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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 15 books in this booklist
£20.00 hardback (2024) - ISBN 13: 9780571377022 | ISBN 10: 0571377025
The little-known success story of four working class girls who formed ‘the female Beatles’ in 1960s Liverpool. In the early ‘60s, four friends from Liverpool formed a band. But this is not the ‘fab four’ story we know... Mary, ... more
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781398503724 | ISBN 10: 139850372x
THE SUNDAY TIMES NO 1 BESTSELLER * ONE OF NME's BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF 2021 * ONE OF VARIETY'S BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF 2021 * INCLUDED IN AUDIBLE'S BEST OF THE YEAR LIST So, I’ve written a book. Having entertained the idea for yea ... more
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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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