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£14.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781913231354 | ISBN 10: 1913231356
Written by Spiral Tribe’s co-founder and visual artist, Mark Angelo Harrison, A Darker Electricity charts the infamous sound system’s nomadic journey and the rapid escalation of their popularity – and notoriety.
From small squat-scene part ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781784707910 | ISBN 10: 1784707910
The Sunday Times bestselling hit memoir from Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker.
What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display?
We all have a random collection of the things that made us - photos, tickets, clothe ... more
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£22.00 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781408719305 | ISBN 10: 1408719304
THE FOLLOW UP MEMOIR TO SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, BUNNYMAN
Scenic Wye Valley isn’t the typical place for a rock story to begin, but when Echo & the Bunnymen hit the studio to record their ground-breaking debut album, Crocodiles, it was anything ... more
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£23.00 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781399610353 | ISBN 10: 139961035x
'The best non-fiction book I've ever read. It's magical. Stunning' Dan Schreiber, No Such Thing As a Fish
'A pop biography for people who don't read pop biographies' Dorian Lynskey, Guardian
'Brilliant, discursive and wise' Ben Goldacre
'Utt ... more
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£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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£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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£9.99 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780571368983 | ISBN 10: 0571368980
The dramatic story of a musician and artist whose unconventional journey to international success was far more important than her family name.
A ROUGH TRADE, THE TIMES, CLASH BOOK OF THE YEAR
The dramatic story of Solange: a musician and a ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781789146639 | ISBN 10: 1789146631
Song Noir examines the formative first decade of Tom Waits’s career, when he lived, wrote and recorded nine albums in Los Angeles; from his soft, folk-inflected debut, Closing Time (1973), to the abrasive, surreal Swordfishtrombones (1983). Startin ... more
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£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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£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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£20.00 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781787602311 | ISBN 10: 1787602311
In the fifties and sixties, in the period leading up to the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality and the founding of the Gay Liberation movement, a group of gay men behind the scenes of rock'n'roll was changing pop, politics and society for goo ... more
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£14.99 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780712353700 | ISBN 10: 0712353704
From the earliest of voyages seafarers have sung, be they homeward bound or rolling in a merciless sea to an unknown horizon. The shouts and cries of these sailors’ shanties provided a musical rhythm to their work and such ‘concerted’ efforts i ... 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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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: 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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£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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£18.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780745321653 | ISBN 10: 0745321658
Ewan MacColl is one of the outstanding British singers and songwriters of the mid to late twentieth-century, and his work has been covered by artists including Roberta Flack, Johnny Cash and the Pogues. He was also a committed political activist. For ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781862079366 | ISBN 10: 1862079366
Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, Pulitzer Prize-winning oral historian Studs Terkel hosted a legendary daily radio programme in Chicago, presenting listeners with his singular take on an eclectic range of music from classical, ope ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781854599209 | ISBN 10: 1854599208
Paul Robeson's international achievements as a singer and an actor made him the most celebrated black American of his day (he would have said 'Negro'). But his outspoken criticism of racism in the USA, his unflinching support of African independence, ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780747587255 | ISBN 10: 0747587256
The guitarists' guitarist and the songwriters' songwriter, the legendary Bert Jansch has influenced stars as diverse as Johnny Marr, Paul Simon, Jimmy Page, Nick Drake, Donovan, Neil Young and Beth Orton. Raised in Edinburgh, Jansch became a poineeri ... more
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£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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£20.95 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780674016361 | ISBN 10: 067401636x
No one expressed the heart and soul of the Sixties as powerfully as the Beatles did through the words, images and rhythms of their music. In Magic Circles Devin McKinney uncovers the secret history of a generation and a pivotal moment in twentieth-ce ... more
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£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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£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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