Omnibus Press 2017-18 Featuring Loudon Wainwright III, Jimmy Webb, Robert Forster, Leonard Cohen, Pamela Des Barres, Ian Hunter, Mod Art & a Few of Our Other Favourite Things. 2017/18 CATALOGUE 2017/18 CATALOGUE CONTENTS For over forty years Omnibus Press has been publishing the stories that matter from the music NEW TITLES 4 world. Omnibus Press is the World’s/Europe’s GIFT GUIDE 26 largest specialist publisher devoted to music writing, with around thirty new titles a year, with a backlist ROCK 28 of over two hundred and seventy titles currently in THE BEATLES 37 print and many more as digital downloads. POP 39 Omnibus Press covers pop, rock, classical, metal, country, psyche, prog, electronic, dance, PUNK & ALTERNATIVE 41 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 METAL 44 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 GRAPHIC NOVELS 45 Pete Frame, three editions of which remain in print to this day and have been the basis of two PHOTOGRAPHY 46 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 CLASSICAL 48 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, RHINEGOLD 49 Stevie Nicks - Visions, Dreams & Rumours by Zoë Howe, Without Frontiers The Life And Music OTHER 50 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 THE LITTLE BLACK SONGBOOK 51 magazines and critics as being amongst the finest rock biographies ever published. INDEX 52 More recently Omnibus has published titles including That’s Entertainment: My Life In The Jam CONTACTS 56 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. NEW RELEASES NEW RELEASES The Byrds Grant & I Requiem for the Inside and Outside The Timeless: Volume 2 Go-Betweens Johnny Rogan Robert Forster 1232pp 352pp 235x158mm 234 x 156 mm JR400202 OP57409 Print ISBN 9789529540952 Print ISBN 9781785585845 Hardback £30.00 Paperback £16.99 17.07.17 24.08.17 One of the most ambitious and expansive rock About the Author… The 1980s songwriting partnership of McLennan/ About the Author… biographies ever written, Requiem For The Forster was a little like an Australian Lennon/ Johnny Rogan is the best-selling Robert Forster is an Australian Timeless, Volume 2 continues this epic study of author of Morrissey & Marr: The McCartney. The pair wrote all the band’s singer-songwriter, best known for his the Byrds. Rogan’s previous Byrds book was Severed Alliance, which received distinctively original material and, like their work with songwriting partner Grant highly acclaimed (“This is at least the best various music biography of the more famous counterparts, shared the credits McLennan, with whom he co-founded year awards and has been in print The Go-Betweens. biography of a group ever written” Q). continuously for over 25 years. and alternated on lead vocals. In 2005, Robert Forster started writing The second volume focuses on the solo careers of the deceased He has also written epic, major Grant & I is an extraordinary portrait of an intense, creative, a regular column for The Monthly, biographies on Neil Young, Van an Australian magazine covering the members of the band, including co-founder and songwriter Morrison and Ray Davies. The sometimes fraught friendship that represented a genuine arts, politics and society, receiving The Gene Clark, cult figure Gram Parsons and the acclaimed groundbreaking Starmakers & meeting of artistic minds. In Grant & I, the reader is given Pascall Award for Critical Writing. On guitarist Clarence White. Svengalis: The History Of British Pop a front-row seat at the sessions that produced an incredibly 6th May 2006 Grant McLennan died, Management was adapted for a six- bringing an end to The Go-Betweens. week BBC series. prolific and diverse song catalogue. This is Forster’s third book. Taken as a whole, these obituaries confirm that the Byrds were not simply a legendary group but something closer to a Just as The Go-Betweens were like no other music group, so movement that defined LA rock. this book is like no other music memoir. It is wise and witty, poignant, insightful, self-deprecating and knowledgeable. Please contact Johnny Rogan for rights information. Robert Forster is as natural a storyteller and prose writer as he is a songwriter, and Grant & I is an unforgettable ride. Please contact Penguin Australia for rights information. 