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Infinite and Beyond: Deep Purple 1993-2022 by Adrian Jarvis 9781915246387
RRP: £16.99£12.28NEC Arena Birmingham, November 9th 1993. Deep Purple were in crisis. No longer able to tolerate the presence of singer Ian Gillan, Ritchie Blackmore, the ace guitarist, made his displeasure known in a way that would have consequences none present could... -
George Clinton and the Cosmic Odyssey of the P-Funk Empire by Kris Needs 9781783051540
RRP: £19.95£15.40The first in-depth biography of one of music's most fascinating, colourful and innovative characters. This book is the most comprehensive history yet of the life, music and cultural significance of the last of the great black music pioneers and the era... -
Birth School Metallica Death: 1983-1991 by Paul Brannigan
RRP: £14.99£9.80Metallica have sold in excess of 100 million albums and won seven Grammys. Their journey from scuzzy Los Angeles garages to the stages of the world's biggest stadia has been an epic and often traumatic one, and one of the few truly great rock 'n' roll... -
Jazz Anecdotes: Second Time around by Bill Crow
RRP: £15.99£11.61This second edition will feature new anecdotes involving Benny Goodman, Billy Taylor, Jackie Gleason, Duke Ellington, Wynton Marsalis and many more as well as a new foreword by Crow. "Read this somewhere where you're not afraid to be seen laughing out... -
A Long Strange Trip by Dennis Mcnally 9780552171977
RRP: £18.99£14.01The Grateful Dead were one of the most fascinating rock bands and cultural phenomena of the twentieth century. Despite having few mainstream hits, from 1965 to 1995 the Dead blazed an extraordinary incendiary trail across the rock firmament. Exploding... -
24 Hour Party People by Anthony Wilson 9780752220253
RRP: £10.99£7.77'The musicians own everything. The company owns nothing. All our bands have the freedom to f**k off'' Written in blood, The Factory non-contract set out the manifesto for one of the most influential and progressive record labels of our time..... -
Extreme Music: Silence to Noise and Everything In between by Michael Tau
RRP: £28.99£19.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627311243Author Michael TauFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S. -
Disco's Out... Murder's In!: The True Story of Frank the Shank and L.A.'s Deadliest Punk Rock Gang by Heath Mattioli 9781627310185
RRP: £21.99£14.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627310185Author Heath MattioliFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 397g -
Pre:Fab: The story of one man, his drums, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison by Colin Hanton 9781914227370
RRP: £14.99£10.95PRE:FAB! is the captivating memoir of Colin Hanton, telling of his early years as a musician and his career with John Lennon's Quarry Men. Colin drummed with the band for three years between 1956-1959, during which time both Paul McCartney and George... -
Amy Winehouse by Mick O'Shea 9780859654821
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859654821Author Mick O'SheaFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd -
Blondie's Parallel Lines by Kembrew McLeod
RRP: £9.99£7.67Blondie's Parallel Lines mixed punk, disco and radio-friendly FM rock with nostalgic influences from 1960s pop and girl group hits. This 1978 album kept one foot planted firmly in the past while remaining quite forward-looking, an impulse that can be... -
Byrds Requiem For The Timeless Volume 2 Johnny Rogan 9789529540952
RRP: £30.00£23.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789529540952Author Johnny RoganFormat HardbackPage Count 1248Imprint Rogan HousePublisher Rogan House -
Blues with a Feeling: The Little Walter Story by Tony Glover 9780415937115
RRP: £39.99£35.06Whenever you hear the prevalent wailing blues harmonica in commercials, film soundtracks or at a blues club, you are experiencing the legacy of the master harmonica player, Little Walter. Immensely popular in his lifetime, Little Walter had fourteen Top... -
Beer Drinkers And Hell Raisers: The Rise of Motorhead by Martin Popoff 9781770413474
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770413474Author Martin PopoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Stone Roses: The Stone Roses by Alex Green
