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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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909953000Author Mark JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Bristol Folk PublicationsPublisher Bristol Folk PublicationsDimensions(mm) 230mm * 160mm...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

When Columbia Records finally decided to open up the voluminous Bob Dylan vaults, unleashing thousands of hours of long-sought-after, oft-rumored, unreleased material, it was hard to keep up. Included in the release were six CDs of Blood On The Tracks...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312304270Author Brett MilanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

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...

Guns N' Roses, or GNR as they're known, is one of the biggest-selling rock bands of the past 30 years. Formed in 1985 their first album, Appetite for Destruction, followed two years later. With many star performers including Slash, Axl Rose, Izzy...

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...

'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...

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 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.Book InformationISBN 9781770415683Author 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.Book InformationISBN 9781770415706Author Martin PopoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

The Penguin Guide to the 1000 Finest Classical Recordings brings together the experience and enthusiasm of four of classical music's greatest experts, Ivan March, Edward Greenfield, Robert Layton and Paul Czajkowski, to create an essential guide to the...

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...

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

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...

Break out the flannel, scrunchies, and high-rise jeans and indulge in this nostalgic illustrated trip through the 1990s' most influential albums across all genres. In 501 Essential Albums of the '90s, Gary Graff leads a cast of fellow music journalists...

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 9783943330335Author Maurizio BaroniFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Gingko PressPublisher Gingko Press

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 9781958727225Author Mark ArnoldFormat HardbackPage Count 468Imprint Genius Book CompanyPublisher Genius Book CompanyWeight(grams) 1361gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780958268431Author Garry Sharpe-YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Zonda Books LimitedPublisher Zonda Books LimitedWeight(grams) 1067g

This second volume begins 60 years ago when Elvis Presley returns from the army, wondering if he still has a career and massive fan base after being away for two years. He needn't have worried himself, the fans lapped up his new and more ambitious...

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...

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

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

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 9781909908321Author Tony DunsbeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 762Imprint M-Y BooksPublisher M-Y BooksWeight(grams) 1002gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 39mm

Is It Still Good to Ya? sums up the career of longtime Village Voice stalwart Robert Christgau, who for half a century has been America's most widely respected rock critic, honoring a music he argues is only more enduring because it's sometimes simple or...

Becoming Elektra tells the incredible true story of the pioneering Elektra Records label and its far-sighted founder, Jac Holzman, who built a small folk imprint into a home for some of the most groundbreaking, important, and enduring music of the rock...

It starts in 1969 - 50 years ago - when Elvis was re-discovering himself as an artist, after years in the Hollywood wilderness. He had just performed the 68 comeback special - showing that he was still able to excite as a performer. However 1969 was...