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Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 Mystery
Years after its release, Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea remains one of the most beloved and best-selling albums in all of indie music, hailed as a...
Hard Bop
A study of hard bop, combining a narrative of the movement's evolution, from its beginnings as an amalgam of bebop and R&B to its experimental breakthroughs in the 1960s. The...
Big Man
Breaking a decades-long silence, Clarence "Big Man" Clemons, superlative saxophonist and right-hand man to Bruce Springsteen, reveals all about life both and off the road with one of the world's...
Don't Stop: Why We (Still) Love Fleetwood Mac's Rumours
Fleetwood Mac's iconic album Rumours is more popular and acclaimed now than ever and attracts listeners across generations- Don ' t Stop celebrates the album's unlikely creation, surprising longevity, and...
I Was There: Dispatches from a Life in Rock and Roll
A TELEGRAPH AND LONDON STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 'Alan is such a wonderful storyteller' Debbie Harry 'If you love music, you should definitely read this book' Nihal Arthanayake,...
This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else: Joy Division: The Oral History
The SUNDAY TIMES Top Ten Bestseller #1 Book of the Year, UNCUT #1 Book of the Year, ROUGH TRADE A Book of the Year, MOJO Joy Division emerged in the...
Bunnyman: A Memoir: The Sunday Times bestseller
The Sunday Times bestseller Growing up in Liverpool in the 1960s and '70s, when skinheads, football violence and fear of just about everything was the natural order of things, a...
Curepedia: The Story of The Cure
A Rough Trade Book of the Year A Guardian Music Book of the Year 'Beautifully written and meticulously researched' Classic Pop '[An] all-encompassing repository of Cure wisdom' Record Collector The...
Our Secrets Are The Same: Friendship & Fame at the Heart of Simple
A ROUGH TRADE AND UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 'Brilliantly entertaining' MOJO 'A rollercoaster tale' Classic Pop 'Endlessly vivid' i Paper 'A beautifully candid bromance . . . the...
A Few Words in Defense of Our Country: The Biography of Randy Newman
'[A] penetrating biography . . . While the book posits Newman as a writer of sociopolitical import, its emotional narrative is driven by the more personal aspects of his story:...
Being Britney: Pieces of a Modern Icon
With her canon of best-selling singles, electrifying stage performances and iconic music videos, Britney Spears is undoubtedly a modern pop superstar. But her story has long been clouded by society's...
Oasis: What's The Story?: Life on tour with Liam and Noel Gallagher
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*Twnety-five years on from the legendary Knebworth concert, read the true story of the birth of Oasis and life on the road with Liam and Noel* Oasis were a band...
Life of Blur
Blur defined the term 'Britpop', providing a soundtrack for the Nineties Cool Britannia movement. Racking up hit upon hit, the Essex quartet - led by Damon Albarn - became a...
Tim - The Official Biography of Avicii: the subject of new Netflix
The intimate biography of the iconic DJ who was lost too soon. Tim Bergling was a musical visionary who, through his sense for melodies, came to define the era when...
Girl in a Band: tenth anniversary edition
'A fascinating and honest memoir, full of raw emotion and insight.' - Sofia Coppola In Girl in a Band Kim Gordon, a founding member of Sonic Youth and role model...
Shadowplayers: The Rise and Fall of Factory Records
'Definitive and comprehensive, this is the actual story of Factory Records' - Peter Saville In 1978, a 'Factory for Sale' sign gave Alan Erasmus and Tony Wilson a name for...
Looking for the Perfect Beat: Remixing and Reshaping Hip-Hop, Rock and
Beginning his career as a club DJ and disco producer in the early-70s in his native Boston, Arthur Baker moved to New York City in 1981 and in the summer...
RAW: My Journey into the Wu-Tang
'It's time to write down not only my legacy but also the story of nine dirt-bomb street thugs who took our everyday life-scrappin' and hustlin' and tryin' to survive in...
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...
Dylan: Behind Closed Doors - The Recording Sessions, 1960-94
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The book titled Transformers: Retribution by the author David J. Williams. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
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...
I Heart Shania Twain: A Celebration of the Queen of Country Pop
The Queen of Country Pop is still "The One," and her greatest hits, incredible life, bold style, and chart-topping songs are celebrated in this officially licensed gift book. Includes an...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...