Prince: Inside the Music and the Masks by Ronin Ro – review
Prince's latest biographer is great on sales figures – but the man himself remains a mysteryIn October 1981, 23-year-old Prince received an invitation to support the Rolling Stones at the Los Angeles Coliseum. Given that he wanted his own band to be ...
Books for giving: music
It has been a bumper year for memoirs, from Shaun Ryder to Nile RodgersWhen looking back on a year of music books that themselves tend to look back, it makes sense to start with Simon Reynolds's Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past (Fabe...
Everybody Loves Our Town by Mark Yarm
An entertaining history of grunge is a drug and ego-fuelled soap opera in which key figures from the Seattle scene recall a genre riven by conflictOn 8 April 1994, the day that Kurt Cobain's body was discovered in his Seattle home, sparking the biggest...
Is Justin Bieber really old enough for a biography?
The teen sensation is set to publish his first memoir and be the subject of a biopic. Is it really the right time?As if Justin Bieber's supernova status were not already bewildering enough for anyone past the age of majority, the baby-faced Canadian si...
