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Curepedia: An A-Z of The Cure by Simon Price 9781474619325
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $36.75The Cure are arguably the biggest alternative rock band in the world. Between 1985 and 2000 every album they released went to at least Gold in the UK, the US or both. In America they have earned four Platinum albums, and they are estimated to have sold... -
The Classical Music Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained DK 9780241301975
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $21.00Learn about the world's greatest classical compositions and musical traditions in The Classical Music Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Classic... -
Hip-Hop Is History by Questlove 9781399621618
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $26.25A must-read for old-school hip-hop heads and burgeoning fans alikeTime'Hip Hip is not History, it's Our story. Brilliant book'Craig Charles'Hip-Hop Is History melds a detailed chronological retelling of the genre's story with occasionally hair-raising... -
Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism and the Soundtrack of a Generation by Daniel Rachel 9781399607506
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $15.94#2 UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023In 1979, 2 Tone exploded into the national consciousness as records by The Specials, The Selecter, Madness, The Beat, and The Bodysnatchers burst onto the charts and a youth movement was born.2 Tone was black and white: a... -
Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties by Elijah Wald 9780062366696
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $15.41One of the music world's pre-eminent critics takes a fresh and much-needed look at the day Dylan "went electric" at the Newport Folk Festival, timed to coincide with the event's fiftieth anniversary. On the evening of July 25, 1965, Bob Dylan... -
Hip-Hop Is History Questlove 9781399621625
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.50A must-read for old-school hip-hop heads and burgeoning fans alikeTime'Hip Hip is not History, it's Our story. Brilliant book'Craig Charles'Hip-Hop Is History melds a detailed chronological retelling of the genre's story with occasionally hair-raising... -
Reach for the Stars: 1996–2006: Fame, Fallout and Pop’s Final Party: A Times Summer Read 2023 by Michael Cragg 9781788707275
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.80***WINNER OF THE 2024 PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE***A Times Book of the YearA Telegraph Book of the YearA Guardian Book of the Year A Rock 'n' Roll Book Club Book of the YearA Guardian 50 Best Holiday ReadsAn Independent Book of the YearA Mojo Music Book... -
Me and Mr Jones: My Life with David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars by Suzi Ronson 9780571371846
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.89From the stylist behind David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust look, an electrifying peek behind the curtains during a legendary chapter of pop culture history.'Suzi Ronson was there as Bowie transitioned from suburban folkie to world superstar and genius. Few can... -
12 Days on the Road: The Sex Pistols and America by Noel E. Monk
Booksplease Price: $29.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688112745Author Noel E. MonkFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint William MorrowPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Music: A Subversive History by Ted Gioia
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $24.40The phrase "music history" likely summons up images of long-dead composers, smug men in wigs and waistcoats, and people dancing without touching. In Music: A Subversive History, Gioia responds to the false notions that undergird this tedium. Traditional... -
Oxford Solo Songs: Christmas: 14 songs with piano by Oxford 9780193556799
RRP: $41.90Booksplease Price: $31.94for low voice and piano This beautiful collection of 14 songs for low voice offers Christmas settings by some of Oxford's best-loved composers. Suitable for solo singers and unison choirs alike, each song is presented with piano accompaniment, and... -
The Book of Sea Shanties by Nathan Evans
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $10.35An epic journey through sea shanties, high tides and seven seasFrom the international bestselling singer comes The Book of Sea Shanties.The world sang in harmony with Nathan Evans, the Glaswegian postie turned singer of sea shanties. Join him as he takes... -
Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore by Scott Carlson 9781935950165
RRP: $62.90Booksplease Price: $39.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935950165Author Scott CarlsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Bazillion PointsPublisher Bazillion Points -
Queen Uncovered: Unseen photographs, rarities and insights from life with a rock 'n' roll band by Peter Hince 9781802796278
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $44.42For 13 years, Peter Hince lived the rock 'n' roll dream. As head roadie for Queen he had a front row seat and backstage pass to some of the greatest moments in music.Now, he is opening up his incredible archive and sharing hundreds of photographs and... -
Improvisation: Its Nature And Practice In Music by Derek Bailey
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $19.78Derek Bailey's Improvisation , originally published in 1980, and here updated and extended with new interviews and photographs, is the first book to deal with the nature of improvisation in all its forms,Indian music, flamenco, baroque, organ music,... -
Uncommon People: Britpop and Beyond in 20 Songs Miranda Sawyer 9781399816892
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $34.65When Miranda Sawyer interviewed Noel Gallagher in 1995, his gag wishing Damon Albarn would die of AIDS became front-page news. This fascinating pop history, exploring the mid-90s moment when British music suddenly meant everything, explains why. Picking... -
Unusual Sounds: The Hidden History of Library Music by David Hollander
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $64.51In the heyday of low-budget television and scrappy genre filmmaking, producers who needed a soundtrack for their commercial entertainments could reach for a selection of library music: royalty-free LPs of stock recordings whose contents fit any mood... -
Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise and Fall of SST Records by Jim Ruland 9780306925498
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $26.96A 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... -
Total F*cking Godhead: The Biography of Chris Cornell by Corbin Reiff 9781642932157
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $27.85"The new Chris Cornell biography is the book his legacy deserves." -Kerrang!"Reiff unearths plenty of unexpected details and novel anecdotes...but the book is perhaps most valuable for the way it rounds out and humanizes this man who managed to keep so... -
First Floor Volume 1: Reflections on Electronic Music Culture by Shawn Reynaldo 9781913231347
