The secret love life of the BBC’s ‘Diddy’ David Hamilton, an unlikely lothario
Radio made him a household name – but a new book reveals the sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle behind his squeaky-clean image
Radio made him a household name – but a new book reveals the sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle behind his squeaky-clean image
Stars In Their Homes: the cellist shows readers his English countryside home
Looking for a Christmas present? From history to crime, and politics to poetry, our critics count down the literary offerings of the year
A dire constellation of disruptions, from lockdowns to 'crumbling' concrete, has kept children out of the classroom for far too long
Jeremy Eichler’s new book, Time’s Echo, salutes the achievement of Strauss, Schoenberg, Britten and Shostakovich
The volume, which was lost for 45 years, will go on display at an exhibition later this month
Highly-anticipated book soared to top of pre-sale charts after fans mistakenly believed it was a tell-all memoir
She’s been called ‘the first singer-songwriter’, but by the time fame came calling for Connie Converse, she’d disappeared. What happened?
The book, God Save the King, traces the Anthem's story from its origins and features phrase-by-phrase illustrations
The transformative talents of Ravel, Berlioz, Debussy and Les Six are marvellously chronicled in Roger Nichols's new book
The birthplace of this smouldering dance comes kaleidoscopically alive in former Sunday Telegraph editor Trevor Grove's nimble memoir
Jacqueline Crooks's semi-autobiographical debut tackles race riots, grief, youth culture and the transcendence of dub music
Oxford University Press worries that many groups are currently under-represented in its current music catalogue
For me, books have been since childhood a kind of comfort blanket, shelved in the cupboard under the stairs
The award-winning Scottish poet and musician wittily recounts his working-class upbringing – and opens up about his teenage schizophrenia
With just a soldering iron and a pair of pliers, Moog changed the history of music. Albert Glinsky's new book Switched On tells his story
Publisher Simon & Schuster forced to apologise after online sleuths discovered many of the signatures were likely produced by machine
It may be light on gossip, but the U2 frontman's moving autobiography bares his soul – and shows he's self-aware about the size of his ego
Historic picture snapped in 1958, when the band was known as Quarrymen, shows George's first performance with the group
The Bad Seeds frontman grapples with God and loss in a captivating new book of interviews with Seán O’Hagan, Faith, Hope and Carnage
NME and Q editor Ted Kessler's memoir Paper Cuts paints a vivid picture of his run-ins with Radiohead, Oasis and the Happy Mondays
Taruskin rejected histories of classical music that depicted a miraculous chain of ‘Great Composers’ producing masterpieces in a vacuum
Måns Mosesson, author of 'Tim: The Official Biography of Avicii', joins Bryony Gordon on this week's Mad World podcast