• Enshrined in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame since 2014, Linda Ronstadt has earned three number 1 pop albums, 10 top ten pop albums, and 38 charting pop albums on the Billboard Pop Album Charts • Linda's Ronstadt's first Latin release, the all-Spanish 1987 album Canciones De Mi Padre is the best-selling non-English -language album in American music history, with over 2.5 million copies sold in the US • Trio, the 1987 album with Dolly Parton...

"About the Book Achieving "hit writer" status has always been a formidable goal for any songwriter. Never more so however than in the 21st century. Catching the ear of the monumentally distracted, fragmented listener has never been more difficult. Getting their attention, inviting them in to your song and keeping them there for long enough for your song to become "their songa requires more than being just a "good" songwriter. Murphy's Laws of Songwriting...

What is more important? Friendship, loyalty, or love? Colleen Hoover and Griffin Peterson collaborate once again to bring fans of "Maybe Someday" back into the musical world of Ridge Lawson and Sydney Blake. And Maggie. And Warren and Bridgette.

"This title examines the fascinating life of Beyonce. Readers will learn about Beyonce's childhood, family, and rise to fame. Colorful graphics, oversize photos, and informative sidebars accompany easy-to-read, compelling text that explores Beyonce's early interest in music and talent in singing that led to her membership in Destiny's Child and eventually the release of her solo albums Dangerously in Love, B'Day, I Am . . ."--

Following up on the success of African Jim, but with higher production values, Zonk! shows the extraordinary cultural range available to township Africans, from the many ethnic strains of music from South Africa itself to contemporary American jazz and popular music, eagerly copied and Africanized. Zonk! confirms that despite the poverty and degradation of township life, the human spirit could triumph through music, producing groups and individual...

Union J came into the spotlight during X Factor 2012 as they went head to head with rival boy band District 3. Voted out just one week before the final, the boys still managed to attract a legion of female followers who have helped catapult them into the charts. Likened to previous X Factor contestants One Direction, Union J are set for great things, and with their debut album scheduled for release in October fans will be desperate to find out more...

In 1974, at the age of seventeen, author Glenn Berger served as "schlepper" and apprentice to the legendary recording engineer, Phil Ramone, at New York City's AR Studios. He was witness to music history on an almost daily and nightly basis as pop and rock icons such as Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, Frank Sinatra, Burt Bacharach, Bette Midler, and James Brown performed their hit-making magic, honed their sound, strutted their stuff, bared their...

Leonard Cohen, one of the most admired performers of the last half century, has had a stranger-than-fiction, roller-coaster ride of a life. Now, for the first time, he tells his story in his own words, via more than 50 interviews conducted worldwide between 1966 and 2012. In Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen--which includes a foreword by singer Suzanne Vega and eight pages of rarely seen photos--the artist talks about "Bird on the Wire," "Hallelujah,"...

Danny O'Donoghue is loved by millions around the world as the front man of The Script, but success did not come quickly for the Dubliner--it took years of grafting to hit the big time Youngest of a musical family, Danny was born to be a rock star. With no interest in education, his long path to stardom began after a chance meeting with would-be guitar hero Mark Sheehan. Little did the two youngsters know that they would ultimately find fame together...

Though 5 Seconds of Summer are opening for One Direction on their worldwide Take Me Home Tour, and though 1D's Louis Tomlinson has been a 5SOS fan for awhile, the pop-punk rockers from Sydney, Australia, aren't just another boy band. They write their own music, play their own instruments, and cite bands such as Blink-182, Green Day, and All Time Low as their influences. Comprised of Luke Hemmings, Michael Clifford, Calum Hood, and Ashton Irwin, 5SOS...