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One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time
Author: Craig Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020 A Spectator Book of the Year * A Times Book of the...
Living on a Thin Line
Author: Dave Davies Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The all new, must-read memoir by legendary Kinks guitarist Dave Davies Dave Davies is the co-founder and lead guitarist of epoch-defining...
Twilight of the Gods: A Journey to the End of Classic Rock
Author: Steven Hyden Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 National Bestseller * Named one of Rolling Stone's Best Music Books of 2018 * One of Newsweek's 50 Best Books of...
Record Play Pause: Confessions of a Post-Punk Percussionist: the Joy Division Years: Volume I
Author: Stephen Morris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A unique and thoughtful musical memoir' Observer 'Gritty coming-of-age story . . . plenty of anecdotes to...
The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting
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Author: Ben Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 An epic quest exposes hidden truths about Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi, the recently discovered masterpiece that sold for $450 million-and...
The McCartney Legacy: Volume 2: 1974 - 80
The follow-up to The McCartney Legacy, Volume 1, the most complete work on the life and work of Paul McCartney ever published. Volume 2 continues to paint the portrait of...
The Stone Age: Sixty Years of the Rolling Stones
Author: Lesley-Ann Jones Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 On 12 July 1962, the Rollin' Stones performed their first-ever gig at London's Marquee jazz club. Down the line,...
Morrissey: Alone and Palely Loitering
Author: Kevin Cummins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'One of the greatest music photographers of all time...this book is indispensable to anyone who is a fan of Morrissey, or...
Desolation: A Heavy Metal Memoir
A gritty, revealing heavy metal memoir by Lamb of God's lead guitarist and co-lyricist, which explores both his life in music and his tumultuous path through addiction and into recovery.DESOLATION...
Little Book of Yves Saint Laurent
Author: Emma Baxter-Wright Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Little Book of Yves Saint Laurent is the pocket-sized and exquisitely illustrated story of 60 years of innovative fashion design. An...
The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana
A downright revolutionary 30th-anniversary deluxe edition of the iconic bestselling biography of Nirvana, updated with exclusive new content exploring the personal and cultural forces that inspired the music, the author's...
Murli la: Songs and Stories of the Tiwi Islands
Author: Ngarukuruwala Women's Group Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 A joint project with the Indigenous Literary Foundation, Murli la is a beautifully designed gift book that celebrates the culture...
Mozart: The Reign of Love
Author: Jan Swafford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 832 From his celebrated early childhood, Mozart has been caught up in myths: the superhuman prodigy, the adult who was still a...
The Beloved Vision: Music in the Romantic Age
Author: Professor Stephen Walsh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Everyone loves romantic music: the sweet melody of a Schubert song, the heroine dying for love in an Italian opera,...
Futuromania: Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines and Tomorrow's Music
Simon Reynolds's first book in eight years is a celebration of music that feels like a taste of tomorrow. Sounds that prefigure pop music's future - the vanguard genres and...
Prince: All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track
Spanning nearly 50 years of albums, EPs, B-sides, and more, read the full story behind all of the songs that Prince ever released. Moving chronologically through his epic back catalogue,...
Moulin Rouge! The Musical: The Story of the Broadway Spectacular
Author: David Cote Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 A glittering backstage pass to Moulin Rouge! The Musical and itsjourney to Broadway, with contributions from cast and crew, interviews with...
Radicalism and Music
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Radicalism and Music offers a convincing argument for music's transformational impact on the radicalization, reinforcement, and motivational techniques of violent political activists. It makes a case for the careful examination...
In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea
Author: Danny Goldberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 280 'Danny Goldberg is probably one of the purest, most reasonable guides you could ask for to 1967.' - ex-Rolling...
Make Me Famous: A Novel
Daisy Jones and the Six meets Patricia Highsmith in this addictive, intense novel about the brutal and ferocious road to glory, from the award-winning author of My Husband . Ever...
Shouting Out Loud: Lives of The Raincoats
'A must-read about these punk trailblazers' KATHLEEN HANNA Art students Gina Birch and Ana da Silva formed The Raincoats in 1977. Since the release of their seminal early records, the...
Black Sabbath: Symptom of the Universe
Author: Mick Wall Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'An epic tale, told the way it should be' RECORD COLLECTOR 'The book he was born to write' CLASSIC...
Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop
Author: Bob Stanley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 656 Let's Do It is the definitive history of the birth of Pop, from 1900 to the mid-fifties. The story begins in...
David Bowie: Starman
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Author: Paul Trynka Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 "Ziggy Stardust," "Changes," Under Pressure," "Let's Dance," "Fame," "Heroes," and of course, "Starman." These are the classic songs of David Bowie,...
The Autobiography of Pops Foster: New Orleans Jazz Man
Author: Tom Stoddard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 242 The first famous double-bass stylist in jazz George Murphy Pops Foster enjoyed a career that spanned gigs with greats...
