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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... -
The Incredible String Band: Every Album, Every Song Tim Moon 9781789521078
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78The Incredible String Band evoke love and devotion to all those who fall under their spell. Their world is not ours, but a land of mythical creatures and fey beings. This book looks at all their... -
Earth, Wind and Fire On Track: Every Album, Every Song by Bud Wilkins
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Since their formation in the early 1970s, Earth, Wind & Fire have been at the forefront of popular music. Led by the fearless Maurice White, the band imprinted their funky style onto the world's... -
Manfred Mann's Earth Band in the 1970s: Decades John Van der Kiste 9781789522433
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Having moved from jazz, Blues and R'n'B to out-and-out pop in his various 1960s bands, keyboard player Manfred Mann went back to the drawing board in 1971 with a new quartet, Manfred Mann's Earth... -
Dire Straits Every Album, Every Song (On Track ) by Andrew Wild
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.871979 was an amazing time for UK post-punk pop. t the end of March, a fresh new sound entered the British top 20. 'Sultans of Swing', a very wordy song with lots of driving guitar, a tight rhythm... -
Queen in the 1970s: Decades by James Griffiths
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47When Freddie Bulsara arrived in England in 1964, fleeing with his family from a bloody revolution on the streets of his homeland Zanzibar, he already knew that he wanted to be a rock'n'roll star. But... -
Steve Hackett On Track: Every Album, Every Song (On Track) by Geoffrey Feakes
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Guitarist Steve Hackett first came to many fan's attention when he joined Genesis in 1971. Following seven excellent albums with the band, he went his own way in 1977. He had already kick started his... -
David Cronenberg: Every Movie, Every Star by Patrick Chapman
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.21David Cronenberg's films stand collectively as one of the great achievements in cinema. Fearless, imaginative and provocative, as well as intelligent and refreshingly disturbing, his work expresses a... -
Bob Dylan 1962 to 1970 On Track: On Track by Opher Goodwin
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.39Bob Dylan is the magician who sprinkled poetic fairy dust on to the popular music of the early sixties and his songwriting sparked a revolution and changed rock music forever. The diminutive... -
The Beat, General Public and Fine Young Cannibals On Track: Every Album, Every Song by Steve Parry
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.45Bursting out of industrial Birmingham in the late 1970s and hitching a ride on the Two-Tone bandwagon for their first single, The English Beat answered the question of whether punk and reggae should... -
Ralph McTell On Track: Every Album, Every Song by Paul O. Jenkins 9781789522945
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Best known for his international hit, 'Streets of London', Ralph McTell has recorded over 300 songs in a career that spans more than 50 years. Due to his considerable melodic and lyrical gifts, a... -
The Zombies: Every Album, Every Song by Emma Stott 9781789522976
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Most lauded for the gorgeously baroque Odessey and Oracle, and the ageless singles, 'She's Not There' and 'Time of the Season', The Zombies' were at the forefront of The British Invasion, recording... -
Rolling Stones: Let It Bleed: Rock Classics John Van der Kiste 9781789523096
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Released in 1969, Let it Bleed was The Rolling Stones' eighth studio album (tenth in the USA). The second in a sequence of four consecutive records that comprised their creative peak, it is... -
Neil Young 1963 to 1970: Every Album, Every Song by Opher Goodwin 9781789522983
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.95In the realm of singer songwriters, few have been as influential as Neil Young, whose music has always been creative and relevant throughout six decades. Neil is a chameleon for whom boundaries of... -
Blur On Track: Every Album, Every Song by Matt Bishop 9781789521641
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Formed as shambolic art-punk four-piece Seymour whilst attending London's Goldsmiths University, the rechristened Blur released their debut album Leisure in 1991, marking them as promising indie... -
George Harrison in the 1970s: Decades by Eoghan Lyng 9781789521740
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.45Depending on who you asked, George Harrison was many different things to different people. There was his songcraft, which won over the affections of producer savant Phil Spector; there was his... -
Pearl Jam On Track: Every Album, Every Song by Ben L. Connor 9781789521887
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.66Pearl Jam are the last men standing from great alternative rock explosion of the Nineties. They introduced themselves with one of the biggest-selling and most iconic albums of the decade, and their... -
Warren Zevon On Track: Every Album, Every Song by Peter Gallagher 9781789521702
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Bruce Springsteen called him 'one of the great, great American songwriters', Jackson Browne hailed him as 'the first and foremost proponent of song noir', and Stephen King once said that if he could... -
Status Quo On Track: The Frantic Four Years by Richard James 9781789521603
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Status Quo? All their songs sound the same and they only know three chords' Really? This retrospective of one of Britain's most successful bands takes this lazy criticism and puts it to the... -
Roy Harper: Every Album, Every Song by Opher Goodwin 9781789521306
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Roy Harper must be one of Britain's most undervalued rock musicians and songwriters. For over fifty years he has produced a series of innovative albums of consistently outstanding quality. He puts... -
Marillion in the 1980s (Decades) Nathaniel Webb 9781789520651
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.66Derided as seventies throwbacks upon their arrival and misremembered by the wider population as one-hit wonders, Marillion rode the 1980s as one of the most successful bands in Britain. Delivering... -
