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Billy Bragg - A People's History by Billy Bragg 9781915858368
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €31.44Billy Bragg – A People’s History is an authorised oral history of the British singer-songwriter and political activist in the words of people who have been moved by his music. Containing over 400 fan... -
Back To Basics by Billy Bragg
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.46This souvenir songbook from Billy Bragg contains all the songs from the albums with top line, chords and lyrics. Also includes, extensive photography and artwork alongside biographies and trivia... -
The Three Dimensions of Freedom by Billy Bragg
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €6.99At a time when opinion trumps facts and truth is treated as nothing more than another perspective, free speech has become a battleground. While authoritarians and algorithms threaten democracy, we... -
The Progressive Patriot Billy Bragg 9780552772426
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €9.46What does it mean to be English? What does it mean to be British? Is the cross of St George a proud symbol of a great tradition, or the badge of a neo-Nazi? In a world where British citizens can lay... -
A Lover Sings: Selected Lyrics by Billy Bragg
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.79Billy Bragg is one of Britain's most distinctive and accomplished songwriters, whose work has articulated the passions, both personal and political, of Britain during the past five decades. A Lover... -
Billy Bragg: Still Suitable for Miners by Andrew Collins
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €16.17'Love me or hate me. It's a great read' - Billy Bragg He was a punk. He was a soldier. He was a flag-waver for the Labour Party and the miners. He is Billy Bragg, passionate protest folk singer and... -
Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World by Billy Bragg 9780571327751
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51A Rough Trade, Mojo and FT Book of the YearSHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZEEmerging from the jazz clubs of the early 1950s, skiffle - a uniquely British take on American folk and blues -... -
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Billy Bragg: Still Suitable for Miners by Andrew Collins 9780753512456 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €3.28He was a punk. He was a soldier. He was a flag-waver for both the Labour Party and the miners. He is Billy Bragg, best known as a passionate protest folk singer and a tireless promoter of political... -
Good Night and Good Riddance: How Thirty-Five Years of John Peel Helped to Shape Modern Life by David Cavanagh
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51Goodnight and Good Riddance: How Thirty-Five Years of John Peel Helped to Shape Modern Britain is a social history, a diary of a nation's changing culture, and an in-depth appraisal of one of our... -
Woody Guthrie: A Life by Joe Klein 9780571384297
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51'A really great book.' Bruce SpringsteenWith a foreword by Billy Bragg.The classic biography of the hugely influential American folk singer who inspired a generation of songwriters, including Bruce... -
The Punk Rock Politics of Joe Strummer: Radicalism, Resistance and Rebellion Gregor Gall 9781526148988
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.91Joe Strummer was one of the twentieth century's iconic rock'n'roll rebels. As frontperson, spokesperson and chief lyricist for The Clash, he played a major role in politicising a generation through... -
Chopping Wood: Thoughts & Stories Of A Legendary American Folksinger by Pete Seeger 9781916829022
RRP: €20.17Booksplease Price: €14.66Chopping Wood is Pete Seeger up close and personal like never before. Derived from years of conversations between Seeger and his close friend and collaborator David Bernz, it takes readers on a... -
My Kirsty: End of the Fairytale by Jean MacColl 9781784180263
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €16.07Kirsty MacColl led a dazzling life - tender, creative, heroic and full of love. This book, by her mother Jean MacColl, charts with moving insight Kirsty's early years and celebrates her brilliant... -
The Unseen Sir Alf: A Different Kind of Hero Grant Bage 9781801509589
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €22.88The Unseen Sir Alf tears up the traditional narrative of Sir Alf Ramsey's life and career. Using new evidence to tell Alf's story afresh, it changes everything we thought we knew about England's 1966... -
The Unseen Sir Alf: A Different Kind of Hero by Grant Bage 9781836804369
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.66The Unseen Sir Alf tears up the traditional narrative of Sir Alf Ramsey's life and career. Using new evidence to tell Alf's story afresh, it changes everything we thought we knew about the World... -
Exit Stage Left: The curious afterlife of pop stars by Nick Duerden
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02**A SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN & TELEGRAPH MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022** **INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE MONTH** **GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE DAY** **FINANCIAL TIMES 'BEST SUMMER BOOKS 2022' PICK** 'Incredibly... -
Pop Goes the Weasel: The Secret Meanings of Nursery Rhymes by Albert Jack
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98In Pop Goes the Weasel, Albert Jack explores the strange and fascinating histories behind the nursery rhymes we thought we knew, showing that their real meanings are far from innocent.Who were Mary... -
Punk Rock: An Oral History by John Robb 9781529989229
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €17.61'To see The Clash on the White Riot tour was like discovering how to be a rock star: you just did it yourself. You didn't wait for someone to come and discover you. That was the most important thing... -
Withdrawn Traces: Searching for the Truth about Richey Manic, Foreword by Rachel Edwards by Sara Hawys Roberts
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €21.86New discoveries and a fresh perspective, with unprecedented access to Richey's personal archiveOn 1 February 1995, Richey Edwards, guitarist of the Manic Street Preachers, went missing at the age of... -
Owning Up: The Trilogy by George Melly
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €17.30This single volume includes three famous memoirs - Scouse Mouse, Rum, Bum & Concertina and Owning Up, with a new introduction by the author. Scouse Mouse is a funny and frequently touching story of... -
