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Musician and artist Cosey Fanni Tutti has continually challenged boundaries and conventions for four decades. As a founding member of the hugely influential avant-garde band Throbbing Gristle, as one half...
The Blue Moment: Miles Davis's Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern
'It is the most singular of sounds, yet among the most ubiquitous. It is the sound of isolation that has sold itself to millions.' Miles Davis's Kind of Blue is...
IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD
Instant National Bestseller! Wall Street Journal bestseller; USA Today bestseller; Publishers Weekly bestseller; international bestseller. An inspirational book by self-made musical superstar, Russ, reminding you that it starts with YOU,...
England'S Dreaming-Trade
England's Dreaming is the ultimate book on Punk. Full of new research, exclusive interviews and rare photographs, it tells the sensational story of the Sex Pistols and the turbulent period...
A Women's History of the Beatles
Winner of the 2022 Open Publication Prize by the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM-ANZ) A Women's History of the Beatles is the first book to offer...
When Rock Met Hip-Hop: How Run-DMC, Aerosmith, Anthrax, The Beastie
One of the most important events in modern music remains the late 80s cross-collision of rock and hip hop. Aerosmith/Run DMC, Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique, Public Enemy and Anthrax, Rick...
Renegade: The Lives and Tales of Mark E. Smith
"This might be the funniest music book ever written" - Sean O'Hagan, Observer Music Monthly Still going after thirty years, The Fall are one of the most distinctive British bands,...
Burning Down the House: Talking Heads and the New York Scene That
"Definitive...Not just for Talking Heads fans-it's a masterful dive into downtown New York in the 70s, and the changing face of rock music."- Town & Country " Riveting" - New...
A Women's History of the Beatles
Winner of the 2022 Open Publication Prize by the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM-ANZ) A Women's History of the Beatles is the first book to offer...
The Great Jazz and Pop Vocal Albums
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The author of the magisterial A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers now approaches the great singers and their greatest work in an innovative and revelatory way:...
I Don't Want to Go Home: The Oral History of the Stone Pony
"Reading Nick Corasaniti's delightful book about the storied Asbury Park, New Jersey, club is like sitting at your favorite bar listening to the old regulars tell magnificent stories." - Rolling...
Not for You: Pearl Jam and the Present Tense
There has never been a band like Pearl Jam. The Seattle quintet has recorded eleven studio albums; sold some 85 million records; played over a thousand shows, in fifty countries;...
A Charmed Life: The Autobiography of David Essex
The autobiography of one of Britain's most-loved pop performers. Born in West Ham in 1947, David recalls his childhood living in a hostel for the homeless and his passion for...
From this Moment on
From music legend Shania Twain comes the extraordinary memoir everyone is talking about,including Oprah. the world may know Shania twain as many things: a music legend, a mother, and recently,...
The Hacienda: How Not to Run a Club
Peter 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...
Country Roads: How Country Came to Nashville
Brian Hinton traces the Celtic elements in country music to the early Irish, English and Scottish settlers who lived in the Appalachian region and were predominantly poor. The study considers...
Whatever You Say I Am: The Life And Times Of Eminem
Anthony Bozza gets up close and personal with the world's biggest selling male solo artist Eminem is currently the world's biggest and most controversial music star. He has been blasted...
Keith Richards: The Biography
The book titled Keith Richards: The Biography by the author Victor Bockris. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Reveal: Robbie Williams
"It's a diary of a very modern entertainer and his ever-changing thoughts, the story of somebody who escaped Butlins, and the tale of a pop star trying to find his...
There Will Be Rainbows: The Rufus Wainwright Story
Rufus Wainwright's work mixes innovation and tradition like no other contemporary pop performer. His private life, which, by choice or otherwise, he has lived in public, is equally incredible and...
Summer Of Love
The Inside Story of LSD, Rock & Roll, and High Times in the Wild West
Who's Who of Jazz
The book titled Who's Who of Jazz by the author John Chilton. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Split Enz: An adventure in music and design
'My favourite band. Ever! And certainly the best dressed.' Sam Neill Split Enz were never designed to fit. Emerging from art school mischief in early-1970s New Zealand, they turned pop...
U2: The Definitive Biography: The Definitive Biography
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John Jobling takes readers beyond the myth in this unauthorized biography to present the first comprehensive account of the illustrious Irish rockers in 25 years. Drawing on extensive interviews with...
The Rolling Stones: Fifty Years
The definitive story of the most controversial and longest surviving band in music history.
Sharon Osbourne Survivor: My Story - the Next Chapter
Volume Two of Sharon Osbourne's autobiography In the follow up to her award-winning bestseller EXTREME, Sharon Osbourne reveals all in her inimitable frank and gutsy way. From her experiences as...
