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The England's Dreaming Tapes by Jon Savage
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.34In The England's Dreaming Tapes, Jon Savage has gone back to the source to re-create, in original interview form, the extraordinarily disparate and contentious personalities who emerged in the... -
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... -
Punk 45 The Singles Cover Art of Punk 1976-80 by Jon Savage
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $28.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916359819Author Jon SavageFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint -
This searing light, the sun and everything else: Joy Division: The Oral History by Jon Savage
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08The SUNDAY TIMES Top Ten Bestseller#1 Book of the Year, UNCUT#1 Book of the Year, ROUGH TRADEBook of the Year, MOJOOver the course of two albums and some legendary gigs, Joy Division became the most... -
England's Dreaming, Revised Edition: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond by Jon Savage 9780312288228
RRP: $36.17Booksplease Price: $30.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312288228Author Jon SavageFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint -
Teaching in a Networked Classroom by Jonathan Savage 9780415708982 [USED COPY]
RRP: $46.89Booksplease Price: $2.48The pace of technological change has made the immediate and long-term future difficult, if not impossible, to predict. Teachers are forced to imagine the world they are preparing their students to... -
As Time Goes By by Derek Taylor
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65'The sharpest memoir written by one of the Beatles' inner circle.' ObserverDerek Taylor's iconic memoir is a rare opportunity to be immersed in one of the most whirlwind music sensations in history:... -
Nothing is Real: The Beatles Were Underrated And Other Sweeping Statements About Pop by David Hepworth
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.39Pop music's a simple pleasure. Is it catchy? Can you dance to it? Do you fancy the singer?But what's fascinating about pop is our relationship with it. David Hepworth is interested in the human side... -
Record Play Pause: Confessions of a Post-Punk Percussionist: the Joy Division Years: Volume I Stephen Morris 9781472126221
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.24THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A unique and thoughtful musical memoir' Observer'Gritty coming-of-age story . . . plenty of anecdotes to keep us hooked, and his memories of Joy Division's Ian Curtis are... -
Sugar Man: The Life, Death and Resurrection of Sixto Rodriguez by Craig Bartholomew Strydom
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68In the summer of 1972, during a compulsory stint in the South African military, Stephen 'Sugar' Segerman heard the music that would forever change his life. A decade later, on yet another military... -
Pharmacopoeia: A Dungeness Notebook by Derek Jarman
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68'I planted a dog rose. Then I found a curious piece of driftwood and used this, and one of the necklaces of holey stones on the wall, to stake the rose. The garden had begun. I saw it as a therapy... -
A Sound Mind: How I Fell in Love with Classical Music (and Decided to Rewrite its Entire History) by Paul Morley
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.61'Exhilarating' - Sunday Times 'Funny and moving' - Jarvis Cocker Music critic and writer Paul Morley weaves together memoir and history in a spiralling tale that establishes classical music as... -
A Fabulous Creation: How the LP Saved Our Lives by David Hepworth
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.60_________'Hepworth's knowledge and understanding of rock history is prodigious ... [a] hugely entertaining study of the LP's golden age' The Times_________The era of the LP began in 1967, with 'Sgt... -
Sick On You: The Disastrous Story of The Hollywood Brats by Andrew Matheson
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.41**MOJO MAGAZINE'S BOOK OF THE YEAR**The Hollywood Brats are the greatest band you've never heard of.Recording one near-perfect punk album in 1974, they were tragically ahead of their time.With only a... -
Kurt Cobain: Journals by Kurt Cobain
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $21.86The first publication of Kurt Cobain's diaries, which were found after his death in 1994. Genuinely moving, provocative and candid, and suprisingly funny, pieces of writing which, as a whole,... -
Everything Bad is Good for You: How Popular Culture is Making Us Smarter by Steven Johnson
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.51We're constantly being told that popular culture is just mindless entertainment - but, as Steven Johnson shows in Everything Bad is Good for You, it's actually making us more intelligent. Steven... -
A Hero for High Times: A Younger Reader's Guide to the Beats, Hippies, Freaks, Punks, Ravers, New-Age Travellers and Dog-on-a-Rope Brew Crew Crusties of the British Isles, 1956-1994 by Ian Marchant 9780099575658
Booksplease Price: $17.41'My book of the year. Extraordinary' The Times ... -
Orson Welles, Volume 1: The Road to Xanadu by Simon Callow
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $21.32A brilliant biography of the young Orson Welles, from his prodigious childhood and youth, his triumphs with the Mercury Theatre, to the making of Citizen Kane. Vivid, vastly entertaining, this is the... -
Everything Bad is Good for You: How Popular Culture is Making Us Smarter by Steven Johnson 9780141018683 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $2.65We're constantly being told that popular culture is just mindless entertainment - but, as Steven Johnson shows in Everything Bad is Good for You, it's actually making us more intelligent. Steven... -
Voices: How a Great Singer Can Change Your Life by Nick Coleman 9781784701338
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92***ONE OF BILLBOARD'S TOP TEN MUSIC BOOKS OF 2018***'A brilliant book about singing... I have been talking to Nick Coleman about music, in person and in my head, for forty years now. [With Voices]... -
