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Jethro Tull... Into The Eighties by Laura Shenton 9781915246400
RRP: £16.99£12.28There's no denying that throughout the 1970s, Jethro Tull were at the top of their game. With iconic albums such as Aqualung (1971), Thick As A Brick (1972), Songs From The Wood (1977) and Heavy Horses (1978) to their credit, the band had majestically... -
Muse: Out of This World by Mark Beaumont 9781783050185
£13.09This updated edition of the bestselling biography now includes new interviews with the band conducted by the author between 2010 and 2012, including many extremely personal, never-before-seen passages. Alongside this is a detailed new chapter to the... -
Micky Moody: Snakes and Ladders: My Autobiography by Micky Moody 9781786062161
RRP: £8.99£6.32But before Whitesnake-and life on the road with former Deep Purple singer David Coverdale-became a chaotic reality, Moody had already formed a teenaged band with Free's Paul Rodgers, played with Juicy Lucy, been a founder member of Snafu and worked as an... -
Slowhand: The Life and Music of Eric Clapton by Philip Norman 9781474606578
RRP: £14.99£8.64Eric Clapton is acknowledged to be rock's greatest virtuoso, the unrivalled master of its most essential tool, the solid-body electric guitar.Clapton transfigured three of the 1960s' most iconic bands - the Yardbirds, Cream and Blind Faith - walking away... -
Kate Bush: Song by Song by John Van der Kiste 9781781558249
RRP: £18.00£12.96Kate Bush began her career in 1978 at the age of 19 with the single 'Wuthering Heights', inspired by a film adaptation of the Emily Bronte novel, the first No. 1 UK single to be written and sung by a female artist, and the accompanying album 'The Kick... -
Turn Up The Strobe: The KLF, The JAMS, The Timelords - A History by Ian Shirley
RRP: £14.99£9.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909454637Author Ian ShirleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Cherry Red RecordsPublisher Cherry Red Records -
Chopin's Piano: A Journey through Romanticism by Paul Kildea
RRP: £10.99£7.99'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... -
Moonage Daydream: The Life & Times of Ziggy Stardust by David Bowie
RRP: £45.00£32.32'The closest we'll ever get to a straight up Bowie autobiography - but who'd ever want anything straight-up from Bowie?' - Rolling Stone In 2002, David Bowie and Mick Rock created Moonage Daydream, the defining document of the life and times of Ziggy... -
All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono by John Lennon
RRP: £9.99£7.37The last major interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, conducted by New York Times bestselling author David Sheff, featuring a new introduction that reflects on the fortieth anniversary of Lennon's death.Originally published in Playboy in 1981 just... -
George Michael: You Have Been Loved by Carolyn McHugh
RRP: £20.00£16.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912918621Author Carolyn McHughFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Sona BooksPublisher Danann Media Publishing LimitedWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm)... -
AC/DC 1973-1980: The Bon Scott Years by Jeff Apter 9781911036418
RRP: £16.95£11.51To fans and critics alike, the years 1973 to 1980 the Bon Scott era are the most significant of AC/DC s five-decade career. In a prolific and frequently brilliant run, they recorded six studio albums, established a diehard fan base that stretched from... -
The Rolling Stones: Unzipped by The Rolling Stones
RRP: £35.00£24.83Featuring fresh insights from Mick, Keith, Charlie and Ronnie, Unzipped digs deeper than ever before into the Stones' archives to present a comprehensive collection of Stones artworks, instruments, stage outfits and notebooks alongside key work by some... -
Perfect Harmony: The New Seekers Story by Neil Saint 9781912587681
RRP: £17.99£15.94Although in their biggest hit The New Seekers sang 'I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony...' things were far from perfect within the group, as key members tell their story in this first ever book about the legendary New Seekers. With... -
The Monkees: Made in Hollywood by Tom Kemper
RRP: £10.99£9.04The Monkees represent a vital problem for rock and pop, and perhaps the major question: is it the music that matters or the personality and image of the performers? This book explores the system behind the Monkees, the controversial made-for-tv band... -
