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This Rock 'n' Roll Won't Last You Know! John Verity 9781915246615
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16This Rock 'n' Roll Won’t Last You Know! charts John Verity’s journey, as he follows his dream of fame and fortune in a business guaranteed to break your heart. From humble beginnings playing in local... -
Chairman at the Board: Recording the Soundtrack of a Generation by Bill Schnee 9781493065158
Booksplease Price: £15.23Chairman at the Board is an intimate, funny, and absorbing look at the music business by an insider who has recorded a host of the greatest musical artists from the 1970s to today. Bill Schnee takes... -
The Fab One Hundred and Four: The Evolution of the Beatles David Bedford 9781854432643
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £35.30When one considers The Beatles' early history, there are several names that immediately come to mind, like Ivan Vaughan, Rod Davis, Stuart Sutcliffe and Pete Best. However, the story of the evolution... -
Raring to Go!: Star-studded stories from high-flying reporter and sports journalist Ted Macauley by Ted Macauley 9781787116719
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.59The autobiography of Ted Macauley, award-winning newspaper reporter, columnist, and sports journalist. A story filled with the excitement of the sports that he covered, tales of some enviable... -
Mad Rhythm: The Tragic Journey of Jim Gordon, Rock’s Greatest Drummer of All Time by Joel Selvin 9781635768992
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £15.61The blazing rock opera of the greatest drummer of all-time, Jim Gordon, from the legendary Wrecking Crew to redefining rock on the Seventies’ biggest hits and outrageous tours, and ultimately to the... -
The Drum Thing (Compact Edition) Deirdre O'Callaghan 9783791394138
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £27.09Now available in a compact edition, the world's best drummers are showcased in this book of magnificent photographs and fascinating interviews by renowned photographer Deirdre O'Callaghan. The... -
Riot On Sunset Strip: Rock 'n' roll's Last Stand In Hollywood (Revised Edition) Domenic Priore 9781908279903
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £10.59On 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... -
Peter Sellers: A Film History Michael Seth Starr 9780786473892
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59Peter Sellers left behind a rich legacy of film work, some of which is only belatedly recognized for its genius. Especially notable were his numerous crazy accents. Though most widely known as the... -
Shatner by Michael Seth Starr 9781495082689
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.42In the early months of 1966, a handsome, hardworking thirty-five-year-old Canadian-born actor named William Shatner was cast as Captain Kirk in Star Trek, a troubled, low-budget science-fiction... -
Nilsson: The Life of a Singer-Songwriter by Alyn Shipton 9780199756575
RRP: £41.49Booksplease Price: £27.09Paul McCartney and John Lennon described him as the Beatles' "favorite group," and yet no figure in popular music is as much of a paradox as Harry Nilsson. A major celebrity at a time when... -
Do You Want to Know a Secret?: The Autobiography of Billy J. Kramer by Billy J. Kramer 9781781793619
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.60In this autobiography Billy J. Kramer (born William Ashton) tells his rags to riches story, from his working class childhood in Liverpool to the racy world of international pop music. Managed by... -
Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run by Paul McCartney 9780241758571
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.27A landmark account of Paul McCartney’s triumphant musical reinvention in the 1970s and the rise of one of the decade’s most iconic bandsThis is the story, in their own words, of a band that came to... -
Shatner by Michael Seth Starr
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.55In the early months of 1966, a handsome, hardworking thirty-five-year-old Canadian-born actor named William Shatner was cast as Captain Kirk in Star Trek, a troubled, low-budget science-fiction... -
The Gospel According to Luke by Steve Lukather
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38No one explodes one of the longest-held misconceptions of music history better than Steve Lukather and his band Toto. The dominant pop-culture sound of the late-1970s and '80s was not in fact the... -
What's Big and Purple and Lives in the Ocean: The Moby Grape Story Cam Cobb 9781911036319
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £10.59Moby Grape are a genuine cult phenomenon. Their story, a mixture of myth and truth, is a cautionary tale, a triumph, and a tragedy all at once. Though they are seen as a symbol of 1960s San... -
Sex, Drums, Rock 'n' Roll!: The Hardest Hitting Man in Show Business by Kenny Aronoff
Booksplease Price: £16.51Talent, energy, dedication, discipline, passion, innovation, education, drive, mind, body, spirit, vision, honor, truth, and drums make the man: Kenny Aronoff. Voted by Rolling Stone magazine as one... -
Chairman at the Board: Recording the Soundtrack of a Generation by Bill Schnee
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £20.64Chairman at the Board is an intimate, funny, and absorbing look at the music business by an insider who has recorded a host of the greatest musical artists of the twentieth century. Bill Schnee takes... -
The Jordanaires: The Story of the World's Greatest Backup Vocal Group by Gordon Stoker
