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Vendor: Hunter Davies
The Beatles Lyrics: The Stories Behind the Music, Including the Handwritten Drafts of More Than 100 Classic Beatles Songs
"Rich with insider authenticity...Gives us a glimpse into genius" the definitive book of Beatles songs, shown as first written by their own hands and put into authoritative context (Wall Street Journal). For the Beatles, writing songs was a process that could happen anytime --...- $27.99
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Roadrunner
Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers' 1972 song "Roadrunner" captures the freedom and wonder of cruising down the highway late at night with the radio on. Although the song circles Boston's beltway, its significance reaches far beyond Richman's deceptively simple declarations of love for...- $19.95
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Lennon, the Mobster & the Lawyer: The Untold Story
Before John Lennon retreated peacefully into private life in 1975, he fought a major legal battle that went under the public radar.Just as his Rock 'n' Roll oldies album hit the market, Morris Levy, the Mob-connected owner of Roulette Records, released Roots, an unauthorized...- $28.95
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Fender 75 Years
Ubiquitous in the music world, Fender(R) guitars and amplifiers are also icons in popular culture, their shapes and sounds instantly recognizable. Authoritatively written and lavishly illustrated, Fender 75 Years is the officially licensed anniversary celebration of the company and its legendary instruments. Originating in...- $50.00
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Pink Floyd Live: Collected
Pink Floyd Live Collected provides an insight into the unique live concert journey of one of the most groundbreaking and influential bands of all time. Follow the band from when they formed as students in Cambridge in 1965 and consisted of Syd Barrett, Nick...- $32.95
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Tune in: The Beatles: All These Years
Now in paperback, Tune In is the New York Times bestseller by the world's leading Beatles authority - the first volume in a groundbreaking trilogy about the band that revolutionized music. The Beatles have been in our lives for half a century and surely...- $22.00
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Sign 'o' the Times
One of the greatest double albums of the vinyl era, Sign O' the Times shows Prince at his peak. Here, Michaelangelo Matos tells the story of how it emerged from an extraordinary period of creativity to become one of the landmark recordings of the...- $14.95
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Petty: The Biography
The New York Times Bestseller *One of Rolling Stone's 10 Best Music Books of 2015* An exhilarating and intimate account of the life of music legend Tom Petty, by an accomplished writer and musician who toured with Petty.No one other than Warren Zanes, rocker...- $19.99
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Vendor: Lisa Robinson
Nobody Ever Asked Me about the Girls: Women, Music and Fame
"Indispensable [reading] about the feminine journey through a man's world"--USA TodayAn intimate look at the lives of our most celebrated female musicians--and their challenges with fame--from a legendary music journalist Over four decades, Lisa Robinson has made a name for herself as a celebrated...- $18.00
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Here They Come with Their Makeup on: Suede, Coming Up . . . and More Tales from Beyond the Wild Frontiers
"There were only a handful of people in the world who still really believed in Suede at the time, and five of them were in the band." - Brett Anderson, Suede "Suede were Marmite at the time, and I was expecting the press to...- $24.95
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Vendor: Matt Sorum
Double Talkin' Jive: True Rock 'n' Roll Stories from the Drummer of Guns N' Roses, the Cult, and Velvet Revolver
In Double Talkin' Jive legendary drummer Matt Sorum takes music lovers behind the scenes of a remarkable life in rock. Sorum, whose albums have sold tens of millions of copies around the world, provides an honest, engaging account of the highs and lows of...- $26.00
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Vendor: Martin Popoff
Born Again!: Black Sabbath in the Eighties & Nineties
In this scintillating sequel to Sabotage! Black Sabbath in the Seventies, Martin Popoff blows up the kaleidoscopic narrative of the Sabs over the ensuing twenty years, dissecting each and every of the band's ten studio albums and two (and-a-half) live albums produced over that...- $22.99
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Comfortably Numb
The acclaimed, definitive biography of Pink Floyd, from their iconic beginnings in psychedelic, Swinging London to their historic reunion at the Live8 concert ("The most complete, insightful, and current account of Pink Floyd...nearly as essential as the music itself."--Austin Chronicle)Mark Blake draws on his...- $21.99
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Vendor: Larry Starr
Listening to Bob Dylan
Venerated for his lyrics, Bob Dylan in fact is a songwriting musician with a unique mastery of merging his words with music and performance. Larry Starr cuts through pretention and myth to provide a refreshingly holistic appreciation of Dylan's music. Ranging from celebrated classics...- $19.95
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Vendor: Sam McPheeters
Mutations: The Many Strange Faces of Hardcore Punk
Inaugural pick for the Pitchfork Book Club GQ's One of the Best Books to Read Right Now How can so many people pledge allegiance to punk, something with no fixed identity? Depending on who and where you are, punk can be an outlet, excuse,...- $18.00
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Ginger Geezer: The Life of Vivian Stanshall
The extraordinary story of Vivian Stanshall, lead singer of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, true British eccentric.Charismatic and flamboyant, Vivian Stanshall was a natural frontman for The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band. The eccentric group who satirised trad jazz, pop and rock, reached Number...- $11.99
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Vendor: Cream
Cream - Guitar Play-Along Vol. 107 Book/Online Audio [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 audio to hear how the guitar should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The melody and lyrics...- $17.99
