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The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain: Lyrics for Stacey Kent by Kazuo Ishiguro 9780571378876
RRP: £17.99£12.83Memorably introduced by Ishiguro himself, The Summer We crossed Europe in the Rain collects the sixteen song lyrics he wrote for world-renowned American singer, Stacey Kent, which were set to music by her partner Jim Tomlinson. An exquisite coming... -
The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present by Paul McCartney 9781802064223
RRP: £22.00£15.62The Sunday Times bestseller and Waterstones Book of the Year, now in paperback'Paul McCartney says this is as close as he will get to an autobiography and no wonder - his life is in every line of these songs ... pure joy' Sunday Times, Book of the Year ... -
Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me by Bernie Taupin 9781800960756
RRP: £25.00£15.95*THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER**A Times Best Music Book of 2023*'This is the most glorious of books. I am besotted by the life I never knew he had.' -Elton John'Every page of Scattershot is a delight, a joy, a name-dropper fan's delight. Divine. I... -
Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath – and Beyond by Geezer Butler 9780008476465
RRP: £25.00£17.62A 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... -
How To Be Invisible: Featuring a new introduction by Kate Bush by Kate Bush 9780571383023
RRP: £10.99£7.32**FEATURING A NEW INTRODUCTION BY KATE BUSH**Selected and arranged by the author, How To Be Invisible presents the lyrics of Kate Bush in a beautiful new paperback edition featuring a new cover by illustrator Jim Kay. 'The greatest singer-songwriter of... -
How to Write One Song by Jeff Tweedy
RRP: £8.99£6.08A ROUGH TRADE and PITCHORK BOOK OF THE YEAR'A guide to rediscovering the joys of creating that we all felt as children.'NEW YORK TIMESOne of the century's most feted singer-songwriters, Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, digs deep into his own creative process to... -
Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen
RRP: £10.99£7.77Book of Longing is Leonard Cohen's astonishing new collection of poems, the first since Book of Mercy was published nearly three decades ago.Leonard Cohen made his name as a poet before he came to worldwide attention as a singer and songwriter. Book of... -
The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present by Paul McCartney 9780241519332
RRP: £75.00£55.20THE SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARWinner of Non-Fiction Book of the Year, British Book Awards (Nibbies), 2022A self-portrait in 154 songs, by our greatest living songwriter'More often than I can count, I've been asked if I would write an autobiography,... -
How To Be Invisible by Kate Bush
RRP: £16.99£11.58Selected and arranged by the author, and with a new introduction by novelist David Mitchell, How To Be Invisible presents the lyrics of Kate Bush for the first time in a beautiful cloth-bound Faber edition.'For millions around the world, Kate is way more... -
The Complete John Lennon Songs: All the Songs. All the Stories. All the Lyrics. by Paul Du Noyer
RRP: £25.00£17.38INCLUDES COMPLETE JOHN LENNON LYRICS FOR THE FIRST TIMELennon's life after the Beatles was eventful and fascinating. He moved from stardom in the world's biggest pop group to global peace campaigner and figurehead for radical causes. He left England for... -
Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry by Florence Welch
RRP: £18.99£14.01The perfect gift for fans of Florence + the Machine, with additional lyrics, poems and a new chapter of sermonsSongs can be incredibly prophetic, like subconscious warnings or messages to myself, but I often don't know what I'm trying to say till years... -
Dance Me to the End of Love by Leonard Cohen
RRP: £14.95£11.32In 1995, Welcome Books published the star of its "Art and Poetry" series, "Dance Me to the End of Love", a deliriously romantic song by Leonard Cohen visualized through the warm, spirited paintings and collages of Henri Matisse. Now, for its 10-year... -
Olivia Rodrigo - Ultimate Fan Book by Malcolm Croft
£9.82Discover everything you need to know about the world's hottest young pop star in Olivia Rodrigo - The Ultimate Fan Book.Since releasing her debut single 'Drivers Licence' in January 2021, Olivia Rodrigo has rocketed to the top of charts around the world,... -