A Little Bit of BTS: An Unofficial Celebration of the Biggest K-Pop
Step into the magic shop of BTS with this delightful book of meaningful quotes, stan-level facts and in-depth trivia for any diehard ARMY Known for their dynamite stage presence, smooth-like-butter...
The Meaning of Mariah Carey
It took me a lifetime to have the courage and the clarity to write my memoir. I want to tell the story of the moments - the ups and downs,...
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
From the streets of the Bronx to the hills of Ghana, this is the definitive history of hip-hop - now in mass market paperback Hip-hop is now a global multi-billion...
Shooting Star: The Definitive Story of Elliott Smith
'A masterpiece. Beautiful, tragic and immaculately researched.' - Matt Everitt 'Elliott was one of the best songwriters of our day and a formidable musician.' - Beck 'There's an undercurrent of...
Our Lorde and Saviour: An unofficial guide to the music, life and
From the sonically sparse Pure Heroine to the epic pop euphoria of Melodrama , and from the sunny optimism of Solar Power to the raw, primal energy of Virgin ,...
The Woman I Am: A Memoir
With her song 'I Am Woman', Helen Reddy provided the feminist anthem of the 1970s. In this highly anticipated memoir, Helen reveals that she is much more than the entertainer...
The Book of ABBA: The Inside Story of the World's Favourite Band
'Almost as miraculous as the songs it exists to celebrate.' PETE PAPHIDES 'The only ABBA book that the world will ever need.' TONY PARSONS 'Writing perfection on musical perfection: book...
Sex and Thugs and Rock'n'Roll: A Year in Kings Cross 1963 1964
The book titled Sex and Thugs and Rock'n'Roll: A Year in Kings Cross 1963 1964 by the author Billy Thorpe. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...
Tainted Love: From Nina Simone to Kendrick Lamar
The first book-length inquiry into the twisted romantic ballad, giving a sense of both its history and contemporary currency. The first book-length inquiry into the twisted romantic ballad, giving a...
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CRITIC AND ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF NEGROLAND Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2022 Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize for Non-Fiction 2023 'This is one of...
From Cradle to Stage: Stories from the Mothers Who Rocked and Raised
From Cradle to Stage shares stories and exclusive photos featuring mothers of rock icons, the icons themselves, and their Behind the Music-style relationships While the Grohl family had always been...
The Complete Blues And Ragtime Guitar Player
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(Music Sales America). Covers the whole spectrum of this exciting area of guitar playing. Careful grading enables beginners to progress through this course playing well-known songs, as well as learning...
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
From the streets of the Bronx to the hills of Ghana, this is the definitive history of hip-hop - now in mass market paperback Hip-hop is now a global multi-billion...
Feel: Robbie Williams
Paperback of 2004's massive Christmas bestseller. The best-written, most gut-wrenchingly honest, stomach-achingly funny book ever written about music, fame and the whole damn thing... The publication of Feel: Robbie Williams...
This Is a Call: The Fully Updated and Revised Bestselling Biography of
FULLY UPDATED AND REVISED, INCLUDING TWO NEW CHAPTERS TO BRING THE STORY UP TO DATE 'Someone called and said Kurt died. I just f*****g lost it.' He has sold over...
Last Rites: Never-before-told stories of a legendary life from the
People say to me, if you could do it all again, knowing what you know now, would you change anything? I'm like, f*** no. If I'd been clean and sober,...
Walking Disaster
WALKING DISASTER is a riveting story of excess lived in the limelight, told with candour, humility and a thoughtful introspection rarely found in rock memoirs. An unlikely rock and roll...
Fleetwood Mac in Chicago: The Legendary Chess Blues Session, January
This book showcases the legendary Fleetwood Mac blues session at Chicago's Chess Studios in January 1969. Taken by the only photographer present, some of these photos were originally shown on...
Rock 'n' Roll Collectables
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Rock 'n' roll collectables are an expanding area of collecting and are now a regular part of Sotheby's auction calendar. This book is designed to illustrate the breadth and diversity...
Life Is Just What You Make It: The Autobiography
By the time Donny Osmond's first solo single, Puppy Love hit Number One in the summer of 1972, the 14-year-old was already a veteran of TV and Las Vegas. Part...
How to Speak Oasis: Learn to Talk Like a Rockstar
If you want to be a rock and roll star, you've got to talk like a rock and roll star... 'Every time I look in the mirror, God looks back'...
Punk Spirit!: An Oral History of Punk Rock, Spirituality, and
A wide cast of musicians and artists provide surprising and thought-provoking insights into punk rock from the lens of spirituality and liberation. Punk Spirit! is an oral history that examines...