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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 28 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Woody Guthrie: A Life by Joe Klein
    Woody Guthrie: A Life - by Joe Klein

    £14.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780571384297 | ISBN 10: 0571384293

    ‘A really great book.’ Bruce Springsteen  With a foreword by Billy Bragg.   Few artists have captured the American experience of their time as wholly as folk legend Woody Guthrie. Singer, songwriter and political activist, Guthrie ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nina Simone
    Nina Simone's Gum: A Memoir of Things Lost and Found - by Warren Ellis

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780571365630 | ISBN 10: 0571365639

    From award-winning musician and composer Warren Ellis comes the unexpected and inspiring story of a piece of chewing gum. Featuring an introduction from Nick Cave. "Warren has turned this memento, snatched from his idol’s piano in a moment of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas: The Two Dylans by K G Miles and Jeff Towns, with a Foreword by Cerys Matthews
    Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas: The Two Dylans - by K G Miles and Jeff Towns, with a Foreword by Cerys Matthews

    £14.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780857162328 | ISBN 10: 0857162322

    As the ultimate Rock ‘n’ Roll Poets, Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas represent two sides of the same coin. Bob Dylan made the music. Dylan Thomas lived the lifestyle. Both perfected the art of performed literature. Bringing together two of the foremos ... more

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  • Cover image of book Why Patti Smith Matters by Caryn Rose
    Why Patti Smith Matters - by Caryn Rose

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780571374847 | ISBN 10: 0571374840

    A radical exploration of the artistry and influence of Patti Smith: the Poet Laureate of Punk whose uninhibited creativity inspired an entire generation and triggered a cultural revolution.   Patti Smith arrived in New York City at the e ... more

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  • Cover image of book Beeswing: Fairport, Folk Rock and Finding My Voice, 1967-75 by Richard Thompson
    Beeswing: Fairport, Folk Rock and Finding My Voice, 1967-75 - by Richard Thompson

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780571348176 | ISBN 10: 0571348173

    Beeswing is the autobiography from world-renowned artist Richard Thompson, co-founder of the legendary folk rock group Fairport Convention.   THE TOP FIVE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A BOOK OF THE YEAR: ROUGH TRADE, THE TIMES, ROLLING STONE, CLASH ... more

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  • Cover image of book Down The Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan by Howard Sounes
    Down The Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan - by Howard Sounes

    £16.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780857527820 | ISBN 10: 0857527827

    An updated edition of Howard Sounes' classic, definitive biography to mark the legendary Bob Dylan's 80th birthday.   Bob Dylan was the first figure in the history of popular music to challenge the domination of the three-minute pop song and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Resistance: A Songwriter
    Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change and Courage - by Tori Amos

    £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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  • Cover image of book Glastonbury 50 by Michael and Emily Eavis
    Glastonbury 50 - by Michael and Emily Eavis

    £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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  • Cover image of book How Does It Feel? A Life of Musical Misadventures by Mark Kermode
    How Does It Feel? A Life of Musical Misadventures - by Mark Kermode

    £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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  • Cover image of book Dayglo! The Creative Life of Poly Styrene by Celeste Bell and Zoë Howe
    Dayglo! The Creative Life of Poly Styrene - by Celeste Bell and Zoë Howe

    £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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  • Cover image of book Billy Bragg: Still Suitable for Miners by Andrew Collins
    Billy Bragg: Still Suitable for Miners - by Andrew Collins

    £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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  • Cover image of book Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa by Haruki Murakami and Seiji Ozawa
    Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa - by Haruki Murakami and Seiji Ozawa

    £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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  • Cover image of book Lennon: The New York Years by David Foenkinos, Eric Corbeyran and Horne
    Lennon: The New York Years - by David Foenkinos, Eric Corbeyran and Horne

    £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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  • Cover image of book What Happened, Miss Simone? by Alan Light
    What Happened, Miss Simone? - by Alan Light

    £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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  • Cover image of book Psychedelic Suburbia: David Bowie and the Beckenham Arts Lab by Mary Finnigan
    Psychedelic Suburbia: David Bowie and the Beckenham Arts Lab - by Mary Finnigan

    £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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  • Cover image of book I
    I'll Never Write My Memoirs - by Grace Jones

    £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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  • Cover image of book Starting at Zero: His Own Story by Jimi Hendrix
    Starting at Zero: His Own Story - by Jimi Hendrix

    £14.99   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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  • Cover image of book The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds by John Higgs
    The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds - by John Higgs

    £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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  • Cover image of book Paul Robeson: A Watched Man by Jordan Goodman
    Paul Robeson: A Watched Man - by Jordan Goodman

    £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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  • Cover image of book Route 19 Revisited: The Clash and London Calling by Marcus Gray
    Route 19 Revisited: The Clash and London Calling - by Marcus Gray

    £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 Clash’s London Calling was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Music IS Rapid Transportation...from the Beatles to Xenakis by Daniel Kernohan (Editor)
    Music IS Rapid Transportation...from the Beatles to Xenakis - by Daniel Kernohan (Editor)

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Honey Gatherers by Mimlu Sen
    The Honey Gatherers - by Mimlu Sen

    £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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  • Cover image of book The Beatles: The Authorised Biography by Hunter Davies
    The Beatles: The Authorised Biography - by Hunter Davies

    £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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  • Cover image of book Darker than the Deepest Sea: The Search for Nick Drake by Trevor Dann
    Darker than the Deepest Sea: The Search for Nick Drake - by Trevor Dann

    £10.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780749951337 | ISBN 10: 0749951338

    When singer-soongwriter Nick Drake died of a drug overdose in the autumn of 1974, he left behind only three well-received but modest selling albums. Today, he is recognised as one of the true geniuses of English folk music, with millions of fans worl ... more

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  • Cover image of book New Orleans: Playing a Jazz Chorus by Samuel Charters
    New Orleans: Playing a Jazz Chorus - by Samuel Charters

    £9.95   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780714531311 | ISBN 10: 0714531316

    In December 1950, Samuel Charters first journeyed to New Orleans in search of its jazz sources and its musicians. In December 2005, more than half a century later, he returned to his beloved city to find what still was left of this musical heritage a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bound for Glory by Woody Guthrie
    Bound for Glory - by Woody Guthrie

    £9.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780141187228 | ISBN 10: 0141187220

    Bound for Glory is the funny, cynical and earthy autobiography of Woody Guthrie, the father of American folk music. He tells of his childhood running wild in an Oklahoma oil-boom town, the tragedies that struck his family and of his life on the open ... more

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  • Cover image of book When This Bloody War is Over: Soldiers
    When This Bloody War is Over: Soldiers' Songs of the First World War - by Max Arthur

    £8.99   paperback   (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780749923549 | ISBN 10: 0749923547

    A heart-rending compilation of the greatest soldiers' songs from the First World War.  The haunting songs of the First World War still have a powerful emotional impact. These are the funny, bitter, sad and romantic words the soldiers actually sang o ... more

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