively on the life and music of Edward Elgar
  • Ahmir ‘Questlove’ Thompson

    Observer book of the week
    Hip-Hop Is History by Questlove review – a soundtrack for the world, from the Sugarhill Gang to Kanye West

    The Roots drummer, DJ, author and director is the ‘Ken Burns of black music’, and his personal reflections on a genre that last year turned 50 are full of wisdom and charm
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