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Thunder: Giving the Game Away by Joel McIver 9781785581373
RRP: £18.99£14.72One of Britain's most popular and enduring rock bands over thelast 25 years, with 18 Top 40 singles in the UK and a string of goldand platinum albums around the world, Thunder have opened up theirarchives for the first time for this lavish visual, oral... -
Process: Finding my way through by Lucy Spraggan
RRP: £20.00£14.05The chart-topping singer/songwriter's powerful story, told for the first time, in her own words.The must-read memoir from a musician who has seen the darkest side of fameAbout the AuthorLucy Spraggan shot to fame on the 2012 series of X Factor. Since... -
I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: The short and gilded life of Tara Browne, the man who inspired The Beatles' greatest song by Paul Howard
RRP: £12.99£9.26Few people rode the popular wave of the sixties quite like Tara Browne. One of Swinging London's most popular faces, he lived fast, died young and was immortalized for ever in the opening lines of 'A Day in the Life', a song that many critics regard as... -
The Captain's Apprentice: Ralph Vaughan Williams and the Story of a Folk Song by Caroline Davison 9781784744540
RRP: £20.00£14.29***AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4******WINNER OF THE NEW ANGLE PRIZE FOR LITERATURE******LONGLISTED FOR THE HWA AWARDS***A beautifully written exploration of the world of Edwardian folk music, and its influence on the composer Ralph Vaughan WilliamsIn January... -
Taylor Swift: The Whole Story by Chas Newkey-Burden
RRP: £9.99£6.64The full story of Taylor Swift's stratospheric rise to fame; all any dedicated Swifty needs to know about the pop superstar who's taking over the world A small-town girl with an incredible talent, and the strength to... -
Driven: Rush in the '90s and "In the End" by Martin Popoff
RRP: £18.99£13.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770415706Author Martin PopoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada -
Testimony by Robbie Robertson
RRP: £10.99£7.77Robbie Robertson's singular contributions to popular music have made him one of the most beloved songwriters and guitarists of his time. With songs like 'The Weight', 'The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down' and 'Up on Cripple Creek', he and his partners in... -
Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon
RRP: £10.99£7.32In Girl in a Band Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth and role model for a generation of women, tells her story. She writes frankly about her route from girl to woman and pioneering icon within the music and art scene of New York City in the... -
Zayn: The Official Autobiography by ZAYN
RRP: £22.00£16.62***NOMINATED FOR THE NME BEST BOOK AWARD 2017 *** The first and only OFFICIAL book from ZAYN, for his ultimate fans. Zayn's autobiography features exclusive, never-before-seen photographs alongside his story. -------------------------------- 'This book... -
Back to the Eighties by Martin Kemp 9780008586041
RRP: £22.00£14.31Ticket to the World is a joyous, nostalgic celebration of 80s culture from one man at the centre of it all. New Year's Eve, 1979. My family and I stand arm in arm around our Formica kitchen table,... -
Mozart in Italy: Coming of Age in the Land of Opera by Jane Glover 9781529059861
RRP: £25.00£17.03'You don't have to be able to hum Mozart to find this book utterly engrossing . . . I couldn't put it down' - Joanna LumleyAn expertly researched and vividly written account of Mozart's formative trips to Italy. At thirteen years old Wolfgang Amadeus... -
Miles: The Autobiography by Miles Davis
RRP: £14.99£10.59Miles: The Autobiography, like the man himself, holds nothing back. He talks about his battles against drugs and racism, and discusses the many women in his life. But above all, Miles talks about music and musicians, including the legends he has played... -
Bobbie Gentry's Ode to Billie Joe by Tara Murtha
RRP: £9.99£7.67July, 1967: It seems the entire country stopped to listen to a husky voice steeped in the simmering secrets of the South tell a tragic tale of teenage suicide. So much for the Summer of Love. "Ode to Billie Joe" knocked the Beatles' "All You Need is... -
Edward Elgar: Music, Life and Landscapes by Suzie Grogan