Beaumonster: A Memoir
Author: Jesse Dayton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Jesse Dayton's story reads like a who's who of American music. In his debut memoir Beaumonster, Dayton reveals the stranger-than-fiction encounters...
Rebel Musix, Scribe on a Vibe: Frontline Adventures Linking Punk, Reggae, Afrobeat and Jazz
Rebel Musix, Scribe on a Vibe collects the extraordinary output of Vivien Goldman from 1975 onwards; spanning a time when punk burnt its scalding flame to scorch our musical earth...
Reach for the Stars: 1996-2006: Fame, Fallout and Pop's Final Party: Winner of the 2024 Penderyn Music Book Prize
Using the arrival of the Spice Girls as a jumping-off point, this fascinating new narrative will explore, celebrate and contextualise the thus-far-uncharted period of British pop that flourished between 1996...
Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa
An intimate conversation about music and creativity, between the internationally bestselling writer Haruki Murakami and world-class conductor, Seiji Ozawa. An intimate conversation about music and creativity, between the internationally bestselling...
How Does It Feel?: A Life of Musical Misadventures
Author: Mark Kermode Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Following a formative encounter with the British pop movie Slade in Flame in 1975, Mark Kermode decided that musical superstardom was...
The Rolling Stones In the Beginning: With unseen images
Author: Bent Rej Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 "The photographs are amazing - the Stones are still practically children, messing around, pulling faces and writing the odd song." GQ...
Conversations with McCartney
Author: Paul Du Noyer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 In June 1989, Paul Du Noyer was contacted by Paul McCartney's office in London and asked to interview...
Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces
An authoritative and refreshing account of Beethoven's life and music Ludwig van Beethoven- to some, simply the greatest ever composer of Western classical music. Yet his life remains shrouded in...
The Lost Pianos of Siberia: A Sunday Times Paperback of 2021
A critically-acclaimed Sunday Times and Spectator book of 2020, and a major new literary voice. Siberia's history is traditionally one of exiles, bitter cold and suffering. Yet there is another...
Hip-Hop Is History: The New York Times bestseller
A must-read for old-school hip-hop heads and burgeoning fans alike Time 'Hip Hip is not History, it's Our story. Brilliant book' Craig Charles ' Hip-Hop Is History melds a detailed...
How Does It Feel?: A Life of Musical Misadventures
Author: Mark Kermode Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Following a formative encounter with the British pop movie Slade in Flame in 1975, Mark Kermode decided that musical...
Songs In The Key of MP3: The New Icons of the Internet Age
It's 2013. You're a teenager squinting at your laptop in the dead of night, flicking between iTunes and YouTube and PirateBay. Endless reams of artists unspool at the click of...
Good Pop, Bad Pop: The Sunday Times bestselling hit from Jarvis Cocker
The funny, revealing, highly original and Sunday Times bestselling memoir from Jarvis Cocker The Sunday Times bestselling hit memoir from Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker. 'It's real gold... its storytelling first...
Reach for the Stars: 1996-2006: Fame, Fallout and Pop's Final Party:
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Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd - New Edition
Author: Nick Mason Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 UPDATED FOR 2017 WITH A NEW CHAPTER The definitive history of Pink Floyd, one of the world's great bands,...
My Father's Daughter: A Memoir
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Tina Sinatra Format: Hardback...
Sufferah: Memoir of a Brixton Reggae Head
"One of the big memoirs of the summer" i news"A potent tale of triumph over adversity. Angry but never bitter, Wheatle's compassion shines through the pain" Observer"Alex is a truly...
The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival
'Superb and timely' KATE MOSSE 'Impressive, important, deeply moving' SARAH WATERS 'Brilliant' ANTHONY HOROWITZ What role could music play in a death camp? What was the effect on those women...
The Silver Snarling Trumpet
Discovered at last, the legendary lost manuscript of Grateful Dead co-founder and primary lyricist Robert Hunter, written in the early 1960s-a wry, richly observed, and enlightening remembrance of "the scene"...
The Colonel and the King: Tom Parker, Elvis Presley and the
In early 1955, Colonel Tom Parker (the manager of the number-one country music star of the day) heard that an unknown teenager from Memphis had just drawn a crowd of...
Night People: How to Be a DJ in '90s New York City
The raucous memoir from pop's most influential producer Lady Gaga, Adele, Amy Winehouse, Dua Lipa, Bruno Mars, Miley Cyrus, the Barbie soundtrack. Behind some of the biggest musical moments in...
Fast Forward: Confessions of a Post-Punk Percussionist: Volume II
Author: Stephen Morris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 Iconic drummer Stephen Morris presses play once more to the tune of the long-awaited second volume of memoirs . . ....
Rebel Sounds: Music as Resistance
'Empathy is the currency of all music and Joe Mulhall does a great job of explaining how that quality has been used to generate solidarity for the struggle and sympathy...