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Rhapsody in Black: The Life and Music of Roy Orbison by John Kruth
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.92Two eight-page B&W and color photo insertsAbout the AuthorJOHN KRUTH is a musician with nine solo albums to his credit. He has performed and recorded with Ornette Coleman, Laurie Anderson, John Cale,... -
The SG Guitar Book: 50 Years of Gibson's Stylish Solid Guitar by Tony Bacon
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.76To 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... -
Keyboard Presents the Evolution of Electronic Dance Music by Ernie Rideout 9781617130199
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.72From its roots in 1970s New York disco and '80s Detroit techno to today's international mainstream explosion of such genres as house trance & dubstep electronic dance music has reshaped the... -
Conversations with Women in Music Production: The Interviews by Kallie Marie 9781493065066
Booksplease Price: £20.85In Conversations with Women in Music Production, Kallie Marie interviews some of the most renowned women in music production and audio. Through thoughtful questions, readers gain perspective on the... -
Beatles Gear: All the Fab Four's Instruments from Stage to Studio by Andy Babiuk 9781617130991
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £38.47This ultimate guide to all the gear used by the Beatles details exactly which guitars drums amplifiers and keyboards the Fab Four embraced throughout their brief but revolutionary career from... -
Way Down: Playing Bass with Elvis, Dylan, The Doors and More: The Autobiography of Jerry Scheff by Jerry Scheff 9781617130328
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.21In this candid and perceptive memoir of his 45-year career bassist Jerry Scheff takes us onto Elvis's private jet on tour with Bob Dylan and into the studio with The Doors. A stalwart presence... -
Kane Larry Ticket to Ride Inside the Beatles 1964 Tour Bam Bk: Inside the Beatles' 1964 Tour That Changed the World by Larry Kane 9781480393042
Booksplease Price: £20.70In 1964-1965 Larry Kane was the only American reporter broadcast or newspaper to travel with the Fab Four on every stop of their North American tour. In ETicket to RideE Kane tells the story of... -
Morrissey FAQ: All That's Left to Know About This Charming Man by D. McKinney 9781480394483
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.74No one can argue that Morrissey is one of the best lyricists and charismatic front men in music history. But people love to argue about other things a his mysterious personal life his pompous... -
Pro Wrestling FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the World's Most Entertaining Spectacle by Brian Solomon 9781617135996
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.99Sport? Entertainment? Art form? Perhaps a bit of all three with a certain intangible extra something thrown in for good measure making professional wrestling a truly unique entity unto itself. From... -
Haunted America FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Most Haunted Houses, Cemeteries, Battlefields, and More by Dave Thompson 9781480392625
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.11Take a fast-paced survey of the ghosties ghouls and associated denizens of the country's haunted history with EHaunted America FAQE. Tracing local ghost stories back to Native American legends and... -
Spinal Tap: The Big Black Book by Wallace Fairfax 9781495089404
Booksplease Price: £34.76More than 30 years ago Marty Di Bergi (played by director Rob Reiner) could not have known that as he introduced his rockumentary EThis Is Spinal TapE he was creating a work of genius that would... -
If You Like LED Zeppelin...: Here are Over 200 Bands, Films, Records, and Other Oddities That You Will Love by Dave Thompson 9781617130854
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.39It was, and it remains, the greatest rock band the world has ever seen, a giant from the moment of its inception until long after its demise. Even today, more than 30 years after its final flight,... -
Fifty Shades of Crimson: Robert Fripp and King Crimson by Pete Tomsett
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493051021Author Pete TomsettFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Backbeat BooksPublisher Hal... -
The Ultimate Guide to Vinyl and More: All You Need to Know About Collecting Essential Music from Cylinders and CDs to LPs and Tapes by Dave Thompson
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.49An in-depth and comprehensive guide to a and history of a music collecting EThe Ultimate Guide to Vinyl and MoreE traces the hobby from its beginnings over a century ago. The book features... -
Confessions of a Serial Songwriter by Shelly Peiken
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.11A 2017 Best Spoken Word Album Grammy Nominee!THEConfessions of a Serial SongwriterE is an amusing and poignant memoir about songwriter Shelly Peiken's journey from young girl falling under the spell... -
Hearts of Darkness: James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Cat Stevens and the Unlikely Rise of the Singer-Songwriter by Dave Thompson
Booksplease Price: £21.98EHearts of DarknessE is the story of a generation's coming of age through the experiences of its three most atypical pop stars. James Taylor Jackson Browne and Cat Stevens could never have been... -
The PRS Electric Guitar Book: A Complete History of Paul Reed Smith Electrics by Dave Burrluck
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £20.33PRS guitars today appeal to a growing number of musicians from Carlos Santana to Al Di Meola from Zach Myers to Mark Tremonti. This book examines every part of PRS history with an in-depth story ... -
The Gretsch Electric Guitar Book: 60 Years of White Falcons, 6120s, Jets, Gents and More by Tony Bacon
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.99Gretsch 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... -
Mr. Tambourine Man: The Life and Legacy of The Byrds' Gene Clark by John Einerson 9780879307936
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.26Gene Clark soared to fame as a founding member and frontman of The Byrds one of the most important and influential groups of the '60s. His songwriting with The Byrds and subsequent work as a solo... -
Backstage Passes & Backstabbing Bastards: Memoirs of a Rock 'N' Roll Survivor by Al Kooper 9780879309220
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.44EA rock 'n roll classic back in print updated and revised.ETHOne of the funniest rock memoirs ever Al Kooper's legendary EBackstage PassesE is available again! Al's quirky life from would-be... -
