Music

'..the news that Baritone Richard Suart has produced an account of Ko-Ko's Little Lists will be music to your ears. Beginning with a brief history of The Mikado, this hearty collaboration focuses on the way contemporary politics and society are freshly...

One of the most influential singers and songwriters of all time, Sam Cooke was among the first to blend gospel music and secular themes--the early foundation of soul music. He was the opposite of Elvis: a black performer who appealed to white audiences,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925988017Author Eric ReeseFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Eric ReesePublisher Eric ReeseWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 11mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781649528162Author James H McIntosh MbeFormat PaperbackPage Count 458Imprint Fulton BooksPublisher Fulton BooksWeight(grams) 608gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

ESinister UrgeE is the first in-depth career-spanning biography of heavy-metal musician and filmmaker Rob Zombie. Born Robert Cummings in 1965 Zombie is now as well known for his movies as he is for his music which he has released and performed both...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637610015Author Bruce SpizerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Imagine & WonderPublisher Imagine & Wonder

DJ Screw, a.k.a. Robert Earl Davis Jr., changed rap and hip-hop forever. In the 1990s, in a spare room of his Houston home, he developed a revolutionary mixing technique known as chopped and screwed. Spinning two copies of a record, Screw would "chop" in...

Sardonic, bitter, threatening, compassionate, gleeful, and most of all loud, 'Like a Rolling Stone' is much more than a song. Six minutes and six seconds in length, it was released by Dylan despite the received wisdom of the day as to what constituted a...

Simply put, Billy Boy Arnold is one of the last men standing from the Chicago blues scene's raucous heyday. What's more, unlike most artists in this electrifying melting pot, who were Southern transplants, Arnold-a harmonica master who shared stages with...

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NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe New York Times bestselling author and front man and rhythm guitarist of KISS grants fans an all-access backstage pass to his personal life and shows them how to pursue a rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle of their own, offering hard-won...

Marc Woodworth's book covers the album's long and unorthodox period of writing, recording, sequencing, and editing. It includes interviews with members of the band, manager Pete Jamison, web-master and GBV historian Rich Turiel and Robert Griffin of Scat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527273177Author Andy RobertsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Bassment PublishingPublisher Bassment PublishingWeight(grams) 250g

Waylon Jennings relates the story of his life as a country music star. His beginnings were poor but he became Buddy Holly's protege before sinking into drug abuse and 3 failed marriages. His success came when he met his present wife, Jessi Colter.Book...

1986, Mobile, Alabama. 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637610039Author Bruce SpizerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Imagine & WonderPublisher Imagine & Wonder

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812981155Author Jay-ZFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 919gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 188mm *...

We've sort of flirted with greatness, R.E.M.'s Peter Buck admitted. But we've yet to make a record as good as Big Star's Third. Although Big Star were together for less than four years and had little commercial success, the influence of their three...

'I always thought I would get into painting, but I got waylaid by rock 'n' roll. Finally, I thought, "Now's the time." As soon as I was in a situation where I could be alone and paint without any interruptions, I just couldn't stop.' - Chrissie Hynde ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781574670721Author Robert RimmFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Amadeus PressPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 717gDimensions(mm) 228mm *...

The second volume of Sergey Prokofiev's recently uncovered Diaries covers the years 1915 to 1922. It describes in detail the genesis and the problematic path to performance of major works in his canon, and the life-changing experiences of living in...

On Bowie is a thoughtful and loving meditation on the life of the late David Bowie that explores his creative legacy and the enduring and mutual connection he enjoyed with his fansInnovative. Pioneering. Brave. Until his death in January 2016, David...

A New Yorker Best Book of the YearThe remarkable life of violinist and teacher Shinichi Suzuki, who pioneered an innovative but often-misunderstood philosophy of early childhood education-now known the world over as the Suzuki Method.The name Shinichi...

Paul Gemignani is one of the titans of the modern musical theater industry. Serving as musical director for more than forty Broadway productions since 1971, his collaborations with Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, John Kander, Fred Ebb, Hal Prince,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847711649Author Aubrey MaloneFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa

The Biographic series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey all of...

Everybody knows the hits of 1984-pop music's greatest year. From "Thriller" to "Purple Rain," "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" to "Like a Virgin," "Hello" to "Against All Odds," "Sister Christian" to "Love Is a Battlefield," "What's Love Got to Do with It"...

Most people know that Bob Marley (1945-1981) was a singer-songwriter who popularised reggae music and whose Jamaican culture and Rastafarian beliefs have attained worldwide influence. What, perhaps, they don't know is that his music inspired 7,000...

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Joel McIver's acclaimed Black Sabbath biography, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, concluded in 2011 that its subjects were at a crossroads. Could Ozzy, Tony, Geezer and Bill manage after over 40 years in business to get back together one more time? After all, the...

In the space of just five years, Twice have taken the K-Pop world by storm. With hundreds of millions of views on YouTube, a sell-out world tour and record-breaking album sales under their belts, Twice have well and truly earned their place in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781601451057Author Andrew, MeansFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Booklocker Inc.,USPublisher Booklocker Inc.,USWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250800145Author Craig BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 137mm * 26mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859655194Author Mike EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd

Mstislav Rostropovich, internationally recognised as one of the world's finest cellists and musicians, has always maintained that teaching is an important responsibility for great artists. Before his emigration in 1974 from Russia to the West,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770413481Author Neil PeartFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995617605Author Mark McAvoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint South Bank PressPublisher South Bank PressWeight(grams) 349g

During fifty years of publishing the "Bible of Rock and Roll," Jann Wenner conducted a series of interviews that are now regarded among the most important historical documents of rock. Some of these conversations broke headlines-in 1970, his interview...

Julian Budden, one of the world's foremost scholars of Italian opera and author of a monumental three-volume study of Verdi's works, now offers music lovers a major new biography of one of the giants of Italian opera, Giacomo Puccini. Blending astute...

'Anyone with the smallest interest in composition - not just concertos but novels, buildings, lives, you name it, should read this absorbing, spiky, dazzling book.' Adam Thirwell, TLS Books of the Year Harrison Birtwistle is recognised worldwide as one...