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The Dirty Version: On Stage, in the Studio, and in the Streets with Ol' Dirty Bastard by Buddha Monk
RRP: £9.99£6.64On the tenth anniversary of his death, The Dirty Version is the first biography of hip hop superstar and founding member of the Wu-Tang Clan, Ol' Dirty Bastard, to be written by someone from his inner circle: his right-hand man and best friend, Buddha... -
Joy Division by Paul Morely
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859655415Author Paul MorleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd -
All Of Me: My Story by Claire Richards 9781447217411
£17.13Claire Richards is loved by women everywhere for her warm and genuine personality. Now she writes honestly about her life, taking us from the bullied schoolgirl who dreamed of peforming at Wembley to finding stardom with Steps. She reveals the secrets of... -
Jack White: How He Built an Empire from the Blues by Nick Hasted 9781783058181
RRP: £20.00£14.69Jack White was born John Anthony Gillis in 1975 into a musical, Catholic family of 10 children in Detroit. He learned to play the guitar, drums and piano. After moonlighting in several underground Detroit bands as a drummer, White founded The White... -
The Country Blues by Samuel Charters 9780306800146
RRP: £15.99£13.33From the field cries and work chants of Southern Negroes emerged a rich and vital music called the country blues, an intensely personal expression of the pains and pleasures of black life. This music- recorded during the twenties by men like Blind Lemon... -
Country Music Originals: The Legends and the Lost by Tony Russell 9780199732661
RRP: £16.49£13.33Graced by more than 200 illustrations, many of them seldom seen and some never before published, this sparkling volume offers vivid portraits of the men and women who created country music, the artists whose lives and songs formed the rich tradition from... -
The Encyclopedia of Dead Rock Stars: Heroin, Handguns, and Ham Sandwiches by Jeremy Simmonds 9781613744789
RRP: £24.95£21.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613744789Author Jeremy SimmondsFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review PressWeight(grams) 1451gDimensions(mm)... -
Michael Jackson's Dangerous by Susan Fast
RRP: £9.99£7.67Dangerous is Michael Jackson's coming of age album. Granted, that's a bold claim to make given that many think his best work lay behind him by the time this record was made. It offers Jackson on a threshold, at long last embracing adulthood-politically... -
The Beat, General Public and Fine Young Cannibals On Track: Every Album, Every Song by Steve Parry
RRP: £15.99£11.61Bursting out of industrial Birmingham in the late 1970s and hitching a ride on the Two-Tone bandwagon for their first single, The English Beat answered the question of whether punk and reggae should mix better than anyone else. Their stunning first album... -
Barbra Streisand the Albums, the Singles, the Music by Matt Howe
RRP: £53.00£42.24On February 25, 1963, Columbia Records released The Barbra Streisand Album. The first song was "Cry Me a River," and with that a star was born. Barbra Joan Streisand had a zany personality backed by a talent that Stephen Sondheim once described as "one... -
What Brass Bands Did For Me by Chris Helme 9780752449821
RRP: £15.99£12.25A collection of memories and archive photographs that will delight brass-band fans everywhere.Book InformationISBN 9780752449821Author Chris HelmeFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams)... -
Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise and Fall of SST Records by Jim Ruland 9780306925498
RRP: £16.99£12.18A no-holds-barred narrative history of the iconic label that brought the world Black Flag, Husker Du, Sonic Youth, Soundgarden, and more, by the co-author of Do What You Want and My Damage.Greg Ginn started SST Records in the sleepy beach town of Hermosa... -
Anthology of Essays on Deep Listening by Monique Buzzarte
£32.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781889471181Author Monique BuzzarteFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Ministry of Maat, IncPublisher Ministry of Maat, IncWeight(grams)... -
The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire by Ted Gioia 9780199937394
RRP: £45.99£33.72Written by award-winning jazz historian Ted Gioia, this comprehensive guide offers an illuminating look at more than 250 seminal jazz compositions. In this comprehensive and unique survey, here are the songs that sit at the heart of the jazz repertoire,... -
Lightnin' Hopkins: His Life and Blues by Alan Govenar 9781641604284
RRP: £16.95£13.312011 ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research for Best History By the time of his death in 1982, Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins was likely the most recorded blues artist in history. This brilliant biography illuminates the many... -
Royal Albert Hall: A celebration in 150 unforgettable moments by Royal Albert Hall
RRP: £35.00£25.89The most iconic concert hall in the world celebrates 150 years with a stunning review of history's finest performances and performers. Opening with a personal letter from Queen Elizabeth II, this beautiful book celebrates 150 moments that have shaped The... -
Travelling Man: On The Road With The Searchers by Frank Allen
RRP: £12.99£11.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899750467Author Frank AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Aureus PublishingPublisher Aureus PublishingDimensions(mm) 156mm * 234mm * 15mm -
Dead Kennedys' Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables by Michael Stewart Foley
RRP: £9.99£7.67In 1978, San Francisco, a city that has seen more than its share of trauma, plunged from a summer of political tension into an autumn cascade of malevolence that so eluded human comprehension it seemed almost demonic. The battles over property taxes and... -
Rapper's Deluxe: How Hip Hop Made The World by Todd Boyd 9781838666224
RRP: £59.95£46.37A visual and cultural history of hip hop, charting its meteoric rise from underground trailblazer to global tastemaker To tell the story of contemporary American culture is to tell the story of hip hop. From its humble, underground origins, hip hop... -
Before I Get Old by Dave Marsh
