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Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for the Real James Brown
'A formidable free-style book that isn't straight biography but a mix of history, street-level investigative reporting, hagiography, Deep South sociology, music criticism, memoir and some fiery preaching' Rolling Stone magazine...
Verse, Chorus, Monster!
'A refreshingly modest memoir.' - THE TIMES Verse, Chorus, Monster! is the memoir of iconic British musician and Blur co-founder Graham Coxon, charting a life of music, fame, addiction and...
Everything We Do is Music: How 20th-Century Classical Music Shaped Pop
The worlds of pop and rock owe a much greater debt to the classical canon than we realise. A direct and fascinating lineage draws from the experimentalism of Pierre Henry...
1966: The Year the Decade Exploded
The pop world accelerated and broke through the sound barrier in 1966. In America, in London, in Amsterdam, in Paris, revolutionary ideas slow-cooking since the late '50s reached boiling point....
Into the Black: The Inside Story of Metallica, 1991-2014
From the record-breaking success of 1991's 'Black Album' to the band's reinvention with the Load/Reload albums; from bassist Jason Newsted's shock departure to the group's subsequent meltdown as laid bare...
Birth School Metallica Death: 1983-1991
No music writers have been afforded greater access to Metallica over the years than Paul Brannigan and Ian Winwood, two former editors of Kerrang. Having conducted hundreds of hours of...
World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed
Including tracks by the Velvet Underground, Joni Mitchell, Otis Redding, Dolly Parton, and Billie Eilish-as well as thoughts on Jeff's own songs - World Within a Song asks: why do...
Wading in Waist-High Water: The Lyrics of Fleet Foxes
"There is something quite moving about seeing the lyrics of these fifty-six songs collected and assembled this way. You can see the evolution of the minds and hearts at work...
The Tastemaker: My Life with the Legends and Geniuses of Rock Music
The Tastemaker charts the singular life of a man who has been at the beating heart of music's most iconic moments for over sixty years. Leaving school and starting his...
Me and Mr Jones: My Life with David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars
From the stylist behind David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust look, an electrifying peek behind the curtains during a legendary chapter of pop culture history. Suzi Ronson was working in a Beckenham...
Me and Mr Jones: My Life with David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars
From the stylist behind David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust look, an electrifying peek behind the curtains during a legendary chapter of pop culture history. ' Suzi Ronson was there as Bowie...
Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World
Roots, Radicals & Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World is the first book to explore this phenomenon in depth - a meticulously researched and joyous account that explains how skiffle...
Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music
Greil Marcus's study of American rock and roll is universally acclaimed as the benchmark work of modern rock criticism. Using a handful of artists - a brace of bluesmen, The...
Radiohead: Climbing Up the Walls
FOREWORD BY RADIOHEAD'S ED O'BRIEN Explore the story of Radiohead - perhaps the finest band of a generation - through the lens of legendary Melody Maker chief photographer Tom Sheehan....
Oasis: What's The Story?: Life on tour with Liam and Noel Gallagher
'Deserves to stay on the bestseller lists for a long time to come' - Caitlin Moran 'Brilliant' - NME Oasis were a band like bands used to be. Hard-drinking and...
Pandamonium!: How (Not) to Run a Record Label
It's a life-and-near-death story. But whose life? And whose near-death? As a one-time NME journalist, former XFM radio presenter and the founder ofenduring homespun British indie record label Fierce Panda,...
Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for the Real James Brown
'A formidable freestyle book that isn't straight biography but a mix of history, street-level investigative reporting, hagiography, Deep South sociology, music criticism, memoir and some fiery preaching' ROLLING STONE The...
Yours Truly: The Little Guide to Ariana Grande
One of the most-streamed female artists of all time, Ariana Grande is the voice of her generation. From her breakout on Broadway to her victorious path dominating the charts with...
Never: The Autobiography
The instant Sunday Times bestseller 'A straight-talking yet frequently astonishing memoir' - The Times 'A book as idiosyncratic as it is nostalgic' - The Observer When 'Never Gonna Give You...
A Field Guide to Grunge
A Field Guide to ... delves into music's most influential genres to uncover the innovators and agitators who changed music history forever. In A Field Guide to Grunge, Steve Wide...
A-Z of Record Shop Bags: 1940s to 1990s
Chosen as one of the Best Architecture and Design books Summer 2022 by the Financial Times. Why British record store carrier bags are graphic design icons: While they've never carried...
Woodstock at 50: Anatomy of a Revolution
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As the 1960's drew to a close, the gathering at Woodstock defined a moment in history and redefined the world of music and politics over the course of a single...
Damon Albarn
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Damon Albarn was the frontman of Blur and the face of Britpop. While his peers have gradually fallen by the wayside, Albarn has survived Britpop to completely re-invent himself as...
