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Camel: Every Album, Every Song (On Track) by Hamish Kuzminski 9781789520408
RRP: $29.23$25.23Camel remain one of the leading lights of 1970s progressive rock, selling to sell-out audiences across the globe, and still fronted by inspirational founder Andy Latimer. Formed in Guildford, Surrey in England in 1971, Camel , though not directly part... -
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil 9780802125361
RRP: $29.23$25.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802125361Author Legs McNeilFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
The Classical Music Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained DK 9780241301975
RRP: $38.98$26.58Learn 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... -
Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath – and Beyond by Geezer Butler 9780008476502
RRP: $21.43$14.14A Rough Trade Book of the Year The Sunday Times bestseller The much-anticipated first book from Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler With over 70 million records sold, heavy metal pioneers Black Sabbath are one of the most influential bands of all time... -
Reach for the Stars: 1996–2006: Fame, Fallout and Pop’s Final Party: A Times Summer Read 2023 by Michael Cragg 9781788707275
RRP: $25.33$17.02***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... -
Clubland: How the working men’s club shaped Britain by Pete Brown
RRP: $21.43$14.14The untold story of a British institution 'Brilliant.' Alan Johnson 'Compelling.' David Kynaston 'The beer drinkers' Bill Bryson.' Times Literary... -
Party Lines: Dance Music and the Making of Modern Britain by Ed Gillett 9781529070644
RRP: $39.00$28.65A Guardian Guide Cultural Book of the Year 2023An Irish Times Music Book of the Year 2023'A deep, engrossing history' The Observer'A fascinating deep dive' Jeremy DellerFrom the illicit reggae blues dances and acid-rock free festivals of the 1970s,... -
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil
RRP: $29.23$19.11What Britain refined, America defined. Assembled by two key figures at the heart of the movement and told through the voices o musicians, artists, iconoclastic reporters and entrepreneurial groupies, PLEASE KILL ME is the full decadent story of the... -
The Beautiful Ones by Prince
RRP: $48.75$35.14THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA Times, Sunday Times and Telegraph Book of the Year______________________________________________'A triumph ... a masterclass in the bottling of its subject's seductive essence. His presence in this book is so strong... -
Irelandology by Rachel Pierce 9780702302411
RRP: $25.33$15.95A stunning celebration of the rich culture and fascinating history of Ireland featuring ten Irish illustrators. Discover everything that makes the Irish isle so special - from its famous landmarks to its myths and ... -
Captain Beefheart On Track: Every Album, Every Song by Opher Goodwin 9781789522358
RRP: $31.18$22.64Captain Beefheart (Don Vliet) was undoubtedly the creator of the most bizarre and wonderful music. A child prodigy sculptor, he applied his artistic approach to music, creating 'aural sculptures'. He befriended Frank Zappa in High School, collaborating... -
McCartney Legacy Vol. 1 by Allan Kozinn
RRP: $58.50$40.03In this first of a groundbreaking multivolume set, THE MCCARTNEY LEGACY, VOL 1: 1969-73 captures the life of Paul McCartney in the years immediately following the dissolution of the Beatles, a period in which McCartney recreated himself as both a man and... -
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Dream: 50 Years of the Boss by Alison James
RRP: $42.88$30.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915343116Author Alison JamesFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Sona BooksPublisher Danann Media Publishing LimitedWeight(grams) 757gDimensions(mm)... -
The History of Jazz by Ted Gioia
RRP: $45.81$33.17An updated new edition of Ted Gioia's universally acclaimed history of jazz, with a wealth of new insight on this music's past, present, and future. Ted Gioia's The History of Jazz has been universally hailed as the most comprehensive and accessible... -
The Foghorn's Lament: The Disappearing Music of the Coast by Jennifer Lucy Allan
RRP: $19.48$13.26'A truly unusual and strangely revealing lens through which to view music and history and the dark life of the sea' Brian Eno'As memorable, pleasurable and irrational as all the highest quests' John Higgs'A perfect example of the power and beauty of... -
Revolution In The Head: The Beatles Records and the Sixties by Ian MacDonald
RRP: $25.33$17.73As dazzling as the decade they dominated, The Beatles almost single-handedly created pop music as we know it. Today, their songs are cited as seminal influences by stars like Oasis and Blur. Eloquently giving voice to their time, The Beatles quite simply... -
Joe Jackson On Track: Every Album, Every Song by Richard James 9781789521894
RRP: $31.18$22.64Joe Jackson is a singer, songwriter, composer, and performer who has twisted and turned his career through numerous genres, and continues to release excellent albums forty years after his initial breakthrough success. For some he's the 'Angsty Young... -
18th-century English Organ Music, Volume 3: A graded anthology by David Patrick 9780193389175
RRP: $28.76$22.41This four-volume anthology contains a sparkling selection of pieces and represents all the major composers of the period. It includes pieces in all the main genres, with Cornet and Trumpet Voluntaries, Echo Voluntaries, fugal works with slow... -
Where We Come From: Rap, Home & Hope in Modern Britain by Aniefiok Ekpoudom 9780571363254
RRP: $39.00$27.03A stunning social history of British rap and grime by one of the nation's foremost cultural chroniclers.'A stunning exploration of a genre, a movement and a world. It's every bit as lyrical as the rap Ekpoudom has documented.'CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS,... -
Deliver Me from Nowhere by Warren Zanes
RRP: $44.85$27.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593237410Author Warren ZanesFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Bass Notes: Jazz in American Culture: A Personal View by Chuck Israels 9781493074846
RRP: $58.50$40.85BASS NOTES: REFLECTIONS ON MY LIFE IN JAZZ AND JAZZ IN THE LIFE OF OUR CULTUREBook InformationISBN 9781493074846Author Chuck IsraelsFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint BackbeatPublisher Globe Pequot PressWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 237mm * 160mm *... -
