Product Description: The Biographical Dictionary of Popular Music is an incredible and opinionated collection of celebrated cultural critic Dylan Jones's thoughts on more than 350 of the most important artists around the world―alive and dead, big and small, at length and in brief...read more

Product Description: Mark Beech's 1998 predecessor, The A-Z of Names in Rock generated over 50 radio interviews, 15 articles, 7 features in nationals and two serializations. This extended and updated version covers more genres than just rock (e.g. pop, punk, indie, reggae, soul, country, blues, folk, jazz, heavy metal, grunge and rap artists and bands) and will appeal to music fans internationally, as well as being the must-buy book for pub quiz fans...read more

A fascinating, fact-filled book profiles the details of more than 2,500 rock legends' lives and careers and spotlights the key players who changed the course of popular music. Original.

Discusses four hundred fifty of the most successful artists and bands from the 1950s to the present, including artists in rock, pop, soul, disco, dance music, heavy metal, reggae, and other fields