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Johnny Thunders: In Cold Blood: The Official Biography: (Revised & Updated Edition) by Nina Antonia
RRP: $33.05$20.20Johnny Thunders: In Cold Blood is the definitive portrait of the condemned man of rock n roll, from the baptism of fire and tragedy that was the New York Dolls, through the junkie punk years of the Heartbreakers, to his sudden and mysterious death in... -
Lou Reed's Transformer by Ezra Furman
RRP: $19.48$17.10Transformer, Lou Reed's most enduringly popular album, is described with varying labels: it's often called a glam rock album, a proto-punk album, a commercial breakthrough for Lou Reed, and an album about being gay. And yet, it doesn't neatly fit into... -
Rolling Stone: The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time by Rolling Stone
RRP: $68.25$49.73From Rolling Stone, the definitive and lavishly illustrated companion book to one of the most popular and hotly debated lists in the world of musicWhen Rolling Stone publishes a list, the world listens. The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list was first... -
Ashes to Ashes: The Songs of David Bowie, 1976-2016 by Chris O'Leary
RRP: $48.75$33.89In 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... -
Elvis Costello And The Attractions: Every Album, Every Song by Georg Purvis 9781789521290
RRP: $29.23$21.35Whether you know him as Howard Coward, Napoleon Dynamite, or the Emotional Toothpaste, and are familiar with his work with the Attractions, the Confederates, or the Imposters, Elvis Costello's career has always been about reinvention and his vast... -
The National's Boxer by Ryan Pinkard
RRP: $19.48$14.53"Pinkard's account... brings to light the ambition and artistry, the stress and frustration, and ultimately the joy of making this very special album."-Peter Katis, The National's engineer, and mixer on Boxer "I am spooked by how well [Pinkard] has... -
Metallica: Enter Night: The Biography by Mick Wall
RRP: $29.23$19.11'A flaming juggernaut of heavy-metal biog' GUARDIAN'This is the definitive account of heavy metal's biggest band of all' CLASSIC ROCK 'Truly enlightening' ROCK SOUND'ENTER NIGHT, Mick Wall's biography of Metallica confirms this grizzled veteran to be as... -
A Sense of Wonder: Van Morrison's Ireland by David Burke 9781908279484
RRP: $29.15$19.85A Sense Of Wonder is a new book about Van Morrison that concentrates on the Ireland that made him, and the Ireland that he has re-made through a stunning, sprawling body of work spanning almost six decades. Published to coincide with the 45th anniversary... -
Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop by Danyel Smith
RRP: $35.10$23.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsLong-listed for Porchlight Business Book Awards - Big Ideas and New Perspectives 2022.Book InformationISBN 9780593132739Author Danyel SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Bizet`s Carmen Uncovered by Richard Langham Smith
RRP: $78.00$66.28Bizet's Carmen Uncovered exposes the myths and stereotypes that so often surround this much loved opera by exploring its first staging, and the particularly Spanish contexts in which the opera was conceived, written, and staged. What were the forces... -
Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore by Scott Carlson 9781935950165
RRP: $58.40$39.74Apologies 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 -
Later ... With Jools Holland: 30 Years of Music, Magic and Mayhem by Mark Cooper
RRP: $48.75$34.40'You never knew what you were going to be confronted with when you went on Later...' Nick Cave 'Later... is a voyage of discovery for us as well as the viewers' Dave Grohl Dave Grohl and Alicia Keys loved it, Bjoerk treasured it, Ed... -
Rise of The Super Furry Animals by Ric Rawlins
RRP: $21.43$14.14Rise of the Super Furry Animals tells the story of the greatest psychedelic pop band of our time. Welsh speakers with a lust for global communication, the Super Furry Animals shot to fame on Creation Records and found that, thanks to the... -
Journal of Wonder: 366 days of musical inspiration to reflect upon and soothe your soul by Clemency Burton-Hill 9781035412143
RRP: $29.23$19.11'Clemmie writes about each piece of music with such energy and passion that you can't help but immediately want to stop what you're doing and seek it out' Eddie Redmayne'The only requirements for enjoying classical music are open ears and an open mind.'... -