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.29The greatest backup group in the history of recorded music undoubtedly was the Jordanaires, a gospel group of mostly Tennessee boys, formed in the 1940s, that set the standard for studio vocal groups... -
Only you know & I know Dave Mason 9798218380175
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.20Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Dave Mason found early success with the band Traffic, establishing himself as a skilled guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter who penned the classic “Feelin’ Alright?”... -
The Beat of My Own Drum: A Memoir by Sheila E. 9781476714967
Booksplease Price: £13.26Sheila E., born Sheila Escovedo in 1957, picked up the drumsticks and started making music at the precocious age of three, inspired by her legendary father, percussionist Pete Escovedo. By nineteen,... -
Transcendence: Healing and Transformation Through Transcendental Meditation by Norman E. Rosenthal
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.00"Dr. Norman Rosenthal's Transcendence is the best-ever book on Transcendental Meditation: accessible and substantive, engaging and scientific, practical and profound. A very enjoyable read that can... -
With The Beatles: From the birth of Ringo to Now and Then Patrick Humphries 9781914227691
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53The first full biography of the group in nearly 20 years.Written by bestselling author and music journalist Patrick Humphries.Contains previously unpublished interviews with Paul McCartney, George... -
Proses: Incomparable Parables! Fabulous Fables! Cruel Tales! Garrett Caples 9781950268979
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.74In the grand tradition of poet's fiction, Proses: Incomparable Parables! Fabulous Fables! Cruel Tales! is a collection of nine phantasmagorical stories by beloved poet and City Lights editor, Garrett... -
John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band by John Lennon
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £30.00Described by Lennon as 'the best thing I've ever done', and widely regarded by critics as his best solo album, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band was released alongside the remarkable Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono... -
Caroline Charles by Caroline Charles 9781851497164
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.98"Miss Caroline Charles, aged 22 - youngest of the English designers whose fashions have captured New York - returns there to show her Spring collection. She is dark, beautiful and frail, with a small... -
A House in Maine by Nina Campbell
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £34.61The interiors of this glorious retreat's many buildings are given the Nina Campbell treatment with vibrant palettes, sumptuous fabrics, fine antiques, and a contemporary clarity. Constructed at the... -
Backbeats: A History of Rock and Roll in Fifteen Drummers John Lingan 9781668056240
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.29An electrifying journey through the history of rock and roll, told through the lives of fifteen iconic drummers and their percussion rivals-from John Bonham and Charlie Watts to Ringo Starr and... -
21-Hit Wonder: Flopping My Way to the Top of the Charts by Sam Hollander
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £17.60But rising up the charts seemed, at many points in his career, highly unlikely. This is his story of failing his way to the top. Sam Hollander has spent thirty years trudging through the peaks and... -
Sex, Drums, Rock 'n' Roll!: The Hardest Hitting Man in Show Business by Kenny Aronoff 9781495007934
Booksplease Price: £30.54Foreword by Neil Peart.THTHTalent energy dedication discipline passion innovation education drive mind body spirit vision honor truth and EdrumsE make the man: Kenny Aronoff. Voted by... -
Where's My Guitar?: An Inside Story of British Rock and Roll by Bernie Marsden 9780008356590
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88'A page turner...and then some!' Chris Evans 'An absorbing memoir.' Classic Rock Magazine 'A very enjoyable... -
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: The Outrageous, Definitive, Untold History Craig Inciardi 9798895150481
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £16.22The Indiana Jones of rock history and founding curator of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum narrates his quest to build the Rock Hall's collection from scratch-a wild ride that would take him... -
Passport Photo Service: An Unexpected Archive of Celebrity Portraits Philip Sharkey 9781837291229
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £14.04'For decades Philip Sharkey modestly ruled the London roost of passport and visa photography: the greatest, most trusted and admired practitioner in the field. Those lucky enough to have come before... -
Kick It: A Social History of the Drum Kit by Matt Brennan 9780190683870
RRP: £31.49Booksplease Price: £31.45The drum kit has provided the pulse of popular music from before the dawn of jazz up to the present day pop charts. Kick It, a provocative social history of the instrument, looks closely at key... -
I'm Always so Serious by Karisma Price
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31"I'm Always so Serious is brilliant." -Terrance Hayes, winner of the National Book Award for Lighthead Karisma Price's stunning debut collection is an extended meditation on Blackness, on family,... -
The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present by Paul McCartney 9781802064223
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £17.76The 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...