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10cc: The Cost of Living in Dreams (Revised Edition)
Updated to late 2017, the story of the self-styled Worst Band in the World, told through exclusive interviews and a lifetime full of music. The Cost of Living in Dreams traces Kevin Godley, Lol Creme, Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman from their earliest days...- $19.98
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A Kind of Love In: The story of Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & the Trinity
It was one of the most memorable hit singles of the late 1960s, an hypnotic, walking bass led swirl through an unreleased Bob Dylan song, that seemingly confirmed in the public eye that the critics had been saying for a year or more. That,...- $9.99
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A Legacy in Wax: Listening to Joy Division and New Order, 1976-2017 (Revised Edition)
A new revised and fully updated edition, LEGACY IN WAX - LISTENING TO JOY DIVISION AND NEW ORDER, 1976-2017 is a detailed year by year, album by album guide to some of the most influential music of the past forty years. Complete to autumn...- $24.99
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A Séance at Syd's (New Revised Edition)
A newly (2017) revised edition of A Séance at Syd's - An Anthology of Modern Acid-Folk-Haunt-Psych-Prog-Space-Kraut-Radiophonic-Rock Etcetera Quotes - a collection of quotes and commentary from more than eighty bands, musicians, artists and record label heads, representatives of the sprawling mass of musical notions...- $24.99
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Alternative Rock: The Best Musicians & Recordings
This book looks inside the artists and music that transformed the American and British soundscape of the 1980s and '90s. Scene-setting essays - some with interviews of key figures - explore alternative rock's primary influences, from Captain Beefheart to Brian Eno, and its many...- $27.95
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An Evolving Tradition: The Child Ballads in Modern Folk and Rock Music
The Child Ballads are a series of over 300 traditional ballads from England and Scotland that, along with their American variants, were anthologized by folklorist Francis James Child in the nineteenth century. An Evolving Tradition is the story of the Child Ballads--the world's best-known...- $42.95
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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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Black and White and Blue: Adult Cinema from the Victorian Age to the VCR
The films that society has termed pornographic movies have been with us for over a century now, since the first flickering kinetoscopes stumbled into life in 1889. Yet beyond a handful of scholarly tracts, and a few glancing references in certain Hollywood histories, there...- $19.95
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Black Ginger: The Book of Whiskey
Exploring themes of abandonment, addiction, and refusing to accept the angst that comes with a mid-life lived dominated by fear, up to this very moment, Black Ginger ponders a life without fear but ultimately opts for something sexual. As always. The book of whiskey....- $10.88
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Britcoms FAQ: All That's Left to Know about Our Favorite Sophisticated Outrageous British Television Comedies
Britcoms FAQ is a sweeping survey of the very best in British television comedy, from the early days of 1950s television, and the rise of Tony Hancock, through the golden age of Monty Python, Are You Being Served?, and Steptoe and Son - featuring...- $19.99
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Candy-Striped Cauliflower Capers-A Wyrd-Psych-Folk sampler 2013-2023
Fully illustrated with over 200 black and white images. Featuring Angeline Morrison, Sendelica, Us and Them, Earthling Society, Beautify Junkyards, Octopus Sing, Schizo Fun Addict, Crystal Jacqueline, Soft Hearted Scientists, Ghost Box Records, Mordecai Smyth, the Chemistry Set, Rowan Amber Mill, Sand Snowman, Dodson...- $29.99
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Come and Get These Memories: The Story of Holland-Dozier-Holland
Brian Holland, Edward Holland, and Lamont Dozier, known as Holland-Dozier-Holland or H-D-H, were the greatest songwriting team in American pop music history. Seventy of the songs they wrote reached the Billboard Top 40, with 15 of these reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Hot...- $28.99
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Dancing Barefoot: The Patti Smith Story
Dancing Barefoot is the full and true story of Patti Smith, widely acknowledged as one of the most significant American artists of the rock 'n' roll era, a performer whose audience and appeal reach far beyond the parameters of rock. An acclaimed poet, a...- $16.99
