Hachette Books: 1744 books
The Michael Jackson Tapes
A Tragic Icon Reveals His Soul in Intimate Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2009
In 2000-2001, Michael Jackson sat down with his close friend and spiritual guide, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, to record what turned out to be the most intimate and revealing conversations of his life. It was Michael's wish to bare his soul and unburden himself to a public that he knew was deeply suspicious...
The Book of Drugs
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Mike Doughty first came to prominence as the leader of the band Soul Coughing then did an abrupt sonic left turn, much to the surprise of his audience, transforming into a solo performer of stark, dusky, but strangely hopeful tunes. He battled addiction, gave up fame when his old band was at the height...
Not Afraid
The Evolution of Eminem
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
The sequel to the New York Times bestseller Whatever You Say I Am, chronicling the last 20 years of rapper Eminem's life, based on new, exclusive interviews with the artist, his friends, family, and associates.
In 1999, a former dishwasher from Detroit became the most significant, controversial,...
Ain't It Time We Said Goodbye
The Rolling Stones on the Road to Exile
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
For ten days in March 1971, the Rolling Stones traveled by train and bus to play two shows a night in many of the small theaters and town halls where their careers began. No backstage passes. No security. No sound checks or rehearsals. And only one journalist allowed. That journalist now delivers...
Tommy Dorsey
Livin' in a Great Big Way, A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Swing has never gone out of style. It was the music the Greatest Generation danced to--and went to war to. And no musician evokes the Big Band era more strikingly than Tommy Dorsey, whose soaring trombone play and hit tunes influenced popular music for a generation. Tommy Dorsey (1905-1956) led a...
Da Capo Best Music Writing 2005
The Year's Finest Writing on Rock, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Pop, Country, & More
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
Da Capo Best Music Writing has become one of the most eagerly awaited annuals of them all. Celebrating the year in music writing by gathering a rich array of essays, missives, and musings on every style of music from rock to hip-hop to R&B to jazz to pop to blues and more, it is essential reading...
Apathy for the Devil
A Seventies Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Chronicling Nick Kent's up-close , personal, often harrowing adventures with the Rolling Stones, Lester Bangs, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, the Sex Pistols, and Chrissie Hynde, among scores of others, Apathy for the Devil is a picaresque memoir that bears witness to the beautiful and the damned of this...
Heroes and Villains
Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
The Beach Boys have been rolling, like the tide their great songs evoke, for more than thirty years, reaching professional peaks and tragic personal depths. In this electrifying account Steven Gaines reveals the gothic tale of violence, addiction, greed, genius, madness, and rock 'n' roll behind the...
Almost a Woman
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Following the enchanting story recounted in When I Was Puerto Rican of the author’s emergence from the barrios of Brooklyn to the prestigious Performing Arts High School in Manhattan, Esmeralda Santiago delivers the tale of her young adulthood, where she continually strives to find a balance between...
Bop Apocalypse
Jazz, Race, the Beats, and Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
The gripping story of the rise of early drug culture in America, from the author of the acclaimed Can't Find My Way Home
With an intricate storyline that unites engaging characters and themes and reads like a novel, Bop Apocalypse details the rise of early drug culture in America by weaving...
by Elliott Schwartz, Barney Childs, Jim Fox
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
This anthology of essays, interviews, and autobiographical pieces provides an invaluable overview of the evolution of contemporary music-from chromaticism, serialism, and indeterminacy to jazz, vernacular, electronic, and non-Western influences. Featuring classic essays by Stravinsky, Stockhausen,...
I Am the Wolf
Lyrics and Writings
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
A collection of lyrics and autobiographical commentary by singer Mark Lanegan, with a preface by John Cale and a foreword by Moby
With a voice that Pitchfork has called "as scratchy as a three-day beard yet as supple and pliable as moccasin leather," former Screaming Trees and Queens...
Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll
The Science of Hedonism and the Hedonism of Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Full of noise and color, Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll looks at scientists and their craft, how hedonistic impulses inform our highest pursuits, and how the renegades of science have illuminated the secrets of our deepest impulses. It is a fascinating tale of scientists on the edge, experimenting...
Hit So Hard
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
A stunningly candid portrait of the Seattle grunge scene of the '90s and a memoir of an addict during the last great era of rock 'n' roll excess, by Hole drummer Patty Schemel
Patty Schemel's story begins with a childhood surrounded by the AA meetings her parents hosted in the family living...