Mozart and His Operas by David Cairns 9780140296747 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.52David Cairns weaves a brilliantly engaging narrative which puts Mozart's operas in the context of his life, showing how they illuminate his creativity as a whole. Mozart's unusual childhood as a... -
1971 - Never a Dull Moment: Rock's Golden Year David Hepworth 9781784162061
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.05*THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER*As seen on Apple TV - 1971: The Year That Music Changed EverythingThe Sixties ended a year late - on New Year's Eve 1970, when Paul McCartney initiated... -
In the City: A Celebration of London Music by Paul Du Noyer 9780753515747 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $3.60'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,... -
Not Dead Yet: The Autobiography Phil Collins 9781784753603
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29In his own words is the candid, witty, and unvarnished story of the songs and shows, the hits and pans, the marriages and divorces, the ascents to the top of the charts and into the tabloid ... -
In the City: A Celebration of London Music by Paul Du Noyer
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29'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,... -
The Andy Warhol Diaries Edited by Pat Hackett by Andy Warhol
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.04NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES'His last great work of art' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian'Cruel, sexy, and sometimes heartbreaking ... Warhol is no neutral observer, but a character in his own right' Newsweek... -
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... -
Fast Forward: Confessions of a Post-Punk Percussionist: Volume II by Stephen Morris
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $9.22Iconic drummer Stephen Morris presses play once more to the tune of the long-awaited second volume of memoirs . . .Poised on the brink of success, the dizzying heights of the unknown lying ahead, Ian... -
The People's Songs: The Story of Modern Britain in 50 Records by Stuart Maconie
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.85These are the songs that we have listened to, laughed to, loved to and laboured to, as well as downed tools and danced to. Covering the last seven decades, Stuart Maconie looks at the songs that have... -
I Was There: Dispatches from a Life in Rock and Roll by Alan Edwards 9781398525245
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $21.80'Alan is such a wonderful storyteller' Debbie Harry 'If you love music, you should definitely read this book' Nihal Arthanayake, BBC Radio 5 Live 'Alan Edwards is a class act: observant, attentive,... -
So This is Permanence: Joy Division Lyrics and Notebooks by Ian Curtis
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $24.87So this is permanence, edited by Jon Savage with a foreword by Deborah Curtis, presents the intensely personal writings of one of the most enigmatic and influential songwriters and performers of the... -
Hungry Beat: The Scottish Independent Pop Underground Movement (1977-1984) by Douglas MacIntyre 9781399600255
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'Hungry Beat is the story of an all-too-brief era where the short-circuiting of that industry seemed viable. But hell, the times were luminous as was the music these artists made. The songs and many... -
Shiny and New: Ten Moments of Pop Genius that Defined the '80s by Dylan Jones
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92'A wholly successful endeavour carried along by waves of infectious enthusiasm' Mojo'Fascinating' New StatesmanThe '80s were about big ideas writ large - new money, new style, gender fluidity, gay... -
Shiny and New: Ten Moments of Pop Genius that Defined the '80s by Dylan Jones 9781474620055
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $21.27The Eighties were about big ideas writ large - new money, new style, gender fluidity, gay pride, attritional politics, the 'special relationship', nuclear fear, AIDS, cocaine, ecstasy, tabloid... -
Nina Simone's Gum by Warren Ellis
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.27THE TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERA GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH, THE TIMES, IRISH TIMES, SUNDAY EXPRESS, ROUGH TRADE, MOJO, CLASH, ROLLING STONE, UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEARFrom award-winning musician and composer... -
Nina Simone's Gum: A Memoir of Things Lost and Found by Warren Ellis
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.48THE TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERA GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH, THE TIMES, IRISH TIMES, ROUGH TRADE, MOJO, CLASH, ROLLING STONE, UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEARFrom award-winning musician and composer Warren Ellis comes... -
Touching From a Distance by Deborah Curtis
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37The only in-depth biographical account of the legendary lead singer of Joy Division, written by his widow. Includes a foreword by Jon Savage and an introduction by Joy Division drummer, Steven Morris... -
Teddy Boys: Post-War Britain and the First Youth Revolution: A Sunday Times Book of the Week Max Décharné 9781846689796
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.92'Enormously enjoyable' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times Excellent ... illuminates a fascinating and still under-explored period in British youth culture and social history' Jon Savage, New Statesman... -
Senseless Acts of Beauty: Cultures of Resistance by George McKay
Booksplease Price: $36.45Welcome to the social and environmental devastation that is Britain in 1996. Welcome to interchangeable political parties and their chattering media jesters pulling together to make Johnny Rotten's... -
Defying Gravity: Jordan's Story: Deluxe, Signed Boxset Edition Jordan Mooney 9781787602373
RRP: $134.00Booksplease Price: $80.08With her white beehive and Mondrian make-up, Jordan's look helped shape a revolution on the King's Road and has become an iconic part of pop culture. With commentary from key players, including...