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Reckless by Chrissie Hynde
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.43By the time she was 14, Chrissie Hynde knew she had to get out of Akron, Ohio. Her perfect '50s American childhood upturned by a newly acquired taste for rock 'n' roll, motorbikes and the 'get down... -
Reckless: My Life as a Pretender by Chrissie Hynde
RRP: $24.51Booksplease Price: $21.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101912232Author Chrissie HyndeFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint -
Chrissie Hynde: A Musical Biography by Adam Sobsey 9781477310397
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.24A musical force across four decades, a voice for the ages, and a great songwriter, Chrissie Hynde is one of America's foremost rockers. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005, she and... -
Apathy for the Devil by Nick Kent
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56Pitched somewhere between Almost Famous and Withnail & I, Apathy for the Devil is a unique document of this most fascinating and troubling of decades - a story of inspiration, success and serious... -
The Unstable Boys: A Novel by Nick Kent 9781472132918
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $4.37London 1968:The Unstable Boys are the name on every music insider's lips and tipped to follow in the footsteps of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. This is their chance to hit the bigtime. They... -
Too Late To Stop Now: More Rock’n’Roll War Stories by Allan Jones
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.69More than 40 stories from the glory days of rock'n'roll, featuring Lou Reed, Elton John, Sting and The Clash. Allan Jones brings stories - many previously unpublished - from the golden days of... -
The Unstable Boys: A Novel by Nick Kent
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $6.79London 1968:The Unstable Boys are the name on every music insider's lips and tipped to follow in the footsteps of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. This is their chance to hit the bigtime. They... -
The Unstable Boys: A Novel by Nick Kent 9781472135322
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $6.79London 1968:The Unstable Boys are the name on every music insider's lips and tipped to follow in the footsteps of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. This is their chance to hit the bigtime. They... -
Leonard Cohen Poems by Leonard Cohen 9781841597874
RRP: $15.48Booksplease Price: $11.38This anthology contains a cross-section covering his career, including such legendary songs as 'Suzanne', 'Sisters of Mercy', 'Bird on the Wire', 'Famous Blue Raincoat' and 'I'm Your Man' and... -
Songwriters On Songwriting: Revised And Expanded by Paul Zollo
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $20.65In these fifty-two interviews, the greatest songwriters of our time go straight to the source of the magic of songwriting by offering their thoughts, feelings, and opinions on their art. Representing... -
The Queer Sixties by Patricia Juliana Smith 9780415921695 [USED COPY]
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $2.31The Queer Sixties assembles an impressive group of cultural critics to go against the grain of 1960s studies, and proposes new and different ways of the last decade before the closet doors swung open... -
Poems: Edna St Vincent Millay by Edna St. Vincent Millay 9781841597850
RRP: $15.48Booksplease Price: $11.38One of America's best-loved poets, Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) burst onto the literary scene at a very young age and won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923. Her passionate lyrics and... -
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir by Carrie Brownstein
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.95Before Carrie Brownstein became a music icon, she was a young girl growing up in the Pacific Northwest just as it was becoming the setting for one of the most important movements in rock history... -
Mick Ronson: The Spider with the Platinum Hair by 9781786062680
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.18During the five years it has taken to collate this work, authors Weird and Gilly have spoken to over fifty family members, close friends and colleagues including exclusive interviews with Suzi... -
Set the Night on Fire: Living, Dying and Playing Guitar with the Doors Robby Krieger 9781474624190
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $9.92'An attempt to retell an oft-told tale, this time informed by a desire to suck the hot air out of the more inflated earlier versions . . . this late-arriving history is perhaps the most reliable, and... -
Falling and Laughing: The Restoration of Edwyn Collins by Grace Maxwell 9780091930004
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20In February 2005, Edwyn Collins suffered two devastating brain haemorrhages. He should have died. Doctors advised that if he did survive, there would be little of him left. If that wasn't enough, he... -
Black Vinyl White Powder by Simon Napier-Bell 9780091880927
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.98The most authoritative, intelligent, diligently researched and unpretentious analysis of the British pop scene yet written' Sunday TelegraphBlack Vinyl White Powder charts the amazing fifty year... -
Punk Rock: An Oral History by John Robb
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $21.12'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... -
Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol by Steve Jones
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $8.98SOON TO BE A LIMITED SERIES DIRECTED BY DANNY BOYLE_____________________Foreword by Chrissie HyndeWithout the Sex Pistols there would be no punk rock, and without Steve Jones there would be no Sex... -
The Driver: True Life Adventures of an Underground Road Racer by Alexander Roy 9780091924904 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $2.57On his deathbed, Alex Roy's father dropped tantalizing hints about the notorious Cannonball Run of the 1970s, the utterly illegal high-speed non-stop races from New York to LA. Inspired by his... -