Can't Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters by Robert Gordon
RRP: £16.00£11.62'Can't Be Satisfied is that rare thing in musical biographies: a book that maps out not just a single, extraordinary life but the cultural forces that shaped it' Sean O'Hagan, Observer Muddy Waters was the greatest blues musician ever, and the most... -
Who Killed Mister Moonlight: Bauhaus, Black Magick and Benediction David J. Haskins 9781911036104
RRP: £14.95£10.18`Heroic and absurd, scurrilous and profound, Who Killed Mister Moonlight? charts the descent of four intelligent young men with faces like ruby-eyed dime-store skull rings into a glittering and very modern maelstrom. Fast, compelling, and disarmingly... -
Paul Weller - The Changing Man by Paolo Hewitt
RRP: £12.99£9.19Paolo Hewitt has known Paul Weller since they were both teenagers in the depths of Woking, through his ascent to fame with The Jam, the halcyon years of The Style Council and for all of his critically acclaimed solo career. Hewitt has even been the... -
The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung by Roger Scruton
RRP: £10.99£7.99'The ideal interpreter of the Ring ... a fascinating and valuable study ... absorbing and convincing' Sunday TimesThe Ring of the Nibelung is one of the greatest works of art created in modern times. Roger Scruton's brilliant and passionate exploration... -
Sondheim on Music: Minor Details and Major Decisions by Mark Eden Horowitz 9781538125502
RRP: £25.00£21.79From his early work as lyricist for West Side Story to acclaimed creations such as A Little Night Music, Sunday in the Park with George, and Sweeney Todd, Stephen Sondheim is widely regarded as the most important figure in musical theater since the... -
Leonard Bernstein by Humphrey Burton
RRP: £20.00£13.86A new edition of Humphrey Burton's celebrated biography of Leonard Bernstein, published to coincide with the centenary of his birth. With a new introduction by the author.'Humphrey Burton's biography remains the essential account of American music's... -
Berlioz: Servitude and Greatness 1832-1869 by David Cairns
RRP: £19.99£14.68Berlioz was one of the towering figures of Romanticism: not only was he a great and revolutionary composer, but also the finest composer of his day and an outstanding critic and writer. Yet throughout his life he struggled for money and his music was... -
Cider With Roadies by Stuart Maconie
RRP: £16.99£12.28Cider with Roadies is the true story of a boy's obsessive relationship with pop. A life lived through music from Stuart's audience with the Beatles (aged 3); his confessions as a pubescent prog rocker; a youthful gymnastic dalliance with northern soul;... -
The Piano Player of Budapest: A True Story of Holocaust Survival, Music and Hope by Roxanne de Bastion 9781472147844
RRP: £22.00£14.56One man, his piano and their miraculous survival.'Extraordinary' Baroness Julia Neuberger'Stunning. A beautiful blend of action, poetry, thought-provoking comment and music ... just brilliant' James Ainscough OBE'A gripping narrative of suffering, loss... -
Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker by Stanley Crouch 9780062005618
RRP: £10.99£7.46Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker is the first installment in the long-awaited portrait of one of the most talented and influential musicians of the twentieth century, from Stanley Crouch, one of the foremost authorities on jazz... -
Bird Lives!: The High Life And Hard Times Of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker by Ross Russell
£18.38This work on Charlie "Bird" Parker offers a picture of not only of the saxophonist-composer as an artist and as a human being, but also of zeitgeist and the musical/social setting that produced him. It shows his complex personality; his great appetites;... -
Springsteen: Album by Album by Ryan White 9781786751553
RRP: £35.00£22.78The definitive illustrated book on “The Boss”—now in an updated edition to celebrate his 75th birthday! Renowned for his passionate songwriting, galvanizing live shows, and political activism, Bruce Springsteen stands astride the rock ’n’ roll stage like... -
Dayglo!: The Creative Life of Poly Styrene by Celeste Bell
RRP: £25.00£18.42Poly Styrene was a singer-songwriter, an artist, a free-thinker, a post-modern style pioneer and a lifelong spiritual seeker: a true punk icon. But this rebel queen with the cheeky grin was also a latter-day pop artist with a wickedly perceptive gift for... -
