Pop & Rock

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...

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...

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...

Kelefa Sanneh Hardcover | 16.2 x 4.3 x 24 cm | 496 pp Cannongate | 2021 | 9780525559597 Major Labels is an epic achievement and a huge delight, the entire history of popular music over the past fifty years refracted through the big genres that...

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...

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...

David Weigel Hardcover | 16.51 x 3.3 x 24.38 cm | 368 pp W.W.Norton | 2017 | 9780393242256 The Show That Never Ends is the behind-the-scenes story of the extraordinary rise and fall of progressive ("prog") rock, epitomised by such classic, chart-topping bands as Yes,...

Anna Doble Hardcover | 16.3 x 3 x 24.2 cm | 304 pp Nine Eight Books | 2024 | 9781788709484 It is 1994. In a loft bedroom in North Yorkshire, fifteen-year-old Anna sits on the carpet immersed in the pages of Smash Hits, listening to...

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...

Kim Gordon and Sinéad Gleeson Hardcover | 16.26 x 3.3 x 23.75 cm | 272 pp White Rabbit | 2023 | 9780306829000 Published to challenge the historic narrative of music and music writing being written by men, for men, This Woman's Work seeks to confront...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Robin Askew Hardcover | 16.9 x 3.7 x 24.4 cm | 352 pp Bristol Books | 2024 | 9781909446397 The West Country might not have a place in rock history to match that of London or Liverpool, but some incredible shows took place here, including...

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...

Bob Stanley Softcover | 15.3 x 3.7 x 23.4 cm | 656 pp Faber & Faber | 2022 | 9780571372195 Let's Do It is the first book to tell the definitive story of the birth of pop, from the invention of the 78 rpm record...

Alan McGee Hardcover | 15.2 x 3 x 24.2 cm | 320 pp Allen & Unwin | 2024 | 9781838957988 From founding Creation Records to discovering Oasis, How to Run an Indie Label offers a no-holds-barred rampage through gigs, clubs, boardrooms, drugs and booze that...

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...

Simon Williams Softcover | 12.7 x 1.6 x 19.7 cm | 328 pp Nine Eight Books | 2022 | 9781788707312  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...