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Can't Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop's Blockbuster Year by Michaelangelo Matos
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.90Everybody knows the hits of 1984-pop music's greatest year. From "Thriller" to "Purple Rain," "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" to "Like a Virgin," "Hello" to "Against All Odds," "Sister Christian" to... -
And Their Children After Them: 'A page-turner of a novel' New York Times by Nicolas Mathieu
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'[A] page-turner of a novel . . . I couldn't put the book down' - New York Times'A multi-viewpoint panorama of thwarted aspirations, spiced with breathy sex scenes and nostalgic detail.' - Mail on... -
Life by Keith Richards
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £8.85Once-in-a-generation memoir of a rock legend - the No. 1 SUNDAY TIMES bestseller.'Electrifying' New York Times'A masterpiece' The Word'Funny, poignant, brutally honest' Sunday TelegraphWith the... -
I Don't Want to Go Home: The Oral History of the Stone Pony by Nick Corasaniti 9780062950796
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58"Reading Nick Corasaniti's delightful book about the storied Asbury Park, New Jersey, club is like sitting at your favorite bar listening to the old regulars tell magnificent stories."-Rolling Stone,... -
Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine Joe Hagan 9781782115939
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51You've heard the controversy, now read the book:Sticky Fingers is Joe Hagan's pulsing account of 50 years of rock'n'roll excess from Jann Wenner, founder of Rolling Stone magazine and one of the... -
Songs and Solos: Creating the Right Solo for Every Song by Rikky Rooksby 9781617131035
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.54This guidebook teaches songwriters exactly how to create awesome solos that will really help their material stand out. Based on the study of nearly 900 songs from six decades of great music it... -
Ramblin' Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie by Ed Cray 9780393327366
Booksplease Price: £26.68A patriot and a political radical, Woody Guthrie captured the spirit of his times in his enduring songs. He was marked by the FBI as a subversive. He lived in fear of the fatal fires that stalked his... -
Manfred Mann's Earth Band in the 1970s: Decades John Van der Kiste 9781789522433
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Having moved from jazz, Blues and R'n'B to out-and-out pop in his various 1960s bands, keyboard player Manfred Mann went back to the drawing board in 1971 with a new quartet, Manfred Mann's Earth... -
Knock! Knock! Knock! On Wood: My Life in Soul by Eddie Floyd
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £16.43Known for the classics "Knock on Wood," "634-5789," "Raise Your Hand," "Big Bird," and "I've Never Found a Girl (To Love Me Like You Do)," among others, Eddie Floyd's career as a soul legend spans... -
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A Bicycle Built for Sue by Daisy Tate 9780008322755 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £1.97'Funny... inspiring... I loved it' Milly Johnson 'I love the fabulous friendships' Jo Thomas 'Wonderfully uplifting' Alex... -
A Bicycle Built for Sue by Daisy Tate
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £3.39'Funny... inspiring... I loved it' Milly Johnson 'I love the fabulous friendships' Jo Thomas 'Wonderfully uplifting' Alex... -
Bowie's Books: The Hundred Literary Heroes Who Changed His Life by John O'Connell
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Brilliant. The unwritten Bowie book that needed writing' CAITLIN MORAN 'Splendid. Provides plenty of evidence of Bowie's restless, rummaging intelligence, and his... -
Digital Renaissance: What Data and Economics Tell Us about the Future of Popular Culture by Joel Waldfogel 9780691208640
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.99How digital technology is upending the traditional creative industries-and why that's a good thingThe digital revolution poses a mortal threat to the major creative industries-music, publishing,... -
Bumping Into Geniuses: My Life Inside Rock 'n' Roll Danny Goldberg 9798895150924
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.75Step inside the rock 'n' roll world with this all-access pass from the music biz legend who collaborated with Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, Stevie Nicks, Bruce Springsteen, and more.In Bumping into... -
Tarantula by Bob Dylan 9780007215041
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.63Written in 1966, 'Tarantula' is a collection of poems and prose that evokes the turbulence of the times in which it was written, and gives a unique insight into Dylan's creative evolution. ... -
Philosophy Americana: Making Philosophy at Home in American Culture by Douglas R. Anderson 9780823225507
Booksplease Price: £83.93In this engaging book, Douglas Anderson begins with the assumption that philosophy-the Greek love of wisdom-is alive and well in American culture. At the same time, professional philosophy remains... -
Good Grief: A Novel Sara Goodman Confino 9781662527531
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.37A mother- and daughter-in-law. To move on, one of them will have to move out in a hopeful and hilarious novel about widowhood and family friction by the bestselling author of Don't Forget to Write... -
The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music by Tom Breihan
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.60A Pitchfork Best Music Book of 2022When Tom Breihan launched his Stereogum column in early 2018, "The Number Ones"-a space in which he has been writing about every #1 hit in the history of the... -
This Land Is Your Land (Special Anniversary Edition) by Kathy Jakobsen
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.93Since Woody Guthrie wrote "This Land Is Your Land" in the 1940s, it has become one of the most familiar and best-loved folk songs in America. This is the only fully illustrated edition of the song in... -
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Nick Drake: The Biography by Patrick Humphries 9780747535034 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.41'An exquisite portrait' MOJO 'A riveting account of the golden-boy genius' EVENING STANDARD Nick Drake was barely twenty-six years old when he died in 1974, but in his short lifetime he... -
Nick Drake: The Biography by Patrick Humphries 9780747535034
