2017 CATALOGUE for Over Forty Years Omnibus Press Has Been Publishing the Stories That Matter from the Music World
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2017 CATALOGUE For over forty years Omnibus Press has been publishing the stories that matter from the music world. Omnibus Press is the World’s/Europe’s largest specialist publisher devoted to music writing, with around thirty new titles a year, with a backlist of over two hundred and seventy titles currently in print and many more as digital downloads. Omnibus Press covers pop, rock, classical, metal, country, psyche, prog, electronic, dance, rap, jazz and many more genres, in a variety of formats. With books that tell stories through graphic art and photography, memoirs and biographies, Omnibus has constantly evolved its list to challenge what a music book can be and this year we are releasing our first talking books. Among Omnibus Press’ earliest acquisitions was Rock Family Trees, by acclaimed music archivist Pete Frame, three editions of which remain in print to this day and have been the basis of two BBC TV series. Over the following decades Omnibus published many best-selling, definitive biographies on some of rock’s greatest superstars. These include Morrissey & Marr: The Severed Alliance by Johnny Rogan, Dear Boy: The Life Of Keith Moon by Tony Fletcher, Uptight: The Velvet Underground Story by Victor Bockris, Catch A Fire: The Life of Bob Marley by Timothy White, Stevie Nicks - Visions, Dreams & Rumours by Zoë Howe, Without Frontiers The Life And Music Of Peter Gabriel by Daryl Easlea and Under The Ivy: The Life & Music of Kate Bush and George Harrison: Behind The Locked Door, both by Graeme Thomson, all of which are regularly cited by magazines and critics as being amongst the finest rock biographies ever published. More recently Omnibus has published titles including That’s Entertainment: My Life In The Jam by Rick Buckler, Supersonic, a collection of photographs of Oasis and their cover art by Michael Spencer Jones, Mods: The New Religion by Paul ‘Smiler’ Anderson, Teenage Kicks: My Life As An Undertone by Michael Bradley and The Thunder Story, which is already into its second printing. Last year Omnibus Press released Wyatt at the Coyote Palace, Kristin Hersh’s tenth solo album, their first music release. Omnibus also distribute the enormously successful Rare Record Price Guide, produced by Record Collector magazine. Among the highlights of Omnibus Press’ 2017 schedule are histories of rock and pop on British television, the first investigation of Thurston Moore’s discography, told through the words of his collaborators, an examination of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and the culture surrounding it, fifty years on, the autobiography of Damo Suzuki, the new title from bestselling mod author Paul ‘Smiler’ Anderson, the ultimate recital of The Monkees saga and a biography of Slade, one of Britain’s best-loved bands. Omnibus Press - 180x220mm - 2017 Q1 Catalogue v11.indd 2 24/02/2017 14:51 OMNIBUS PRESS 2017 CATALOGUE NEW TITLES Page 4 HAVE YOU MISSED? Page 26 ROCK Page 30 THE BEATLES Page 39 POP Page 41 PUNK Page 46 SUBCULTURES Page 47 GRAPHIC NOVELS Page 47 PHOTOGRAPHY Page 48 CLASSICAL Page 50 RHINEGOLD Page 51 OTHER Page 52 THE LITTLE BLACK SONGBOOK Page 53 INDEX Page 54 CONTACTS Page 58 Omnibus Press - 180x220mm - 2017 Q1 Catalogue v11.indd 3 24/02/2017 14:51 NEW RELEASES Leonard Cohen Everybody Knows Harvey Kubernik 224pp 275x215mm OP57068 Print ISBN 9781785584367 Paperback £14.99 03.02.17 Harvey Kubernik charts Leonard Cohen’s extraordinary career in detail, placing his literary and musical achievements within the context of his life in this lavishly illustrated, and definitive, update of the 5000 selling hardback edition. From his beginnings as a writer and poet, through his classic albums of the sixties and seventies up to his triumphant recent tours, every stage of Cohen’s remarkable life is expertly analysed. Includes more than 200 photos and the thoughts, memories and ABOUT THE AUTHOR… comments of those who have both worked with him and the many who have been inspired by this most unique of artists. Harvey Kubernik is a writer, editor and journalist whose work has appeared in, Melody Maker, Crawdaddy!, Musician, Goldmine, MIX, the Los Angeles Times and MOJO. The author of several books, his latest, Canyon of Dreams: The Magic and the Music of Laurel Canyon was described by one reviewer as ‘one of the best books on rock ever written’. A former A&R man for MCA records, in the past 40 years he has appeared in and produced countless music documentaries, written extensively on Leonard Cohen, and interviewed him several times. 