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $21.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913231347Author Shawn ReynaldoFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Velocity PressPublisher Velocity Press -
Field Guide to the Irish Music Session by Barry Foy 9780981759012
RRP: $11.55Booksplease Price: $9.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981759012Author Barry FoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Frogchart PressPublisher Frogchart PressWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *... -
Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde by Roger Scruton 9780199928088
RRP: $71.38Booksplease Price: $39.29A tale of forbidden love and inevitable death, the medieval legend of Tristan and Isolde recounts the story of two lovers unknowingly drinking a magic potion and ultimately dying in one another's arms. While critics have lauded Wagner's Tristan and... -
Rave New World: Confessions of a Raving Reporter by Kirk Field 9781788707732
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.15*NEW EXTENDED MIX EDITION FEATURING EXTRA CHAPTERS*Nominated for Audiobook of the Year at the 2024 ARIAS Awards'Love this book! It triggers so many memories of the rave era. Thoroughly recommended.' - FATBOY SLIM 'Captures the hedonism and humour of the... -
The Hacienda: Threads: Foreword by Peter Hook Rebecca Hook 9781802797688
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $57.86FOREWORD BY PETER HOOKThe music. The fashion. The nights. The people. The love. These are the threads that came together to make the Haçienda great.Celebrate the magic of the club that changed everything in this official book, told through evocative... -
Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day by Joel Selvin 9780062444264
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.41In this breathtaking cultural history filled with exclusive, never-before-revealed details, celebrated rock journalist Joel Selvin tells the definitive story of the Rolling Stones' infamous Altamont concert, the disastrous historic event that marked the... -
Formation: Building a Personal Canon, Part 1 by Brad Mehldau 9781800503137
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $60.77As an innovative and constantly inventive jazz pianist, Brad Mehldau has attracted a sizable following over the years, one that has grown to expect a singular, intense experience from his performances. With Formation, Brad seeks to extend that experience... -
The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana by Michael Azerrad 9780063279933
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $43.01A downright revolutionary 30th-anniversary deluxe edition of the iconic bestselling biography of Nirvana, updated with exclusive new content exploring the personal and cultural forces that inspired the music, the author's friendship with Kurt Cobain and... -
Black Music by LeRoi Jones
RRP: $39.80Booksplease Price: $26.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933354934Author LeRoi JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 253Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 252g -
Please Please Tell Me Now: The Duran Duran Story by Stephen Davis
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $23.12In Please Please Tell Me Now, bestselling rock biographer Stephen Davis tells the story of Duran Duran, the quintessential band of the 1980s. Their pretty boy looks made them the stars of fledgling MTV, but it was their brilliant musicianship that led to... -
On Music: An Arabic critical edition and English translation of Epistle 5 by Professor Owen Wright 9780199593989
Booksplease Price: $141.77The Ikhwan al-Safa' (Brethren of Purity), the anonymous adepts of a tenth-century esoteric fraternity based in Basra and Baghdad, hold an eminent position in the history of science and philosophy in Islam due to the wide reception and assimilation of... -
Dancing with the Devil: How Puff Burned the Bad Boys of Hip-Hop by Mark Curry
Booksplease Price: $37.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615276502Author Mark CurryFormat PaperbackPage Count 225Imprint New Mark BooksPublisher New Mark Books -
The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth - A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week' by Michael Spitzer
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.48A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Full of delightful nuggets' Guardian online 'Entertaining, informative and philosphical ... An essential read' All About History 'Extraordinary range ... All the world and more is here' Evening Standard 165... -
Glastonbury 50 Emily Eavis 9781409183938
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $36.73THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK IN THE TIMES: 'Captivating'A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR: 'In-depth and inspiring''Beautifully compiled ... the perfect festival experience' SUNDAY TIMESGlastonbury 50 is the authorised,... -
The Beatles by Terry O'Neill: Five decades of photographs, with unseen images by Terry O'Neill
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $36.14'An incredible photographer and good friend' -RINGO STARR The definitive collection of the breathtaking Beatles photographs of Terry O'Neill.Iconic photographer Terry O'Neill worked with the Beatles across five decades, capturing the band at the... -
Alice in Chains: The Untold Story by David De Sola
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $25.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250199386Author David De SolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's GriffinPublisher Thomas Dunne Book for St. Martin's... -
Black Vinyl White Powder: The Real Story of the British Music Industry by Simon Napier-Bell 9781800181656
RRP: $41.90Booksplease Price: $34.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800181656Author Simon Napier-BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint UnboundPublisher Unbound -
Here There and Everywhere by Geoff Emerick
RRP: $39.80Booksplease Price: $28.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592402694Author Geoff EmerickPage Count 400Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Gotham Books -
The Cardiacs: Every Album, Every Song by Eric Benac 9781789521313
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $29.63When Tim Smith died in July of 2020, he left behind a legion of adoring fans and an honorary doctorate in music. Not bad for someone who never had a top ten hit and who's music was so infamous during its heyday, that some magazines not only refused to... -
Pink Floyd All The Songs by Jean-Michel Guesdon
Booksplease Price: $99.52The newest addition to the best-selling All the Songs series details the unique recording history of Pink Floyd, one of the world's most commercially successful and influential rock bands.Since 1965, Pink Floyd been recording sonically experimental and... -
The Way I Am by Eminem
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $46.14Chart topping-and headline-making-rap artist Eminem shares his private reflections, drawings, handwritten lyrics, and photographs in his New York Times bestseller The Way I Am Fiercely intelligent, relentlessly provocative, and prodigiously gifted,...