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Gary Moore by Harry Shapiro 9781911036975
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $16.28Gary 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,... -
Down River: In Search Of David Ackles Mark Brend 9781916829220
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $15.89In 1972, David Ackles s third album, American Gothic, was released to a flurry of press plaudits declaring it to be the Sgt Pepper of folk and one of the greatest records ever made. Yet the album,... -
Turn My Head Into Sound: A history of Kevin Shields and My Bloody Valentine by Andrew Perer 9781916829145
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $15.93Turn My Head Into Sound: A History of Kevin Shields and My Bloody Valentine tells the story of one of the great sonic innovators of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. My Bloody... -
Swans: Sacrifice and Transcendence: The Oral History Nick Soulsby 9781911036395
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $11.62'I'm no stranger to failure, and I'm aware it can arrive at any minute-as it often has. You have to keep things close to your chest and be aware of what's really important: the work, not everything... -
Monkees, Head, and the 60s Peter Mills 9781908279972
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $15.56How 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... -
Becoming Elektra: The True Story of Jac Holzman's Visionary Record Label (Revised & Expanded Edition) Mick Houghton 9781911036036
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $15.56Becoming Elektra tells the incredible true story of the pioneering Elektra Records label and its far-sighted founder, Jac Holzman, who built a small folk imprint into a home for some of the most... -
Perfect Day: An Intimate Portrait Of Life With Lou Reed Bettye Kronstad 9781911036067
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $15.17In this intimate and revealing memoir, Lou Reed s first wife finally tells the full story of her five-year relationship with the legendary New York singer and songwriter. Bettye met Lou in 1968 as a... -
Conform To Deform: The Weird And Wonderful World Of Some Bizzare Doyle Wesley 9781911036951
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $16.28Along with Factory, Mute, and Creation, Some Bizzare was the vanguard of outsider music in the 1980s. The label s debut release reads like a who s who of electronic music, featuring early tracks from... -
Long Promised Road: Carl Wilson, Soul of the Beach Boys The Biography Kent Crowley 9781908279842
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $13.66No life in popular music touched on as many major musical milestones as that of The Beach Boys' Carl Wilson. While he is often unjustly overlooked as a mere adjunct to his more famous brothers Brian... -
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez 9781783788224
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.28From cult sensation Mariana Enriquez, author of the International Booker Prize-shortlisted The Dangers of Smoking in Bed "...one of the best novels of the 21st century" - Paul Tremblay "...a... -
Shredders!: The Oral History Of Speed Guitar (And More) Greg Prato 9781911036210
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $13.27How fast can you play? What guitar do you have? Who is better, Van Halen or Steve Vai? For metal fans in the 80s, these were common and important questions. Tune in to MTV, pick up a magazine, or... -
Lunch With The Wild Frontiers: A History of Britpop and Excess in 131/2 Chapters Phill Savidge 9781911036494
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $13.27Jane Savidge is widely credited as being the main instigator of the Britpop music movement that swept the UK in the mid-1990s. Savidge was co-founder and head of legendary public relations company... -
This Band Has No Past: How Cheap Trick Became Cheap Trick Brian .J. Kramp 9781911036876
Booksplease Price: $27.94'This band has no past' was the first line of the farcical biography printed on the inner sleeve of Cheap Trick's first album, but the band, of course, did have a past-a past that straddles two very... -
Shaping Sounds: Stevie Wonder, DEVO, The Synth Revolution—And My Life Behind The Music by Robert Margouleff 9781916829282
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $15.93In Shaping Sounds, visionary music producer Robert Margouleff shares his stories of pushing the boundaries of musical innovation, art and technology while helping create some of the most significant... -
It Ain't Retro: Daptone Records and The 21st-Century Soul Revolution Jessica Lipsky 9781911036739
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $13.27Soul is the most powerful expression of American music -- a distinct combination of roots, migration, race, culture, and politics packaged together for your dancing pleasure. But if you thought the... -
Revolutionary Spirit: A Post-Punk Exorcism: The Teardrop Explodes, Care, The Wild Swans, And Beyond by Paul Simpson
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $15.89Part memoir, part social history, Revolutionary Spirit is the poignant, often hilarious story of a cult Liverpool musician s scenic route to fame and artistic validation. If Morrissey was the Oscar... -
Giant Steps: My Improbable Journey From Stage Lights To Executive Heights Derek Shulman 9781916829244
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $15.66In Giant Steps, Derek Shulman chronicles a truly incredible life and career in music first as the leader of the progressive-rock pioneers Gentle Giant, then as the record-label executive responsible... -
Ephemeron by Fiona Benson
RRP: $15.48Booksplease Price: $11.38**SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE****SHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE**The poems in Ephemeron deal with the short-lived and transitory - whether it's the brief, urgent lives of the... -
Riot On Sunset Strip: Rock 'n' roll's Last Stand In Hollywood (Revised Edition) Domenic Priore 9781908279903
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $13.66On the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles in 1965 and 1966 an electrifying scene appeared out of nowhere, exploded into creativity, and then, just as suddenly, vanished. So much remarkable music, art, and... -
She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Popular Music Lucy O'Brien 9781911036678
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $13.91Since She Bop was first published in 1995, digital downloading has transformed the music landscape. But has issue of gender inequality changed too? For She Bop, Lucy O Brien conducted over 250... -
Take It Off!: KISS Truly Unmasked by Greg Prato 9781911036579