David Bowie All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track by Benoit Clerc
RRP: £45.00£31.43A lovingly thorough dissection of every album and every track ever released by David Bowie over the span of his nearly 50 year career, David Bowie All the Songs follows the musician from his self-titled debut album released in 1967 all the way through... -
The Sound of Broadway Music: A Book of Orchestrators and Orchestrations by Steven Suskin 9780199790845
RRP: £51.00£32.19Broadway's top orchestrators - Robert Russell Bennett, Don Walker, Philip J. Lang, Jonathan Tunick - are names well known to musical theatre fans, but few people understand precisely what the orchestrator does. The Sound of Broadway Music is the first... -
Jeff Lynne: Electric Light Orchestra - Before and After by John Van der Kiste 9781781554920
RRP: £16.99£12.28Passionate about music from childhood and much-respected as a teenage guitarist in his native Birmingham, Jeff Lynne rose through the ranks of various semi-professional local groups to become the frontman of the critically acclaimed Idle Race in the late... -
Tallis by Kerry McCarthy
RRP: £35.49£26.83The composer Thomas Tallis (c. 1505 - November 1585) lived and worked through much of the turbulent Tudor period in England. Unlike many of his contemporaries, he did not just react to radical change: he thrived on it. He helped invent new musical styles... -
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band On Track: Every Album, Every Song Peter Gallagher 9781789522891
RRP: £15.99£11.61Alex Harvey was active in the music industry from the very birth of British rock and roll. A Zelig-like figure, he won a contest to become Scotland's Tommy Steele in the 1950s, followed the Beatles to Hamburg in the early 1960s, dabbled in psychedelic... -
Where the Devil Don't Stay: Traveling the South with the Drive-By Truckers by Stephen Deusner
RRP: £21.99£19.49In 1996, Patterson Hood recruited friends and fellow musicians in Athens, Georgia, to form his dream band: a group with no set lineup that specialized in rowdy rock and roll. The Drive-By Truckers, as they named themselves, grew into one of the best and... -
Eric Clapton: The Autobiography by Eric Clapton
RRP: £10.99£7.99Eric Clapton is far more than a rock star.Like Dylan and McCartney, he is an icon and a living legend. He has sold tens of millions of records, played sell-out concerts all over the world and been central to the significant musical developments of his... -
Bad Boy Boogie: The true story of AC/DC legend Bon Scott by Jeff Apter
RRP: £16.99£11.76Bon Scott was once asked if he was AC or DC. 'Neither,' he grinned, 'I'm the lightning flash in the middle.' And that's how he lived his life.No one had the same skill with lyrics as Bon, who called his words 'toilet poetry', his 'dirty ditties'. He... -
Music, The Encyclopedia of: A guide to the greatest composers and the instruments of the orchestra by Max Wade-Matthews 9780754835028
RRP: £20.00£16.91This beautifully illustrated reference is a guide to the history of music, instruments of the orchestra and the most influential classical composers. All sections of the orchestra are covered: strings, woodwind and brass, percussion, keyboards and the... -
Metallica: The Black Album In Black & White by Ross Halfin
RRP: £39.95£27.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909526761Author Ross HalfinFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Reel Art PressPublisher Reel Art Press -
Rolling Stones - Priceless: The Ultimate Memorabilia Collection Matt Lee 9781787393073
RRP: £25.00£15.06Matt Lee has been collecting Rolling Stones memorabilia for more than two decades. He amassed so much that he had to move house; he now has his own private museum dedicated to Stones memorabilia and he is the Guinness World Record holder for the largest... -
Pink: Raise Your Glass by Annie Zaleski
RRP: £28.00£18.99Pink is one of the most trailblazing artists of our time. Her breakthrough album, Missundaztood, was released to critical acclaim in 2001 and showcased her unique, powerhouse pop vocals, as well as her rebellious style. In the two decades since, she has... -
George Michael: A Life James Gavin 9781419747946
RRP: £25.00£15.87George Michael was an extravagantly gifted, openhearted soul singer whose work was both pained and smolderingly erotic. He was a songwriter of true craft and substance, and his music swept the world, starting in the mid-1980s. His fabricated image-that...