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Twisting My Melon by Shaun Ryder
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20Shaun 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... -
How to Be a Rock Star by Shaun Ryder
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26THE 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... -
How to Be a Rock Star Shaun Ryder 9781838953249
RRP: $34.77Booksplease Price: $24.48THE 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... -
Wrote For Luck: Selected Lyrics by Shaun Ryder
Booksplease Price: $6.23In 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... -
What Planet Am I On? by Shaun Ryder 9781472116932
Booksplease Price: $19.65'I think anyone who doesn't believe there is life out there will eventually end up looking as ignorant as those people who used to think that the earth was flat and if you went too far out to sea in... -
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Hallelujah!: The extraordinary story of Shaun Ryder and Happy Mondays by John Warburton 9780753507810 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $2.27The 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: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95This 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... -
I'm Not with the Band: A Writer's Life Lost in Music Sylvia Patterson 9780751558708
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $12.75DON'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... -
Present Tense: A Radiohead Compendium by Barney Hoskyns
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.59'Present Tense is an anthology to savour . . . giving you as sharp a portrait of this unknowable band as you could hope for . . . Radiohead fans will love it' Classic RockA Rock's Backpages anthology... -
The Stone Roses: War and Peace by Simon Spence
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91The 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... -
Some Fantastic Place: My Life In and Out of Squeeze Chris Difford 9781474605687
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $8.66Longlisted 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... -
Set the Night on Fire: Living, Dying and Playing Guitar with the Doors Robby Krieger 9781474624190
Booksplease Price: $9.92'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: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95**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: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.36Founding 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: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.28Music, 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... -
'Til Wrong Feels Right: Lyrics and More by Iggy Pop 9780241399873
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $23.75THESE ARE THE WORDS THAT CAME TO ME. NO MATTER HOW THEY GOT HERE, THEY DID THE F***ING JOB.Iggy Pop hasn't left a mark on music; he's left it battered and bruised, too. Inducted into the Rock and... -
Animal House James Brown 9781787477902
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.77Music, 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: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.36FOREWORD 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 9781399605069
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $21.16At 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': The Nine Lives of a Happy Monday Bez 9781399605083
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $8.99At 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... -
Tenement Kid: Rough Trade Book of the Year Bobby Gillespie 9781474622080
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $11.60'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... -
Paper Cuts: How I Destroyed the British Music Press and Other Misadventures Ted Kessler 9781474625548
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35'A great writer' 'A music journalist of integrity' 'There's only one Ted Kessler!'Paul Weller ... -
Paper Cuts: How I Destroyed the British Music Press and Other Misadventures by Ted Kessler
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $16.38'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... -
Freaky Dancin' by Bez 9780330481977
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.76'No one has truly and more fully lived the rock lifestyle since The Who's Keith Moon. This is the most honest, funny, outrageous, drug-fuelled rollercoaster of an autobiography since Howard Marks. A... -
Cream - A People's History 9781916889606
Booksplease Price: $23.12In existence for less than two and a half years Cream were the ultimate power trio, bringing together the exquisite talents of Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker. Regarded by some as the best... -
Strange Things Are Happening by Richard Norris 9781399609777
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95'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... -
Queen: A People's History 9781916889613
Booksplease Price: $22.73The story of Queen told in the words of over 500 fans. From their early London shows to conquering Britain and then the world via huge North American tours, the triumphant Live Aid appearance and... -
Iain Matthews: A People's History Richard Houghton 9781915858405
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $24.81Iain Matthews - A People's History is an oral history of one of Britain's leading singer-songwriters. One of the founding members of folk-rock pioneers Fairport Convention, Iain left the band in... -
My Old Man: Tales of Our Fathers by Ted Kessler 9781782114000
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43If 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... -
Simple Minds: Heart of the Crowd: A Fan History Richard Houghton 9781915858344
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $35.11In 1985 Scottish rockers Simple Minds topped the Billboard 100 with 'Don't You (Forget About Me)', performing the song at Live Aid in Philadelphia the same year. In 1989 they reached No 1 in the UK... -
The Hacienda: How Not to Run a Club by Peter Hook 9781847391773
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.56Peter 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 9781408717097
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95'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
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $13.70'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: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.54In 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
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $21.14The 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... -
Tales from the Dancefloor: Manchester / The Warehouse Project / Parklife / Sankeys / The Haçienda by Sacha Lord 9780008656317
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $20.42The must-read memoir from the visionary figure behind Manchester's legendary music scene, from The Hacienda to The Warehouse Project. Tales From the Dance Floor... -
Tales from the Dancefloor: Manchester / The Warehouse Project / Parklife / Sankeys / The Haçienda Sacha Lord 9780008656355
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.17The must-read memoir from the visionary figure behind Manchester's legendary music scene, from The Hacienda to The Warehouse Project. Tales From the Dance Floor... -
Strange Things Are Happening by Richard Norris 9781399609760
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.42'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
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $21.43Stream 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... -
Can Music Make You Sick?: Measuring the Price of Musical Ambition by Sally Anne Gross 9781912656653
Booksplease Price: $91.95Stream 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...