Your Music Book Store (Nov. 1 and Beyond)
Here’s our weekly rundown of new and upcoming music book releases …
Read on.
BONO
“Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story” (Hardcover; Digital Book; Knopf) » BUY NOW 
BOB DYLAN
“The Bob Dylan Albums (2nd Edition)” (Paperback; author: Anthony Varesi; Guernica Editions) » BUY NOW
BOB DYLAN
“The Philosophy of Modern Song” (Hardcover; his first book of new writing since 2004’s “Chronicles: Volume One” and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016; Digital Book; Audible Audiobook, get Audible Premium Plus free for 3 months; Merch; Simon & Schuster) » BUY NOW
ROB HALFORD
“Biblical: Rob Halford’s Heavy Metal Scriptures” (Hardcover; Digital Book; Audible Audiobook, get Audible Premium Plus free for 3 months; Merch; Hachette Books) » BUY NOW
LADY GAGA
“Lady Gaga: Applause” (Hardcover; author: Annie Zaleski; Merch; Palazzo Editions) » BUY NOW
ROLLING STONE
“Rolling Stone: The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time” (Hardcover; Digital Book; Abrams) » BUY NOW
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EARTH, WIND & FIRE
“Earth, Wind & Fire’s That’s the Way of the World (33 1/3)” (Paperback; author: Dwight E. Brooks; On Tour; Bloomsbury Academic) » BUY NOW
MINNIE RIPERTON
“Minnie Riperton’s Come to My Garden (33 1/3)” (Paperback; author: Brittnay L. Proctor; Bloomsbury Academic) » BUY NOW
ABBA
“ABBA at 50” (Hardcover; author: Carl Magnus Palm; Merch; Palazzo Editions) » BUY NOW
CHUCK BERRY
“Chuck Berry: An American Life” (Hardcover; author: RJ Smith; Digital Book; Audible Audiobook, get Audible Premium Plus free for 3 months; Hachette Books) » BUY NOW
GREG GRAFFIN
“Punk Paradox: A Memoir” (Hardcover; Digital Book; Audible Audiobook, get Audible Premium Plus free for 3 months; Hachette Books) » BUY NOW
JIMI HENDRIX
“Jimi” (Hardcover; authors: Janie Hendrix, John McDermott; Merch; Chronicle Chroma) » BUY NOW
RICHARD AQUILA
“Rock & Roll in Kennedy’s America: A Cultural History of the Early 1960s” (Hardcover; Digital Book; Johns Hopkins University Press) » BUY NOW
PETER ASHER
“Peter Asher: A Life in Music” (Hardcover; author: David Jacks; Digital Book; Backbeat Books) » BUY NOW
TOM BREIHAN
“The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music” (Hardcover; Digital Book; Audible Audiobook, get Audible Premium Plus free for 3 months; Hachette Books) » BUY NOW
RYAN DUSICK (original Maroon 5 drummer)
“Harder to Breathe: A Memoir of Making Maroon 5, Losing It All, and Finding Recovery” (Hardcover; foreword by Adam Levine; Digital Book; BenBella Books) » BUY NOW
FAT JOE
“The Book of Jose: A Memoir” (Hardcover; Digital Book; Audible Audiobook, try Audible Premium Plus free for 3 months; Roc Lit 101) » BUY NOW
JOHN MELLENCAMP
“John Mellencamp: American Paintings and Assemblages” (Hardcover; Rizzoli) » BUY NOW
GERRY MULLIGAN
“Being Gerry Mulligan: My Life in Music” (Hardcover; Backbeat Books) » BUY NOW
PRINCE
“Prince on Prince: Interviews and Encounters” (Paperback; edited by Arthur Lizie; Digital Book; Merch; Chicago Review Press) » BUY NOW
PATTI SMITH
“A Book of Days” (Hardcover; more than 365 photographs she shot in a single year; Digital Book; Random House) » BUY NOW