Portishead's Dummy by RJ Wheaton
RRP: $19.48$14.96This is a thoroughly researched exploration of one of the most original, unexpected, and durable British albums of the 1990s. An album which distilled a genre from the musical, cultural, and social ether, Portishead's "Dummy" was such a complete artistic... -
Live!: Why We Go Out by Robert Elms 9781800182820
RRP: $37.03$23.52'ABC', as perfect as anything I've ever witnessed up until that point in my tiny little life. Three minutes of divine delirium.In 1972, when Robert Elms was thirteen years old, he saw the Jackson 5 play live at the Empire Pool. At some point during the... -
Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath – and Beyond by Geezer Butler 9780008476465
RRP: $48.75$42.49A Rough Trade Book of the Year The Sunday Times bestseller The much-anticipated first book from Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler With over 70 million records sold, heavy metal... -
Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There: How a Few Skinny Brits with Bad Teeth Rocked America by David Hepworth
RRP: $19.48$13.86The Beatles landing in New York in February 1964 was the opening shot in a cultural revolution nobody predicted. Suddenly the youth of the richest, most powerful nation on earth was trying to emulate the music, manners and the modes of a rainy island... -
Loser: The Real Seattle Music Story: 20th Anniversary Edition by Art Chantry 9781929069286
RRP: $48.75$42.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781929069286Author Art ChantryFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint MiscmediaPublisher MiscmediaWeight(grams) 644gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 15mm -
Peter Hammill On Track: Every Album, Every Song by Richard Rees-Jones 9781789521634
RRP: $29.23$21.35The British singer, songwriter and musician Peter Hammill is one of the key figures in the history of progressive rock. As the leader and main creative force of Van der Graaf Generator, he was behind some of the most powerful and compelling rock music of... -
The Who: Every Album, Every Song (On Track) by Geoffrey Feakes
RRP: $29.23$21.35Formed in 1964 and still going strong in 2020, the Who are one of the most popular and enduring bands in the history of rock. The legendary debut album My Generation and a string of hit singles paved the way for Live At Leeds, hailed as the best live... -
27 by Howard Sounes
RRP: $37.03$24.73When singer Amy Winehouse was found dead at her London home in 2011, the press inducted her into what Kurt Cobain's mother named the 27 Club. "Now he's gone and joined that stupid club," she said in 1994, after being told that her son, the front man of... -
A History of Opera: The Last Four Hundred Years by Carolyn Abbate
RRP: $37.03$27.32Abbate and Parker's A History of Opera is the first full new history of opera in sixty years - now in paperback in an updated second edition'The best single volume ever written on the subject' The Times Literary SupplementWhy has opera transfixed and... -
Elton John All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track by Olivier Roubin
RRP: $87.75$70.53This first-of-its-kind catalog of Elton John's decades-long career tells the story of one of rock's all-time greatest artists, album-by-album and track-by-track.Organized chronologically and covering every album and song that Sir Elton Hercules John has... -
Soulsville U.S.A.: The Story of Stax Records by Rob Bowman 9780825672842
$48.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780825672842Author Rob BowmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Schirmer BooksPublisher Cengage GaleWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 152mm * 25mm -
The Ultimate Guide to Great Reggae: The Complete Story of Reggae Told Through its Greatest Songs, Famous and Forgotten by Michael Garnice
RRP: $78.00$76.83The Ultimate Guide To Great Reggae celebrates (and helps you find) the greatest songs of reggae. It focuses on every style of reggae, from mento to Jamaican R&B, ska, rock steady, dub, DJ roots, dancehall and more. It opens with an exceptionally... -
Women and the Piano: A History in 50 Lives by Susan Tomes 9780300266573
RRP: $48.75$40.79Women are an essential part of the history of the piano-but how many women pianists can you name? Throughout most of the piano's history, women pianists lacked access to formal training and were excluded from male-dominated performance spaces. Even the... -
Bee Gees: Children of the World by Bob Stanley
RRP: $42.90$28.685/5 - CLASSIC POP 4/5 - THE TELEGRAPH Everyone has their favourite era of the Bee Gees' career, but so much is still unclear about this celebrated but often misunderstood band. This book will provide the perfect route in, pulling together every... -
The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical by Robert Gordon 9780190943516
RRP: $79.93$74.65The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical provides a comprehensive academic survey of British musical theatre offering both a historical account of the musical's development from 1728 and a range of in-depth critical analyses of the unique forms and... -
Kraftwerk's Computer World by Steve Tupai Francis
RRP: $19.48$14.96Computer World was Kraftwerk's most concise and focused conceptual statement, their most influential record and crowning achievement. Computer World transformed the way pop music was composed, played, packaged and released and, in the process, helped... -
Reach for the Stars: 1996–2006: Fame, Fallout and Pop’s Final Party by Michael Cragg
RRP: $48.75$33.52A 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 of the Year A Resident Book of the Year'This... -
Hall and Oates On Track: Every Album, Every Song by Ian Abrahams 9781789521672
RRP: $31.18$22.64Best known for a string of 1980s pop soul classics such as 'Private Eyes', 'Maneater', and 'Out Of Touch', Daryl Hall & John Oates are far more than the much caricatured image of the tall blonde one and the short one with the moustache. Through peaks and... -
The Cover Art of Blue Note Records: The Collection by Graham Marsh
RRP: $42.90$29.21The Cover Art of Blue Note Records is Graham Marsh and Glyn Callingham's classic collection of the unparalleled record sleeves produced by the celebrated Blue Note record label. Around January 1956 the photographer Francis Wolff and Alfred...