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Madvillain's Madvillainy by Will Hagle
RRP: £9.99£7.45This book celebrates Madvillainy as a representation of two genius musical minds melding to form one revered supervillain. A product of circumstance, the album came together soon after MF DOOM's resurgence and Madlib's reluctant return from avant-garde... -
Silence Is No Reaction: Forty Years of Subhumans by Ian Glasper
RRP: £23.99£16.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629635507Author Ian GlasperFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
Hungry Beat: The Scottish Independent Pop Underground Movement (1977-1984) by Douglas MacIntyre 9781399600255
RRP: £12.99£8.60'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... -
Foo Fighters: The Band that Dave Made by Stevie Chick
RRP: £25.00£17.38From the ashes of Nirvana, Dave Grohl rose as a one-man band with a self-titled album: The Foo Fighters. Now, 25 years on, and with a rock solid outfit that includes Nate Mendel (bass), Taylor Hawkins (drums), Chris Shiflett (guitar), Pat Smear (rhythm... -
The Music of James MacMillan by Phillip A. Cooke
RRP: £35.00£29.97Known for his orchestral, operatic and choral works, James MacMillan (b. 1959) appeals across the spectrum of contemporary music making. James MacMillan appeals across the spectrum of contemporary music making and is particularly celebrated for his... -
Brothers and Sisters: The Allman Brothers Band and the Inside Story of the Album That Defined the '70s by Alan Paul
RRP: £26.99£17.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250282699Author Alan PaulFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 611gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 166mm... -
My Appetite for Destruction: Sex & Drugs & Guns 'N' Roses by Steven Adler
RRP: £9.99£6.64From original Guns N' Roses drummer Steven Adler comes a tale of sex, drugs, excess, hairspray and and intense 20-year struggle with addiction. Guns N' Roses is one of the world's most successful rock bands, with estimated sales of 90 million... -
The Violin Family and its Makers in the British Isles: An Illustrated History and Directory by Brian W. Harvey 9780198162599
£98.75The contribution of the British Isles to the history of the violin family has been consistently under-estimated. For over 200 years England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland have produced many fine makers and an abundance of quality instruments and bows, now... -
Popular Music in Theory: An Introduction by Keith Negus 9780745613185
£18.09Popular Music in Theory provides a critical introduction to the key theoretical issues which arise in the study of contemporary popular music. This book is organized in a way that shows how popular music is created across a series of relationships that... -
Nick Drake's Pink Moon by Amanda Petrusich
RRP: £9.99£7.45The 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... -
The Resistible Demise of Michael Jackson by Mark Fisher 9781846943485
RRP: £10.99£9.37The essays in "The Resistible Demise of Michael Jackson" consummately demonstrate that writing on popular culture can be both thoughtful and heartfelt. The contributors, who include accomplished music critics as well as renowned theorists, are some of... -
The Great Psychic Outdoors: Lo-Fi Music and Escaping Capitalism by Enrico Monacelli
RRP: £10.99£7.40Homemade records, tape-hiss worship and a taste for a very peculiar kind of psychedelia have carved themselves a weird niche in the contemporary musical landscape under the name of lo-fi. This genreless genre, characterized by poor recordings and... -
Queen in the 1970s: Decades by James Griffiths
RRP: £15.99£11.61When Freddie Bulsara arrived in England in 1964, fleeing with his family from a bloody revolution on the streets of his homeland Zanzibar, he already knew that he wanted to be a rock'n'roll star. But before that dream could become a reality, there were... -
Unusual Sounds: The Hidden History of Library Music by David Hollander
RRP: £45.00£35.49In 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... -
Rebel Rebel: All the Songs of David Bowie from '64 to '76 by Chris O'Leary 9781780992440
RRP: £19.99£16.97David Bowie: every single song. Everything you want to know, everything you didn't know. David Bowie remains mysterious and unknowable, despite 45 years of recording and performing. His legacy is roughly 600 songs, which range from psychedelia to glam... -
Play It Loud: An Epic History of the Style, Sound, and Revolution of the Electric Guitar by Brad Tolinski
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101970393Author Brad TolinskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
Big Star's Radio City by Bruce Eaton
RRP: £9.99£7.45This book examines the key ingredients of Radio City's lasting appeal. Virtually anyone who's ever picked up a guitar - whether wood or air - has fantasized about playing onstage alongside his musical hero. Bruce Eaton actually did it. This book is based... -
The Stone Roses And The Resurrection of British Pop: The Reunion Edition by John Robb
RRP: £25.00£18.02'The Stone Roses have become folk heroes, frozen in time. And their story, with roots in punk through post-punk, scooter boys, skinheads, Northern Soul, psychedelia, acid house and Madchester, is everything that is great about British street culture... -
The Northern Silence: Journeys in Nordic Music and Culture by Andrew Mellor
RRP: £19.99£18.02An 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... -
World Music: A Very Short Introduction by Philip V. Bohlman 9780198829140
RRP: £8.99£6.45The term 'world music' encompasses both folk and popular music across the globe, as well as the sounds of cultural encounter and diversity, sacred voices raised in worship, local sounds, and universal values. It emerged as an invention of the West from... -
Robert Schumann's Advice to Young Musicians: Revisited by Steven Isserlis by Steven Isserlis
RRP: £9.99£6.70'No musician or music lover should be without it.' BBC Music MagazineRobert Schumann was far ahead of his time: his music anticipated a multitude of trends that would spread in the 150 years after his death, and almost every major composer who followed... -
