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Black Coffee Blues by Henry Rollins
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41'If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light, If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all... -
Smile, You're Travelling by Henry Rollins 9780753510308
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Using his trademark wit, insight and verve, icon Henry Rollins shares journals from his gruelling world tours of 1997 and 1998, as well as a record of the fulfilment of his longstanding dream to... -
Do I Come Here Often? by Henry Rollins
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78'I believe that one defines oneself by re-invention. To not be like yourparents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.'Using his trademark wit, insight and verve,... -
Turned On: A Biography of Henry Rollins by James Parker 9780815410508
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £13.70A celebrity like no other, Henry Rollins initially made his mark as the front man for the punk band Black Flag, and has since gone on to a successful musical career with the Rollins Band, along with... -
Keep Your Ear to the Ground: A History of Punk Fanzines in Washington, DC John R. Davis 9781647126353
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £27.44The first history of the fanzines that emerged from Washington, DC's highly influential punk communityDIY culture has always been at the heart of DC's thriving punk community. As Washington, DC's... -
More Fun in the New World: The Unmaking and Legacy of L.A. Punk by John Doe
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Picking up where Under the Big Black Sun left off, More Fun in the New World explores the years 1982 to 1987, covering the dizzying pinnacle of L.A.'s punk rock movement as its stars took to the... -
Punk Revolution!: An Oral History of Punk Rock Politics and Activism by John Malkin
Booksplease Price: £28.20The most wide-ranging and provocative look at punk rock as a social change movement told through firsthand accounts.Punk rock has been on the frontlines of activism since exploding on the scene in... -
Punk Revolution!: An Oral History of Punk Rock Politics and Activism John Malkin 9798881807542
Booksplease Price: £20.90The most wide-ranging and provocative look at punk rock as a social change movement told through firsthand accountsPunk rock has been on the front lines of activism since exploding on the scene in... -
Death Trip: Iggy and the Stooges, 1972–74 Michael S. Begnal 9781836391890
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.50Raw Power by Iggy and the Stooges is arguably the most aggressive, dynamic album in rock history, and inarguably one of the most influential. Looking past the myths and into the true story of the... -
Long White Con: The Biggest Score of His Life by Iceberg Slim 9781936399055
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936399055Author Iceberg SlimFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria... -
Sittin' In: Jazz Clubs of the 1940s and 1950s by Jeff Gold
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.26A rare collection of more than 200 full-color and black-and-white souvenir photographs and memorabilia that bring to life the renowned jazz nightclubs of the 1940s and 1950s, compiled by Grammy... -
Kim Salmon and the Formula for Grunge by Douglas Galbraith
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.81This book follows Australian musician Kim Salmon, from bands The Scientists, Surrealists and Beasts of Bourbon, from childhood in Perth through his many bands, albums, tours, family upheavals,... -
No Flash, Please!: Underground Music in Toronto, 1987-92 by Derek von Essen 9781772140378
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £14.99The music scene in the mid-eighties was in transition, just as the entire music business was, unaware that it was all about to change in 1991 when Nirvana's watershed release, Nevermind would... -
200,000 Snakes: On the Hunt in Manitoba: or, How I Found a New Beginning at the Bottom of a Giant Pit of Snakes Pat Spain 9781789046489
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Pat Spain was living the life he had always dreamed of. He had just finished filming his first National Geographic TV series Beast Hunter, put in an offer on his first house with his girlfriend, was... -
Red Velvet Underground: A Rock Memoir, with Recipes by Freda Love Smith 9781572841758
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £12.51Part memoir, part cookbook, and all rock and roll, Red Velvet Underground tells the story of how musician Freda Love Smith's indie-rock past grew into her family- and food-centric present. Smith,... -
MC5, Sonically Speaking: A Tale of Revolution and Rock 'n' Roll by Brett Callwood 9780955282225
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.32Although nobody realised it at the time, the historic importance of the MC5 is vast. Often considered a 'post-punk' band, their influence reaches far and wide, with everyone from Green Day, The White... -
Cheap Shots: A Photographic Look at Underground Bands Through the 80s and Beyond Chris Barrows 9781644280294
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.55Featuring never-before-seen photographs of U2 on their first US Tour, Bad Brains, Black Flag, Danzig, The Descendants, Fugazi, The Damned, The U.K. Subs, and many, many moreSince 1981, Chris Barrows... -
