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The Carpenters On Track: Every Album, Every Song by Paul Tornbohm 9781789523010
RRP: €19.03€13.82The brother and sister team of Karen and Richard Carpenter rank as one of the most successful acts in pop music history. Between the first Carpenters' album released in 1969 and their final studio album together in 1981, they achieved three Grammy... -
In The Pleasure Groove: Love, Death and Duran Duran John Taylor 9780751549034
RRP: €15.46€10.23With Duran Duran, John Taylor has created some of the greatest songs of our time. From the disco dazzle of debut single 'Planet Earth' right up to their latest number one album All You Need is Now, Duran Duran has always had the power to sweep the world... -
Jazz Covers Joaquim Paulo 9783836585255
RRP: €59.50€39.73Part design history, part trip down musical memory lane, this anthology of jazz album artwork is above all a treasure trove of creative and cultural inspiration. Spanning half a century, it assembles the most daring and dynamic jazz cover designs that... -
Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited by Mark Polizzotti
RRP: €11.89€9.13"Highway 61 Revisited" resonates because of its enduring emotional appeal. Few songwriters before Dylan or since have combined so effectively the intensely personal with the spectacularly universal. In "Like a Rolling Stone", his gleeful excoriation of... -
Hard-core: Life of My Own by Harley Flanagan 9781627310338
RRP: €26.17€17.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627310338Author Harley FlanaganFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S. -
Kate Bush: The biography by Rob Jovanovic
RRP: €13.08€8.81Kate Bush has written some of the most memorable songs in pop music history. Wuthering Heights, her debut single shot to number 1 in 1978 and she remains something of an enigma over a quarter of a century later. A singer, songwriter, musician, dancer,... -
The People's Songs: The Story of Modern Britain in 50 Records by Stuart Maconie
RRP: €20.22€14.61These are the songs that we have listened to, laughed to, loved to and laboured to, as well as downed tools and danced to. Covering the last seven decades, Stuart Maconie looks at the songs that have sound tracked our changing times, and - just sometimes... -
Live At the Brixton Academy: A riotous life in the music business by J. S. Rafaeli
RRP: €13.08€9.25In 1982, aged twenty-three, Simon Parkes paid GBP1 for a virtually derelict building in Brixton. Over the next fifteen years he turned it into Britain's most iconic music venue. And now he's telling his story: full of fond - and wild - reminiscences of... -
Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop by Bob Stanley
RRP: €29.75€21.44The prequel to Bob Stanley's universally acclaimed Yeah Yeah Yeah, Let's Do It is the only book that brings together all genres to tell the definitive story of the birth of Pop, from 1900 to the mid-fifties. 'An absolute landmark/joy/gossip-fest/door to... -
Love Is A Mix Tape: A Memoir Rob Sheffield 9780749928759
RRP: €13.08€8.81In this stunning memoir, Rob Sheffield, a veteran rock and pop culture critic and staff writer for Rolling Stone magazine, tells the story of his musical coming of age, and how rock music, the first love of his life, led him to his second, a girl named... -
The Art of the Bizarre Vinyl Sleeve: Crazy, Exotic, Tastelesss, Funny, Peculiar, Strange, Inept, Mind-Boggling, or Just Plain Wrong Simon Robinson 9780995523647
RRP: €29.74€20.96From the collection of Steve Goldman comes a new book, The Art Of The Bizarre Vinyl Sleeve, containing the best of the worst as it were! In essence this book revolves around Steve's remarkable archive of album covers which first surfaced at a public... -
Bedsit Disco Queen: How I grew up and tried to be a pop star Tracey Thorn 9781844088683
RRP: €13.08€8.81I was only sixteen when I bought an electric guitar and joined a band. A year later, I formed an all-girl band called the Marine Girls and played gigs, and signed to an indie label, and started releasing records. Then, for eighteen years, between 1982... -
You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone: The Biography of Nico by Jennifer Otter Bickerdike
RRP: €15.46€10.19A ROUGH TRADE, MOJO, UNCUT & LOUDER THAN WAR BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE RALPH J. GLEASON MUSIC BOOK AWARDA redemptive, myth-shattering biography of one of the twentieth century's most underestimated creative and artistic forces.'Here is the... -
