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American Hardcore: A Tribal History by Steven Blush 9781932595895
RRP: £21.99£14.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932595895Author Steven BlushFormat PaperbackPage Count 410Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 824g -
The Vinyl Frontier: The Story of NASA's Interstellar Mixtape Jonathan Scott 9781472956101
RRP: £11.99£8.43'Bursts with gloriously geeky detail.' The Telegraph Have you ever made someone you love a mix-tape? Forty years ago, a group of scientists, artists and writers gathered in a house in Ithaca, New York to work on the most important compilation ever... -
Laura Nyro On Track: Every Album, Every Song Philip Ward 9781789521825
RRP: £15.99£11.61Laura Nyro (1947-1997) was one of the most significant figures to emerge from the singer-songwriter boom of the 1960s. She first came to attention when her songs were hits for Barbra Streisand, The Fifth Dimension, Peter, Paul and Mary, and others. But... -
Kate Bush On Track: Every Album, Every Song (On Track) by Bill Thomas
RRP: £14.99£12.58Kate Bush started her career at the top, the spellbinding 'Wuthering Heights' giving her a number one hit single with her first release. Yet from there, artistically at least, the only way has been up. For while the sales of both singles and albums over... -
Slint's Spiderland by Scott Tennent
RRP: £9.99£7.67This is a thorough history of Slint, and the Louisville scene that surrounded the band, leading up to and focusing on the creation of their masterpiece, "Spiderland". Of all the seminal albums to come out in 1991 - the year of "Nevermind", "Loveless",... -
Hawkwind On Track Revised Edition: Every Album, Every Song by Duncan Harris 9781789522907
RRP: £17.99£12.95Always enigmatic and outside of the mainstream, most people associate Hawkwind with 'whoosh' noises, 'Silver Machine', Lemmy and 'Space Rock' music. From the beginning, Hawkwind have been trailblazers, even when they have explored blind alleys and... -
Goodbye, Guns N' Roses: The Crime, Beauty, and Amplified Chaos of America's Most Polarizing Band by Art Tavana
RRP: £25.99£16.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770415119Author Art TavanaFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada -
Beethoven & Freedom by Daniel K. L. Chua 9780199769322
RRP: £51.00£37.28Over the last two centuries, Beethoven's music has been synonymous with the idea of freedom, in particular a freedom embodied in the heroic figure of Prometheus. This image arises from a relatively small circle of heroic works from the composer's middle... -
Thin Lizzy: Every Album, Every Song (On Track) by Graeme Stroud 9781789520644
RRP: £17.99£14.89Thin Lizzy emerged as a four-piece in Dublin as the 1960s drew to a close, when guitarist Eric Bell and keyboard player Eric Wrixon, both from Belfast, encountered a band named Orphanage, which included Dubliners Brian Downey on drums and charismatic... -
The Northern Silence: Journeys in Nordic Music and Culture by Andrew Mellor
RRP: £19.99£18.47An essential exploration of Nordic composers and musicians, and the distinctive culture that continues to shape them Once considered a musical backwater, the Nordic region is now a musical powerhouse. Conductors from Denmark and Finland dominate the... -
Richard Wagner: The Sorcerer of Bayreuth by Barry Millington
RRP: £24.95£17.35Published in the run-up to the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth in 2013, and written by one of the most distinguished Wagner scholars in the world, this will be the Wagner book of the bicentenary. Richard Wagner (1813-1883) is one of the most... -
O Sing unto the Lord: A History of English Church Music by Andrew Gant
RRP: £12.99£9.09Andrew Gant's compelling account traces English church music from Anglo-Saxon origins to the present. It is a history of the music and of the people who made, sang and listened to it. It shows the role church music has played in ordinary lives and how... -
Asia: Every Album, Every Song (On Track) by Peter Braidis
RRP: £14.99£13.94A progressive rock supergroup? In the 1980s? Who would want such a thing critics asked, as they immediately went on the attack. But music fans disagreed. John Wetton, Geoff Downes, Steve Howe and Carl Palmer had played with the likes of King Crimson,... -
Medical Grade Music Steve Davis 9781474619493