KURT COBAIN
“Kurt Cobain: The Last Interview and Other Conversations” (Paperback; Digital Book; Melville House) » BUY NOW
PAUL GORMAN
“Totally Wired: The Rise and Fall of the Music Press” (Hardcover; Thames & Hudson) » BUY NOW
PETER GURALNICK & COLIN ESCOTT
“The Birth of Rock ’n’ Roll: 70 Years of Sun Records” (Hardcover; Weldon Owen) » BUY NOW
MICK ROCK
“SHOT! by Rock: The Photography of Mick Rock” (Hardcover; Weldon Owen) » BUY NOW
PAULINA RUBIO
“A Little More of Me” (Hardcover; translator: Ezra Fitz; Digital Book; Audible Audiobook, try Audible Premium Plus free for 3 months; HarperOne) » BUY NOW
STEPHEN SONDHEIM
“Finale: Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim” (Hardcover; author: D.T. Max; Digital Book; Audible Audiobook, try Audible Premium Plus free for 3 months; Harper) » BUY NOW
MERLE TRAVIS
“Sixteen Tons: The Merle Travis Story” (Hardcover; co-author: Deke Dickerson; BMG Books) » BUY NOW
PETER GREEN
“Peter Green: The Biography” (Paperback; revised and updated edition; author: Martin Celmis; Omnibus Press) » BUY NOW
HOLLY KNIGHT
“I Am the Warrior: My Crazy Life Writing the Hits and Rocking the MTV Eighties” (Hardcover; foreword by Tina Turner; Permuted Press) » BUY NOW
WILLARD JENKINS
“Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story” (Paperback; Duke University Press Books) » BUY NOW
JAN DALLEY & DAVID CHEAL
“The Life of a Song: Volumes 1 and 2” (Paperback; subtitled “The stories behind 100 of the world’s best-loved songs”; Chambers) » BUY NOW
SAM HOLLANDER
“21 Hit Wonder: Flopping My Way to the Top of the Charts” (Hardcover; Digital Book; Matt Holt) » BUY NOW
SONNY ROLLINS
“Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins” (Hardcover; author: Aidan Levy; Hachette Books) » BUY NOW
PAUL McCARTNEY
“McCartney Legacy Vol. 1: 1969-73” (Hardcover; authors: Allan Kozinn, Adrian Sinclair; Digital Book; Audible Audiobook, try Audible Premium Plus free for 3 months; Dey Street Books) » BUY NOW
RICKY ROSS
“Walking Back Home: Deacon Blue & Me” (Hardcover; Digital Book; Audible Audiobook, try Audible Premium Plus free for 3 months; On Tour; Headline) » BUY NOW
SAINT ETIENNE
“How We Used Saint Etienne to Live” (Paperback; author: Ramzy Alwakeel; Digital Book; Repeater) » BUY NOW
2PAC
“2Pac in the Studio: The Stories Behind the Greatest Hits” (Audible Audiobook, try Audible Premium Plus free for 3 months; author/narrator: Jake Brown; Merch; Jacob P. Brown) » BUY NOW
THE BAND
“Rags and Bones: An Exploration of The Band” (Hardcover; a collection of essays on The Band, edited by Jeff Sellars and Kevin Neece; Paperback; University Press of Mississippi) » BUY NOW
RUSH
“Moving Pictures: How Rush Created Progressive Hard Rock’s Greatest Record” (Paperback; author: Will Romano; Merch; Backbeat Books) » BUY NOW
PETER BLECHA
“Stomp and Shout: R&B and the Origins of Northwest Rock and Roll” (Hardcover; University of Washington Press) » BUY NOW
VASHTI BUNYAN
“Wayward: Just Another Life to Live” (Hardcover; White Rabbit) » BUY NOW
SIMPLE MINDS
“Themes for Great Cities: A New History of Simple Minds” (Hardcover; author: Graeme Thomson; On Tour; Merch; Constable) » BUY NOW