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
Taking in the jazz and blues icons whom Jefferson idolised as a child in the 1950s, ideas of what the female body could be - as incarnated by trailblazing Black...
Swing Symphony
One morning I realised that I was close to Jimmie Lunceford's fatal age, causing me to entertain a strange logic. If all the good swingers like Lunceford and Gershwin aor...
What I Was Made For: The Little Guide to Billie Eilish
Dark, bold, and unapologetically original - Billie Eilish has redefined what it means to be a modern music icon. From her whisper-soft vocals to her powerful, soul-shaking belts, she has...
Patient: the True Story of a Rare Illness
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In the summer of 1992, on the eve of an American tour, Ben Watt, one half of the Billboard -topping pop duo Everything But The Girl, was taken to a...
Clapton: The Ultimate Illustrated History
One of Guitar World magazines Top 15 rock books of 2011.He was born Eric Patrick Clapton, but you can just call him Slowhand. Over the years, fans of Eric Clapton...
Such Sweet Thunder: Benny Green On Jazz
A collection of writing from the world's leading authority on jazz and popular song, including previously unpublished work. The world's leading authority on jazz and popular song, Benny Green was...
Prince
Legendarily reticent, perverse and misleading, Prince is one of the few remaining 80s superstars who still, perhaps, remains unexplained. Now a firm fixture in the pop canon, where such classics...
Loving Amy: A Mother's Story
A heartfelt memoir from the mother of Amy Winehouse, one of our most celebrated and controversial artists. Arguably the most gifted artist of her generation, Amy Winehouse died tragically young,...
Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol
The true untold story of the Sex Pistols from the man who formed the band and kick-started the cultural revolution that was Punk. NOW A LIMITED SERIES DIRECTED BY DANNY...
Tango En Buenos Aires
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The book titled Tango En Buenos Aires by the author Jorge Luis Campos. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Myself When I Am Real: The Life and Music of Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus was one of the most innovative jazz musicians of the 20th century, and ranks with Charles Ives and Duke Ellington as one of America's greatest composers. By temperament,...
This Year: 365 songs annotated
Collected and annotated lyrics from one of music's most visionary bards, John Darnielle. A work of rapturous beauty, This Year- 365 songs annotated celebrates the creative life and the musical...
Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
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MO' META BLUES is a punch-drunk-on-culture memoir in which Ahmir tells his own story while tackling the greats, the lates, the fakes, the headliners, and the almost-weres of music, as...
British Rock Guitar: The first 50 years, the musicians and their
As one of the world's premier electric bass players, Mo Foster has played his guitar with the greats, and with their backing, contributions and memories has written an insightful, passionate...
Battle of Band Names
Award-winning veteran music journalist Bart Bull has created a one-of-a-kind book and compiled hundreds of the most colorful, clever, obscure, and unusual band names of the past 50 years. Broken...
The Art of Metal: Five Decades of Heavy Metal Album Covers, Posters,
This book explores the ways in which the art has helped to define each of the crucial subgenres that make up the multifaceted, and colourful centipede that is metal. Let's...
Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads
Greil Marcus saw Bob Dylan for the first time in a New Jersey field in 1963. He didn't know the name of the scruffy singer who had a bit part...
Chet Baker: The Long Night of Chet Aker / James Gavin.
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The wild ride of Chet Baker, the most romanticized icon in jazz, is thrillingly recounted in this first major biography ever.From his emergence in the 1950s--when an uncannily beautiful young...
The Baroness: The Search for Nica, the Rebellious Rothschild
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Beautiful, romantic and spirited, Pannonica, known as Nica, named after her father s favorite moth, was born in 1913 to extraordinary, eccentric privilege and a storied history. The Rothschild family...
The Annotated Gilbert And Sullivan 1: H.M.S. Pinafore; the Pirates of
The book titled The Annotated Gilbert And Sullivan 1: H.M.S. Pinafore; the Pirates of by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
Jazz: An Anthology
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This collection of writings, many of them out of print for years, include an account of B.B. King's concert in Moscow, Paul Desmond's one-off article on the Dave Brubeck Quarter's...
Bob Dylan: Stolen Moments
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The book titled Bob Dylan: Stolen Moments by the author Clinton Heylin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Stephane Grappelli: With and without Django
Charts his up-bringing in the semi-rural slums of Montmartre, life under the Nazi rule of World War Two to his meeting with Django Rheinhardt and the emergence of Swing. His...
Conversations with McCartney
In June 1989, Paul Du Noyer was contacted by Paul McCartney's office in London and asked to interview the star as they had met once before and enjoyed a good...
Walk on: The Spiritual Journey of U2
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This revised and expanded version of Walk On: The Spiritual Journey of U2 tackles the issues and questions everyone desires to know about the world's most popular rock band. Throughout...