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How to Draw Crazy Cars & Mad Monsters Like a Pro by Ed Newton 9780760324714
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.11Chopped, slammed, channeled, blown . . . in the late '50s and early '60s all of these features lent themselves nicely to the rise of hot rod art that caricaturized the already severe design traits... -
Monsters: How George Bush Saved the World -- and Other Tall Stories by Gerald Scarfe 9781408700853 [USED COPY]
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £1.16Gerald Scarfe, Britain's most controversial satirical artist, is famous for having worked with a broad and eclectic mix of British and American icons, including Pink Floyd and Disney. But he is... -
Play On: Now, Then and Fleetwood Mac Mick Fleetwood 9781444753271
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26"After forty-six years of being on the road, now is the right time to look back in a way I've never done before: now and then. I'm looking forward to sharing it with you." Mick Fleetwood has been... -
Cultural Appropriation and the Arts James O. Young (University of Victoria, Canada) 9781405176569
RRP: £72.95Booksplease Price: £66.01Now, 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... -
Fender Stratocaster 70 Years by Dave Hunter 9780760385166
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £31.23Authoritatively written and lavishly illustrated, Fender Stratocaster® 70 Years is the officially licensed anniversary celebration of this legendary guitar. Ever present in the music world, the... -
Not Dead Yet: The Autobiography Phil Collins 9781784753603
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41In his own words is the candid, witty, and unvarnished story of the songs and shows, the hits and pans, the marriages and divorces, the ascents to the top of the charts and into the tabloid ... -
Two Riders Were Approaching: The Life & Death of Jimi Hendrix by Mick Wall
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Jimmy was a down-at-heel guitarist in New York, relying on his latest lovers to support him while he tried to emulate his hero Bob Dylan. A black guy playing white rock music, he wanted to be all... -
Long Drawn Out Trip: A Memoir by Gerald Scarfe 9780349143491
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In Long Drawn Out Trip: My Life, Gerald Scarfe tells his life story for the first time. With captivating, often thrilling stories, he takes us from his childhood and early days at Punch and Private... -
John Lennon, Yoko Ono and the Year Canada Was Cool by Greg Marquis 9781459415416
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.76John Lennon was the world's biggest rock star in the late Sixties. With his new wife Yoko Ono, the duo were icons of the peace movement denouncing the Vietnam War. In 1969, at the height of their... -
Shards of Love: Exile and the Origins of the Lyric by Maria Rosa Menocal 9780822314059 [USED COPY]
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £9.40With the Spanish conquest of Islamic Granada and the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, the year 1492 marks the exile from Europe of crucial strands of medieval culture. It also becomes a symbolic... -
How to Draw Cars Like a Pro, 2nd Edition Thom Taylor 9780760323915
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £13.99In this long-awaited follow-up to the best-selling first edition of How to Draw Cars Like a Pro, renowned car designer Thom Taylor goes back to the drawing board to update his classic with all-new... -
Gods and Guitars: Seeking the Sacred in Post-1960s Popular Music by Michael J. Gilmour 9781602581395
Booksplease Price: £32.45Though American attitudes toward religion changed dramatically during the 1960s, interest in spirituality itself never diminished. If we listen closely, Michael Gilmour contends, we can hear an... -
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?”... -
Shards of Love: Exile and the Origins of the Lyric by Maria Rosa Menocal 9780822314196
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48With the Spanish conquest of Islamic Granada and the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, the year 1492 marks the exile from Europe of crucial strands of medieval culture. It also becomes a symbolic... -
Play On: Now, Then and Fleetwood Mac by Mick Fleetwood 9781444753271 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.69"After forty-six years of being on the road, now is the right time to look back in a way I've never done before: now and then. I'm looking forward to sharing it with you." Mick Fleetwood has been... -
Blues Music in the Sixties: A Story in Black and White by Ulrich Adelt
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82Can a type of music be "owned"? Examining how music is linked to racial constructs and how African American musicians and audiences reacted to white appropriation, Blues Music in the Sixties shows... -
McQueen: The Biography by Christopher Sandford 9780006532293 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £2.53A full and frank portrait of the complex man behind the icon of cool. Steve McQueen, one of the first 'cool' film stars, remains a cultural icon the world over. His image is used to sell... -
Sir Elton by Philip Norman
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.64'He's got me spot on' Elton John'Anyone who can read will admire the intelligence, the detail and the robust good sense of this biography. It captures the flavour of the times every bit as... -
McQueen: The Biography by Christopher Sandford
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.26A full and frank portrait of the complex man behind the icon of cool. Steve McQueen, one of the first 'cool' film stars, remains a cultural icon the world over. His image is used to sell... -
Guitars and Heroes: Mythic Guitars and Legendary Musicians by Julien Bitoun
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £15.95An 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... -
Leon Russell: The Master of Space and Time's Journey Through Rock & Roll History Bill Janovitz 9780306924781