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78'An exquisite portrait' MOJO 'A riveting account of the golden-boy genius' EVENING STANDARD Nick Drake was barely twenty-six years old when he died in 1974, but in his short lifetime he... -
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Waiting for the Punch: Words to Live by from the Wtf Podcast by Marc Maron 9781250088901 [USED COPY]
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £3.85Since 2009, WTF with Marc Maron has been one of the most widely listened to and influential podcasts in the country. Each week over a million and a half listeners tune in to hear Marc and a guest do... -
How to Write Songs on Guitar: A Guitar-Playing and Songwriting Course by Rikky Rooksby
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.37You want to write songs, and you want to write them on guitar. This updated twentieth-anniversary third edition of the bestselling songwriting handbook shows you how. Learn the techniques and tricks... -
Everything's Bigger in Texas: The Life and Times of Kinky Friedman by Mary Lou Sullivan
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.02Kinky Friedman has always maintained his Kinkster persona and hidden Richard Friedman from the public eye. Using one-liners, humor, and occasional rudeness, he follows the advice of his friend Bob... -
Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York that Changed Music Forever by Will Hermes 9780241003756
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Love Goes to Buildings on Fire by Will Hermes - Five Years in New York that Changed Music Forever'A must-read for any music fan' (Boston Globe)Crime was everywhere, the government was broke and the... -
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Present Tense: Rock & Roll and Culture by Anthony DeCurtis 9780822312611 [USED COPY]
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £7.52The most compelling art form to emerge from the United States in the second half of the twentieth century, rock & roll stands in an edgy relationship with its own mythology, its own musicological... -
The Chronicles Of Narmo by Caitlin Moran 9780552570664
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Fifteen-year-old Morag Narmo really doesn't want to go to school any more. She and her siblings would rather feed their heads into the waste-disposal unit than "do the academical". So they are all... -
Elton John at 75 Gillian G. Gaar 9780760375525
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £44.94A unique and beautifully produced celebration of the iconic and beloved rock star, Elton at 75 features a slipcased hardcover with a gatefold timeline, gatefold artwork, frameable pull-out gig... -
How to Write Guitar Riffs: Create and Play Great Hooks for Your Songs by Rikky Rooksby
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.48Countless great songs are based on riffs-catchy guitar phrases that repeat until they're seared into your brain forever-or snappy chord sequences as memorable as any melody. Riffs get people excited,... -
Rose, Interrupted Patrice Lawrence 9781444940657
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.97'Enthralling, resonant, unusual and thought-provoking' The Guardian 'Lawrence is a fine writer' TheTimes 'A vibrant, accomplished storyteller' The Observer'A truly brilliant book' Malorie Blackman on... -
Homeward Bound: The Life of Paul Simon by Peter Ames Carlin
Booksplease Price: £23.66To have been alive during the last sixty years is to have lived with the music of Paul Simon. The boy from Queens scored his first hit record in 1957, just months after Elvis Presley ignited the rock... -
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Rose, Interrupted by Patrice Lawrence 9781444940657 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.41'Enthralling, resonant, unusual and thought-provoking' The Guardian 'Lawrence is a fine writer' TheTimes 'A vibrant, accomplished storyteller' The Observer'A truly brilliant book' Malorie Blackman on... -
Robert Plant: A Life: The Biography by Paul Rees
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.28Robert Plant is one of the few genuine living rock legends. Frontman of Led Zeppelin, musical innovator and seller of millions of records, Plant has had a profound influence on music for... -
Shiny and New: Ten Moments of Pop Genius that Defined the '80s by Dylan Jones
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'A wholly successful endeavour carried along by waves of infectious enthusiasm' Mojo'Fascinating' New StatesmanThe '80s were about big ideas writ large - new money, new style, gender fluidity, gay... -
My First Memory: Epiphanies, Watersheds and Origin Stories by Ben Holden 9781471167461
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38WHAT IS YOUR FIRST MEMORY? Or, rather, what do you imagine to be your earliest memory? Perhaps, alternatively, there was a moment during childhood when the world's axis shifted? A transformative... -
Shiny and New: Ten Moments of Pop Genius that Defined the '80s by Dylan Jones 9781474620055
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.87The Eighties were about big ideas writ large - new money, new style, gender fluidity, gay pride, attritional politics, the 'special relationship', nuclear fear, AIDS, cocaine, ecstasy, tabloid... -
Conversations with Richard Ford by Huey Guagliardo 9781578064069
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12Pulitzer Prize--winning author Richard Ford is a leading figure among American writers of the post--World War II generation. His novel The Sportswriter (1986), along with its sequel Independence Day... -
Guitars and Heroes: Mythic Guitars and Legendary Musicians by Julien Bitoun
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £19.18An encyclopedia of more than 100 guitars and the musicians who have mastered them. Guitars & Heroes is organized by era, from the rockabilly pioneers to the guitar heroes of the future. Each... -
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Eight Pieces of Silva: an addictive mystery that refuses to let you go ... by Patrice Lawrence 9781444954746 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £2.34From the multi-award-winning author of Orangeboy, an addictive mystery that refuses to let you go long after you turn the final page. Can Becks piece the jigsaw together and find her sister before... -
POP. 1280: As seen on Between the Covers by Jim Thompson 9781398720992
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02With a new introduction by Charlie Higson'Fantastic ... in my book Jim Thompson is still the greatest crime writer' Jo Nesbo'The best suspense writer going, bar none' NEW YORK TIMES'Jim Thompson...