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Fender 75 Years Dave Hunter 9780760370155
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £32.03Ubiquitous in the music world, Fender (R) guitars and amplifiers are also icons in popular culture, their shapes and sounds instantly recognizable. Authoritatively written and lavishly illustrated,... -
The Yardbirds: The Most Blueswailing Futuristic Way-Out Heavy Beat Sound Peter Stanfield 9781836390770
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23The Yardbirds were trailblazers in the rapid development of pop music in Britain between 1963 and 1968. With members including Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page, they helped to set the... -
Fender Telecaster and Stratocaster: The Story of the World's Most Iconic Guitars by Dave Hunter
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £27.65Celebrate of the history and significance of both the Fender Telecaster and Stratocaster for the company's 75th anniversary in this combined edition of Dave Hunter's two best-selling books! The... -
The Silver River: A memoir of family - lost, made and found - from the Midnight Oil founding member, for readers of Dave Grohl, Tim Rogers and Rick Rubin by Jim Moginie 9781460765852
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.79A moving and inspiring memoir of families lost and rediscovered, by a founding member of legendary band Midnight Oil. For fifty years, songwriter, guitarist and keyboard player Jim Moginie was a... -
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... -
Nobody Told Me: My Life with the Yardbirds, Renaissance and Other Stories by Jim McCarty 9780244966508
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.84Nobody Told Me is the long awaited autobiography by Jim McCarty, a founding and current member of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees The Yardbirds, a founder member of Renaissance, Together and Box... -
Fender Telecaster: 75 Years Dave Hunter 9780760389317
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £25.78Authoritatively written and lavishly illustrated, Fender Telecaster 75 Years is the officially licensed anniversary celebration of this legendary guitar.Embraced for its simplicity and adaptability,... -
Bowie: Loving The Alien by Christopher Sandford 9780306808548
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.47Based on interviews with family members, colleagues, lovers, and the previously silent William Burroughs, this unsparing yet even-handed biography guides the reader through the many personas, crises,... -
Rock Stars on the Record: The Albums That Changed Their Lives by Eric Spitznagel
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Bestselling author Eric Spitznagel speaks with an all-star lineup of rock-n-rollers-from Perry Farrell to the Indigo Girls-to discover the uproariously wild, sentimental, and unexpected pre-stardom... -
Delta Lady: A Memoir by Rita Coolidge 9780062372055
Booksplease Price: £10.42The two-time Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter bares her heart and soul in this intimate memoir, a story of music, stardom, love, family, heritage, and resilience. She inspired songs-Leon... -
My Life in Dire Straits: The Inside Story of One of the Biggest Bands in Rock History by John Illsley 9781635769159
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £20.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635769159Author John IllsleyFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Diversion BooksPublisher... -
The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock 'n' Roll by Ian S. Port 9781501141737
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.28"A hot-rod joy ride through mid-20th-century American history" (The New York Times Book Review), this one-of-a-kind narrative masterfully recreates the rivalry between the two men who innovated the... -
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen 9781501141522
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £15.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501141522Author Bruce SpringsteenFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher... -
The Fender Electric Guitar Book: A Complete History of Fender Instruments by Tony Bacon 9780879308971
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.04To mark the 60th anniversary of Fender Backbeat's introduced a new completely revised third edition of this bestseller. Fender guitars have long been the instruments of choice for artists such as... -
Stairway To Heaven by Richard Cole 9780743489850 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.86The most powerful, popular and enduring rock band of all time, the excitement of Led Zeppelin's music was matched only by the fever pitch of their off-stage antics. In hotel rooms and stadiums, in a... -
Out of Darkness: The Jeff Healey Story by Cindy Watson 9781525245121
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £27.24From the moment three-year-old Jeff Healey first laid a guitar across his lap in what was to become his signature style, it was clear he was no ordinary kid. Losing both eyes to retinoblastoma, a... -
When I Left Home: My Story by Buddy Guy
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56According to Eric Clapton, John Mayer, and the late Stevie Ray Vaughn, Buddy Guy is the greatest blues guitarist of all time. An enormous influence on these musicians as well as Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy... -
Guitar Player Presents Guitar Heroes of the '70s by Ernie Rideout 9781617130021
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.00Launched in 1967 EGuitar PlayerE was the only guitar publication in existence when the '60s and '70s six-string explosion ignited across the globe. As a result EGuitar PlayerE interviewed scores of... -
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £22.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501141515Author Bruce SpringsteenFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher... -
McQueen: The Biography by Christopher Sandford 9780878333073
Booksplease Price: £20.28The biography of the original Mr. Cool, Steve McQueen. The actor who perhaps, first epitomised the Action Hero; a complex man, prone to casual affairs and violence, yet capable of helping those more... -
1963: The Year of the Revolution: How Youth Changed the World with Music, Art, and Fashion by Ariel Leve 9780062120458
