Music (£5 or Less)

John Robb Softcover | 12.95 x 3.56 x 19.3 cm | 400 pp Unbound | 2023 | 9781800182189  Do You Believe in the Power of Rock & Roll? is a history of alternative rock from John Robb, with the music still ringing in his ears. This...

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...

Dave Rimmer Softcover | 12.7 x 1.91 x 19.05 cm | 304 pp Faber & Faber | 2022 | 9780571361083 The definitive account of the first rise and fall of Boy George and Culture Club, and British pop music in the 1980s. A story of...

Nicole Trevillian Softcover | 15.24 x 0.64 x 20.96 cm | 112 pp Edizioni Charta | 2009 | 9788881587513 Nicole Trevillan's London Club is a series of fashion photographs from influential new-music nightclubs in London between 2000 and 2010. The club night Trash, founded in...

Lenny Kaye Softcover | 12.6 x 3.2 x 19.6 cm | 528 pp White Rabbit | 2023 | 9781474615099 Rock and roll was birthed in basements and garages, radio stations and dance halls, in cities where unexpected gatherings of artists and audience changed and...

Derek Taylor Softcover | 14.8 x 1.14 x 21 cm | 144 pp Sonicbond Publishing | 2024 | 9781789522853 The mid-20th century saw the birth of a new kind of big band/orchestral music in what came to be called ‘Easy Listening’. Like its contemporary,...

Dominic Dromgoole Softcover | 13.34 x 2.54 x 20.32 cm | 384 pp Profile Books | 2023 | 9781788166812 Astonish Me! is an adrenaline-charged rollercoaster through history's seismic first nights, exploring how individual artists can change and shape the story of culture - and allow...

Dan Kennedy Softcover | 13.5 x 1.8 x 21.5 cm | 240 pp Harvill Secker | 2008 | 9781846551734  How would you like a six-figure marketing job at the hallowed record label that signed everyone who counts in the last fifty years of pop music?...

Softcover | 21.49 x 0.91 x 25.48 cm | 128 pp Scala | 2011 | 9781857596977 The explosion of rap music and the street culture from which it sprang have had an indelible influence on our lifestyle today. We see it in our language,...

John Hudson Softcover | 14 x 1 x 21.5 cm | 172 pp Bristol Books | 2012 | 9781909446014 Adge Cutler died on his way home from a gig in 1974 at a time when a major TV breakthrough was within his grasp but...

Karen Tongson Softcover | 12.9 x 1.1 x 19.8 cm | 138 pp Faber & Faber | 2021 | 9780571369003 In the '60s and '70s, America's music scene was marked by raucous excess, reflected in the tragic overdoses of young superstars such as Jimi Hendrix...

Kathryn Libin & Petr Slouka Softcover | 16.64 x 0.74 x 19 cm | 80 pp Scala | 2019 | 9781785512780 The personal affinities and tastes of these aristocratic amateurs are reflected in such musical treasures as 18th-century lute tablatures; oratorios and operas in manuscript...

Dr. Joanne Cormac  Softcover | 15.3 x 19.5 cm | 160 pp Ivy Press | 2019 | 9781782409311  Do you know a capella from zarzuela, or your major from your minor? Can you distinguish between a serenade and a symphony? This book helps the reader...

Kyle Platts Softcover | 33 × 19.5 cm | 20pp Nobrow | 2013 | 9781907704710 Leporello Inspired by the manic, mind-expanding, music festivals that take over this rain-soaked, mud-mired country each summer, artist Kyle Platts has conjured up a festival fitting of his toxic comic...

Bud Wilkins Softcover | 14.8 x 1.22 x 21 cm | 176 pp Sonicbond | 2023 | 9781789522723 The On Track series examines an artist’s entire output, track by track – or that within a specified date range – the series brings together expert...

Paul Matts Softcover | 14.8 x 1.22 x 21 cm | 160 pp Sonicbond | 2022 | 9781789521870 The On Track series examines an artist’s entire output, track by track – or that within a specified date range – the series brings together expert...

William E. Spevack Softcover | 14.8 x 1 x 21 cm | 112 pp Sonicbond | 2024 | 9781789523188 The On Track series examines an artist’s entire output, track by track – or that within a specified date range – the series brings together expert...

Arthur Lizie Softcover | 14.8 x 1 x 21 cm | 160 pp Sonicbond | 2023 | 9781789522587 The On Track series examines an artist’s entire output, track by track – or that within a specified date range – the series brings together expert analysis...

Ben L. Connor Softcover | 14.8 x 1 x 21 cm | 176 pp Sonicbond | 2024 | 9781789523034 The On Track series examines an artist’s entire output, track by track – or that within a specified date range – the series brings together expert...

Emma Scott Softcover | 14.8 x 1 x 21 cm | 144 pp Sonicbond | 2024 | 9781789522976 The On Track series examines an artist’s entire output, track by track – or that within a specified date range – the series brings together expert analysis...