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There are 137 books in this booklist
£14.99 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780712353700 | ISBN 10: 0712353704
Passed down in the oral tradition and sung traditionally as working songs, sea shanties tell the human stories of life at sea: hard graft, battling the elements, the loss of ships or pining for a lady on shore.
Its pages decorated with hand- ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780735225190 | ISBN 10: 0735225192
A memoir by the celebrated singer-songwriter and social activist Ani DiFranco.
In her new memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, Ani DiFranco recounts her early life from a place of hard-won wisdom, combining personal expression, the power of ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781526614766 | ISBN 10: 1526614766
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.
Following a run of New Year's concerts at ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529325607 | ISBN 10: 1529325609
Since the release of her first, career-defining solo album Little Earthquakes, Tori Amos has been one of the music industry’s most enduring and ingenious artists. From her unnerving depiction of sexual assault in “Me and a Gun” to her post-9/11 ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781789650471 | ISBN 10: 178965047x
Notes from Africa traces the rise of popular music on the continent - beginning in the 1980s when the term 'world music' was coined as a marketing label and African musicians, notably Youssou N'Dour and his contemporaries, began to appear on the inte ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781474606820 | ISBN 10: 1474606822
John Lennon was a rock star, a school clown, a writer, a wit, an iconoclast, a sometime peace activist and finally an eccentric millionaire. He was also a Beatle – his plain-speaking and impudent rejection of authority catching, and eloquently arti ... more
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£12.99 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780008313722 | ISBN 10: 0008313725
A unique, moving and dazzlingly researched exploration of the places, people, musicians, writers and filmmakers that inspired David Jones to become David Bowie, what we can learn from his life’s work and journey, and why he will always matter.
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£30.00 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781409183938 | ISBN 10: 1409183939
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Glastonbury 50 is the authorised, behind-the-scenes, inside story of the music festival that has become a true global phenomenon.
The story begins in 1970. The day after Jimi Hendrix's death... dairy farmer Micha ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781526614506 | ISBN 10: 1526614502
The moving, remarkable story of the relationship between Freddie Mercury and his longtime partner Jim Hutton, as explored in the major, Golden Globe-winning and Oscar-nominated film Bohemian Rhapsody.
The relationship between Freddie Mercury ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781474608992 | ISBN 10: 147460899x
The hilarious, self-deprecating, blissfully nostalgic memoir of adored film critic Mark Kermode's riotous attempts to become a popstar.
Following a formative encounter with the British pop movie Slade in Flame in 1975, Mark Kermode decided that ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781409179535 | ISBN 10: 1409179532
A group of kids in the 90s had a dream to make their voice heard – and this book documents their seminal impact on today’s pop culture.
DJ Target grew up in Bow under the shadow of Canary Wharf, with money looming close on the skyline. T ... more
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£6.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780571351343 | ISBN 10: 0571351344
In 1970, Viv Albertine knew she wanted to be in a band, but had never seen a woman play electric guitar. Seven years later, she was the guitarist in the hugely influential all-female punk band, the Slits. This is the story of how, through sheer will, ... more
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£25.00 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781785586163 | ISBN 10: 1785586165
Poly Styrene was a singer-songwriter, an artist, a free-thinker, a post-modern style pioneer and a lifelong spiritual seeker: a true punk icon. But this rebel queen with the cheeky grin was also a latter-day pop artist with a wickedly perceptive gift ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780571326228 | ISBN 10: 0571326226
LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2018
What was I fighting for? Even now I’m not sure. Something so old and so deep, it has no words, no shape, no logic.