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859655637Author Dave MarshFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd -
Mr. Tambourine Man: The Life and Legacy of The Byrds' Gene Clark by John Einerson 9780879307936
RRP: £18.99£14.32Gene Clark soared to fame as a founding member and frontman of The Byrds one of the most important and influential groups of the '60s. His songwriting with The Byrds and subsequent work as a solo artist and with Dillard & Clark mark him as one of rock's... -
Blues Legacies And Black Feminism: Gertrude Ma Rainey Angela Y. Davis 9780679771265
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679771265Author Angela Y. DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 420g -
Electric Light Orchestra: Song by Song by John Van der Kiste 9781781556009
RRP: £16.99£12.28ELO (The Electric Light Orchestra) were devised by Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne of The Move as a fusion of rock and contemporary classical-style music, combining orchestral instruments, guitars, keyboards and drums in the same line-up. Their aim was to... -
Songwriter's Rhyming Dictionary: Quick, Simple & Easy to Use; Rock, Pop, Folk & Hip Hop by Jake Jackson
RRP: £9.99£7.11Finding the right rhyme can be excruciating, songwriters too often choosing ridiculous words in desperation. This is an invaluable resource for any budding songwriter or even an experienced lyricist with writer's block. Featuring tips on songwriting, the... -
Ozzy and Black Sabbath: What Evil Lurks Joel Mciver 9780785843696
RRP: £18.99£13.75Revel in the outrageous life of Ozzy Osbourne and the band that created the modern metal scene through inside stories, photos, and memorabilia. Few celebrities are known only by their first name. But say the name Ozzy, and there's only one who comes to... -
Dub by Michael Veal 9780819565723
£27.52When 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... -
The Complete Keyboard Player: Songbook 2 by Kenneth Baker 9780711906402 [USED COPY]
RRP: £13.99£2.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780711906402Author Kenneth BakerPage Count 40Imprint Music Sales LtdPublisher Hal Leonard Europe Limited -
Feel: Robbie Williams by Chris Heath
RRP: £16.99£12.28The publication of Feel: Robbie Williams by Chris Heath in September 2004 caused shockwaves of controversy and delight. Not only was its publication trumpeted in tabloids, on TV and the radio, but it was also critically lauded by the broadsheets... -
Taylor Swift: Icon by Katy Sprinkel 9781637274866
RRP: £13.95£10.21With her deeply personal songwriting, countless hit songs, and genre-bending yet unmistakable sound, Taylor Swift has cemented her status as one of pop music's most iconic and culture-defining voices. On the heels of her latest album, "Midnights," this... -
Hendrix: Setting the Record Straight by John McDermott 9780751511291 [USED COPY]
RRP: £13.99£2.29Seven years in the making, this is the complete account of the career, music and legacy of Jimi Hendrix, based entirely on first-person recollections and new, exclusive photographs and documents. Since his death in 1970 at the age of twenty-seven, Jimi... -
Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back by Christopher R. Weingarten
RRP: £9.99£7.67Christopher Weingarten's take on "Nation Of Millions" is a nuts-and-bolts account of how the Bomb Squad produced such a singular-sounding record - the engineering, sampling, scratching, constructing, deconstructing and reconstructing. How they re-sampled... -
The Creation of Beethoven's Nine Symphonies by Barry A.R. Cooper 9781783277919
RRP: £95.00£90.68Offers a unique investigation of the composition of the entire corpus of Beethoven's symphonies, reconstructing their creation through the most extensive study of Beethoven's sketches yet. Beethoven's nine symphonies are a cornerstone of Western... -
Abba by Andrew Oldham 9780283072291
£17.53Once known for successful pop records and a wardrobe of polyester jump suits, this is a reassessment of a band now cemented in their position as one of the all time great pop acts. ABBA were once reviled by most critics, but now bands like Bjorn Again... -
Lexicon Devil: The Short Life and Fast Times of Darby Crash and the Germs by Don Bolles
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780922915705Author Don BollesFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 492g -
Satchmo by Louis Armstrong
RRP: £13.99£11.69"In all my whole career the Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in. It was the honky-tonk where levee workers would congregate every Saturday night and trade with the gals who'd stroll up and down the floor and the bar. Those guys... -
Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove by Ahmir Thompson
RRP: £13.99£10.32The World According to Questlove Mo' Meta Blues is a punch-drunk memoir in which Everyone's Favorite Questlove tells his own story while tackling some of the lates, the greats, the fakes, the philosophers, the heavyweights, and the true originals of the... -
Voice Without Restraint: Bob Dylan's Lyrics 1961 - 1979 by John Herdman
RRP: £9.99£6.99Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in June 2016, and seldom in recent years has it been more richly deserved. That a song writer's lyrics should be regarded as literature was an idea at which many were surprised. Others have... -
Long Distance Voyagers: The Story of The Moody Blues Volume 1 (1965 - 1979) by Marc Cushman 9780999507803
RRP: £37.95£35.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999507803Author Marc CushmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 812Imprint Jacobs Brown PressPublisher Jacobs Brown PressWeight(grams) 1379gDimensions(mm) 254mm *... -
Chicago Blues by Mike Rowe
RRP: £12.99£9.70Chicago has always had a reputation as a "wide open town" with a high tolerance for gangsters, illegal liquor, and crooked politicians. It has also been the home for countless black musicians and the birthplace of a distinctly urban blues,more... -
Forces in Motion: Anthony Braxton and the Meta-reality of Creative Music by Graham Lock 9780486824093
RRP: £29.49£20.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486824093Author Graham LockFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 625gDimensions(mm)...