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Before We Was We: The Making of Madness by Madness by Madness
RRP: £9.99£7.32New Foreword by Irvine Welsh.In Before We Was We Madness tell us how they became them. A story of seven originals, whose collective graft, energy and talent took them from the sweaty depths of the Hope and Anchor's basement to the Top of the Pops studio... -
Fast Forward: Confessions of a Post-Punk Percussionist: Volume II by Stephen Morris
RRP: £12.99£7.05Iconic drummer Stephen Morris presses play once more to the tune of the long-awaited second volume of memoirs . . .Poised on the brink of success, the dizzying heights of the unknown lying ahead, Ian Curtis had taken his own life. Grieving yet... -
Heavy Duty: Days and Nights in Judas Priest K. K. Downing 9781472128683
RRP: £11.99£8.22'A must for fans and rock buffs' The Sun'Fascinating read' PowerplayJudas Priest formed in Birmingham in 1969. With its distinctive twin-guitar sound, studs-and-leather image, and international sales of over 50 million records, Judas Priest became the... -
A Furious Devotion: The Life of Shane Macgowan by Richard Balls 9781915841469
RRP: £12.99£9.34The definitive biography of Shane MacGowan, fully updated to include Shane's final months and the response to his passing. Punk protagonist, legendary drinker, Irish musical icon. The complete and extraordinary journey of the Pogues' notorious... -
Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division by Peter Hook 9781471148330
RRP: £10.99£7.21'Genuinely funny; indeed, the story will keep you entertained for a very long time' Sunday Times Joy Division changed the face of music. Godfathers of the enduring alternative scene, they reinvented rock in the post-punk era, creating a sound - dark,... -
Double Talkin' Jive: True Rock 'n' Roll Stories from the Drummer of Guns N' Roses, the Cult, and Velvet Revolver by Matt Sorum
RRP: £18.99£13.13In Double Talkin' Jive legendary drummer Matt Sorum takes music lovers behind the scenes of a remarkable life in rock. Sorum, whose albums have sold tens of millions of copies around the world, provides an honest, engaging account of the highs and lows... -
The Book of Harry: A Celebration of Harry Styles by Charlotte McLaren
RRP: £10.99£7.46A celebration of Harry Styles - we Adore You! Harry Styles is a global superstar and fashion icon who has broken records, won awards and was the first solo man to grace the cover of Vogue, but he is also grounded,... -
Into The Valley by Richard Jobson 9781912782949
RRP: £12.99£9.34From school punk to modern day film producer, Richard Jobson has lived a full and colourful life. A harrowing incident as a child left him suffering with epilepsy but he was a mere fifteen-year-old when he launched the punk rock band The Skids in 1977... -
The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones by Stanley Booth
RRP: £14.99£10.06'Stanley Booth's book is the only one I can read and say, "Yeah, That's how it was"' KEITH RICHARDS'An epic, behind-the-scenes record of life with the greatest rock band in the world' ObserverThe True Adventures of the Rolling Stones is the greatest book... -
Happiness Becomes You: A guide to changing your life for good by Tina Turner 9780008398637
RRP: £18.99£12.71'Each of us is born, I believe, with a unique mission, a purpose in life that only we can fulfill. We are linked by a shared responsibility: to help our human family grow kinder and happier.' Tina Turner, one of the... -
Backstreet Boys 30th Anniversary Celebration Karah-Leigh Hancock 9780760382240
RRP: £18.99£13.75Celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Backstreet Boys with the ultimate tribute book-filled with amazing tour photography, band-member profiles, fan memories, and more. Since breaking into the scene in 1993, the Backstreet Boys have sold over 100 million... -
Britpop!: Cool Britannia And The Spectacular Demise Of English Rock by John Harris 9780306813672
£19.06Beginning in 1994 and closing in the first months of 1998, the UK passed through a cultural moment as distinct and as celebrated as any since the war. Founded on rock music, celebrity, boom-time economics, and fleeting political optimism, this was "Cool... -
Woody Guthrie: A Life by Joe Klein 9780571384297
RRP: £14.99£10.06'A really great book.' Bruce SpringsteenWith a foreword by Billy Bragg.The classic biography of the hugely influential American folk singer who inspired a generation of songwriters, including Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan.Few artists have captured the... -
A Very Simple Mind by Derek Forbes 9780857162625