Every memoir is a battle between reality and invention - but in her follow up to ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781783784738 | ISBN 10: 1783784733
In the early spring of 1959, six musicians went into the 30th Street Studio in New York. Nine hours later, they had recorded one of the finest albums of the twentieth century. Kind of Blue traces Miles Davis's development into an artist capable ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781845234195 | ISBN 10: 1845234197
Combining factual biography with the imaginative structure and investment in the language of the novel, Anthony Joseph fully engages with the world he recreates, and by presenting a multifaceted view from Kitch’s friends, rivals and even enemies, h ... more
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£35.00 hardback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780500021842 | ISBN 10: 0500021848
In 1971, John Lennon & Yoko Ono conceived and recorded the critically acclaimed album Imagine at their Georgian country home, Tittenhurst Park, in Berkshire, England, in the state-of-the-art studio they built in the grounds, and at the Record Plant i ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780008245467 | ISBN 10: 0008245460
When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan, the literary world was up in arms. How could the world’s most prestigious book prize be awarded to a famously cantankerous singer-songwriter in his Seventies, who wouldn’t even deign t ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786090638 | ISBN 10: 1786090635
On 6 July 1972, David Bowie, with a flame-orange cockade quiff, lavishly applied make-up, wearing a multi-coloured jumpsuit that looked as though it were made from fluorescent fish skin, and carrying a brand spanking new blue acoustic guitar, made hi ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781609808341 | ISBN 10: 1609808347
Poet, activist and journalist Quincy Troupe's candid account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portrait of a great musician and an engrossing chronicle of the author's own artistic and personal growth. Miles and Me describes in intima ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780857054876 | ISBN 10: 0857054872
A dual memoir written in tandem by Mike Heron, a founder member of the iconic sixties folk group The Incredible String Band and one of their greatest fans, bestselling author and winner of the Saltire Prize, Andrew Greig.
This singular book ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781911617204 | ISBN 10: 1911617206
Film star. Icon. Agitator. Martyr.
Paul Robeson was a brilliant student and champion athlete who abandoned a career in law to find worldwide fame as a performer and activist. He was undoubtedly the most famous African American of his time — be ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780571327751 | ISBN 10: 0571327753
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 sparked a revolution that shaped pop music as we have come to ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780715652992 | ISBN 10: 0715652990
From the birth of jazz in the red-light district of New Orleans, through the rock 'n' roll years, Swinging Sixties and all-singing and all-dancing disco days of the '70s, to modern pop, electronica and reggae – the LGBT community has played a cruci ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780753552711 | ISBN 10: 075355271x
He was a punk. He was a soldier. He was a flag-waver for both the Labour Party and the miners. He is Billy Bragg, best known as a passionate, protest folk singer and a tireless promoter of political and humanitarian causes all over the world. His li ... more
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£10.00 hardback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784881504 | ISBN 10: 1784881503
Featuring beautifully illustrated portraits and profiles, 50 Queer Music Icons Who Changed the World is a tribute to queer ground breakers who changed the face of music and popular culture.
LGBTQ+ musicians have been pushing for change sinc ... more
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£15.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780750987608 | ISBN 10: 075098760x
Joe Flannery has been described as the ‘Secret Beatle’ – as the business associate and childhood friend of Brian Epstein, he became an integral part of The Beatles’ management team during their rise to fame in the early 1960s.
Stand ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784700140 | ISBN 10: 1784700142
An unprecedented glimpse into the minds of two maestros.
Haruki Murakami's passion for music runs deep. Before turning his hand to writing, he ran a jazz club in Tokyo, and the aesthetic and emotional power of music permeates every one of hi ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784706807 | ISBN 10: 1784706809
In 2016, Bob Dylan received the Nobel Prize in Literature ‘for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition’. This collection of essays by leading poets and critics – with a new foreword by Will Self – ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781447272694 | ISBN 10: 1447272692
Walls Come Tumbling Down charts the pivotal period between 1976 and 1992 that saw politics and pop music come together for the first time in Britain's musical history; musicians and their fans suddenly became instigators of social change, and 'the po ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781683830153 | ISBN 10: 1683830156
"There I was sitting in a booth at the co-op of Glassboro State College, a bucolic school in the farmlands of South Jersey... Suddenly, the double doors of the co-op swung open and standing there in the vacuum created was an incredible apparition, a ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781471157820 | ISBN 10: 1471157822
"Writing about yourself is a funny business…But in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind. In these pages, I’ve tried to do this."(Bruce Springsteen)
In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band p ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781910593363 | ISBN 10: 1910593362
“An electrifying graphic biography of Nick Cave”
Musician, novelist, poet, actor: Nick Cave is a Renaissance man. His wide-ranging artistic output always uncompromising, hypnotic and intense is defined by an extraordinary gift for storyt ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781781257944 | ISBN 10: 1781257949
How was one man present at so many pivotal points of the birth of modern rock? Joe Boyd's classic memoir of the 60s music scene reissued as a Serpent's Tail Classic, with a new foreword by Hanif Kureishi.
