"Prince was a gift and a genius. He showed us that we have no limits." Alicia Keys
"He was the most incredibly talented artist. A man in complete control of his work from writer and musician to producer and director." Kate Bush
"The most amazing performer I have ever witnessed." Joni Mitchell
"He Changed The World!!" Madonna
In a career that spanned five decades, Prince really did change the world. After making some of most inventive albums of the 80s - including 1999, Purple Rain, and Sign "O" The Times - he turned his attention to redefining his role in the music industry, changing his name to an unpronounceable symbol, declaring war on Warner Bros, and leading the internet revolution. When he died, on April 21 2016, the world lost one of the few artists who could truly claim to be called a genius. His legacy lives on, and will remain an inspiration for all time.
Prince: Life &amp; Times is a large format, lavishly illustrated, authoritative chronicle of his career, covering every album, every movie, and every tour. It includes profiles of key collaborators, assesses his various business dealings, and details his many side-projects - on stage, on record, on screen, and beyond. This updated second edition includes detailed information on Prince's activity from 2008 to 2016.

Prince: Life and Times: Revised and Updated Edition

Biographies & Memoirs

Draper, Jason

Arts & Literature

Chartwell Books

Prince: Life &amp; Times is a large format, lavishly illustrated, authoritative chronicle of this visionary musician's career, covering every album, every movie, and every tour. It includes profiles of key collaborators, assesses his various business dealings, and details his many side-projects—on stage, on record, on screen, and beyond. This updated second edition includes detailed information on Prince's life from 2008 to 2016. "Prince was a gift and a genius. He showed us that we have no limits." —Alicia Keys "He was the most incredibly talented artist. A man in complete control of his work from writer and musician to producer and director." —Kate Bush "The most amazing performer I have ever witnessed." —Joni Mitchell "He Changed The World!!" —Madonna In a career that spanned five decades, Prince really did change the world. After making some of most inventive albums of the 80s—including 1999, Purple Rain, and Sign "O" The Times—he turned his attention to redefining his role in the music industry, changing his name to an unpronounceable symbol, declaring war on Warner Bros, and leading the internet revolution. When he died on April 21, 2016, the world lost one of the few artists who could truly claim to be a genius. His legacy lives on, and will remain an inspiration for all time.

There is something obviously tragic and unfair, yet also undeniably uncanny, about the plethora of deaths of treasured musicians at a young age, more spookily specifically at 27 years old. Some will say it is inevitable when you consider the fast-drinking, high-living, burning-the-candle-at-both-ends lifestyles that these people take up, but surely there is more to it than that? Whatever the causes, this timely book includes entries on a range of artists who famously died at 27, but many others who died at other points in their teens, twenties and early thirties – at the height, or just before the achievement, of their creative potential. It is pointless to pine for the music that could have been, and best to celebrate the music that was – the flashes of brilliance, the often impressive oeuvre created over such a short time. Whether you love to rock out to Kurt Cobain, swoon to the music of Jeff Buckley, are fascinated by the story of blues legend Robert Johnson or worship at the altar of Hendrix, this guide gives an absorbing account and memorable images of them all.

Only the Good Die Young: Robert Johnson, Brian Jones & Amy Winehouse: The Rollercoaster Ride of Rock ’n’ Roll Suicide

Arts & Photography

Music

Flame Tree Publishing

Prince has cut a singular path through the heart of popular music for more than 30 years. After making some of the most inventive albums of the '80s – including 1999, Purple Rain and Sign of the Times – he turned his attention to redefining his role in the music industry, changing his name to an unpronounceable symbol, declaring war on his record label, Warner Bros., and leading the internet revolution. His subsequent career has had many ups and downs, but he remains a major commercial and artistic force, as evidenced by his ability to sell out the O2 Arena in London for 21 nights in succession in 2007. In 2010 he announced that the internet was “over” and released his latest album, 20Ten, as a free cover-mounted CD with several European publications. Prince: Chaos, Disorder, and Revolution is an authoritative chronicle of one of popular music's true mavericks. Covering every album, every movie, and every tour, it includes profiles of various key collaborators, assesses the artist's various business dealings, and details his many and varied side projects – on stage, on record, on screen, and beyond.

Prince: Chaos, Disorder and Revolution

Humor & Entertainment

HAL LEONARD CORPORATION

Conspiring men have, do, and will continue to take advantage of each other because of our humanity, and history shows the worst offenders are not those who claim to do us any harm, but those who claim they are trying to do us good. The solution is not to cancel our goodness. The cure is not to have less of any of these good things. The cure is to balance it with more knowledge and more truth. Whatever "truth" is given by our churches, governments, and the media, can be measured by passing it through the fire. If it survives, we can accept it. If it doesn't, we can choose not to be burned again. It doesn't deserve our humanity and can and ought to perish.

A Burnt Child: Love and Hate of Lies and Truth

Historical

Liferich Pub

In this era of Vinyl revival, celebrate some of the greatest covers of the last 70 years, such as the Beatles’ ‘Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ or Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side of the Moon’, alongside entertaining and informative text. This great little book will make an ideal gift for any music aficionado or art and design enthusiast.

A Brief History of Album Covers (new edition)

Flame Tree Press

The Rolling Stones have long established themselves as living legends: still touring and recording they have survived departures and illness to remain one of the world's most popular bands, always topping best band or best album ever polls. Organised by year, this brilliant new book covers all the major events in their long career, from their first signing with Decca in 1963, to their current world tour which will see them playing in front of 25 million fans.

Rolling Stones Revealed

Cover art can be an influential factor in a record’s success, and some designs are so memorable that they go down in design and music history—who doesn't instantly recognize the covers for the Beatles' Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band or Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon? Now celebrate some of the greatest covers of the last 50 years alongside entertaining and informative text, in this great little book that will make an ideal gift for any music aficionado or art and design enthusiast.

A Brief History of Album Covers (Music Guides)

History & Criticism

Prince Hard Cover book in okay shape binding is coming undone please see photo

Prince Chronicles

Jawbone

His name was Prince, and he was funky. He was also inspiring, infuriating, visionary and otherworldly. Channelling contradictions in search of his own unique truth, he eventually changed his name to an unpronounceable glyph that merged the male and female symbols in an outward expression of his inner dualities. Gifted with the ability to play almost every instrument on his records, and shifting between musical styles as much as he switched-up his looks, he refused to acknowledge boundaries. Instead, he brought opposing forces together in a life-long quest to reconcile a dirty mind with a love for God. In doing so, the mini Minneapolis genius became a world-conquering icon whose towering legacy continues to shape pop culture.

Prince (Lives of the Musicians)

Laurence King Publishing

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Prince: Life and Times: Revised and Updated Edition

Prince: Life and Times: Revised and Updated Edition

Only the Good Die Young: Robert Johnson, Brian Jones & Amy Winehouse: The Rollercoaster Ride of Rock ’n’ Roll Suicide

Prince: Chaos, Disorder and Revolution

A Burnt Child: Love and Hate of Lies and Truth

A Brief History of Album Covers (new edition)

Rolling Stones Revealed

A Brief History of Album Covers (Music Guides)

Prince Chronicles

Prince (Lives of the Musicians)