Hero Inside You: A 90 Day Journey to Purpose, Power, and the Person You Were Meant to Be by Tony Edgell 9781630470616
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £21.19There is nothing more unmotivating than working just for a paycheck and believing money and materialism will bring happiness, or selling your soul for what we have been taught to believe will make us... -
Daniel Johnston Lee Foster 9780847828005
RRP: £42.50Booksplease Price: £32.09A significant figure in outsider, lo-fi, and alternative scenes, Daniel Johnston inspired musicians and comforted listeners for decades. From his origins in the Austin scene in the mid-1980s, where... -
A Manner of Being: Writers on Their Mentors by Annie Liontas
Booksplease Price: £25.44What do the punk singer Henry Rollins, the Guatemalan writer Rodrigo Rey Rosa, the American authors Tobias Wolff, Tayari Jones, and George Saunders, the Canadian writer Sheila Heti, and the Russian... -
Glen E. Friedman: My Rules by Glen E. Friedman
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £40.73The definitive monograph of Glen E. Friedman, a pioneer of skate, punk, and hip-hop photography, including much never-before-published work. Glen E. Friedman is best known for his work capturing and... -
Rock and Roll Is Here To Stay: An Anthology by Peter Guralnick 9780393047004
RRP: £51.50Booksplease Price: £48.26An electrifying collection of the finest, most entertaining, and illuminating writing on and from the rock and roll scene--from its earliest days to the present, from the brightest moments of the... -
Music by Andrew Zuckerman 9780810996526 [USED COPY]
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £2.51Following the highly acclaimed Wisdom, Andrew Zuckerman now turns his unique photographic perspective to music. This new book includes fifty eminent musicians-artists, composers, producers, and... -
How Black Music Took Over the World Melvin Gibbs 9781399433280
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.10Why do Bob Marley, John Coltrane, Aretha Franklin, and Nina Simone move us the way they do? What drives the soulful notes of the Delta blues? What makes Beyonce's Cowboy Carter inescapably great?How... -
The Art of Darkness: The History of Goth John Robb 9781526173201
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.38This is the first comprehensive history of goth music and culture. Across more than 500 pages, John Robb explores the origins and legacy of this enduring scene, which has its roots in the post-punk... -
Ever Fallen in Love: The Lost Buzzcocks Tapes by Pete Shelley 9781788403641
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEARA LOUDER THAN WAR BOOK OF THE YEAR'Fascinating'-MOJO'As close as anyone was ever going to get to really understanding Pete Shelley'-UNCUT'The memoir that Pete Shelley... -
Nineties Spirit: Music Caught on Camera Paul Bergen 9783961714124
RRP: £49.95Booksplease Price: £36.42"Nineties Spirit is comprehensive, compelling and at times emotional. It's a must-have for any fan of music." - Amateur Photographer "As a time capsule of the music industry in the 1990s... Nineties... -
The Art of Darkness: The History of Goth by John Robb 9781526176769
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.27This is the first comprehensive history of goth music and culture. John Robb explores the origins and legacy of this enduring scene, which has its roots in the post-punk era.Drawing on his own... -
Baron by Richard Kern: 2021 by 9781838424824
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £27.41For the seventh instalment of Baron photographer Richard Kern explores the dichotomy between girl and woman, between the nude and the dressed, and between playfulness and seriousness. Kern does... -
The Fallen: Life In and Out of Britain's Most Insane Group by David Simpson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.60Ever been thrown off the bus in the middle of a Swedish forest or asked to play at one of the UK's biggest music festivals with musicians you've just met who are covered in blood? If so you've... -
Fair Crack of the Whip by Murray Hartin
Booksplease Price: £17.62Murrary Muz Hartin has collated the best of his heart-warming and hilarious yarns and ripper poems for everyone to enjoy in Fair Crack of the Whip, a collection of totally Aussie, character-filled... -
Hard Times: The First 40 Years by 9780358022374
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.83The Hard Times: The First 40 Years is the first book from The Hard Times.net, the Internet's favourite music satire site. Often referred to as "The Onion for punk rock," the site has developed a... -
Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk by John Doe
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56Under the Big Black Sun explores the nascent Los Angeles punk rock movement and its evolution to hardcore punk as it's never been told before. Authors John Doe and Tom DeSavia have woven together an... -
TOTAL CHAOS: The Story of the Stooges / BONUS EDITION by Iggy Pop
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.75Updated paperback version features a new chapter of never seen photos plus a new interview with Henry Rollins. TOTAL CHAOS: The Story of The Stooges / As Told by Iggy Pop is the first time the...