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Miles: The Autobiography by Miles Davis 9780330313827 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.34$2.92Miles: 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... -
Miles: The Autobiography by Miles Davis
RRP: $19.34$13.66Miles: 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: $12.89$9.89July, 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: $32.25$22.73More 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: $14.18$10.02***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: $14.18$10.02The 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: $21.92$15.84A 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: $14.18$9.55'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: $32.25$21.65ONE 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: $14.18$2.95The 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: $34.83$23.21Apologies 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: $14.18$9.55The 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: $19.34$12.64The 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: $51.60$36.83The 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: $11.60$8.02Born 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: $16.76$3.42'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: $16.76$11.09Almost 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
$20.01From 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: $24.50$2.95The 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: $24.50$18.42The 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: $14.18$9.35The 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: $19.34$14.13'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: $14.18$10.02The 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: $51.60$35.02Apologies 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: $24.50$17.20Legendarily 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: $25.80$2.95Roger 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: $24.50$17.56Johann 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: $16.76$11.73From 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: $14.18$7.92SOON 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: $14.18$9.03The 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... -
Running Up That Hill: 50 Visions of Kate Bush by Tom Doyle 9781788707824
RRP: $14.18$9.64A Times Book of the Year An Uncut Magazine Book of the Year A Waterstones Music Book of the Year A Virgin Radio Book of the Year A Louder Book of the Year 'Probably the best Bush book to date.' - Record CollectorKate Bush: the subject of murmured legend... -
Are You Experienced?: The Inside Story Of The Jimi Hendrix Experience by Carol Appleby 9780306806810
$23.34The Jimi Hendrix Experience had one of the most dazzling and sensational careers of any band. Their roller-coaster ride through a schedule of sell-out tours and frantic recording sessions left them crazed with sex, drugs, stardom, and exhaustion but at... -
Francoise Hardy: A musical tale of love and loss by Andrew Norman 9781912587674
$22.10In the early 1960s a new 'Star' appeared on the pop music scene and burned brightly in the firmament. This was the enchantingly beautiful, French singer-songwriter ('chanteuse'), Francoise Madeleine Hardy. Today, thanks to the wonders of modern... -
The Real Stanley Baxter by Brian Beacom
RRP: $12.89$9.38Stanley Baxter delighted over 20 million viewers at a time with his television specials. His pantos became legendary. His divas and dames were so good they were beyond description. Baxter was a most brilliant cowboy Coward, a smouldering Dietrich. He... -
Here Comes The Sun by Joshua M. Greene
RRP: $15.47$10.87'The soundtrack of [Harrison's] spiritual journey begins with the explosions of battle and ends, fifty-eight years later with the harmonies of eternal peace. And like all good stories, this one starts when the hero was just a child.'In Here Comes the Sun... -
Pandamonium!: How (Not) to Run a Record Label by Simon Williams 9781788707312
RRP: $14.18$9.64'Hilarious, heart-wrenching and packed with British music history.' - COLDPLAY A Virgin Radio Book of the Year It's a life-and-near-death story. But whose life? And whose near-death?As a one-time NME journalist, former Xfm radio presenter, toilet-circuit... -
The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana by Michael Azerrad 9780063279933
RRP: $38.70$26.48A downright revolutionary 30th-anniversary deluxe edition of the iconic bestselling biography of Nirvana, updated with exclusive new content exploring the personal and cultural forces that inspired the music, the author's friendship with Kurt Cobain and... -
A Fast Ride Out of Here: Confessions of Rock's Most Dangerous Man by Pete Way
RRP: $12.89$8.77'They call me a madman but compared to Pete Way, I'm out of my league.' - Ozzy OsbourneThere are rock memoirs and then there is this one. A Fast Ride Out of Here tells a story that is so shocking, so outrageous, so packed with excess and leading to such... -
The Classical Style by Charles Rosen
RRP: $28.38$19.49'Brilliant and epoch-making.' Times Literary SupplementThe Classical Style is an established classic which has remained in print since its first publication in 1971. With his experience as a world-class pianist as well as as teacher at Harvard and... -
Lucky by Stephen Manderson 9781910536728
$12.37It was never easy for Professor Green. Born into a tough Hackney estate and raised by his grandmother, the rapper was always learning the hard way - whether at school, on the streets of east London or during impromptu freestyling shows at friends' house...