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The Hard Stuff: Dope, Crime, The MC5, and My Life of Impossibilities by Wayne Kramer
RRP: £10.99£7.38A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEARWayne Kramer, legendary guitarist and co-founder of quintessential Detroit proto-punk legends The MC5, tells his story in The Hard Stuff.'As gripping as it is sobering.'THE TIMES'Voyerustically dramatic.'NEW YORK... -
The Eagles On Track: Every Album, Every Song John Van der Kiste 9781789522600
RRP: £15.99£11.61The Eagles began as a backing group for Linda Ronstadt, then realised they had the potential to strike out on their own. All being accomplished vocalists, musicians and songwriters, they jointly set themselves the goal of 'number one singles and albums,... -
Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the present by JR Moores 9781789144482
RRP: £25.00£18.62It began with The Beatles' 'Helter Skelter'. It was distilled to its dark essence by Black Sabbath. And it has flourished into a vibrant modern underground, epitomized by Newcastle's Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs. This is the evolution of heavy... -
Michael Stipe: The Biography by Rob Jovanovic
RRP: £10.99£7.40For the last quarter of a century Michael Stipe has been the lead singer of R.E.M, who from their humble beginnings toured and built a steadily growing legion of fans before breaking into the mainstream during the early 1990s. Today Stipe is one of the... -
The John Lennon Letters: Edited and with an Introduction by Hunter Davies by John Lennon
RRP: £12.99£8.60A lifetime of letters, collected for the first time, from the legendary The Beatles musician and songwriter John LennonJohn Lennon is one of the world's greatest-ever song writers, creator of 'Help!', 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds', 'Imagine' and dozens... -
The Beach Boys Pet Sounds by Jim Fusilli
RRP: £9.99£7.67The album that Brian Wilson created in an attempt to outdo the Beatles' Rubber Soul album. Worshipped by music lovers for its harmonies it is also regarded as an early demonstration of how to use the recording studio as an instrument. Brian Wilson has... -
Into the Black: The Inside Story of Metallica, 1991-2014 by Ian Winwood
RRP: £12.99£8.63From the record-breaking success of 1991's 'Black Album' to the band's reinvention with the Load/Reload albums; from bassist Jason Newsted's shock departure to the group's subsequent meltdown as laid bare in the documentary Some Kind of Monster; from the... -
Van der Graaf Generator in the 1970s: Decades by Steve Pilkington
RRP: £15.99£11.61There were a lot of very different bands peddling their wares in the progressive rock 'golden age' of the 1970s - some tending toward symphonic grandeur, other towards jazz fusion, and others still ploughing the more immediate end of the spectrum. There... -
Silhouettes and Shadows: The Secret History of David Bowie’s Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) by Adam Steiner 9781493065646
RRP: £18.99£14.32Silhouettes and Shadows explores the secret history of David Bowie's 1980 album Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)-an avant-garde pop album rich with tension and fear which closed Bowie's golden years of the 1970s.Featuring exclusive interviews with close... -
Getcha Rocks Off: Sex & Excess. Bust-Ups & Binges. Life & Death on the Rock 'N' Roll Road Mick Wall 9781409137375
RRP: £12.99£8.60'Packed with war stories from a golden age of rock, and insights into the stars that made that music' CLASSIC ROCK MAGAZINE'On reading Getcha Rocks Off you realise just how drastically things have changed in the rock industry but books like this... -
Sid Vicious: No One is Innocent by Alan Parker
RRP: £9.99£7.11The last word on Sid Vicious - the world's most iconic punk figure.The old school register for Soho Parish Primary school has a note in the margin recording that five-year-old John Simon Ritchie turned up for his first day at school unaccompanied in... -
This Music Leaves Stains: The Complete Story of the Misfits by James R. Greene, Jr.
