Music

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770415362Author Martin PopoffFormat HardbackPage Count 375Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316415293Author Jann S WennerFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 531gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 138mm *...

Sympathy for the Drummer: Why Charlie Watts Matters is both a gonzo rush-capturing the bristling energy of the Rolling Stones and the times in which they lived-and a wide-eyed reflection on why the Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band in the World needed the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999477649Author Phil WoodsFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Cymbal PressPublisher Cymbal PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

The long-awaited and wildly entertaining memoir of the star of stage and screen, the legendary Chita Rivera-three-time Tony Award-winner, Kennedy Centers honoree, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.She was born Dolores Conchita Figueroa...

Francis Davis's The History of the Blues is a ground-breaking rethinking of the blues that fearlessly examines how race relations have altered perceptions of the music. Tracing its origins from the Mississippi Delta to its amplification in Chicago...

Rich Cohen enters the Stones epic as a young journalist on the road with the band and quickly falls under their sway - privy to the jokes, the camaraderie, the bitchiness, the hard living. Inspired by a lifelong appreciation of the music that borders on...

Over 30 landmark interviews, accounts, and memoirs of The Beatles and their entourage, recording how they inadvertently became counter-culture's figureheads and changed society.The pieces include Paul Johnson's 'The Menace of Beatlism', Maureen Cleave's...

'Bowie, Cambo & All the Hype' traces the extraordinary and pivotal friendship between David Bowie and drummer John Cambridge, from the time when Bowie made his first major career breakthrough in 1969 to his death from cancer in 2016. John 'Cambo'...

Over the span of his illustrious five-decade career, George Benson has sold millions of records, performed for hundreds of millions of fans, and cut some of the most beloved jazz and soul tunes in music history. But the guitarist/vocalist is much more...

As half of celebrated eighties duo Soft Cell, Dave Ball's long career in music has been quite the ride - not least creating the instantly recognisable electronic sound that made `Tainted Love' a massive hit around the world. In his refreshing...

Known for the classics "Knock on Wood," "634-5789," "Raise Your Hand," "Big Bird," and "I've Never Found a Girl (To Love Me Like You Do)," among others, Eddie Floyd's career as a soul legend spans over sixty years. His professional singing career began...

Two years ago Bernie Nolan was given the initial all-clear after a courageous battle with breast cancer. Over the moon, Bernie set about rebuilding her life and making plans for the future. Then in the summer of 2012, she was in her bedroom getting...

Sophisticated Giant presents the life and legacy of tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon (1923-1990), one of the major innovators of modern jazz. In a context of biography, history, and memoir, Maxine Gordon has completed the book that her late husband began,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307353382Author Jonathan GouldFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 533gDimensions(mm) 201mm...

This updated edition of the first ever book about Queens Of The Stone Age takes in nine years of chaos. Since the first edition appeared in 2005, Josh Homme's band has undergone multiple line-up changes, toured the world and released two acclaimed albums...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627310604Author Jon E. GrahamFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.

The National Book Award-winning author of Year of the Monkey, Just Kids, and M Train offers a rare, intimate account of her own creative process "Devotion is short enough to devour at one enjoyable sitting and thought-provoking enough to deserve...

'A heartbreaking, myth shattering biography . . . Fiegel's fine, all-encompassing tome restores much of the great woman's dignity' MojoThe greatest white female singer ever' is how Boy George described pop icon Cass Elliot, the sixties diva who was at...

Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker is the first installment in the long-awaited portrait of one of the most talented and influential musicians of the twentieth century, from Stanley Crouch, one of the foremost authorities on jazz...

In 1999, as the end of an old century loomed, five musicians entered a recording studio in Paris without a deadline. Their band was widely recognized as the best and most forward-thinking in rock, a rarefied status granting them the time, money, and...

Outside his native France, the view of Serge Gainsbourg was once of a one-hit wonder lothario. This has been slowly replaced by an awareness of how talented and innovative a songwriter he was. Gainsbourg was an eclectic, protean figure; a Dadaist, poete...

The first in-depth biography of one of music's most fascinating, colourful and innovative characters. This book is the most comprehensive history yet of the life, music and cultural significance of the last of the great black music pioneers and the era...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780310208068Author Patrick KavanaughFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint ZondervanPublisher ZondervanWeight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143119395Author Rosanne CashFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

The blazing rock opera of the greatest drummer of all-time, Jim Gordon, from the legendary Wrecking Crew to redefining rock on the Seventies’ biggest hits and outrageous tours, and ultimately to the most shocking crime in rock history—a story of musical...

Jim Cregan's career as a rock guitarist, songwriter and producer has spanned over fifty years, touring and recording albums with stars such as Elton John, Cat Stevens, Family, Willie Nelson, Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel, Joe Cocker, The Gypsy Kings,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615252391Author Greg PratoFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Greg PratoPublisher Greg PratoWeight(grams) 512gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061958809Author Tina TurnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

As a co-founder of The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers, Chris Hillman is arguably the primary architect of what's come to be known as country rock. He went on to record and perform in various configurations, including as a member of Stephen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398401884Author Isobel P. WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Along with its long-lasting influence on music, art, fashion and culture, the punk explosion in the late 1970s also fuelled a thriving underground press. A physical representation of punk's DIY attitude, fanzines rebelled against established forms of...

Revelling in the off-beat and eccentric, Londoner Suggs takes us on a nostalgic adventure to explore the disappearing history of his extraordinary home town: from the sharp tailors of Saville Row to the sex traders of Bohemian Soho, by way of quaint and...

An intimate collection of fond memories, personal letters, good songs, and bad jokes from a true American legend."This is your old friend, Willie, sending a note to see how you're doing and to say I'm doing fine."In this series of short letters straight...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997205688Author Kevin HaskinsFormat HardbackImprint Cleopatra RecordsPublisher Cleopatra Records

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859655637Author Dave MarshFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770414839Author Templeman TedFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

George Michael is the single most played artist on UK radio for the last two decades. He has sold 100 million albums world-wide and had seven UK number one singles and albums. This paperback edition of the biography tells his story from the formation...

According to Eric Clapton, John Mayer, and the late Stevie Ray Vaughn, Buddy Guy is the greatest blues guitarist of all time. An enormous influence on these musicians as well as Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck, he is the living embodiment of...

In the spring of 1969, the inauspicious release of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band's "Trout Mask Replica", a double-album featuring 28 stream-of-consciousness songs filled with abstract rhythms and guttural bellows, dramatically altered the pop...