Electronic Musician Presents the Recording Secrets Behind 50 Great Albums by Kylee Swenson Gordon 9781617130410
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.72Culled from 10 years of the EElectronic MusicianE ERemixE and EEQE magazines' archives the articles in EElectronic Musician Presents the Recording Secrets Behind 50 Great AlbumsE will enlighten... -
Running the Voodoo Down: The Electric Music of Miles Davis by Philip Freeman 9780879308285
Booksplease Price: £16.21This book reassesses Miles Davis' electric period and analyzes its continuing influence on contemporary music. While jazz purists often revile this phase a which encompasses the entire second half... -
The Guitar Player Book: The Ultimate Resource for Guitarists by Hal Leonard 9780879307820
Booksplease Price: £21.00A must-have for serious guitarists and guitar aficionados and for the 160 000 readers of EGuitar PlayerE magazine! A best-of collection from the magazine's four-decade history this book gives... -
The Who FAQ: All That's Left to Know About Fifty Years of Maximum R&B by Mike Segretto 9781480361034
Booksplease Price: £21.00Foreword by Dave Davies.THTHFifty years after Pete Townshend Roger Daltrey John Entwistle and Keith Moon made their first ruckus together onstage the world is still fascinated with its greatest... -
Neil Young FAQ: Everything Left to Know About the Iconic and Mercurial Rocker by Glen Boyd 9781617130373
Booksplease Price: £16.51Neil Young has had one of the most remarkable careers in the history of music. He hasn't just outlived many of his contemporaries a some of whom were great inspirations for him ( From Hank to Hendrix... -
Buck 'Em!: The Autobiography of Buck Owens by Randy Poe 9781617136412
Booksplease Price: £16.51Born in Texas and raised in Arizona Buck Owens eventually found his way to Bakersfield California. Unlike the vast majority of country singers songwriters and musicians who made their fortunes... -
The Invisible Line: When Craft Becomes Art by Larry Robinson
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.54What distinguishes art from craft? Since the traditional answer skews utilitarian and hinges on an object's 'use value ' musical instruments are typically grouped into the latter category. This is a... -
Some Fun Tonight!: The Backstage Story of How the Beatles Rocked America: The Historic Tours of 1964-1966, 1964 by Chuck Gunderson 9781495065675
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.95The Beatles' North American tours turned the entertainment business on its ear and forever changed the landscape of the concert touring industry. In February 1964 after finally achieving a... -
The Eagles FAQ: All That's Left to Know About Classic Rock's Superstars by Andrew Vaughan 9781480385412
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.04If the Beatles wrote the soundtrack of the swinging '60s then the Eagles did the same for the cynical '70s. The story of the Eagles is also the story of most artists of their time a the drugs the... -
Woodstock Vision: The Spirit of a Generation: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Woodstock Festival by Elliott Landy 9780879309657
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.15In the turbulent sixties the Woodstock Festival and the Generation that came from that event were a manifestation of the desire to create a free loving and just world. Elliott Landy has had his... -
I Want to Take You Higher: The Life and Times of Sly and the Family Stone by Jeff Kaliss 9781493080298
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.64From his anthemic early hits ("I Want to Take You Higher," "Family Affair," "Dance to the Music"), through the moody meditations of "There's a Riot Going On" and beyond, Sly & the Family Stone left... -
Tone Manual: Discovering Your Ultimate Electric Guitar Sound by Dave Hunter 9781617130045
Booksplease Price: £21.99Tone: it's the concept that gear-obsessed guitarists discuss more than any other and the ETone ManualE is the first book to take this hallowed concept seriously. In the course of breaking down the... -
Bob Dylan FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Song and Dance Man by Bruce Pollock 9781617136078
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.11In October 2016 the Swedish Academy finally conceded to a quarter-century's worth of clamorous petitions and sustained lobbying enacted by a chorus of poets novelists songwriters and academics... -
Video Games FAQ: All That's Left to Know About Games and Gaming Culture by Mark J.P. Wolf 9781617136306
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.11As their prominence in the news cycle - from Gamergate to the burgeoning smartphone market to the VR realm and beyond - would indicate, video games and gaming have rocketed from a fairly fringe... -
Guns N' Roses FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Bad Boys of Sunset Strip by Rich Weidman 9781495025884
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.11Thirty years ago five L.A. punks unleashed their debut album upon the atrophied and decadent rock charts of Reagan's America. Within weeks EAppetite for DestructionE ascended to number one on the U... -
Recording Unhinged Coloring Book: For Those Who Color Outside the Lines by Sylvia Massy 9781495076718
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.90Shooting pianos, miking chickens, recording bass (guitar, that is) on a submarine. These are some of the unusual recording techniques examined in the book, Recording Unhinged: Creative and... -
Jimi Hendrix: Musician by Keith Shadwick 9780879309602
Booksplease Price: £16.51Many books about Hendrix concentrate on showmanship and rock-and-roll excess but Keith Shadwick's EJimi Hendrix: MusicianE brings to Hendrix's musical legacy as a guitarist singer and composer a... -
The Beach Boys FAQ: All That's Left to Know About America's Band by Jon Stebbins 9780879309879
Booksplease Price: £19.86A half-century after their first single release Surfin' the Beach Boys continue to define California popular culture and the sunshine-infused sound that will forever be its living soundtrack. But... -
Leonard, Marianne, and Me: Magical Summers on Hydra by Judy Scott
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.48In 1973, Judy Scott was intent on traveling to Istanbul, but serendipitously she stumbled onto the incomparable Greek island of Hydra and the people who would continue, over many subsequent visits,... -
I Feel Love: Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, and How They Reinvented Music by Dave Thompson
Booksplease Price: £21.68When it comes to earthshaking songs-the ones that signal a tectonic shift in the current musical landscape-there is "Johnny B. Goode" . . . there is "Good Vibrations" . . . and there is "I Feel Love...