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
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
Cooper Square Press, October 2001. Paper Back. 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 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
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
Omnibus, January 1988. Trade Paperback. More
Headpress, May 2009. Trade Paperback. 'It's All Good' is a sampling of Sinclair's journalism and verse spanning over 40 years. It includes selections from his epic works in verse and illuminates his legendary period as a cultural revolutionary and political prisoner. More
Jawbone Press, 2016. Trade Paperback. As Bing Crosby once put it, Tiny Tim represents 'one of the most phenomenal success stories in show business'. In 1968, after years of playing dive bars and lesbian cabarets on the Greenwich Village scene, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Bob Dylan and Lenny..... More
Little Brown & Co (P), July 1995. Trade Paperback. More
Bantam, 1974. Mass Market PaperBack. More
It Books, March 2011. Trade Paperback. Neil Strauss can uncover the naked truth like nobody else. With his groundbreaking book The Game, Strauss penetrated the secret society of pickup artists; now, in Everyone Loves You When You're Dead, his candid, surprising, and often hysterical interviews reveal the hidden sides of..... More
Dey Street Books, December 2017. Paper Back. In this final installment of his internationally bestselling three-part memoir--including The Hacienda and Unknown Pleasures--British rocker Peter Hook focuses on the 1980s New Wave and Dance Punk scene and the rise of one of the most influential bands of the Second British Invasion..... More
Bloomsbury USA, April 2015. First Edition. Cloth. "A deeply felt and largely compelling portrait of an age that indelibly marked everyone who took part in it. Indispensable for understanding the culture of the '60s and the music that was at its heart." - starred review, Kirkus Reviews In 1966, at..... More
Quick American Archives, August 2002. Paper Back. A portrait of the final years of John Lennon's life is based on his journals and interviews with those closest to him, in a volume that discusses his views on parenting, drugs, relationship with Yoko Ono, and contrasting private and public life. Reprint..... More
Harvard University Press, November 1998. Hardcover. Two generations of American music lovers have grown up listening with Robert Christgau, attuned to his inimitable blend of judgment, acuity, passion, erudition, wit, and caveat emptor. His writings, collected here, constitute a virtual encyclopedia of popular music over the past fifty years. Whether..... More
