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Hip Hop Raised Me (R) by DJ Semtex
RRP: £30.00£21.00'It's a hip-hop bible' Ghostface Killah, Wutang Clan In Hip Hop Raised Me. (R) , DJ Semtex examines the crucial role of hip-hop in society today, and reflects on the huge influence it has had on his own life, and the lives of many others, filling in... -
Things The Grandchildren Should Know by Mark Oliver Everett
RRP: £12.99£8.60How does one young man survive the deaths of his entire family and manage to make something worthwhile of his life? In Things The Grandchildren Should Know Mark Oliver Everett tells the story of what it's like to grow up the insecure son of a genius in a... -
Vivaldi by Michael Talbot 9780198164975
RRP: £26.49£18.09Vivaldi has emerged during the last decades as a truly major composer of the early eighteenth-century. Taking account of recent research, to which he himself has made important contributions-including the discovery in 1973 of an unknown set of violin... -
Wicked: The Grimmerie by David Cote 9781401308209
RRP: £30.99£30.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401308209Author David CoteFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 1440gDimensions(mm) 310mm * 238mm * 30mm -
The Giant Popmaster Quiz Book by Phil Swern 9781911346807
RRP: £9.99£6.99Radio 2's PopMaster quiz has been thrilling listeners to the Ken Bruce Show for 20 years. Now you can enjoy the pop quiz in your own time at home, in the pub, or at a party with your family and friends. This new giant quiz-book is packed with over 3800... -
Don't Stop the Music: A Year of Pop History, One Day at a Time by Justin Lewis 9781783967162
RRP: £16.99£11.76'Brilliantly simple as an idea but also ambitious, Justin Lewis creates a glorious interlocking history ... of our pop culture with all its coincidences, connections and shared enjoyment.' We Are Cult 'The deliciously simple conceit pop facts from... -
Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica by Kevin Courrier
RRP: £9.99£7.67In the spring of 1969, the inauspicious release of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band's "Trout Mask Replica", a double-album featuring 28 stream-of-consciousness songs filled with abstract rhythms and guttural bellows, dramatically altered the pop... -
Puccini Without Excuses: A Refreshing Reassessment of the World's Most Popular Composer by William Berger 9781400077786
£15.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400077786Author William BergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Assassinated Beauty: Photographs of the Manic Street Preachers by Kevin Cummins 9780571312139
RRP: £25.00£7.94In the early nineties, a group of disaffected and fiercely political young men from the Welsh valleys exploded onto a British music scene still in thrall to rave and acid house.It was the legendary photographer Kevin Cummins who captured James, Sean,... -
Leonard Bernstein by Humphrey Burton
RRP: £20.00£13.86A new edition of Humphrey Burton's celebrated biography of Leonard Bernstein, published to coincide with the centenary of his birth. With a new introduction by the author.'Humphrey Burton's biography remains the essential account of American music's... -
Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons by Jeremy Denk 9781447294771
RRP: £20.00£17.62THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A virtuosic memoir . . . elegant, frank and well-structured, that entirely resists cliche . . . The concert pianist's account of striving for musical mastery sits alongside a stirring coming of age narrative . . . readable... -
Bowie's Books: The Hundred Literary Heroes Who Changed His Life by John O'Connell
RRP: £9.99£7.11A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Brilliant. The unwritten Bowie book that needed writing' CAITLIN MORAN 'Splendid. Provides plenty of evidence of Bowie's restless, rummaging intelligence, and his pleasure in the fact that books allow readers to slip into... -
She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Popular Music Lucy O'Brien 9781911036678
RRP: £14.95£10.18Since 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... -
Yungblud Presents: The Twisted Tales of the Ritalin Club 2: Weird Times At Quarry Banks University by Ryan O'Sullivan
