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Symphonies for the Soul: Classical music to cure any ailment Oliver Condy 9781788403184
RRP: €22.60€15.17***'Wise and playful...'BBC Music MagazineWith a foreword by James NaughtieWithin the pages of this book lie musical prescriptions that offer comfort, solace and strength in the face of dark times.Whether you suffer from loneliness or laziness, from... -
Preachin' the Blues: The Life and Times of Son House by Daniel Beaumont 9780195395570
RRP: €27.95€22.66In June of 1964, three young, white blues fans set out from New York City in a Volkswagen, heading for the Mississippi Delta in search of a musical legend. So begins Preachin' the Blues, the biography of American blues signer and guitarist Eddie James... -
Clifford Brown: The Life and Art of the Legendary Jazz Trumpeter by Nick Catalano 9780195144000
RRP: €25.57€12.47Although he died in a tragic car accident at twenty-five, Clifford Brown is widely considered one of the most important figures in the history of jazz, a trumpet player who ranks with Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, and Miles Davis, and a leading... -
Swedish Death Metal by Daniel Ekeroth 9780979616310
RRP: €41.59€27.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979616310Author Daniel EkerothFormat PaperbackPage Count 447Imprint Bazillion PointsPublisher Bazillion PointsWeight(grams) 1241g -
Owning Up: The Trilogy by George Melly
RRP: €22.60€16.20This single volume includes three famous memoirs - Scouse Mouse, Rum, Bum & Concertina and Owning Up, with a new introduction by the author. Scouse Mouse is a funny and frequently touching story of the author's 1930s childhood in a middle-class... -
Us and Them: The Authorised Story of Hipgnosis by Mark Blake
RRP: €26.18€18.22Between the late '60s and early '80s, design house Hipgnosis created some of the most iconic and ubiquitous album artwork of all time. Their original lifespan coincided with the golden age of the 12-inch LP, beginning just as the Beatles' Sgt Pepper made... -
Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story by Alice Bag 9781936239122
RRP: €20.22€13.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936239122Author Alice BagFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 508g -
A History of Heavy Metal by Andrew O'Neill
RRP: €15.46€10.71'Absolutely hilarious' - Neil Gaiman'One of the funniest musical commentators that you will ever read . . . loud and thoroughly engrossing' - Alan Moore'A man on a righteous mission to persuade people to "lay down your souls to the gods rock and roll".'... -
Freak Unique: My Story by Pete Burns 9781844544387
RRP: €13.08€8.89Pete Burns has found a new audience with his outrageous antics on Celebrity Big Brother. Whether being berated for wearing an alleged 'gorilla' coat, or destroying any one of his housemates with a withering putdown, he's the undoubted star of the show... -
Monkees, Head, and the 60s Peter Mills 9781908279972
RRP: €17.79€12.11How has a group conceived as a short-lived commodity outlived many more 'real' bands by nearly fifty years? Why are The Monkees still important, and what does this tell us about their music, their TV show, and our understanding of popular culture today? ... -
No One Here Gets Out Alive by Jerry Hopkins
RRP: €20.22€13.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859654883Author Jerry HopkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Plexus Publishing LtdPublisher Plexus Publishing Ltd -
The Good, the Bad and the Wurst: The 100 Craziest Moments from the Eurovision Song Contest Geoff Tibballs 9781472137067
RRP: €13.08€8.81Sixty extraordinary years of Eurovision, from Celine Dion to Dustin the Turkey, from Abba to Conchita Wurst - the drag acts, the bad acts and all the nul points heroes.For 60 years the Eurovision Song Contest has existed in a parallel universe where a... -
Teenage Wasteland: The Who at Winterland, 1968 and 1976 by Edoardo Genzolini 9780764367359
RRP: €48.78€32.93In February 1968 and March 1976, the Who performed shows in the same venue, almost ten years apart: San Francisco's Winterland. Generally considered as two marginal years in the Who's career, they are only apparently so. These two years represent a... -
Michael Jackson: The Magic, The Madness, The Whole Story by J. Randy Taraborrelli
