Music

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...

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...

Greil Marcus Softcover | 16.51 x 3.18 x 21.59 cm | 320 pp Yale University Press | 2015 | 9780300216929 Unlike all previous versions of rock ’n’ roll history, this book omits almost every iconic performer and ignores the storied events and turning points that...

Dave Haslam Softcover | 12.7 x 2.22 x 19.69 cm | 352 pp Constable | 2019 | 9781472127518 Sonic Youth Slept on My Floor is writer and DJ Dave Haslam's wonderfully evocative memoir. It is a masterful insider account of the Hacienda, the rise of Madchester...

Tony Fletcher & Billy Bragg Softcover | 20.96 x 2.54 x 30.48 cm | 288 pp Omnibus Press | 2021 | 9781913172305  One of Britain’s best-loved and most successful fanzines, Jamming! documented the musical landscape as it evolved between 1977 and 1986. An immensely evocative read...

Kevin Cummins & Paul Stopler Softcover | 24 x 1.3 x 28 | 144 pp Paul Stolper Gallery | 2022 | 9781916023345   ARCHIVUM shows for the first time in book form more than 50 unique black-and-white prints of Kevin Cummins's photographs of the...

Peter Hook Softcover | 13 x 4.7 x 19.8 cm | 768 pp Simon & Schuster | 2017 | 9781471169717 Two acclaimed albums and an upcoming US tour – Joy Division had the world at their feet. Then, on the eve of that tour, the band’s...

Paul Cox, Fabrice Couillerot & Robert Smith Hardcover | 20 x 2.79 x 27 cm | 256 pp ACC Art Books | 2024 | 9781788842747 The Cure: Stills follows the changing faces of one of the leading British rock bands during the post-punk and new-wave movements of...

Steve Wide Hardcover | 17.7 x 1.55 x 21.67 cm | 96 pp Smith Street Books | 2022 | 9781922417206 A Field Guide to Britpop explores a scene fuelled by north–south rivalries, tribal fashion and a good cup of tea. Author Steve Wide documents...

Steve Wide Hardcover | 17.78 x 1.55 x 21.72 cm | 96 pp Smith Street Books | 2021 | 9781922417190 In A Field Guide to Grunge, Steve Wide explores the dynamic scene that sprung from the ashes of punk and underground metal in America’s Pacific...

Liam Bailey Hardcover | 20 x 1.65 x 25 cm | 120 pp ACC Art Books | 2024 | 9781788842570 This is a striking distillation of over 30 years' unprecedented photographic access to the world's largest green-field music and performing arts festival. In over 120...

Mike Roberts Softcover | 15.56 x 2.54 x 23.5 cm | 224 pp Tate Publishing | 2018 | 9781849761321 From dada to Gaga and beyond, How Art Made Pop examines the intertwined histories of pop music and the visual arts from the late 1950s...

Lee Jaffe & Chris Blackwell Hardcover | 25.55 x 2.95 x 30.48 cm | 224 pp Rizzoli | 2024 | 9780847835126 PLEASE NOTE: All copies are new and shrink-wrapped, but with slight discolouration to the spine crease on the cover - see final image for...

Geoff Leonard & Pete Walker Hardcover | 19 x 3.4 x 26 cm | 350 pp Redcliffe Press | 2018 | 9781911408390 In 2017, one notable musical anniversary passed by without so much as a whisper: the 60th year since the formation and launch...

Softcover | 13 x 3 x 20 cm | 520 pp Penguin | 2014 | 9780241971956 Waging Heavy Peace is the remarkable memoir of rock icon Neil Young. Neil Young is a singular figure in the history of rock and pop culture, inducted not...

Martin C. Strong & Brendon Griffin Softcover | 18.4 x 4.7 x 23.2 cm | 896 pp Cannongate | 2008 | 9781847670038 Lights, Camera, Soundtracks is an A-Z encyclopaedia of over 50 years of rock 'n' roll movies, musicals and performance films. The book...

Richard Thompson Softcover | 12.9 x 1.8 x 19.8 cm | 290 pp Faber & Faber | 2022 | 9780571376988 The memoir of international music icon Richard Thompson, co-founder of the legendary folk rock group Fairport Convention. Richard Thompson came of age during an extraordinary...

Hardcover | 22 x 3.56 x 29 cm | 272 pp ACC Art Books | 2023 | 9781788842341 Normski was a vital witness to the period known as the Golden Age of Rap, when big US artists like Run DMC, LL Cool J and...

Simon Spence Softcover | 13.79 x 1.4 x 21.59 cm | 218 pp Backstage Books | 2023 | 9781739477905 "Our attitude towards the business in the UK was 'Fuck Them All', they were all old men." Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham was the...

Hardcover | 21.59 x 5.08 x 27.94 cm | 606 pp Callaway | 2023 | 9781734537796 This is an unprecedented glimpse into the creative life of one of America’s most groundbreaking, influential and enduring artists. It is the magnum opus every Bob Dylan fan has...