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  • Simon Napier-Bell: Sour Mouth, Sweet Bottom - Lessons from a Dissolute Life
    Unbound

    Simon Napier-Bell: Sour Mouth, Sweet Bottom - Lessons from a Dissolute Life

    Simon Napier-Bell Hardcover | 16.51 x 3.81 x 24.13 cm | 336 pp Unbound | 2022 | 9781800181892  Simon Napier-Bell has been a composer, songwriter, record producer and author, but he is best known for having managed such artists as the Yardbirds, Marc Bolan, Japan and Wham!. Sour Mouth, Sweet...
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  • The Lionel Bart Story: Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'BeThe Lionel Bart Story: Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be
    Omnibus Press

    The Lionel Bart Story: Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be

    David Stafford & Caroline Stafford Hardcover | 24.1 x 2.8 x 16.7 cm | 288 pp Omnibus Press | 2011 | 9781849386616 Lionel Bart was a writer and composer of British pop music and musicals, best known for creating the book, music and lyrics for Oliver!...
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  • Queer Blues: The Hidden Figures of Early Blues MusicQueer Blues: The Hidden Figures of Early Blues Music
    Omnibus Press

    Queer Blues: The Hidden Figures of Early Blues Music

    Darryl W. Bullock Hardcover | 15.88 x 3.56 x 23.5 cm | 368 pp Omnibus Press | 2023 | 9781913172527  This is the definitive account of the LGBTQ trailblazers of early blues and a fascinating consideration of the intersection between music and LGBTQ history, from...
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  • The World of Bob Dylan
    Cambridge University Press

    The World of Bob Dylan

    Sean Latham Hardcover | 15.88 x 2.54 x 22.86 cm | 370 pp Cambridge University Press | 2021 | 9781108499514  Bob Dylan has helped transform music, literature, pop culture, and even politics. The World of Bob Dylan chronicles a lifetime of creative invention that has...
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  • Access All Areas: A Backstage Pass Through 50 Years of Music And Culture
    White Rabbit

    Access All Areas: A Backstage Pass Through 50 Years of Music And Culture

    Barbara Charone Hardcover | 13.8 x 2.6 x 21.8 cm | 224 pp White Rabbit | 2022 | 9781474622257 The story of how a music-loving, budding journalist from a Chicago suburb became the defining music publicist of her generation, Access All Areas is a time capsule of...
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  • Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, TinaRemain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina
    St. Martin's Press

    Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina

    Chris Frantz Hardcover | 16.38 x 3.38 x 24.23 cm | 384 pp St. Martin's Press | 2020 | 9781250209221 One of the most dynamic groups of the ‘70s and ‘80s, Talking Heads, founded by drummer Chris Frantz, his girlfriend Tina Weymouth, and lead...
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  • Serge Gainsbourg: A View from the ExteriorSerge Gainsbourg: A View from the Exterior
    Sanctuary Publishing

    Serge Gainsbourg: A View from the Exterior

    Alan Clayson Softcover | 12.9 x 19.8 cm | 244 pp Sanctuary Publishing | 2005 | 9781860746468 Serge Gainsbourg was famous - or infamous - for his 1969 hit Je T'Aime . . . Moi Non Plus, in which he and Jane Birkin simulated the sounds...
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  • David Bowie (Lives of the Musicians)David Bowie (Lives of the Musicians)
    Laurence King

    David Bowie (Lives of the Musicians)

    Robert Dimery Hardcover | 12.7 x 1.91 x 19.05 cm | 160 pp Laurence King | 2021 | 9781786278005  As with all great pop stars, Bowie''s image changed with almost every new album release. This appetite for reinvention, both musically and visually, saw him dubbed...
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  • Set the Night on Fire: Living, Dying and Playing Guitar with the DoorsSet the Night on Fire: Living, Dying and Playing Guitar with the Doors
    White Rabbit

    Set the Night on Fire: Living, Dying and Playing Guitar with the Doors

    Robby Krieger Softcover | 13 x 4.2 x 19.6 cm | 432 pp White Rabbit | 2022 | 9781474624190 Few bands are as shrouded in the murky haze of rock mythology as The Doors, and parsing fact from fiction has been a virtually impossible task....
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  • The Doors Unhinged: Jim Morrison's Legacy Goes on TrialThe Doors Unhinged: Jim Morrison's Legacy Goes on Trial
    Constable

    The Doors Unhinged: Jim Morrison's Legacy Goes on Trial

    John Densmore Hardcover | 14.4 x 3.4 x 21.8 cm | 368 pp Constable | 2023 | 9781408719909 In The Doors Unhinged, New York Times bestselling author and legendary Doors drummer John Densmore offers a powerful exploration of the 'greed gene' - that part of the human psyche...
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  • And in the End: The Last Days of the Beatles
    Polygon

    And in the End: The Last Days of the Beatles

    Ken McNab Softcover | 13 x 2.4 x 19.5 cm | 288 pp Polygon | 2019 | 9781846975226 This is the story of the last acrimonious days of the Beatles, a final chapter reconstructing for the first time the seismic events of 1969, the year...
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  • The Stone Roses: War and PeaceThe Stone Roses: War and Peace
    Penguin

    The Stone Roses: War and Peace

    Simon Spence Softcover | 13 x 2.4 x 19.7 cm | 400 pp Penguin | 2013 | 9780241971970 From the Manchester backwaters to the worldwide 2012 tour, War and Peace lays bare the irresistible tale of the last of the great bands and the definitive story of...
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  • When Does the Mind-Bending Start?: The Life and Times of World of TwistWhen Does the Mind-Bending Start?: The Life and Times of World of Twist
    Nine Eight Books

    When Does the Mind-Bending Start?: The Life and Times of World of Twist

    Gordon King Softcover | 12.8 x 1.7 x 19.8 cm | 288 pp Nine Eight Books | 2023 | 9781788705400  This is a memoir of tragedy and triumph, comedy and drama, demise and recovery. While fame, glory and untold riches seemed like an inevitability for World...
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  • Tim Burgess: Telling StoriesTim Burgess: Telling Stories
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    Penguin

    Tim Burgess: Telling Stories

    Softcover | 13.34 x 2.03 x 19.69 cm | 256 pp Penguin | 2013 | 9780241971963 The Charlatans. Madchester. Britpop. Taking on the world. Here are the highs, the lows, the joys, the agonies, and the stories of what it's like to be in...
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  • Pandamonium!: How Not to Run a Record Label
    Nine Eight Books

    Pandamonium!: How Not to Run a Record Label

    Simon Williams Hardcover | 16.2 x 3.2 x 24 cm | 336 pp Nine Eight Books | 2022 | 9781788707282  As a one-time NME journalist, former Xfm radio presenter, toilet-circuit promoter and the founder of enduring homespun British record label Fierce Panda, Simon Williams has...
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  • Supreme GlamourSupreme Glamour
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    Thames & Hudson

    Supreme Glamour

    Hardcover | 20.32 x 2.79 x 31.24 cm | 240 pp Thames & Hudson | 2019 | 9780500022009  Supreme Glamour builds a complete picture of the charm and sophistication of The Supremes. With the assistance of her close personal friend Mark Bego, founding member Mary...
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