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Sir Elton by Philip Norman
RRP: £9.99£7.27'He's got me spot on' Elton John'Anyone who can read will admire the intelligence, the detail and the robust good sense of this biography. It captures the flavour of the times every bit as distinctively as it captures the personality of Elton John'... -
Another Day In The Life: My Life in Photos & Music by Ringo Starr 9781905662586
RRP: £30.00£20.88"This is a way of putting my life out there, because if I were to write a memoir, there'd be five volumes before I got to The Beatles. So I'm going at it this way, through photographs and quotes. And this is, I feel, a better way for me to do it." -... -
George Harrison in the 1970s: Decades by Eoghan Lyng 9781789521740
RRP: £15.99£11.61Depending on who you asked, George Harrison was many different things to different people. There was his songcraft, which won over the affections of producer savant Phil Spector; there was his musicianship, that captured the hearts of blues savants Eric... -
Jóhann Jóhannsson: Piano Works by Jóhann Jóhannsson 9780571542505
RRP: £48.00£39.53Johann Johannsson was an award-winning Icelandic composer, renowned for his compositions across film, television, theatre and dance, including his stunning score to James Marsh's Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory of Everything (2014), which earned him a... -
Rolling Stones: Let It Bleed: Rock Classics John Van der Kiste 9781789523096
RRP: £12.99£9.09Released in 1969, Let it Bleed was The Rolling Stones' eighth studio album (tenth in the USA). The second in a sequence of four consecutive records that comprised their creative peak, it is considered by many to be their best. After a period of turmoil... -
Chronicles of the Juice Man: A Memoir by Juicy J 9781335005281
RRP: £22.00£14.58A memoir by the Oscar-winning, platinum-selling rapper and producer for fans of Rick Ross's Hurricanes and The Autobiography of Gucci ManeThe hustle still continues for hip-hop OG Juicy J as he shares his invaluable story as an unwavering force in the... -
Ripped, Torn and Cut: Pop, Politics and Punk Fanzines from 1976 by Subcultures Network 9781526139078
RRP: £19.99£17.61Ripped, torn and cut offers a collection of original essays exploring the motivations behind - and the politics within - the multitude of fanzines that emerged in the wake of British punk from 1976. Sniffin' Glue (1976-77), Mark Perry's iconic punk... -
Rockschool: Popular Music Theory Workbook Grade 6 Nik Preston 9781908920751
RRP: £11.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908920751Author Nik PrestonImprint Rockschool LtdPublisher Rockschool Ltd -
REO Speedwagon On Track: Every Album, Every Song by James Romag
RRP: £15.99£11.61Once, there were four university students who started a rock band named after a firetruck. Five and a half decades later, REO Speedwagon are still going strong, still drawing massive crowds, and, thankfully, still have no plans to stop. With classic... -
Music of "Yes": Structure and Vision in Progressive Rock by Bill Martin 9780812693331
£21.71Music of Yes examines the work of one of the most creative groups from the progressive rock period, Yes. Unlike most books on rock music, Music of Yes does not focus on personalities, but instead on musical structures, lyrical vision, and cultural and... -
Stone Alone: The Story of a Rock 'n' Roll Band by Bill Wyman
£28.73During the height of the Rolling Stones'success, Bill Wyman kept a diary, recoding the churning chaos of the band's creative evolution, power plays, recording sessions, tours, romances, drug busts, and financial disarray. Stone Alone is a meticulous,... -
The Band FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Fathers of Americana by Peter Aaron
RRP: £14.99£14.66In a way that no prior rock act had done the Band assimilated remade and contagiously celebrated the rich deep tributaries of American vernacular music. Blues country jazz folk gospel soul rock'n' roll a the members soaked it all up distilling... -
Beethoven: A Political Artist in Revolutionary Times by William Kinderman
RRP: £31.00£26.33We have long regarded Beethoven as a great composer, but we rarely appreciate that he was also an eminently political artist. This book unveils the role of politics in his oeuvre, elucidating how the inherently political nature of Beethoven's music... -
