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The Million Sellers by Omnibus Press 9781780387185 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £2.63An analysis of the 113 singles which have passed the magical million sales threshold in the UK in the past 60 years, from Bill Haley & The Comets very first UK million-seller right through to more... -
Keith Richards: A Life in Pictures by Omnibus Press 9781780384399
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £18.06From the early days of The Rolling Stones, with a relatively baby-faced 'Keef' sporting a hounds-tooth jacket, to his heroic piratical look of the present day, rock's indestructible hero has been... -
I'm Into Something Good: My Life Managing 10cc, Herman’s Hermits & Many More! by Harvey Lisberg
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.80When 22-year-old accountant Harvey Lisberg heard the Beatles' 'Please Please Me', he had an epiphany: he could be Manchester's answer to Brian Epstein. He had a musical ear, a knack for numbers and a... -
Careless Whispers: The Life and Career of George Michael by Robert Steele
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.89George Michael is the single most played artist on UK radio for the last two decades. He has sold 100 million albums world-wide and had seven UK number one singles and albums. This paperback... -
Look Wot I Dun: Don Powell: My Life in Slade by Don Powell
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £33.57Look Wot I Dun is the story of Slade told through the eyes of drummer Don Powell whose life was shattered when, in 1973 at the height of the group's fame, he was involved in a horrific car crash. ... -
Still Too Sexy: Surviving Right Said Fred by Fred Fairbrass
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.35Richard and Fred Fairbrass, better known as Right Said Fred, scored a global Number 1 hit in 1991 with their debut single 'I'm Too Sexy', selling 30 million albums, being showered with industry... -
Behind the Rainbow: The Story of Eva Cassidy by Johan Bakker
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.58A new edition of Johan Bakker's biography on musician Eva Cassidy. The Eva Cassidy phenomenon began too late for the woman herself to enjoy the fame, although whether she would have enjoyed it is... -
There and Black Again: The Autobiography of Don Letts by Don Letts
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.55Don Letts - filmmaker, musician, DJ, broadcaster, social commentator, husband and father - has always defied conformity. A British-born son of Windrush parents, he seamlessly pivoted between London's... -
Rolling Stones 69 by Patrick Humphries
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.62In what was a momentous year of social change, the Rolling Stones experienced the most significant twelve months of their career. At the start of 1969, they were a successful blues band returning to... -
Tales of the Smiths Graphic by Con Chrisoulis 9781783055876
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.12Tales of The Smiths is a comic book retelling of the band members' teenage years, before the group was famous, and includes fascinating digressions about their influences (the New York Dolls, Nico,... -
Illustrated Lives of Great Composers: Liszt by Bryce Morrison 9781780388717
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £9.24Arguably the greatest of all piano virtuosi, Liszt was one of the few composers of his day who had the technique to perform his own compositions. A child prodigy pianist who could read music before... -
Keith Richards on Keith Richards by Sean Egan 9781783053568
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £10.57The iconic life and career of the famed guitarist of the Rolling Stones is detailed in this compilation of interviews that spans the last 50 years. Featuring articles from GQ, Melody Maker, and... -
Fingerpicking Paul Simon by Paul Simon 9780825633041
Booksplease Price: £14.78(Music Sales America). Includes 17 of Paul Simon's greatest hits specially arranged for fingerstyle guitarists at all levels. Titles include: Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover * Mrs Robinson * Graceland... -
God Only Knows: The Story of Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys and the California Myth by David Leaf 9781913172756
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.88Originally published in 1978 as The Beach Boys and the California Myth, this groundbreaking study was both the first full-length book on the band and the first to recognize Brian Wilson as one of the... -
The Jam 1982 by Rick Buckler 9781913172695
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.82The Jam - Paul Weller, Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckler - were the ultimate 'angry young men' of pop. Leading the Mod Revival of the 1970s in thrilling new directions, their tight live shows,... -
The Glory Days of Radio 1 by Robert Sellers 9781913172121
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.50For most people in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s, Radio 1 provided the soundtrack to their lives. Commanding up to 24 million listeners a week, it was the most popular radio station in the world. ... -
Bowie Odyssey 70 by Simon Goddard 9781913172039
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £10.60He starts the decade a teenage pop idol. But the one-hit wonder who sang 'Space Oddity' is still very far from becoming the star who will one day define the 1970s. Not when he still has a band to... -
Mudhoney: The Sound and The Fury from Seattle (Updated Edition) by Keith Cameron 9781913172589
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38'...probably the best book written about grunge' Paul Brannigan, Classic Rock 'Mudhoney are the jewel of Seattle.' Thurston Moore, Sonic Youth If rock fans associate Seattle primarily with... -
The Syd Barrett Lyric Book by Syd Barrett 9781787602564
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.32Despite just a three-year tenure with the band, co-founder Syd Barrett's influence on Pink Floyd was profound and long-lasting. If his guitar gave the early Pink Floyd a distinctive hallucinatory... -
Heady Daze by Wayne Hussey 9781915841445
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Picking up where the critically acclaimed Salad Daze left off, Heady Daze sees Wayne Hussey revisit the years from 1985 to 1990 leading The Mission through their formation to global success. From... -