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Doctor Who FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Most Famous Time Lord in the Universe
Doctor Who is indisputably the most successful and beloved series on UK TV, and the most watched series in the history of BBC America. Doctor Who FAQ tells the complete story of its American success, from its first airings on PBS in the 1970s,...- $29.99
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Encyclopædia Hawkwindia: An Unauthorised Compendium: An Unauthorised Compendium
The Encyclop dia Hawkwindia is the ultimate guide to more than fifty years of Hawkwind, from the first show in August,1969, to the next scheduled gig in February, 2021. Arranged alphabetically, the encyclop dia contain over 1,750 entries, from "Abducted" to ZZZ, and includes...- $29.99
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Forty Years of In-between Days: Listening to the Cure 1977-2017
First published in 2005, Forty Years of In Between Days - Listening to the Cure, 1977-2017 is a fully updated and revised edition of the ultimate listening guide to one of modern rock's most immutable institutions. Album by album, gig by gig, Forty Years...- $24.99
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Goldmine Jazz Album Price Guide
All that Jazz--and more Backed with a rich history and appreciation for the genre, and featuring nearly 50,000 vinyl albums covering some 50 years of recorded music, Goldmine Jazz Album Price Guide, 3rd Edition is the only identification and value guide on the market...- $27.99
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Goldmine Record Album Price Guide
Just like you, Goldmine is passionate about vinyl. It rocks our world. So trust us when we say that the Goldmine Record Album Price Guide is a vinyl collector's best friend. Inside these pages you'll find the latest pricing and identification information for rock,...- $29.99
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Growing Up With John's Children: The Story Of Radio Stars, Jook, Sparks, The Blue Meanies, The A-Jaes, The 4-Squares And More.
Revised and revisited, the original 1982 edition, back in print for the first time in forty years. Written with the full co-operation of the original band members, Growing Up With Johns Children is the story of that most legendary of 1960s freakbeat/psych bands, throughout...- $24.99
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Hallo Spaceboy: The Rebirth of David Bowie
By 1987, David Bowie was at a creative, critical, and commercial low. His most recent album was dismissed by the music press, his latest tour written off as a disaster. Fifteen years after becoming the most colourfully controversial superstar in recent rock history, Bowie...- $18.95
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Haunted America FAQ: All That's Left to Know about the Most Haunted Houses, Cemeteries, Battlefields, and More
Take a fast-paced survey of the ghosties, ghouls, and associated denizens of the country's haunted history with Haunted America FAQ. Tracing local ghost stories back to Native American legends and then forward through horror tales both ancient and modern, the book revisits some of...- $19.99
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Hearts of Darkness: James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Cat Stevens and the Unlikely Rise of the Singer-Songwriter
Hearts of Darkness is the story of a generation's coming of age through the experiences of its three most atypical pop stars. James Taylor, Jackson Browne, and Cat Stevens could never have been considered your typical late-sixties songwriters - self-absorbed and self-composed, all three...- $27.99
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I Feel Love: Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, and How They Reinvented Music
When it comes to earthshaking songs-the ones that signal a tectonic shift in the current musical landscape-there is "Johnny B. Goode" . . . there is "Good Vibrations" . . . and there is "I Feel Love." A disco touchstone recorded by Donna Summer...- $27.95
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I Hate Old Music, Too: How Familiarity & Overuse Killed Our Favorite Music
Edgy, witty, and opinionated critical analysis of "classic rock" in the 21st century, discussing everything from modern remixes of classic albums (why?) to concert ticket prices, Record Store Day, the vinyl revival, milking deceased artists, reunions, tribute acts, and more.When Dave Thompson's I Hate...- $24.95
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Inspirational Book Writing
Always wanted to write an inspirational book that would change the world? The greatest gift you can give the world is to fully express yourself, in all your ways; passionate, determined, a little quirky, fun or otherwise. Because when you cast your inspirational message,...- $9.95