When Muddy Waters came to London a ... more
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£17.99 hardback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781631408793 | ISBN 10: 1631408798
In 1975 the most famous rock star in the world moved to New York City to raise his young family, in the process setting career, adoring fans, and creative contemporaries aside. During this reflective time, he met with a psychoanalyst, worked to sprea ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571309764 | ISBN 10: 0571309763
Think 'Woodstock' and the mind turns to the seminal 1969 festival that crowned a seismic decade of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. But Woodstock itself was over 60 miles from the site to which the fabled half a million flocked. So why the misnomer? Qui ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781780226408 | ISBN 10: 1780226403
Illuminating biography of legendary composer, musician and performer Paul McCartney.
The first biography written with Paul McCartney's approval and with access to family members and friends closest to him.
Superbly evoking half a ce ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571332274 | ISBN 10: 0571332277
If I had not kissed anyone, or danced with anyone, or had a reason to cry, the music made me feel as if I had gone through all that anyway... the music attracted and repelled, organised and disturbed and then let us into the night, clusters of emotio ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781783059676 | ISBN 10: 1783059672
The extraordinary life of the legendary Jamaican musician Bob Marley is here celebrated in a superb graphic novel by Jim McCarthy and Benito Gallego.
A man of spiritual hunger and force with music in his bones, Robert Nesta Marley came to re ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571325061 | ISBN 10: 0571325068
The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise is the extraordinary story, in her own words, of Brix Smith Start. Best known for her work in The Fall at the time when they were perhaps the most powerful and influential anti-authoritarian postpunk band in the world ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781782118749 | ISBN 10: 1782118748
Inspired by the Oscar-nominated Netflix documentary, this is the story of the real Miss Simone.
What Happened, Miss Simone? tells the story of incandescent soul singer and Black Power icon Nina Simone, one of the most influential, provocativ ... more
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£13.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9789381182222 | ISBN 10: 9381182221
The Beatles are the world’s most enduring and biggest rock band ever! This is the story of their struggle for success. Taking us through the early days of rock ‘n’ roll, and their lives in Liverpool during the 1950s, we journey with them ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781471148118 | ISBN 10: 1471148114
"A handsome six footer with a warm and engaging personality, Davie Jones has all it takes to get to the show business heights including... talent."(David Bowie at 17 in May, 1964 writing his own press biography.)
Respected arts commentator Pau ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780753545157 | ISBN 10: 0753545152
The Sunday Times bestseller.
David Bowie was arguably the most influential artist of his time, reinventing himself again and again, transforming music, style and art for over five decades.
David Buckley's unique approach to unravell ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781911115298 | ISBN 10: 1911115294
As West Africa’s oldest form of popular music, highlife was the soundtrack of the independence era. Its influence still resonates today.
Highlife Giants is an intimate portrait of the pioneering artistes of West Africa’s music scene from the ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781909762350 | ISBN 10: 1909762350
A pioneer and a trailblazer, Evelyn Dove left a mark in the arts industry. She was the first black female singer on BBC Radio and the first black British female singer to work in America, a quarter of a century before Shirley Bassey.
In a ca ... more
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£12.50 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781616558352 | ISBN 10: 1616558350
Eisner and Harvey Award winner!
"If anyone was ‘The Fifth Beatle’ it was Brian."(Paul McCartney)
The Fifth Beatle graphic novel recounts the untold true story of Brian Epstein - the visionary manager who created Beatlemania and guided the ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780751542936 | ISBN 10: 0751542938
David Bowie is one of our greatest icons. This is the definitive biography.
Has there ever been a more charismatic and intriguing rock star than David Bowie?
In Starman, Paul Trynka has painted the definitive portrait of a great artist. Fro ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781612195759 | ISBN 10: 161219575x
The massive, world-wide outpouring of grief at the death of David Bowie notably focused on not only his stunning musical output, but also his fascinating refusal to stay the same — the same as other trending artists, or even the same as himself.
& ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408867709 | ISBN 10: 1408867702
M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village caf� where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, pa ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781780225036 | ISBN 10: 1780225032
A lifetime of letters, collected for the first time, from the legendary The Beatles musician and songwriter John Lennon.