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $13.27There is a common misconception about KISS, one of the greatest hard-rock/heavy metal-bands of all-time: that their `non-makeup era of 1983 1996 is not as enduring as the period when they stalked... -
I Am Morbid: Ten Lessons Learned From Extreme Metal, Outlaw Country, And The Power Of Self-Determination David Vincent 9781911036555
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $13.27I Am Morbid tells the astounding story of David Vincent, former bassist and singer with Morbid Angel, and now outlaw-country performer and leader of the I Am Morbid supergroup. Written with the... -
The Game Is Murder by Hazell Ward 9781405970631
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.33THIRTEEN GUESTS. THIRTEEN SUSPECTS. AN UNFORGETTABLE MURDER MYSTERY PARTY...*PRE-ORDER NOW! A MIND-BOGGLING MURDER MYSTERY THAT WILL KEEP YOU GUESSING*'A striking, playful novel' A.J. Finn'A... -
KING'S X: The Oral History Greg Pato 9781911036432
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $13.66Countless accolades have been bestowed upon King s X over the years, and, since their formation in 1980, they have grown to become one of the most universally admired in hard rock and heavy metal... -
More Life With Deth David Ellefson 9781911036517
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $13.27In this follow-up to his 2013 memoir My Life With Deth, Megadeth bassist and co-founder David Ellefson carries on where he left off, charting his mid-2000s departure from Megadeth through his... -
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over Nick Soulsby 9781911036456
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $13.66Before #MeToo, before Riot Grrl, there was Lydia Lunch. A central figure in the No Wave scene of the seventies as founder of the seminal Teenage Jesus and The Jerks Lunch has pursued a four decade... -
Wilcopedia: A Comprehensive Guide To The Music Of America's Best Band by Daniel Cook Johnson 9781911036531
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $13.27Wilcopedia is a comprehensive guide to the music of the preeminent American rock band of the twenty-first century. It offers a thorough appraisal of the entire Wilco canon, with detailed insights... -
Down On The Corner: Adventures In Busking & Street Music by Cary Baker 9781916829107
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $15.89One day around 1970, my father announced to me that he d like to take me to Maxwell Street Market, an open-air flea market adjacent to Downtown Chicago. He wanted to show me where his parents used to... -
Zeppelin Over Dayton: Guided By Voices Album By Album Jeff Gomez 9781911036593
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $13.66Led by indefatigable singer and songwriter Robert Pollard, GBV have been one of the most important rock groups of the past thirty years. After toiling for a decade in obscurity, they broke onto the... -
So Much For The 30 Year Plan: Therapy?-The Authorised Biography Simon Young 9781911036630
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $13.27Before we recorded Infernal Love, I didn t know if I was coming or going. I developed quite a healthy drug habit and was drinking a bottle of Absolut vodka every day. I thought that if I gave up... -
What Makes The Monkey Dance: The Life And Music Of Chuck Prophet And Green On Red by Stevie Simkin 9781911036616
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $13.91How do you define success? If you let somebody else define what success is, you re a sucker. I m no sucker. Chuck Prophet started out as a post-punk California kid who helped kick-start the... -
Relax Baby Be Cool: The Artistry And Audacity Of Serge Gainsbourg by Jeremy Allen
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $13.27Why has Serge Gainsbourg crossed over to the English-speaking world when so many of his contemporaries have remained largely confined to the Francosphere? What is it about this unshaven provocateur... -
Yes, Cancer French Kisses by D. C. Berry 9781680031157
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $8.48An "X-ray" of Berry's two flings with Multiple Myeloma condensed into haikus. Except where he fudges-out of the haiku syllable-count strait jacket, then calls them cell phone texts, or telegrams, or... -
The Way of the Bear: A Novel Anne Hillerman 9780062908407
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.77NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWinner of the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for Best MysteryFossil harvesting, ancient lore, greed, rejected love and murder combine in this gripping new installment of New... -
The Gretsch Electric Guitar Book: 60 Years of White Falcons, 6120s, Jets, Gents and More by Tony Bacon
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.08Gretsch electric guitars have a style all their own a a glitzy wacky retro charm that over the years has drawn players from all kinds of popular music from timeless stars to unknown teens. The... -
The SG Guitar Book: 50 Years of Gibson's Stylish Solid Guitar by Tony Bacon
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $30.99To many vintage guitar fans it seems inconceivable that Gibson dumped the Sunburst Les Paul in 1960 and during the following year introduced a completely new design the one that we know now as... -
The Gibson 335 Guitar Book: Electric Semi-Solid Thinlines and the Players Who Made Them Famous by Tony Bacon
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $25.09EThe Gibson 335 Guitar BookE tells the story of Gibson's ES-335 and related models as played by B.B. King Alvin Lee and Eric Clapton among other virtuosos. It's full of great guitars cool... -
Zoology for Kids: Understanding and Working with Animals, with 21 Activities by Josh Hestermann 9781613749616
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.71An interactive introduction to working with animalsZoology for Kids invites the next generation of zoologists to discover the animal kingdom through clear, entertaining information and anecdotes,... -
The Bass Book: A Complete Illustrated History of Bass Guitars by Tony Bacon
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $21.84In California in the early '50s the Fender company introduced the world's first electric bass guitar. They couldn't have known known it then but the Precision Bass would start a revolution in the... -
The Murder Game by John Curran 9780008679880
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.03From The Murder of Roger Ackroyd to Magpie Murders, and related diversions including cryptic crosswords and Cain's Jawbone, The Murder Game examines the games authors played with their readers and...