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Holy Ghost: The Life And Death Of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler Richard Koloda 9781911036937
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £12.32Holy Ghost is the first extended study of free jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler, who is seen today as one of the most important innovators in the history of jazz. Ayler synthesized children s songs, La... -
Turn It Up!: My Time Making Hit Records In The Glory Days Of Rock Music, Featuring Moetley Crue, Poison, Twisted Sister, Cheap Trick, Jeff Beck, Ted Nugent, and more Tom Werman 9781911036340
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £12.32Growing up in the Boston suburbs, Tom Werman was deeply affected by pop music from a young age. He long dreamed of a career in music -- first as Elvis, then as the next George Harrison -- but it... -
Through The Crack In The Wall: The Secret History Of Josef K by Johnnie Johnstone 9781916829046
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £10.01Everything was just so intense. There was an alienation and awkwardness about Josef K, but that was actually very true to life for me. Listening today I find really difficult because it brings back... -
A Sense of Wonder: Van Morrison's Ireland David Burke 9781908279484
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £10.59A Sense Of Wonder is a new book about Van Morrison that concentrates on the Ireland that made him, and the Ireland that he has re-made through a stunning, sprawling body of work spanning almost six... -
Big Star: The Story of Rock's Forgotten Band by Rob Jovanovic 9781908279361
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £10.59We've sort of flirted with greatness, R.E.M.'s Peter Buck admitted. But we've yet to make a record as good as Big Star's Third. Although Big Star were together for less than four years and had little... -
I Wouldn't Say It If It Wasn't True: A Memoir Of Life, Music, And The Dream Syndicate Steve Wynn 9781916829060
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £10.95Summer 1984. I ve got the back lounge of this tour bus all to myself, partly because I m the lead singer but more likely because it means the rest of the band won t have to deal with me for the rest... -
Neil Sedaka Rock 'n' roll Survivor: The inside story of his incredible comeback Rich Podolsky 9781908279422
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £10.59From 1958 to 1963, Neil Sedaka sold 25 million records - more than anyone except Elvis Presley. He thought he could do no wrong, but a year later he was all but off the charts, swept away by The... -
The Wheels of the World: 300 Years of Irish Uilleann Pipers Colin Harper 9781908279934
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £13.94One chanter, three drones, three regulators, thirteen keys, too many near-extinctions to mention and 300 years of heroes: that, with a frisson of fairies on moonlit knolls, is the Irish uilleann... -
Entertain Us: The Rise of Nirvana Gillian G. Gaar 9781906002893
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.06Nirvana are one of the most influential bands in rock history, and even now, nearly 20 years after Kurt Cobain's death, the reverence in which they are held is undiminished. Books have been written... -
Earthbound: David Bowie and The Man Who Fell To Earth Susan Compo 9781911036258
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £10.59'Before there was Star Wars before there was Close Encounters there was The Man Who Fell To Earth. advertising tag line for 1981 reissue of the film. Earthbound is the first book-length exploration... -
What's Big and Purple and Lives in the Ocean: The Moby Grape Story Cam Cobb 9781911036319
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £9.21Moby 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... -
Read & Burn: A Book About Wire Wilson Neate 9781908279330
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £11.09"Read and Burn" is the first serious, in-depth appraisal of Wire, one of the most influential British bands to emerge during the punk era. If Wire were briefly a punk band, however, it was largely by... -
Space Age Batchelor Pad Music: The Story Of Stereolab In 20 Songs Ben Cardew 9781916829329
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £12.14Stereolab are one of the most fascinating guitar groups of the past fifty years, a source of constant reinvention and illuminating contrasts, where political ideology meets the sweetest pop melodies... -
Graeme Thomson: The Resurrection Of Johnny Cash by Graeme Thomson 9781906002367
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £10.78"The Resurrection of Johnny Cash" tells the story of perhaps the most remarkable turnaround in musical history. As well as acknowledging Cash's drug, drink and religious travails in the fifties and... -
Recombo DNA: The story of Devo, or how the 60s became the 80s Kevin C. Smith 9781908279392
Booksplease Price: £16.68Devo may have become synonymous with the crass commercialism of 80s new wave, but many of their inspirations and guiding principles are firmly rooted in the idealism of the 60s. They took a willfully... -
All I Ever Wanted: A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir Kathy Valentine 9781911036852
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £10.29At twenty-one, Kathy Valentine was at the Whisky in Los Angeles when she met a guitarist from a fledgling band called the Go-Go s?and the band needed a bassist. The Go-Go s became the first... -
Jazz Revolutionary: The Life & Music Of Eric Dolphy Jonathon Grasse 9781916829084
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £12.32Jazz Revolutionary is the first full biography of Eric Dolphy, passionately tracing his creative life from Los Angeles clubs of the late 1940s and 50s, to New York in the early 1960s, and on to... -
Jawbone by Monica Ojeda 9781838171629
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40"WAS DESIRE SOMETHING LIKE BEING POSSESSED BY A NIGHTMARE?" Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, inseparable. So how does Fernanda end up bound on the... -
The Jawbone & the Junkman by Jason Fischer 9781954255579
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £14.42Fifteen years ago, Papa Lucy fell. Now, a new threat emerges in the savage world of the Now. Towns burn and survivors flee, lest they be hunted and murdered in the name of a new god. The Dawn... -