John Lennon is one of the world's greatest-ever song writers, creator of 'Help!', 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds', 'Imag ... more
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£6.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780750962339 | ISBN 10: 075096233x
John Lennon is a giant of popular music and culture. As one-quarter of the Beatles, he was in the vanguard of music, art, fashion and popular culture during the sixties. His music, humour and outspoken calls for peace inspired a generation. He stands ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781910536728 | ISBN 10: 1910536725
It was never easy for Professor Green. Born into a tough Hackney estate and raised by his grandmother, the rapper was always learning the hard way whether at school, on the streets of east London or during impromptu freestyling shows at friends ho ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781785031465 | ISBN 10: 1785031465
By the time she was 14, Chrissie Hynde knew she had to get out of Akron, Ohio. Her perfect 50s American childhood upturned by a newly acquired taste for rock n roll, motorbikes and the get down boys seen at gigs in and around Cleveland Mitch R ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781473609044 | ISBN 10: 1473609046
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 raport.
In the years that followed, Paul Du Noyer continued to meet, interview and work ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784189884 | ISBN 10: 178418988x
It remains one of the most remarkable breakthroughs in music history.
The nervous and dishevelled figure who played his punk-blues song 'Dog House Boogie' before Jools Holland and his dumbstruck Hootenanny audience that New Year's Eve 2006 ... more
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£6.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781781257456 | ISBN 10: 1781257450
What made Bowie special? What made him the cultural icon he is today? And what made millions of people around the world tune into his peculiar wavelength and find exactly what they'd been looking for all along?
These are the questions asked ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780571327898 | ISBN 10: 0571327893
Goodnight and Good Riddance: How Thirty-Five Years of John Peel Helped to Shape Modern Britain is a social history, a diary of a nation's changing culture, and an in-depth appraisal of one of our greatest broadcasters, a man who can legitimately be c ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780241968123 | ISBN 10: 0241968127
Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink is the long-awaited memoir from Elvis Costello, one of rock and roll's most iconic stars.
Born Declan Patrick MacManus, Elvis Costello was raised in London and Liverpool, grandson of a trumpet player on ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781620971925 | ISBN 10: 1620971925
The Lambda Literary Awardwinning biography of two men fighting for their lives in the early days of the AIDS epidemic, from the celebrated historian.
"A meticulously researched, nuanced, empathic and insightful portrait of two important artistic ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780571278916 | ISBN 10: 0571278914
I've Always Kept a Unicorn tells the story of Sandy Denny, one of the greatest British singers of her time and the first female singer-songwriter to produce a substantial and enduring body of original songs. Sandy Denny laid down the marker for folk ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781785780608 | ISBN 10: 1785780603
Here She Comes Now brings together some of Americas best music writers such as Susan Choi, recipient of the inaugural PEN / W.G. Sebald award, Daniel Walters, whose credits include the screenplay for Heathers, and Alina Simon, whose novel Note to ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099592624 | ISBN 10: 0099592622
When eighteen-year-old Billie Holiday stepped into Columbia studios in November of 1933 to record Riffin the Scotch and Your Mothers Son-in-Law, it marked the beginning of what is arguably the most remarkable and important career in twentieth-c ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781782117933 | ISBN 10: 1782117938
The Sick Bag Song chronicles Cave's journey with his band the Bad Seeds on a twenty-two-day, North American tour. It is a highly personal account that blends memories, musings, poetry, lyrics, flights of fancy and road journal.
Drawing inspi ... more
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£14.95 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780986377020 | ISBN 10: 0986377023
David Bowie was 22 years old and still living with his parents in southeast London when, quite by chance, he met Mary Finnigan while visiting her upstairs neighbours in nearby Beckenham. Still an unrecognised talent haunting the London folk clubs, de ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780571326280 | ISBN 10: 0571326285
Jon Savage's Ralph Gleason Award-winning England's Dreaming is the ultimate book on punk, its progenitors, the Sex Pistols, and their time: the late 1970s. Full of anedcote, insight, and exclusive interviews, it tells the sensational story of the met ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780226194 | ISBN 10: 1780226195
The memoir of popular BBC Radio 4 Saturday Live presenter and former member of the Communards, the Reverend Richard Coles.
From the top of the pop charts to the priesthood via BBC Radio 4.
Fathomless Riches is the Reverend Richard C ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781471135217 | ISBN 10: 1471135217
Born in 1948 into a family of ministers in Kingston, Jamaica, the statuesque and strikingly beautiful Grace Jones lived with her family in Syracuse, NY, before launching a career as a model in New York City. Gaining fame as the cover girl for such pu ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780349007922 | ISBN 10: 0349007926
From the guitarist of the pioneering band Sleater-Kinney, a candid, funny, and deeply personal look at making a life - and finding yourself - in music.
