Music

An unflinching look at the rise of one of the most recognizable names in pop music -The Police

The Police have sold more than 50 million albums, made Rolling Stone's Greatest Artists of All Time list, and finished a triumphant world reunion tour in 2008.

Now British journalist Chris Campion draws on extensive research and new interviews to trace the inside saga of this iconic group, including the unorthodox business strategies employed by manager Miles Copeland that took them to the top and the intense rivalry that drove Sting, Andy Summers, and Stewart Copeland to split at the height of their success in the 1980s.

• The first comprehensive biography on the band and its music
• Based on extensive research and new interviews with people close to the band
• Traces the group and its members from their earliest days to the present
• Includes 26 black-and-white photographs

Whether you've been a fan of The Police for decades or are discovering their music for the first time, Walking on the Moon will give you new insights into the personalities behind this unique band and their role in the rise of 80s New Wave rock.

A fun and easy way to learn to play the piano or keyboard, with helpful instruction on classic and favorite songs.

Written by the author of the best-selling Build It! series in collaboration with an experienced piano teacher, the Play It! books teaches how to play the piano or keyboard in a simple, effective way. Using color-coded notes and character icons, the books include piano sheets of popular and favorite songs as well as a primer on how to read sheet music and some basic techniques. For beginners ages 5 and up, Play It! is the perfect companion on your musical journey.

A fun and easy way to learn to play the piano or keyboard, with helpful instruction on classic and favorite songs.

Written by the author of the best-selling Build It! series in collaboration with an experienced piano teacher, the Play It! books teach how to play the piano or keyboard in a simple, effective way. Using color-coded notes and character icons, the books include piano sheets of popular and favorite songs as well as a primer on how to read sheet music and some basic techniques. For beginners ages 5 and up, Play It! is the perfect companion on your musical journey.

Features these classic songs and includes color labels inside the book:

1. Mary Had a Little Lamb
2. Oh When the Saints Go Marching In
3. The Itsy Bitsy Spider
4. Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
5. Clock Chimes
6. Row, Row, Row Your Boat
7. Yankee Doodle Dandy
8. Skip to My Lou
9. This Land is Your Land
10. London Bridge is Falling Down
11. Are You Sleeping?
12. Old MacDonald Had a Farm
13. It’s Raining, It’s Pouring
14. For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow
15. Oh! Susanna
16. If You’re Happy and You Know It
17. Three Blind Mice
18. Baa Baa Black Sheep
19. Hickory Dickory Dock
20. The Wheels on the Bus
21. I’m a Little Teapot
22. B-I-N-G-O
23. The Muffin Man
24. Pop Goes the Weasel
25. Happy Birthday To You
26. Five Little Ducks
27. Home on the Range
28. When Johnny Comes Marching Home

A fun and easy way to learn to play the piano or keyboard, with helpful instruction on classic and favorite songs.

A fun and easy way to learn to play the piano or keyboard, with helpful instruction on classic and favorite songs.

A fun and easy way to learn to play the piano or keyboard, with helpful instruction on classic and favorite songs.

Written by the author of the best-selling Build It! series in collaboration with an experienced piano teacher, the Play It! books teach how to play the piano or keyboard in a simple, effective way. Using color-coded notes and character icons, the books include piano sheets of popular and favorite songs as well as a primer on how to read sheet music and some basic techniques. For beginners ages 5 and up, Play It! is the perfect companion on your musical journey.

A fun and easy way to learn to play the piano or keyboard, with helpful instruction on classic and favorite songs.

Written by the author of the best-selling Build It! series in collaboration with an experienced piano teacher, the Play It! books teach how to play the piano or keyboard in a simple, effective way. Using color-coded notes and character icons, the books include piano sheets of popular and favorite songs as well as a primer on how to read sheet music and some basic techniques. For beginners ages 5 and up, Play It! is the perfect companion on your musical journey.

