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Bowie Odyssey 74 by Simon Goddard 9781915841032
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.98Book by book, year by year, the ultimate literary trip through Bowie's greatest decade. Darkness looms in 1974. It could be the winter energy crisis. It could be The Exorcist. Or it could be the shock that Britain's biggest pop star, David Bowie, is... -
Beast: John Bonham and the Rise of Led Zeppelin by C. M Kushins
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $24.40The 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... -
XS All Areas by Francis Rossi
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.58Quo are the most successful band in British history after the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. From 1973 to the mid-80s they had a string of hits, including 'Down, Down', 'Rockin' All Over the World', 'Again and Again', 'What You're Proposing' - all... -
Before We Was We: The Making of Madness by Madness by Madness
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.83New 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... -
Fly Away Paul: How Paul McCartney survived the Beatles and found his Wings Lesley-Ann Jones 9781399721776
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $34.65'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... -
Bowie Odyssey 72 by SImon Goddard
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.98A new year for David Bowie means new clothes, new boots, new hair and a new name: Ziggy Stardust. To the gloomy blacked-out Britain of powercuts and three-day weeks he may as well be from outer space - if that's what it takes to make him famous, far be... -
A Furious Devotion: The Life of Shane Macgowan by Richard Balls 9781915841469
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $21.19The 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: $23.08Booksplease Price: $15.60'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,... -
It's So Easy (and other lies): The Autobiography by Duff McKagan
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.44Explosive autobiography of Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver bass guitarist Duff McKaganDuff McKagan was a co-founder of Guns N' Roses, with a 13-year tenure on bass in what was at the time the biggest band on earth. As well as pulling together the... -
The Book of Harry: A Celebration of Harry Styles by Charlotte McLaren
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.13A 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,... -
Another Day - Paul McCartney: Life Beyond the Beatles by Pete Chrisp 9781915343086
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $37.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915343086Author Pete ChrispFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Sona BooksPublisher Danann Media Publishing LimitedWeight(grams) 930gDimensions(mm) 272mm... -
The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones by Stanley Booth
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $21.59'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... -
Strange Things Are Happening by Richard Norris 9781399609760
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $34.65'The rainbow reaches right across the sky, for miles and miles, and has landed right in the middle of our field. My mother, Alison, is standing at the beginning. I'm sure it's a beginning, rather than the end, as there's no pot of gold in sight. The... -
Happiness Becomes You: A guide to changing your life for good by Tina Turner 9780008398637
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $26.90'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: $39.88Booksplease Price: $28.64Celebrate 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... -
Sinatra: The Chairman by James Kaplan
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.20Just in time for the Chairman's centennial, the endlessly absorbing sequel to James Kaplan's bestselling Frank: The VoiceFinally the definitive biography that Frank Sinatra, justly termed 'The Entertainer of the Century,' deserves and requires. Like... -
Britpop!: Cool Britannia And The Spectacular Demise Of English Rock by John Harris 9780306813672
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $41.71Beginning 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... -
Spider from Mars: My Life with Bowie by Woody Woodmansey 9781509832507
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.74For many fans, David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust era remains the most extraordinarily creative period in his career. As a member of Bowie's legendary band at the time - The Spiders From Mars - Woody Woodmansey played drums on four seminal albums: The Man Who... -
Woody Guthrie: A Life by Joe Klein 9780571384297
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $21.59'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: $46.20Booksplease Price: $33.08The 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... -
Here Comes Everybody: The Story of the Pogues by James Fearnley
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.94October 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: $48.28Booksplease Price: $36.88It'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... -
Lemmy: The Definitive Biography by Mick Wall 9781409160274 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $5.33'Unflinching, forthright and full of wry humour as the man himself, and there's little praise greater than that' CLASSIC ROCK'Wall's vision of Lemmy as a Rock'n'Roll stalwart who made no concessions is vivid to the last' GUARDIANIn 'The Ace of Spades',... -
Lemmy: The Definitive Biography Mick Wall 9781409160274
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.16'Unflinching, forthright and full of wry humour as the man himself, and there's little praise greater than that' CLASSIC ROCK'Wall's vision of Lemmy as a Rock'n'Roll stalwart who made no concessions is vivid to the last' GUARDIANIn 'The Ace of Spades',... -
Through The Crack In The Wall: The Secret History Of Josef K by Johnnie Johnstone 9781916829046
RRP: $35.60Booksplease Price: $24.36Everything was just so intense. There was an alienation and awkwardness about Josef K, but that was actually very true to life for me. Listening today I find really difficult because it brings back so many memories, so many ghosts and characters from the... -
Freddie Mercury: The biography Laura Jackson 9780749956080
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $17.72**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... -
I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp: An Autobiography by Richard Hell
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.83From 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: $33.58Booksplease Price: $24.57LONGLISTED 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: $84.00Booksplease Price: $58.28The 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... -
Where's My Guitar?: An Inside Story of British Rock and Roll by Bernie Marsden 9780008356590
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.83'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: $55.63Booksplease Price: $38.28Vivaldi 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... -
Vinyl Countdown by Graham Sharpe
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $34.65'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... -
The Greatest Band That Ever Wasn't: The Story Of The Roughest, Toughest, Most Hell-Raising Band To Ever Come Out Of The Pacific Northwest, The Screaming Trees by Barrett Martin 9781087881539
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087881539Author Barrett MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 12mm -
Tim - The Official Biography of Avicii by Mans Mosesson
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.01The 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... -
Buzzin': The Nine Lives of a Happy Monday Bez 9781399605083
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.16At 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... -
Unrequited Infatuations: A Memoir Stevie Van Zandt 9781474622158
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.44'A wonderfully original take on a Rock and Roll autobiography' Paul McCartney'An inimitable Rock 'n' Roll life told as boldly as it was lived' Bruce SpringsteenWhat story begins in a bedroom in suburban New Jersey in the early '60s, unfolds on some of... -
Satchmo by Louis Armstrong
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $23.12"In all my whole career the Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in. It was the honky-tonk where levee workers would congregate every Saturday night and trade with the gals who'd stroll up and down the floor and the bar. Those guys... -
Remain in Love Chris Frantz 9781474615143
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.16THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'As the Brits say: I'm gobsmacked. I devoured this book... one of the most potent examples of living the dream' DEBBIE HARRY'A great drummer who has written a great book' BILL MURRAY'A revealing inside account of the highs and... -
Eagles - Dark Desert Highway: How America's Dream Band Turned into a Nightmare Mick Wall 9781409190691
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $28.88'This could be heaven or this could be hell...'So sings Don Henley on their biggest hit, 'Hotel California', and it is true that the Eagles story was one that blurred the ultimate Hollywood highs and subterranean LA lows beyond recognition. The band that... -
Wembley or Bust: Jeff Lynne's ELO by Jeff Lynne
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $50.44'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...