Music Books

Bob Dylan delivers poignant reflection on life, and the people and places that helped shape the man and the art.

Exile on Main Street freezes forever in time a moment when the Rolling Stones and their counterculture audience found themselves at a crossroads. Robert Greenfield was there.

Dylan Jones takes the reader on a candid journey through his lifelong addiction to all genres of music, however unfashionable and gives a behind-the-scenes look at the genesis of the iPod, along the way.

In this wickedly entertaining and thoroughly informed homage to one of rock music's towering pinnacles, Erik Davis investigates the magic, "black or otherwise," that surrounds this album.

Rob Sheffield, a music writer for Rolling Stone, uses the songs on fifteen mix tapes to tell the story of his brief time with his wife Renée.

What could be more punk rock than a band that never changed, a band that for decades punched out three-minute powerhouses in the style that made them famous? Nicholas Rombes examines punk history, with the recording of Ramones at its core.

By age 8 Bobby Darin knew he was doomed to die young. So he set out to become a showbiz legend by age 25.

Lewis Lapham was the only journalist allowed inside the Rishikesh ashram, where the Beatles and other 60's icons gathered at the feet of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.