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
Harambe Press, November 2004. Hardcover. Very good all round. 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
Pub Group West, March 2002. Trade Paperback. Thompson has written over 70 rock music books, as well as articles for a variety of leading music magazines and liner notes for many major artists. In this text, he provides an encyclopedic guide to reggae and other music styles from the English-speaking... 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
Shit Faced Productions/Pepper Kitty Rules, 2016. Paper Back. More
Nowagain, April 2016. Hardcover. 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 read. 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
Billboard Books, May 1994. Trade Paperback. The seminal artists of rock and roll are the subject of this initial volume of a Billboard series on the hitmakers and other significant artists of popular music. Beginning in the late '40s and early '50s and moving through the '70s, this book focuses..... More
Omnibus Pr & Schirmer Trade Books, July 1996. Hardcover. A biography of singer/songwriter James Brown comprising interviews with the singer and the people who knew him. The book is illustrated with rare photographs and includes a comprehensive discography. Light shelf wear. Some creases in the laminate on the back cover. 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