Don't Dream It's Over: The Remarkable Life Of Neil Finn by Jeff Apter 9781916829008
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £10.95Across five decades and counting, New Zealand-born singer/songwriter and Crowded House founder Neil Finn has become one of the best-loved figures in popular music, crafting enough hits along the way... -
The Cain's Jawbone Book of Crosswords by Edward Powys Mathers 9781789651669
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Cain's Jawbone: A Novel Problem by Edward Powys Mathers 9798260200506
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798260200506Author Edward Powys MathersFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Im -
Cain's Jawbone (The Torquemada Puzzle Book) by Edward Powys Mathers 9786585168298
RRP: £14.90Booksplease Price: £10.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786585168298Author Edward Powys MathersFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Im -
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The Cain's Jawbone Book of Crosswords by Edward Powys Mathers 9781789651669 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789651669Author Edward Powys MathersFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Im -
The Mating Habits of Stags by Ray Robinson
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05Midwinter. As former farmhand Jake, a widower in his seventies, wanders the beautiful, austere moors of North Yorkshire trying to evade capture, we learn of the events of his past: the wife he loved... -
Lee, Myself and I: Inside the Very Special World of Lee Hazlewood by Wyndham Wallace 9781908279729
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £10.48If I had a name like Wyndham Wallace I would not associate or correspond with anyone with a simple name like mine. However, since you have lowered yourself to such depths, how can my old Indian heart... -
Frank & Co: Conversations with Frank Zappa, 1977-1993 by Co de Kloet 9781911036814
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £10.78I think the best way to start when somebody says something can t be done, just look at them and say: why not? Frank Zappa, Los Angeles, 1990. Co de Kloet and Frank Zappa were friends for many... -
Johnny Thunders: In Cold Blood: The Official Biography: (Revised & Updated Edition) Nina Antonia 9781911036111
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £12.32Johnny Thunders: In Cold Blood is the definitive portrait of the condemned man of rock n roll, from the baptism of fire and tragedy that was the New York Dolls, through the junkie punk years of the... -
Forever Changes: The Authorized Biography Of Arthur Lee And Love by John Einarson 9781916829121
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £12.65Widely hailed as a genius, Arthur Lee was a character every bit as colorful and unique as his music. In 1966, he was Prince of the Sunset Strip, busy with his pioneering racially mixed band, Love,... -
Who’s the Imposter?: The Double-crosser’s Puzzle Book Gareth Moore 9781789297300
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Problem-solve under pressure and spot the imposter in time. An immersive puzzle book experience. Step inside the book and get ready to start a compelling, solve-as-you-go adventure. Put your... -
Doing Time: Comedians Talk Stand-Up JT Habersaat 9781916829268
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £12.14A wild and uncensored glimpse behind the curtain into the mad world of life as a touring stand-up comic. Drawing on countless hours of in-depth interviews with some of the most influential and... -
Adventures Of A Waterboy: Remastered by Mike Scott
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £10.78`I was six or seven when I noticed the music in my head. It was there in the classroom, on the football pitch, at the dinner table, when I went to sleep and when I woke up. And it s continued ever... -
The Twelve Quizzes of Christmas Frank Paul 9780861543960
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.67What do these people share in common, Anne Boleyn, Harry Bailey, Ira Gershwin and Peppa Pig? Legendary quizmaster Frank Paul invites us into our favourite Christmas stories - with a twist. Try... -
Gary Moore by Harry Shapiro 9781911036975
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £12.62Gary Moore delighted entire generations with his passionate guitar playing, from the driving rock of Thin Lizzy in the 1970s to his explorations in subsequent decades of jazz fusion, heavy metal,... -
Southern Man: Music And Mayhem In The American South (A Memoir) Alan Walden 9781911036715
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £11.76We developed reputations real fast. We treated our entertainers right. We got them paid. Other agents and promoters and managers showed them the money. We got them the money. We brought respect to... -
Absolute Beginner: Memoirs of the world's best least-known guitarist by Kevin Armstrong 9781911036173
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £12.35'Kevin does what I pretend to do. Kevin's a proper musician.' David Bowie'Kevin Armstrong has been around, and around.' Iggy PopGrowing up in a world of punk squats and the London pub-rock scene,... -
Chopping Wood: Thoughts & Stories Of A Legendary American Folksinger by Pete Seeger 9781916829022
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £12.32Chopping 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... -
Gliders Over Hollywood: Airships, Airplay, And The Art Of Rock Promotion Paul Rappaport 9781916829183
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £10.66Gliders Over Hollywood tells the exhilarating true story of a blue-collar kid nicknamed Rap who grew up in thrall to rock n roll, then found himself right in the middle of many of his heroes lives... -
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: My Life In The Music Business Miles Copeland 9781911036777
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £10.59My real story starts with a disaster, an unmitigated, pull-the-rug-from-under-you, clean-out-the-bank-account disaster. But had it not happened, The Police would never have risen to become the... -
The Cryptic Pub Quiz Book by Frank Paul 9780861543991
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12Are you a regular quizzer at your local pub? Do you fancy yourself a cryptic crossword whiz? Might you be up for a challenge? 'Frank Paul is an extremely impressive chap and a dazzling quizzer'...