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Limelight: Rush in the '80s
Part two of the definitive biography of the rock 'n' roll kings of the North -- covering Rush's most iconic and popular albums, Moving Pictures and Power Windows Includes two full-color photo inserts, with 16 pages of the band on tour and in the...- $19.95
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U2's the Joshua Tree: Planting Roots in Mythic America
U2 planted the seeds for The Joshua Tree during an existential journey through America. As Irishmen in the 1970s, the band grew up with the belief that America was a place of freedom and prosperity, a symbol of hope and a refuge for all...- $29.95
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Elvis Speaks: Thoughts on Fame, Family, Music, and More in His Own Words
Elvis Presley spoke to a whole generation of people through his music. Whether it was a ballad, a gospel hymn, or pure rock'n'roll, when he sang, people listened. However, there was more to Elvis than his music and movies. Throughout his career he was...- $14.95
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Highway 61 Revisited
Highway 61 Revisited resonates because of its enduring emotional appeal. Few songwriters before Dylan or since have combined so effectively the intensely personal with the spectacularly universal. In "Like a Rolling Stone," his gleeful excoriation of Miss Lonely (Edie Sedgwick? Joan Baez? a composite...- $14.95
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I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon
When Warren Zevon died in 2003, he left behind a rich catalog of dark, witty rock 'n' roll classics, including "Lawyers, Guns and Money," "Excitable Boy," and the immortal "Werewolves of London." He also left behind a fanatical cult following and veritable rock opera...- $19.99
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Not for You: Pearl Jam and the Present Tense
There has never been a band like Pearl Jam. The Seattle quintet has recorded eleven studio albums; sold some 85 million records; played over a thousand shows, in fifty countries; and had five different albums reach number one. But Pearl Jam's story is about...- $19.95
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Vendor: Nina Antonia
Too Much Too Soon: The New York Dolls
The Dolls, peddling trans-gender posturing and incendiary rock 'n' roll, were dumped by the record business after making just two albums. But their influence lived on when Malcolm McLaren injected the last of The Dolls' life blood into the Sex Pistols and changed pop...- $15.99
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Bad Reputation: The Unauthorized Biography of Joan Jett
Bad Reputation is the unexpurgated story of Joan Jett, the single most exciting rocker of the American 1980s, one of the biggest-selling acts of the age, and one of punk rock's most valued elder statespeeps. Through its pages, a welter of exclusive interviews and...- $19.99
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Vendor: Daphne Carr
Pretty Hate Machine
What is the world that Nine Inch Nails made, and what was the world that made Nine Inch Nails? These are the questions at the heart of this study of the band's 1989 debut, Pretty Hate Machine. The album began as after-hours demos by...- $14.95
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Vendor: Alan Paul
Texas Flood: The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan
An instant New York Times bestseller The definitive biography of guitar legend Stevie Ray Vaughan, with an epilogue by Jimmie Vaughan, and foreword and afterword by Double Trouble's Chris Layton and Tommy Shannon. Just a few years after he almost died from a severe...- $20.00
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Spiderland
Of all the seminal albums to come out in 1991-the year of Nevermind, Loveless, Ten, and Out of Time, among others-none were quieter, both in volume and influence, than Spiderland, and no band more mysterious than Slint. Few single albums can lay claim to...- $14.95
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Vendor: Jean-Michel Guesdon
All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Beatles Release
In this lively and fully-illustrated work, two music historians break down every album and every song ever released by the Beatles, from "Please Please Me" (U.S. 1963) to "The Long and Winding Road" (U.S. 1970). All the Songs delves deep into the history and...- $50.00
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Skydog: The Duane Allman Story
Now in paperback - revised and expanded, with a new afterword by the author - this is the definitive biography of Duane Allman, one of the most revered guitarists of his generation. Skydog reveals the complete story of the legendary guitarist: his childhood and...- $22.99
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Syd Barrett: Crazy Diamond: The Dawn of Pink Floyd (Revised)
Syd Barrett was Pink Floyd's founder, singer, guitarist and principal composer, who left the group in 1968 amidst tales of acid-induced madness. Barrett's brief flash of erratic brilliance has is now the stuff of rock legend, and his post-Floyd recordings have become cult classics....- $18.99
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Vendor: Jerry Shirley
Best Seat In The House
Here is a hard-rock memoir told from the drum throne of the kings of arena-rock boogie, Humble Pie. Along the way, you'll meet future legends in a star-studded and rare glimpse into the vibrant scene that created the sound and success of this beloved...- $24.99
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Vendor: Frank Zappa
The Real Frank Zappa Book
From Simon & Schuster, the brash and outrageously funny autobiography of music legend Frank Zappa The Real Frank Zappa Bookis the real story of how he became the state of the art in weirdness, as only he can tell it: wild rock 'n' roll...- $18.99
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Vendor: Bobby Gillespie
Tenement Kid: From the Streets of Glasgow in the 1960s to Drummer in Jesus and Mary Chain and Frontman in Primal Scream
Fizzing with an infectious passion for the magic of rock music, Bobby Gillespie's vivid and evocative new memoir, TENEMENT KID: From the Streets of Glasgow in the 1960s to Drummer in Jesus and Mary Chain and Frontman in Primal Scream, traces the Primal Scream...- $22.95
