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In 1994, Korn's self-titled debut album marked their arrival. It was dark and brash and it demanded attention, as did their second album in 1996, Life Is Peachy. Good going for a new band, but in 1998, Follow The Leader saw Korn's success and notoriety...

This book examines the work of the first decade-and-a-half of Lou Reed as a solo artist. It would be easy to paint these years with a broad brush; with the ghost of The Velvet Underground in its aftermath slowly yet gradually gaining cultural influence,...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE 2017The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise is the extraordinary story, in her own words, of Brix Smith Start. Best known for her work in The Fall at the time when they were perhaps the most powerful and influential...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879303099Author Forrest WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Backbeat BooksPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 230mm...

When news filtered through the media that Stuart Cable, the drummer with a larger than life personality - and an even larger head of curly hair - had been unceremoniously sacked from one of the biggest rock bands in the UK, the music world was stunned. ...

In a career that has spanned a half-century, guitarist Jorma Kaukonen has been at the forefront of American music and culture. A pioneer of the 1960s San Francisco scene, Jorma is best known for co-founding psychedelic rock band The Jefferson Airplane...

Amidst the chaos that was the Sex Pistols, it's often forgotten just what a powerful band they were, and what great records they made. The Sex Pistols were no ordinary group. Their story might be short, and not without its casualties, but their legacy...

YOU'LL NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'LL CATCH: CHEAP TRICK FROM THE BARS TO THE BUDOKAN AND BEYONDBook InformationISBN 9781493078066Author Ross WarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint BackbeatPublisher Globe Pequot Press

After their initial inception as a schoolboy band named The Scorpions in 1962, and following a number of band name and personnel changes, Status Quo eventually hit the charts in 1968 with the massive hit single `Pictures of Matchstick Men'. However, it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838271954Author Andy MacLeodFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Pointy BooksPublisher Pointy BooksWeight(grams) 127g

Chances are you ve seen the numerous iconic pictures by legendary rock photographer Lynn Goldsmith. A key staple of the music world, Goldsmith has photographed every important rock musician of the late twentieth century. But it s Goldsmith s singular...

'Entertaining, affectionate and righteous' Guardian'Says so much about being a woman' Cosey Fanni TuttiIn 1983, backstage at the Lyceum in London, Tracey Thorn and Lindy Morrison first met. Tracey's music career was just beginning, while Lindy, drummer...

Originating from the Latin for deity or goddess, our concept of what a 'diva' might be - or should be - has evolved in richness and complexity. Delving into the personas of performers from Sarah Bernhardt to Rihanna, this book looks at what it has meant...

Previously published in hardback as Hey Jo, this is a moving and candid memoir from the woman who married the most controversial member of the Rolling Stones, and had the strength and courage to bounce back from heartbreak. When young model and mother Jo...

In 2015 Chris O'Leary published the first folume of his two-volume exporation, Rebel Rebel, of every song David Jones / David Bowie ever wrote, in chronological order. This is the second volume. Ashes to Ashes covers every single Bowie song, whether it...

Best Blues Book 2014 by Blues Matters magazine. Have you heard about Eel Pie Island? Anyone with an interest in the history of UK rock n' roll is familiar with The Cavern Club and the role that Merseyside played in the story of the British Beat...

Apologies 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

None of This Rocks is a memoir by Joe Trohman - lead guitarist and cofounder of Fall Out Boy - that reads like a double album full of revealing stories from his youth and his experiences of modern rock and roll stardom. With wit and wisdom, and maybe...

The living embodiment of The Beatles and a musical juggernaut without parallel, Paul McCartney is the patriarch of pop. Ahead of McCartney's 80th birthday and Glastonbury headline set, acclaimed author Howard Sounes creates the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063161566Author Chris PayneFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780600637127Author Mark LewisohnFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint HamlynPublisher Octopus Publishing Group

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312081997Author Colin EscottFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 476g

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

Critical, in-depth examination of Nirvana's entire output. There have been precious few truly revolutionary events in rock history: Elvis Presley's first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show... the release of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950961221Author Lowry Global Media LLCFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Lowry Global Media LLCPublisher Lowry Global Media LLCWeight(grams)...

A human cartoon of hair, super-strength cigarettes and the world's most famous top hat, Slash is the epitome of Rock 'n' Roll. One of the most iconic guitarists of all-time, his staggering performance on Guns N' Roses' Appetite For Destruction heralded...

Dion DiMucci rose to Rock and Roll fame in the late 1950s with three top-forty hits as the lead singer of Dion and the Belmonts, "Runaround Sue," "The Wanderer," and "A Teenager in Love." Later embarking on a solo career, his anthem "Abraham, Martin, and...

A Classic Rock book of 2020 "I had to leave town for a little while--" with these words, Elvis Presley truly came home to rock and roll. A little over a month earlier he had staged rock's first and greatest comeback in a television program, forever...

Motorhead are arguably the greatest rock and roll band in history, but it took many years to win that accolade. This is the story of the band that refused to die. They started off as the Vengeful Bastard and they had a tough beginning. The band had to...

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The definitive account of the first rise and fall of Boy George and Culture Club, and British pop music in the 1980s.NEW EXPANDED EDITION, WITH A FOREWORD BY NEIL TENNANTFEATURES A BONUS CHAPTER ON DURAN DURAN AND A NEW AFTERWORD'Speaks from the centure...

A new collection of pieces, covering 20 years of popular music, by one of the UK's pre-eminent rock journalists and the people who sung and played it. From Prince to Pavement, James Brown to Joni Mitchell, ZZ Top to Tom Waits, Beck to Eminem, the former...

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...

The Beatles. Bob Dylan. The Beach Boys. Using timelines derived from release dates, studio sessions and personal encounters, Play It Hard traces the paths of influence during a 3-year period when these artists cross-pollinated via recordings, rivalry,...

Starting in 1985, Bob Dylan magazine contains a wealth of information on Bob Dylan by a range of authors - much of it not available anywhere else. This Anthology celebrates the 200th edition in the 34th year of continuous publication. Featuring a brand...

'Songs are there for the people, to be used by people, in any way they want to use them.' (Polly Jean Harvey, 1993) This book takes Polly Jean at her word. Kate Schatz puts together a collection of stories that is weird, dark, and seductive in its...

Silhouettes and Shadows explores the secret history of David Bowie's 1980 album Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)-an avant-garde pop album rich with tension and fear which closed Bowie's golden years of the 1970s.Featuring exclusive interviews with close...

Horslips: arguably the greatest band in Irish rock music history. This five-piece band produced truly special, unique music in the 1970s. By joining literary craft and their cultural heritage with a fusion of traditionally inspired music with rock...

In this book, Andy Gill assess the circumstances behind Dylan's most famous songs, tracing the artist's progress from young tyro folkie to acclaimed protest singer, and through the subsequent changes which saw him invent folk-rock and transform rock 'n'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956683472Author Royston EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Tomahawk PressPublisher Tomahawk PressWeight(grams) 500g