BBC Radiophonic Workshop's BBC Radiophonic Workshop - A Retrospective by William L. Weir
RRP: $19.48$14.53In 1958, an anonymous group of overworked and under-budgeted BBC employees set out to make some new sounds for radio and TV. They ended up changing the course of 20th-century music. For millions of people, the work of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop was the... -
On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement by Kerry O'Brien
RRP: $58.50$45.28A revisionist history of minimalism's transformative rise, through the voices of the musicians who created it. When composers like Philip Glass and Steve Reich began creating hypnotically repetitive music in the 1960s, it upended the world of American... -
Livin' Just to Find Emotion: Journey and the Story of American Rock by David Hamilton Golland 9781538187012
RRP: $48.75$43.27A long-overdue and definitive account of America's timeless rock bandSince exploding on the scene in the late 70s, Journey has continued to inspire generations of fans with "Don't Stop Believin'" and other hits. Celebrating the band's fiftieth... -
Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime by Dan Hancox
RRP: $25.33$16.54A GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, PITCHFORK, NPR, METRO AND HERALD SCOTLAND BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2018 'The definitive grime biography' NME 'A landmark genre history' Pitchfork ... -
The Origins of Cool in Postwar America by Joel Dinerstein
RRP: $40.95$35.41Cool. It was a new word and a new way to be, and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture. The Origins of Cool in Postwar America uncovers the hidden history of this concept and its new set of codes that came to define... -
Into the Groove: The Story of Sound From Tin Foil to Vinyl by Jonathan Scott
RRP: $35.08$26.44'By mixing lo-fi charm into hi-fi science Into the Groove captures all the wonder and absurdity of its subject, jumping and skipping with real analogue delight.' - Sunday Times The story of recorded sound - the technological developments, the people... -
Song Noir: Tom Waits and the Spirit of Los Angeles by Alex Harvey 9781789146639
RRP: $21.43$15.15Song Noir examines the formative first decade of Tom Waits' career, when he lived, wrote and recorded nine albums in Los Angeles; from his soft, folk-inflected debut, Closing Time (1973), to the abrasive, surreal Swordfishtrombones (1983). Starting his... -
The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour and Yellow Submarine by Bruce Spizer
RRP: $58.48$45.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983295785Author Bruce SpizerFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint 498 Productions, LLCPublisher 498 Productions, LLCWeight(grams) 1043gDimensions(mm)... -
John Cage: A Mycological Foray by John Cage
RRP: $91.65$63.28Foraging for mushrooms with John Cage: writing, art, photography and ephemera from an idiosyncratic chapter in the composer's life Imagined as an extended mushroom-foraging expedition, John Cage: A Mycological Foray gathers together Cage's... -
Electric Light Orchestra On Track: Every Album, Every Song by Barry Delve 9781789521528
RRP: $29.23$21.352021 marks the 50th anniversary of the release of the first Electric Light Orchestra album. The ELO story is one of continued success for over 50 years. From inauspicious beginnings in 1971, where live audiences barely reached double figures, ELO... -
The Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in the 1000 Best Albums by Brian Morton
RRP: $58.50$41.63Richard Cook and Brian Morton's Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in 1001 Best Albums is an indispensible guide to the recordings that every fan should know. Richard Cook and Brian Morton's Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings is firmly... -
Pink Floyd's The Piper at the Gates of Dawn by John Cavanagh
RRP: $19.48$14.53Through a series of interviews with a wide range of people connected to Pink Floyd in their earliest days (including Nick Mason, Peter Jenner, Jenny Fabian, Storm Thorgerson, Duggie Fields and Peter Whitehead), John Cavanagh paints a vivid picture of how... -
Conversations in Jazz: The Ralph J. Gleason Interviews by Ralph J. Gleason
