Your Music Book Store (Nov. 20 and Beyond)
Here’s our weekly rundown of upcoming new music book releases …
Read on.
PETE GOLDING & BARRY MILES
“Rock Graphic Originals: Revolutions in Sonic Art from Plate to Print ’55-’88” (Paperback; Thames & Hudson) 
FRANK SINATRA
“The Way It Was: My Life with Frank Sinatra” (Paperback; author: longtime manager Eliot Weisman, with Jennifer Valoppi; Free Preview; eBay; Merch; Hachette Books) 
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THE BEATLES
“The Beatles White Album and the Launch of Apple” (Hardcover; author: Bruce Spizer; eBay; Merch; 498 Productions, LLC)
MELANIE BROWN (of Spice Girls)
“Brutally Honest” (Hardcover; Digital Book; Quadrille Publishing)
PETER GRANT
“Bring It On Home: Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin, and Beyond – The Story of Rock’s Greatest Manager” (Hardcover; author: Mark Blake; Digital Book; Da Capo Press)
RICHIE RAMONE
“I Know Better Now: My Life Before, During, and After the Ramones” (Hardcover; co-author: Peter Aaron; Backbeat Books)
GLENN SHORROCK
“Now, Where Was I?: My career with The Twilights, Axiom & Little River Band and back again” (Hardcover; New Holland Publishers)
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
“Leonard Bernstein 100: The Masters Photograph the Maestro” (Hardcover; editors: Jamie Bernstein, Steve J. Sherman; )
ARETHA FRANKLIN
“Aretha: The Queen of Soul ― A Life in Photographs” (Hardcover; author: Meredith Ochs; Sterling)
BENJAMIN ORR
“Let’s Go! Benjamin Orr and The Cars” (Hardcover; author: Joe Milliken; Digital Book; Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)
GEDDY LEE
“Geddy Lee’s Big Beautiful Book of Bass” (Hardcover; Digital Book; Harper Design)
JONI MITCHELL
“Joni Mitchell: The Norman Seeff Sessions” (Hardcover; author/photographer: Norman Seeff; Insight Editions)
LILY ALLEN
“My Thoughts Exactly” (Hardcover; Digital Book; Free Preview; Blink Publishing)
TODD RUNDGREN
“The Individualist: Digressions, Dreams & Dissertations” (Hardcover; eBay; Merch; Cleopatra)
IAN S. PORT
“The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock ‘n’ Roll” (Hardcover; Digital Book; Scribner)
JAMES BROWN
“James Brown: Black and Proud” (Hardcover graphic novel, originally released in France in 2016; author: Xavier Fauthoux; Digital Book; IDW Publishing)
JASON PRUFER
“Small Town, Big Music: The Outsized Influence of Kent, Ohio, on the History of Rock and Roll” (Hardcover; foreword by Joe Walsh; The Kent State University Press)
JAKE SHEARS
“Boys Keep Swinging: A Memoir” (Paperback; Free Preview; Atria Books)
AEROSMITH / RUN-D.M.C.
“Walk This Way: Run-DMC, Aerosmith, and the Song that Changed American Music Forever” (Hardcover; author: Geoff Edgers; Digital Book; Blue Rider Press)
MADONNA
“Madonna: Album by Album” (Hardcover; author: Caroline Sullivan; eBay; Merch; Carlton Books)
TAYLOR DAYNE
“Tell It to My Heart: How I Lost My S#*T, Conquered My Fear, and Found My Voice” (Hardcover; co-author: Dave Smitherman; Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing)
LEFTOVER SALMON
“Leftover Salmon: Thirty Years of Festival!” (Hardcover; author: Tim Newby; eBay; On Tour; Rowman & Littlefield)
DAVID BOWIE
“Ashes to Ashes: The Songs of David Bowie, 1976-2016” (Paperback; author: Chris O’Leary; Digital Book; eBay; Merch; Repeater)
DAVID BOWIE
“Ricochet: David Bowie 1983 – An Intimate Portrait” (Hardcover; author: Denis O’Regan; eBay; Merch; Penguin Random House UK)
PEARL JAM
“Pearl Jam: Art of Do The Revolution” (Hardcover; author: Joe Pearson; IDW Publishing)
PRINCE
“Prince: The Last Interview and Other Conversations” (Paperback; Digital Book; Melville House)
FLEETWOOD MAC
“The Chain: 50 Years of Fleetwood Mac” (Hardcover; author: Pete Chrisp; eBay; On Tour; Merch; Danann Books)
TRACEY THORN (of Everything But the Girl)
“Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia” (Hardcover; Digital Book; Canongate Books)
COCTEAU TWINS
“Stars and Topsoil: Unearthing the Cocteau Twins” (Paperback; author: Nicola Meighan; Jawbone Press)
ANI DiFRANCO
“No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir” (Hardcover; Digital Book; eBay; Viking)
VIVIEN GOLDMAN (formerly of The Flying Lizards)
“Revenge of the She-Punks: A Feminist Music History from Poly Styrene to Pussy Riot” (Paperback; Digital Book; University of Texas Press)
TALIB KWELI
“Vibrate Higher: A Rap Story” (Hardcover; Digital Book; MCD)
MOBY
“Then It Fell Apart” (Hardcover; Read here; Faber & Faber)
PAUL SIMON
“Paul Simon: The Life” (Paperback; author: Robert Hilburn; Free Preview; eBay; Simon & Schuster)
JOHN DOE
“More Fun in the New World: The Unmaking and Legacy of L.A. Punk” (Hardcover; co-author: Tom DeSavia; Digital Book; Da Capo Press)
ROBERT JOHNSON
“Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson” (Hardcover; authors: Bruce Conforth, Gayle Dean Wardlow; Digital Book; eBay; Merch; Chicago Review Press)
ELTON JOHN
“Elton John FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About the Rocket Man” (Paperback; author: Donald Gibson; Backbeat Books)
About the Author
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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