Queen in 3-D: (3-D Stereoscopic Book) by Brian May 9781999667429
RRP: €35.70€26.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999667429Format HardbackPage Count 256Imprint The London Stereoscopic CompanyPublisher The London Stereoscopic Company -
Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta by Robert Palmer 9780140062236
RRP: €21.42€12.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140062236Author Robert PalmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 130mm... -
Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique by Dan LeRoy
RRP: €11.89€9.13Derided as one-hit wonders, estranged from their original producer and record label, and in self-imposed exile in Los Angeles, the Beastie Boys were written off by most observers before even beginning to record their second album - an embarrassing... -
Play It Hard by Luke Meddings 9781838018146
RRP: €14.27€9.52The Beatles. Bob Dylan. The Beach Boys. Using timelines derived from release dates, studio sessions and personal encounters, Play It Hard traces the paths of influence during a 3-year period when these artists cross-pollinated via recordings, rivalry,... -
Punk Rock: An Oral History by John Robb
RRP: €26.18€19.06'To see The Clash on the White Riot tour was like discovering how to be a rock star: you just did it yourself. You didn't wait for someone to come and discover you. That was the most important thing that came out of punk... We came home and we cut our... -
I Am Dogboy: The Underworld Diaries by Karl Hyde 9780571328659
RRP: €33.32€23.15In 1999, Underworld's Karl Hyde began writing a public diary. Every day since then, Hyde has documented his thoughts, lyrical works-in-progress, poetry and biographical essays alongside 'found' visuals. For the last sixteen years, these entries have... -
Walls Come Tumbling Down: The Music and Politics of Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge by Daniel Rachel
RRP: €17.84€13.24Walls Come Tumbling Down charts the pivotal period between 1976 and 1992 that saw politics and pop music come together for the first time in Britain's musical history; musicians and their fans suddenly became instigators of social change, and 'the... -
Throbbing Gristle's Twenty Jazz Funk Greats by Drew Daniel
RRP: €11.89€9.13Drew Daniel explores the album's multiple agendas: a series of close readings of each song, with key concepts, strategies, and contexts.Previous writings about Throbbing Gristle have tended to dissolve into lurid half-truths about deviance on and... -
The World According To Noddy: Life Lessons Learned In and Out of Rock & Roll Noddy Holder 9781472119674
RRP: €13.08€8.81What makes Noddy Holder tick? Godfather of glam, national treasure and thinking grandmother's crumpet, Noddy has been at the epicentre of British pop culture since he stormed on to the music scene in the 1960s, and in The World According to Noddy he... -
Sex and Gender in Pop/Rock Music: The Blues Through the Beatles to Beyoncé by Prof Walter Everett
RRP: €28.55€24.92Following the 1960's sexual revolution, rock and pop have continued to map the societal understanding of sexuality, feminism, and gender studies. Although scholarship has well established how early rock and roll encouraged and affected issues of sex in... -
Don't You Leave Me Here: My Life by Wilko Johnson
RRP: €13.08€8.81'Man, there's nothing like being told you're dying to make you feel alive.' In 2013, Dr Feelgood founder, Blockheads member and musical legend Wilko Johnson was diagnosed with terminal cancer. With ten months to live, he decided to accept his imminent... -
Seasick Steve: Ramblin' Man by Matthew Wright 9781784189884
RRP: €11.89€8.15It remains one of the most remarkable breakthroughs in music history. The nervous and dishevelled figure who played his punk-blues song 'Dog House Boogie' before Jools Holland and his dumbstruck Hootenanny audience that New Year's Eve 2006 seemed to have... -
Pete Townshend: The Minstrel's Dilemma by Larry David Smith 9780275964726
€78.46Smith explores Pete Townshend's artistic struggle between his own creative impulses and those of the commercial public. Faced with a modern version of the minstrel's dilemma, Townshend, early in his career, ignored his creative instincts to satisfy... -