The Book of Lieder by Richard Stokes 9780571224395
RRP: £40.00£27.68This unique volume contains, in parallel translation, a thousand of the most frequently performed Lieder, both piano-accompanied and orchestral. Composers are arranged alphabetically, with their songs appearing under poet in chronological order of... -
Wrote For Luck: Selected Lyrics by Shaun Ryder
RRP: £14.99£9.80In the mid-1980s the Happy Mondays emerged as the prime mischief makers on the Madchester scene. Chief protagonist was Shaun Ryder, a man whose lyrical street swagger in songs like Kinky Afro, 24 Hour Party People and Performance, would come to define a... -
Dear Future Historians: 2006-2019: Lyrics and exegesis of Rou Reynolds for the music of Enter Shikari by Alfred Music
RRP: £22.00£18.38Dear Future Historians: Lyrics and exegesis of Rou Reynolds for the music of Enter Shikari 2006-2019 charts the lyrical creativity of the hardcore rock-metal band, through their five hugely successful albums. Bringing together the popular 2017 limited... -
"Rent": The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical by Jonathan Larson
RRP: £12.99£9.36Finally an authorized libretto to this modern day classic! ERentE won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Drama as well as four Tony Awards including Best Musical Best Book and Best Score for Jonathan Larson. The story of Mark Roger Maureen Tom Collins ... -
The Beatles Lyrics: The Unseen Story Behind Their Music by Hunter Davies
RRP: £12.99£7.11Over 100 handwritten manuscripts of the Beatles' original lyrics, tracked down from friends of the band, museums, universities and collectors.Hunter Davies, author of the only authorised biography of the Beatles, worked with the band in their heyday... -
Selected Poems by Robert Burns
RRP: £8.99£6.45This selection gives equal weight to the two aspects of Robert Burns's reputation, as a lyricist and as a much-loved Scottish poet. Placing works in probable order of composition, it includes lyrics to his most well known songs, such as the nostalgic... -
The Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner
RRP: £25.00£18.62A superb new translation of one of the greatest nineteenth century poems: the libretto to Wagner's Ring cycleThe scale and grandeur of Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung has no precedent and no successor. It preoccupied Wagner for much of his adult life... -
The Big Red Songbook: 250+ IWW Songs! by Franklin Rosemont 9781629631295
RRP: £32.99£21.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629631295Author Franklin RosemontFormat PaperbackPage Count 548Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 520g -
The Complete Lyrics: 1978-2022 by Nick Cave
RRP: £16.99£12.28The perfect gift for Nick Cave fans! Discover the complete lyrics, spanning his entire career to date, with a new foreword by Andrew O'HaganFrom Nick Cave's writing for The Birthday Party, through highly acclaimed albums like Murder Ballads, Henry's... -
Kate: Inside the Rainbow by John Carder Bush
RRP: £50.00£32.70A MUST-HAVE COLLECTION OF RARE AND UNSEEN PHOTOGRAPHS OF KATE BUSH.WITH ESSAYS BY HER BROTHER, JOHN CARDER BUSH, ABOUT KATE'S LIFE AND CAREER.Stunning and unique images from throughout Kate Bush's career including:Outtakes from classic album shoots and... -
Lyrics by Bryan Ferry
RRP: £20.00£13.50**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Roxy Music's iconic first album with this collection of Bryan Ferry's evocative lyrics of aspiration and romantic longing, introduced by the author.'Lyrics is a book any Roxy fan would be... -
CAPS LOCK ON: Lyrics + Debris 2007-2022 by Everything Everything
RRP: £27.00£22.85CAPS LOCK ON: Lyrics + Debris 2007-2022 is the exclusive artist-approved lyric book for the band Everything Everything. This full-colour, limited, hardback edition presents the lyrics to all songs released by the band including b-sides, rarities and... -
Touching From a Distance by Deborah Curtis
RRP: £12.99£8.56The only in-depth biographical account of the legendary lead singer of Joy Division, written by his widow. Includes a foreword by Jon Savage and an introduction by Joy Division drummer, Steven Morris. Revered by his peers and idolized by his fans,... -