Features these classical songs and includes color labels inside the book:

1. Ode to Joy
2. Lullaby
3. Spring from The Four Seasons
4. Serenade No. 2 in A Major
5. Jimbo's Lullaby
6. Largo from Symphony No. 9
7. Symphony No. 8
8. Can-Can from Orphée aux Enfers
9. Rondo from Orchestral Suite No. 2
10. Air on a G String
11. Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin
12. Cradle Song (Wiegenlied)
13. Fantaisie Impromptu
14. Song of the Toreador from Carmen
15. Die Fledermaus
16. Glockenspiel from The Magic Flute
17. Minuet in D Minor
18. Allegro from Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
19. Symphony No. 5
20. Swan Lake
21. Turkish March
22. Gavotte
23. Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
24. The Blue Danube
25. Intermezzo No. 1
26. Minuet from Don Giovanni
27. La Donna è mobile
28. Sonata Pathetique
29. Over the Waves
30. Morning from Peer Gynt
31. Bagatelle in G Minor, Op. 119, No.1
32. Minuet in G (Beethoven)
33. Minuet in G (Bach)
34. William Tell Overture
35. Moonlight Sonata
36. Habanera from Carmen

A fun and easy way to learn to play the piano or keyboard, with helpful instruction on favorite jazz pieces.

Written by the author of the best-selling Build It! series in collaboration with an experienced piano teacher, the Play It! books teach young readers how to play the piano or keyboard in a simple, effective way. Using color-coded notes and character icons, the books include piano sheet music of favorite popular songs, as well as a primer on how to read sheet music and some basic techniques. With this method, you'll go from simply pressing colors on the keyboard to reading and playing music in no time! 

In Play It! Jazz and Folk Songs, learn to play songs like “The Entertainer,” “Scarborough Fair,” and more beloved pieces from the jazz and traditional song libraries. For beginners of all ages, the Play It! series is the perfect companion on your musical journey.

A fun and easy way to learn to play the piano or keyboard, with helpful instruction on favorite jazz pieces.

Written by the author of the best-selling Build It! series in collaboration with an experienced piano teacher, the Play It! books teach young readers how to play the piano or keyboard in a simple, effective way. Using color-coded notes and character icons, the books include piano sheet music of favorite popular songs, as well as a primer on how to read sheet music and some basic techniques. With this method, you'll go from simply pressing colors on the keyboard to reading and playing music in no time! 

In Play It! Jazz and Folk Songs, learn to play songs like “The Entertainer,” “Scarborough Fair,” and more beloved pieces from the jazz and traditional song libraries. For beginners of all ages, the Play It! series is the perfect companion on your musical journey.

The first definitive biography of music legend Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder's achievements as a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer are extraordinary. During a career that has spanned almost fifty years, he has earned more than thirty Top 10 hits, twenty-six Grammy Awards, and a place in both the Rock and Roll and Songwriter Halls of Fame—and he's not finished yet. On the verge of turning sixty, he is still composing, still touring, and still attracting dedicated fans around the world.

For the first time, Signed, Sealed, and Delivered takes an in-depth look at Stevie Wonder's life and his evolution from kid-soul pop star into a mature artist whose music helped lay the groundwork for the evolution of hip hop and rap.

• Explores the life, achievements, and influence of one of America's biggest musical icons, set against the history of Motown and the last fifty years of popular music
• Based on extensive interviews with Motown producers, music executives, songwriters, and musicians, including founding Temptation Otis Williams, Mickey Stevenson, surviving Funk Brother Eddie Willis, synthesizer genius Malcolm Cecil, guitar legend Michael Sembello, and many others
• Traces Stevie's personal and musical development through the decades, from the early 1960s R&B of "Fingertips" to the social and political themes of "Living for the City" and other 1970s classics, through periods of musical and personal confusion, uncertainty, and, later, renewal

Read Signed, Sealed, and Delivered to explore the life and work of one of pop music's most compelling masters of invention.

An unflinching look at the rise of one of the most recognizable names in pop music -The Police

The Police have sold more than 50 million albums, made Rolling Stone's Greatest Artists of All Time list, and finished a triumphant world reunion tour in 2008.

Now British journalist Chris Campion draws on extensive research and new interviews to trace the inside saga of this iconic group, including the unorthodox business strategies employed by manager Miles Copeland that took them to the top and the intense rivalry that drove Sting, Andy Summers, and Stewart Copeland to split at the height of their success in the 1980s.

• The first comprehensive biography on the band and its music
• Based on extensive research and new interviews with people close to the band
• Traces the group and its members from their earliest days to the present
• Includes 26 black-and-white photographs

Whether you've been a fan of The Police for decades or are discovering their music for the first time, Walking on the Moon will give you new insights into the personalities behind this unique band and their role in the rise of 80s New Wave rock.

