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Dancing with Myself by Billy Idol
RRP: £9.99£6.61In this original memoir following Billy Idol from his childhood in England to his fame at the height of the punk-pop revolution, the iconic superstar tells the real story behind the sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll that he is famous for. A member of the punk... -
Why Dylan Matters by Richard F. Thomas
RRP: £9.99£6.84A GUARDIAN AND INDEPENDENT BEST MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 'At last an expert classicist gets to grips with Bob Dylan' Mary Beard 'Thomas's elegant, charming book offers... -
The Songs The Beatles Gave Away by Colin Hall 9781912101450
RRP: £19.99£15.50The Songs The Beatles Gave Away' was inspired by the 2009 BBC Radio 2 documentary of the same name on which Colin worked with/for Bob Harris and his wife, Trudie Myerscough-Harris. For his book, Bob and Trudie have kindly given Colin permission to access... -
Ashes to Ashes: The Songs of David Bowie, 1976-2016 Chris O'Leary 9781912248308
RRP: £25.00£17.63In 2015 Chris O'Leary published the first folume of his two-volume exporation, Rebel Rebel, of every song David Jones / David Bowie ever wrote, in chronological order. This is the second volume. Ashes to Ashes covers every single Bowie song, whether it... -
Gustav Mahler Jens Malte Fischer 9780300194111
RRP: £27.50£23.89The definitive biography of the celebrated composer, published in English to coincide with the centenary of his death A best seller when first published in Germany in 2003, Jens Malte Fischer's Gustav Mahler has been lauded by scholars as a landmark work... -
It's A Love Story by Shirlie Kemp 9781913406370
RRP: £8.99£6.65'From Wham! to Spandau Ballet, from success to chaos in the blink of an eye - Martin and I are two ordinary people who have been on an extraordinary adventure together. Through it all, our commitment to each other and to our family is what has always... -
Handel in London: The Making of a Genius by Jane Glover
RRP: £12.99£9.50'How refreshing, to read a book about music written for a music lover and not a musicologist. In clear, lucid, entertaining prose, Jane Glover makes those of us who lack musical literacy better understand and appreciate Handel's divinity.' - Donna Leon,... -
Bedsit Disco Queen: How I grew up and tried to be a pop star Tracey Thorn 9781844088683
RRP: £10.99£7.61I was only sixteen when I bought an electric guitar and joined a band. A year later, I formed an all-girl band called the Marine Girls and played gigs, and signed to an indie label, and started releasing records. Then, for eighteen years, between 1982... -
Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa by Haruki Murakami
RRP: £12.99£9.34An intimate conversation about music and creativity, between the internationally bestselling writer Haruki Murakami and world-class conductor, Seiji Ozawa. Haruki Murakami's passion for music runs deep. Before turning his hand to writing, he ran a jazz... -
Steely Dan FAQ: All That's Left to Know About This Elusive Band by Anthony Robustelli 9781495025129
RRP: £14.99£11.93Despite Steely Dan's popularity its ability to cultivate an ever-growing base of avid and loyal fans and its chart positions relatively little has been written about the group. ESteely Dan FAQE clears up some of the many misconceptions about the band... -
The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey 9781529038972
RRP: £9.99£7.48The global icon, award-winning singer, songwriter, producer, actress, mother, daughter, sister, storyteller and artist finally tells the unfiltered story of her life in The Meaning of Mariah Carey.It took me a lifetime to have the courage and the clarity... -
Face the Music: A Life Exposed by Paul Stanley
RRP: £10.99£7.86NEW YORK TIMES and INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER In Face the Music, Paul Stanley-the co-founder and famous "Starchild" frontman of KISS-reveals for the first time the incredible highs and equally incredible lows in his life both inside and outside the band... -
Michael Jackson: The Complete Story of the King of Pop by Lisa D Campbell 9780988413016
RRP: £24.99£24.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988413016Author Lisa D CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 702Imprint Apogee PublishingPublisher Apogee PublishingWeight(grams) 1012gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
Bunnyman: A Memoir: The Sunday Times bestseller Will Sergeant 9781472135032
RRP: £20.00£13.95The Sunday Times bestsellerA Daily Telegraph Music Memoir of the YearGrowing up in Liverpool in the 1960s and '70s, when skinheads, football violence and fear of just about everything was the natural order of things, a young Will Sergeant found the... -
One Voice by Christy Moore
RRP: £12.99£8.83Christy Moore is in every sense Ireland's folk hero. Mentor to a whole generation of Irish musicians, he holds a unique place in musical history. In l992 he broke all attendance records during 12 packed nights at the Point in Dublin. In the UK he... -
Billy Joel by Fred Schruers
RRP: £16.99£12.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804140218Author Fred SchruersFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 202mm... -
Metallica: Enter Night: The Biography by Mick Wall
RRP: £14.99£10.05'A flaming juggernaut of heavy-metal biog' GUARDIAN'This is the definitive account of heavy metal's biggest band of all' CLASSIC ROCK 'Truly enlightening' ROCK SOUND'ENTER NIGHT, Mick Wall's biography of Metallica confirms this grizzled veteran to be as... -
The Beatles - All These Years: Volume One: Tune In Mark Lewisohn 9781408705759
RRP: £19.99£14.55The 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... -
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: The Biography by Peter Doggett
RRP: £12.99£9.34Read the definitive biography of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, whose music and career illuminate the legacy of 1960s counterculture.Between 1969 and 1974, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young were the most successful, influential and politically potent rock... -
Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story by Jewel
RRP: £19.99£13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399185724Author JewelFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Blue Rider PressPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Back to the Boy James Arthur 9781473665866
