Taschen, May 2017. Hardcover. Loving the Alien Behind the scenes of Nic Roeg's 1976 sci-fi masterpiece starring David Bowie First advertised as a "mind-stretching experience," Nicolas Roeg's 1976 The Man Who Fell to Earth stunned the cinema world. A tour-de-force of science fiction as art form, the movie brought not..... More
Open Court, December 2017. Paper Back. In his brief career Jimi Hendrix transformed rock music, established himself as the greatest guitarist of all time, and left a rich legacy of original songs and dazzling recordings. In Jimi Hendrix and Philosophy, philosophers come to terms with the experience and the phenomenon..... More
Firefly Publishing, September 2002. Hardcover. The Pretty Things were the bad boys of the British blues boom. Fully illustrated and heavily researched, this is the biography of a band that were as important as The Stones in the development of British rock music. More
St. Martin's Griffin, February 1996. Trade Paperback. Courtney Love: "I rely a lot on sexual metaphors-food as sex, music as sex, fucked-up weird insane sexual vistas that haunt me and make me feel as though I were going insane sometimes." Bjork: "I have always had a certain song in my..... More
Chronicle Books, October 2007. Oversized Hardcover. Elliott Smith's intensely intimate music and open-hearted, Beatlesque pop songs have left a deep mark on a generation of fans and musicians in the wake of his tragic death in 2003. In Autumn de Wilde's remarkable photographs and conversations with close friends, family, and..... More
Oxford University, January 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. First/first in bright jacket with edgewear and one inch chip at top of front panel near spine. Black cloth; red end pages. More
Fireside, September 1988. Trade Paperback. More
Lawrence Hill Books, July 2011. Trade Paperback. The marriage of music and social change didn t originate with the movements for civil rights and Black Power in the 1950s and 1960s, but never before and never again was the relationship between the two so dynamic. In "Keep On Pushing," author..... More
Cooper Square Press, October 2001. Paper Back. More
Fireside, September 1988. Oversize Softcover. More
Tangent Books, October 2014. Paper Back. A collection of rare archive images by phographer John Spink document the Bristol Music scene from the days of Prog Rock, through Punk to Art Rock. Gill Loats, the first female DJ at the legendary Dug Out Club provides the words. Oblong octavo. Gently..... More
Backbeat, November 2012. Trade Paperback. (Book). December 8, 1980: The Day John Lennon Died follows the events leading to the horrible moment when Mark David Chapman the paunchy, mentally ill Beatles fan calmly fired his Charter Arms .38 Special into the rock icon, realizing his perverse fantasy of attaining perennial..... More
Macmillan Pub Co, November 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf wear and edge wear on the jacket. Price stamped in ink on the front free endpaper. Mylar wrapped. More
The Dial Press, 1971. Hardcover. Apparently an ex-library copy with worn jacket spine where sticker has been removed. Jacket chipped, sunned, and torn. Rear free endpaper removed. Rear pastedown scarred from where jacket was likely glued down. More
Cassell Illustrated, April 2006. Hardcover. The story of Jamica's most famous hero, told through his music, from unknown Trenchtown rasta to international superstar. Bob Marley first became well known in the UK and USA in 1977, with the release of his 'Exodus' album. Living and touring as an international star..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), October 1993. Trade Paperback. Carroll, a diarist and rock performer, is best known for his coming-of-age memoirThe Basketball Diaries, which became an instant classic when it was first published in 1978 and then a national bestseller when a film version of the book was released in 1995. Carroll..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), October 1993. Trade Paperback. Carroll, a diarist and rock performer, is best known for his coming-of-age memoir The Basketball Diaries, which became an instant classic when it was first published in 1978 and then a national bestseller when a film version of the book was released in 1995..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), October 1998. Trade Paperback. Void of Course presents new work composed over the last several years. Carroll's major themes - love, friendship, desire, time and memory, and, above all, the ever-present city - emerge in an atmosphere where dream and reality mingle on equal terms. These seventy-five poems..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), October 1998. Trade Paperback. Void of Course presents new work composed over the last several years. Carroll's major themes - love, friendship, desire, time and memory, and, above all, the ever-present city - emerge in an atmosphere where dream and reality mingle on equal terms. These seventy-five poems..... More
Harpercollins, June 1997. Hardcover. "Cullen's unapologetic pursuit of deeper cultural meaning in Bruce Springsteen's music and life is refreshing...[He] has taken on the considerable task of revealing how Springsteen is the heir to the independent-minded rusticity of Whitman, Lincoln and Twain". "Publishers Weekly" "This is a well-written painstakingly researched and..... More
Bantam Dell Pub Group, May 2000. Trade Paperback. Let It Blurt is the raucous and righteous biography of Lester Bangs (1949-82)--the gonzo journalist, gutter poet, and romantic visionary of rock criticism. No writer on rock 'n' roll ever lived harder or wrote better--more passionately, more compellingly, more penetratingly. He lived..... More
BACKBEAT BOOKS, May 2003. Oversize Softcover. (Book). The first comprehensive book on American-made electric and acoustic bass guitars, American Basses offers a wealth of well-researched information about all of the important builders, from one-man shops to the biggest manufacturers. Hundreds of full-color photos illustrate the wide range of instruments available..... More
Bantam Press, November 2005. Trade Paperback. More
Omnibus, January 1988. Trade Paperback. More