What is it like to dance at the highest level with the largest dance company in America? New York City Ballet dancer Kyle Froman knows. He has danced with the company for more than a decade, and he understands intimately the daily quest for excellence that propels professional dancers to astonishing achievements. Like his colleagues, he has overcome the multiple challenges of a marathon schedule, last-minute cast changes, injuries, and fatigue.

In this beautifully designed volume, Froman explores the exhilarating, awe-inspiring, and physically demanding life of the New York City Ballet dancers. With the unprecedented behind-the-scenes access only a dancer has, his stunning color and black-and-white photo-graphs offer an extraordinary glimpse into a special world that outsiders rarely see.

Rob Kapilow has been helping audiences hear more in great music for two decades with his What Makes It Great? series on NPR's Performance Today, at Lincoln Center, and in concert halls throughout the US and Canada. In this book, he focuses on short masterpieces by major composers to help you understand the essence of each composer's genius and how each piece—which can be heard on the book's web site—transformed the musical language of its time. Kapilow's down-to-earth approach makes music history easy to grasp no matter what your musical background.

• Explores the musical styles and genius of great classical composers, including Vivaldi, Handel, J.S. Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Chopin, Puccini, Wagner, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, and Debussy
• Features an accompanying web site where you can see, hear, and download each short masterpiece and all of the book's musical examples
• Introduces you in depth to popular pieces from the classical repertoire, including ""Spring"" from the Four Seasons (Vivaldi), ""Dove Sono"" from The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart), the Prelude to Tristan and Isolde (Wagner), and ""Trepak"" from The Nutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky)
• Written by acclaimed composer, conductor, and pianist Rob Kapilow: ""You could practically see the light bulbs going on above people's heads"" (The Philadelphia Inquirer); ""Rob Kapilow is awfully good at what he does"" (The Boston Globe); ""A wonderful guy who brings music alive!"" (Katie Couric)

This book, along with the music on the companion web site, is an ideal starting point for anyone interested in classical music, whether first-time listener, experienced concertgoer or performing musician, offering an entree into the world of eighteen great composers and a collection of individual masterpieces spanning almost two hundred years.

From enduring musical achievements to drug-fueled chaos and bed-hopping antics, the L.A. pop music scene in the sixties and seventies was like no other, and journalist Barney Hoskyns re-creates all the excitement and mayhem. Hotel California brings to life the genesis of Crosby, Stills, and Nash at Joni Mitchell’s house; the Eagles’ backstage fistfights after the success of "Hotel California"; the drama of David Geffen and the other money men who transformed the L.A. music scene; and more.

With Robert Plant on lead vocal and Jimmy Page on guitar, Led Zeppelin is one of the most iconic, legendary, and influential rock bands in musical history. Tales of their indulgence in sex, drugs, and excess have swirled for decades. In this definitive oral history of the band, Barney Hoskyns finally reveals the truth about Led Zeppelin, paring away the myths and describing what life was really like for four young men on top of the world, enjoying fame on a scale that not even the Beatles experienced as a touring live act. Through fresh new interviews with the surviving band members, close friends, their tour manager, and scores of other fascinating characters, Hoskyns provides deep insights into the personalities of the band members and chronicles the group's dramatic rise, fall, and legacy.

• Based on more than 200 interviews with everyone from Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, and John Paul Jones to road manager Richard Cole, their late manager Peter Grant, and many others central to the Zeppelin story
• Features striking photos of the band both on and offstage, many published here for the first time
• Takes a fresh look at Led Zeppelin's music, cultural significance, and legend, as well as the highs and lows of the sex, drugs, and rock and roll lifestyle on the road
• Analyzes the way the band wrote, arranged, and recorded, from how they created the stupendous sound and dynamics on "Dazed and Confused" and "Whole Lotta Love" to the group's folk-suffused acoustic side embodied in songs like "Friends" and "That's the Way"
• Written by Barney Hoskyns, contributing editor at British Vogue who is the author of the bestselling book Hotel California and the co-founder of online music-journalism library Rock's Backpages

Fleetwood Mac's classic 1977 Rumours album topped the Billboard 200 for thirty-one weeks and won the Grammy for Album of the Year. More recently, Rolling Stone named it the 25th greatest album of all time and the hit TV series Glee devoted an entire episode to songs from Rumours, introducing it to a new generation. 

Now, for the first time, Ken Caillat, the album's co-producer, tells the full story, from endless partying and relationship dramas to the creative struggles to write and record "You Make Loving Fun," "Don't Stop," "Go Your Own Way," "The Chain," and other timeless tracks.