RRP: £25.00£17.62More perhaps than any other composer, Edward Elgar (1857-1934) has gained the status of an 'icon of locality', his music seemingly inextricably linked to the English landscape in which he worked. This, the first full-length study of Elgar's complex... -
The Captain's Apprentice: Ralph Vaughan Williams and the Story of a Folk Song by Caroline Davison 9781529115109
RRP: £10.99£7.77***WINNER OF THE NEW ANGLE PRIZE FOR LITERATURE******WINNER OF THE HWA NON-FICTION AWARD***A beautifully written exploration of the world of Edwardian folk music, and its influence on the composer Ralph Vaughan WilliamsIn January 1905 the young Vaughan... -
Defying Gravity: Jordan's Story by Jordan Mooney
RRP: £10.99£7.77The image of Jordan with her white shards of beehive and Mondrian make-up is one of the most iconic in pop culture. From the counter of Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood's taboo-busting shop on 240 King's Road, she helped shape a revolution. ... -
The Sound of the Machine: My Life in Kraftwerk and Beyond by Karl Bartos 9781915841193
RRP: £16.99£12.28A Rough Trade Book of the Year 2022 Some of the most beautiful, era-defining music has been co-composed by Karl Bartos. 'The Robots', 'Computer Love', 'Neon Lights', 'Tour De France' and Kraftwerk's 1982 number one single 'The Model' all contain... -
Love and Let Die: Bond, the Beatles and the British Psyche by John Higgs 9781399600170
RRP: £10.99£7.40'Smart, analytical and enormously good fun' Stuart Maconie, Mail on Sunday'Ingenious . . . conjures a whole cultural history of the past six decades' The Spectator'Strikingly insightful . . . page after page of glorious anecdotes' The i Newspaper'A book... -
To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse by Howard Fishman 9781035408863
RRP: £25.00£16.78ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARCHOSEN BY PITCHFORK AS ONE OF THE TEN BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF 2023ONE OF LOUDER THAN WAR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE PLUTARCH AWARD"It takes a great journalist to find the stories behind the... -
That Close by Suggs 9780857389558 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.40The amazing life of Madness frontman and national treasure, SuggsSuggs is one of pop music's most enduring and likeable figures. Written with the assured style and wit of a natural raconteur, this hugely entertaining and insightful autobiography takes... -
Easily Slip into Another World by Henry Threadgill
RRP: £27.00£17.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524749071Author Henry ThreadgillFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf -
That Close by Suggs
RRP: £10.99£7.40The amazing life of Madness frontman and national treasure, SuggsSuggs is one of pop music's most enduring and likeable figures. Written with the assured style and wit of a natural raconteur, this hugely entertaining and insightful autobiography takes... -
The Universal Tone by Carlos Santana
RRP: £14.99£9.80The intimate and long-awaited memoir of guitar legend Carlos Santana.In 1967 at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium, a young guitarist played a blistering solo that announced a prodigious talent. Two years later he played a historic set at Woodstock, and... -
Johnny Cash: The Life in Lyrics by Mark Stielper 9781399618786
RRP: £40.00£28.55The life of the Man in Black is revealed through his lyrics and by rare photographs and ephemera, in this beautifully illustrated official hardback edition, fully authorised by the Cash estate and featuring 125 of his most iconic songs. Johnny Cash is... -
George Michael: The Life 1963-2016 by Emily Herbert
RRP: £8.99£6.22Born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, George Michael was raised in a family of Greek Cypriot immigrants in North London, and dreamed of stardom when he was a little boy. At just twelve years old he met Andrew Ridgeley and the two of them went on to achieve... -
Wild Thing: The short, spellbinding life of Jimi Hendrix by Philip Norman 9781474611503 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.70'Arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music,' says Jimi Hendrix's citation in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. James Marshall Hendrix remains unique as an African American who broke out of the traditional 'Black' genres of blues,... -
Wild Thing: The short, spellbinding life of Jimi Hendrix by Philip Norman