ANTOINE POLIN
“Guitar Chords For Dummies” (Paperback; For Dummies) » BUY NOW
JEN B LARSON
“Hit Girls: Women of Punk in the USA | 1975-1983” (Paperback; Feral House) » BUY NOW
RICK RUBIN
“The Creative Act” (Hardcover; Digital Book; Penguin Press) » BUY NOW
DAVE DAVIES
“Living on a Thin Line: The Autobiography” (Hardcover; Digital Book; Headline) » BUY NOW
JOAN ARMATRADING
“The Weakness in Me: Selected Lyrics” (Paperback; Digital Book; foreword by Glyn Johns; Faber & Faber) » BUY NOW
HUGH HODGES
“The Fascist Groove Thing: A History of Thatcher’s Britain in 21 Mixtapes” (Paperback; PM Press) » BUY NOW
DEAN MARTIN
“Backstage at The Dean Martin Show” (Paperback; author: Lee Hale, with Richard D. Neely; Lyons Press) » BUY NOW
SSGT. BARRY SADLER
“Ballad of the Green Beret: The Life and Wars of Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler from the Vietnam War and Pop Stardom to Murder and an Unsolved, Violent Death” (Paperback; author: Marc Leepson; Stackpole Books) » BUY NOW
ELIZABETH WAY & ELENA ROMERO
“Fresh Fly Fabulous: 50 Years of Hip Hop Style” (Hardcover; Rizzoli Electa) » BUY NOW
PAUL MYERS & S.W. LAUDEN
“Go All The Way: A Literary Appreciation of Power Pop” (Paperback; Rare Bird Books) » BUY NOW
GRAHAM COXON (of Blur)
“Verse, Chorus, Monster!” (Hardcover; Digital Book; Faber & Faber) » BUY NOW
PAUL WELLER
“Magic: A Journal of Song” (Hardcover; contributor: Dylan Jones; Genesis Publications) » BUY NOW
ROSE MARSHACK
“Play Like a Man: My Life in Poster Children” (Paperback; University of Illinois Press) » BUY NOW
JOHN COLTRANE
“Coltrane: The Definitive Visual Celebration of the Legend” (Hardcover; photograph celebration of the jazz legend, with contributions written by Ravi Coltrane, Wayne Coyne, Dev Hynes, Phil Lesh, Julie Mehretu, Carlos Santana, and Patti Smith; Digital Book; Ten Speed Press) » BUY NOW
STEVE CROPPER
“The Colonel: The Steve Cropper Story” (Paperback; written with Mike Read; Omnibus Press) » BUY NOW
MARVIN GAYE
“Marvin Gaye’s I Want You (33 1/3)” (Paperback; author: Derrais Carter; Bloomsbury Academic) » BUY NOW
TARA MacLEAN
“Song of the Sparrow: A Memoir” (Paperback; Digital Book; HarperAvenue) » BUY NOW
LOU REED & LAURIE ANDERSON
“The Art of the Straight Line” (Hardcover; Digital Book; HarperOne) » BUY NOW
LEON RUSSELL
“Leon Russell: The Master of Space and Time’s Journey Through Rock & Roll History” (Hardcover; author: Bill Janovitz; Digital Book; Hachette Books) » BUY NOW
MARTYN WARE
“Electronically Yours: Vol. 1: My Autobiography” (Hardcover; Digital Book; Podcast; Constable) » BUY NOW
THE CURE
“Curepedia: The A-Z of The Cure” (Hardcover; author: Simon Price; Digital Book; Merch; Dey Street Books) » BUY NOW
PINK FLOYD
“Pink Floyd and The Dark Side of the Moon: 50 Years” (Hardcover; author: Martin Popoff; Merch; Sona Books) » BUY NOW
PAUL SIMPSON (of The Teardrop Explodes, Care, and The Wild Swans)
“Revolutionary Spirit: A Post-Punk Exorcism” (Paperback; Jawbone Press) » BUY NOW
DEE SNIDER
“Dee Snider: HE’S NOT GONNA TAKE IT” (Paperback Graphic Novel; authors: Snider, Frank Marrafino; artist: Steve Kurth; Z2 Comics) » BUY NOW
JOAN BAEZ
“Baez Upside Down: An Album of Drawings” (Hardcover; Digital Book; David R. Godine) » BUY NOW