The Grove Book of Operas by Stanley Sadie 9780195387117
RRP: £24.49£19.17First published in 1996 to great critical and popular acclaim, the Grove Book of Operas, is a collection of synopses and descriptions of over 250 operas. Each succinct yet insightful entry is written by a leading authority on the opera and includes a... -
Uncommon Owen Hatherley 9781846948770
RRP: £9.99£8.59If we remember them at all, the Sheffield pop group Pulp are remembered for jolly class warfare ditty 'Common People', for the celebrity of their interestingly-named frontman, for the latter waving his arse at Michael Jackson at the Brit awards, for... -
How to Rap by Paul Edwards 9781556528163
RRP: £14.95£11.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556528163Author Paul EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint A Cappella BooksPublisher A Cappella BooksWeight(grams) 240g -
Lohengrin by Richard Wagner
RRP: £10.00£7.97The legend of the Swan Knight who rescues a princess from the forces of pagan evil is one of the foundation myths of Christian Europe. Lohengrin's transformed Wagner into an international figure almost overnight, and it remained his most popular work... -
Glam Rock: Dandies in the Underworld by Alwyn W. Turner 9781851777648
RRP: £25.00£19.54Drawing on the collections of the V&A, Glam Rock narrates the story of glam and explores its impact on fashion, theatre and film. In the early 1970s, glam rock changed the face of popular culture in Britain and, against a backdrop of a nation racked by... -
Symphony No. 5 by Ralph Vaughan Williams 9780193368248
RRP: £17.50£16.59Despite having been composed in the years 1938-43 when Europe was ravaged by war, this work radiates peace and serenity. It marks the peak of the lyrical modalism of works such as the Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (1910), Flos Campi (1925), and... -
Black Heart Fades Blue by Jerry A. Lang 9781644282397
RRP: £12.99£8.63If you're looking for the events that inspired the lyrics to all my songs? Those stories are in this book. If you're looking for what I did when I was younger? That's in here. What changed me, made me stop hating and hurting? It's all here. This is my... -
Louis Armstrong, In His Own Words: Selected Writings by Thomas Brothers 9780195140460
RRP: £22.49£12.39Louis Armstrong has been the subject of countless biographies and music histories. Yet scant attention has been paid to the remarkable array of writings he left behind. Louis Armstrong: In His Own Words introduces readers to a little-known facet of this... -
Livin' Just to Find Emotion: Journey and the Story of American Rock by David Hamilton Golland 9781538187012
RRP: £25.00£22.19A long-overdue and definitive account of America's timeless rock bandSince exploding on the scene in the late 70s, Journey has continued to inspire generations of fans with "Don't Stop Believin'" and other hits. Celebrating the band's fiftieth... -
Dub by Michael Veal 9780819565723
£27.91When Jamaican recording engineers Osbourne "King Tubby" Ruddock, Errol Thompson, and Lee "Scratch" Perry began crafting "dub" music in the early 1970s, they were initiating a musical revolution that continues to have worldwide influence. Dub is a... -
U2's The Joshua Tree: Planting Roots in Mythic America by Bradley Morgan
RRP: £25.00£18.54U2 planted the seeds for The Joshua Tree during an existential journey through America. As Irishmen in the 1970s, the band grew up with the belief that America was a place of freedom and prosperity, a symbol of hope and a refuge for all people. However,... -
Diary of a Madman: The Geto Boys, Life, Death, and the Roots of Southern Rap by Brad "Scarface" Jordan 9780062302649
RRP: £9.99£6.64One of Rolling Stone's Best Music Books of 2015 From Geto Boys legend and renowned storyteller Scarface, comes a passionate memoir about how hip-hop changed the life of a kid from the south side of Houston, and how he rose to the top-and ushered in a... -
Rumours of Glory: A Memoir by Bruce Cockburn 9780061969126
RRP: £18.99£17.18Following the success of I'm Your Man and Just Kids, legendary Canadian singer and songwriter Bruce Cockburn delivers his long-awaited memoir-a chronicle of faith, fear, and activism that is also a lively cultural and musical tour through the late... -
101 Classical Themes For Flute by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation 9781495056239