RRP: £9.99£7.67The Stone Roses shows a band sizzling with skill, consumed with drive and aspiration and possessing an almost preternatural mastery of the pop paradigm. This book explores the political and cultural zeitgeist of England in 1989 and attempts to apprehend... -
K-POP Now!: The Korean Music Revolution Mark James Russell 9784805313008
RRP: £13.99£9.60"This is the book on K-pop everybody has been waiting for....A must-read!" -Charlotte Naudin, PR Manager, Torpedo ProductionsK-Pop Now! examines Korea's high-energy pop music and is written for its growing legions of fans. Pop culture expert Mark Russell... -
The Little Guide to Freddie Mercury: The show must go on by Orange Hippo! 9781800695498
RRP: £6.99£5.00A charismatic performer and frontman to Queen, Freddie Mercury is regarded as one of the greatest rock singers in music history.Bursting with all the famed wit, wisdom and wisecracks that made the late, great showman's larger-than-life career so... -
Dominance and Submission: The Blue Oyster Cult Canon by Martin Popoff 9781915246325
RRP: £16.99£12.28In Dominance and Submission: The Blue Oyster Cult Canon, three-time BOC book author Martin Popoff turns the microphone away from himself to moderate a gathered and esteemed panel of Cult experts for deep-dive discussions on every Blue Oyster Cult studio... -
Moanin' at Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin' Wolf by James Segrest 9781560256830
£17.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560256830Author James SegrestFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Thunder's Mouth PressPublisher Thunder's Mouth PressWeight(grams) 578gDimensions(mm)... -
Radiohead's Kid A by Marvin Lin
RRP: £9.99£7.67This is a brilliant exploration of Radiohead's game-changing album, looking at its place in the career of "The World's Best Band" with ten years of hindsight. Radiohead's Kid A never had a chance on paper. Not only did the band have the unenviable task... -
London Life: The Magazine of the Swinging Sixties by Simon Wells
RRP: £25.00£19.22While many books, films and documentaries claim to have captured the phenomenon that was Swinging London, just one magazine was present in the capital during the 1960s to illustrate this extraordinary moment as it unravelled. London Life emerged in... -
Southern Man: Music And Mayhem In The American South (A Memoir) Alan Walden 9781911036715
RRP: £14.95£9.78We developed reputations real fast. We treated our entertainers right. We got them paid. Other agents and promoters and managers showed them the money. We got them the money. We brought respect to the African American artist in America. We brought them... -
Oasis: Every Album, Every Song by Andrew Rooney 9781789523003
RRP: £15.99£11.61Dave Grohl once said of Oasis, 'We've played shows with them before, where we play with them we think "That's the greatest rock band I've ever seen in my life"'. The quality of the songs they were releasing, especially between 1994-1996, would seem to... -
In the Country of Country: A Journey to the Roots of American Music by Nicholas Dawidoff
RRP: £8.99£6.08A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century.In his critically acclaimed book, In the Country of Country, Nicholas Dawidoff travels to the origins... -
The Interpretation of French Song Pierre Bernac 9781871082630
RRP: £17.95£16.98Detailing the understanding and performance of the French melodie, famous French baritone Pierre Bernac provides insight in this book for singers, accompanists, and concert-goers. Teamed with composer Francis Poulenc for more than 25 years, Bernac and... -
Joe Cocker: The Authorised Biography by J. P. Bean 9780753509111
RRP: £15.99£11.61Joe Cocker is a rock legend. A gas fitter who went from playing Sheffield pubs to the stadiums of the world, he was the man who no one - not even himself - expected to survive the age of 30. Now, approaching his 60s and having recovered his life and... -
Dream Baby Dream: Suicide: A New York Story by Kris Needs 9781783057887
RRP: £19.95£19.21Appearing in early 70s New York City as primal prototype street punks, Suicide are now hailed as one of the most important and influential groups of the 20th century, inspiring that decade's major musical movements but too feared and shunned to be... -
Queen: The Complete Illustrated Lyrics by Queen 9781617130137
