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Funkiest Man Alive: Rufus Thomas and Memphis Soul by Matthew Ruddick 9781496838407
RRP: $36.06$21.58Rufus Thomas may not be a household name, but he is widely regarded as the patriarch of Memphis R&B, and his music influenced three generations. His first singles in the early 1950s were recorded as blues transitioned into R&B, and he was arguably one of... -
The Book of Jose: A Memoir by FAT JOE
RRP: $30.96$19.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593230640Author Fat JoeFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
I'll Be There: My Life with the Four Tops by Duke Fakir 9781913172596
RRP: $25.80$18.95Spanning over decades, this is the remarkable, heartfelt memoir from Abdul 'Duke' Fakir, the last surviving member of The Four Tops. Amidst a backdrop of Detroit, I'll Be There features revealing anecdotes from the group's formation, their early days as... -
Ministry: The Lost Gospels According to Al Jourgensen by Al Jourgensen
RRP: $16.76$11.09Ministry: The Lost Gospels is both ugly and captivating, revealing a character who has lived a hard life his way, without compromise. Jourgensen, one of the most innovative and prolific artists ever to pick up a guitar, mandolin, harmonica, or banjo,... -
Dolly Parton: 100 Remarkable Moments in an Extraordinary Life: Volume 2 by Tracey E. W. Laird 9780760382967
RRP: $24.50$17.74Explore 100 remarkable moments in the extraordinary life of Dolly Parton with this illustrated retrospective of her most amazing achievements. Everyone's favorite country music star and American icon, Dolly Parton, has accomplished incredible things in... -
My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep's Prodigy by Albert "Prodigy" Johnson
RRP: $16.76$10.55From one of the greatest rappers of all time, the memoir of a life cut short, a revealing look at the dark side of hip hop's Golden Era...In this often violent but always introspective memoir, Mobb Deep's Prodigy tells his much anticipated story of... -
The Life of Elvis Presley by Charles L. Ponce de Leon 9780809016419
RRP: $19.34$15.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809016419Author Charles L. Ponce de LeonFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
She Begat This: 20 Years of the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill by Joan Morgan
$14.54A stirring and eye-opening celebration of the enduring legacy of one of the most acclaimed and influential albums of the 90s-The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.Released in 1998, Lauryn Hill's first solo album is often cited by music critics as one of the... -
All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono by John Lennon
RRP: $12.89$9.38The last major interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, conducted by New York Times bestselling author David Sheff, featuring a new introduction that reflects on the fortieth anniversary of Lennon's death.Originally published in Playboy in 1981 just... -
Out in L.A.: The Red Hot Chili Peppers, 1983 by Hamish Duncan 9781641608015
RRP: $34.77$24.92The Red Hot Chili Peppers were going to be a one-time act for a friend's album release party. Forty years later the funk rock band is arguably one of the best known and the longest running in the United States. Everything that happened in 1983 set the... -
A Cure For Gravity: A Musical Pilgrimage by Joe Jackson
$20.05Since the release of his first best-selling album Look Sharp in 1979, Joe Jackson has forged a singular career in music through his originality as a composer and his notoriously independent stance toward music-business fashion. He has also been a... -
Monsters of River & Rock: My Life as Iron Maiden's Compulsive Angler by Adrian Smith 9781947026872
RRP: $30.90$23.30Iron Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith got hooked on fishing as a child growing up in East London, plundering ponds and bomb craters on the Hackney Marshes for newts and sticklebacks, and catching perch from the Grand Union Canal while on outings with his... -
Keith Urban: His amazing journey from daydreamer to superstar by Jeff Apter
RRP: $21.92$14.94Four Grammys. 20 US Number Ones. A Hollywood marriage. Who wouldn't want to be Keith Urban?Keith Urban came from humble origins. His father worked at the local tip and Keith was a high school dropout. But Keith had a plan: conquering Nashville. 'It's my... -
Electri_City: The Dusseldorf School of Electronic Music by Rudi Esch
RRP: $24.50$18.07Just like Memphis and Rock'n'Roll, Dusseldorf is regarded as the Mecca for electronic music. The capital of North Rhine-Westphalia became the centre of an analog electronic movement from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. This is the oral account of the... -
Sellout: The Major Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994-2007) by Dan Ozzi
RRP: $25.80$21.84THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER, NOW FEATURING NEW INTERVIEWS WITH DASHBOAD CONFESSIONAL, CURSIVE, LESS THAN JAKE, AND MORE."Ozzi's reporting is strong, balanced and well told...a worthy successor to its obvious inspiration, Michael Azerrad's 2001 examination of... -
Rich Mullins – An Arrow Pointing to Heaven by James Bryan Smith
RRP: $20.63$15.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514007341Author James Bryan SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 348gDimensions(mm)... -
And A Voice to Sing With: A Memoir by Joan Baez 9781439169643
$21.36From the smoke-filled coffeehouse of the 1950s folk scene, where she first performed, to the racially tense South of the early sixties, bringing support to terrorized African-Americans with Martin Luther King, Jr. Joan has been involved with some of the... -
The Importance of Music to Girls by Lavinia Greenlaw
RRP: $12.89$8.64If I had not kissed anyone, or danced with anyone, or had a reason to cry, the music made me feel as if I had gone through all that anyway . . . the music attracted and repelled, organised and disturbed and then let us into the night, clusters of emotion... -
Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung by Min Kym
RRP: $14.18$10.02'All my life my Stradivarius had been waiting for me, as I had been waiting for her . . .'At 7 years old Min Kym was a prodigy, the youngest ever pupil at the Purcell School of Music. At 11 she won her first international prize. She worked with many... -
Handel in London: The Making of a Genius by Jane Glover 9781509882069