RRP: £22.00£15.62The long-awaited autobiography by Derek Forbes, the Simple Minds legend known for those iconic spine-rattling bass riffs which we recognise in many Simple Minds' songs. This is his story. Derek Forbes started his musical career as a lead guitarist but... -
The Beatles 1963: A Year in the Life by Dafydd Rees
RRP: £25.00£18.90At the start of 1963, The Beatles were a successful local Liverpool band with one hit single; twelve months, two albums and the arrival of Beatlemania later, they were on the cusp of world domination. Featuring daily entries covering every pivotal... -
Here Comes Everybody: The Story of the Pogues by James Fearnley
RRP: £12.99£8.80October 1982: ABC, Culture Club, Shalamar and Survivor dominate the top twenty when the Pogues barrel out from the backstreets of King's Cross, a furious, pioneering mix of punk energy, traditional melodies and the powerfully poetic songwriting of Shane... -
Talking to Myself by Chris Jagger 9781911374183
RRP: £22.99£17.52It's Chris Jagger's turn to lift the lid on one of the most colourful and exotic periods in British cultural history as he unrolls an insider's tale of growing up among the bombsites and ration books of post-war Dartford, weaving through the glittery... -
Telling Stories: Photographs of The Fall Kevin Cummins 9781784728250
RRP: £30.00£20.70A Rough Trade Book of the Year'No one has captured the look of alternative UK music over the past half a century more tellingly than Kevin Cummins.' - Simon Armitage'Kevin Cummins is a true master in being able to capture the essence of music, the soul... -
Elvis and the Colonel: An Insider's Look at the Most Legendary Partnership in Show Business Greg McDonald and Marshall Terrill 9781250287496
RRP: £26.99£17.56Colonel Tom Parker, often reviled in his time, led the strategy from the earliest days of Elvis's career. Together, they built the most legendary partnership in show business. For the first time, Colonel Parker's story is told by an insider, Greg... -
Strange Fascination: David Bowie: The Definitive Story by David Buckley
RRP: £19.99£14.50The Sunday Times bestseller.David Bowie was arguably the most influential artist of his time, reinventing himself again and again, transforming music, style and art for over five decades. David Buckley's unique approach to unravelling the Bowie enigma,... -
The Captain's Apprentice: Ralph Vaughan Williams and the Story of a Folk Song Caroline Davison 9781784744540
RRP: £20.00£14.51***AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4******WINNER OF THE NEW ANGLE PRIZE FOR LITERATURE******LONGLISTED FOR THE HWA AWARDS***A beautifully written exploration of the world of Edwardian folk music, and its influence on the composer Ralph Vaughan WilliamsIn January... -
Freddie Mercury: The biography Laura Jackson 9780749956080
RRP: £11.99£8.22**THE DEFINITIVE, UP-TO-DATE BIOGRAPHY OF FREDDIE MERCURY**'An outstanding biography. . .a fitting testament to the creative genius' -- Daily Mail'Touches all manner of intriguing rock 'n' roll debauchery. . .fascinating reading' -- Time OutThis... -
Shooting Star: The Definitive Story of Elliott Smith by Paul Rees 9781788705820
RRP: £22.00£15.13A Resident Book of the Year'A masterpiece. Beautiful, tragic and immaculately researched.' - Matt Everett'Elliott was one of the best songwriters of our day and a formidable musician.' - Beck'There's an undercurrent of real sadness in a lot of his music ... -
I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp: An Autobiography by Richard Hell
RRP: £9.99£6.84From an early age, Richard Hell dreamed of running away. He arrived penniless in New York City at seventeen; ten years later he was a pivotal voice of the age of punk, cofounding such seminal bands as Television, The Heartbreakers, and Richard Hell and... -
Let's Make Lots of Money: My Life as the Biggest Man in Pop by Tom Watkins
RRP: £15.99£11.79LONGLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC PRIZE 2017The coke-fuelled mania behind pop's greatest successes Tom Watkins is the famously entertaining pop Svengali with killer commercial instincts and prodigious talent for design. He propelled the Pet Shop Boys,... -
The Beatles - All These Years: Volume One: Tune In by Mark Lewisohn 9780316729604
RRP: £40.00£27.75The Beatles have been at the top for fifty years, their music remains exciting, their influence is still huge, their acclaim and achievements cannot be surpassed. But who really were the Beatles, and how did they and everything else in the 1960s fuse so... -
You Send Me: The Life and Times of Sam Cooke by Daniel Wolff 9780753540022
