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(Low)life : A Memoir of Jazz, Fight-Fixing, and The Mob - Charles Farrell

A world-class jazz pianist, Charles Farrell made his living working Mob clubs from the time he was..

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1966 : The Year the Decade Exploded - Jon Savage

The pop world accelerated and broke through the sound barrier in 1966. In America, in London, in A..

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A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race And The Soul Of America - Craig Werner

A Change is Gonna Come chronicles more than forty years of black music: from the hopeful, angry re..

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A Furious Devotion: The Life of Shane MacGowan - Richard Balls

As the infamously hedonistic lead singer of The Pogues, The Popes and The Nips, Shane MacGowan enc..

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A Hero for High Times - Ian Marchant

'My book of the year. Extraordinary' The Times ..

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A Hidden Landscape Once a Week : The Unruly Curiosity of the UK Music Press in the 1960s-80s, in the words of those who were there

An anthology of conversations and essays, memories and commentary from the heyday of British pop m..

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A History of the Jamaican Recording Industry: Vol 1 - Noel Hawks & Jah Floyd

188 page hardback book illustrated throughout with period photos, artefacts and photos.To celebrate ..

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A Light That Never Goes Out : The Enduring Saga of the Smiths - Tony Fletcher

To this day, they were, their fans believe, the best band in the world. Critics and sales figures ..

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A Little Devil in America : In Praise of Black Performance - Hanif Abdurraqib

Out 24 March 2022, pre order here.At the March on Washington in 1963, Josephine Baker was in a mood ..

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A Love Supreme : The Creation Of John Coltrane's Classic Album - Ashley Kahn & Elvin Jones (Introduction By)

A deeply researched and beautifully illustrated study of saxophone legend John Coltrane's signatur..

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A Riot of Our Own - Johnny Green, Garry Barker & Ray Lowry

Johnny Green first met the Clash in 1977. A RIOT OF OUR OWN is his tale of three delirious years ..

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A Secret Stream: Folk Songs collected from English Gypsies - Nick Dow & Steve Gardham

A Secret Stream brings together over a hundred mostly unpublished folksongs and tunes, carols, i..

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All in the Downs : Reflections on Life, Landscape, and Song - Shirley Collins

A memoir from one of Britain's legendary singers, folklorists, and music historians. A legendary..

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All Or Nothing: The Authorised Story of Steve Marriott - Simon Spence

***Authorised by the Marriott family*** Steve Marriott, lead singer of the Small Faces and Humble Pi..

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All Things Remembered - Goldie

All Things Remembered is the story of the man born Clifford J. Price -- jungle's most streetwise a..

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Alpha Boys School - Heather Augustyn & Adam Reeves

Facing a life of poverty, neglect, abandonment and even homelessness, young Jamaican boys are plac..

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Anoraky In The UK 2: 101 Rare Punk, Mod, Power-Pop, Lo-fi Singles 1977-81 - Tony Page

Following on from volume one, here's another 101 obscure new wave vinyl 7" singles lightly reviewed ..

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Anoraky In The UK: 101 Rare New Wave Singles 1977-81 - Tony Page & Tony Fletcher

A light hearted and sometimes cynical review of obscure New Wave 7" single records from 1977-81, a..

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Art Sex Music - Cosey Fanni Tutti

A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in ne..

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As Serious As Your Life: Black Music and the Free Jazz Revolution, 1957-1977 - Val Wilmer & Richard Williams

In this classic account of the new black music of the 1960s and 70s, celebrated photographer and j..

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At the Birth of Bowie : Life with the Man Who Became a Legend - Phil Lancaster

It is 1965, and Swinging London is coming into its prime years. The streets are alive with mods a..

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At the Top of the Stairs : The Story of Leeds Central, Northern Soul and Jazz Funk - Steve Taylor

The story of a Subterranean Club situated in the backstreets of Leeds, that changed the lives of a..

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Babylon's Burning: Music, Subcultures and Anti-Fascism in Britain 1958 - 2020 - Rick Blackman

Three times in the last sixty years musical movements have played a vital role in confronting the ..

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Bass Culture : When Reggae Was King - Lloyd Bradley

The first major account of the history of reggae, black music journalist Lloyd Bradley describes i..