RRP: €23.80€17.71A number 1 bestseller, this definitive biography of Michael Jackson is now completely updated to include the events leading to the untimely death of the star. J. Randy Taraborrelli is the expert on Michael Jackson, having known him since they were both... -
Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 by Simon Reynolds
RRP: €17.84€11.66In this, the first book to take a big-picture view of the entire post punk period, acclaimed author and music journalist Simon Reynolds recreates a time of tremendous urgency and idealism in pop music. Full of anecdote and insight, and featuring the... -
Radiohead: Life in a Glasshouse John Aizlewood 9781786750341
RRP: €17.84€11.66Radiohead are not like other bands. For over three decades they have charted a singular course. As their music has become more beautiful, more strange and more uncompromising, the band who make it have become more popular, evolving from the indie clubs... -
Funny Peculiar: The Autobiography by Will Young
RRP: €13.08€4.18With free audio samplerIn 2001 Will Young shot to fame as the first winner of Pop Idol. It was clear from the start that he would never be a typical pop star - and more than ten years later he has become one of our best-loved and most intriguing artists... -
World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music by Jeff Tweedy 9780571385799
RRP: €17.84€11.66What makes us fall in love with a song? What makes us want to write our own songs? Do songs help? Do songs help us live better lives? And do the lives we live help us write better songs? Following publication of Let's Go (So We Can Get Back) and How To... -
Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco by Peter Shapiro
RRP: €15.46€10.19Disco emerged from the fall-out of the Black Power Movement and an almost exclusively gay scene in a blaze of poppers, strobe lights, tight trousers, hysterical diva vocals and synthesized beats in the late sixties. As a genre, disco radically re-defined... -
ABBA at 50 Carl Magnus Palm 9781786751010
RRP: €35.70€24.28After winning 1974's Eurovision Song Contest with their song "Waterloo," ABBA catapulted to fame, capturing hearts across the globe with their melodic and ever-so-catchy pop songs. Formed in Stockholm, in 1972 by Agnetha Faltskog, Bjoern Ulvaeus, Benny... -
PreTime Piano: Disney by Nancy Faber
RRP: €9.51€6.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616776978Author Nancy FaberPage Count 20Imprint Faber Piano AdventuresPublisher Faber Piano Adventures -
The Hurdy Gurdy Man by Donovan Leitch
RRP: €13.08€9.25Donovan's autobiography charts his life from a post-war, Glaswegian childhood to the height of an international career as one of the leading figures of the 1960's music scene.Always feeling like an outsider he found relief through music and poetry. The... -
The Encyclopedia of Country Music by Vince Gill 9780195395631
RRP: €59.49€44.76Immediately upon publication in 1998, the Encyclopedia of Country Music became a much-loved reference source, prized for the wealth of information it contained on that most American of musical genres. Countless fans have used it as the source for answers... -
From Staircase to Stage: The Story of Raekwon and the Wu-Tang Clan by Raekwon
RRP: €23.80€15.30Legendary wordsmith Raekwon the Chef opens up about his journey from the staircases of Park Hill in Staten Island to sold-out stadiums around the world with the Wu-Tang Clan in this revealing memoir - perfect for fans of The Autobiography of Gucci Mane... -
Elvis and the Colonel: An Insider's Look at the Most Legendary Partnership in Show Business Greg McDonald and Marshall Terrill 9781250287496
RRP: €32.12€20.93Colonel Tom Parker, often reviled in his time, led the strategy from the earliest days of Elvis's career. Together, they built the most legendary partnership in show business. For the first time, Colonel Parker's story is told by an insider, Greg... -
Padlocks: Living with Sid & Nancy: 2023 by Den Browne 9781739477912
RRP: €17.85€13.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739477912Author Den BrowneFormat PaperbackImprint Backstage BooksPublisher Backstage BooksDimensions(mm) 178mm * 111mm * 15mm -
AC/DC: Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be Mick Wall 9781409135258
