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Vendor: James Allan
Musicians Eat Cakes: Connections, Coincidences and Similarities in the lives and deaths of pop and rock musicians
Connections, coincidences and similarities in the lives, deaths and the bits in between of pop and rock musicians. A collection of circumstances that identify relations and relationships out with the music that link those that gave us the soundtrack to our own lives. Connections...- $19.99
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Unspooled: How the Cassette Made Music Shareable
Well into the new millennium, the analog cassette tape continues to claw its way back from obsolescence. New cassette labels emerge from hipster enclaves while the cassette's likeness pops up on T-shirts, coffee mugs, belt buckles, and cell phone cases. In Unspooled, Rob Drew...- $26.95
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Bowie Odyssey 74
Book by book, year by year, the ultimate literary trip through Bowie's greatest decade.Simon Goddard's electric ride through Bowie's greatest decade reaches the halfway mark with this fifth instalment. Wickedly funny and shockingly tragic, Bowie Odyssey 74 is the story of one man trying...- $25.00
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Finding Fogerty: Interdisciplinary Readings of John Fogerty and Creedence Clearwater Revival
Finding Fogerty: Interdisciplinary Readings of John Fogerty and Creedence Clearwater Revival, edited by Thomas M. Kitts, begins to correct the scholarly neglect of John Fogerty, one of America's great songwriters, one of the rock era's great vocalists, and one of its underrated guitarists and...- $54.99
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Reading the Boss: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Works of Bruce Springsteen
Reading the Boss: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Works of Bruce Springsteen, edited by Roxanne Harde and Irwin Streight, draws together close readings of Bruce Springsteen's lyrics by scholars across a range of academic disciplines. The editors first make a compelling comparison between Bruce Springsteen...- $54.99
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The Modern Lovers' the Modern Lovers
From the "War on Hippies" to the Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, the story of Modern Lovers is a high octane tale of Brutalist architecture, rock 'n' roll ambition and the struggle for identity in a changing world. One of punk rock's foundational documents,...- $14.95
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Mellencamp: American Troubadour
From a cultural critic who has contributed to the Washington Post, Atlantic, and Los Angeles Review of Books, this thoughtful analysis highlights four decades of the artist's music, which has consistently elevated the dignity of everyday people and honored the quiet heroism of raising...- $27.95
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Andy Wood. To live, die and shine in pre-grunge Seattle
The book introduces the life and career of the late Andrew Wood, a key figure in the Seattle pre-grunge music scene, from his early band Malfunkshun to Mother Love Bone, up to the process that ultimately gave birth to Pearl Jam, via Temple Of...- $27.50
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Wooden Stars: Innocent Gears: Innocent Gears
The Juno award-winning Wooden Stars both epitomized and transcended the sound of mid-90s indie rock. One of Canada's greatest bands, they helped build a scene whose members would go on to be associated with some of the country's most revered acts including Julie Doiron,...- $12.95
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Beast: John Bonham and the Rise of Led Zeppelin
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Rockin' the Free World!: How the Rock & Roll Revolution Changed America and the World
In Rockin' the Free World, international relations expert Sean Kay takes readers inside "Bob Dylan's America" and shows how this vision linked the rock and roll revolution to American values of freedom, equality, human rights, and peace while tracing how those values have spread...- $29.00
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John Mellencamp [With CD (Audio)]
(Guitar Play-Along). The Guitar Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily Just follow the tab, listen to the CD to hear how the guitar should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The melody and lyrics...- $14.99
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The Definitive Paul Simon Songbook
(Music Sales America). Over 150 songs from across the unique and remarkable career of this master songwriter. From his roots as a folk musician, to his phenomenal success with Art Garfunkel and his subsequent inventive and collaborative solo work, Paul Simon has remained a...- $45.00
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Elvis and the Memphis Mafia
A monumental oral biography filled with raucous joy, aching loss and terrible poignancy, Elvis & the Memphis Mafia is the first book to capture the King - the man and the phenomenon - in his full complexity. Through revealing interviews with three of Elvis's...- $14.95
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Jethro Tull Heavy Horses: In-depth
By 1978, the landscape of pop music had changed considerably since Jethro Tull's earlier hit albums Aqualung (1971) and Thick As A Brick (1972). Punk, disco and new wave were in and progressive rock's heyday was over. Despite all of this, during the year...- $19.99
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Iron Maiden: The Official Coloring Book