ELTON JOHN
“Elton John – All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track” (Hardcover; authors: Romuald Ollivier, Olivier Roubin; On Tour; Merch; Black Dog & Leventhal) » BUY NOW
MICK O’ SHEA
“Pocket Guide to Glam Rock” (Paperback; Red Planet Books) » BUY NOW
MARIE FREDRIKSSON (late lead singer of Roxette)
“Listen to My Heart: Life, Love & Roxette” (Hardcover; written with Helena Von Zweigbergk; 1984 Publishing) » BUY NOW
BARBRA STREISAND
“Barbra Streisand: The Albums, the Singles, the Music” (Hardcover; Digital Book; Fayetteville Mafia Press) » BUY NOW
DEF LEPPARD
“Definitely: The Story of Def Leppard” (Hardcover; On Tour, with Mötley Crüe, Poison and Joan Jett and the Blackhearts; Merch; Genesis Publications) » BUY NOW
MOON UNIT ZAPPA
“Earth to Moon: A Memoir” (Hardcover; Digital Book; Audible Audiobook, get Audible Premium Plus free for 3 months; Dey Street Books) » BUY NOW
DAVE MASON
“Only You Know and I Know” (Hardcover; contributor: Chris Epting; BMG Books) » BUY NOW
LORETTA LYNN
“A Song & A Prayer: 30 Devotions Inspired by My Favorite Songs” (Hardcover; written with Kim McLean; Digital Book; Audible Audiobook, get Audible Premium Plus free for 3 months; Worthy Books) » BUY NOW
CHRIS PAYNE
“Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo’s Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008” (Hardcover; Digital Book; Dey Street Books) » BUY NOW
MAL EVANS
“Brother Malcolm: The Beatles’ Gentle Giant” (Hardcover; author: Kenneth Womack; Digital Book; Dey Street Books) » BUY NOW
WAYNE HUSSEY
“Heady Daze: The Mission Years, 1985-1990” (Paperback; Omnibus Press) » BUY NOW
DAVID BOWIE
“Silhouettes and Shadows: The Secret History of David Bowie’s Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)” (Paperback; author: Adam Steiner; Merch; Backbeat Books) » BUY NOW
THE ROLLING STONES
“Parachute Women: Marianne Faithfull, Marsha Hunt, Bianca Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, and the Women Behind the Rolling Stones” (Hardcover; author: Elizabeth Winder; Digital Book; Merch; Hachette Books) » BUY NOW
QUEEN
“I Want It All! Volume I: The Ultimate Collection of Classic Queen Memorabilia” (Hardcover; Merch; Omnibus Press) » BUY NOW
DAVID HEPWORTH
“Abbey Road: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Famous Recording Studio” (Hardcover; foreword by Paul McCartney; Digital Book; Pegasus Books) » BUY NOW
GARY MOORE
“White Knuckles: The Life of Gary Moore” (Hardcover; author: Martin Power; Omnibus Press) » BUY NOW
JOHN PRINE
“Prine on Prine: Interviews and Encounters with John Prine” (Digital Book; author: Holly Gleason; Chicago Review Press) » BUY NOW
JONAS BROTHERS
“Blood: A Memoir by the Jonas Brothers” (Hardcover; written with Neil Strauss; Digital Book; On Tour; Dey Street Books) » BUY NOW
LIL’ KIM
“The Queen Bee” (Hardcover; Digital Book; Hachette Books) » BUY NOW
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Gerry Galipault Gerry Galipault debuted Pause & Play online in October 1997. Since then, it has become the definitive place for CD-release dates — with a worldwide audience.
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