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Bee Gees: Children of the World: A Sunday Times Book of the Week by Bob Stanley 9781788705424
RRP: £15.99£12.505/5 - CLASSIC POP5/5 - RECORD COLLECTOR4/5 - THE TELEGRAPH4/5 - MOJOEveryone has their favourite era of the Bee Gees' career, but so much is still unclear about this celebrated but often misunderstood band. This book will provide the perfect route in,... -
Where's My Welly?: The World's Greatest Music Festival Challenge Matt Everitt 9781780679778
RRP: £9.99£7.20From muddy fields to rock legends, Woodstock to Glastonbury, folk to dance, this book celebrates the greatest music festivals of all time. Explore the headliners and highlights from Bob Dylan to Jimi Hendrix and Oasis and beyond. Discover Monsters of... -
The Great History of ROCK MUSIC: From Elvis Presley to the Present Day Ernesto Assante 9788854420007
RRP: £35.00£24.83Rock is not just a genre of music. It is a way of being; an attitude. It was a movement that swept and sweeps stages around the world from the 1950s until present day. The universe of rock is a star-studded one; filled with artists and songs that have... -
The Heavy Metal Fun Time Activity Book by Aye Jay Morano 9781550227987
RRP: £9.99£6.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550227987Author Aye Jay MoranoFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 133g -
Louis Armstrong's New Orleans by Thomas Brothers
RRP: £23.50£19.71In the early twentieth century, New Orleans was a place of colliding identities and histories, and Louis Armstrong was a gifted young man of psychological nimbleness. A dark-skinned, impoverished child, he grew up under low expectations, Jim Crow... -
The Language of Singing Bowls: Choose, Play and Understand Your Bowl Frank Perry (Frank Perry) 9781905398386
RRP: £9.99£8.76Frank Perry, author of Himalayan Sound Revelations, presents a unique guide to the whole world of the singing bowl and its companion instruments, the tingsha and drilbu. Chapters cover : * what is a singing bowl * how are they used * their history * how... -
Knock! Knock! Knock! On Wood: My Life in Soul by Eddie Floyd
RRP: £25.95£17.52Known for the classics "Knock on Wood," "634-5789," "Raise Your Hand," "Big Bird," and "I've Never Found a Girl (To Love Me Like You Do)," among others, Eddie Floyd's career as a soul legend spans over sixty years. His professional singing career began... -
Dear Angel of Death by Simone White 9781937027674
RRP: £12.00£8.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937027674Author Simone WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Ugly Duckling PressePublisher Ugly Duckling PresseWeight(grams) 250g -
Hit Me, Fred: Recollections of a Sideman by Fred Wesley
RRP: £23.99£20.84With Hit Me, Fred, sensational sideman Fred Wesley Jr. moves front and center to tell his life story. A legendary funk, soul, and jazz musician, Wesley is best known for his work in the late sixties and early seventies with James Brown and as the leader... -
Christmas Motets by John Rutter
RRP: £16.75£12.92Gathered in this volume are some of the finest motets and related pieces for the season of Christmas. Christmas Motets provides a superb choice of pieces for all choirs looking for something new. John Rutter has prepared completely new editions of all... -
My Friend Michael: An Ordinary Friendship with an Extraordinary Man by Frank Cascio 9780062090065
RRP: £16.99£12.68Frank Cascio was a close friend of tragic superstar Michael Jackson for more than twenty-five years. In My Friend Michael, Cascio offers a deeply personal, behind-the-scenes look at the Michael Jackson he knew. Filled with never-before-told stories and... -
Cookin': Hard Bop and Soul Jazz 1954-65 by Kenny Mathieson
RRP: £16.00£13.23Following on from Giant Steps, comes the second instalment in Kenny Mathieson's series of jazz histories.Cookin' examines the birth and development of two of the key jazz styles of the post-war era, hard bop and its related offshoot, soul jazz. Hard bop... -
Dinosaur Jr.'s You're Living All Over Me by Nick Attfield
RRP: £9.99£7.67This is an in-depth study of the visceral slacker classic from 1987, an album that influenced enormously the nascent alternative scene. Dinosaur Jr, the stereotypical slackers. Mascis, Barlow, Murph (just Murph): three early-twenty somethings still... -
Rap Music and the Poetics of Identity by Adam Krims