RRP: £16.99£12.28When Sam Cooke was shot dead in a cheap motel in Hollywood, he was one of America's most successful pop stars. He left a world in which he had been born poor and had become very rich from the success of such records as "You Send Me" and "A Wonderful... -
Where's My Guitar?: An Inside Story of British Rock and Roll by Bernie Marsden 9780008356590
RRP: £9.99£6.84'A page turner...and then some!' Chris Evans 'An absorbing memoir.' Classic Rock Magazine 'A very enjoyable rock-n-roll memoir that is not just for fans, but for... -
Vivaldi by Michael Talbot 9780198164975
RRP: £26.49£18.09Vivaldi has emerged during the last decades as a truly major composer of the early eighteenth-century. Taking account of recent research, to which he himself has made important contributions-including the discovery in 1973 of an unknown set of violin... -
Serving The Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain Danny Goldberg 9781409182801
RRP: £10.99£7.61In early 1991, top music manager Danny Goldberg agreed to take on Nirvana, a critically acclaimed new band from the underground music scene in Seattle. He had no idea that the band's leader, Kurt Cobain, would become a pop-culture icon with a legacy... -
Vinyl Countdown by Graham Sharpe
RRP: £24.99£16.63'You hold in your hand a miracle. A book about a passion, and the hipsters, oddballs and old heads who share it, written by one of their number, albeit a ludicrously erudite one' - Danny Kelly A revival of interest in vinyl music has taken place in... -
Tim - The Official Biography of Avicii by Mans Mosesson
RRP: £12.99£8.70The intimate biography of the iconic DJ who was lost too soon. Tim Bergling was a musical visionary who, through his sense for melodies, came to define the era when Swedish and European house music took over the world. But Tim Bergling was also an... -
Set the Night on Fire: Living, Dying and Playing Guitar with the Doors Robby Krieger 9781474624190
RRP: £10.99£7.61'An attempt to retell an oft-told tale, this time informed by a desire to suck the hot air out of the more inflated earlier versions . . . this late-arriving history is perhaps the most reliable, and certainly the most entertaining, of all' GuardianFew... -
Buzzin': The Nine Lives of a Happy Monday Bez 9781399605083
RRP: £9.99£7.00At the height of his initial, turn-of-the-1990's infamy as the maraca-wielding dancer with 'Madchester' giants Happy Mondays, the pop-eyed Mark Berry, forever known to the world as Bez, was visibly a danger to society. He became the so-called Chemical... -
King of the Blues: The Life and Times of B. B. King by Daniel de Vise
RRP: £20.00£14.91'Without a doubt the most important artist the blues has ever produced' Eric Clapton'No one did more to spread the gospel of the blues' President Barack Obama'One part of me says, "Yes, of course I can play." But the other part of me says, "Well, I wish... -
The Road Beneath My Feet Frank Turner 9781472222039
RRP: £10.99£7.61*The Sunday Times Bestseller**Featuring an exclusive new chapter*On 23 September, 2005, at the Joiners Arms in Southampton, Frank Turner played his last gig with his hardcore band, Million Dead. On the laminates that listed the tour dates, the entry for... -
Somebody to Love: The Life, Death and Legacy of Freddie Mercury by Matt Richards
RRP: £10.99£7.69When Freddie Mercury died in 1991, aged just 45, the world was rocked by the vibrant and flamboyant star's tragic secret that he had been battling AIDS. The announcement of his diagnosis reached them less than 24-hours before his death, shocking his... -
Fly Away Paul: How Paul McCartney survived the Beatles and found his Wings Lesley-Ann Jones 9781399721776
RRP: £25.00£16.63'No other book has come close to capturing so well what Paul McCartney is about, nor described so vividly his mental breakdown when the Beatles separated, nor his need for Linda to nurse him back to good health...the book is packed with trivia, not for... -
Wembley or Bust: Jeff Lynne's ELO by Jeff Lynne
RRP: £35.00£24.04'It means so much to me to release this book during the 50th anniversary of ELO, and four years on from our Wembley Or Bust concert. It was an unforgettable night and I'm excited to relive it with all of you again inside these pages.' - Jeff Lynne In... -
Nirvana In Utero by Gillian G. Gaar
RRP: £9.99£7.89Though "Nevermind" was Nirvana's most commercially successful album, and the record that broke them - and the grunge phenomenon - internationally, "In Utero" has increasingly become regarded as the band's best album, both by the critics and the band...