The Hollies On Track: Every Album, Every Song Andrew Darlington 9781789521597
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Everyone loved The Hollies. They were the 'group's group'. Never confrontational or rebellious, always smartly suited, always smiling. The band had an unbroken run of immaculate pop singles which,... -
Duran Duran On Track: Every Album, Every Song Karen Windle 9781789523683
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Duran Duran, New Romantic trailblazers and '80s teen idols, are a British institution. Over nearly 45 years, they have broken ground with their indelible music videos, released multiple hit albums... -
The Chic Organisation On Track: Every Album, Every Song by Chris Sutton 9781789523669
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16This book charts all of the albums which feature The Chic Organisation, helmed by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards. As well as records under the Chic name, they also wrote, produced and played on... -
Badfinger On Track: Every Album, Every Song by Robert Day-Webb 9781789521764
Booksplease Price: £16.47Generally regarded as one of the most tragic tales in the history of rock music, the story of Badfinger does indeed make for an impressively sombre Hollywood-style film script. A Welsh and... -
The Twang Dynasty - From Memphis to Merthyr: Guitarists that rocked the world by Deke Leonard 9781789520491
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.02Prior to new editions of legendary Man musician Deke Leonard's previous books Rhinos, Winos & Lunatics and Maybe I Should've Stayed in Bed? planned for 2020, we are happy to bring back his 3rd and... -
The Cardiacs: Every Album, Every Song by Eric Benac 9781789521313
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.73When Tim Smith died in July of 2020, he left behind a legion of adoring fans and an honorary doctorate in music. Not bad for someone who never had a top ten hit and who's music was so infamous during... -
Slade in the 1970s by Darren Johnson
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.39Slade were one of the biggest British bands of the 1970s. One of the early pioneers of gl,am rock they enjoyed an incredible run of six number one singles, four top-ten albums and a succession of... -
Nektar On Track: Every Album, Every Song by Scott Meze
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.66Of all the British bands that blasted to fame in rock's golden age, Nektar remain the most mysterious and least documented. Because they chose to base themselves in West Germany, until now... -
Van Halen On Track: Every Album, Every Song by Morgan Brown
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Van Halen are arguably America's greatest ever rock n' roll band. From inauspicious roots as a backyard covers outfit, they went on to revolutionise and revitalise heavy rock, creating a... -
Aimee Mann On Track: Every Album, Every Song (On Track) by Jez Rowden
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Any consideration of the song writing craft would be incomplete without the inclusion of American singer/songwriter Aimee Mann. From her first steps as singer and bass player with '80s synth pop band... -
Lou Reed 1972 to 1986 On Track: Every Album, Every Song Ethan Roy 9781789522839
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47This book examines the work of the first decade-and-a-half of Lou Reed as a solo artist. It would be easy to paint these years with a broad brush; with the ghost of The Velvet Underground in its... -
The Smashing Pumpkins 1991 to 2000 On Track: Every Album, Every Song by Matt Karpe 9781789522914
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.66The Smashing Pumpkins rose to fame during the grunge movement of the early nineties, however, the Chicago quartet's soaring guitar-driven anthems and beautifully crafted ballads instantly set them... -
The Golden Age of Easy Listening by Derek Taylor 9781789522853
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.24The mid-20th century saw the birth of a new kind of big band/orchestral music in what came to be called 'Easy Listening'. Like its contemporary, rock 'n' roll, it took the world by storm, introducing... -
Talk Talk On Track: Every Album, Every Song by Gary Steel 9781789522846
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.39In this era of lavish box sets and extravagant vinyl reissues, the sheer economy of Talk Talk's output feels terrific, refreshing and just right. During the group's ten-year lifespan, they released... -
The Divine Comedy On Track: Every Album, Every Song by Alan Draper 9781789523089
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Towards the tail end of the 1980s, Neil Hannon: a talented singer/songwriter from Northern Ireland, formed his first line-up of The Divine Comedy. In 1989, he signed a deal with independent label,... -
The Human League On Track: Every Album, Every Song by Andrew Darlington 9781789521863
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Sheffield in the late-1970s was isolated from what was happening in London in the same way that Liverpool had been in 1963. A unique generation of electro-experimental groupings evolved in the former... -
Mott The Hoople and Ian Hunter in the 1970s (Decades) John van der Kiste 9781789521627
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78When Hereford group Silence teamed up with songwriter Ian Hunter in 1969 to form a group that aimed to be a cross between Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones and Procol Harum, they rapidly became one of... -
Derek Taylor: For Your Radioactive Children...: Days in the Life of The Beatles' Spin Doctor by Andrew Darlington 9781789520385
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24There are a million stories that take place within the arc of Derek Taylor's life. He lived a charmed life, which started on Saturday, 7 May 1932, in the Liverpool 17 suburb of Toxteth Park... -
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds On Track: Every Album, Every Song by Dominic Sanderson 9781789522402
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Not many artists can boast a career like Nick Cave, which has gone from strength to strength since the debut album from his band The Bad Seeds in 1984. Most musicians in their 60s are relegated to...