Before Carrie Brownstein became a music icon, she was a young girl growing up in the Pacific Nor ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241971116 | ISBN 10: 024197111x
Quirky and wonderfully candid, Neil Young's new book of reminiscences is as compelling as his first book. He returns with more unforgettable stories about his six decades in the music business - but this is not your average rock biography. He c ... more
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£25.00 hardback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241003466 | ISBN 10: 0241003466
Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink is the long-awaited memoir from Elvis Costello, one of rock and roll's most iconic stars.
Born Declan Patrick MacManus, Elvis Costello was raised in London and Liverpool, grandson of a trumpet player on th ... more
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£14.95 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781781382585 | ISBN 10: 1781382581
Liverpool in the 1980s. With prospects for the city's youth bleak, a scheme for unemployed musicians commenced, inadvertently shaping the future for members of Cast, Space, the Lightning Seeds and giving fresh impetus to the idea of song as a saviour ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781849548762 | ISBN 10: 1849548765
Known the world over for her unique musical style, distinctive look and a voice that propelled her into the charts time and time again, Dusty Springfield was undoubtedly one of the biggest and brightest musical stars of the twentieth century.
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£11.95 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780956815569 | ISBN 10: 0956815561
Welcome to Glastonbury a relaxed Somerset town known for its ancient legends. From King Arthur to the Tor, it is part of a Wessex landscape rich in stone circles and stoned wanderers, and in more recent years its name has become synonymous with a f ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781471137211 | ISBN 10: 147113721x
John Lydon has secured prime position as one of the most recognizable icons in the annals of music history. As Johnny Rotten, he was the lead singer of the Sex Pistols - the world's most notorious band, who shot to fame in the mid-1970s with singles ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781609805760 | ISBN 10: 1609805763
In late 1971 John Lennon left London and pop stardom behind and moved to New York City, eager to join a youth movement rallying for social justice and an end to the Vietnam War. Lennon was embraced by radicals and revolutionaries, the hippies and Yip ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780300205350 | ISBN 10: 030020535x
Winner in the 2014 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence for the best historical Research in Classical Music category.
With National Socialism's arrival in Germany in 1933, Jews dominated music more than virtually ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781408842157 | ISBN 10: 1408842157
It didn't take long after Jimi Hendrix's death for the artist to become a myth of music. He has been surrounded by a shroud of intrigue since he first came into the public eye, and the mystery has only grown with time. Much has been written and said ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780224097314 | ISBN 10: 0224097318
A visual biography of Woody Guthrie perhaps the greatest, most enduring singer-songwriter to ever live.
Forged in the Dustbowl of the 1930s, in an America crippled by the Great World Recession, this humble man found solace in song, and soon ... more
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£12.50 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780957592162 | ISBN 10: 0957592167
Bombed Out! records Peter Alan Lloyd's personal journey through 1970s and 1980s Liverpool, including working in, playing at, and going to see Punk and New Wave bands in the legendary Eric's Club.
It includes references to music of the period, esp ... more
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£18.99 hardback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781760110697 | ISBN 10: 1760110698
A stunning visual record of the amazing career of Nick Cave, one of the world's coolest musicians, by one of the rock world's most brilliant photographers and writers.
When Bleddyn Butcher first saw The Birthday Party play, back in 1981, he ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781780226552 | ISBN 10: 1780226551
The strange tale of the death, life and legacy of the hugely successful band.
They were the bestselling singles band in the world. They had awards, credibility, commercial success and creative freedom. Then they deleted their records, erased ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9789768245038 | ISBN 10: 9768245034
A picture scrapbook with over 300 colour/black and white photographs, full of memorabilia and information about the life of the legendary Bob Marley. With foreword by his widow, Rita Marley, and a wealth of interviews with those who were closes ... more
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£14.95 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781846318603 | ISBN 10: 1846318602
Liverpools dynamic music scene gave the world The Beatles. What city could hope to follow that? But 12 years later, in 1974, lightning nearly struck twice. Deaf School were a band formed in John Lennons old art college, rehearsing in the very same ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781444757033 | ISBN 10: 1444757032
The first ever book by music legend Sir Elton John is the personal, passionate and illuminating journey of his fight to end the AIDS epidemic.