RRP: $32.25$23.25'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,... -
Taylor Swift The Brightest Star: The Life, Loves and Music of a Global Sensation by Michael Francis Taylor 9781912587551
$22.10Encyclopaedic in its scope, this is the ultimate tribute to the life and music of Taylor Swift. No need for glossy images here, the narrative says it all - a chronological account of her mercurial rise to fame; the stories that inspire the songs; an... -
In At The Sharp End (Stories From The Front Line Of The Music Business) by Ron McCreight
RRP: $14.18$12.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398464780Author Ron McCreightFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Prince: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations by Thane Prince
RRP: $16.76$11.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612197456Author PrinceFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
Richard Wagner: A Life in Music by Martin Geck
RRP: $39.99$34.48Best known for the challenging four-opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung, Richard Wagner (1813-83) was a conductor, librettist, theater director, and essayist, in addition to being the composer of some of the most enduring operatic works in history, such... -
The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier by Thad Carhart
RRP: $25.80$15.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375758621Author Thad CarhartFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows: Inside His Archive by Leonard Cohen
RRP: $43.85$29.40Previously unseen journals, letters, sketches and more from the vast personal archive of Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen is renowned the world over for his meditations on beauty, death, loss and the human heart. The objects, papers and artifacts from... -
Be Bad, Be Bold, Be Billie by Scarlett Russell
RRP: $12.89$8.57**THE PERFECT GIFT FOR BILLIE EILISH FANS** A celebration of Billie Eilish's refreshing outlook, creativity and independence. We all want a bit more Billie in our lives! Billie... -
One Two Another: Line By Line: Lyrics from The Charlatans, Solo and Beyond by Tim Burgess 9781472130310
RRP: $25.80$17.22A Rough Trade Book of the Year 'From lists to experiences and stories, there are no rules. A good song is a good song whoever writes it and however the writing happens.'Over the past three decades, Tim Burgess has cultivated a lyrical style that is equal... -
Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life by Robert Spaethling 9780571222926 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.34$2.95What was Mozart really like? Wild? Sublime? Responsible? Fun-loving? Bright? Foul-mouthed? Reading these sparkling new translations of Mozart's letters, we learn in his own words that he was all of these and much more. Here is the composer at his most... -
Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life by Robert Spaethling
RRP: $19.34$12.64What was Mozart really like? Wild? Sublime? Responsible? Fun-loving? Bright? Foul-mouthed? Reading these sparkling new translations of Mozart's letters, we learn in his own words that he was all of these and much more. Here is the composer at his most... -
Fool The World: The Oral History of A Band Called Pixies by Caryn Ganz
RRP: $24.50$17.56Pixies' career spanned just seven years before the pressures of the road and personality clashes tore the band apart. But in that time they became one of the pioneers of alternative rock and left a musical legacy that would inspire generations of... -
Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll by Peter Guralnick
RRP: $21.92$16.18Rock 'n' roll was born in rural Alabama, 1923, in the form of Sam Phillips, the youngest son of a large family living in a remote colony called the Lovelace Community. His father had a gift for farming, which was brought to an end by the Depression. His... -
Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me by Bernie Taupin 9781800960787
RRP: $21.92$17.26*THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER**A Times Best Music Book of 2023*'This is the most glorious of books. I am besotted by the life I never knew he had.' -Elton John'Every page of Scattershot is a delight, a joy, a name-dropper fan's delight. Divine. I... -
This Is It!: The Secret Lives of Dr. Conrad Murray and Michael Jackson by Conrad Murray 9780692741078
RRP: $27.08$18.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692741078Author Conrad MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Bruce Farr Creative PublishingPublisher Bruce Farr Creative PublishingWeight(grams)... -
What Is It All but Luminous: Notes from an Underground Man by Art Garfunkel
RRP: $21.92$14.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525564393Author Art GarfunkelFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf -
Permanent Damage: Memoirs of an Outrageous Girl by Mercy Fontenot
RRP: $25.79$17.49"I'm the Mae West of 1968."Mercy Fontenot was a Zelig who grew up in the San Francisco Haight Ashbury scene, where she crossed paths with Charles Manson, went to the first Acid Test, and was friends with Jimi Hendrix (she was later in his movie Rainbow... -
I'm Into Something Good: My Life Managing 10cc, Herman’s Hermits & Many More! by Harvey Lisberg
RRP: $25.80$18.95When 22-year-old accountant Harvey Lisberg heard the Beatles' 'Please Please Me', he had an epiphany: he could be Manchester's answer to Brian Epstein. He had a musical ear, a knack for numbers and a gambler's instinct for taking a punt. Within a year he... -
Britten by David Matthews 9781908323385
RRP: $12.89$9.11Benjamin Britten was one of the outstanding British composers of the 20th century. He shot to international fame with his operas, performed by his own English Opera Group, and a series of extraordinary instrumental works. His music won a central place in... -
Rapthology: Lessons in Life and Lyrics by Jermaine Scott a.k.a. Wretch 32
RRP: $14.18$10.02'Groundbreaking... Part memoir, part guide, this is a must-have.' Independent'A worthwhile tutorial.' Evening Standard"Poetry and rap come from the same family. They're brothers. Just because you're good at one doesn't necessarily mean you'll be good at... -
The Hag: The Life, Times, and Music of Merle Haggard by Marc Eliot
RRP: $32.25$24.78Merle Haggard was one of the most important country music musicians who ever lived. His astonishing musical career stretched across the second half of the 20th Century and into the first two decades of the next, during which he released an extraordinary...