Nirvana: The True Story Everett True 9781915841384
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50This is a true insider's commentary on one of rock's most influential bands, with a Foreword by Benjamin Myers (The Offing, Gallows Pole).Everett True is responsible for bringing Nirvana, Hole,... -
Pressure Drop: Reggae in the Seventies John Masouri 9781913172848
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £20.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913172848Author John MasouriFormat HardbackPage Count 624Imprint -
The Beatles in Canada: The Evolution 1964-1970 (Blue Book): 2: The Beatles in Canada Piers Hemmingsen 9780987829344
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £64.80The Beatles In Canada; The Evolution 1964-1970 (the BLUE book) is now the second volume in The Beatles In Canada book series, and picks up the Canada Beatles story where The Origins of Beatlemania!... -
Nirvana: Nevermind by Jim Berkenstadt 9780825672866 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £3.71In this work, the authors focus on the making of 'Nevermind', the album that established Nirvana as a worldwide sensation, made Kurt Cobain a rock idol, and put grunge rock on the map.Book... -
Modzines: Special Edition: Fanzine Culture from the Mod Revival by Eddie Piller 9781787601505
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £24.45Modzines is the ultimate celebration of fanzines from the Mod revival era, featuring original artwork, photography and interviews with the key creators. Leading figures from the scene including... -
Living in the Present with John Prine Tom Piazza 9781915841230
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.58In the spring of 2018, Tom Piazza climbed into a cherry-red Cadillac Coupe-Deville with the great singer-songwriter John Prine. The two embarked on a road trip through Florida full of jokes and tall... -
Careless Whispers: The Life and Career of George Michael by Robert Steele 9781780380155 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.63Booksplease Price: £2.80George Michael is the single most played artist on UK radio for the last two decades. He has sold 100 million albums world-wide and had seven UK number one singles and albums. This revealing new... -
Lee Thompson: An Autobiography by Lee Thompson
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £5.25Foreword by Martin Freeman Whether flying across a screen or lighting up the stage, Madness' wild, energetic sax player has always been hard to miss. For Lee 'Kix' Thompson, life is for having... -
Listening to the Wind: Encounters with 21st Century Independent Record Labels by Ian Preece
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £16.55'Delightfully overwhelming in the amount of music to investigate . . . a late-night voice if I ever heard one'. Gideon Coe, Late Night Book Club, BBC 6Music If there's a cultural artefact... -
Liner Notes: On Parents, Children, Exes, Excess, Decay & A Few More Of My Favourite Things by Loudon Wainwright
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.50With a career spanning more than four decades, Loudon Wainwright III has established himself as one of the most enduring singer-songwriters who emerged from the late sixties. There is probably no... -
Bob Marley Graphic Novel by Jim McCarthy 9781783059676
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.12Diagnosed with a type of malignant melanoma in 1977, Marley died on11 May 1981 in Miami at the age of 36. He was a committed Rastafari who infused his music with a sense of spirituality. He is... -
The Beatles on the Roof by Tony Barrell 9781785585784
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.32When the world's greatest pop band played their final public concert, in January 1969, there were no tickets or posters printed. When John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr... -
That's Entertainment:: My Life in the Jam Rick Buckler 9781785586408
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.28Rick Bucklers autobiography is the first from a member of The Jam, who some considered were the ultimate Mod band. Rick tells The Jam story from growing up in Woking and meeting fellow members Paul... -
Anymore for Anymore: The Ronnie Lane Story by David Stafford 9781913172534
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.30Ronnie Lane's story is that of a working-class kid who started his musical career busking a ukulele at the age of eight. As a young man he signed with legendary manager Don Arden, who paid him in... -
Chuck Berry: An American Life by RJ Smith 9781913172954
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.50The definitive biography of Chuck Berry, legendary performer and inventor of rock and roll. Best known as the groundbreaking artist behind classics like "Johnny B. Goode," "Maybellene," "You Never... -
Tony Hadley: My Life in Pictures by Tony Hadley 9781913172718
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £11.84With his unique and powerful voice, Tony Hadley has been a successful music artist for more than forty years, from fronting one of the biggest bands of the 80s, Spandau Ballet, to now enjoying a... -
Wailing Blues: The Story of Bob Marley's "Wailers" by John Masouri 9781847727060
Booksplease Price: £19.52Written in collaboration with Family Man and other surviving band members, "Wailing Blues" reveals the truth behind the Marley legacy. It traces the early lives of the Barrett brothers before they... -
Bowie Odyssey 72 by SImon Goddard 9781913172480
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.00A new year for David Bowie means new clothes, new boots, new hair and a new name: Ziggy Stardust. To the gloomy blacked-out Britain of powercuts and three-day weeks he may as well be from outer space... -
The Library Of Showtunes by Amsco Publications 9781780389059
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £18.10(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). The Library of Showtunes is a treasury of the greatest songs from the world's most loved musical shows. This collector's volume spans over 85 years of Broadway and... -
Mud Ride: A Messy Trip Through the Grunge Explosion by Steve Turner
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.69A down-and-dirty chronicle of the birth and evolution of the Seattle grunge scene-from amateur skate parks and underground hardcore clubs to worldwide phenomenon-as told by one of its founding...