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Description *THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER* The Sixties ended a year late - on New Year's Eve 1970, when Paul McCartney initiated proceedi...

Description Progressive rock - a genre formed out of a creative surge in the late Sixties and throughout the Seventies - originated and flowered...

Description The diary and essays of Brian Eno republished twenty-five years on with a new introduction by the artist in a beautiful hardback ed...

Description 'A real treat for Can fans.' SpectatorAll Gates Open is the definitive story of the most influential and revered avant-garde band of...

Description Since the dawn of modernism, visual and music production have had a particularly intimate relationship. From Luigi Russolo's 1913 F...

Description A SUNDAY TIMES, TELEGRAPH, ROUGH TRADE, PITCHFORK AND UNCUT MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZEA new...

Description Art Sleeves is a time capsule of visual art and music culture as shown through the most important record covers designed by visual a...

Description The first major account of the history of reggae, black music journalist Lloyd Bradley describes its origins and development in Jama...

Description The memoir of international music icon Richard Thompson, co-founder of the legendary folk rock group Fairport Convention. 'I encour...

Description Bass player extraordinaire Charles Mingus, who died in 1979, is one of the essential composers in the history of jazz, and Beneath t...

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Description SUNDAY TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR MOJO BOOK OF THE YEAR A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest ...

Description  In 1975, Viv Albertine was obsessed with music but it never occurred to her she could be in a band as she couldn't play an instrum...

Description A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the ...

Description A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the...

Description FOREWORD BY JOHNNY MARR. Award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Jon Savage's definitive history of punk, its progenitors, th...

Description This is a book about Mark E. Smith and The Fall - or more precisely, their ever-influential world. The Fall were so many things, so...

Description Following the success of Jazz Covers, this epic volume of groove assembles over 500 legendary covers from a golden era in African...

Description West Germany after the Second World War was a country in shock: estranged from its recent history, and adrift from the rest of Europ...

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Description The story of a remarkable time and place: Los Angeles from the dawn of the singer-songwriter era in the mid-Sixties to the peak of T...

Description How Music Works is David Byrne's bestselling, buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. Drawing on hi...

Description A ROUGH TRADE and PITCHFORK BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A guide to rediscovering the joys of creating that we all felt as children.' NEW YORK...

Description A gorgeous, inimitable singer and songwriter, Nina Simone (1933-2003) changed the face of both music and race relations in America. ...

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Description Julian Cope, eccentric and visionary rock musician, follows the runaway underground success of his book "Krautrocksampler" with "Jap...

Description Part design history, part trip down musical memory lane, this anthology of jazz album artwork is above all a treasure trove of creat...

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Description Winner of the 2010 Non-Fiction National Book Award Patti Smith's definitive memoir: an evocative, honest and moving coming-of-age s...

Description In the early spring of 1959, six musicians went into the 30th Street Studio in New York. Nine hours later, they had recorded one of ...

Description 'Highly stimulating ... Kraftwerk is a pleasure to read' Jon Savage, New Statesman The story of the phenomenon that is Kraftwerk, a...

Description 'A masterpiece, as fresh and shocking as if it were written yesterday' Craig Brown "I've been told that no one sings the word 'hung...

Description Just before the turn of the millennium nearly 100 churches had been torched and desecrated by adherents of Black Metal, the most ...

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Description In Mars By 1980, David Stubbs charts the evolution of electronic music from the earliest mechanical experiments in the late nineteen...

Description Miles: The Autobiography, like the man himself, holds nothing back. He talks about his battles against drugs and racism, and discuss...

Description 'Entertaining, affectionate and righteous' Guardian 'Says so much about being a woman' Cosey Fanni Tutti In 1983, backstage at the ...

Description A biography of the British singer songwriter who died aged twenty six, having made three albums, all now recognised as classics. ...

Description David Toop's extraordinary work of sonic history travels from the rainforests of Amazonas to the megalopolis of Tokyo via the work ...

Description From our CD collections to iPods bursting with MP3s to the hallowed vinyl of DJs, recordings are the most common way we experience m...

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Description Until his death aged thirty-three in 1982, Lester Bangs wrote wired, rock 'n' roll pieces on Iggy Pop, The Clash, John Lennon, Kraft...

Description For over three decades R. Crumb has shocked, entertained, titillated and challenged the imaginations (and the inhibitions) of comics...

Description A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the ...

Description 'As the Brits say: I'm gobsmacked. I devoured this book... one of the most potent examples of living the dream' DEBBIE HARRY 'A gre...

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