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75New York Times BestsellerThe definitive biography of legendary musician, composer, and performer Leon Russell, a profound influence on countless artists, including George Harrison, the Rolling... -
Fender: The Official Illustrated History by Dave Hunter 9780760387306
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £24.98Celebrate the legendary guitars and amps of Fender (R)with this authoritatively written, lavishly illustrated, and officially licensed history of the company and the culture it inspired. Originating... -
A Mind Like This by Susan Blackwell Ramsey 9780803243385
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.07Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Susan Blackwell Ramsey's A Mind Like This is a work of humor and wit, unexpectedly delightful and full of surprises as it reflects on the oddness... -
Jam! Amp Your Team, Rock Your Business by Jeff Carlisi 9780470446522
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.57What do the world's best bands and businesses have in common? More than you'd think. In fact, the winning teams that built Microsoft, Disney, and Starbucks have much in common with the Rolling Stones... -
Mr Moonlight: Brian Epstein and the Making of The Beatles by Philip Norman 9781398542266
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.05The definitive biography of Brian Epstein - the man who made the Beatles - by leading Beatles biographer Philip Norman.Brian Epstein didn't just manage the Beatles - he transformed them into the most... -
Hiroshi Fujiwara by Hiroshi Fujiwara
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £35.02Known internationally and variously described as the Godfather of Streetwear and one of the founding fathers of Tokyo's Harajuku scene, Hiroshi Fujiwara exerts a disproportionate influence over... -
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... -
Bob Crewe: Sight and Sound: Compositions in Art and Music by Donald Albrecht
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £34.61Best known for having written and produced some of the seminal records of American popular culture from Big Girls Don t Cry for the Four Seasons to Silence is Golden for the Tremeloes and Lady... -
The Inconvenient Lonnie Johnson: Blues, Race, Identity by Julia Simon 9780271092560
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £25.03Lonnie Johnson is a blues legend. His virtuosity on the blues guitar is second to none, and his influence on artists from T-Bone Walker and B. B. King to Eric Clapton is well established. Yet Johnson... -
The Inconvenient Lonnie Johnson: Blues, Race, Identity by Julia Simon
Booksplease Price: £97.20Lonnie Johnson is a blues legend. His virtuosity on the blues guitar is second to none, and his influence on artists from T-Bone Walker and B. B. King to Eric Clapton is well established. Yet Johnson... -
Another Day In The Life: My Life in Photos & Music by Ringo Starr 9781905662586
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.85"This is a way of putting my life out there, because if I were to write a memoir, there'd be five volumes before I got to The Beatles. So I'm going at it this way, through photographs and quotes. And... -
White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s by Joe Boyd
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46When Muddy Waters came to London at the start of the '60s, a kid from Boston called Joe Boyd was his tour manager; when Dylan went electric at the Newport Festival, Joe Boyd was plugging in his... -
Eruption: Conversations with Eddie Van Halen by Brad Tolinski
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38Get a completely new look at guitar legend Eddie Van Halen with this groundbreaking oral history, composed of more than fifty hours of interviews with Eddie himself as well as his family, friends,... -
Small Hours: The Long Night of John Martyn by Graeme Thomson 9781913172657
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Did any musician in the Seventies fly so free as John Martyn did on Bless The Weather, Solid Air, Inside Out and One World? Did any fall so far? Small Hours is an intimate, unflinching biography... -
Experiencing Progressive Rock: A Listener's Companion by Robert G. H. Burns 9781442266025
Booksplease Price: £42.78In Experiencing Progressive Rock: A Listener's Companion, Robert G. H. Burns brings together the many strands that define the "prog rock" movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s to chart the... -
The Music of James Bond by Jon Burlingame 9780199863303
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £43.51The story of the music that accompanies the adventures of Ian Fleming's intrepid Agent 007 is one of surprising real-life drama. In The Music of James Bond, author Jon Burlingame throws open studio... -
The Contest: The 1968 Election and the War for America's Soul by Michael Schumacher
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.86A dramatic, deeply informed account of one of the most consequential elections and periods in American history 1968-rife with riots, assassinations, anti-Vietnam War protests, and realpolitik-was one... -
Passcode to the Third Floor: An Insider's Account of Life Among North Korea's Political Elite by Thae Yong-ho 9780231198868
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69Thae Yong-ho was a leading North Korean diplomat to the United Kingdom and Northern Europe-until his dramatic defection to South Korea in 2016. In this gripping tell-all, he reveals the inner... -
Forever Changes: The Authorized Biography Of Arthur Lee And Love by John Einarson 9781916829121
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £12.65Widely hailed as a genius, Arthur Lee was a character every bit as colorful and unique as his music. In 1966, he was Prince of the Sunset Strip, busy with his pioneering racially mixed band, Love,... -
Real Love, No Drama: The Music of Mary J. Blige by Danny Alexander
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46Mary J. Blige is an icon who represents the political consciousness of hip hop and the historical promise of soul. She is an everywoman, celebrated by Oprah Winfrey and beloved by pop music fans of...