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From One of the Greatest Bands in History Comes a Reminder to Never Give Up Hope. In this long-awaited memoir, complete with color photographs, songwriter and keyboardist Jonathan Cain takes us on an odyssey from center stage with Journey when all...

In the late 80s, three self-described "total freak" high school girls from Brooklyn found salvation in the sisterhood of friendship, refuge in the East Village. Soon after graduation, The Lunachicks signed with Blast First Records; Kim Gordon and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627310758Author Steve BergsmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.

Drawing upon extensive new first hand interview material from Debbie Harry, Chris Stein and many other significant players in the band's long history, a huge archive of personal materials and unpublished interviews, Blondie: Parallel Lives is the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524742317Author Dessa WanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

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Art Tatum defined the limits of the possible in jazz piano. Gunther Schuller called Tatum's playing "a marvel of perfection.... His deep-in-the-keys full piano sonority, the tone and touch control in pyrotechnical passages...are miracles of performance."...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788303989Author Marshall JeffersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) is the world's most frequently performed operatic composer, yet he is only beginning to receive serious scholarly attention. In Giacomo Puccini and His World, an international roster of music specialists, several writing on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578943848Author Paul SalleyFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Lotown PublishingPublisher Lotown PublishingWeight(grams) 998gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

A testimony in previously unpublished pictures of the greatest years of Bob Marley's career as seen in the 2024 film Bob Marley: One Love. "'Reggae got soul,' Toots Hibbert sang in one of his best-known songs, and Kim Gottlieb-Walker's remarkable...

Rob Halford's A-to-Z of Rock and Metal sees Rob to run his lively eye over all facets of the music and metal world. It's a lively encyclopaedia in which Rob shares his thoughts, memories and anecdotes on every area of the rock 'n' roll life, from tours...

'Steve beautifully communicates his vulnerabilities in his music -- he does the same in this powerful story' Niall Breslin As lead singer and songwriter of hugely successful Irish rock band Kodaline, Steve Garrigan plays to thousands of fans worldwide -...

ELO (The Electric Light Orchestra) were devised by Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne of The Move as a fusion of rock and contemporary classical-style music, combining orchestral instruments, guitars, keyboards and drums in the same line-up. Their aim was to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807011843Author Gayle WaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

It is 1965, and Swinging London is coming into its prime years. The streets are alive with mods and rockers, playboys and good-time girls, all revelling in the blossoming artistic, creative and cultural energies of the decade. Amid the colour and chaos...

A startling and important memoir about family and forgiveness, love and redemption For the first time, Stan Walker speaks with startling honesty about abuse and addiction, hardship and excess, cancer and discrimination, and growing up in a family where...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901927580Author Steve HanleyFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Route PublishingPublisher Route PublishingDimensions(mm) 216mm * 135mm * 40mm

A founder of contemporary social science, Max Weber was born in Germany in 1864. At his death 56 years later, he was nationally known for his scholarly and political writings, but it was the international reception of his oeuvre over the last forty years...

This book focuses on the genius of Smith's 1998 debut that remains his defining album. Many albums could be cited to support the claim that great suffering yields great art. Elliott Smith's "XO" should not be one of them. Smith's 1998 major label debut...

Rod Stewart will be 60 in less than two years' time - yet his popularity (and his determination to continue living the rock-star life to the full) is undimmed by the passing years. Since turning 50, life has been as turbulent as ever for him; marriage to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789464900385Author United LibraryFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint United LibraryPublisher United LibraryWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982122256Author Olivia Newton-JohnFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Mobile, Alabama, 1986. A fourteen-year-old girl is awakened by the unmistakable sound of gunfire. On the front lawn, her father has shot and killed her mother before turning the gun on himself. Allison Moorer would grow up to be an award-winning...

For Elvis, Christmas at Graceland was a time for family and friends, a respite from the road and the recording studio. It was a time to sing gospel songs around the piano and give out extravagant gifts. In this spirit, Christmas with Elvis is designed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780758214492Author Maxene AndrewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Kensington Publishing CorporationPublisher Kensington Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692980736Author a ReevesFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Half Pint PressPublisher Half Pint Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685890094Author Kurt CobainFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing

The first photographic celebration of the most famous recording studio in the world, publishing in its 80th year. Unprecedented access to the Abbey Road archive - from Edward Elgar to the Beatles, Kate Bush to Elbow the most famous artists in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439159750Author Mickey LeighFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 425g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949515039Author James CourtFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint New Haven Publishing LtdPublisher New Haven Publishing LtdWeight(grams)...

A story of a brilliant musician who prevailed against race and gender prejudices to become the first Black woman to be recognised as a symphonic composer and be performed by a major American orchestra in 1933.Book InformationISBN 9781736533406Author...

Scott Ian, rhythm guitarist and cofounder of Anthrax and author of I'm the Man, collects all of his craziest hard rock stories into one balls-to-the-wall volume. Access All Areas has tales of humor, excess, fun, debauchery, food, booze, and mayhem from...

An indelible and irresistible portrait of the crucial formative years of the legendary rock band KISS and the music scene they changed forever-culminating with the groundbreaking success of their classic 1975 album Alive! and the smash single "Rock and...

An expert and informative appraisal of all of Elgar's works - from his juvenilia to the unfinished 3rd symphony - by the author of the acclaimed Gerald Finzi. The new Diana McVeagh book on Elgar is first-rate, wrote Gerald Finzi of her earlier study...

At a time in rock and pop history where most things in music have been done before, few artists have proved as restlessly innovative over the past two decades as Beck. Since bursting onto the scene in 1994 with 'Loser', he has zigzagged his way across...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671705725Author Frank ZappaFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 503g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063251281Author Chris PayneFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

KEEP THE FAITH is Faith's first person account of life at ground zero of hip-hop's greatest generation. She'll share the truth about the love affair that changed her life, and the innuendo that rocked the hip-hop world to its core. From her passionate...

He's the Suffolk school drop-out who'a become Britain's hottest musical property. Ed Sheeran is the double Brit Award-winning singer-songwriter with a tiny guitar and a huge talent. But how did a young musician who described himself as a 'spotty,...