RRP: £22.99£19.56This is the first book to discuss in detail how rap music is put together musically and how it contributes to the formation of cultural identities for both artists and audiences. It also argues that current skeptical attitudes toward music analysis in... -
From Joy Division To New Order by Mick Middles
RRP: £15.99£11.61FACTORY RECORDS' REPUTATION AND FORTUNE WERE FOUNDED ON TWO BANDS -JOY DIVISION AND NEW ORDER - AND ONE SINGLE-MINDED AND STUBBORN PERSONALITY: ITS MEDIA-FRIENDLY COMPANY DIRECTOR ANTHONY H. WILSON. AT THE HEIGHT OF IT'S SUCCESS IN THE LATE 1980S, THE... -
Ludwig van Beethoven: A Very Short Introduction by Mark Evan Bonds
RRP: £8.99£6.45Proposes a new way of listening to Beethoven by understanding his music as an expression of his entire self, not just the iconic scowl Despite the ups and downs of his personal life and professional career - even in the face of deafness - Beethoven... -
Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams by Nick Tosches 9780385334297
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385334297Author Nick ToschesFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House USA... -
The Performer's Voice: Realizing Your Vocal Potential by Meribeth Dayme 9780393979930
£30.95It takes the reader through a concise introduction to vocal mechanics, vocal color, expression, and personal presence, combined with the mental, physical, and imagination skills required for achieving dynamic performance. Through simple exercises,... -
The AB Real Book, C Bass clef by ABRSM
RRP: £31.00£26.05An impressive range of jazz styles, from New Orleans to contemporary. All tunes suitable for less experienced players, with pitch range, chords and technical level carefully considered. Tunes in their most commonly played keys, with reliable melodies and... -
Young, Gifted & Black: The Story of Trojan Records by Michael De Koningh 9781787601178
RRP: £10.99£9.23Recently resurrected and now enjoying chart success in the 21st century, when it was formed Trojan Records epitomised the punk DIY ethic over a decade before 1976. With a blizzard of individual labels and a marketing strategy that involved selling... -
The Music and Noise of the Stooges, 1967-71: Lost in the Future by Michael S. Begnal 9780367648466
RRP: £39.99£35.06The Stooges have come to be considered one of the most important rock bands, especially in regard to the formation of punk. By emphasizing their influence on later developments, however, critics tend to overlook the significance of the band in their own... -
Soul Music: The Pulse of Race and Music by Candace Allen 9781908096210
RRP: £11.99£11.95Can classical music change lives? In Soul Music, novelist Candace Allen embarks on a personal journey that takes her from the streets of London and Scotland to Venezuela, where the Sistema scheme has offered thousands of young people a route out of the... -
Riot On Sunset Strip: Rock 'n' roll's Last Stand In Hollywood (Revised Edition) Domenic Priore 9781908279903
RRP: £14.95£10.18On the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles in 1965 and 1966 an electrifying scene appeared out of nowhere, exploded into creativity, and then, just as suddenly, vanished. So much remarkable music, art, and social revolution came from one place at one time, it's... -
Let's Go!: Benjamin Orr and The Cars by Joe Milliken 9781538118658
RRP: £35.00£31.35"When Ben got out of the hospital he said, 'When I fall down and can't pick myself up we'll know it's over. Until then, we rock!'" - Jeff Carlisi Benjamin Orr was the co-founder, co-lead singer, and bassist for the platinum-selling rock band The Cars... -
From a Storm to a Hurricane: Rory Storm & The Hurricanes by Anthony Hogan
RRP: £14.99£9.70Rory Storm and the Hurricanes were one of the top bands in Liverpool between 1959 and 1962, bigger even than The Beatles. They shared the bill with the Fab Four on many occasions in their home city and in Hamburg, and their first drummer was none other... -
The Beatles and the Historians: An Analysis of Writings About the Fab Four by Erin Torkelson Weber
RRP: £21.99£17.97Hundreds of books have been written about The Beatles. Over the last half century, their story has been mythologized and de-mythologized and presented by biographers and journalists as history. Yet many of these works do not strictly qualify as history... -
Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins by Diane Diekman 9780252036323
RRP: £23.99£20.84Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins is the first biography of this legendary country music artist and NASCAR driver who scored sixteen number-one hits and two Grammy awards. Yet even with fame and fortune, Marty Robbins always yearned... -
