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The Sonicbond Publishing On Track Sampler by Stephen Lambe 9781789521900
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.83When Sonicbond Publishing produced its first books in 2018, we didn't expect that by 2024, we would have published over 120 new titles in our flagship On Track series. To celebrate we are pleased to... -
Rick Wakeman in the 1970s: Decades by Geoffrey Feakes
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Keyboard wizard Rick Wakeman is one of the most talented and influential musicians and composers to have graced the world of popular music. He is also one of the most prolific, with more than a 100... -
Van der Graaf Generator in the 1970s: Decades by Steve Pilkington
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47There were a lot of very different bands peddling their wares in the progressive rock 'golden age' of the 1970s - some tending toward symphonic grandeur, other towards jazz fusion, and others still... -
Beck On Track: Every Album, Every Song by Arthur Lizie
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Beck Hansen has enjoyed three decades of success, creating an unprecedented variety of music across a labyrinth of releases that challenge conventions and push pop music boundaries. He's been... -
Alice Cooper in the 1980s (Decades) by Chris Sutton
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47The 1980s saw Alice Cooper release arguably his most diverse collection of albums, ranging from new wave to metal to full-on radio-friendly rock. They weren't all commercially successful, but all are... -
Metallica On Track: Every Album, Every Song by Barry Wood
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £9.99From humble beginnings, as they emerged pimple-popped and sweaty out of a global New Wave of British Heavy Metal scene infiltrating California in the early 80s, through to almost complete world... -
Soft Machine On Track: Every Album, Every Song by Scott Meze 9781789522716
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.39Soft Machine are perceived as cold and forbidding. At their peak in the 1970s, they purposefully raised the hackles of pop journalists, the musical establishment, and even their own fans. Their music... -
Tangerine Dream in the 1970s Stephen Palmer 9781789521610
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.66Long, unfurling tracks; huge stacks of gear; music like that of no other group; trailblazing live gigs based on improvisation. This is the legacy of Tangerine Dream, the legendary German group... -
The Damned On Track: Every Album, Every Song by Morgan Brown 9781789521368
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.85The Damned are a great British rock n' roll institution. They have helped to plot the course of guitar music over the last 45 years, putting UK punk on record for the first time in 1976, and going on... -
Van Morrison in the 1970s: Decades by Peter Childs 9781789522419
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.26After the singularity of Astral Weeks in 1968, the 1970s were the formative years for the solo career of one of the acknowledged giants of modern music. Van Morrison was one of the music legends who... -
Caravan: Every Album, Every Song: On Track by Andy Boot 9781789521276
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Caravan have a history that stretches back over half a century, with a catalogue of music that ranges from progressive rock classics to pop gems that should have been hits. Lumped into that strange... -
Little Feat On Track: Every Album, Every Song Georg Purvis 9781789521689
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Little Feat may not be a household name, but they are well-known to a good number of musicians who are: Keith Richards rounded up the Rolling Stones to see them perform in Amsterdam in 1975, Robert... -
Eric Clapton Solo On Track: Every Album, Every Song by Andrew Wild 9781789521412
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Of all of the 'classic' British rockers who came to prominence in the 1960s, only a very few have achieved significant, sustained success through to the present day. A list that comprises Paul... -
Procol Harum On Track: Every Album, Every Song by Scott Meze 9781789523157
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Few artists have had as great an impact with their debut single as Procol Harum. Mesmerising and perplexing in equal measure, 'A Whiter Shade of Pale' remains the perfect distillation of the... -
Rush 1973 to 1982 On Track: Every Album, Every Song Richard James 9781789523386
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Rush. In their own words, 'The World's Biggest Cult Band', started from humble beginnings: three suburban teenagers. Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee, and John Rutsey formed a Led Zeppelin-influenced trio,... -
Phil Ochs On Track: Every Album, Every Song Opher Goodwin 9781789523263
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.35Phil Ochs was the 'The Prince of Protest' in the sixties. The only real rival to Bob Dylan, he was the archetypal Greenwich Village topical songwriter. Whether protesting the Vietnam War or... -
Journey On Track: Every Album, Every Song Doug Thornton 9781789523379
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16‘Just a city boy. Born and raised in South Detroit...’ so begins the iconic ‘Don’t Stop Believin’’ heard in countless karaoke bars and classic rock stations around the world. It is one of over 250... -
The Stranglers On Track: Every Album, Every Song by Martin Hutchinson 9781789523232
Booksplease Price: £18.13The Stranglers, or Meninblack, were once considered the bad boys of punk despite never really being a punk band. Formed in Guildford in 1974, they celebrate their golden anniversary as a band that... -
Prince and the Revolution: Purple Rain - Rock Classics by Matt Karpe 9781789523225
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.10In a year containing groundbreaking releases from the likes of Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, Metallica, and Van Halen, 1984 also saw Prince return bigger and bolder than ever. Not content with solely... -
Gerry Rafferty On Track: Every Album, Every Song John Van der Kiste 9781789523492
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Sometimes acclaimed as Scotland's finest-ever singer-songwriter, Gerry Rafferty was born in 1947. After developing a passion for several genres of popular music during childhood, from traditional... -