4 5 NEW RELEASES NEW RELEASES The Wines and The Cake and Wineries of Oregon’s The Rain Willamette Valley A Memoir From Pinot Noir to Chardonnay Jimmy Webb 320pp 234 x 156mm Nick Wise & Linda Sunshine OP57464 OP57332 Print ISBN 9781785586187 Print ISBN 9781785585777 eBook ISBN 9781783239290 Paperback £20.00 Hardback £20.00 30.08.17 31.08.17 Following the success of their books Celebrity About the Author… Featuring exclusive UK Content. Jimmy Webb is About the Author… Vineyards (2013) and California Celebrity a musical legend. The only artist ever to have Nick Wise earned a Bachelor’s Jimmy Webb is the only artist to ever Vineyards (2016), authors Nick Wise and Linda degree in wine at the Wine & Spirit received Grammy Awards for music, lyrics, receive a Grammy Award for music, Sunshine have turned their attention to Oregon’s Education Trust in London, worked and orchestration, his songs have touched lyrics and orchestration. Inducted Willamette Valley to reveal the fascinating tale for various English wine and spirit generations and defined artists across decades. into the Songwriters Hall of Fame companies, and both created and and achieving the NAS Lifetime of how this region went from farming nuts and sold a corporate champagne company Recorded by artists from The 5th Dimension achievement award amongst many Christmas trees to the ever elusive Pinot Noir called casevalue.com. to Glen Campbell, to Isaac Hayes, to Harry other prestigious titles including grape, and evolved into a billion-dollar wine Belafonte, to James Brown, to Nick Cave, to (according to BMI) his song ‘By the In 2013, he wrote Celebrity Vineyards Time I Get to Phoenix’ being the third empire in less than 50 years. (Welcome Books), distributed by Waylon Jennings, to Harry Nilsson, to Hank most performed song for fifty years Random House. He currently lives Marvin, to Sparklehorse, to Scott Walker, Webb’s between 1940 and 1990! Today Oregon is recognized as one of the world’s premier in London. songs are one of the pillars of the cultural producers of Pinot Noir wines and Chardonnay is thought Linda Sunshine is the author of more landscape. to be next. than 50 books, including How NOT to Turn Into Your Mother, She’s Just The Cake and The Rain is Jimmy Webb’s memoir, touching THAT Into You and The New York In addition to extensive tasting notes, you’ll find hotel and Times bestseller, Plain Jane Works on his background, musicianship, growth as a songwriter and restaurant recommendations for your own tour of the valley, Out. She has written extensively about his many friendships and collaborations with the likes of Frank along with a map of all the featured wineries. Hollywood and the making of feature Sinatra, John Lennon, Harry Nilsson and Elvis Presley. The Wall films. She lives in Los Angeles. Street Journal called it “novelistic, perfectly plotted and quite Rights available, please contact Robert Lecker Agency for more possibly the best pop star autobiography yet written”. It is a information. spectacular book. With content exclusive to this UK edition. Please contact St Martin’s Press for rights information. 6 7 NEW RELEASES NEW RELEASES Leonard Cohen Liner Notes All The Answers Are Here On Parents, Children, Exes, Excess, Decay & A Few More Of My Favourite Things Leonard Cohen & Malka Marom Loudon Wainwright III 288pp 288pp 248 x 170mm & Illus throughout 234 x 156mm OP57057 OP57563 Print ISBN 9781785584350 Print ISBN 9781785588464 Hardback £25.00 Hardback £20.00 18.09.17 19.10.17 Here are the complete lyrics of Leonard Cohen About the Author… A memoir by the influential Grammy Award- About the Author… accompanied by Malka Marom’s intimate winning singer and actor — son of journalist Malka Marom began her career as a Loudon Wainwright III is an American portrayal of her friendship with Cohen, which folk singer in the popular duo Malka & Loudon Wainwright, father of Rufus, Martha, songwriter, folk singer, humorist, and spanned four decades. Joso, who were the first to bring world Lucy, and Lexie — a captivating meditation on actor. He is the father of musicians music to Canada. relationships and creativity from the patriarch of Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright, and Lucy Wainwright Roche; brother From the saving grace Cohen’s book The Spice-Box of Earth As a soloist, Marom has performed on one of America’s great musical families.