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Vendor:Doubleday
Thurston Moore: Sonic Life - A Memoir
Thurston Moore Hardcover | 16.38 x 3.99 x 23.88 cm | 467 pp Doubleday | 2023 | 9780385548656 From the founding member of Sonic Youth, a passionate memoir tracing the author's life and art—from his teen years as a music obsessive in small-town Connecticut, to...- £15.00
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Johnny Cash: The Life in Lyrics
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,...- £25.00
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Letters to Gil: A Memoir
Malik Al Nasir Hardcover | 15.9 x 3 x 24 cm | 320 pp William Collins Books | 2021 | 9780008464431 Letters to Gil is Malik Al Nasir’s profound coming of age memoir – the story of surviving physical and racial abuse and discovering a...- £8.50
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Sly Stone: Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
Softcover | 12.8 x 2.4 x 19.6 cm | 320 pp White Rabbit | 2024 | 9781399601580 One of the few indisputable geniuses of pop music, Sly Stone is a trailblazer who created a new kind of music, mixing Black and white, male and...- £6.50
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Please Please Tell Me Now: The Duran Duran Story
Stephen Davis Softcover | 15.24 x 3.3 x 22.86 cm | 384 pp Hachette | 2022 | 9780306846083 In Please Please Tell Me Now, bestselling rock biographer Stephen Davis tells the story of Duran Duran, the quintessential band of the 1980s. Their pretty boy looks made...- £10.00
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Graham Coxon: Verse, Chorus, Monster! (Signed Limited Edition)
Hardcover in slipcase | 16.51 x 2.54 x 24.13 cm | 320 pp Faber & Faber | 2022 | 9780571376681 Signed Limited Edition A long-awaited memoir of Blur co-founder, guitar legend and artist Graham Coxon. Among the noise and clamour of the Britpop era,...- £50.00
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Vendor: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!...- £10.00
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Mark Lanegan: Sing Backwards and Weep
Softcover | 12.8 x 3 x 19.6 cm | 352 pp White Rabbit | 2021 | 9781474615501 From the back of the van to the front of the bar, from the hotel room to the emergency room, Mark Lanegan takes us back to the...- £6.50
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Vendor:Nine Eight Books
Bee Gees: Children of the World
Bob Stanley Softcover | 15.3 x 2.9 x 23.4 cm | 392 pp Nine Eight Books | 2023 | 9781788705424 Everyone has their favourite era of the Bee Gees' career, but so much is still unclear about this celebrated but often misunderstood band. This book...- £7.50
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Searching for Dexys Midnight Runners
Nigel Tassell Hardcover | 16.5 x 3.4 x 24.2 cm | 352 pp Nine Eight Books | 2024 | 978178512059 In the early 1980s, the pop charts were dominated by musicians tarted up in day-glo colours, who fought it out for coverage on our TV...- £12.00
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Vendor: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...- £15.00
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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...- £8.00
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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....- £6.50
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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...- £5.00
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Dusty: The Classic Biography (Revised and Updated)
Lucy O'Brien Softcover | 12.7 x 2.54 x 20.32 cm | 304 pp Michael O'Mara | 2024 | 9781789295863 The story of pop legend Dusty Springfield from the people who knew her, from her troubled childhood to 60s mod queen and enduring music icon.Dusty Springfield...- £5.00
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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...- £10.00
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Why Karen Carpenter Matters
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...- £5.00
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Moby: Then It Fell Apart
Softcover | 12.7 x 2.54 x 19.69 cm | 394 pp Faber & Faber | 2020 | 9780571339419 What do you do when you realise you have everything you think you've ever wanted but still feel completely empty? What do you do when it all...- £6.50
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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...- £20.00
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Kim Fowley: Lord of Garbage
Softcover | 11 x 1.1 x 18.5 cm | 150 pp Kicks Books | 2012 | 9780965977760 The autobiography of legendary music producer Kim Fowley told in his own poetry and prose. Kim Vincent Fowley (1939-2015) was an American record producer, songwriter and musician who...- £12.00
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