RRP: £42.00£38.72In 2011 the world celebrated the 40th anniversary of Queen a one of the most innovative glamorous and influential bands in history. Over the course of the band's career they have grossed 170 million album sales worldwide have written 18 number one... -
Switched On P: How Popular Music Works, and Why it Matters by Nate Sloan
RRP: £27.99£16.23Pop music surrounds us - in our cars, over supermarket speakers, even when we are laid out at the dentist - but how often do we really hear what's playing? Switched on Pop is the book based on the eponymous podcast that has been hailed by NPR, Rolling... -
Can's Tago Mago by Alan Warner
RRP: £9.99£7.67Finally, a brilliant exploration of the German rock band Can's 1971 album Tago Mago. This hugely unique and influential album deserves close analysis from a fan, rather than a musicologist. Novelist Alan Warner details the concrete music we hear on the... -
Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan by Alex Pappademas 9781477324998
RRP: £27.99£23.27A literary and visual exploration of the songs of Steely Dan. Steely Dan's songs are exercises in fictional world-building. No one else in the classic-rock canon has conjured a more vivid cast of rogues and heroes, creeps and schmucks, lovers and... -
Deep In A Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker by James Gavin 9780099590514
RRP: £14.99£10.95From his emergence in the 1950s - when an uncannily beautiful young man from Oklahoma appeared in the West Coast and became, seemingly overnight, the prince of 'cool' jazz - until his violent, drug-related death in Amsterdam in 1988, Chet Baker lived a... -
Backbeat: Earl Palmer's Story by Tony Scherman
£14.27There he is, drumming on "Tutti Frutti," "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'," and thousands of other songs. As a studio player in New Orleans and Los Angeles from the 1940s through the 1970s, Earl Palmer co-created hundreds of hits and transformed the lope... -
Love Me Do to Love Me Don't: The Beatles on Record by Spencer Leigh
RRP: £14.00£10.85What made the Beatles so special? Drawing upon Spencer Leigh's extensive interviews this book is packed with contributions from Mike Batt, Pete Best, Dave Clark through to Ken Dodd, Hunter Davies, Adam Faith, Georgie Fame, Alan Freeman, Steve Harley,... -
Glen E. Friedman: My Rules by Glen E. Friedman
£52.47The definitive monograph of Glen E. Friedman, a pioneer of skate, punk, and hip-hop photography, including much never-before-published work. Glen E. Friedman is best known for his work capturing and promoting rebellion in his portraits of artists such as... -
Trampled Under Foot: The Power and Excess of Led Zeppelin by Barney Hoskyns
RRP: £20.00£14.46A unique look at the history, adventures, myths and realities of this most legendary and powerful of bands, it is a labour of love based on hours of first-hand and original interviews. What emerges is a compelling portrait of the four musicians... -
Queer Blues by Darryl W Bullock
RRP: £20.00£14.69From the very beginning, the blues has had a close connection with the LGBTQ community. There is a long and decorated history of so-called 'dirty blues' songs, stretching back beyond the earliest attempts to capture the blues on record. The 1920s and 30s... -
Bob Dylan: A Biography by Bob Batchelor 9780313381027
£39.49Bob Dylan transcends music. He has established himself as one of the most important figures in entertainment history. This biography examines the life and work of the iconic artist, including his groundbreaking achievements of the last two decades. In... -
When Ziggy Played the Marquee: David Bowie's Last Performance as Ziggy Stardust by Terry O'Neill 9781851498666
RRP: £30.00£21.00When Ziggy played The Marquee Club in Soho, London, in October 1973, most of those invited to the small venue did not realise that this would be the last performance David Bowie would ever give as Ziggy Stardust. Terry O'Neill, celebrated photographer,... -
Motherless Child: The Definitive Biography of Eric Clapton Paul Scott 9781472212733
RRP: £12.99£8.60From the Yardbirds to Cream, Blind Faith to Derek and the Dominos, and a hugely-successful solo career, Eric Clapton's fifty years in the music business can look like an uninterrupted rise to become one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived. But...