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London's Burning: True Adventures on the Frontlines of Punk, 1976-1977
London's Burning is the story of punk rock as it happened, stripped of hindsight and future legend, and laid bare. Here are the Damned and the Adverts on tour, the Sex Pistols swearing through their prime-time television debut, the Tom Robinson Band conducting a...- $18.95
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Missing Letter Hidden Word Sudoku: ABC
Classic Sudoku puzzles always use the same symbols to fill in cells: the digits 1-9. In Word Sudoku, however, each puzzle has a different set of symbols-the letters in a word or phrase. The puzzles are a little bit harder than classic Sudoku because...- $6.99
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Never Fade Away: The Kurt Cobain Story
Never Fade Away is Dave Thompson's inside look at the life of one of the most thought-provoking men of all time - Kurt Cobain. Examining an artistic grunge rock genius who was light years ahead of his time, this is an unfailing account of...- $17.99
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Reggae & Caribbean Music: Third Ear: The Essential Listening Companion
More than a listener's guide, this book reveals the rich historical development of a regional music that is now embraced worldwide. Packed with incisive essays, ratings and reviews of 2 700 recordings, plus fantastic photos and engaging biographies, this guide captures the allure of...- $24.99
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Robert Plant: The Voice That Sailed the Zeppelin
Robert Plant: The Voice That Sailed the Zeppelin follows the iconic singer through his heights of fame with classic rock giant Led Zeppelin, his second life as a multimillion-selling solo artist, and his more idiosyncratic pursuits. A wealth of former associates lend their voices...- $27.99
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Roger Waters: The Man Behind the Wall
The Wall was Roger Waters's first album. So begins Dave Thompson's Thompson's Roger Waters: The Man Behind the Wall, the first full biography on this notoriously guarded personality that has eluded probing queries and papertrail dissection for the entirety of his career. As he...- $19.99
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Roxy Music in the 1970s: Decades
Between 1972 and their first break-up in 1976 (and then again following their 1979 reunion), Roxy Music were arguably the most exciting, ambitious and vivacious bans in the land - a core four piece of vocalist Bryan Ferry, guitarist Phil Manzanera, horn player Andy...- $22.95
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Schizophrenia Diet: Everything You Need To Know About Schizophrenia Diet And Cookbook To Reversing Schizophrenia, Kidney Filtration And Ca
Good mental health may be found through these many easy to understand pointers in the areas of diet and lifestyle. Whether a healing vitamin intake system or the ambience for a therapeutic lifestyle, there are many generous and helpful pointers here. (For example, a...- $6.99
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Smoke on the Water: The Deep Purple Story
It is now 35 years since Deep Purple first came together and today -- 14 musicians, 17 albums, and millions of record sales later -- the group remains a monster. Smoke on the Water is the first book in more than 20 years to...- $22.95
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South Park FAQ: All That's Left to Know about the Who, What, Where, When and #%$ of America's Favorite Mountain Town
There are few modern animated television shows that could survive over a decade and a half and remain as funny... or as stupid... or as sick... or as depraved... today as when they started. Even fewer can claim to cater to mature audiences, while...- $24.99
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Space Daze: The History and Mystery of Ambient Electronic Space Rock
In the beginning, there was Space Rock. Not quite in the very beginning, of course; sundry creation myths notwithstanding, nothing springs from absolutely nothing. But Space Rock has been with us 50 years, and it will surely be with us for at least 50...- $14.99
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Space Daze: The History and Mystery of Space Rock
In the beginning, there was Hawkwind. Not quite in the very beginning, of course; sundry creation myths notwithstanding, nothing springs from absolutely nothing. In terms of Space Rock though, while, without Hawkwind, there would still have been Space and Rock and, maybe, some people...- $15.00
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The Freakiest Show: David Bowie Cover Versions 1964-2019
From Simple Minds to Stargaze, from Marilyn Manson to Morrissey, from Peter Gabriel to the Polecats, The Freakiest Show is a guide to ever known cover of a David Bowie composition recorded or performed since 1964, and updated to include the 2018 Howard Stern...- $24.49
