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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 13 books in this booklist
£16.99 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781783967162 | ISBN 10: 1783967161
‘A brilliant musical almanac, compiled by an engaging writer whose musical knowledge is not just detailed but wide-ranging and generous.’ Jonathan Coe With entries for every day of the year, ranging from mini-essays to pithy and engaging ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780008229443 | ISBN 10: 0008229449
‘I was saying things in songs that female singers didn’t really say back then. I wasn’t submissive or begging him to come back, I was kicking his ass, kicking him out, kicking my own ass too. My Blondie character was an inflatable doll but with ... more
View book details£15.99 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781789145656 | ISBN 10: 1789145651
Elvis, Eddie, Chuck, Gene, Buddy and Little Richard were the original rockers. Dylan, The Beatles, The Stones and The Who formed rock’s second coming. As the 1960s turned into the 1970s, the crucial question was: who would lead rock ’n’ roll’ ... more
View book details£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
View book details£20.00 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780571323173 | ISBN 10: 0571323170
Greil Marcus's study of American rock 'n' roll is justly regarded as one of the most accomplished examples of contemporary music writing. Using a handful of artists -- a brace of bluesmen, The Band, Sly Stone, Randy Newman and Elvis Presley -- ... more
View book details£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
View book details£7.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781784180263 | ISBN 10: 1784180262
Kirsty MacColl led a dazzling life - tender, creative, heroic and full of love. This book, by her mother Jean MacColl, charts with moving insight Kirsty's early years and celebrates her brilliant career at the front rank of the music busine ... more
View book details£25.00 hardback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781408812143 | ISBN 10: 1408812142
'Sex and drugs and rock and roll Is all my brain and body need Sex and drugs and rock and roll Is very good indeed' Famous for his funny, provocative, visceral lyrics, Ian Dury was a rock-and-roll poet and legendary force on the London music ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780571241354 | ISBN 10: 0571241352
Why 33? Partly because that's the number of rotations performed by a vinyl album in one minute, and partly because it takes a lot of songs to tell a story which spans seven decades and five continents - to capture the colour and variety of this shape ... more
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£18.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780826425058 | ISBN 10: 0826425054
Working On a Dream is a powerful and engaging study of this songwriter and performer’s art. Springsteen has consistently summoned his creative power and artistic vision to indict political developments and demand the cultivation of a more compassiona ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780743478649 | ISBN 10: 0743478649
Bob Dylan's acclaimed autobiography: "A book which measures up to - and in many respects surpasses - the highest hopes anyone could have had of it. The narrator of Chronicles turns out to be a superbly candid and engaging character, with a sharp desc ... more
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