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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 16 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Why Sinead O
    Why Sinead O'Connor Matters - by Allyson McCabe

    £21.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781477325704 | ISBN 10: 1477325700

    A stirring defense of Sinéad O’Connor’s music and activism, and an indictment of the culture that cancelled her.  In 1990, Sinéad O’Connor’s video for “Nothing Compares 2 U” turned her into a superstar. Two years later, an appea ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me from Success by Miki Berenyi
    Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me from Success - by Miki Berenyi

    £22.00   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781788705554 | ISBN 10: 1788705556

    Rough Trade Book of the Year Resident Book of the Year A Rolling Stone Book of the Year A Mojo Book of the Year A Sunday Times Book of the Year   Formed in 1988, Lush were part of the London gig scene during one of the most vibrant ... more

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  • Cover image of book Seeing Sideways: A Memoir of Music and Motherhood by Kristin Hersh
    Seeing Sideways: A Memoir of Music and Motherhood - by Kristin Hersh

    £14.95   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781911036753 | ISBN 10: 1911036750

    Doony, Ryder, Wyatt, Bodhi. The names of Kristin Hersh's sons are the only ones included in her new memoir, Seeing Sideways. As the book unfolds and her sons voices rise from its pages, it becomes clear why: these names tell the story of her life.  ... more

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  • Cover image of book You
    You're History: The Twelve Strangest Women in Music - by Lesley Chow

    £10.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781913462314 | ISBN 10: 1913462315

    From Kate Bush to Nicki Minaj, from Janet Jackson to TLC and Taylor Swift, pop's greatest female pioneers are simply strange: smashing notions of taste and decorum, and replacing them with new ideals of pleasure.  Instead of rehashing biographie ... more

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  • Cover image of book Grace Jones A to Z: The life of an icon – from Androgyny to Zula by Babeth Lafon and Steve Wide
    Grace Jones A to Z: The life of an icon – from Androgyny to Zula - by Babeth Lafon and Steve Wide

    £12.99   hardback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781925418804 | ISBN 10: 1925418804

    Singer, songwriter, supermodel, record producer, actress and iconoclast, Grace Jones is truly one of a kind, equal parts intriguing, intimidating and indefatigable.   From her early days as a model working with Yves St. Laurent and Kenzo, her ... more

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  • Cover image of book First Time Ever: A Memoir by Peggy Seeger
    First Time Ever: A Memoir - by Peggy Seeger

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780571336807 | ISBN 10: 0571336809

    Born in New York City in 1935, Peggy Seeger enjoyed a childhood steeped in music and politics. Her father was the noted musicologist Charles Seeger; her mother, the modernist composer Ruth Crawford; and her brother Pete, the celebrated writer of prot ... more

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  • Cover image of book Under My Thumb: Songs That Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them by Eli Davies and Rhian E Jones (Editors)
    Under My Thumb: Songs That Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them - by Eli Davies and Rhian E Jones (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781910924617 | ISBN 10: 191092461x

    Vogue Books of the Year 2017   In the majority of mainstream writing and discussions on music, women appear purely in relation to men as muses, groupies or fangirls, with our own experiences, ideas and arguments dismissed or ignored. But this ... more

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  • Cover image of book Patti Smith: American Artist by Frank Stefanko
    Patti Smith: American Artist - by Frank Stefanko

    £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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  • Cover image of book Billie Holiday by José Muñoz and Carlos Sampayo
    Billie Holiday - by José Muñoz and Carlos Sampayo

    £17.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781681120935 | ISBN 10: 1681120933

    Born in Philadelphia in 1915, and dead too early in New York in 1959, Billie Holiday became a legendary jazz singer, even mythical.  With her voice even now managing to touch so many people, we follow a reporter on the trail of the artist on beh ... more

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  • Cover image of book On Raglan Road: Great Irish Love Songs and the Women Who Inspired Them by Gerard Hanberry
    On Raglan Road: Great Irish Love Songs and the Women Who Inspired Them - by Gerard Hanberry

    £15.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781848892873 | ISBN 10: 184889287x

    This lively collection uncovers for the first time how great Irish love songs came to be, and includes engaging biographies of the songwriters and their muses.  This is for anyone who ever wondered who the ‘Galway Girl’ was, or if there was ... more

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  • Cover image of book Reckless by Chrissie Hynde
    Reckless - by Chrissie Hynde

    £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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  • Cover image of book Naked at the Albert Hall: The Inside Story of Singing by Tracey Thorn
    Naked at the Albert Hall: The Inside Story of Singing - by Tracey Thorn

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780349005249 | ISBN 10: 0349005249

    Tracey Thorn, musician and author of the bestselling autobiography Bedsit Disco Queen, offers a unique insider's take on the art of singing: why and how we sing, and the voice's power to captivate. In her bestselling autobiography Bedsit Disco Quee ... more

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  • Cover image of book Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon
    Girl in a Band - by Kim Gordon

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780571309351 | ISBN 10: 0571309356

    There are few artists who inspire such reverence as Kim Gordon. In Girl in a Band she tells with complete openness the story of her family, her work in the visual arts, her move to New York City, the men in her life, her marriage, her relationship wi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Harley Loco: A Memoir of Hard Living, Hair & Post-Punk, from the Middle East to the Lower East Side by Rayya Elias
    Harley Loco: A Memoir of Hard Living, Hair & Post-Punk, from the Middle East to the Lower East Side - by Rayya Elias

    £14.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781408837696 | ISBN 10: 1408837692

    "She's experienced wealth, cultural alienation, homelessness, brushes with fame, prison, rehab, record deals, a million blown second chances, a dozen broken hearts and one bloody-knuckled ultimate spiritual redemption. She even died once in the proce ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Century of Wisdom: Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer by Caroline Stoessinger
    A Century of Wisdom: Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer - by Caroline Stoessinger

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781444737622 | ISBN 10: 1444737627

    An inspiring story of resilience and the power of optimism - the true story of Alice Herz-Sommer, the world's oldest living Holocaust survivor.   At 108 years old, the pianist Alice Herz-Sommer is an eyewitness to history. She has seen it all, ... more

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  • Cover image of book With Billie by Julia Blackburn
    With Billie - by Julia Blackburn

    £10.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780099483656 | ISBN 10: 0099483653

    Julia Blackburn's brilliant and haunting new book is a life of Billie Holiday told in the voices of those who knew her. During the 1970s a young woman called Linda Kuehl, planning to write a biography of Billie, recorded interviews with more than 150 ... more

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