Tells the fascinating story of the making of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, written by the producer who saw it all happen:

• Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham's screaming match while recording "You Make Loving Fun."
• The band's struggles with increasing success, 
• How the album almost never happened when the master tape nearly disintegrated
• The incredible attention paid to even the tiniest elements of songs, from Lindsey playing a chair to Mick breaking glass. 
• Includes eighty black-and-white photographs.

In 1977, Fleetwood Mac's members were guitarist/vocalist Lindsey Buckingham, vocalist Stevie Nicks, drummer Mick Fleetwood, vocalist Christine McVie, and bass guitarist John McVie. 

Making Rumours shows how Fleetwood Mac created one of the greatest albums of all time, amidst heartbreak, divorce, addiction, and betrayal. 

Fleetwood Mac's classic 1977 Rumours album topped the Billboard 200 for thirty-one weeks and won the Grammy for Album of the Year. More recently, Rolling Stone named it the 25th greatest album of all time and the hit TV series Glee devoted an entire episode to songs from Rumours, introducing it to a new generation. 

Now, for the first time, Ken Caillat, the album's co-producer, tells the full story, from endless partying and relationship dramas to the creative struggles to write and record "You Make Loving Fun," "Don't Stop," "Go Your Own Way," "The Chain," and other timeless tracks.

Tells the fascinating story of the making of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, written by the producer who saw it all happen:

• Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham's screaming match while recording "You Make Loving Fun."
• The band's struggles with increasing success, 
• How the album almost never happened when the master tape nearly disintegrated
• The incredible attention paid to even the tiniest elements of songs, from Lindsey playing a chair to Mick breaking glass. 
• Includes eighty black-and-white photographs.

In 1977, Fleetwood Mac's members were guitarist/vocalist Lindsey Buckingham, vocalist Stevie Nicks, drummer Mick Fleetwood, vocalist Christine McVie, and bass guitarist John McVie. 

Making Rumours shows how Fleetwood Mac created one of the greatest albums of all time, amidst heartbreak, divorce, addiction, and betrayal. 

The first and only definitive biography of legendary Motown group, the Temptations

The Temptations are an incomparable soul group, with dozens of chart-topping hits such as My Girl and Papa Was a Rollin Stone. From the sharp suits, stylish choreography, and distinctive vocals that epitomized their onstage triumphs to the personal failings and psycho-dramas that played out behind the scenes, Ain't Too Proud to Beg tells the complete story of this most popular—and tragic—of all Motown super groups.

Based on in-depth research and interviews with founding Temptations member Otis Williams and many others, the book reveals the highly individual, even mutually antagonistic, nature of the group's members. Venturing beyond the money and the fame, it shares the compelling tale of these sometime allies, sometime rivals and reveals the unique dynamic of push and pull and give and take that resulted in musical genius.

• The first book to tell the whole story of Motown's greatest group, with all-new interviews and previously undiscovered sources and photographs
• Gives the last word on enduring Motown mysteries, including the deaths of Paul Williams and David Ruffin and the truth behind Ruffin's tumultuous romance with Tammi Terrell
• Reveals the secret ""can't miss"" formula behind the Temptations' thirty-seven chart hits
• Draws on more than one hundred interviews with the group's associates, industry figures, family members, and most importantly, founding Temptation Otis Williams

Ain't Too Proud to Beg takes a cohesive and penetrating look at the life and enduring legacy of one of the greatest groups in popular music. It is essential reading for fans of the Temptations, music lovers, and anyone interested in the history of American popular culture over the last fifty years.

The first definitive biography of music legend Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder's achievements as a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer are extraordinary. During a career that has spanned almost fifty years, he has earned more than thirty Top 10 hits, twenty-six Grammy Awards, and a place in both the Rock and Roll and Songwriter Halls of Fame—and he's not finished yet. On the verge of turning sixty, he is still composing, still touring, and still attracting dedicated fans around the world.

For the first time, Signed, Sealed, and Delivered takes an in-depth look at Stevie Wonder's life and his evolution from kid-soul pop star into a mature artist whose music helped lay the groundwork for the evolution of hip hop and rap.