Porcupine Tree On Track (Revised and Updated): Every Album, Every Song Nick Holmes 9781789523461
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.35Porcupine Tree began in 1987 as a solo project for Steven Wilson but became a four-piece band when Steven was later joined by Richard Barbieri, Colin Edwin, and Chris Maitland (who was later... -
Iron Maiden Every Album, Every Song (On Track) by Steve Pilkington 9781789520613
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.73Mention the words `heavy metal' with regards to the past four decades, and chances are one of the first names you'll get back is Iron Maiden. From their early days as front-runners of the New Wave Of... -
The Smiths & Morrissey On Track: Every Album, Every Song by Tommy Gunnarsson 9781789521405
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.26Ever since their debut single was released in 1983, The Smiths have influenced musicians worldwide with their jangly guitar pop, infectious melodies and front man Morrissey's passionate lyrics... -
Magic: The David Paton Story by David Paton
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.39Discovering The Beatles at the age of fourteen, David Paton had no idea that one day he'd work with Paul McCartney in Studio Two at Abbey Road or that he'd write a number one worldwide hit, or that... -
Nightwish On Track: Every Album, Every Song by Simon McMurdo
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Traversing power metal, acoustic introspect and finally settling on their breakthrough cinematic sound, Finnish heavyweights Nightwish are the leading name in the sumptuous world of symphonic metal... -
The Bee Gees in the 1970s Andrew Mon Hughes 9781789521795
Booksplease Price: £21.63For better or worse, The Bee Gees' music and image has long been synonymous with the 1970s, and the career trajectory of brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb in that ten-year span meanders between... -
Dream Theater: Every Album, Every Song (On Track) by Jordan Blum
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.66No other band has affected modern progressive metal as deeply or widely as American quintet Dream Theater. Formed at Berklee College of Music) as Majesty in 1985 by guitarist John Petrucci, drummer... -
Fleetwood Mac in the 1980s by Don Klees
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Out of the dozen different line-ups since Fleetwood Mac formed in 1967, there's only one incarnation that truly matters for most listeners. During their time together, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie,... -
Spirit On Track: Every Album, Every Song by Rev. Keith A. Gordon
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Even in an age of unparalleled innovation and artistic freedom, Spirit stood head and shoulders above their 1960s-era rock 'n' roll contemporaries. Perhaps only Love shared the same sort of expansive... -
Focus In The 1970s: The Music of Jan Akkerman and Thijs Van Leer by Stephen Lambe
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.66For a few short years in the 1970s, the unique music of Focus entertained the world. Build around the prodigious instrumental talents of Dutch masters Jan Akkerman (guitar) and Thijs Van Leer... -
Crosby, Stills and Nash: Every Album, Every Song by Andrew Wild
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78The music of Crosby, Stills and Nash, and especially their 1969 self-titled debut album, exemplified the Woodstock generation - three men, three voices, one common view of freedom and justice. Their... -
Humble Pie On Track: Every Album, Every Song Robert Day-Webb 9781789522761
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47The hard-rocking British supergroup was fronted by Steve Marriott, possessor of what is generally regarded as one of the finest ever rock and blue-eyed soul voices. They achieved global success in... -
The Moody Blues: Every Album, Every Song by Geoffrey Feakes 9781789520422
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.73Formed in 1964 and still going strong in 2019, the Moody Blues are one of the most enduring bands in the history of rock. R&B, pop, psychedelic, symphonic, prog rock, folk rock, synth-pop, mainstream... -
Hawkwind On Track Revised Edition: Every Album, Every Song by Duncan Harris 9781789522907
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.45Always enigmatic and outside of the mainstream, most people associate Hawkwind with 'whoosh' noises, 'Silver Machine', Lemmy and 'Space Rock' music. From the beginning, Hawkwind have been... -
Oasis: Every Album, Every Song by Andrew Rooney 9781789523003
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.12Dave Grohl once said of Oasis, 'We've played shows with them before, where we play with them we think "That's the greatest rock band I've ever seen in my life"'. The quality of the songs they were... -
Linda Ronstadt 1991 to 2000 On Track: Every Album, Every Song by Daryl Lawrence 9781789522938
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.39Linda Ronstadt is one of the most important women and people in the history of popular music. Starting her solo career in 1969, she redefined what a music superstar could be by expanding her... -
Monty Python The Complete Guide by Steve Pilkington 9781789520477
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.45Everyone has their favourite Monty Python sketches, often quoted almost verbatim, whether it is 'the Parrot Sketch', 'the Cheese Shop' or 'Blackmail' - amongst many. Likewise the Python films, the... -
Doctor Who - The David Tennant Years. An Episode Guide (On Screen) by Jamie Hailstone 9781789520668
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.66When David Tennant took over as the Tenth Doctor in 2005, the rejuvenated science fiction series was still in its infancy, having just completed its first series. Under the direction of showrunner... -
Tommy Bolin - In and Out of Deep Purple by Laura Shenton 9781789520705
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.08It started off so well. As Jon Lord enthused in the October 1975 issue of Melody Maker: 'Tommy can't be so bad for us with so many good ideas. All I can say is when you hear the album (Come Taste The... -
1973: A Year In Progressive Rock by Geoffrey Feakes 9781789521658
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.67During a decade that defined progressive rock, 1973 was a pivotal year. Influential bands like Yes, Genesis, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull, The Electric Light Orchestra and King Crimson...