RRP: £11.99£8.92Few bands in the past three decades have proven as affecting or exciting as the Misfits, the ferocious horror punk outfit that lurked in the shadows of suburban New Jersey and released a handful of pivotal underground recordings during their brief,... -
Grant & I: Inside and Outside the Go-Betweens Robert Forster 9781785589683
RRP: £9.99£6.51BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 - MOJO MAGAZINE & UNCUT MAGAZINE "In early '77 I asked Grant if he'd form a band with me. `No,' was his blunt reply." Grant McLennan didn't want to be in a band. He couldn't play an instrument; Charlie Chaplin was his hero du jour... -
The Great Book of Country: Amazing Trivia, Fun Facts & The History of Country Music by Bill O'Neill 9781648450716
RRP: £9.95£7.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648450716Author Bill O'NeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Lak PublishingPublisher Lak PublishingWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
100 Great Operas And Their Stories by Henry W. Simon
RRP: £16.99£10.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385054485Author Henry W. SimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing... -
Decoded by Jay-Z 9781400068920
RRP: £50.00£29.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Street Literature Book Award Medal (Slbam) (General) 2011.Book InformationISBN 9781400068920Author Jay-ZFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House... -
The Beatles' Let it be by Steve Matteo
RRP: £9.99£7.67The recording sessions for Let It Be were actually begun as rehearsals for a proposed return to live stage work for the Beatles, to be inaugurated in a concert at a Roman amphitheatre in Tunisia. Here, Steve Matteo delves deep into the complex history of... -
Memories, Dreams and Reflections by Marianne Faithfull
RRP: £10.99£7.77This book is a more personal history than has ever before been written by or about Marianne Faithfull. Anecdotal, conversational, intimate and revealing, this is her no-holds-barred account of her life, her friends, her triumphs and mistakes. ... -
Postcards From Liverpool: Beatles Moments & Memories by Mark Brickley 9780998134321
RRP: £12.88£9.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998134321Author Mark BrickleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Britpop BooksPublisher Britpop BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm *... -
Opera: The Autobiography of the Western World (Illustrated Edition): From theocratic absolutism to liberal democracy, in four centuries of music drama Simon Banks 9781803131955
RRP: £40.00£28.79Since the first performance of the first opera in 1600, operas have been telling stories from myth and history. This book - beginning with the Creation and ending in the present day - is a chronology of myth and history as told in opera. Over 260... -
Music in Late Medieval Bruges by Reinhard Strohm 9780193164185
£53.85The musical achievements of the so-called `Franco-Flemish School' have attracted many writers, yet Bruges itself has still to be put back on the map of European music history. This book describes how the people of Bruges shaped their acoustic environment... -
There's No Bones in Ice Cream: Sylvain Sylvain's Story of the New York Dolls by Sylvain Sylvain 9781785585135
RRP: £16.99£13.34"Don't live life worrying about it, just T. Rex the shit out of it." - Sylvain Sylvain The New York Dolls were called many things; glam, proto-punk, hard rock, but are probably best understood as a "dirty rock & roll" band. Combining an aggressively... -
Changeling: The Autobiography of Mike Oldfield Mike Oldfield 9780753513071
RRP: £16.99£12.28Born without social instincts many people take for granted, brought up in a troubled environment and possessed with an extraordinary musical talent, Mike Oldfield was thrust into the spotlight at the tender age of nineteen. His first album Tubular Bells... -
The Janacek Compendium Nigel Simeone 9781783273379
RRP: £75.00£72.33Leos Janacek (1854-1928) occupied a pre-eminent position in Moravian (and wider Czech) culture, not only as a composer but also as a folksong collector, journalist, educator and nationalist. One of the greatest and most original composers of the early... -
Do What You Want: The Story of Bad Religion by Bad Religion 9780306922220
RRP: £20.00£16.48Do What You Want: The Story of Bad Religion reveals the ups and downs of the band's forty-year career. From their beginnings as teenagers jamming in a San Fernando Valley garage dubbed "The Hell Hole" to headlining major music festivals around the world,... -
Not the Life It Seems by Tom Bryant 9780306823497