RRP: £10.99£7.61'The thought behind this book is not just me wanting to tell my story in the standard autobiographical fashion but to create a kind of self-help book that includes my story. There are many things people don't know about me and maybe when they read about... -
Van Morrison: No Surrender by Johnny Rogan
RRP: £14.99£10.95Reclusive, difficult and enigmatic, Van Morrison is a gifted singer-songwriter and an endlessly complicated man. In Van Morrison: No Surrender, Johnny Rogan has produced a provocative and revelatory biography of the musician, analysing the sense of place... -
A Pirate Looks at Fifty by Jimmy Buffett 9780449005866
RRP: £16.99£12.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449005866Author Jimmy BuffettFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm)... -
Loving Amy: A Mother's Story by Janis Winehouse
RRP: £12.99£9.34Arguably the most gifted artist of her generation, Amy Winehouse died tragically young, aged just 27. With a worldwide fanbase and millions of record sales to her name, she should have had the world at her feet. Instead, in the years prior to her... -
Michael Stipe: The Biography by Rob Jovanovic
RRP: £10.99£7.61For the last quarter of a century Michael Stipe has been the lead singer of R.E.M, who from their humble beginnings toured and built a steadily growing legion of fans before breaking into the mainstream during the early 1990s. Today Stipe is one of the... -
Elvis Presley: The Biography; The Fame, Gospel and Lonely Life of the King of Rock and Roll by United Library 9789493311367
RRP: £10.99£7.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493311367Author United LibraryFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint United LibraryPublisher United LibraryWeight(grams) 82gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *... -
Giving It All Away by David Courtney 9781914529818
RRP: £14.99£11.11David's journey reads like a film script: a near-death experience at the age of nine, drummer in his own band at the age of 14, discovering international singer Leo Sayer, co-writing and producing many of his hits, a 37-year friendship with pop star and... -
The Tastemaker: My Life with the Legends and Geniuses of Rock Music by Tony King
RRP: £20.00£13.46The Tastemaker charts the singular life of a man who has been at the beating heart of music's most iconic moments for over sixty years and features stories of his time working with everyone from the Beatles to the Ronettes and Elton John to the Rolling... -
There and Black Again: The Autobiography of Don Letts by Don Letts
RRP: £20.00£14.91Don Letts - filmmaker, musician, DJ, broadcaster, social commentator, husband and father - has always defied conformity. A British-born son of Windrush parents, he seamlessly pivoted between London's punk and reggae scenes - earning his reputation as the... -
Aspects of Wagner by Bryan Magee 9780192840127
RRP: £10.49£7.66The man whom W.H. Auden called `perhaps the greatest genius that ever lived' has inspired extremes of adulation and loathing. In this penetrating analysis, Bryan Magee outlines the range and depth of Wagner's achievement, and shows how his sensational... -
Hotel California: Singer-songwriters and Cocaine Cowboys in the L.A. Canyons 1967-1976 by Barney Hoskyns
RRP: £14.99£9.96The story of a remarkable time and place: Los Angeles from the dawn of the singer-songwriter era in the mid-Sixties to the peak of The Eagles' success in the late Seventies. 'Hotel California' is an epic tale of songs and sunshine, drugs and... -
Living on a Thin Line Dave Davies 9781472289797
RRP: £12.99£7.72The all new, must-read memoir by legendary Kinks guitarist Dave Davies'BOOK OF THE DAY' - Guardian'This powerful tell-all from the Kinks guitarist puts the spotlight on his own bad behaviour, dalliances with the occult and his recovery from a stroke.' -... -
The Great Jazz Guitarists: The Ultimate Guide by Scott Yanow
RRP: £18.99£14.32B&W photos throughoutAbout the AuthorSCOTT YANOW has been writing about jazz of all eras and styles since 1975. He has written for virtually all of the significant jazz magazines, including Downbeat, Jazz Times, Jazziz, Coda, Cadence, and the Los Angeles... -
Paul McCartney: The Stories Behind 50 Classic Songs, 1970-2020 Mike Evans 9781787397378
RRP: £25.00£15.48Paul McCartney's songwriting output as a member of the Beatles, mainly with his co-writer John Lennon, has been exhaustively documented over the years. Now, taking 50 key songs from his five-decade career since the break-up of the Fab Four, Paul... -
The Punk Rock Politics of Joe Strummer: Radicalism, Resistance and Rebellion Gregor Gall 9781526148988
RRP: £16.99£12.67Joe Strummer was one of the twentieth century's iconic rock'n'roll rebels. As frontperson, spokesperson and chief lyricist for The Clash, he played a major role in politicising a generation through some of the most powerful protest songs of the era,... -
You Are Not Alone: Michael, Through a Brother's Eyes by Jermaine Jackson
RRP: £12.99£8.71This is an intimate, loving portrait of Michael Jackson, illuminating the private man like never before; now fully revised and updated to include the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray. 'Let the boy sing if he wants to sing!' said Mama Martha. 'You... -
Dayglo!: The Creative Life of Poly Styrene by Celeste Bell
RRP: £25.00£18.90Poly Styrene was a singer-songwriter, an artist, a free-thinker, a post-modern style pioneer and a lifelong spiritual seeker: a true punk icon. But this rebel queen with the cheeky grin was also a latter-day pop artist with a wickedly perceptive gift for... -
My Life: It's a Long Story Willie Nelson 9780751565478
RRP: £12.99£8.83Five decades in the music industry, 100 albums, 10 Grammys, the Kennedy Center Honors, and the Country Music Hall of Fame. Add high-profile activism for the legalisation of marijuana, the foundation of a ground-breaking philanthropic organisation, and a... -
Remain in Love Chris Frantz 9781474615143
RRP: £9.99£7.00THE 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... -
Myself When I Am Real: The Life and Music of Charles Mingus by Gene Santoro 9780195147117
RRP: £16.49£13.74Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.