Madonna: Like an Icon by Lucy O'Brien
RRP: £12.99£9.09The definitive biography of one of the world's most famous women.Madonna is the biggest-selling female recording artist in the world and one of our greatest living pop stars. With each pioneering album she has consistently reinvented her music and her... -
Seven Deadly Sins by Corey Taylor
RRP: £14.99£10.95'I was 22 years old, a hard-on with a pulse: wretched, vice-ridden, too much to burn and not enough minutes in a hour to do so'The action begins in West Des Moines, Iowa, where Corey Taylor, frontman of heavy metal bands Slipknot and Stone Sour,... -
My Bloody Valentine Loveless by Mike McGonigal
RRP: £9.99£7.45This epoch-making record of the late '80s effortlessly combines dense swathes of guitar noise and dance music. This turned out to be their last record, guitarist and studio maestro Kevin Shields having set their standards so high it was impossible to... -
Fleetwood Mac: Everywhere by Mike Evans 9781786751355
RRP: £30.00£19.40Fleetwood Mac is one of the most successful bands of all time. Despite a long and complicated history, the band has survived dysfunction on a scale that would see many others implode, and remains a perennial favourite across generations. Formed in... -
Fender Telecaster and Stratocaster: The Story of the World's Most Iconic Guitars by Dave Hunter
RRP: £28.00£19.79Celebrate of the history and significance of both the Fender Telecaster and Stratocaster for the company's 75th anniversary in this combined edition of Dave Hunter's two best-selling books! The Fender Telecaster, created in Les Fender's Fullerton,... -
The Life of Music: New Adventures in the Western Classical Tradition by Nicholas Kenyon
RRP: £11.99£10.15Nicholas Kenyon explores the enduring appeal of the classical canon at a moment when we can access all music-across time and cultures"Nicholas Kenyon is an amiable and enthusiastic guide to a thousand years of classical music."-Neil Fisher, The Times"A... -
Music: Why It Matters by Nicholas Cook
RRP: £9.99£8.95As countries went into lockdown in 2020, people turned to music for comfort and solidarity. Neighbours sang to each other from their balconies; people participated in online music sessions that created an experience of socially distanced togetherness... -
Irish Folk, Trad & Blues: A Secret History by Colin Harper 9781901447408
RRP: £14.99£10.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901447408Author Colin HarperFormat PaperbackPage Count 425Imprint Cherry Red BooksPublisher Cherry Red BooksWeight(grams) 659g -
Gareth Malone's Guide to Classical Music: The Perfect Introduction to Classical Music by Gareth Malone
RRP: £10.99£7.25Have you ever been carried away by a piece of classical music? In this funny, evocative, personal book, previously published as 'Music for the People: The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Classical Music', Gareth takes us on a journey of musical discovery that... -
Renaissance Every Album, Every Song (On Track ) by David Detmer
RRP: £14.99£10.95Renaissance, a much beloved but highly underrated English progressive rock band, began life in 1969 as an offshoot of The Yardbirds. Keith Relf and Jim McCarty, who had recently left that iconic blues-rock group, decided to put together a new band that... -
Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear by Steve Goodman
RRP: £27.00£18.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262517959Author Steve GoodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 13mm -
HOFMANN:17 MISCELLANEOUS PCS EPP49: Easier Piano Pieces 49 by Heinrich Karl Johann Hofmann
RRP: £6.95£5.85The pieces in this album have been selected from several collections of easier piano pieces by this nineteenth-century German composer. Highly romantic and colourful, they are enjoyable to play and provide useful instructional material.ReviewsThey have... -
King's Road: The Rise and Fall of the Hippest Street in the World by Max Decharne 9781913172602
RRP: £25.00£18.62The King's Road in Chelsea was at the epicentre of not one, but two worldwide cultural shifts. In the mid-sixties, it became a focal point and shop window for the new 'swinging' London, encompassing music, theatre, the visual arts, fashion and much more... -
"The Beatles" and Some Other Guys: Rock Family Trees of the Sixties by Pete Frame
RRP: £19.95£14.25Celebrated rock archivist Pete Frame has turned his attention to The Beatles and their contemporaries. Focusing on one of the most exciting periods in British rock history, he has created comprehensive Family Trees for the quintessential groups of the... -
The Listening Party Volume 2: Artists, Bands and Fans Reflect on 100 Favourite Artists by Tim Burgess
RRP: £25.00£16.47Sit back, relax and relive the memories of over 90 more classic albums selected by Tim Burgess from his legendary Listening PartiesIn less than 2 years, tens of thousands of music lovers have pressed play at the same time as legendary musicians to share... -
David Bowie Low by Hugo Wilcken
RRP: £9.99£7.45"One day I blew my nose and half my brains came out." Los Angeles, 1976. David Bowie is holed up in his Bel-Air mansion, drifting into drug-induced paranoia and confusion. Obsessed with black magic and the Holy Grail, he's built an altar in the living... -
Status Quo in the 1980s: Decades by Greg Harper 9781789522440
RRP: £15.99£11.61Status Quo are a British institution - a multi-million selling band of epic proportions and while their career was in it's hey day during the 1970s, the hits kept coming through the 1980s along with breakups, lawsuits, line-up changes, substance abuse... -
The Way I Am by Eminem
RRP: £32.00£20.98Chart 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,... -
We're Going To See The Beatles!: An Oral History of Beatlemania as Told By the Fans Who Were There by Garry Berman 9781595800329
RRP: £12.99£9.01Comprised of fans' anecdotes, photographs, personal stories and momentos, the contributors' stories reconstruct the entire history of Beatlemania in America, dating from the earliest whispers about the group to the present day. The stories range from...