In the 1980s, Elton John saw friend after friend, loved one after loved one, perish needlessly fro ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780241962169 | ISBN 10: 0241962161
Waging Heavy Peace is the remarkable memoir of rock icon Neil Young.
Neil Young is a singular figure in the history of rock and pop culture in the last four decades, inducted not once but twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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£20.00 hardback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781781681312 | ISBN 10: 1781681317
In his heyday, Paul Robeson was one of the most famous people in the world; to his enemies he was also one of the most dangerous. From the 1930s to the 1960s, the African-American singer was the voice of the people, both as a performer and as a polit ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780141394817 | ISBN 10: 0141394811
Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Smiths (1982-1987), Morrissey has been a solo artist for twenty-six years, during which time he has had three number 1 albums in England in thre ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780571253975 | ISBN 10: 0571253970
October, 1984: Wham!, Culture Club and Status Quo dominate the top ten when The Pogues barrel out from the backstreets of Kings Cross, a furious, pioneering mix of punk energy, traditional melodies and the powerfully poetic song-writing of Shane MacG ... more
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£14.95 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781780385136 | ISBN 10: 1780385137
The story of Florence + The Machine makes an exhilarating contrast to the fortunes of those pre-packaged, stage-schooled pop stars who just wanted to be famous.
A bookish south London child who had sung at family funerals, Florence Welch exp ... more
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£23.99 hardback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781612052182 | ISBN 10: 1612052185
Long an icon of American musical and political life, Pete Seeger has written eloquently in books and for magazines, activist movements, and union newsletters. Although he has never written an autobiography, his life story is nowhere more personally c ... more
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£31.99 hardback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781612052199 | ISBN 10: 1612052193
The father of American folk music, Woody Guthrie influenced generations of musicians and fans with his witty journalism and landmark songs, such as This Land Is Your Land.
Much has been written about Guthrie, yet nothing communicates who h ... more
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£16.95 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781780381565 | ISBN 10: 1780381565
Herv Bourhis, creator of The Little Book of Rock, turns his unique graphic talents to the legend of The Beatles, told from the very beginning.
Bourhis' visual imagination illuminates the individual lives of each band member from their pre- ... more
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£15.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780956632913 | ISBN 10: 0956632912
As more and more female solo artists hit the mainstream the question arises: where are the girl bands? Why aren't they getting the attention they deserve?
While the media continues to ignore them, in Women Make Noise Julia Downes invites mus ... more
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£18.95 hardback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781901746907 | ISBN 10: 1901746909
Roger Eagle was a towering figure in British popular music. Uniquely, his influence straddled the cultural divide separating Manchester and Liverpool. The task of unifying the musical talents of these two cultural hubs has proved beyond almost everyo ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781444733693 | ISBN 10: 1444733699
This is the definitive biography of Freddie Mercury. Written by an award-winning rock journalist, Lesley-Ann Jones toured widely with Queen forming lasting friendships with the band. Now, having secured access to the remaining band members and those ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099472353 | ISBN 10: 009947235x
Writer, musicologist, archivist, singer, DJ, filmmaker, record, radio and TV producer, Alan Lomax was a man of many parts. Without him the history of popular music would have been very different.
Armed with a tape-recorder and his own near- ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781845539573 | ISBN 10: 1845539575
In the late 1970s and early 1980s a new phenomenon emerged in UK popular music female guitarists, bass-players, keyboard-players and drummers began playing in bands. Before this time, womens presence in rock bands, with a few notable exceptions, h ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099561262 | ISBN 10: 0099561263
Autobiography, excerpts of fantastical fiction and musings on the break-up of the Beatles and the pressures of celebrity. A delight for fans of John Lennon.
Witn an afterword by Yoko Ono and original illustrations by the author.
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£11.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780099526728 | ISBN 10: 0099526727
The history of the original Wailers - Tosh, Livingstone and Marley - as never before told
Over one dramatic decade, a trio of Trench Town R&B crooners, Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer and Bob Marley, swapped their 1960s Brylcreem hairdos and two-ton ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781846687914 | ISBN 10: 1846687918
Probably best-known for her role as lead singer in The Selecter, one of the best British ska / 2 tone bands of the early 1980s, Pauline Black has lived a life rich in contradictions. Mixed-race, adopted to a middle-aged white couple, tracing some of ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780749956080 | ISBN 10: 0749956089
This fascinating biography of Freddie Mercury which received outstanding acclaim from Queen and rock fans worldwide, has now been updated for reissue to coincide with the release of the film about his life. Laura Jackson addresses topics including: & ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781849014663 | ISBN 10: 1849014663
The fullest ever anthology of writing about rock's greatest poet. Bob Dylan's impact on popular music has been incalculable. Having transformed staid folk music into a vehicle for coruscating social commentary, he then swept away the romantic platitu ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9782919595143 | ISBN 10: 2919595148
Winner of the Polari First Book Prize 2011
Autofellatio is the memoir of singer, lyricist, writer and occasional actor James Maker.
