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"If You Don't Know Me By Now," "The Love I Lost," "The Soul Train Theme," "Then Came You," "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now"-the distinctive music that became known as Philly Soul dominated the pop music charts...

Founded by guitarist Mick Jones and fronted by the legendary Joe Strummer the Clash had the charisma of Elvis the integrity of the Beatles and the swagger of the Rolling Stones. Through a series of influential singles and stirring concerts the Clash...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955731310Author Martin NewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Wiven BooksPublisher Wiven Books

Since his untimely death in 1974 at the age of twenty six, Nick Drake has not only gained a huge international audience, which eluded him during his lifetime, but has also come to represent the epitome of English romanticism. Drake's small but much-loved...

Brendan Sullivan was an up-and-coming New York City DJ when he met Stefani Germanotta, then a struggling artist, in 2006. She was a go-go dancer who sewed her own outfits but had bigger ambitions-she wanted nothing less than to take over the music world...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845831639Author Gordon RoxburghFormat PaperbackPage Count 394Imprint Telos Publishing LtdPublisher Telos Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998702339Author Tamara DeverFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Narrow Gate BooksPublisher Narrow Gate BooksWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

"This Is Gonna Hurt: Music, Photography And Life Through The Distorted Lens Of Nikki Sixx", is part photo, part journal - but all Nikki Sixx. It is a collection of compelling photography and stories that capture the rage, love, optimism,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594480188Author The RZAFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Chris Smith's 101 Albums That Changed Popular Music tells the fascinating stories behind the most groundbreaking, influential, and often controversial albums ever recorded, ranging from The Anthology of American Folk Music (1952) to Elephant (2003) by...

Punk Avenue: The New York City Underground 1972-1982 is an intimate look at author Paris-born Phil Marcade's first ten years in the United States where drifted from Boston to the West Coast and back, before winding up in New York City and becoming...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540065841Author Elton JohnPage Count 24Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609807743Author Brendan MullenFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 310g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780739096369Author John CarruthersPage Count 240Imprint Alfred Publishing Company IncPublisher Alfred Publishing Co Inc.,U.S.

Despite his importance and influence, jazz musician, educator, and community leader Horace Tapscott remains relatively unknown to most Americans. In Songs of the Unsung Tapscott shares his life story, recalling his childhood in Houston, moving with his...

ENew York TimesE Bestseller EA Perfect Union of Contrary ThingsE is the authorized biography of musician and vintner Maynard James Keenan. Co-author Sarah Jensen's 30-year friendship with Keenan gives her unique insight into his history and career...

The story of Snoop's musical and spiritual journey to Jamaica, reaching its culmination during the recording of his most recent album and captured in VICE and Snoopadelic Films documentary Reincarnated. Immediately following the death of longtime friend...

This is the ultimate collection of funked-up wisdom and inspiration from the grooving pioneers of R & B soul and funk to the flame-tending funkateers of hip-hop neo-soul and gospel. With interviews and analyses from both groundbreaking old-school...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812974201Author Wynton MarsalisFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 133gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859653268Author Dick PorterFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd

From the "War on Hippies" to the Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, the story of Modern Lovers is a high octane tale of Brutalist architecture, rock 'n' roll ambition and the struggle for identity in a changing world. One of punk rock's foundational documents,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061931369Author Roxana ShiraziFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint IgniterPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 476g

The Beatles: Fab but True examines 16 discrete stories about the Beatles that range from the merely unreal to the cosmically coincidental. Unlike the countless other Beatles books that have been written over the decades, The Beatles: Fab but True does a...

A Matter Of Fact is the perfect companion to Deep Purple's music. Full of bizarre, obscure and amazing facts that have surrounded the band throughout its career of over forty years. If you have ever had disagreements with fellow fans about various...

It's all about the scratch in Groove Music, award-winning music historian Mark Katz's groundbreaking book about the figure that defined hip-hop: the DJ. Today hip-hop is a global phenomenon, and the sight and sound of DJs mixing and scratching is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899750290Author Frank AllenFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint Aureus PublishingPublisher Aureus PublishingWeight(grams) 500gDimensions(mm) 240mm *...

In The England's Dreaming Tapes, Jon Savage has gone back to the source to re-create, in original interview form, the extraordinarily disparate and contentious personalities who emerged in the mid-70s as the harbingers of what became known as punk.Here...

Sardonic, bitter, threatening, compassionate, gleeful, and most of all loud, 'Like a Rolling Stone' is much more than a song. Six minutes and six seconds in length, it was released by Dylan despite the received wisdom of the day as to what constituted a...

An oral history of Pink Floyd in the words of over 500 fansBook InformationISBN 9781915858115Author Richard HoughtonFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Spenwood BooksPublisher Spenwood BooksWeight(grams) 1000gDimensions(mm) 246mm * 189mm * 45mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060539924Author Christopher John FarleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Amistad PressPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 172g

Thirty-Three and a Third is a series of short books about critically acclaimed and much-loved albums of the past 40 years. Over 50,000 copies have been sold! "Passionate, obsessive, and smart." -Nylon "...an inspired new series of short books about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770413481Author Neil PeartFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

The White Stripes were one of the breakout bands of the early 2000s 'rock revival'. They produced some of the most indelible songs of the 21st Century and reintroduced a sense of mystery and panache to the staid indie rock scene of the era. But that was...

From its artful beginnings (Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd the Mothers of Invention and those progressive forebearers the Sgt. Pepper-era Beatles) through the towering guitar solos monumental synthesizer banks and mind-boggling special effects of the...

Neil Young's Harvest is one of those strange albums that has achieved lasting success without ever winning the full approval of rock critics or hardcore fans. Even Young himself has been equivocal, describing it in one breath as his "finest" album,...

Sophisticated Giant presents the life and legacy of tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon (1923-1990), one of the major innovators of modern jazz. In a context of biography, history, and memoir, Maxine Gordon has completed the book that her late husband began,...

Greil Marcus's study of American rock 'n' roll is justly regarded as one of the most accomplished examples of contemporary music writing. Using a handful of artists -- a brace of bluesmen, The Band, Sly Stone, Randy Newman and Elvis Presley -- Marcus...

Unlike any Sabbath book thus far EBlack Sabbath FAQE digs deep into quirks obscure anecdotes and burning questions surrounding the Sabs. In a fast-moving topical format this book covers a tremendous amount of information delectable to any Sabbath...

The world's leading authority on jazz and popular song, Benny Green was a prolific writer whose material spanned every aspect of the musical arts. As an insider who knew and worked with most of his subjects, Benny wrote from a matchless personal...

Rightly called the saddest story in rock 'n' roll history, this Creedence biography-newly updated with stories from band members, producers, business associates, close friends, and families-recounts the tragic and triumphant tale of one of America's most...