Booksplease Price: £12.35Ariel Leve and Robin Morgan's oral history 1963: The Year of the Revolution is the first book to recount the kinetic story of the twelve months that witnessed a demographic power shift-the rise of... -
Bill Graham Presents: My Life Inside Rock And Out by Bill Graham
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.99As a child, Bill Graham fled Europe to escape Hitler's armies. He grew up on the streets of New York and in the dining rooms of the hotels in the Catskills. After failing as an actor, he headed for... -
Der Mond: The Art of Neon Genesis Evangelion by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto 9781421507675
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.92Part of the Neon Genesis Evangelion phenomenon--the most talked-about anime series of last ten years!New look, a hard cover version for Der Mond!Stylish, delicate, and consistently edgy, Der Mond... -
The Man Called Cash: The Life, Love, and Faith of an American Legend by Steve Turner 9780849908156
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.29Johnny Cash is one of the most influential figures in music and American popular culture today. While he was an icon to people of all ages during his life, Cash's legacy continues after his death... -
Poetic Justice: Fame by Fran Raya
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £5.85Randal Forbes calls his phenomenal telepathic powers 'the gift'. In this third book of the Poetic Justice series, he achieves widespread fame, as an author and entrepreneur. He has left a complex... -
Icons of Rock: In Their Own Words by Dr Jenny Boyd 9781789466713
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.59There have been innumerable 'rock star' biographies and music histories before, but there is no book that presents the deepest, innermost thoughts from some of the industry's most legendary... -
Stormy Monday: The T-Bone Walker Story by Helen Oakley Dance 9780807124581
Booksplease Price: £29.90The most significant factor in the career of Aaron ""T-Bone"" Walker was his ability to bridge the worlds of blues and jazz. The guitar artistry of this early exponent of urban blues was not only... -
On This Day: Daily Inspiration for the History Buff, the Trivia Lover, and the Innately Curious by Carl D. Windsor 9781582296548
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.21Each morning the alarm goes off, and a new day begins. Who was born on this day of the year? What happened on this day in history? This book is a fun, quick-moving way to learn more about each day of... -
Guitar World Presents the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time by Guitar World Magazine 9780634046193
Booksplease Price: £20.95This exciting book from the editors of Guitar World is a treasure trove for any guitarist. Featuring electrifying profiles of everyone from hard rock gods (Wes Borland, Dimebag Darrell, Tony Iommi)... -
I Talk Too Much: My Autobiography by Francis Rossi 9781472130204 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £3.12THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'THE ROCK 'N' ROLL AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR' MAIL ON SUNDAY'Essential for fans and great reading for anyone else' Classic RockBreak-ups, make-ups, groupies, band politics,... -
I Talk Too Much: My Autobiography by Francis Rossi
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'THE ROCK 'N' ROLL AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR' MAIL ON SUNDAY'Essential for fans and great reading for anyone else' Classic RockBreak-ups, make-ups, groupies, band politics,... -
Heart Full of Soul: Keith Relf of the Yardbirds by David French 9781476680118
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59This is the first full-length biography of Keith Relf, frontman for the Yardbirds and one of the great tragic characters in rock history. Keith's moody vocals and harmonica helped to define the... -
And Finally ...: A Journalist's Life in 250 Stories by Paddy Murray 9781838359300
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £14.23By any account Paddy Murray has had a remarkable life. From meeting entertainment and sports celebrities like John Wayne, Pele, Madonna, Eric Clapton, Richard Harris, Elton John, George Harrison,... -
Art Into Pop Simon Frith 9781138652682
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.14This book, first published in 1987, tells the intriguing and culturally complex story of the art school influence on postwar British popular music. Following Romantic attitudes from life class to... -
Cultural Appropriation and the Arts James O. Young (University of Victoria, Canada) 9781444332711
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £26.94Now, for the first time, a philosopher undertakes a systematic investigation of the moral and aesthetic issues to which cultural appropriation gives rise. Cultural appropriation is a pervasive... -
Mighty Fitz: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Michael Schumacher
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.77The Edmund Fitzgerald, a colossal ore carrier, had been fighting her way through a pounding November storm on Lake Superior. Then the Fitz's radar went out, and she started to take on water. Despite... -
I Am The Blues: The Willie Dixon Story by Willie Dixon 9780306804151
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £16.67These 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... -
Ultimate Heavy Metal Guitars: The Guitarists Who Rocked the World by Pete Prown 9780760377758
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.86Sure to strike a chord with guitarists and heavy metal fans, this authoritative and photo-filled volume surveys more than 80 of the genre's greatest axe-slingers from the 1970s to present. From metal... -
The Ultimate Book of Blues Guitar Legends: The Players and Guitars That Shaped the Music Pete Prown 9780760387566
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £15.00Sure to strike a chord with guitarists and blues fans, this authoritative and photo-filled volume includes over 150 of the genre's greatest players and performers from the prewar era to present.From... -
Kurt Cobain by Christopher Sandford 9780786713691
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.35Here is the first biography to explore, with shocking detail, the drama that formed this troubled, tragic rock star. Neither an apology nor a condemnation, Kurt Cobain presents a vivid insider's view...