RRP: £15.99£11.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495056239Author Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationPage Count 85Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation -
Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music by Amit Chaudhuri
RRP: £9.99£6.70**WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE**'A splendid book.' Literary Review'A modern masterpiece.' New York Journal of BooksFinding the Raga is Amit Chaudhuri's revelatory exploration of North Indian classical music: an ancient, evolving tradition whose... -
Monsters of River & Rock: My Life as Iron Maiden's Compulsive Angler by Adrian Smith 9781947026872
RRP: £23.95£17.90Iron Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith got hooked on fishing as a child growing up in East London, plundering ponds and bomb craters on the Hackney Marshes for newts and sticklebacks, and catching perch from the Grand Union Canal while on outings with his... -
Red Wave: An American in the Soviet Music Underground by Joanna Stingray
RRP: £23.99£16.49A memoir by an American who almost single-handedly introduced Soviet rock to the free world, [...] Stingray, who wrote this memoir with her daughter, Madison, nicely captures her daring amid an atmosphere of liberation and fear, and she's a study in... -
You Just Fight for Your Life: The Story of Lester Young by Frank Buchmann-Moller 9780275932657
£83.64A Danish musician here presents the most accurate, comprehensive work on a major figure in American jazz: Lester Willis Young (1909-1959), better known as `Pres' or `Prez,' from the nickname `President' given to him by Billie Holiday. Based on interviews... -
The Gift of Life: Six Canticles of Creation by John Rutter 9780193411500
RRP: £16.25£12.56for mixed choir (double choir for movement 3) with orchestra or chamber ensemble The Gift of Life is a six-movement choral celebration of the living earth and its creation. Setting a variety of sacred texts, including new words by the composer, the... -
From the Score to the Stage: An Illustrated History of Continental Opera Production and Staging Evan Baker 9780226035086
RRP: £65.00£64.21Without scenery, costumes, and stage action, an opera would be little more than a concert. But in the audience, we know little (and think less) about the enormous efforts of those involved in bringing an opera to life - by the stagehands who shift... -
Transformer: The Complete Lou Reed Story by Victor Bockris
RRP: £16.99£12.28'A triumph' - Time Out Transformer is the only complete and comprehensive telling of the Lou Reed story. Legendary songwriter and guitarist Lou Reed passed away on the 27th October 2013, but his musical influence is assured. Now... -
Seasons of Love: Why Rent Matters by Emily Garside
RRP: £25.00£18.02The story of Rent is a theatrical legend, but one that has not been properly told: the story of Jonathan Larson, the young composer working in a diner when Rent became his big off-Broadway break; the composer who was mentored by Sondheim but struggling... -
Song Reader by Beck Hansen
RRP: £22.00£15.11Complete with full-colour, heyday-of-home-play-inspired art for each song and a lavishly produced hardcover carrying case (and, when necessary, ukulele notation), Song Reader is an experiment in what an album can be in the 21st century. Beautifully... -
The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop by Dan Charnas
RRP: £20.00£14.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451234780Author Dan CharnasFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 731gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 36mm -
Rubank Treasures for Alto Saxophone by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation 9781480352438
RRP: £16.99£11.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480352438Author Hal Leonard Publishing CorporationPage Count 24Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation -
Totally Wired: Postpunk Interviews and Overviews by Simon Reynolds
RRP: £20.00£13.86Totally Wired features 32 interviews with the post-punk era's most innovative musicians and colourful personalities. From Ari Up, Jah Wobble, David Byrne, Edwyn Collins, it also includes conversations with the most influential of label bosses, managers,... -
Misunderstood - The Brian Molko Story by Chloe Govan 9780755212712
£14.28Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.