RRP: £14.99£13.34From the messed-up mind of music sensation YUNGBLUD comes the follow-up to 2019's smash hit graphic novel The Twisted Tales of The Ritalin Club! Now eighteen, and having graduated from Blackheart's High School; YUNGBLUD, plus his super-powered friends... -
Top of the Pops: 50th Anniversary by Patrick Humphries 9780857160522
RRP: £24.99£18.92'It's Number One - it's Top of the Pops'. It's not just the story of a long-running television programme. The story of Top of the Pops is the story of British popular music. It is a shadow history of British rock & roll, and beyond. It is the story of... -
Led Zeppelin By Led Zeppelin by Led Zeppelin 9781909526501
RRP: £49.95£34.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909526501Author Led ZeppelinFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Reel Art PressPublisher Reel Art Press -
Pop Rock Icons: London's Swingin' 60s and 70s by Philippe Margotin
RRP: £24.99£20.29Pop Rock Icons takes us into the extraordinary world of London, England at the time of the greatest countercultural upheaval that the country has known. A real musical revolution began at the beginning of the 1960s, led by the Beatles, further ignited by... -
The Nativity by May Eliot 9780552567626
RRP: £7.99£5.79Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Quantick's Quite Difficult Quiz Book David Quantick 9781472146243
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Best quiz book ever'HARRY HILL'Quantick is the Captain Beefheart of quizzing'MARK BILLINGHAM'The antidote to every deathly dull pub quiz you've ever been to. This is how a quiz book should be written - where having fun is the most important outcome'GARY... -
The Cure - Pictures of You: Foreword by Robert Smith by Tom Sheehan
RRP: £30.00£20.40A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022WITH A FOREWORD BY ROBERT SMITHThe definitive collection of renowned photographer Tom Sheehan's images of The Cure - with photographs seen here for the very first time.Spanning three decades, more than 20 sessions and... -
Conform To Deform: The Weird And Wonderful World Of Some Bizzare Doyle Wesley 9781911036951
RRP: £16.95£10.76Along 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,... -
Queer Approaches in Musical Theatre by Ryan Donovan 9781350247628
RRP: £10.99£9.01Queer Approaches in Musical Theatre introduces readers to a facet of musicals often assumed but misunderstood: how queer approaches in musical theatre extend deeper than fabulosity. Queerness in musicals challenges their typical heteronormativity but... -
The Islander: My Life in Music and Beyond by Chris Blackwell
RRP: £22.00£15.31An Uncut Magazine Book of the Year A Telegraph Book of the Year A Financial Times Book of the Year'An adventurer, an entrepreneur, a buccaneer, a visionary' - BONOAs the founder of Island Records, renowned music producer Chris Blackwell has discovered... -
Jon Anderson and The Warriors: The Road To Yes by David Watkinson 9781789520590
RRP: £20.00£14.29This unique and meticulously researched book will delight both Yes fans and students of the 1960s music scene. It is essential reading for all lovers of the world's greatest progressive rock band, and fans of the genre's finest vocalist - Jon Anderson. ... -
The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones by Stanley Booth
RRP: £14.99£9.80'Stanley Booth's book is the only one I can read and say, "Yeah, That's how it was"' KEITH RICHARDS'An epic, behind-the-scenes record of life with the greatest rock band in the world' ObserverThe True Adventures of the Rolling Stones is the greatest book... -
No Woman No Cry by Rita Marley 9780330493307
£13.33Bob Marley is the unchallenged king of reggae and one of music's great iconic figures. Rita Marley was not just his wife and the mother of four of his children but his backing singer and friend, life-long companion and soul mate. They met in Trenchtown... -
Prince Jason Draper 9781913947552
RRP: £12.99£8.60His name was Prince, and he was funky. He was also inspiring, infuriating, visionary and otherworldly. Channelling contradictions in search of his own unique truth, he eventually changed his name to an unpronounceable glyph that merged the male and... -
Blue Note: Uncompromising Expression: The Finest in Jazz Since 1939 by Richard Havers