No Milk Today: The Vanishing World of the Milkman by Andrew Ward
Booksplease Price: €24.63Traditionally, in British society, the milkman has been a family friend, a sex symbol and a cheerful chappie. He has been the eyes and ears of the community, and his genetic legacy has supposedly... -
Renegade: The Lives and Tales of Mark E. Smith by Mark E. Smith
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €9.71The only way to appreciate the legendary Mark E Smith is to encounter the man in his own words.'Ranting, raging, burning...relentlessly splenetic, a long and sustained rant... may also be the... -
In the City: A Celebration of London Music by Paul Du Noyer
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.58'A dense and colourful account of one of the most vibrant musical centres in the world, In the City almost puts you on that train to London' GuardianIn this fascinating history of London's music,... -
Eric Bogle, Music and the Great War: 'An Old Man's Tears' Michael J. K. Walsh 9780367593759
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €51.27Eric Bogle has written many iconic songs that deal with the futility and waste of war. Two of these in particular, 'And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda' and 'No Man's Land (a.k.a. The Green Fields... -
Messing Up the Paintwork: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark E. Smith by 9781785039850
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.58'If it's me and your granny on bongos, it's The Fall.'As legendary frontman of post-punk outfit The Fall, Mark E. Smith was known as much for his mercurial temperament as his exceptional musical... -
One Two Another: Line By Line: Lyrics from The Charlatans, Solo and Beyond by Tim Burgess
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €6.26A Rough Trade Book of the Year 'From lists to experiences and stories, there are no rules. A good song is a good song whoever writes it and however the writing happens.'Over the past three decades,... -
Wilcopedia: A Comprehensive Guide To The Music Of America's Best Band by Daniel Cook Johnson 9781911036531
RRP: €17.79Booksplease Price: €12.25Wilcopedia is a comprehensive guide to the music of the preeminent American rock band of the twenty-first century. It offers a thorough appraisal of the entire Wilco canon, with detailed insights... -
America Over the Water Shirley Collins 9781474623377
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.19'Shirley is a time traveller, a conduit for essential human aches, one of the greatest artists who ever lived' Stewart Lee'Without doubt one of England's greatest cultural treasures' Billy BraggIn... -
Down On The Corner: Adventures In Busking & Street Music by Cary Baker 9781916829107
RRP: €20.17Booksplease Price: €14.66One day around 1970, my father announced to me that he d like to take me to Maxwell Street Market, an open-air flea market adjacent to Downtown Chicago. He wanted to show me where his parents used to... -
How Does It Feel?: A Life of Musical Misadventures by Mark Kermode
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.20'Wonderful - such a terrific read. Brilliantly captures the passion, commitment, searing self-knowledge and dizzy happiness that comes with loving music. An enchanting book' STEPHEN FRY***Following a... -
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How Does It Feel?: A Life of Musical Misadventures by Mark Kermode 9781474608978 [USED COPY]
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €3.03'A rattling tornado of a tale' DANNY BAKER'Wonderful and wry . . . it will increase your zest for life' RICHARD AYOADEFollowing a formative encounter with the British pop movie Slade in Flame in... -
Essex's Own by Dee Gordon
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.08Athlete and TV presenter Sally Gunnell, actress Joan Sims, singer Billy Bragg, footballer Bobby Moore, chef Jamie Oliver, author John Fowles, film director Basil Dearden, playwright Sarah Kane, and... -
Popular Music and Human Rights: Volume II: World Music by Professor Ian Peddie 9780754668534
RRP: €115.42Booksplease Price: €102.10Popular music has long understood that human rights, if attainable at all, involve a struggle without end. The right to imagine an individual will, the right to some form of self-determination and... -
Respect: The Poetry of Detroit Music by Jim Daniels
RRP: €39.21Booksplease Price: €25.68While there have been countless books written about Detroit, none have captured its incredible musical history like this one. This collection of poems and lyrics covers numerous genres including... -
All The Young Punks: A People's History of The Clash Iain Key 9781915858375
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €22.22All The Young Punks is an oral history of The Clash. The Clash graduated from sweaty London clubs in the punk explosion of 1976 to become an internationally acclaimed rock act playing arenas and... -
Punk Rock: An Oral History by John Robb
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €19.48'To see The Clash on the White Riot tour was like discovering how to be a rock star: you just did it yourself. You didn't wait for someone to come and discover you. That was the most important thing... -
Let Fury Have the Hour: Joe Strummer, Punk, and the Movement that Shook the World by Antonino D'Ambrosio 9781568587196
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €18.41Joe Strummer was the archetypal citizen artist. As a member of The Clash, Strummer composed some the most important rebel music of the twentieth century. Fusing raw creativity with a humanist global... -
It's Time The Tale Were Told: A People's History of The Smiths Iain Key 9781915858283
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €22.90It's Time The Tale Were Told - A People's History of The Smiths is the story of one of the UK's most influential indie bands in the words of over 500 fans. From memories of their earliest club shows... -
Poems from Spain: British and Irish International Brigaders on the Spanish Civil War by Jim Jump 9781905007394
RRP: €16.66Booksplease Price: €14.63This is the first poetry anthology solely devoted to poems written by International Brigade volunteers. Fully illustrated and with extensive notes, the collection conveys the idealism and anguish... -
Blue Guitar Highway by Paul Metsa 9780816676439
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.05This is a musician’s tale: the story of a boy growing up on the Iron Range, playing his guitar at family gatherings, coming of age in the psychedelic seventies, and honing his craft as a pro in...