Up the Irons! with this officially licensed Iron Maiden Coloring Book, packed with 72 pages of spectacular illustrations, all inspired by the band's thunderous discography, and of course! Eddie...One of the greatest characters of all-time. With over 2,000 live performances, 100 million record sales,...- $17.99
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My Date with a Beatle: Just George to Me
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Rainbow Straight Between The Eyes: In-depth
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Deindustrialisation and Popular Music: Punk and 'Post-Punk' in Manchester, Düsseldorf, Torino and Tampere
The book is a comparative study of popular music cultures in 1980s Torino, Tampere, Manchester and Düsseldorf and their relation to the industrial city as imaginary, as heritage and as everyday reality. Popular music genres, such as hardcore punk, house, industrial, post-punk and heavy...- $36.00
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Bandalism: The Rock Group Survival Guide
Bandalism ban-dəl-i-zəm] n .: the willful or malicious destruction of, or damage to, the fabric of a rock/pop/indie group brought about by one or more of its membersAxl Rose's monumental meltdowns . . . Kurt Cobain's tragic band-slaying suicide: The long history of platinum-selling...- $18.99
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Neil Peart: Cultural Repercussions
In January 2020, the world lost not only one of the greatest drummers, but also one of the most insightful lyricists. And a brilliant writer.Though Neil Peart was universally lauded as drummer for legendary rock band Rush, few studies have been devoted to his...- $15.99
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Spider from Mars
In January 2016, the unexpected death of David Bowie rocked the globe. For millions of people, he was an icon celebrated for his music, his film and theatrical roles, and his trendsetting influence on fashion and gender norms. But no one from her inner...- $21.99
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Stories I Might Regret Telling You: A Memoir
The singer-songwriter's heartfelt memoir about growing up in a bohemian musical family and her experiences with love, loss, motherhood, divorce, the music industry, and more.Born into music royalty, the daughter of folk legends Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III and sister to the highly-acclaimed...- $40.00
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This Ain't the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk
This lively and entertaining revisionist history of rock music after 1970 reconsiders the roles of two genres, heavy metal and punk. Instead of considering metal and punk as aesthetically opposed to each other, Steve Waksman breaks new ground by showing that a profound connection...- $34.95
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The Poetics of Rock: Cutting Tracks, Making Records
After a hundred years of recording, the process of making records is still mysterious to most people who listen to them. Records hold a fundamental place in the dynamics of modern musical life, but what do they represent? Are they documents? Snapshots? Artworks? Fetishes?...- $31.95
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Punk Rock: So What?: The Cultural Legacy of Punk
It's now over twenty years since punk pogo-ed its way into our consciousness. Punk Rock So What?brings together a new generation of academics, writers and journalists to provide the first comprehensive assessment of punk and its place in popular music history, culture and myth....- $49.95
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Rick Rubin in the Studio (16pt Large Print Edition)
There is no greater enigma than Rick Rubin working in record production today. As mysterious personally as the Buddhist religion he practices, Rubin has made one thing crystal clear: the records he produces are sonically and stylistically beyond reproach. MTV has called Rubin ''the...- $41.99
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Queerness in Pop Music: Aesthetics, Gender Norms, and Temporality
This book investigates the phenomenon of queering in popular music and video, interpreting the music of numerous pop artists, styles, and idioms. The focus falls on artists, such as Lady Gaga, Madonna, Boy George, Diana Ross, Rufus Wainwright, David Bowie, Azealia Banks, Zebra Katz,...- $170.00
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Encyclopedia of Indie Rock
Independent rock, known as indie rock (rock independent of the major label corporations), is music dedicated to the art of rock: it's adventurous, eclectic, defiant, inventive, and restlessly creative. For over 40 years, indie bands have prided themselves on the back-breaking efforts of self-promotion,...- $91.00
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AC/DC: The World's Heaviest Rock
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The Dylan Companion
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Total F*cking Godhead: The Biography of Chris Cornell
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The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
Now a Netflix original movie starring Machine Gun Kelly, Daniel Webber, Douglas Booth, and Iwan Rheon, directed by Jeff Tremaine. "Without a doubt, it is the most detailed account of the awesome pleasures and perils of rock & roll stardom I have ever read....- $19.99
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Far and Away: A Prize Every Time