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100 Things Beatles Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die
Few music groups have been able to sustain a fan base over half a century that is as significant and devoted as those of the Beatles, and this entertaining guide to all things Fab Four rewards those fans with everything they need to know...- $18.95
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Britpop!: Cool Britannia and the Spectacular Demise of English Rock
Beginning in 1994 and closing in the first months of 1998, the UK passed through a cultural moment as distinct and as celebrated as any since the war. Founded on rock music, celebrity, boom-time economics, and fleeting political optimism, this was "Cool Britannia." Records...- $24.99
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Vendor: Dan Leroy
The Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique
Derided as one-hit wonders, estranged from their original producer and record label, and in self-imposed exile in Los Angeles, the Beastie Boys were written off by most observers before even beginning to record their second album - an embarrassing commercial flop that should have...- $14.95
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The Kinks' the Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
Ignored by virtually everyone upon its release in November 1968, 'The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society' is now seen as one of the best British albums ever recorded. Here, Andy Miller traces the perilous circumstances surrounding its creation, and celebrates the timeless,...- $14.95
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Vendor: The Beatles
The Beatles - Complete Scores
(Transcribed Score). A fitting tribute to possibly the greatest pop band ever - The Beatles. This outstanding hard-cover edition features over 1100 pages with full scores and lyrics to all 210 titles recorded by The Beatles. Guitar and bass parts are in both standard...- $99.99
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Vendor: Jonathan Kirby
Rock Covers
Album art is indelibly linked to our collective musical memories; when you think of your favorite albums, you picture the covers. Many photographers, illustrators, and art directors have become celebrities from their album artworks--the best examples of which will go down in history as...- $70.00
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Vendor: Preston Lauterbach
The Chitlin' Circuit: And the Road to Rock 'n' Roll
For generations, "chitlin' circuit" has meant second tier--brash performers in raucous nightspots far from the big-city limelight. Now, music journalist Preston Lauterbach combines terrific firsthand reportage with deep historical research to offer a groundbreaking account of the birth of rock 'n' roll in black...- $17.95
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The Velvet Underground and Nico
The Velvet Underground and Nico has influenced the sound of more bands than any other album. And remarkably, it still sounds as fresh and challenging today as it did upon its release in 1967. In this book, Joe Harvard covers everything from Lou Reed's...- $14.95
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Vendor: Jean-Michel Guesdon
Led Zeppelin All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track
Led Zeppelin All the Songs takes a deep dive into the innovative recording history of the one of the most influential rock bands of all time--covering every album and every track that Led Zeppelin has ever produced. More than fifty years after their first...- $55.00
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Prince and the Parade and Sign O' The Times Era Studio Sessions: 1985 and 1986
"[W]ill command the rapt attention of casual fans and scholars alike." Booklist, Starred ReviewFrom Prince's superstardom to studio seclusion, this second book in the award-winning Prince Studio Sessions series spotlights how Prince, the biggest rock star on the planet at the time, risked everything...- $40.00
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Close to the Edge: The Story of Yes
The 40-year story of the rock band Yes reveals the rows, bust-ups and personal tensions, the twists, surprises, humour and drama of their lives together. Welch talks to members past and present and traces the band's rise to fame.Author: Chris WelchISBN-10: 184772132XISBN-13: 9781847721327Publisher: Omnibus...- $19.99
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Art Sleeves: Album Covers by Artists
Like a well-made playlist, the album covers in this volume combine to create a portrait of cool and culture desired by art, music, and record lovers alike. Art Sleeves is a time capsule of visual art and music culture as shown through the most...- $50.00
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Vendor: Greg Renoff
Van Halen Rising: How a Southern California Backyard Party Band Saved Heavy Metal
The bestselling, vivid and energetic history of Van Halen's legendary early years featuring 230 original interviews -- including with former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony and power players like Pete Angelus, Marshall Berle, Donn Landee, Ted Templeman, and Neil Zlozower "Fascinating (even for non-VH...- $19.95
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Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present
From Black Sabbath to Big Black, a ride through the evolution, diversity, and influence of genre-defying heavy music. It began with the Beatles' "Helter Skelter." It was distilled to its dark essence by Black Sabbath. And it has flourished into a vibrant modern underground,...- $35.00
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Vendor: Steve Parish
Home Before Daylight: My Life on the Road with the Grateful Dead
The untold story of life on the road with the Grateful Dead, written by an insider who lived it from the early days to today. Steve Parish was never one to walk the straight-and-narrow, even during his childhood growing up in Flushing Meadow, Queens....- $24.99
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Not the Life It Seems: The True Lives of My Chemical Romance
My Chemical Romance is the most significant band in alternative rock in the last decade. Inspirational, original, and stunningly creative, they forged an extraordinary connection with their fans. Not the Life It Seems: The True Lives of My Chemical Romance is their definitive biography....- $21.99
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