Music

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306874932Author Rob HalfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm *...

In this electrifying autobiography, Rik stands naked in front of his vast legions of fans and disciples and invites them to take communion with the blood he has spilled for them during his thirty year war on show business. He invented...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913231149Author Harry HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Velocity PressPublisher Velocity Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781499656251Author Henry Edward KrehbielFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

'A beautiful, intimate and hunger-inducing portrait of grief, race, heritage and coming to know yourself through what you eat.' - Stylist 'Books of the Year''As good as everyone says it is and, yes, it will have you in tears. An essential read for...

Steve Marriott, lead singer of the Small Faces and Humble Pie, had a voice coveted by Bob Dylan, Robert Plant, Roger Daltrey and David Bowie, amongst many others. All or Nothing, Simon Spence's oral history biography, is drawn from over 125...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550225488Author Neil PeartFormat PaperbackPage Count 460Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 764g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250105196Author Warren ZanesFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's Griffin

From the stylist behind David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust look, an electrifying peek behind the curtains during a legendary chapter of pop culture history.'Suzi Ronson was there as Bowie transitioned from suburban folkie to world superstar and genius. Few can...

***'Eddie was there very early doors. His story is of the many.' Paul Weller'A total riot! Takes me right back to the 70s. A Superb book' Mani, The Stone Roses'What a wonderful book. Mod isn't about what decade you lived in, it's about your attitude, and...

** CONTAINS NEW MATERIAL ** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLER & WINNER OF THE ATTITUDE BOOK AWARD 'Refreshing, inspiring and candid.' ATTITUDE 'I love this man so much. He was, and always will be, my knight in shining Westwood.' DAVINA MCCALL'This is a story...

The definitive chronicle of underground music in the 1980s tells the stories of Black Flag, Sonic Youth, The Replacements, and other seminal bands whose DIY revolution changed American music forever. Our Band Could Be Your Life is the never-before-told...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE'The story of a band that's always on the brink: of stardom, of madness, of brilliance, of disgrace' Miranda Sawyer, Observer'You begin to wonder why more biographies aren't tackled with such invention' Record...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913231354Author Mark Angelo HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Velocity PressPublisher Velocity Press

The saying goes that "God only gives you what you can handle." Well God didn't grow up in my atheist, Wiccan, fame-laden, oversexed, teetotalling, drug-free, cloistered, chaotic, non-communicative, workaholic, feral-feeling house.'For Moon Unit, daughter...

John Mayall's story is like no other in the annals of rock and blues. Born in the UK in 1933, he laid the foundations of British blues, nurtured a generation of future superstars and then took the music back to the land of its birth. This extraordinary...

Born the son of Scotland's last telescope-maker, Stuart Braithwaite was perhaps always destined for a life of psychedelic adventuring on the furthest frontiers of noise in MOGWAI, one of the best loved and most ground-breaking post-rock bands of the past...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250032898Author Stephen DavisFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint St. Martin's PressPublisher St. Martin's Press

'An indispensable compendium for Steely Dan fans' The WireAt its core a creative marriage between Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, Steely Dan are one of the defining and bestselling American rock acts of the last half-century, recording several of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908724939Author Richard MacPhailFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Wymer UKPublisher Wymer UKWeight(grams) 281g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911273745Author Clive SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Mango BooksPublisher Mango BooksWeight(grams) 499g

'Utterly absorbing and deeply affecting' - The GuardianAs a Spice Girl, TV talent show judge and Broadway star, Mel B a.k.a Scary Spice, has been a global icon since her twenties. But behind the glittering facade of fame, the struggles and pain of this...

*A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR | A GUARDIAN MEMOIR OF THE YEAR | A TELEGRAPH BEST MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR *'Chronicles, in enthralling detail, Madonna Louise Ciccone's path from terrifyingly ambitious trainee dancer to pop colossus, all the while...

The incredible first memoir by System Of A Down frontman Serj TankianWith nearly 40 million record sales, three albums topping the Billboard charts, a Grammy win and a legion of fans, System Of A Down are one of the biggest metal bands on the planet. At...

The first full-length narrative biography of Led Zeppelin's John Bonham, considered by many to be one of the greatest drummers in rock history, and a genuine wild man of epic (and sadly fatal) proportions. Beast: John Bonham and the Rise of Led Zeppelin...

On a lazy Sunday in 1954, twelve-year-old Jerry Schilling wandered into a Memphis touch football game, only to discover that his team was quarterbacked by a nineteen-year-old Elvis Presley, the local teenager whose first record, "That's All Right," had...

A rich and revealing examination of the legendary pop duo Soft Cell.Soft Cell are not your average pop band. Marc Almond and Dave Ball may be best known for the string of hits they released in 1981, but the powerful first phase of their collaboration...

'This book is a must for everyone interested in illuminating the idea of unexplainable genius' - QUESTLOVE Equal parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy of J Dilla, a musical genius who transformed...

'Mightily entertaining' - Heat People ask me how come I'm still alive, and I don't know what to say. When I was growing up, if you'd have put me up against a wall with the other kids from my street and asked me which one of us was gonna make it to the...

'Mightily entertaining' - Heat People ask me how come I'm still alive, and I don't know what to say. When I was growing up, if you'd have put me up against a wall with the other kids from my street and asked me which one of us was gonna make it to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061133909Author Rutger HauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint HarperPaperbacksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Winner of the 2010 Non-Fiction National Book Award Patti Smith's definitive memoir is an evocative, honest and moving coming-of-age story of her extraordinary relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe 'Sharp, elegiac and finely crafted'...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR "Ozzi's reporting is strong, balanced and well told...a worthy successor to its obvious inspiration, Michael Azerrad's 2001 examination of the '80s indie underground, Our Band Could Be Your Life...

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In his first and only official autobiography, music icon Elton John reveals the truth about his extraordinary life. Me is the joyously funny, honest and moving story of the most enduringly successful singer/songwriter of all time.'The rock memoir of the...

With nearly 1,500 Broadway performances, six Tony Awards, more than three million albums sold, and five Academy Awards, The Sound of Music, based on the lives of Maria, the baron, and their singing children, is as familiar to most of us as our own family...

The first comprehensive biography of an extraordinary English poet and composer whose life was haunted by fighting in the First World War and, later, confinement in a mental asylumIvor Gurney (1890-1937) wrote some of the most anthologized poems of the...

Leeds, 1980. Amid the violence and decay, the city was home to an extraordinarily vibrant post-punk scene. Out of that swamp crawled the Sisters of Mercy. Over the next five years, they would rise from local heroes to leading alternative band, before...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449911419Author Deborah SpungenFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 380gDimensions(mm)...

*BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* Benjamin Zephaniah, who has travelled the world for his art and his humanitarianism, now tells the one story that encompasses it all: the story of his life. In the early 1980s when punks and Rastas were on the streets...