I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution by Craig Marks
RRP: £20.95£13.92Remember When All You Wanted Was Your MTV? The perfect gift for the music fan or child of the eighties in your life.Named One of the Best Books of 2011 by NPR - Spin - USA Today - CNBC - Pitchfork - The Onion - The Atlantic - The Huffington Post - VEVO -... -
The Anthology of Rap by Adam Bradley 9780300141917
RRP: £25.00£21.32An extraordinary collection of lyrics from rap's first thirty years, a showcase of poetic depth and diversity "This landmark work chronicles an earth-shattering movement with deep roots."-New York Times Book Review From the school yards of the South... -
The Pharcyde's Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde by Andrew Barker
RRP: £9.99£7.67As immediately believable as they were cartoonish, as much an inner city cipher as a suburban boys gang, the foursome that made up the Pharcyde were the most relatable MCs to ever pass the mic. On their debut and magnum opus Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde,... -
I Was Britpopped: The A-Z of Britpop by Jenny Natasha 9781908853929
RRP: £20.99£17.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908853929Author Jenny NatashaFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley PressDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 26mm -
Popkiss: The Life and Afterlife of Sarah Records by Michael White
RRP: £24.99£19.85From 1987 to 1995, Bristol, England's Sarah Records was a modest underground success and, for the most part, a critical laughingstock in its native country-sneeringly dismissed as the sad, final repository for a fringe style of music (variously referred... -
Little Symphonies: A Phil Spector Reader by Kingsley Abbott
RRP: £9.99£6.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905139019Author Kingsley AbbottFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Helter Skelter PublishingPublisher Helter Skelter PublishingWeight(grams) 240g -
Serge Gainsbourg's Histoire de Melody Nelson by Darran Anderson
RRP: £9.99£8.67Outside his native France, the view of Serge Gainsbourg was once of a one-hit wonder lothario. This has been slowly replaced by an awareness of how talented and innovative a songwriter he was. Gainsbourg was an eclectic, protean figure; a Dadaist, poete... -
When Reading Really Rocked: The Live Music Scene In Reading 1966-1976 by Adrian Moulton
RRP: £12.99£8.94Relive the decade when Reading's music scene turned itself up to 11 and really started to rock. This hugely well-informed and entertaining account of live music in Reading between 1966 and 1976 charts the journey from the emergence of psychedelia to... -
Rap Capital: An Atlanta Story by Joe Coscarelli 9781982107895
RRP: £12.99£8.18An "impassioned tribute" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) to the most influential music culture today, Atlanta rap-a masterful, street-level story of art, money, race, class, and salvation from acclaimed New York Times reporter Joe Coscarelli.From... -
Bono on Bono: Conversations with Michka Assayas by Michka Assayas
RRP: £12.99£8.60Bono is one of the most influential musicians at work today. Over the past twenty-five years his band, U2, have sold a staggering 130 million albums and collected 14 Grammys. Their success has made Bono one of the most recognisable faces in the world... -
Devo's Freedom of Choice by Evie Nagy
RRP: £9.99£7.67Finally, after all that waiting, The Future arrived in 1980. Ohio art-rockers Devo had plainly prepared with their 1979 second LP Duty Now for the Future, and now it was go time. Propelled by the new decade's high-tech, free-market, pre-AIDS promise,... -
Leon Russell: The Master of Space and Time's Journey Through Rock & Roll History by Bill Janovitz
RRP: £25.00£19.84New York Times BestsellerLeon Russell is an icon, but somehow is still an underappreciated artist. He is spoken of in tones reserved not just for the most talented musicians, but also for the most complex and fascinating. His career is like a roadmap of... -
The Oxford History of Western Music: Music in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by Richard Taruskin 9780195384826
RRP: £34.49£26.75The Oxford History of Western Music is a magisterial survey of the traditions of Western music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time. This text illuminates, through a representative sampling of masterworks, those themes,...