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YORKSHIRE publisher Great Northern Books was started in 1999 by renowned editor, writer and publisher David Joy.

As Mark Knopfler, Bruce Springsteen, Sting and dozens of other veteran rockers come together for a new record to raise money for the Teenage Cancer Trust, Rob Crossan looks back at the rich, if lyrically mixed, history of fund-raising singles

The lyrics to the unfinished A Girl Like You were discovered when Gerry’s wife Pauline handed in a photograph of her husband, which had hung in…

The Observer’s critics saw the ‘ordeal in Rome’ and now a new book reveals why it flopped

Tom Waits catalog boasts 17 studio LPs. 'Closing Time' was first released in 1973. But that's when the surprise hits.

A friend suggested I might bring a feminine twist to this review by imagining what it felt like to be Nick Drake’s mother. It was a startling thought. When I read artists’ biographies I tend to stand with them eye-to-eye, rather than conjure the perspective of an older generation. But the further we are distanced

Access to family papers sheds new light on the troubled singer-songwriter

This definitive study of the venerated singer-songwriter, who died at 26, examines his alarming unravelling and short life of artistic torment

Drake made three extraordinary albums – then died at just 26. Andrew Morton Jack's new biography asks: did anyone really know him?

Elizabeth Taylors all-consuming passion for co-star Richard Burton that threatened to torpedo the entire production of Cleopatra in 1963.