My Life in Dire Straits: The Inside Story of One of the Biggest Bands in Rock History by John Illsley
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.36With a foreword by MARK KNOPFLER'An uplifting journey through the sheer hard work, pitfalls and thrills of navigating a great rock band to the pinnacle of success. I so enjoyed the ride!' ROGER... -
Punk Rock: An Oral History by John Robb 9781529989229
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $19.09'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... -
Pete Doherty: Last of the Rock Romantics by Alex Hannaford 9780091910792 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $3.16Pete Doherty, erstwhile singer with The Libertines, is a British icon. Whether he is playing impromptu gigs in his front room or performing at Live 8, he possesses a sense of drama and expectation... -
Paul Weller - The Changing Man by Paolo Hewitt
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20Paolo Hewitt has known Paul Weller since they were both teenagers in the depths of Woking, through his ascent to fame with The Jam, the halcyon years of The Style Council and for all of his... -
The Modfather: My Life with Paul Weller by David Lines 9780099476597 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $3.19When David Lines first heard This is the Modern World by The Jam, it sparked off a love affair that continues to this day. Paul Weller became the blueprint for David's life, and he followed his music... -
The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain by Paul Theroux
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.91As mentioned in The Times Travel Book Club 2020Award winning writer Paul Theroux embarks on a journey that, though closer to home than most of his expeditions, uncovers some surprising truths about... -
The Portable Beat Reader by Ann Charters
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.71Beginning in the late 1940's, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was "beat." Beat as in poverty and beatitude, ecstasy and exile. Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the... -
The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain by Paul Theroux 9780140071818 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $2.54As mentioned in The Times Travel Book Club 2020Award winning writer Paul Theroux embarks on a journey that, though closer to home than most of his expeditions, uncovers some surprising truths about... -
Here Comes The Sun by Joshua M. Greene
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20'The soundtrack of [Harrison's] spiritual journey begins with the explosions of battle and ends, fifty-eight years later with the harmonies of eternal peace. And like all good stories, this one... -
Enzo Ferrari: A Life by Richard Williams
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.98For tens of millions of people around the world, a single name evokes the world of speed - Enzo Ferrari. Today's Formula One would be unthinkable without the presence of the Ferrari cars on the grid... -
Enzo Ferrari: A Life by Richard Williams 9780224059862 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $3.47For tens of millions of people around the world, a single name evokes the world of speed - Enzo Ferrari. Today's Formula One would be unthinkable without the presence of the Ferrari cars on the grid... -
The Fully Authorised History of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue: The Clue Bible from Footlights to Mornington Crescent by Jem Roberts 9781848091320 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $3.08'It's a great missing piece of the jigsaw - people go on endlessly about Python and Peter Cook, which is all well and good but there's basically this great corpus of work stretching for decades - and... -
In the City: A Celebration of London Music by Paul Du Noyer 9780753515747 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $3.47'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,... -
Factory: The Story of the Record Label by Mick Middles 9780753518250 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $3.11Factory Records' fame and fortune were based on two bands - Joy Division and New Order - and one personality - that of its director, Tony Wilson. At the height of the label's success in the late... -
The Story of The Streets by Mike Skinner
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20**WINNER OF THE NME BEST BOOK AWARD**'This book is going to try and get as close as possible to the full story of what informed the noise of The Streets. Obviously that's something I should be fairly... -
Factory: The Story of the Record Label by Mick Middles
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $8.98Factory Records' fame and fortune were based on two bands - Joy Division and New Order - and one personality - that of its director, Tony Wilson. At the height of the label's success in the late... -
The Official Ultimate 80s Pop Quiz by 9780753516911
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.98From Spandau Ballet and Kajagoogoo to Half Man Half Biscuit and Guns and Roses, the 1980s music scene is here in all its glory. The Official Ultimate 80s Pop Quiz will spark arguments at dinner... -
The Life of Lee by Lee Evans 9780718156190 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $3.10Lee Evans is one of the best-loved comedians in the country; a Hollywood star able to sell out arenas in the blink of eye. But he was not always such a roaring success. The Life of Lee is an utterly... -
Just For The Record by Geri Halliwell 9780091888046 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $3.43In 2002, Just For The Record was the book that everyone was talking about. Then in 2003, repackaged in a new, compact mass-market format, Just For The Record did it all over again being one of the... -
The Absence: Memoirs of a Banshee Drummer by Budgie 9781399621588
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95A TIMES AND ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Beautifully written and brutally honest' LYDIA LUNCH'A compassionate, relatable love story' MIKI BERENYI'Lyrical, affectionate and often painfully raw' RUPERT...