RRP: £35.00£24.03The official illustrated history of Blue Note, the most influential and important brand in jazz. Blue Note is not only known as the purveyor of extraordinary jazz but is also famous as an arbiter of cool. The superb photography of co-founder Francis... -
Engelbert - What's In A Name?: My Autobiography by Engelbert Humperdinck 9780753541104
RRP: £15.99£11.61The man known simply as 'Enge' by his millions of fans worldwide has sold over 150 million records and is in the Guinness Book of Records for achieving 56 consecutive weeks in the chart with 'Release Me'.From living on the dole and receiving last rites... -
The Moody Blues: Every Album, Every Song by Geoffrey Feakes 9781789520422
RRP: £17.99£14.89Formed in 1964 and still going strong in 2019, the Moody Blues are one of the most enduring bands in the history of rock. R&B, pop, psychedelic, symphonic, prog rock, folk rock, synth-pop, mainstream rock, they've experienced it all. 'Go Now', A number... -
A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib 9780141995793
RRP: £10.99£7.77**As featured on Barack Obama's Summer 2022 Reading List**Winner of the Gordon Burn PrizeWinner of the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardFinalist for the Pen/Diamonstein-Spievogel... -
Modernism and Opera by Richard Begam 9781421420622
£42.17At first glance, modernism and opera may seem like strange bedfellows-the former hostile to sentiment, the latter wearing its heart on its sleeve. And yet these apparent opposites attract: many operas are aesthetically avant-garde, politically... -
Mick Rock. The Rise of David Bowie. 1972–1973 by Taschen 9783836596220
RRP: £50.00£37.62A unique tribute from David Bowie's official photographer and creative partner, Mick Rock, compiled in 2015, with Bowie's blessing.In 1972, David Bowie released his groundbreaking album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. With... -
There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland by Steven Hyden 9780306832062
RRP: £28.00£18.19A thought-provoking exploration of Bruce Springsteen's iconic album, Born in the U.S.A.-a record that both chronicled and foreshadowed the changing tides of modern AmericaOn June 4, 1984, Columbia Records issued what would become one of the best-selling... -
A Drink with Shane MacGowan by Victoria Mary Clarke
RRP: £16.99£12.94Funny, honest, brilliant and opinionated, A Drink with Shane MacGowan is the highly-acclaimed memoir of a true music icon.'One of the freshest, most original biographies I've ever read' - Lynne Barber, Observer'His candour, coupled with an acerbic wit,... -
Coltrane: The Story of a Sound by Ben Ratliff 9780571232741
RRP: £12.99£8.56No other jazz musician has proved so inspirational and so fascinating as Coltrane. Ben Ratliff, jazz critic for the New York Times, has written the first book to do justice to this great and controversial music pioneer. As well as an elegant narrative of... -
The Cambridge Companion to Richard Strauss by Charles Youmans 9780521728157
RRP: £25.99£22.39Richard Strauss is a composer much loved among audiences throughout the world, both in the opera house and the concert hall. Despite this popularity, Strauss was for many years ignored by scholars, who considered his commercial success and his continued... -
Empire State Of Mind (revised) by Zack O'malley Greenburg
RRP: £10.99£7.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591848349Author Zack O'malley GreenburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Here They Come With Their Make-Up On: Suede, Coming Up . . . And More Adventures Beyond The Wild Frontiers Jane Savidge 9781911036890
RRP: £14.95£9.78There were only a handful of people in the world who still really believed in Suede at the time, and five of them were in the band. Brett Anderson, Suede. Suede were Marmite at the time, and I was expecting the press to trash them. Every meeting I had... -
Confess: The year's most touching and revelatory rock autobiography' Telegraph's Best Music Books of 2020 Rob Halford 9781472269324
RRP: £12.99£8.60Most priests take confessions. This one is giving his.'Rob Halford has written one of the most candid and surprising memoirs of the year. . . Confess is a riproaring tale, a funny, often shocking and genuinely emotional story' The Telegraph'The Metal God...