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How to Be a Rock Star by Shaun Ryder
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95THE TOP TEN BESTSELLER'Candid, brilliant and bizarre' Guardian'Stories about the frontman and his bandmates are legion ... [like] Peter Kay with menaces' The Sunday TimesAs lead singer of Happy... -
Twisting My Melon by Shaun Ryder
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Shaun Ryder has lived a life of glorious highs and desolate lows. As lead singer of the Happy Mondays, he turned Manchester into Madchester, combining all the excesses of a true rock'n'roll star with... -
Wrote For Luck: Selected Lyrics by Shaun Ryder
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £4.83In the mid-1980s the Happy Mondays emerged as the prime mischief makers on the Madchester scene. Chief protagonist was Shaun Ryder, a man whose lyrical street swagger in songs like Kinky Afro, 24... -
Hallelujah!: The extraordinary story of Shaun Ryder and Happy Mondays by John Warburton 9780753507810 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £1.37The Mondays were the band who had it all. Credited with a range of achievements, from creating Madchester and introducing indie kids to dance music to bringing ecstasy to Britain, they were the rock... -
The World According to Danny Dyer: Life Lessons from the East End Danny Dyer 9781784297435
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26This book is a window into the world of Danny Dyer - and he's seen more of the world than most so he's got one or two things to say about it.Tackling such vital questions as 'Where have all the old... -
The World According to Danny Dyer: Life Lessons from the East End by Danny Dyer 9781784297435 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.98This book is a window into the world of Danny Dyer - and he's seen more of the world than most so he's got one or two things to say about it.Tackling such vital questions as 'Where have all the old... -
The World According to Danny Dyer: Life Lessons from the East End by Danny Dyer 9781784297411 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £3.09'I've had an up and down life - and I've tried to write down some of the stuff I've learned along the way . . . straight from the nag's gob.'From running wild with a gang of mates around the rough... -
Present Tense: A Radiohead Compendium by Barney Hoskyns 9781472129437
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.26A Rock's Backpages anthology of Radiohead, the most radical and fascinating rock band in modern music history, edited and introduced by Barney Hoskyns.For over 25 years, Radiohead have been the most... -
I'm Not with the Band: A Writer's Life Lost in Music Sylvia Patterson 9780751558708
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.88DON'T MISS SYLVIA PATTERSON'S BRAND NEW MEMOIR, SAME OLD GIRL, COMING SPRING 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2016 'Celebratory and elegiac' Guardian 'A roller-coaster memoir' Sunday... -
Some Fantastic Place: My Life In and Out of Squeeze Chris Difford 9781474605687
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.82Longlisted for the Penderyn Music Book PrizeOver the course of a thirteen-album and multi-award-winning career with Squeeze, it was clear from the very beginning that Chris Difford has few peers when... -
The Stone Roses: War and Peace by Simon Spence
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The definitive story of The Stone Roses by Simon Spence, with an updated final chapter covering the reunion rollercoaster ride. From the Manchester backwaters to the worldwide 2012 tour, War and... -
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... -
Exit Stage Left: The curious afterlife of pop stars by Nick Duerden
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26**A SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN & TELEGRAPH MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022** **INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE MONTH** **GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE DAY** **FINANCIAL TIMES 'BEST SUMMER BOOKS 2022' PICK** 'Incredibly... -
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... -
Animal House James Brown 9781787477940
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Music, Magazines & MayhemBetween 1994 and 1997, James Brown's loaded magazine became the must-buy and must-be-in publication of the decade. It won every award going, year after year, and came to... -
Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey by Bill Brewster 9781474625609
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.68FOREWORD BY JAMES MURPHY'Literally changed the course of my life' James MurphyWhen someone says, 'You have to know your history...' this is it. A pop culture classic for over two decades, now fully... -
Buzzin': The Nine Lives of a Happy Monday Bez 9781399605083
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.85At the height of his initial, turn-of-the-1990's infamy as the maraca-wielding dancer with 'Madchester' giants Happy Mondays, the pop-eyed Mark Berry, forever known to the world as Bez, was visibly a... -
Buzzin' by Bez 9781399605069 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £2.69At the height of his initial, turn-of-the-1990's infamy as the maraca-wielding dancer with 'Madchester' giants Happy Mondays, the pop-eyed Mark Berry, forever known to the world as Bez, was visibly a... -
Paper Cuts: How I Destroyed the British Music Press and Other Misadventures by Ted Kessler
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.37'A great writer' Paul Weller'A music journalist of integrity' Billy Childish'There's only one Ted Kessler!' Liam GallagherPAPER CUTS is the inside story of the slow death of the British music press... -
Paper Cuts: How I Destroyed the British Music Press and Other Misadventures Ted Kessler 9781474625548
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'A great writer' 'A music journalist of integrity' 'There's only one Ted Kessler!'Paul Weller ... -
Tenement Kid: Rough Trade Book of the Year Bobby Gillespie 9781474622080
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.49'Gillespie is rock and roll's Oliver Twist. A punk rock fairytale, razor sharp on class struggle, music, style, and a singular view of the world resulting in one of the world's great bands. Couldn't... -
Strange Things Are Happening by Richard Norris 9781399609777
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'A revelation. Richard Norris lived the twentieth century and beyond like no one else . . . this is one of the truly great eyewitness accounts of the counterculture' DAVID KEENAN'A dazzling... -
My Old Man: Tales of Our Fathers by Ted Kessler 9781782114000
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.31If you were asked to write about your father, what would you say? Florence Welch, Paul Weller, Nina Stibbe and the sons and daughters of Ian Dury, Johnny Ball, Roy Castle, Leonard Cohen and many... -
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'... -
Sort Your Head Out: Mental health without all the bollocks by Sam Delaney
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £7.61'An honest, funny account of how we're all capable of changing for the better' SETH MEYERS'A great, motivating book that can really help - every bloke should read it' SHAUN RYDERSam Delaney was Jack... -
Sort Your Head Out: Mental health without all the bollocks by Sam Delaney 9781408717097
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'An honest, funny account of how we're all capable of changing for the better' SETH MEYERS'A great, motivating book that can really help - every bloke should read it' SHAUN RYDERSam Delaney was Jack... -
Is Everybody Ready For The Next Band?: The Rolling Stones 1969 US Tour Richard Houghton 9781915858566
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24In November 1969 the Rolling Stones toured the United States for the first time in three years. Gone from the band was founder member Brian Jones, replaced by Mick Taylor from John Mayall's... -
Acid House: The True Story by Luke Bainbridge 9781780387345
Booksplease Price: £16.39The arrival of a new style of music and a new type of drug in 1988 ignited a revolution. To coincide with the 25th anniversary of the second summer of love, this is the definitive story of the... -
Strange Things Are Happening by Richard Norris 9781399609760
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.38'The rainbow reaches right across the sky, for miles and miles, and has landed right in the middle of our field. My mother, Alison, is standing at the beginning. I'm sure it's a beginning, rather... -
Can Music Make You Sick?: Measuring the Price of Musical Ambition by Sally Anne Gross 9781912656646
Booksplease Price: £16.61Stream PodcastGrant Hutchison (Frightened Rabbit):'This book should be mandatory reading for every label, booking agent, manager and tour manager in the business of music and touring so we can all... -
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... -
A Mind of My Own: 'Irrepressibly funny' - Sunday Times by Kathy Burke 9781398548176
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02THE INSTANT BESTSELLER'Vivid, bright and beautiful' - Guardian'Wonderful. I wish I'd written it - I couldn't put it down' Miriam MargolyesKathy Burke is one of Britain's most distinctive voices. Even...