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Substance: Inside New Order by Peter Hook
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £13.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062307989Author Peter HookFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint -
The Hacienda: How Not to Run a Club by Peter Hook 9781847391773
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Peter Hook, as co-founder of Joy Division and New Order, has been shaping the course of popular music for thirty years. He provided the propulsive bass guitar melodies of 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'... -
Substance: Inside New Order by Peter Hook 9781471132421
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.32'This book will delight both New Order-ites and general rock readers' MojoA ROLLICKING, NO-HOLDS-BARRED ACCOUNT OF NEW ORDER'S ENTIRE HISTORY. Two acclaimed albums and an upcoming US tour - Joy... -
Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division by Peter Hook 9780062222572
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062222572Author Peter HookFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint -
The Hacienda: Threads: Foreword by Peter Hook Rebecca Hook 9781802797688
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £28.90FOREWORD BY PETER HOOKThe music. The fashion. The nights. The people. The love. These are the threads that came together to make the Hacienda great.Celebrate the magic of the club that changed... -
Behaviour Management Pocketbook by Peter Hook 9781906610432 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £5.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906610432Author Peter HookFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint -
Touching From a Distance by Deborah Curtis
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The 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... -
Major Dudes: A Steely Dan Companion by Barney Hoskyns
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'An indispensable compendium for Steely Dan fans' The WireAt its core a creative marriage between Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, Steely Dan are one of the defining and bestselling American rock acts... -
Blitz: The Club That Created the Eighties Robert Elms 9780571394180
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.54'Elms is one of the greatest chroniclers of our age. He was born to write this book.' Dylan Jones'Fantastic! It is like time travel . . . [to] the most exciting, innovative, outrageous, wildest, most... -
Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys Lol Tolhurst 9781784293376
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The inside story of The Cure'Beautifully realised' Irish TimesComing of age in Thatcher's Britain in the late 70s and early 80s was really tough, especially if you lived in Crawley. But against the... -
I Swear I Was There: Sex Pistols, Manchester and the Gig That Changed the World by David Nolan 9781786060150
Booksplease Price: £9.26On 4 June 1976, four young men took to the tiny stage of the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester. The noise they made changed everything...The NME named it as the most important gig of all time... -
Record Play Pause: Confessions of a Post-Punk Percussionist: the Joy Division Years: Volume I Stephen Morris 9781472126221
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.88THE 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... -
Rub Out the Words: Letters 1959-1974 by William S. Burroughs
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23These letters cover the activities of Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac in the years that gave birth to the Beat Generation. Written mostly to Ginsberg or Kerouac, the letters provide a... -
Tower by Nigel Jones 9780099537656
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41No building has been more intimately involved in the story of Britain than the Tower of London - a mighty, brooding stronghold in the very heart of the capital. Castle, prison, torture chamber,... -
From Joy Division To New Order by Mick Middles
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47FACTORY RECORDS' REPUTATION AND FORTUNE WERE FOUNDED ON TWO BANDS -JOY DIVISION AND NEW ORDER - AND ONE SINGLE-MINDED AND STUBBORN PERSONALITY: ITS MEDIA-FRIENDLY COMPANY DIRECTOR ANTHONY H. WILSON... -
Ma, I've Got Meself Locked Up in the Mad House Martha Long 9781780575414
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Martha is now in her thirties. Her daughter has left home and she is lonely and vulnerable. The hard knocks have taken their toll on her health, and as she looks into the years still lying ahead of... -
Class of '88: Find the warehouse. Lose the hitmen. Pump the beats. by Wayne Anthony
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41Organised crime puts on a smiley face.When the Summer of Love hit Britain in '88, Wayne embraced the bright new world of dance music, MDMA and all-night celebrations. But alongside the ecstasy, his... -
Set the Night on Fire: Living, Dying and Playing Guitar with the Doors Robby Krieger 9781474624190
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.69'An attempt to retell an oft-told tale, this time informed by a desire to suck the hot air out of the more inflated earlier versions . . . this late-arriving history is perhaps the most reliable, and... -
Falling and Laughing: The Restoration of Edwyn Collins by Grace Maxwell 9780091930004
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46In February 2005, Edwyn Collins suffered two devastating brain haemorrhages. He should have died. Doctors advised that if he did survive, there would be little of him left. If that wasn't enough, he... -
Citizen Quinn by Gavin Daly 9780241966310
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Citizen Quinn tells the staggering story of the rise and fall of Ireland's richest man: Sean Quinn. A few years ago, Sean Quinn was ranked among the two hundred richest people in the world, with a... -
Paul Weller - The Changing Man by Paolo Hewitt
