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Too Hot: Kool & the Gang & Me George Brown 9780897333115
RRP: €20.17€16.07Growing up around music, young George was inspired to piece together a makeshift drum set and teach himself to play as he practiced in the dark, dank basement of his run-down New Jersey row house. He soon joined forces with his friends to form a group... -
From WHAM! to WOO: A Life on the Mic Janey Lee Grace 9780857162748
RRP: €17.84€11.85Janey Lee Grace cut her teeth on the mic around the night clubs of Manchester and Birmingham and her first big singing break was with Mari Wilson and the Wilsations. After she was fired from the band for refusing to dye her hair canary yellow she was... -
Sugar, Gravy, Pleasure: An Indie Odyssey in Peterborough Pete Elderkin 9781805144281
RRP: €11.89€8.71Growing up in Peterborough, voted the ‘worst place to live in England & the UK’, certainly had its challenges. But a love for Nick Cave’s band and a passion for indie music launched the author, Pete Elderkin, on a series of extraordinary events while... -
Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra Ericka Kim Verba 9781469682945
RRP: €116.62€99.13Chilean musician and artist Violeta Parra (1917–1967) is an inspiration to generations of artists and activists across the globe. Her music is synonymous with resistance, and it animated both the Chilean folk revival and the protest music movement Nueva... -
George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle Philip Norman 9781398513433
RRP: €15.46€10.01'A fully realised portrait of a complex man: spiritual but peevish, brilliantly talented, but for ever shadowed by the Lennon/McCartney axis' The Times, Book of the Year From the author of the million-copy selling Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation... -
Dion: The Rock and Roll Philosopher Dion DiMucci 9781493088027
RRP: €35.70€30.35Dion DiMucci rose to Rock and Roll fame in the late 1950s with three top-forty hits as the lead singer of Dion and the Belmonts, “Runaround Sue,” “The Wanderer,” and “A Teenager in Love.” Later embarking on a solo career, his anthem “Abraham, Martin, and... -
Leon Russell: The Master of Space and Time's Journey Through Rock & Roll History Bill Janovitz 9780306924781
RRP: €23.80€18.24New York Times BestsellerThe definitive biography of legendary musician, composer, and performer Leon Russell, a profound influence on countless artists, including George Harrison, the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Elton John, Willie Nelson, Tom Petty,... -
Doc Watson: A Life in Music Eddie Huffman 9781469680354
RRP: €35.64€30.30Arthel ""Doc"" Watson (1923–2012) is arguably one of the most influential musicians Appalachia has ever produced. A musician's musician, Doc grew up on a subsistence farm in the North Carolina mountains during the Depression, soaking up traditional music... -
Frankie McIntosh and the Art of the Soca Arranger Frankie McIntosh 9781496854001
RRP: €129.71€112.22Soca music, an offspring of older Trinidadian calypso, emerged in the late 1970s and is now recognized as one of the English-speaking Caribbean’s most distinctive styles of popular vocal music. Frankie McIntosh and the Art of the Soca Arranger tells a... -
Encore: My journey back to centre stage Russell Watson 9781399738248
RRP: €26.18€17.33In the first years of the new millennium Russell Watson was at the peak of his success as a much loved classical singer. He had gone from humble beginnings, working in a factory making nuts and bolts in Salford to singing in working men's clubs to... -
One Foot on the Platform: A Rock 'n' Roll Journey: Writings on Music Peter Goddard 9781487010430
RRP: €19.03€16.17The final word from one of Canada’s greatest cultural critics and music writers. In the summer of 2020, acclaimed music critic and journalist Peter Goddard began work on a new book that would take readers on a journey back through his fifty-plus years... -
Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra Ericka Kim Verba 9781469682952
RRP: €41.59€35.35Chilean musician and artist Violeta Parra (1917–1967) is an inspiration to generations of artists and activists across the globe. Her music is synonymous with resistance, and it animated both the Chilean folk revival and the protest music movement Nueva... -
Only you know & I know Dave Mason 9798218380175
RRP: €23.80€17.01Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Dave Mason found early success with the band Traffic, establishing himself as a skilled guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter who penned the classic “Feelin’ Alright?”. Departing the band for a solo career, Mason earned three gold... -
Ira Gershwin: A Life in Words Michael Owen 9781324091813
RRP: €35.70€30.35The Pulitzer Prize–winning American lyricist Ira Gershwin (1896–1983) has been hailed as one of the masters of the Great American Songbook—songs written largely for Broadway and Hollywood from the 1920s to the 1950s. Now, in the first full-length... -
Electric Dreams: The Human League, Heaven 17, and the Sound of the Steel City David Buckley 9781913172367
RRP: €29.75€25.29Foreword by Martyn Ware Electric Dreams is the definitive history of the hugely influential bands The Human League and Heaven 17, from Sheffield beginnings to world-renowned synth-pop pioneers. The book draws on first-hand interviews with band...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: €29.75€25.29Subtotal: -
How to Run an Indie Label Alan McGee 9781838957988
RRP: €23.80€16.27A no-holds-barred rampage through gigs, clubs, boardrooms, drugs and booze, mad scenes, brilliant signings, machine gun quotes and a resilient wild spirit.Music is like no other business.It's about being at the right place at the right time, following... -
Frankie McIntosh and the Art of the Soca Arranger Frankie McIntosh 9781496854018
€27.05Soca music, an offspring of older Trinidadian calypso, emerged in the late 1970s and is now recognized as one of the English-speaking Caribbean’s most distinctive styles of popular vocal music. Frankie McIntosh and the Art of the Soca Arranger tells a... -
How to Disappear Colin Greenwood 9781399817844
RRP: €30.94€20.21'For years now, I've been taking fugitive snaps of my band, Radiohead. I've tried to catch out my friends with my small black Yashica T4 Super. They are so lost in their own moment of performance that they don't see me with the camera.' Colin... -
Taylor Swift Is Life: A Superfan’s Guide to All Things We Love about Taylor Swift Kathleen Perricone 9780760390122
RRP: €17.84€11.96Celebrate your best Swiftie life with this gorgeously illustrated, all-encompassing fan book on everything there is to know and love about the modern icon that is Taylor Swift.From her first vocal lessons at age nine, to learning the guitar at twelve, to... -
Dance With The Devil: The Cozy Powell Story - Revised Expanded Edition Laura Shenton 9781915246653
RRP: €20.22€14.61Ritchie Blackmore once said, "You can't get any better than Cozy, you know. He's always up there on stage going crazy, he always pushes me on when I look round. He always gives me that incentive to play because Cozy won't let anybody take it easy." He... -
The Point of Distraction Will Eaves 9780008432362
RRP: €11.89€8.14A memoir by the 2019 Wellcome Prize winner Will Eaves that looks at the creation of eight piano pieces. What lies behind the creation of a piece of music? Does it spring fully formed from a composer’s mind, or take shape in the recesses of the brain,... -
Brothers Alex Van Halen 9780008706050
RRP: €26.18€18.59In this intimate and open account – nothing like any rock-and-roll memoir you’ve ever read – Alex Van Halen shares his personal story of family, friendship, music and brotherly love in a remarkable tribute to his beloved brother and band mate. Told... -
On Some Faraway Beach: The Life and Times of Brian Eno David Sheppard 9781399605717
RRP: €17.84€11.96FOREWORD BY ALAN WARNER'A book that sets new standards for rock biography' GuardianReissued as part of White Rabbit's Deep Cuts series, On Some Faraway Beach is the first and only ever comprehensive and authoritative biography of Brian Eno, featuring...