4 Omnibus Press - 180x220mm - 2017 Q1 Catalogue v11.indd 4 24/02/2017 14:51 NEW RELEASES Stevie Nicks Visions Dreams & Rumours Zoë Howe 432pp 3 x 8pp photos 234x156mm OP57013 Print ISBN 9781785583421 eBook ISBN 9781783231287 Paperback £16.99 13.02.17 Born Stephanie Lynn Nicks in Arizona in 1948, Stevie Nicks’ musical influence is almost unparalleled in modern times. In this completely updated paperback version of her 2014 bestselling hardback Stevie Nicks: Visions, Dreams and Rumours, award winning author Zoë Howe celebrates the phenomenal life story of a music icon and artistic visionary, and is a must read for fans old and new. Stevie Nicks: Visions, Dreams and Rumours takes the reader on a candid journey of intense highs and lows in both her career and her personal life from childhood, through phenomenal commercial success as a member of Fleetwood Mac, and then into an award winning solo career. It features exclusive interviews with many of Nicks’ collaborators and peers, and brings the story bang up to date in time for her recent announcement that she will join old friend Tom Petty on the bill at British ABOUT THE AUTHOR… Summer Time 2017, in Hyde Park on 9th July. Zoë Howe is a writer, musician and visual Stevie Nicks: Visions, Dreams and Rumours also coincides with the 40th artist based in Essex. Her books include Lee Brilleaux – Rock ‘n’ Roll Gentleman, a anniversary of the release of Rumours on February 4th 1977. Fleetwood biography of the celebrated Dr Feelgood Mac’s Grammy Award winning 11th studio album is widely acclaimed frontman, Barbed Wire Kisses – The Jesus as one of the biggest records of all time in terms of musical influence, and Mary Chain Story, Typical Girls? The Story Of The Slits, How’s Your Dad? Living In with current global sales in excess of 45 million. Edge of Seventeen - the The Shadow of a Rock Star Parent, Florence third single taken from Nicks’ 1981 debut solo album Bella Donna - + The Machine – An Almighty Sound and celebrates the 35th anniversary since its release in February 1982. Wilko Johnson – Looking Back At Me. 5 Omnibus Press - 180x220mm - 2017 Q1 Catalogue v11.indd 5 24/02/2017 14:51 NEW RELEASES Blondie Parallel Lives Dick Porter & Kris Needs 320pp 3 x 8pp photos 234x156mm OP56958 Print ISBN 9781785582943 eBook ISBN 9780857127808 Paperback £16.99 13.02.17 Drawing upon extensive new first hand interview material from Debbie Harry, Chris Stein and many other significant players in the band’s long history, a huge archive of personal materials and unpublished interviews, Blondie: Parallel Lives is the definitive eye-witness account of the group’s long and often tumultuous existence. Beginning with their childhoods, backgrounds and influences, the book is also an evocative homage to the unique New York scene of the 1970s. It charts the development of Blondie to their massive popular success and eventual break up. Blondie: Parallel Lives recounts how Debbie Harry set aside her career ABOUT THE AUTHOR… to Nurse Chris Stein through a debilitating and life-threatening genetic Kris Needs is a former NME journalist and disease, the groups 1997 reformation and renaissance with the No Exit Zigzag editor. He has written several rock biographies including Joe Strummer and album, the controversy surrounding their induction into the Rock ‘n’ Roll the Legend of the Clash, The Scream: The Hall of Fame in 2006, the release of Panic of Girls in 2012 and brings Music Myths and Misbehaviour of Primal us up to date with The release of Ghost of Download and their 40th Scream and Trash! The Complete New York Dolls. anniversary tour. Co-author Kris Needs has established a friendship with Blondie that endures to this day. As a trusted confidante, he now He is a regular contributor to Record recounts the full story. Collector and Mojo. Dick Porter has written several rock biographies including Trash! and The Cramps: A Short History of Rock ‘n’ Roll Psychosis. He is a regular contributor to the award winning Mudkiss website. 6 Omnibus Press - 180x220mm - 2017 Q1 Catalogue v11.indd 6 24/02/2017 14:51 NEW RELEASES Rock and Pop on British Television: The Story of Rock and Pop on British Television Jeff Evans 288pp X3 col pic 234x156mm OP56254 Print ISBN 9781783057955 eBook ISBN 9781783237777 Hardback £20.00 13.02.17 Published on the 60th anniversary of the first transmission of Six-Five Special and less than a week before The BRITs Rock & Pop on British TV tells the story of how music and television became mutually dependent, and a time when genuinely subversive moments in music history were broadcast directly into people’s living rooms. With talent shows The X Factor and The Voice UK continuing to prove that music is still very much a visual medium often best enjoyed as a collective experience, Rock & Pop on British TV is the definitive read on the importance of music on telly from its inception to the present day. ABOUT THE AUTHOR… Jeff Evans is author of The Penguin TV Companion (four editions), among more than 20 books.