International Who's Who in Popular Music 2015 (17th edition)

This well-established music reference work started life in 1996, and has now reached its 17th edition. Many earlier editions are still available in the book market, including Amazon. It provides information on over 7,000 people in the music business – performers or artists, instrumentalists, writers, producers and managers. It straddles many musical fields and genres – pop and rock, folk and jazz, rap and dance, world and country music, blues and gospel, musical theatre and easy listening.

Entries are alphabetical in short-entry format (between 500 and 2,000 words on average, longer for some like Paul McCartney, Michael Nyman, Ennio Morricone...