RRP: £21.99£15.02My Chemical Romance is the most significant band in alternative rock in the last decade. Inspirational, original, and stunningly creative, they forged an extraordinary connection with their fans. Not the Life It Seems: The True Lives of My Chemical... -
Taylor Swift The Brightest Star: The Life, Loves and Music of a Global Sensation by Michael Francis Taylor 9781912587551
£17.13Encyclopaedic in its scope, this is the ultimate tribute to the life and music of Taylor Swift. No need for glossy images here, the narrative says it all - a chronological account of her mercurial rise to fame; the stories that inspire the songs; an... -
My World by Luciano Pavarotti
RRP: £12.99£9.09Every generation or so an opera singer attains the kind of public adulation and affection usually reserved for film stars or pop singers. Luciano Pavarotti reached this level of fame: he was the most celebrated tenor of all time, his concerts attended by... -
Acting in Musical Theatre: A Comprehensive Course by Joe Deer 9780367233365
RRP: £44.99£39.68Acting in Musical Theatre remains the only complete course in approaching a role in a musical. It covers fundamental skills for novice actors, practical insights for professionals, and even tips to help veteran musical performers refine their craft... -
Jefferson Airplane On Track: Every Album, Every Song by Richard Butterworth 9781789521436
RRP: £14.99£10.95Jefferson Airplane were not the sole exemplars of 1960s Californian acid rock; the Grateful Dead could equally claim the mantle of house band to the Summer of Love. Airplane's instrumentation was conventional, comprising mainly vocal harmonies, guitars,... -
Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs by L.D. Beghtol
RRP: £9.99£7.67This is a fully illustrated oral history of the Magnetic Fields' 1999 triple album, "69 Love Songs" - an album that was afforded "classic" status by many almost as soon as it was released. LD Beghtol's book is chatty, incestuous, funny, dark, digressive,... -
The Blues: A Very Short Introduction by Elijah Wald
RRP: £8.99£6.61Praised as "suave, soulful, ebullient" (Tom Waits) and "a meticulous researcher, a graceful writer, and a committed contrarian" (New York Times Book Review), Elijah Wald is one of the leading popular music critics of his generation. In The Blues, Wald... -
Insects, Bugs & Rock 'n' Roll: Hilariously heartwarming tale of friendship, music and redemption. Alex Brooks 9781739891718
RRP: £6.99£5.13From the makers of AWARD NOMINATED: Why, oh why, am I a crocodile?*** When mean Spider hears music for the first time, music that is being played by - of all unlikely creatures - a Fly, he experiences an emotion that he has never felt before..... -
All Cheeses Great and Small: A Life Less Blurry by Alex James
RRP: £10.99£7.25This is the story of Alex James's transition from a leading light of the Britpop movement in the 1990s, to gentleman farmer, artisan cheese-maker and father of five. 'I was hanging around the pigsty in the way I'd previously hung around at The... -
The Faber Pocket Guide to Bach by Nicholas Kenyon
RRP: £10.99£7.32The music of J.S.Bach has a unique power and attraction some 300 years after it was written. From annual performances of the great Passions and BBC Radio 3's hugely successful Bach Christmas, to its use in adverts, films and popular arrangements, the... -
My Chemical Romance: This Band Will Save Your Life by Reinhardt Haydn
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859655675Author Reinhardt HaydnFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd -
Sex Pistols: I Wanna Be Me Dave Simpson 9781786751249
RRP: £25.00£17.38Amidst the chaos that was the Sex Pistols, it's often forgotten just what a powerful band they were, and what great records they made. The Sex Pistols were no ordinary group. Their story might be short, and not without its casualties, but their legacy... -
The Colors of Christmas by John Rutter 9780193379237
£3.12for SA and piano or orchestra With a simple, appealing melody and a flowing accompaniment, The Colours of Christmas evokes a touching sense of longing for the joys of the festive season. Also available in a version for upper voices. An accompaniment... -
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba by George Frideric Handel 9780193569836
RRP: £14.75£11.49arranged for one or two violin(s), one or two viola(s), and pianoBook InformationISBN 9780193569836Author George Frideric HandelPage Count 16Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 87gDimensions(mm) 312mm * 232mm *... -
Bring the Noise by Simon Reynolds
RRP: £20.00£13.86From Morrissey and Nick Cave to The Streets and Kanye West, this is the book that explores the links between hip-hop and rock. Reynolds has focused on two strands: white alternative rock and black street music. He's identified the strange dance of white...