RRP: £20.00£14.69The story of two outsiders and obsessives whose collision prompted an evangelistic alliance on the furthest frontiers of underground music.Steve Davis first met Kavus Torabi - guitarist with Gong, Guapo, Cardiacs and Knifeworld - in the mid-2000's at a... -
Nothing but the Blues: The Music and the Musicians Lawrence Cohn 9780789206077
RRP: £28.99£20.40It is our most passionate music, rooted in ancient Africa but brought to blossom in America at the doorstep of the twentieth century. It is a living heritage of song born in poverty, persecution, and hard labor, born of love and love betrayed, of... -
Five Straight Lines: A History of Music by Andrew Gant
RRP: £30.00£21.35'Fascinating ... Composer Andrew Gant is a masterful guide, introducing readers to the major players and key themes of an entrancing topic.' BBC History Magazine Whether you prefer Baroque or pop, Theremins or violins, the music you love and listen to... -
Slayer's Reign in Blood by D.X. Ferris
RRP: £9.99£7.67D.X. Ferris explores the creation of the most universally respected metal album.Slayer's controversial "Reign in Blood" remains the gold standard for extreme heavy metal: a seamless procession of ten blindingly fast songs in just twenty-eight minutes,... -
Hungry Beat: The Scottish Independent Pop Underground Movement (1977-1984) Douglas MacIntyre 9781399600248
RRP: £20.00£12.05'Hungry Beat is the story of an all-too-brief era where the short-circuiting of that industry seemed viable. But hell, the times were luminous as was the music these artists made. The songs and many of the players remain, and here they tell their story... -
The Business: A History of Popular Music from Sheet Music to Streaming by Simon Napier-Bell
RRP: £12.99£8.73Let legendary impresario Simon Napier-Bell take you inside the world of popular music: not just a cradle for talent and expression, but a business that has made people rich beyond their wildest dreams. He balances seductive anecdotes - pulling back the... -
Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures by Chris Ott
RRP: £9.99£7.6733 1/3 is a new series of short books about critically acclaimed and much-loved albums of the last 40 years. Focusing on one album rather than an artist's entire output, the books dispense with the standard biographical background that fans know already,... -
Why Beethoven: A Phenomenon in 100 Pieces by Norman Lebrecht
RRP: £20.00£14.29Without Beethoven, music as we know it wouldn't exist. Who was this titan of world culture? 'You want to build a Beethoven library? There can be no better starting point... Brilliant.' John Suchet, Classic FM presenter Through 100 recordings,... -
A Quick Ting On Afrobeats by Christian Adofo
RRP: £9.99£7.11Afrobeats is a fast-growing genre, one that has carved out a distinct and powerful Black identity rooted within the African continent.The first book of its kind, A Quick Ting On: Afrobeats chronicles the social and cultural development of the eponymous... -
The Bee Gees in the 1970s Andrew Mon Hughes 9781789521795
RRP: £20.00£14.29For better or worse, The Bee Gees' music and image has long been synonymous with the 1970s, and the career trajectory of brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb in that ten-year span meanders between dizzying highs and devastating lows. The Bee Gees... -
Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II by Marc Weidenbaum
RRP: £9.99£7.67Extravagantly opaque, willfully vaporous - Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II, released by the estimable British label Warp Records in 1994, rejuvenated ambient music for the Internet Age that was just dawning. In the United States, it was... -
Nick Drake's Pink Moon by Amanda Petrusich
RRP: £9.99£7.67The reverse of Nick Drake's headstone, wedged deep into the earth of an English parish church graveyard, reads: "Now we rise and we are everywhere." The words were penned by Drake in 1974: Thirty years later, they are jarringly prophetic. Like nearly all... -
Jazz: A Beginner's Guide by Stuart Nicholson
RRP: £10.99£7.77This definitive guide includes a unique chapter-by-chapter playlist for the reader. Jazz: A Beginner's Guide is a lively and highly accessible introduction to a global musical phenomenon. Award-winning music journalist and author Stuart Nicholson... -
Red Hot Chili Peppers FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the World's Best-Selling Alternative Band by Dan Bogosian 9781617137228
RRP: £18.99£14.72From their humble beginnings as friends in high school, to playing strip clubs in nothing but well-placed socks, through a struggle to find the right guitarist, to the present day, Red Hot Chili Peppers FAQ chronicles the adventures of the best-selling... -
Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture by Jace Clayton 9780374533427
RRP: £12.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374533427Author Jace ClaytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Fsg OriginalsPublisher Fsg OriginalsWeight(grams) 204g -
Music and Politics: A Critical Introduction by James Garratt
RRP: £23.99£19.99This book is not about music or politics. It is about the 'and' that binds them together. How do these fields intersect, and what theories and approaches can help us understand their interactions? How have the relationships between music and politics... -
Linda Ronstadt 1991 to 2000 On Track: Every Album, Every Song by Daryl Lawrence 9781789522938
RRP: £15.99£11.61Linda Ronstadt is one of the most important women and people in the history of popular music. Starting her solo career in 1969, she redefined what a music superstar could be by expanding her repertoire from her country rock roots, crossing over to... -
The Road to Woodstock by Michael Lang
RRP: £10.99£7.77On the afternoon of August 15, 1969, Richie Havens took the stage at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, welcoming a crowd of several hundred thousand to the green fields of Max Yasgur's farm. Havens was the first act - the legendary festival, years in the... -
The Damned On Track: Every Album, Every Song by Morgan Brown 9781789521368
RRP: £14.99£12.58The Damned are a great British rock n' roll institution. They have helped to plot the course of guitar music over the last 45 years, putting UK punk on record for the first time in 1976, and going on to lay the groundwork for the hardcore, Goth,... -
Blur On Track: Every Album, Every Song by Matt Bishop 9781789521641
RRP: £14.99£10.95Formed as shambolic art-punk four-piece Seymour whilst attending London's Goldsmiths University, the rechristened Blur released their debut album Leisure in 1991, marking them as promising indie upstarts in thrall to the voguish sub-genres of baggy and... -
The Music's All That Matters Paul Stump 9781905128105
RRP: £14.00£9.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905128105Author Paul StumpFormat PaperbackPage Count 410Imprint Harbour Books LtdPublisher Harbour Books (East) Ltd -
The Band That Went to War: The Royal Marine Band in the Falklands War Brian Short 9781399096409
RRP: £25.00£18.02The Royal Marines are renowned for their military skill and also for having one of the finest military bands in the world. These highly trained and talented musicians are equally at home parading at Buckingham Palace, playing at the Royal Albert Hall, or... -
The Complete Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan: 20th Anniversary Edition by Ian Bradley
RRP: £52.00£48.66Ian Bradley's Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan has established itself across the world as the authorized and definitive 'Bible' for all those interested in the Savoy operas. Originally published in two Penguin paperbacks in the 1980's, a... -
The Glory Days of Radio 1 by Robert Sellers 9781913172121
RRP: £20.00£14.69For most people in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s, Radio 1 provided the soundtrack to their lives. Commanding up to 24 million listeners a week, it was the most popular radio station in the world. An iconic institution and one of the UK's most... -
I'm Coming To Take You To Lunch: A fantastic tale of boys, booze and how Wham! were sold to China by Simon Napier-Bell
RRP: £16.99£12.28Pop manager extraordinaire Simon Napier-Bell had had enough. He'd had enough of pop groups. He'd had enough of the constant grief at home with his two ex-boyfriends bickering and bleeding him dry; and most of all he'd had enough of the music biz. But... -
Van der Graaf Generator and Peter Hammill: On Track by Dan Coffey
RRP: £14.99£12.58No progressive rock band could ever be said to be a household name, but Van der Graaf Generator, who celebrated their fiftieth anniversary in 2018, rarely enjoyed that distinction even in the households of many prog fans. VdGG, and the band's main... -
Bach's Art of Fugue and Musical Offering by Matthew Dirst 9780197536643
RRP: £12.99£11.47The initial volume in a series of American Bach Society Guides, Bach's Art of Fugue and Musical Offering is a comprehensive study of two closely related masterworks of the late Baroque fugal style. This compact guide, intended for practitioners, music...