• Explores the life, achievements, and influence of one of America's biggest musical icons, set against the history of Motown and the last fifty years of popular music
• Based on extensive interviews with Motown producers, music executives, songwriters, and musicians, including founding Temptation Otis Williams, Mickey Stevenson, surviving Funk Brother Eddie Willis, synthesizer genius Malcolm Cecil, guitar legend Michael Sembello, and many others
• Traces Stevie's personal and musical development through the decades, from the early 1960s R&B of "Fingertips" to the social and political themes of "Living for the City" and other 1970s classics, through periods of musical and personal confusion, uncertainty, and, later, renewal

Read Signed, Sealed, and Delivered to explore the life and work of one of pop music's most compelling masters of invention.

The authors of the popular Play It! series are back with a fun and easy guitar guide, with helpful instruction on beloved Christmas songs, perfect for the budding musician in your life.

Written by the author of the best-selling Build It! series in collaboration with an experienced musician, the Play It! books teach how to play the guitar in a simple, effective way. Using color-coded notes and character icons, the books include guitar tabs of popular and favorite songs as well as a primer on how to read tabs and some basic techniques. For beginners ages 7 and up, Play It! Children's Songs for Guitar (Level 1) is the perfect companion on your musical journey.

The authors of the popular Play It! series are back with a fun and easy guitar guide, with helpful instruction on beloved children's songs, perfect for the budding musician in your life.

Written by the author of the best-selling Build It! series in collaboration with an experienced musician, the Play It! books teach how to play the guitar in a simple, effective way. Using color-coded notes and character icons, the books include guitar tabs of popular and favorite songs as well as a primer on how to read tabs and some basic techniques. For beginners ages 7 and up, Play It! Children's Songs for Guitar (Level 1) is the perfect companion on your musical journey.

Features these classic songs and includes color labels inside the book:

1. Mary Had a Little Lamb
2. Row, Row, Row Your Boat
3. Hot Cross Buns
4. Skip to My Lou
5. This Old Man
6. Kum Ba Yah
7. Home on the Range
8. B-I-N-G-O
9. London Bridge
10. Three Blind Mice
11. Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
12. When the Saints Go Marching In
13. Baa Baa Black Sheep
14. Happy Birthday
15. The Wheels on the Bus
16. Ode to Joy
17. Are You Sleeping?
18. The Muffin Man
19. Alphabet Song
20. Hickory Dickory Dock
21. Old MacDonald
22. Clementine
23. Pop! Goes the Weasel
24. Oh! Susanna
25. Drunken Sailor
26. Scarborough Fair
27. My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
28. Clock Chimes
29. Ring Around the Rosie
30. The Grand Old Duke of York

The authors of the popular Play It! series are back with a fun and easy guitar guide, with helpful instruction on beloved Christmas songs, perfect for the budding musician in your life.

Written by the author of the best-selling Build It! series in collaboration with an experienced musician, the Play It! books teach how to play the guitar in a simple, effective way. Using color-coded notes and character icons, the books include guitar tabs of popular and favorite songs as well as a primer on how to read tabs and some basic techniques. For beginners ages 7 and up, Play It! Christmas Songs for Guitar (Level 1) is the perfect companion on your musical journey.

The authors of the popular Play It! series are back with a fun and easy guitar guide, with helpful instruction on beloved children's songs, perfect for the budding musician in your life.

Written by the author of the best-selling Build It! series in collaboration with an experienced musician, the Play It! books teach how to play the guitar in a simple, effective way. Using color-coded notes and character icons, the books include guitar tabs of popular and favorite songs as well as a primer on how to read tabs and some basic techniques. For beginners ages 7 and up, Play It! Children's Songs for Guitar (Level 1) is the perfect companion on your musical journey.

Features these classic songs and includes color labels inside the book:

1. Mary Had a Little Lamb
2. Row, Row, Row Your Boat
3. Hot Cross Buns
4. Skip to My Lou
5. This Old Man
6. Kum Ba Yah
7. Home on the Range
8. B-I-N-G-O
9. London Bridge
10. Three Blind Mice
11. Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
12. When the Saints Go Marching In
13. Baa Baa Black Sheep
14. Happy Birthday
15. The Wheels on the Bus
16. Ode to Joy
17. Are You Sleeping?
18. The Muffin Man
19. Alphabet Song
20. Hickory Dickory Dock
21. Old MacDonald
22. Clementine
23. Pop! Goes the Weasel
24. Oh! Susanna
25. Drunken Sailor
26. Scarborough Fair
27. My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
28. Clock Chimes
29. Ring Around the Rosie
30. The Grand Old Duke of York