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Bass, Mids, Tops : An Oral History of Sound System Culture - Joe Muggs & Brian David Stevens

An oral history of the UK's soundsystem culture, featuring interviews with Dubmaster Dennis Bovell..

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Beastie Boys Book - Michael Diamond & Adam Horovitz

Formed as a New York City hardcore band in 1981, Beastie Boys struck an unlikely path to global hi..

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Bedroom Beats & B-sides: Instrumental Hip Hop & Electronic Music at the Turn of the Century - Laurent Fintoni

Bedroom Beats & B-sides is the first comprehensive history of the instrumental hip-hop and ele..

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Before I Get Old - Dave Marsh

NEW REISSUE! The Who burst upon a startled world in the early sixties and since then have mainta..

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Before We Was We : The Making of Madness by Madness

New Foreword by Irvine Welsh. In Before We Was We Madness tell us how they became them. A story ..

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Beneath The Underdog - Charles Mingus & Richard Williams

Bass player extraordinaire Charles Mingus, who died in 1979, is one of the essential composers in ..

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Bessie Smith - Jackie Kay

BESSIE SMITH was born in Tennessee in 1894. Orphaned by the age of nine, she sang on street corn..

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Billie Holiday - Jose Munoz & Carlos Sampayo

Born in Baltimore in 1915, and dead too early in New York in 1959, Billie Holiday became a legenda..

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Billie Holiday: The Musician, The Myth - John Szwed

Today, Billie Holiday is an icon - an artist whose voice has weathered countless shifts in public ..

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Biographic: Bowie - Liz Flavell

The Biographic series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest..

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Black by Design : A 2-Tone Memoir - Pauline Black

Born in 1953 to Anglo-Jewish/Nigerian parents, Pauline Black was subsequently adopted by a white, ..

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Bob Marley & The Wailers : The Definitive Discography - Roger Steffens & Leroy Jody Pierson

For the first time ever, all the recordings made by Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer, and Peter Tosh have ..

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Boom Boom, Boom Boom: American Rhythm & Blues in England 1962-1966 - Mark Stratford

Back in the late fifties and into the sixties Manchester was a happening centre of popular music, ..

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Bound for Glory - Woody Guthrie & Joe Klein (Introduction By)

Bound for Glory is the funny, cynical and earthy autobiography of Woody Guthrie, the father of Ame..

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Burn Collector : Collected Stories from One Through Nine - Al Burian

A compilation of the first nine issues of the author’s sporadically published and widely acclaimed..

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Burning Britain : The History of UK Punk 1980-1984 - Ian Glasper

The product of years of research, travel, and countless conversations, Burning Britain is the true..

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But Beautiful : A Book About Jazz - Geoff Dyer

Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on ..

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Chaise Longue - Baxter Dury

Methods of parenting and education have progressed in recent years, especially compared to some of..

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Chamber Music : About the Wu-Tang (in 36 Pieces) - Will Ashon

Each of these chambers contains wonders of history, destiny and mythology' Margo JeffersonWill Ash..

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Clarks in Jamaica - Al Fingers

In Jamaica, Clarks are loved like no other brand. They are the island's ruling name in footwear --..

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Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys - Viv Albertine

In 1975, Viv Albertine was obsessed with music but it never occurred to her she could be in a band..

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Coltrane - Paolo Parisi

'My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being...' John Colt..

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Coltrane : The Story of a Sound - Ben Ratliff

A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in ne..

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Cookin' : Hard Bop and Soul Jazz 1954-65 - Kenny Mathieson

Following on from Giant Steps, comes the second installment in Kenny Mathieson's series of jazz hi..

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Cruel To Be Kind : The Life and Music of Nick Lowe - Will Birch

Cruel to Be Kind is the definitive account of Nick Lowe's uncompromising life as a songwriter an..

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Curepedia : An A-Z of The Cure - Simon Price

Not yet published, 19 August 2021. Pre-order here.Simon Price is a highly-experienced British music ..

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Dayglo! : The Creative Life of Poly Styrene - Celeste Bell & Zoe Howe

Poly Styrene was a singer-songwriter, an artist, a free-thinker, a post-modern style pioneer and a..

