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Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus: Writings 1968-2010 by Greil Marcus 9781610391993
Booksplease Price: £20.88Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan's life in music is revisted by his foremost interpreter,weaving individual moods and moments into a brilliant history of their changing timesThe book begins in Berkeley... -
The Manchurian Candidate by Greil Marcus
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.51"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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30From 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.25From 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... -
The Dustbin of History by Greil Marcus 9780674218581
Booksplease Price: £24.87"How much history can be communicated by pressure on a guitar string?" Robert Palmer wondered in Deep Blues. Greil Marcus answers here: more than we will ever know. It is the history in the riff, in... -
Mystery Train Greil Marcus 9780571397860
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38In 1975, Greil Marcus's Mystery Train changed the way readers thought about rock 'n' roll and is to this day justly regarded as one of the most accomplished examples of contemporary music writing... -
Conversations with Greil Marcus by Joe Bonomo 9781617036224
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40Greil Marcus once said to an interviewer, ""There is an infinite amount of meaning about anything, and I free associate."" For more than four decades, Marcus has explored the connections among... -
A New Literary History of America by Greil Marcus
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £30.17America is a nation making itself up as it goes along-a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In... -
Conversations with Greil Marcus by Joe Bonomo 9781496857941
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Greil Marcus once said to an interviewer, "There is an infinite amount of meaning about anything, and I free associate." For more than four decades, Marcus has explored the connections among figures,... -
Bob Dylan: Writings 1968-2010 by Greil Marcus
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.68Greil 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... -
Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads by Greil Marcus
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Sardonic, 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... -
Stranded: Rock and Roll for a Desert Island by Greil Marcus 9780306815324
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00In 1978, Greil Marcus asked twenty writers on rock-including Dave Marsh, Lester Bangs, Nick Tosches, Ellen Willis, and Robert Christgau-a question: What one rock-and-roll album would you take to a... -
The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs by Greil Marcus
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £5.90One 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... -
Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession by Greil Marcus 9780674194229
Booksplease Price: £28.45In life, Elvis Presley went from childhood poverty to stardom, from world fame to dissipation and early death. As Greil Marcus shows in this remarkable book, Presley's journey after death takes him... -
Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations by Greil Marcus 9780674187085
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £30.14Greil Marcus has been one of the most distinctive voices in American music criticism for over forty years. His books, including Mystery Train and The Shape of Things to Come, traverse soundscapes of... -
Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads by Greil Marcus 9781586483821
Booksplease Price: £13.48Greil Marcus saw Bob Dylan for the first time in a New Jersey field in 1963. He didn't know the name of the scruffy singer who had a bit part in a Joan Baez concert, but he knew his performance was... -
Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs by Greil Marcus 9780300274103
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10Acclaimed cultural critic Greil Marcus tells the story of Bob Dylan through the lens of seven penetrating songs "The most interesting writer on Dylan over the years has been the cultural critic... -
More Real Life Rock: The Wilderness Years, 2014-2021 by Greil Marcus
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.99A funny, fierce, and uninhibited musical chronicle of the convulsive recent past from one of our finest cultural critics "A one-of-a-kind guide to rock music's resonance in every aspect of our... -
When That Rough God Goes Riding: Listening to Van Morrison by Greil Marcus 9781586489526
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.47This book is a quest to understand Van Morrison's particular genius through a close look at the most extraordinary and unclassifiable moments in his long career, beginning in 1965 and continuing in... -
Real Life Rock: The Complete Top Ten Columns, 1986-2014 by Greil Marcus
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.85From 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... -
Double Trouble: Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in a Land of No Alternatives by Contributor Greil Marcus 9780312420413
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £15.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312420413Author Contributor Greil MarcusFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Picador USAPublisher... -
The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes by Contributor Greil Marcus 9780312572914
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312572914Author Contributor Greil MarcusFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint St Martin's... -
Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century, Twentieth Anniversary Edition by Greil Marcus 9780674034808
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £23.52Greil Marcus, author of Mystery Train, widely acclaimed as the best book ever written about America as seen through its music, began work on this new book out of a fascination with the Sex Pistols:... -
Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past by Simon Reynolds
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.99The 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... -
Mystery Train, 50th Anniversary Edition: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music by Greil Marcus 9798217048021
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £14.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798217048021Author Greil MarcusFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Penguin Publishing... -
Long Walk Home: Reflections on Bruce Springsteen by Jonathan D. Cohen
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.92Bruce 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... -
It's Just the Normal Noises: Marcus, Guralnick, No Depression, and the Mystery of Americana Music by Timothy Gray 9781609384883
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £14.37Roots rock, Americana, alt country: what are they and why do they matter? Americans have been trying to answer these questions for as long as the music bearing these labels has existed. Music can... -
Addicted To Noise: The Music Writings of Michael Goldberg by Michael Goldberg
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £18.37Addicted to Noise collects the best interviews, profiles, and essays Michael Goldberg has written during his forty-plus years as a journalist. From combative interviews with Frank Zappa and Tom Waits... -
Teenage by Jon Savage
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.74ONE OF DAVID BOWIE'S TOP 100 MUST READ BOOKSTHE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE 2013 DOCUMENTARY FILM TEENAGEWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM THE AUTHORThe acclaimed history of the century and a half of ferment,... -
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: £41.13The 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
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.81WINNER 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... -
England's Dreaming by Jon Savage
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.81WINNER OF THE RALPH J. GLEASON AWARDWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JEREMY DELLER AND SCOTT KINGINCLUDES FOREWORD BY JOHNNY MARRAward-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Jon Savage's definitive... -
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... -
American Voices, Volume 2: Readings in History and Literature by Robert D. Marcus
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £28.91Eighteen full and lengthy selections from Margaret Leech, Helen Hunt Jackson, Edward Bellamy, Frederick Jackson Turner, Andy Adams, Jane Addams, Lincoln Steffens, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Upton... -
That Floating Bridge Benj DeMott 9781412851596
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Alive to history in the making (and the weight of the past) this volume examines Obama's presidency and Lyndon Johnson's, the killing of Trayvon Martin and the death of Andrew Breitbart, Occupy Wall... -
A Whore Just Like The Rest: The Music Writings Of Richard Meltzer by Richard Meltzer 9780306809538
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £16.51He is one of the inventors of rock criticism. His first book, The Aesthetics of Rock (acclaimed by Greil Marcus as "a disemboweling of rock's soft white underbelly"), became an instant cult classic... -
Highway 61 Revisited: Bob Dylan's Road from Minnesota to the World by Colleen Sheehy 9780816661008
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12The 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... -
Da Capo Best Music Writing 2003: The Year's Finest Writing On Rock, Pop, Jazz, Country & More by Matt Groening
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.82It's here: the fourth and latest volume in the series that you have come to rely upon for your music reading fix. The 2003 volume will celebrate the year's best writing about music and its culture... -
The Mammoth Book of the Beatles Sean Egan 9781845299439
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56Over 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... -
Present Tense: Rock & Roll and Culture by Anthony DeCurtis 9780822312659
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48The 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...