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The Manchurian Candidate by Greil Marcus
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.36"It may be the most sophisticated political thriller ever made in Hollywood," film critic Pauline Kael wrote of John Frankenheimer's terrifying 1962 political thriller about an American serviceman... -
What Nails It Greil Marcus 9780300272451
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.48From a celebrated critic, a heartfelt and adventurous reflection on the art of writing about art “Essential for fans of Marcus and fruitful reading for anyone reflecting on the mysteries of art... -
What Nails It Greil Marcus 9780300285529
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.40From a celebrated critic, a heartfelt and adventurous reflection on the art of writing about art "Essential for fans of Marcus and fruitful reading for anyone reflecting on the mysteries of art... -
Listening to Van Morrison by Greil Marcus 9780571254460
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Listening to Van Morrison represents Greil Marcus's quest to trace Morrison's particular genius through seminal moments in his long career, beginning in 1965, breaking open in 1968 with the... -
Bob Dylan: Writings 1968-2010 by Greil Marcus
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.67Greil Marcus weaves individual moods and moments into a brilliant history of their changing times. The book begins in Berkeley in 1968, and ends with a piece on Dylan's show at the University of... -
The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs by Greil Marcus
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.57One of our finest critics gives us an altogether original history of rock 'n' roll Unlike all previous versions of rock 'n' roll history, this book omits almost every iconic performer and ignores the... -
Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads by Greil Marcus
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Sardonic, bitter, threatening, compassionate, gleeful, and most of all loud, 'Like a Rolling Stone' is much more than a song. Six minutes and six seconds in length, it was released by Dylan despite... -
Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past by Simon Reynolds
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.41The first book to make sense of 21st Century pop, Retromania explores rock's nostalgia industry of revivals, reissues, reunions and remakes, and argues that there has never before been a culture so... -
Real Life Rock: The Complete Top Ten Columns, 1986-2014 by Greil Marcus
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $21.24From the author of The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs comes his "Basement Tapes": the complete "Real Life Rock Top 10" columns For nearly thirty years, Greil Marcus has written a remarkable... -
The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes by Contributor Greil Marcus 9780312572914
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $18.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312572914Author Contributor Greil MarcusFormat PaperbackPage Count 320 -
Long Walk Home: Reflections on Bruce Springsteen by Jonathan D. Cohen
RRP: $33.49Booksplease Price: $29.37Bruce Springsteen might be the quintessential American rock musician but his songs have resonated with fans from all walks of life and from all over the world. This unique collection features... -
Shake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop from Elvis to Jay Z: A Library of America Special Publication by Jonathan Lethem
Booksplease Price: $55.57The essential playlist of great writing about the music that rocked America, with fifty landmark pieces on Otis Redding, Janis Joplin, Lez Zepplin, and other rock n' roll legends Jonathan Lethem and... -
1966: The Year the Decade Exploded by Jon Savage 9780571368556
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.28WINNER OF THE PENDERYN MUSIC PRIZEA GUARDIAN MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR, 2015FEATURING A NEW FOREWORD BY DAVID MITCHELLAward-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Jon Savage's monument to the year... -
Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine Joe Hagan 9781782115939
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08You'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... -
Highway 61 Revisited: Bob Dylan's Road from Minnesota to the World by Colleen Sheehy 9780816661008
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.26The young man from Hibbing released Highway 61 Revisited in 1965, and the rest, as they say, is history. Or is it? From his roots in Hibbing, to his rise as a cultural icon in New York, to his... -
The Mammoth Book of the Beatles Sean Egan 9781845299439
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.83Over 30 landmark interviews, accounts, and memoirs of The Beatles and their entourage, recording how they inadvertently became counter-culture's figureheads and changed society.The pieces include... -
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Present Tense: Rock & Roll and Culture by Anthony DeCurtis 9780822312611 [USED COPY]
RRP: $125.96Booksplease Price: $10.08The 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... -
Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix and Post-war Pop by Charles Shaar Murray 9780857867742
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08Jimi Hendrix 'transgressed many boundaries; both arbitrary musical definitions separating blues and soul or jazz and rock, and also those fundamental divides between the archaic and the avant-garde,... -
Nico, Songs They Never Play on the Radio by James Young
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28_______________ 'A coolly literary masterpiece' - Greil Marcus, Esquire 'Sad, funny, brilliant' - The Daily Telegraph 'In classic fish-out-of-water fashion Young writes with wry amusement... -
Ways of Hearing: A User's Guide to the Pop Psyche from Elvis to Eminem by Ben Thompson 9780753812891
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $9.06John Berger's Ways of Seeing was first published in 1972. It looked at visual images and how they shape us. In Ways of Hearing Ben Thompson does a similar thing for music - albeit in a... -