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Dead Kennedys: Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, The Early Years - Alex Ogg

Dead Kennedys routinely top both critic and fan polls as the greatest punk band of their generation...

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Dead Precedents : How Hip-Hop Defines the Future - Roy Christopher

In Dead Precedents, Roy Christopher traces the story of how hip-hop invented the twenty-first cent..

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Dead Straight Pocket Guide To Mod - Paul Anderson

Mod has its roots in in London with a group of young men in the late Fifties who were known as mod..

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Detroit 67 : The Year That Changed Soul - Stuart Cosgrove

Detroit 67 is the story of Motor City in the year that changed everything. Twelve chapters take yo..

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Dexys Midnight Runners: The Team That Dreams in Caffs - Geoff Blythe, Ian Snowball, Pete McKenna & Mike Laye

THE TEAM THAT DREAMS IN CAFFS By Geoff Blythe, Ian Snowball, Pete McKenna and Mike Laye. The Team ..

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Don Drummond : The Genius and Tragedy of the World's Greatest Trombonist - Heather Augustyn

This is a comprehensive biography of a brilliant musician and his lover who forever shaped the cou..

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Dread Poetry and Freedom : Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution - David Austin

What is the relationship between poetry and social change? Standing at the forefront of political ..

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Dreams to Remember : Otis Redding, Stax Records, and the Transformation of Southern Soul - Mark Ribowsky

When he died suddenly at the age of twenty-six, Otis Redding (1941-1967) was the conscience of a n..

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Earthquake on Orange Street: Buster's Jamaican Singles Story - Jeremy Collingwood

Mind-boggling discography devoted to the Jamaican releases of Prince Buster's productions from 196..

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Electric Eden : Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music - Rob Young

A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in ne..

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England's Dreaming - Jon Savage

Jon Savage's Ralph Gleason Award-winning England's Dreaming is the ultimate book on punk, its prog..

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Ethiopians - I'm A King & Ranny Williams & Hippy Boys - Big Boy

One more Ethiopians song from the session that Ranny Bop should have done for producer Harry Robin..

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Excavate! : The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall - Tessa Norton & Bob Stanley

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

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Experimental Filmmaking and Punk: Feminist Audio Visual Culture in the 1970s and 1980s - Rachel Garfield

Just as punk created a space for bands such as the Slits and Poly Styrene to challenge 1970s norms..

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Face It : A Memoir - Debbie Harry

'I was saying things in songs that female singers didn't really say back then. I wasn't submissive..

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Fallopian Rhapsody : The Story of the Lunachicks - Jeanne Fury & The Lunachicks

In the late 80s, three self-described "total freak" high school girls from Brooklyn found salvatio..

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Faster! Louder! - Boff Whalley

Mountain running ranks up there as one of the toughest sports. Having the ability and athleticism ..

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Feel Free : Essays - Zadie Smith

No subject is too fringe or too mainstream for the unstoppable Zadie Smith. From social media to t..

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First in the World Somewhere : The True Adventures of a Scribbler, Siren, Saucepot and Pioneer - Penny Pepper

Penny Pepper has led an extraordinary life. She is a writer, an activist, a punk pioneer. She al..

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Folk Devils and Moral Panics - Stanley Cohen

'Richly documented and convincingly presented' -- New Society Mods and Rockers, skinheads, video n..

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From Jazz Funk & Fusion to Acid Jazz : The History of the Uk Jazz Dance Scene - Mark 'Snowboy' Cotgrove

FROM JAZZ FUNK & FUSION TO ACID JAZZ: The History Of The UK Jazz Dance Sceneby Mark ‘Snowboy’ ..

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Gee Vaucher: Introspective - Stevphen Shukaitis

Gee Vaucher is an internationally renowned political artist, known for her 'radical creativity', m..

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Ghosts of My Life : Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures - Mark Fisher

This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues tha..

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Giant Steps: Bebop and the Creators of Modern Jazz, 1945-65 - Kenny Mathieson

Giant Steps examines the most important figures in the creation of modern jazz, detailing the emer..

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Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, & Real Cool Cats : Pulp Fiction & Youth Culture, 1950 to 1980 - Peter Doyle, Iain McIntyre, Andrew Nette

Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and Real Cool Cats is the first comprehensive account of how the rise of p..

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