Discography & Buyer's Guides

Record covers are a sign of our life and times. Like the music on the discs, they address such issues as love, life, death, fashion, and rebellion. For music fans the covers are the expression of a period, of a particular time in their lives. Many are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916421936Author Ian ShirleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 1460Imprint Diamond Publishing Group LtdPublisher Diamond Publishing Group Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770415683Author Martin PopoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 375Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

Renegade Snares is the definitive book on drum & bass music. Pieced together using original interviews conducted with all the scene s main players, it traces the history of jungle/drum & bass from its early roots in soundsystem culture and rave music...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770415690Author Martin PopoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 375Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorKatharine Marsh is an experienced compiler of music content for the Future Publishing Group. Emma Wood is an experienced compiler of music content for the Future...

Emerson, Lake & Palmer were, without question, one of the great rock bands of the 1970s. Selling millions of albums across the globe, with all three members winning awards for their dazzling musical ability, ELP were no ordinary group. Their pioneering...

For 13 years, Peter Hince lived the rock 'n' roll dream. As head roadie for Queen he had a front row seat and backstage pass to some of the greatest moments in music.Now, he is opening up his incredible archive and sharing hundreds of photographs and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911346678Author Mick O'SheaFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Red PlanetPublisher Red Planet Publishing Ltd

From Rolling Stone, the definitive and lavishly illustrated companion book to one of the most popular and hotly debated lists in the world of musicWhen Rolling Stone publishes a list, the world listens. The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list was first...

Find out what 20 rock journalists and writers have to say about Rush's 20 studio albums.Formed in Toronto in 1968, the rock trio Rush has gone on to multiplatinum success behind the distinctive high register and virtuosic bass-playing of frontman Geddy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770415379Author Martin PopoffFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

Since She Bop was first published in 1995, digital downloading has transformed the music landscape. But has issue of gender inequality changed too? For She Bop, Lucy O Brien conducted over 250 interviews with female artists and women working behind the...

Along with Factory, Mute, and Creation, Some Bizzare was the vanguard of outsider music in the 1980s. The label s debut release reads like a who s who of electronic music, featuring early tracks from Soft Cell, Depeche Mode, Blancmange, and The The,...

This first-of-its-kind catalog of Elton John's decades-long career tells the story of one of rock's all-time greatest artists, album-by-album and track-by-track.Organized chronologically and covering every album and song that Sir Elton Hercules John has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909829145Author Jonny TrunkPage Count 160Imprint Four Corners BooksPublisher Four Corners Books

'I'm no stranger to failure, and I'm aware it can arrive at any minute-as it often has. You have to keep things close to your chest and be aware of what's really important: the work, not everything around it. If you have faith in the work, then the...

* The first book to combine the "classic" output of Deep Purple and Rainbow into one book in such detail. * 2018 sees the 50th anniversary of the first Deep Purple album "Shades of Deep Purple." * Deep Purple have remained active...

Every album and every song ever released by the Beatles - from "Please Please Me" (U.S. 1963) to "The Long and Winding Road" (U.S. 1970) - is dissected, discussed, and analyzed by two music historians in this lively, fully illustrated work.All the Songs...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909526808Author Ross HalfinFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Reel Art PressPublisher Reel Art Press

Standing at the crossroads - the Mississippi crossroads of Robert Johnson and the devil's infamous meeting - Mark Radcliffe found himself facing his own personal juncture. Aged sixty, he had just mourned the death of his father, only to be diagnosed with...

Bob Dylan: All the Songs focuses on Dylan's creative process and his organic, unencumbered style of recording. It is the only book to tell the stories, many unfamiliar even to his most fervent fans, behind the more than 500 songs he has released over the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770415362Author Martin PopoffFormat HardbackPage Count 375Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

Apologies 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

Bringing together much-loved masterpieces with exciting new works, this accessible and inspiring guide is a celebration of classical music. With pieces ranging from Vaughan Williams's 'The Lark Ascending' and Beethoven's 'Pastoral' Symphony to the scores...

Hunter Davies, the only ever authorised biographer of the group, has produced the essential Beatles guide. Divided into four sections - People, Songs, Places and Broadcast and Cinema - it covers all elements of the band's history and vividly brings to...

The ultimate guide to starting, keeping, and tracking your music collection with this guided journal, including expert advice, lists, and a log to keep track of over 300 records.Vinyl records are back-in a big way. Music lovers are turning back to vinyl...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.All What Jazz: A Record Diary 1961 - 1971 gathers Philip Larkin's elegant, witty and penetrating reviews and responses to an enormous range of jazz and other records.About the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956063991Author Ian ShirleyFormat PaperbackImprint Diamond Publishing Group LtdPublisher Diamond Publishing Group Ltd

Stevie Wonder is a much-beloved American icon and an indisputable genius not only of soul and rhythm & blues but popular music in general. Author Steve Lodder tells Wonder's story from a fresh musical perspective concentrating on his most productive...

The Evolution of Music by Culture and Science aims to recognise the impact of science on music, why it occurs, how we respond, and even to tentatively see if we can predict future developments. Technology has played an immense role in the development of...

Featuring 666 standout metal songs from 1960 to the present day and illustrated with sleeves, flyers, posters and magazine ads, this is a feast for fans who love it loud.666 Songs to Make You Bang Your Head Until You Die delves into the dark corners of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorTerry Gans has been a journalist, songwriter, businessperson, Mayor, husband and father. These experiences blend with an almost insatiable curiosity and...

Wilcopedia is a comprehensive guide to the music of the preeminent American rock band of the twenty-first century. It offers a thorough appraisal of the entire Wilco canon, with detailed insights into every album and song the band have released, as well...

BRAND NEW & EXPANDED EDITION! Packed with dozens of additional horror titles and containing limited edition enhanced packaging (gilded foil page edges + ribbon marker). Are you obsessed with John Carpenter's iconic music for the Halloween series? Do...

'This band has no past' was the first line of the farcical biography printed on the inner sleeve of Cheap Trick's first album, but the band, of course, did have a past-a past that straddles two very different decades: from the tumult of the sixties to...

Soul is the most powerful expression of American music -- a distinct combination of roots, migration, race, culture, and politics packaged together for your dancing pleasure. But if you thought the sounds of Motown or Stax Records died along with...

Today, Vinyl is shorthand for cool. Even with millions of songs available at the click of a mouse, music fans know that there's nothing like the tactile pleasure of a record. And, rather than killing vinyl, digital technology has elevated the art of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789768184757Author Roger SteffensFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint LMH PublishingPublisher LMH PublishingWeight(grams) 657g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992995676Author Garry MulhollandFormat PaperbackPage Count 686Imprint Pembury House PublishingPublisher Pembury House PublishingWeight(grams)...