Listen: The Stages and Studios that Shaped American Music Rhona Bitner 9780789345721
RRP: $21.41Booksplease Price: $16.71Prompted by the closing of New York s famed CBGB, Rhona Bitner embarked on a thirteen-year journey to photograph 403 venues across twenty-six states and eighty-nine cities the studios, concert halls,... -
A Year on Earth with Mr Hell by Young Kim 9798985378177
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $18.71A Year on Earth With Mr. Hell is the critically acclaimed debut memoir by Young Kim. The book explores a liberated woman's erotic experience in a clandestine affair without the cliched political and... -
Hollywood & God Robert Polito 9780226103655
Booksplease Price: $21.20Hollywood & God is a virtuosic performance, filled with crossings back and forth from cinematic chiaroscuro to a kind of unsettling desperation and disturbing - even lurid-hallucination. From the... -
Aesthetics of Pop Music by D Diederichsen
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.72In this short book, the leading German cultural critic Diedrich Diederichsen puts forward a fresh and original account of pop music. He argues that pop music is not so much a form of music as a... -
Ziggyology by Simon Goddard
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63He came from Outer Space...It was the greatest invention in the history of pop music - the rock god who came from the stars - which struck a young David Bowie like a lightning bolt from the heavens... -
What's Big and Purple and Lives in the Ocean: The Moby Grape Story Cam Cobb 9781911036319
RRP: $20.03Booksplease Price: $14.45Moby 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... -
Maria Callas's Lyric and Coloratura Arias by Ginger Dellenbaugh
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.44More than 40 years after her death, the legend of Maria Callas, "La Divina Assoluta," remains unsurpassed. Much has been written about her sensational opera career and fraught private life, from her... -
The Ink in the Grooves: Conversations on Literature and Rock 'n' Roll by Florence Dore 9781501766206
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.74Drop the record needle on any vinyl album in your collection, then read the first pages of that novel you've been meaning to pick up-the reverberations between them will be impossible to miss. Since... -
Hellfire: The Jerry Lee Lewis Story by Nick Tosches
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'The greatest rock 'n' roll biography ever written' Rolling Stone'You're lookin' at a livin' legend.' He said, and then fell silent for a moment. 'Y'know, that really worries me. I always thought a... -
Savage Messiah by Laura Grace Ford
Booksplease Price: $41.88Savage Messiah collects the entire set of Laura Grace Ford's fanzine to date. Part graphic novel, part artwork, the book is both an angry polemic against the marginalization of the city's working... -
Disaster Mon Amour by David Thomson
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.84A deep-and darkly comic-dive into the nature of disasters, and the ways they shape how we think about ourselves in the world "In this brilliant book, David Thomson tells the story of how we came to... -
One-Way Street by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $21.37Booksplease Price: $16.01One-Way Street is a thoroughfare unlike anything else in literature-by turns exhilarating and bewildering, requiring mental agility and a special kind of urban literacy. Presented here in a new... -
Elvis Presley's From Elvis in Memphis by Eric Wolfson
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.44A Classic Rock book of 2020 "I had to leave town for a little while--" with these words, Elvis Presley truly came home to rock and roll. A little over a month earlier he had staged rock's first... -
The Marrow of Tradition by Charles W. Chesnutt 9780393934144
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.65Inspired by the 1898 Wilmington Riot and the eyewitness accounts of Charles W. Chesnutt's own family, Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition captures the astonishing moment in American history when a... -
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson Camille Paglia 9781917189552
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66One of David Bowie's 100 favourite books 'I read it voraciously ... it made me want to read the books ... stimulating and compelling' Mike White, creator of The White Lotus 'So brilliant about... -
The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones by Stanley Booth
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08'Stanley Booth's book is the only one I can read and say, "Yeah, That's how it was"' KEITH RICHARDS'An epic, behind-the-scenes record of life with the greatest rock band in the world' ObserverThe... -
All of the Marvels: An Amazing Voyage into Marvel's Universe and 27,000 Superhero Comics by Douglas Wolk 9781788169295
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.58WINNER OF THE 2022 EISNER AWARD FOR BEST COMICS-RELATED BOOK 'Magnificently marvellous' Junot Diaz 'An account of how a motley gang of accidental collaborators created a vernacular mythology... -
On Taylor Swift by Stephanie Burt 9781399820615
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.42An original exploration and celebration of Taylor Swift, the world's biggest music star, as taught at the world's most prestigious university. One of the biggest stars in the world, Taylor Swift... -
No Place I Would Rather Be: Roger Angell and a Life in Baseball Writing by Joe Bonomo 9781496234780
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98Legendary New Yorker writer and editor Roger Angell is considered to be among the greatest baseball writers to date. He brought a fan's love, a fiction writer's eye, and an essayist's sensibility to... -
Taylor's Version: The Poetic and Musical Genius of Taylor Swift by Stephanie Burt 9781399820622
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41An original exploration and celebration of Taylor Swift, the world's biggest music star, as taught at the world's most prestigious university.One of the biggest stars in the world, Taylor Swift...