RRP: £12.99£8.60Almost 50 years after his lonely death, Hendrix is the abiding symbol of musical genius cut tragically short. Wild Thing will be the first biography to bring together the splendour and sadness of his brief life, and to attempt to unravel the... -
Madness: House of Fun by John Reed 9781783055555
£15.51From the bands roots in north London, through their emergence as part of 2-Tone and onto their late 80s fall and subsequent rise via the Madstock festivals, House of Fun celebrates a very British musical phenomenon.Formed in the heyday of punk, Madness... -
Shout!: The True Story of the Beatles by Philip Norman 9780330487689 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99£2.34The first and best Beatles biography, Norman had close working relationships with each of the Fab Four, having interviewed them many times since 1965 and observed first hand the events that led to the split during 1969-70. The resulting book contained... -
Shout!: The True Story of the Beatles by Philip Norman 9780330487689
RRP: £18.99£14.28The first and best Beatles biography, Norman had close working relationships with each of the Fab Four, having interviewed them many times since 1965 and observed first hand the events that led to the split during 1969-70. The resulting book contained... -
Remembering Whitney: A Mother's Story of Life, Loss and the Night the Music Stopped by Cissy Houston
RRP: £10.99£7.25The definitive account of Whitney Houston's astonishing life, ground-breaking career and tragic death - complete with never-before-seen photographs - from the only one who truly knows the story behind the headlines: her mother, Cissy Houston. ... -
Nick Drake: The Biography by Patrick Humphries 9780747535034
RRP: £14.99£10.95'An exquisite portrait' MOJO 'A riveting account of the golden-boy genius' EVENING STANDARD Nick Drake was barely twenty-six years old when he died in 1974, but in his short lifetime he recorded three albums that are now recognised as classics:... -
Elvis by the Presleys by The Presleys
RRP: £10.99£7.77The Number One Sunday Times BestsellerForty years after his death, Elvis Presley remains one of the world's most beloved and iconic figures. There has been an impressive array of bestselling Elvis books over the years, but there has never been a book... -
The Gospel Of The Hold Steady: How a Resurrection Really Feels by Michael Hann
RRP: £40.00£27.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636140957Author Michael HannFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S. -
Prince by Matt Thorne
RRP: £18.99£13.33Legendarily reticent, perverse and misleading, Prince is one of the few remaining 80s superstars who still, perhaps, remains unexplained. Now a firm fixture in the pop canon, where such classics as 'Purple Rain', 'Sign o' the Times' and 'Parade'... -
Roger Daltrey: Thanks a lot Mr Kibblewhite, The Sunday Times Bestseller: My Story by Roger Daltrey 9781788700283 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£2.34Roger Daltrey is the voice of a generation.That generation was the first to rebel, to step out of the shadows of the Second World War... to invent the concept of the teenager.This is the story from his birth at the height of the Blitz, through... -
Music in the Castle of Heaven: A Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach by John Eliot Gardiner
RRP: £18.99£13.61Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who seems so ordinary, so opaque - and occasionally so intemperate?In this remarkable book, John Eliot Gardiner... -
Into The Valley by Richard Jobson 9781912782949
RRP: £12.99£9.09From school punk to modern day film producer, Richard Jobson has lived a full and colourful life. A harrowing incident as a child left him suffering with epilepsy but he was a mere fifteen-year-old when he launched the punk rock band The Skids in 1977... -
Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol by Steve Jones
RRP: £10.99£6.14SOON TO BE A LIMITED SERIES DIRECTED BY DANNY BOYLE_____________________Foreword by Chrissie HyndeWithout the Sex Pistols there would be no punk rock, and without Steve Jones there would be no Sex Pistols.It was Steve who formed Kutie Jones and his Sex... -
The Autobiography of Gucci Mane by Gucci Mane
RRP: £10.99£7.00The New York Times bestselling memoir from the legendary Gucci Mane spares no detail in this "cautionary tale that ends in triumph" (GQ). For the first time Gucci Mane tells his extraordinary story in his own words. It is "as wild, unpredictable, and...