{"product_id":"music-bargain-book-box","title":"Music Bargain Book Box","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMusic Bargain Book Box\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eSly Stone waited fifty years to explain himself. When he finally did, it won Music Book of the Year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThat's the kind of company this box keeps. Tricky, holding nothing back. Nikki Sixx on the two decades before anyone had heard of Mötley Crüe. P.P. Arnold, who sang behind Ike and Tina and in front of half of Swinging London, telling it herself for the first time. Carlos Santana on Tijuana, Woodstock, and everything after.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThen the people standing just off-stage, who saw more than anyone: Tony King, sixty years alongside Elton, Lennon, and Jagger. Nicki Chapman, who steered Take That and the Spice Girls and Amy Winehouse. Bob Stanley on where pop actually began — the decades most histories skip. Jamie Collinson on the musicians who were sacked weeks before it all took off.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003ePlus Taylor Swift era by era, forty years of British pop told through a compilation series, and a guitarist who changed American music without most people noticing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eRead one and you'll want the records out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTaylor Swift: Era by Era — The Unauthorized Biography\u003c\/strong\u003e — \u003cem\u003eCaroline Sullivan\u003c\/em\u003e | ISBN: 9781789296860 | RRP: $45.00\u003cbr\u003eA Sunday Times bestseller charting Taylor Swift's career album by album, era by era — the songwriting, the reinventions, the industry battles, and the extraordinary machinery of the most successful pop career of the century.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSoul Survivor: The Autobiography\u003c\/strong\u003e — \u003cem\u003eP.P. 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