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Paolo Hewitt has known Paul Weller since they were both teenagers in the depths of Woking, through his ascent to fame with The Jam, the halcyon years of The Style Council and for all of his... -
Fool The World: The Oral History of A Band Called Pixies by Caryn Ganz
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.73Pixies' career spanned just seven years before the pressures of the road and personality clashes tore the band apart. But in that time they became one of the pioneers of alternative rock and left a... -
Black Vinyl White Powder by Simon Napier-Bell 9780091880927
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16The most authoritative, intelligent, diligently researched and unpretentious analysis of the British pop scene yet written' Sunday TelegraphBlack Vinyl White Powder charts the amazing fifty year... -
2Stoned by Andrew Loog Oldham 9780099443650
Booksplease Price: £14.54In 1963, in a south London hotel, Andrew Loog Oldham discovered an unknown rhythm and blues band called the Rolling Stones and became their manager and producer; by 1967 they had achieved worldwide... -
A Dancer in Wartime: The touching true story of a young girl's journey from the Blitz to the Bright Lights by Gillian Lynne 9780099555773 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.19London during the Blitz was a time of hardship, heroism and hope.For Gillian Lynne - a budding ballerina - it was also a time of great change as she was evacuated from war-torn London to a crumbling... -
Capital: Volume III by Karl Marx
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.99Unfinished at the time of Marx's death in 1883 and first published with a preface by Frederick Engels in 1894, the third volume of Das Kapital strove to combine the theories and concepts of the two... -
A Dancer in Wartime: The touching true story of a young girl's journey from the Blitz to the Bright Lights by Gillian Lynne
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16London during the Blitz was a time of hardship, heroism and hope.For Gillian Lynne - a budding ballerina - it was also a time of great change as she was evacuated from war-torn London to a crumbling... -
Tove Jansson: Work and Love by Tuula Karjalainen
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.03Now in paperback, a beautifully illustrated account of of Tove Jansson's life and artThe definitive biography of one of the most unique and beloved children's authors of the 20th century, the creator... -
Chapter and Verse - New Order, Joy Division and Me by Bernard Sumner
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81Founding member and guitarist of Joy Division and the lead singer of New Order, Bernard Sumner has been famous over the years for his reticence. Until now... An integral part of the Manchester music... -
The Habsburg Monarchy 1809-1918: A History of the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary by A. J. P. Taylor
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51A history of the Habsburg monarchy from the end of the Holy Roman Empire to the monarchy's dissolution in 1918. The book offers an insight into the problems inherent in the attempt to give peace,... -
Big Bangs by Howard Goodall 9780099283546 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £1.97The dramatic story of five key turning points in a thousand years of Western music - discoveries that changed the course of history. Who first invented 'Doh Re Mi...'?What do we mean by "in... -
Withdrawn Traces: Searching for the Truth about Richey Manic, Foreword by Rachel Edwards by Sara Hawys Roberts
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.37New discoveries and a fresh perspective, with unprecedented access to Richey's personal archiveOn 1 February 1995, Richey Edwards, guitarist of the Manic Street Preachers, went missing at the age of... -
Why Britain is at War: With a New Introduction by Andrew Roberts by Harold Nicolson 9780141048963
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.33"If we in Great Britain are resolute and wise there will emerge from this catastrophe something which may well give hope to the world" First published in 1939 as a Penguin Special, this is the... -
Big Bangs by Howard Goodall
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46The dramatic story of five key turning points in a thousand years of Western music - discoveries that changed the course of history. Who first invented 'Doh Re Mi...'?What do we mean by "in... -
Heaven's Coast: A Memoir by Mark Doty 9780099731610
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47HEAVEN'S COAST is an anatomy of loss: tender, heartbreaking, consoling and, ultimately, incredibly moving. Beginning with the first onset of AIDS and its lengthening shadow over a blissful... -
Hellfire: The Jerry Lee Lewis Story by Nick Tosches
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'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... -
The Manchester Chronicles: True Tales of Music, Madness and Mayhem 1976 - 2006 by Clint Boon 9781800962828
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.38'This is the greatest rock and roll book ever written' GUY GARVEY, Elbow'A brilliant storyteller, Clint has been there to see it all first-hand' TIM BURGESS, The Charlatans'Clint writes like he... -
Not Dead Yet: The Autobiography Phil Collins 9781784753603
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41In 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 ... -
Factory: The Story of the Record Label by Mick Middles
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £6.96Factory Records' fame and fortune were based on two bands - Joy Division and New Order - and one personality - that of its director, Tony Wilson. At the height of the label's success in the late... -
Don't Look Back In Anger: The rise and fall of Cool Britannia, told by those who were there by Daniel Rachel 9781409180722
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50The nineties was the decade when British culture reclaimed its position at the artistic centre of the world. Not since the 'Swinging Sixties' had art, comedy, fashion, film, football, literature and...