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Van Morrison: No Surrender by Johnny Rogan
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €13.69Reclusive, difficult and enigmatic, Van Morrison is a gifted singer-songwriter and an endlessly complicated man. In Van Morrison: No Surrender, Johnny Rogan has produced a provocative and revelatory... -
Listening to Van Morrison by Greil Marcus 9780571254460
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08Listening to Van Morrison represents Greil Marcus's quest to trace Morrison's particular genius through seminal moments in his long career, beginning in 1965, breaking open in 1968 with the... -
Van Morrison in the 1970s: Decades by Peter Childs 9781789522419
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €15.91After the singularity of Astral Weeks in 1968, the 1970s were the formative years for the solo career of one of the acknowledged giants of modern music. Van Morrison was one of the music legends who... -
Lit Up Inside: Selected Lyrics by Van Morrison
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €14.92Lit Up Inside contains the lyrics of about one third of the songs that Van Morrison has written over his 50 year career. In this representative selection from the work of one of the most innovative... -
In Another World: Van Morrison & Belfast Gerald Dawe 9781785373657
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €10.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785373657Author Gerald DaweFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint -
Keep 'Er Lit: New Selected Lyrics by Van Morrison
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €11.39'This mix of genuine humility and hard-won hubris, of mysticism and technical mastery ... makes Van Morrison quite simply, and quite indisputably, "The Bard of Belfast".' Paul MuldoonIf I ventured in... -
A Sense of Wonder: Van Morrison's Ireland David Burke 9781908279484
RRP: €17.94Booksplease Price: €12.71A 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... -
Small Town Talk: Bob Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix & Friends in the Wild Years of Woodstock by Barney Hoskyns
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.61Think 'Woodstock' and the mind turns to the seminal 1969 festival. But Woodstock itself was over sixty miles away, and already a key location in the rock landscape as a community of brilliant,... -
Gary Moore by Harry Shapiro 9781911036975
RRP: €20.34Booksplease Price: €15.14Gary Moore delighted entire generations with his passionate guitar playing, from the driving rock of Thin Lizzy in the 1970s to his explorations in subsequent decades of jazz fusion, heavy metal,... -
Gary Shearston's Dingo Peter Mills 9798765119860
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €18.05When Gary Shearston released his worldwide hit version of "I Get A Kick Out Of You" in 1974, he had already been recording for over a decade, and years of creative adventure lay ahead. His most... -
Richard Manuel: His Life and Music, from the Hawks and Bob Dylan to The Band Stephen T. Lewis 9780764369247
RRP: €33.59Booksplease Price: €24.72For the first time, the Band's legendary Richard Manuel's compositions and performances are analyzed with expert commentary while shining a light on his contributions to all of his bands-and on the... -
Across The Great Divide by Barney Hoskyns
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €16.28Starting out as a backing group for Ronnie Hawkins, before being propelled on to the world stage by Bob Dylan, The Band literally changed the course of music with their first two albums. Retreating... -
Voices: How a Great Singer Can Change Your Life by Nick Coleman 9781784701338
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.78***ONE OF BILLBOARD'S TOP TEN MUSIC BOOKS OF 2018***'A brilliant book about singing... I have been talking to Nick Coleman about music, in person and in my head, for forty years now. [With Voices]... -
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Pete Doherty: Last of the Rock Romantics by Alex Hannaford 9780091910792 [USED COPY]
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €2.94Pete Doherty, erstwhile singer with The Libertines, is a British icon. Whether he is playing impromptu gigs in his front room or performing at Live 8, he possesses a sense of drama and expectation... -
1971 - Never a Dull Moment: Rock's Golden Year David Hepworth 9781784162061
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.00*THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER*As seen on Apple TV - 1971: The Year That Music Changed EverythingThe Sixties ended a year late - on New Year's Eve 1970, when Paul McCartney initiated... -
Can't Stand Up For Falling Down: Rock'n'Roll War Stories Allan Jones 9781408885925
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €13.19The Sunday Times' Music Book of the Year 2017 Allan Jones launched Uncut magazine in 1997 and for 15 years wrote a popular monthly column called Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before, based on... -
Ray Davies: A Complicated Life by Johnny Rogan 9780099554080
RRP: €35.99Booksplease Price: €26.94NOW UPDATED WITH A NEW EPILOGUE In the summer of 1964, aged twenty, Ray Davies led the Kinks to fame with their number one hit 'You Really Got Me'. Within months, they were established among the pop... -
I Am The Blues: The Willie Dixon Story by Willie Dixon 9780306804151
RRP: €26.39Booksplease Price: €20.05These are just a few of Willie Dixon's contributions to blues, R&B, and rock'n'roll,songs performed by artists as varied as the Rolling Stones, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, ZZ Top, the Doors, Sonny... -
Noisy Island: A Short History of Irish Popular Music by Gerry Smyth
Booksplease Price: €32.22Irish contemporary popular music has had remarkable international success, but relatively little scholarly attention. Analysis of cultural identity has been dominated by the literary canon, yet music... -
The Mick Ronson Story: Turn and Face the Strange by Rupert Creed 9780857162267
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €14.14This is the new leading biography of guitarist, songwriter, arranger, producer and musician Mick Ronson. Most famous for his critical contribution to David Bowie's spectacular live band, the... -
What Are You Looking For? by J. Krishnamurti