RRP: $29.23$25.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorRalph J. Gleason (1917-1975) was cofounder of Rolling Stone magazine and the author of numerous articles and three highly regarded books on music and musicians... -
Chopin's Piano: A Journey through Romanticism by Paul Kildea
RRP: $21.43$15.15'Beguiling ... Limpidly written, effortlessly learned' William Boyd, TLS, Books of the YearIn November 1838 Frederic Chopin, George Sand and her two children sailed to Majorca to escape the Parisian winter. They settled in an abandoned monastery at... -
Voice Without Restraint: Bob Dylan's Lyrics 1961 - 1979 by John Herdman
RRP: $19.48$13.63Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in June 2016, and seldom in recent years has it been more richly deserved. That a song writer's lyrics should be regarded as literature was an idea at which many were surprised. Others have... -
Too Late To Stop Now: More Rock’n’Roll War Stories by Allan Jones
RRP: $33.13$25.08More than 40 stories from the glory days of rock'n'roll, featuring Lou Reed, Elton John, Sting and The Clash. Allan Jones brings stories - many previously unpublished - from the golden days of music reporting. Long nights of booze, drugs and unguarded... -
Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music by Rob Young 9780571349654
RRP: $13.63$9.44A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century.Rob Young's Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music is a seminal book on British music... -
The Lost Pianos of Siberia: A Sunday Times Paperback of 2021 by Sophy Roberts
RRP: $21.43$13.88A SUNDAY TIMES BEST PAPERBACK OF 2021* Shortlisted for the 2021 Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year prize* A critically-acclaimed Sunday Times, Spectator and Independent Book of 2020* Now with colour photography by Michael Turek'Richly absorbing..... -
Dusty Springfield's "Dusty in Memphis" by Warren Zanes
RRP: $19.48$14.53Dusty in Memphis, Dusty Springfield's beautiful and bizarre magnum opus, remains as fine a hybrid of pop and rhythm and blues as has ever been made. In this remarkable book, Warren Zanes explores his own love affair with the record. He digs deep into the... -
Norton Anthology of Western Music by J. Peter Burkholder 9780393656411
$114.76The definitive survey, combining current scholarship with a vibrant narrative. Carefully informed by feedback from dozens of scholars, it remains the book that students and teachers trust to explain what's important, where it fits and why it matters... -
Abbey Road Studios at 90 by David Hepworth
RRP: $48.75$35.14With a foreword by Paul McCartney'It's semi-devotional -- a really special place' Florence Welch'There are certain things that are mythical. Abbey Road is mythical' Nile RodgersMany people will recognise the famous zebra crossing. Some visitors may have... -
"Pavement's" "Wowee Zowee" by Bryan Charles
RRP: $19.48$14.53This title presents a compelling examination of the classic "Pavement" album, including interviews with all band members and record label staff. Upon its release in 1995, Wowee Zowee confounded a lot of "Pavement"'s fans. And yet, over the subsequent... -
Music in the Flesh: An Early Modern Musical Physiology by Bettina Varwig 9780226826882
RRP: $68.25$58.44A corporeal history of music-making in early modern Europe.Music in the Flesh reimagines the lived experiences of music-making subjects-composers, performers, listeners-in the long seventeenth century. There are countless historical testimonies of the... -
Rush: Album by Album by Martin Popoff
RRP: $50.70$35.06Find out what 20 rock journalists and writers have to say about Rush's 20 studio albums.Formed in Toronto in 1968, the rock trio Rush has gone on to multiplatinum success behind the distinctive high register and virtuosic bass-playing of frontman Geddy... -
The People's Songs: The Story of Modern Britain in 50 Records by Stuart Maconie
RRP: $33.13$23.95These are the songs that we have listened to, laughed to, loved to and laboured to, as well as downed tools and danced to. Covering the last seven decades, Stuart Maconie looks at the songs that have sound tracked our changing times, and - just sometimes... -
Why Dylan Matters by Richard F. Thomas
RRP: $19.48$12.95A GUARDIAN AND INDEPENDENT BEST MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 'At last an expert classicist gets to grips with Bob Dylan' Mary Beard 'Thomas's elegant, charming book offers...