It begins with his teenage years in punk-era London, moving through the counter-cultural 19 ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099524205 | ISBN 10: 0099524201
One of the greatest rock and roll records of all time, and one of the greatest bands, finally get the book they deserve.
Twenty-eight years after its original release, The Clashs London Calling was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. ... more
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£14.95 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781895166040 | ISBN 10: 1895166047
By Lawrence Joseph, Dan Lander, Donal McGraith, Bill Smith, Alan Stanbridge, Scott Thomson & Vern Weber.
- photos by Gordon Bowbrick, Herb Greenslade & Bill Smith
A truly alternative look at music lists, not one that mere ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780747568766 | ISBN 10: 0747568766
'It was the summer that Coltrane died. The summer Jimi Hendrix set his guitar in flames and China exploded the H-bomb. There were riots in Newark and marches against the war in Vietnam. The world was on the brink of change. It was the summer of love. ... more
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£15.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780719071133 | ISBN 10: 0719071135
This book reveals the ideas behind the Beat vision which influenced the Beat sound of the songwriters who followed on from them.
Having explored the thinking of Alan Watts, who coined the term Beat Zen, and who influenced the counter ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781444705539 | ISBN 10: 1444705539
What drives a musician to write extraordinary songs? How do writers create their worlds? How does an actor achieve greatness?
For over thirty years of The South Bank Show, Melvyn Bragg has interviewed many of the greatest cultural icons ... more
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£18.99 hardback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781905326815 | ISBN 10: 1905326815
Sports book meets real-life thriller in this sensational autobiography of Zimbabwes first ever-black cricketer. Blood, Sweat And Treason tells the story of Olonga's childhood against a backdrop of revolution, independence and a country that graduall ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780007255535 | ISBN 10: 0007255535
What was it about Bob Marley that made him so popular in a world dominated by rocknroll? How is that he has not only remained the single most successful reggae artist ever, but has also become a shining beacon of radicalism and peace to generation ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781846041891 | ISBN 10: 1846041899
Mimlu Sen is living a bohemian life in Paris when she witnesses an electrifying performance by three wandering minstrels from rural India. They wear flowing, multicoloured robes and play frenetic rhythms on strange instruments made of wood and clay, ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781901927450 | ISBN 10: 1901927458
The magic couple Amadou and Mariam are one of the most loved and successful acts to come out of Africa this century, but their story is not one of overnight success. They have been singing their warm notes for more than thirty years.
This au ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780340993484 | ISBN 10: 0340993480
Since she rose to international fame in 1985 with her seminal Irish jazz album Tired and Emotional, Mary Coughlan's battles with addiction, the problems in her personal life and career have been well documented. But until now she has never spoken of ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780091930516 | ISBN 10: 0091930510
There's only one book that ever truly got inside the Beatles and this is it. The landmark, worldwide bestseller that has grown with the Beatles ever since.
During 1967 and 1968 Hunter Davies spent eighteen months with the Beatles at the pea ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780753825945 | ISBN 10: 0753825945
'The power of music lies in is its ability to speak to all aspects of the human being-the animal, the emotional, the intellectual, and the spiritual. Music teaches us, in short, that everything is connected'
Daniel Barenboim's new book viv ... more
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£18.99 hardback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781906217181 | ISBN 10: 1906217181
A feast for all his many fans and admirers, this is the great Humphrey Lyttelton's last book, a sparkling autobiographical kaleidoscope of memories, anecdotes and entertaining stories from his colourful life - from his childhood as the son of an Eton ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780747565611 | ISBN 10: 0747565619
"No one can sing the blues like Blind Willie McTell."(Bob Dylan)
The great pre-war blues musician Blind Willie McTell was one of the most gifted artists of his generation, with an exquisite voice and a sublime talen for the 12-string guitar. Yet h ... more
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