Following in the tradition of Ghost Rider and Traveling Music, Rush drummer Neil Peart lets us ride with him along the backroads of North America, Europe, and South America, sharing his experiences in personal reflections and full-color photos. Spanning almost four years, these twenty-two...- $27.95
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The Bee Gees in the 1960s: Decades
In April 1967, the Bee Gees launched themselves onto the international music scene with the release of 'New Yok Mining Disaster 1941'. Whilst that haunting classic would be the first of many hits, the Bee Gees consisting of brothers Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb...- $24.95
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The Real Rock Book - Volume II
(Fake Book). 200 more popular songs in real book format, with no duplication from the first volume. Songs include: All Right Now * All the Young Dudes * Angie * Beat It * The Boys Are Back in Town * Change the World *...- $44.99
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Top of the Mountain: The Beatles at Shea Stadium 1965
On a sweltering Sunday evening in August 1965, 56,000 people traveled by plane, car, bus, ferry, and subway train to pack New York's Shea Stadium. They were there not for a ballgame, but a rock and roll concert--the audacious dream of promoter Sid Bernstein....- $39.95
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Beatles '66: The Revolutionary Year
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The Eric Clapton Sessions
Since 1963 Eric Clapton has contributed to two hundred albums by other artists: from very famous to the obscure and the unexpected: Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, The Rolling Stones, Sting, Phil Collins, Rod Stewart, all four of the Beatles, Martha Vel騷, Jonathan Kelly, Corey...- $21.95
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Under Their Thumb: How a Nice Boy from Brooklyn Got Mixed Up with the Rolling Stones (and Lived to Tell about It)
At age sixteen, Bill German began publishing a Rolling Stones fanzine out of his bedroom in Brooklyn. And when he presented an issue to the band on a street in New York, he obviously made an impression: before he knew it, the Stones had...- $29.95
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331/3 Ok Computer
Seemingly granted 'classic album' status within days of its release in 1997, OK Computer transformed Radiohead from a highly promising rock act into The Most Important Band in the World - a label the band has been burdened by (and has fooled around with)...- $14.95
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Bruce Springsteen: All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track
A new, definitive look at one of music's greatest songbooks, by two expert authors. The latest in the bestselling All the Songs series, Bruce Springsteen: All the Songs is the most in-depth exploration of The Boss's music ever written. From Greetings from Asbury Park,...- $60.00
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Six-String Stories
'These guitars have been really good tools; they're not just museum pieces. They all have a soul and they all come alive.' - Eric Clapton 'In his own words, Clapton tells his story through the history of his instruments.' - Rolling Stone In Six-String...- $55.00
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Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991
The definitive chronicle of underground music in the 1980s tells the stories of Black Flag, Sonic Youth, The Replacements, and other seminal bands whose DIY revolution changed American music forever. Our Band Could Be Your Life is the never-before-told story of the musical revolution...- $22.99
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Wild Thing: The Short, Spellbinding Life of Jimi Hendrix
Today, Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) is celebrated as the greatest rock guitarist of all time. But before he was setting guitars and the world aflame, James Marshall Hendrix was a shy kid in Seattle, plucking at a broken ukulele. Bringing Hendrix's story to vivid life...- $18.95
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Ringo: With a Little Help
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We can be the new wind
We can be the new wind: The interaction of punk, hardcore punk, power pop and neo-garage with alternative rock in the 1980's.The hardcore punk scene had two major crossovers, one with heavy metal and one with pop influenced independent rock. A significant number of...- $45.99
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Neil Young on Neil Young: Interviews and Encounters Volume 19
The life of rock's most durable troubadour in his own words Neil Young on Neil Young: Interviews and Encounters is a revealing anthology of Young's most significant, fascinating, and entertaining discussions, declarations, and dreams, chronicling fifty years of conversations, feature stories, and press conferences....- $30.00
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150 Glimpses of the Beatles
Winner of the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction A distinctive portrait of the Fab Four by one of the sharpest and wittiest writers of our timeIf you want to know what it was like to live those extraordinary Beatles years in real time,...- $20.00
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Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album
Inside the making of one of the biggest-selling albums of all time: Fleetwood Mac's Rumours Fleetwood Mac's classic 1977 Rumours album topped the Billboard 200 for thirty-one weeks and won the Grammy for Album of the Year. More recently, Rolling Stone named it the...- $30.99
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