1001 SongsFrom 'Eight Miles High' to 'Empire State of Mind', from Mississippi to Mali and from Ella Fitzgerald to Elton John, 1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die picks through nearly a century of music to bring you an inspiring selection of some of the greatest recordings ever made. Each entry in this wonderfully browsable book tells the story of a great song. Find out what inspired the songwriter, what makes the track so enduring, which songs it influenced

author of One Day

Strong opposition from his form-mates forced Smithy to change his mind

a cold man with a striking resemblance to the Kaiser

Find out how she changed the face of nursing from a mostly untrained profession to a highly skilled and well-respected medical profession with very important responsibilities

Everyone has an idea

a heroin addict murdered an Emmy Award-winning choreographer in Manhattan

Jobs they couldn’t do individually (like catching a flying fish and painting a witch’s lighthouse) seem possible if they do them together

But when the situation takes a turn for the worse

he was not

Guided only by a series of notes that direct him to do the most inexplicable things-"Buy a small turtle and throw it into the lake"

Like Mastering the Art of French Cooking and The Joy of Cooking

sculptural modernism to timeless elegance