Albums & Songs

Markus Caspers & Thomas Hauff Hardcover | 208 pp teNeues | 2021 | 9783961713639 Text in English and German This vibrant book celebrates the cultural history of the vinyl record, album cover art and collectibles. With its demise predicted over and over, the good old...

John Corbett Softcover | 15.24 x 1.57 x 22.86 cm | 260 pp Duke University Press | 2017 | 9780822363668 From scouring flea markets and eBay to maxing out their credit cards, record collectors will do just about anything to score a long-sought-after album. In Vinyl...

Bill Smith Hardcover | 30.5 x 30.5 x 1.6 | 128 pp Red Planet Books | 2021 | 9781912733170 All copies signed by Bill Smith Bill Smith and his Studio have been designing record covers since 1976. In those five decades they have worked...

Marc Myers Softcover | 12.9 x 3 x 19.8 cm | 416 pp Grove Press | 2023 | 9780802161260 Songs that sell the most copies become hits, but some of those hits become something more - iconic recordings that not only inspire a generation but...

Softcover | 18.97 x 1.85 x 19.02 cm | 192 pp ACC Art Books | 2019 | 9781788840392 Across the genres, across the generations, across the board, this book presents over one hundred inspirational albums by women, from top-selling hits to the indie and...

Ross Halfin Hardcover | 30.48 x 2.79 x 30.48 cm | 216 pp Reel Art Press | 2021 | 9781909526808 Led Zeppelin released only eight studio albums and no singles over the course of their 12-year career, but to date there are more than 1,000...

Martin Popoff Hardcover in slipcase | 26.64 x 2.49 x 27.13 cm | 176 pp Motorbooks | 2023 | 9780760379271  Take a deep dive into one of the best-selling albums ever with this beautifully produced and authoritatively written slipcased edition. Veteran rock critic Martin Popoff leaves...

Nolan Gasser Hardcover | 16.69 x 5.31 x 24.28 cm | 720 pp Flatiron Books | 2019 | 9781250057198 PLEASE NOTE: This is a NON-MINT title - a new book but with slight imperfections to the dust jacket. Everyone loves music. But what is it...

John Carter Cash  Hardcover | 25 x 3.2 x 32 cm | 384 pp White Rabbit | 2023 | 9781399618786 The life of the Man in Black is revealed through his lyrics and by rare photographs and ephemera, in this beautifully illustrated official hardback edition,...

Tom Breihan  Hardcover | 16.26 x 3.94 x 23.75 cm | 352 pp Hachette | 2023 | 9780306826535 When Tom Breihan launched his Stereogum column in early 2018, "The Number Ones" - a space in which he has been writing about every #1 hit in...

Tom Gatti Softcover | 12.7 x 1.7 x 19.7 cm | 224 pp Bloomsbury | 2022 | 9781526625762  In Long Players, fifty of our finest authors write about the albums that changed their lives, from Deborah Levy on Bowie to Daisy Johnson on Lizzo, Ben...

Jérôme Soligny Hardcover | 15.88 x 6.35 x 23.5 cm | 704 pp Monoray | 2023 | 9781800960633 In David Bowie Rainbowman, Jérôme Soligny tells the story of David Bowie the musician with the help of those intimately involved with the creation of his music. ...

Opher Goodwin Softcover | 12.95 x 1.14 x 19.69 cm | 136 pp Sonicbond Publishing | 2024 | 9781789523140  One of the most pivotal albums in the evolution of rock music, few other recordings have had more impact than the 1965 Bob Dylan classic, Bringing...

John Van der Kiste Softcover | 12.95 x 1.27 x 19.81 cm | 136 pp Sonicbond Publishing | 2024 | 9781789523096  Released in 1969, Let it Bleed was The Rolling Stones’ eighth studio album (tenth in the USA). The second in a sequence of four...

Terry Gans Hardcover | 15.88 x 2.54 x 23.5 cm | 264 pp Red Planet Books | 2020 | 9781912733392 Bob Dylan's 1983 album Infidels was a departure from his previous works in so many ways - lyrics, music, production and spirit. It is unique...

Hardcover | 13.97 x 1.91 x 22.23 cm | 191 pp Faber & Faber | 2020 | 9780571360512 The life's work of two of British music's most unique and timeless artists, with an introduction by Jarvis Cocker.Selected and arranged by the authors themselves, and featuring an...

Hardcover | 13.97 x 1.91 x 22.23 cm | 240 pp Faber & Faber | 2022 | 9780571377596 Selected and arranged by the author, and featuring a foreword by revered record producer Glyn Johns, The Weakness In Me presents the lyrics of Joan Armatrading for...

Hardcover | 13.97 x 1.91 x 21.59 cm | 272 pp Faber & Faber | 2020 | 9780571353897 Keep 'Er Lit is the second volume of Van Morrison's collected lyrics containing one hundred and twenty songs from across his storied career. It contains love songs, work...

Hardcover | 14.7 x 1.8 x 22.1 cm | 144 pp Faber & Faber | 2023 | 9780571378395 'There is something quite moving about seeing the lyrics of these fifty-six songs collected and assembled this way. You can see the evolution of the minds...

Barry Miles Hardcover | 15.24 x 2.22 x 22.86 cm | 240 pp Abrams | 2016 | 9781419722219 Rare & Collectible A revealing history of the Beatles' experimental record label, as told by the label's manager, Barry Miles. In August 1968, the Beatles launched their...