Books written by Nelson George

Where Did Our Love Go?: The Rise & Fall of the Motown Sound

This is the story of Tamla Motown Records, the Detroit hit factory that set the world dancing in the sixties.
Thriller: The Musical Life of Michael Jackson

Thriller takes us back to a time in 1982 when Michael Jackson was king of the charts, breaking the color barrier on MTV, heralding the age of video, and becoming the ultimate representation of the crossover dreams of Motown's Berry Gordy, ...
City Kid: A Writer's Memoir of Ghetto Life and Post-soul Success

Traces the author's rise from a youth spent in Brooklyn's Brownsville housing project to a Grammy Award winner and two-time National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, in an account that describes his early family life, the pop culture ...
The Plot Against Hip Hop: A Novel

. . If you love crime fiction and you love hip hop, this book is a must read.” —BookRiot “Part procedural murder mystery, part conspiracy-theory manifesto . . .
Best Music Writing 2008

... Bossa Nova Rosa Passos is often described as the heir to, or female equivalent of, João Gilberto, which is a way of ... Blame It on the Bossa Nova,” Eydie Gormé wailed, as Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 made a sedative of “The Look of Love ...
Seduced: The Life and Times of a One-hit Wonder

"Derek Harper is an r&b junkie whose desire since childhood has been to be a successful songwriter in the tradition of his idol, Curtis Mayfield. Indeed, music frees Derek from...
Thriller: The Musical Life of Michael Jackson

From legendary hip-hop and R&B journalist Nelson George, the definitive chronicle of the bestselling album of all time