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The Grunge Diaries: Seattle, 1990-1994
Throughout the 1990s, Dave Thompson was the Seattle-based contributing editor to Alternative Press magazine-America's biggest-selling and most influential alternative rock monthly-and a regular contributor to other publications both nationally and internationally. Throughout this decade, grunge music ruled the world and Seattle was its birthplace...- $27.95
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The Hot, Sweet, Smokey, Muddy Sound of Chinnichap and Mickie Most - The Greatest Glam Show in the World
This is the story of two of the greatest empires in the history of rock-and how the songwriting and production powerhouse that was Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman, and the production and promotion genius of Mickey Most came to dominate the British charts for...- $24.99
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The Incomplete Angler - Ten Years of Fruits de Mer (standard edition)
For ten years, the Fruits de Mer record label has been releasing some of the most exhilarating, and eminently collectible, records of the 21st century. Now, for the first time, the full story of this remarkable phenomenon is told. Featuring over 50 exclusive interviews...- $35.00
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The Industrial Revolution - 25th Anniversary Edition
Back in print for the first time in some two decades, The Industrial Revolution - 25th Anniversary Edition includes the full text of a book first published at the dawn of the Industrial Music boom of the mid-1990s. Featuringbiographies and discographies of every Industrial...- $24.99
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The Psychedelic Furs - Beautiful Chaos (Revised Edition)
Newly revised for the band's 40th anniversary, a new 2017 edition of the ultimate story of the ultimate post-punk band. Combining the chaos and vocal rasp of the Sex Pistols with a Bowie-esque glamour, the Psychedelic Furs hit the big time in the U.S....- $24.99
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is simultaneously one of the iconographic touchstones of 1970s cinema, and a timeless romp that appeals equally to every fresh generation. Created with a sharp eye for cult and context alike, Rocky Horror leaped effortlessly from stage to celluloid,...- $9.99
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show FAQ: Everything Left to Know about the Campy Cult Classic
The Rocky Horror Picture Show FAQ is the in-depth story of not only the legendary stage show and movie but of a unique period in theatrical history - in the movie's UK homeland as well as overseas. Rocky Horror has been performed worldwide for...- $19.99
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The Twilight Zone FAQ: All That's Left to Know about the Fifth Dimension and Beyond
The Twilight Zone is among the most beloved shows in American television history, a pioneering fantasy behemoth that bridged the cultural gap between the 1950s and 1960s with thought-provoking mystery, mind-boggling theorems, and occasionally outright horror. The Twilight Zone FAQ takes the reader back...- $19.99
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The Whole Tone Scale: For 6, 7 and 8 String Guitar
A comprehensive guide to the whole tone scale and it's usage in contemporary music. Focusing on the guitar this book features Scale construction, harmonisation, chord voicings, improvisation and musical examples for 6, 7 and 8 stringed instruments.Author: Dave ThompsonISBN-10: 1530023041ISBN-13: 9781530023042Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing...- $7.50
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Time and Some Words: The New Anthology of Prog Rock Quotations 1969-1976
"Prog stood for progressive, but progression happened before the genre was coined. Progressive meant musicians could experiment, push themselves and their musicianship into new and fascinating areas. They could stretch themselves and fly free and, for the most part, their followers soared with them"...- $19.98
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Turn It On Again: Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins and Genesis
One of the most successful rock acts of all time, Genesis enjoyed a longevity exceeded only by the likes of the Rolling Stones and the Kinks, and provided a launching pad for superstars Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins. Turn It On Again is the...- $19.99
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Vinyl Record Collecting for Dummies
Get on the vinyl train and learn about this captivating hobby Vinyl Record Collecting For Dummies teaches you how to start a collection, grow your collection, and make that collection sound excellent. You'll learn how to shop for new, used, and rare records, and...- $19.99
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