Side by Side: Selected Lyrics by Robert Wyatt
RRP: £14.99£9.80The life's work of two of British music's most unique and timeless artists, with an introduction by Jarvis Cocker.Whenever an aspiring musician asks me about songwriting I point them towards Robert and Alfie. Their work is so unusual, so perceptive, so... -
The Lyrics: Since 1962 by Bob Dylan
RRP: £60.00£36.97Synopsis coming soon.......Book InformationISBN 9781451648768Author DylanFormat HardbackPage Count 688Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 1902gDimensions(mm) 262mm * 212mm * 47mm -
I Am the Wolf: Lyrics and Writings by Mark Lanegan
£28.39With a voice that Pitchfork has called "as scratchy as a three-day beard yet as supple and pliable as moccasin leather," former Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age vocalist Mark Lanegan draws frequent comparisons to wounded masters of doom like... -
Wading in Waist-High Water: The Lyrics of Fleet Foxes by Fleet Foxes 9780571378395
RRP: £16.99£11.58'There is something quite moving about seeing the lyrics of these fifty-six songs collected and assembled this way. You can see the evolution of the minds and hearts at work behind the lyrics' Brandon Taylor, from the IntroductionSince the release of... -
Never Good with Horses: Assembled Lyrics by Simon Armitage 9780571377619
RRP: £14.99£9.80In Simon Armitage's work, there has always been a territory he identifies as 'a twilight zone' where poetry and song lyric converge. He has explored it through numerous enterprises - most recently with the 'ambient post-rock' band Land Yacht Regatta... -
So This is Permanence: Joy Division Lyrics and Notebooks by Ian Curtis
RRP: £25.00£17.59So this is permanence, edited by Jon Savage with a foreword by Deborah Curtis, presents the intensely personal writings of one of the most enigmatic and influential songwriters and performers of the late twentieth century, Joy Division's Ian Curtis. The... -
I'll Be Your Mirror: The Collected Lyrics by Lou Reed
RRP: £25.00£17.59A 2019 Music Book of the Year, THE TIMESOut of print for several years, a comprehensive volume of Lou Reed's lyrics with brand new introductions, now updated in a new text design to include the lyrics from his final album with Metallica, Lulu.Through his... -
Sundog by Scott Walker
RRP: £14.99£9.80Scott Walker is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant, serious and intelligent of artists today. As one of the greatest lyricists of the 20th century and front man of globally loved pop trip, The Walker Brothers, Walker commands huge devotion. A major... -
A Treatise on Possibility by Enter Shikari
RRP: £16.99£14.10A Treatise on Possibility: Perspectives on Humanity Hereafter by Rou Reynolds is a companion guide to the critically acclaimed sixth Enter Shikari album Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible. Human possibility. If we get our act together, our... -
One Hundred Lyrics and a Poem by Neil Tennant
RRP: £14.99£9.80Everything I've ever doneEverything I ever doEvery place I've ever beenEverywhere I'm going toOver a career that spans four decades and thirteen studio albums with Pet Shop Boys, Neil Tennant has consistently proved himself to be one of the most elegant... -
The Weakness In Me: Selected Lyrics by Joan Armatrading
RRP: £14.99£9.80Selected and arranged by the author, and featuring a foreword by revered record producer Glyn Johns, The Weakness In Me presents the lyrics of Joan Armatrading for the first time in one unique volume.Since the release of her debut album Whatever's For Us... -
The Beatles: The Illustrated Lyrics by Welbeck
RRP: £30.00£20.40The lyrics to the songs of the Beatles read like poetry. This book treats them as such, and illustrates each track artistically, paying careful attention to detail and high design standards. The stories, themes and ideas behind nearly 200 songs are... -
American Utopia by David Byrne
RRP: £20.00£15.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635576689Author David ByrneFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 580g -
Songwriting For Dummies by Jim Peterik 9781119675655
RRP: £18.99£13.15Proven techniques for songwriting success This friendly, hands-on guide tackles the new face of the recording industry, guiding you through the shift from traditional sales to downloads and mobile music, as well as how you can harness social media...