Your Music Book Store (Oct. 2 and Beyond)
Here’s our weekly rundown of upcoming new music book releases …
Read on.
JESSIE JAMES DECKER
“Just Jessie: My Guide to Love, Life, Family, and Food” (Paperback; Digital Book; Dey Street Books) 
BOB DYLAN
“That Thin, Wild Mercury Sound: Dylan, Nashville, and the Making of Blonde on Blonde” (Hardcover; author: Daryl Sanders; Digital Book; Chicago Review Press)
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GARY BARLOW
“A Better Me: The Official Autobiography” (Kindle Edition; Hardcover and Paperback out Jan. 4; Blink Publishing)
LED ZEPPELIN
“Led Zeppelin by Led Zeppelin” (Hardcover; the first and only official illustrated book to be produced in collaboration with the members of the band; Reel Art Press)
JOHN LENNON & YOKO ONO
“Imagine” (Hardcover; eBay; Merch; Grand Central Publishing)
PUSSY RIOT
“Read & Riot: A Pussy Riot Guide to Activism” (Hardcover; author: Nadya Tolokonnikova; Digital Book; HarperOne)
PRINCE
“Prince: Before the Rain” (Hardcover; author: photographer Allen Beaulieu; eBay; Merch; Minnesota Historical Society Press)
LEONARD COHEN
“Matters of Vital Interest: A Forty-Year Friendship with Leonard Cohen” (Hardcover; author: longtime friend Eric Lerner; Digital Book; eBay; Merch; Da Capo Press)
IRON MAIDEN
“Iron Maiden: Album By Album” (Hardcover; author: Martin Popoff; eBay; On Tour; Merch; Voyageur Press)
VIKKI TOBAK
“Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop” (Hardcover; foreword by Questlove; Digital Book; Clarkson Potter)
TINA TURNER
“My Love Story: A Memoir” (Hardcover; Digital Book; eBay; Merch; Atria Books)
TOWNES VAN ZANDT
“My Years with Townes Van Zandt: Music, Genius, and Rage” (Hardcover; author: longtime road manager and producer Harold F. Eggers, with L.E. McCullough; Backbeat Books)
SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES
“Siouxsie and the Banshees’ Peepshow (33 1/3)” (Paperback; author: Samantha Bennett; eBay; Merch; Bloomsbury Academic)
CHARLAMAGNE THA GOD
“Shook One: Anxiety Playing Tricks on Me” (Hardcover; Digital Book; Touchstone)
ROGER DALTREY
“Thanks a Lot, Mr. Kibblewhite: My Story” (Hardcover; Digital Book; Henry Holt and Co.)
CHRIS DIFFORD
“Some Fantastic Place: My Life In and Out of Squeeze” (Hardcover; Paperback; Digital Book; On Tour; Free Preview; Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
MEREDITH OCHS
“Rock-and-Roll Woman: The 50 Fiercest Female Rockers” (Hardcover; Digital Book; Sterling)
ARTIMUS PYLE
“Street Survivor: Keeping the Beat in Lynyrd Skynyrd” (Hardcover; co-author: Dean Goodman; Backbeat Books)
LOU REED
“Lou Reed: A Life” (Paperback; author: Anthony DeCurtis; Free Preview; Little, Brown and Company)
PATTI SMITH
“Just Kids (Illustrated Edition)” (Hardcover, with new material and never-before-seen photographs; Digital Book; Ecco)
CHRIS STEIN (of Blondie)
“Point of View: New York City and the Birth of New Wave” (Hardcover; Rizzoli)
ROBERT CHRISTGAU
“Is It Still Good to Ya? Fifty Years of Rock Criticism, 1967-2017” (Paperback; Bibliography; Duke University Press Books)
BRUCE IGLAUER (president and founder of Alligator Records)
“Bitten by the Blues: The Alligator Records Story” (Hardcover; co-author: Patrick A. Roberts; The University of Chicago Press) 
BEASTIE BOYS
“Beastie Boys Book” (Hardcover; authors: Adam “ADROCK” Horovitz and Michael “Mike D” Diamond; Digital Book; eBay; Merch; Spiegel & Grau)
JOHNNY CASH
“Johnny Cash: The Life and Legacy of the Man in Black” (Hardcover; author: Alan Light; eBay; Merch; Smithsonian Books)
ERIC CLAPTON
“Slowhand: The Life and Music of Eric Clapton” (Hardcover; author: Philip Norman; Digital Book; eBay; Merch; Little, Brown and Company)
BING CROSBY
“Bing Crosby: Swinging on a Star – The War Years, 1940-1946” (Hardcover; author: Gary Giddins; Digital Book; eBay; Little, Brown and Company)
GORDON LIGHTFOOT
“Lightfoot” (Paperback; author: Nicholas Jennings; eBay; On Tour; Penquin Canada)
STEVIE NICKS
“Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks” (Paperback; author: Stephen Davis; St. Martin’s Griffin)
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
“Hindsight: & All the Things I Can’t See in Front of Me” (Hardcover; Harper Design)
TORI AMOS
“Tori Amos’s Boys for Pele (33 1/3)” (Paperback; author: Amy Gentry; eBay; Merch; Bloomsbury Academic)
ALICE IN CHAINS
“Alice in Chains: The Untold Story” (Paperback; author: David de Sola; Free Preview; eBay; Merch; Thomas Dunne)
THE BEATLES
“The Roof: The Beatles’ Final Concert” (Hardcover; author: Ken Mansfield; eBay; Merch; Post Hill Press)
QUEEN
“Queen: Album By Album” (Hardcover; author: Martin Popoff; eBay; On Tour, with Adam Lambert; Merch; Voyageur Press)
JEFF TWEEDY
“Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc.” (Hardcover; Digital Book; Dutton)
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)
FLEA
“Acid for the Children: A Memoir” (Hardcover; foreword by Patti Smith; Digital Book; eBay; Grand Central Publishing)
PETER GRANT
“Bring It On Home: Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin, and Beyond – The Story of Rock’s Greatest Manager” (Hardcover; author: Mark Blake; Da Capo Press)
GLENN SHORROCK
“Now, Where Was I?: My career with The Twilights, Axiom & Little River Band and back again” (Hardcover; New Holland Publishers)
GEDDY LEE
“Geddy Lee’s Big Beautiful Book of Bass” (Hardcover; Harper Design)
JONI MITCHELL
“Joni Mitchell: The Norman Seeff Sessions” (Hardcover; author/photographer: Norman Seeff; Insight Editions)
JAMES BROWN
“James Brown: Black and Proud” (Hardcover graphic novel, originally released in France in 2016; author: Xavier Fauthoux; Digital Book; IDW Publishing)
PEARL JAM
“Pearl Jam: Art of Do The Revolution” (Hardcover; author: Joe Pearson; IDW Publishing)
COCTEAU TWINS
“Stars and Topsoil: Unearthing the Cocteau Twins” (Paperback; author: Nicola Meighan; Jawbone Press)
ELTON JOHN
“Elton John FAQ: All That’s Left to Know About the Rocket Man” (Paperback; author: Donald Gibson; Backbeat Books)
MOBY
“Then It Fell Apart” (Hardcover; Read here; Faber & Faber)
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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