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.35FOUR MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'One of the greatest thinkers of the age' The Dalai Lama What is love?Who am I without my relationships? What is the relationship between myself and society?One... -
The Spirit in the Sky: The Power of Music In Our Search for Graceland by Jeff Crosby 9781538188361
RRP: €24.00Booksplease Price: €19.78This book shows how popular music can become a powerful source of spiritual meaning, ethical reflection, and personal transformation. Drawing on more than five decades of attentive listening, Jeff... -
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Richard Herring's Would You Rather? by Richard Herring 9780751585711 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €2.68The perfect boredom-busting book for long winter evenings with the family, Richard Herring's Would You Rather? is packed with hundreds of the biggest questions to face us all, including: Would you... -
Monkees, Head, and the 60s Peter Mills 9781908279972
RRP: €17.94Booksplease Price: €14.47How has a group conceived as a short-lived commodity outlived many more 'real' bands by nearly fifty years? Why are The Monkees still important, and what does this tell us about their music, their TV... -
Richard Herring's Would You Rather? Richard Herring 9780751585711
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.28The perfect boredom-busting book for long winter evenings with the family, Richard Herring's Would You Rather? is packed with hundreds of the biggest questions to face us all, including: Would you... -
Richard Herring's Would You Rather? by Richard Herring
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €5.80The perfect boredom-busting book for long winter evenings with the family, Richard Herring's Would You Rather? is packed with hundreds of the biggest questions to face us all, including: Would you... -
Total Freedom by Krishnamurti 9780060648800
RRP: €23.99Booksplease Price: €15.91Described by the Dalai Lama as 'one of the greatest thinker's of the age', J, Krishnamurti's revolutionary teachings on personal freedom and the search for truth have influenced millions of people... -
Bob Dylan: Writings 1968-2010 by Greil Marcus
RRP: €24.00Booksplease Price: €17.62Greil Marcus weaves individual moods and moments into a brilliant history of their changing times. The book begins in Berkeley in 1968, and ends with a piece on Dylan's show at the University of... -
Music and Mayhem: One Man's Journey Through the Golden Era of Irish Music Keith Donald 9781843519188
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €17.38Music and Mayhem charts the immersive and explosive life of one of Ireland's most important musicians, and the golden decade of Irish music he was at the very centre of. Keith Donald's story... -
The First and Last Freedom by J. Krishnamurti
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €11.59If truth can set us free, where do we find it? In The First and Last Freedom, Krishnamurti argues that we will not find truth in formal institutions, nor in organised religions and their dogmas, nor... -
The Flight of the Eagle by J. Krishnamurti
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €13.69Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986) rose from humble beginnings to become a leading spiritual and philosophical thinker. His works continue to influence thousands of people around the world; Joseph... -
Belfast Walks by Seth Linder
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €8.99Belfast and the surrounding countryside have so much to offer, and are waiting to be explored! Hike through wooded glades and past plunging waterfalls, or stroll through the Titanic Quarter and... -
Rory McEwen: The Colours of Reality (revised edition) by Martyn Rix 9781842465912
RRP: €60.00Booksplease Price: €45.66This is a revised edition of the bestselling book about the life and work of artist and musician Rory McEwen (1932-82). A legend in his lifetime and still admired thirty years after his death, his... -
Boogie Man: The Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American Twentieth Century Charles Shaar Murray 9780857862037
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €16.48'You the funkiest man alive.' Miles Davis' accolade was the perfect expression of John Lee Hooker's apotheosis as blues superstar: recording with the likes of Van Morrison, Keith Richards and Carlos... -
The Ultimate Guitar Tutor by Tom Fleming
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €12.50The Ultimate Guitar Tutor provides a comprehensive introduction to playing the guitar. Suitable for acoustic or electric guitar, the step-by-step approach means no prior knowledge of music is... -
Ride a White Swan: The Lives and Death of Marc Bolan Lesley-Ann Jones 9781444758795
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11*** By the Sunday Times bestselling author of BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY ***From mod folk artist to flower power pixie elfin to the king of glam rockers, Marc Bolan was the ultimate chameleon. His... -
Wikibeaks by Dustin the Turkey 9781848272446
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €10.61'If this doesn't win the Man Booker Prize I'll write a follow up' - DustinWikibeaks is the first book from Ireland's biggest megastar, Dustin the Turkey. Destined to see Dustin's name added to the... -
Words of Love: Buddy Holly by The Buddy Holly Educational Foundation 9781905662982
RRP: €72.00Booksplease Price: €71.34Conceived in 2017 from a conversation with Roger Daltrey, Words of Love by Genesis Publications is the definitive celebration of musician, songwriter and rock and roll trailblazer Buddy Holly... -
Down the Crooked Road: My Autobiography by Mary Black
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.61For the last thirty years, singer Mary Black has been a dominant presence on the Irish music scene, an award-winning artist with many bestselling albums to her name. Now, in this long-awaited memoir,... -
Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses by Peter Wolf 9780316571708
RRP: €30.00Booksplease Price: €20.86In the tradition of classic collections of observations and musings such as Christopher Isherwood's I Am a Camera and Truman Capote's The Dogs Bark, Waiting on the Moon is a treasure trove of...