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On 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...

Apologies 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

Claire 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 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...

From 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...

Graced 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...

Apologies 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)...

Dangerous 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...

Bursting 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...

On 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...

A 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)...

A 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...

Apologies 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)...

Written 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,...

2011 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...

The 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...

Apologies 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

In 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...

A 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...

Apologies 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

Gene 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...

Apologies 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

ELO (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...

Finding 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...

Revel 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...

When 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...

Apologies 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

The 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...

With 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...

Seven 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...

Christopher 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...

Offers 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...

Once 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...

Apologies 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

"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...

The 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...

Bob 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...

Apologies 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 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...

Apologies 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)...