CHRIS ROBERTS

As news of the 50-year-old pop superstar's demise spread around the world, there were tears, shock and surprise: a hero was dead. One of the greatest pop music icons the world has ever seen, Michael Jackson had millions of fans all around the world and had an undeniable influence upon fashion, music and popular culture. It contains: never-before-published photographs from the set of "Thriller" by hugely famous celebrity photographer Douglas Kirkland. It features photos by some of the greatest music photographers in the business, including Lynn Goldsmith, Kevin Mazur, Neal Preston, Laura Levine and Steve Schapiro. It includes family photographs of Michael, Debbie Rowe and their two children that have never before been published in book form.

Art-rocker, iconoclast, contrary noise merchant and junkie, Lou Reed has always been fascinating. Few people, if any, will love his entire body of work: Reed''s oeuvre is at times perverse and wilfully unlistenable, while at others he proves himself a master of melody and the songwriter''s craft. However, it is impossible to deny his standing as a colossus of the rock world: it''s a tribute to Reed''s standing that even punk rockers, with their scorched earth policy towards all pre-punk music, had a healthy respect and regard for Reed. Velvet Underground are one of the all-time greats, of course, yet in many people''s eyes, Reed has produced his best work solo, since the demise of that band. Despite this, no book has to date attempted to analyse and celebrate the fierce intelligence and literary merits of Lou Reed''s post-Velvet Underground music. This is that book.

Elton John, uno de los artistas más prolíficos y de mayor éxito comercial en la música pop moderna, ha sido galardonado con seis Grammy y ha vendido más de 300 millones de discos durante una carrera que abarca mas de medio siglo. Su Candle In the Wind 1997 continua siendo el single de mayores ventas de todos los tiempos. Justo a tiempo para su gira mundial de despedida, esta magnifica retrospectiva no oficialonmemora la increible vida y carrera del artista. Profusamente ilustrada, esta obra incluye recuerdos de archivo poco conocidos y fotografias que no se han publicado nunca. Abarca desde la infancia de Elton como prodigio del piano en el suburbio londinense de Pinner hasta sus primeras actuaciones en el West End y su fortuito encuentro y posterior colaboracion vitalicia con el letrista Bernie Taupin. El libro se remonta a la cancion con la que comenzo todo, 'Your Song', y recorre su ascensoeteorico al estrellato, los retos que afronto en el camino y su incansable trabajo por las causas beneficas, incluyendo la Elton John AIDS Foundation. Un recuerdo definitivo para todos los fans de Elton John.