Saxon - Never Surrender (or Nearly Good Looking): An Autobiography by Biff Byford 9783931624446
RRP: €19.03€12.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783931624446Author Biff ByfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint IP VerlagPublisher IP VerlagWeight(grams) 358g -
A Freewheelin' Time by Suze Rotolo
RRP: €20.23€11.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767926881Author Suze RotoloFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)... -
Elvis and the Memphis Mafia Alanna Nash 9781845131289
RRP: €17.84€11.50A monumental oral biography filled with raucous joy, aching loss and terrible poignancy, Elvis & the Memphis Mafia is the first book to capture the King - the man and the phenomenon - in his full complexity. Through revealing... -
My Appetite for Destruction: Sex & Drugs & Guns 'N' Roses by Steven Adler
RRP: €11.89€7.90From original Guns N' Roses drummer Steven Adler comes a tale of sex, drugs, excess, hairspray and and intense 20-year struggle with addiction. Guns N' Roses is one of the world's most successful rock bands, with estimated sales of 90 million... -
On Some Faraway Beach: The Life and Times of Brian Eno David Sheppard 9781409157625
RRP: €17.84€11.66Authorised biography of Brian Eno - the 'Father of Ambient Music'A sonic alchemist to the stars, Brian Eno's address book is a veritable who's who of rock and pop. Tellingly, his involvement with Roxy Music, David Bowie, Talking Heads and U2 has... -
Sounds Like London: 100 Years of Black Music in the Capital by Lloyd Bradley
RRP: €17.84€13.03For as long as people have been migrating to London, so has their music. An essential link to home, music also has the power to shape communities in surprising ways. Black music has been part of London's landscape since the First World War, when the... -
The Black British Quiz Book by Prtyhere 9780008584313
RRP: €15.46€10.09Dive into this fun and entertaining quiz book from the UK's biggest Black British pub quiz! Get your thinking caps on because it's time to test your knowledge on all things Black and British, with rounds on... -
Streisand: A Biography by Anne Edwards
RRP: €17.84€14.20Streisand: A Biography is much more than the story of the world's greatest living performer, how she got there, and why she remains at the top after three decades, it is also, in Anne Edward's sure hands, a compelling chronicle of a woman's fight to... -
Japrocksampler by Julian Cope 9780747593034
RRP: €17.84€13.03Julian Cope, eccentric and visionary rock musician, follows the runaway underground success of his book "Krautrocksampler" with "Japrocksampler", a cult deconstruction of Japanese rock music, and reveals what really happened when East met West after... -
Reggae My Life Is by Copeland Forbes
RRP: €26.17€18.12Copeland Forbes is one of the most consequential figures in the history of modern Jamaican music. Through his roles as personal and tour manager for some of the most iconic personalities in music, Forbes has been a witness to and a participant in some of... -
Ian Gillan: The Autobiography of Deep Purple's Lead Singer by Ian Gillan
RRP: €11.89€8.15With hits including `Child in Time', and the iconic `Smoke on the Water', Deep Purple established themselves as one of Britain's greatest rock bandsFrom the moment he saw Elvis Presley on screen, Ian Gillan, a working class teenager from Hounslow, was... -
Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kirk Walker Graves
RRP: €11.89€9.13In the first decade of the twenty-first century, Kanye West created the most compelling body of pop music by an American artist during the period. Having risen from obscurity as a precocious producer through the ranks of Jay Z's Roc-A-Fella records, by... -
David Bowie Low by Hugo Wilcken
RRP: €11.89€9.13"One day I blew my nose and half my brains came out." Los Angeles, 1976. David Bowie is holed up in his Bel-Air mansion, drifting into drug-induced paranoia and confusion. Obsessed with black magic and the Holy Grail, he's built an altar in the living... -
Reelin' in the Years: The Soundtrack of a Northern Life by Mark Radcliffe 9781849832229
RRP: €11.89€7.63When Mark Radcliffe was born in the late 1950s, Britain was trying to find its own version of the dangerously sexy Elvis ... we gave the world Cliff Richard but by the time Mark was old enough to recognise pop songs on the radio, the UK was exploding...