RRP: €17.84€11.66Mick Wall penetrates the closed world of Aussie rock legends AC/DC.AC/DC moved to Britain from Sydney in 1975, and soon set up a residency at London's Marquee Club. Their short hair (including the odd mullet), loud rock and attitude chimed well with the... -
Rock Guitar Heroes: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Artists, Guitars and Great Riffs Rusty Cutchin 9781787557109
RRP: €23.80€18.91Featuring over 150 of the world's greatest guitar superstars, this updated edition of our successful Rock Guitar Heroes is a definitive guide to those guitarists whose talents helped change the face of music forever and touched the lives of millions. ... -
Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace: The Worldwide Compendium of Postpunk and Goth in the 1980s by Andi Harriman
RRP: €52.30€48.71It was a scene that had many names: some original members referred to themselves as punks, others, new romantics, new wavers, the bats or the morbids. 'Goth' did not gain lexical currency until the late 1980s. But no matter what term was used, 'postpunk'... -
What Have We Got: The Turbulent Story of Oi by Simon Spence 9781913172855
RRP: €23.80€17.01The only book to consider Oi! as a distinct genre within punk rock, What Have We Got? is the story of a musical movement that became a national concern in the eighties and still divides opinion today. Drawing on new interviews with Sham 69, Angelic... -
Kate: Inside the Rainbow John Carder Bush 9780751559903
RRP: €59.50€41.35A MUST-HAVE COLLECTION OF RARE AND UNSEEN PHOTOGRAPHS OF KATE BUSH.WITH ESSAYS BY HER BROTHER, JOHN CARDER BUSH, ABOUT KATE'S LIFE AND CAREER.Stunning and unique images from throughout Kate Bush's career including:Outtakes from classic album shoots and... -
Psychedelia: 101 Iconic Underground Rock Albums, 1966-1970 Richard Morton Jack 9781786750280
RRP: €35.70€24.99It wasn't just clothes and hair that changed as the 1960s progressed - social awareness crept into youth culture and music ceased to be simply about dancing. A counter-culture gradually emerged, and rock 'n' roll was its defining feature. Pop music... -
I, Shithead: A Life in Punk by Joe Keithley 9781551521480
RRP: €22.60€15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551521480Author Joe KeithleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp PressWeight(grams) 464g -
What to Listen for in Rock: A Stylistic Analysis by Ken Stephenson 9780300092394
€54.00In this concise and engaging analysis of rock music, music theorist Ken Stephenson explores the features that make this internationally popular music distinct from earlier music styles. The author offers a guided tour of rock music from the 1950s to the... -
So This is Permanence: Joy Division Lyrics and Notebooks by Ian Curtis
RRP: €29.75€20.93So this is permanence, edited by Jon Savage with a foreword by Deborah Curtis, presents the intensely personal writings of one of the most enigmatic and influential songwriters and performers of the late twentieth century, Joy Division's Ian Curtis. The... -
Swans: Sacrifice and Transcendence: The Oral History Nick Soulsby 9781911036395
RRP: €17.79€12.11'I'm no stranger to failure, and I'm aware it can arrive at any minute-as it often has. You have to keep things close to your chest and be aware of what's really important: the work, not everything around it. If you have faith in the work, then the... -
David Bowie: Starman by Paul Trynka 9780316032254
€40.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316032254Author Paul TrynkaFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Tony Hadley: My Life in Pictures by Tony Hadley 9781913172718
RRP: €23.80€17.48With his unique and powerful voice, Tony Hadley has been a successful music artist for more than forty years, from fronting one of the biggest bands of the 80s, Spandau Ballet, to now enjoying a thriving solo career around the world. Featuring... -
Under a Hoodoo Moon: The Life of Dr John the Night Tripper by Mac Rebennack 9780312131975
€16.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312131975Author Mac RebennackFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 350g -
In Perfect Harmony: Singalong Pop in '70s Britain by Will Hodgkinson 9781788705615
RRP: €29.75€19.98A Telegraph Book of the YearA Guardian Book of the YearA Shindig Book of the Year A Virgin Radio Book of the YearAwarded the certificate of merit in the 2023 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for ExcellenceIn 1970, pop was in trouble. The...