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Vendor:Harper Collins
Debbie Harry: Face It
Hardcover | 16.2 x 3.1 x 24 cm | 368 pp Harper Collins | 2019 | 9780008229429 Debbie Harry is the international ambassador of New York City cool. Best known as the face of Blondie, Debbie Harry and her cofounder, Chris Stein, brought the...- £10.00
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Vendor:Faber & Faber
Cosey Fanni Tutti: Re-Sisters - The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti (Non-mint)
Cosey Fanni Tutti Hardcover | 15.88 x 3.18 x 24.13 cm | 400 pp Faber & Faber | 2022 | 9780571362189 In 2018, boundary-breaking visual and sonic artist Cosey Fanni Tutti received a commission to write the soundtrack to a film about Delia Derbyshire,...- £8.00
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Vendor:St. Martin's Press
Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina
Chris Frantz Hardcover | 16.38 x 3.38 x 24.23 cm | 384 pp St. Martin's Press | 2020 | 9781250209221 One of the most dynamic groups of the ‘70s and ‘80s, Talking Heads, founded by drummer Chris Frantz, his girlfriend Tina Weymouth, and lead...- £12.50
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Simon Napier-Bell: Sour Mouth, Sweet Bottom - Lessons from a Dissolute Life
Simon Napier-Bell Hardcover | 16.51 x 3.81 x 24.13 cm | 336 pp Unbound | 2022 | 9781800181892 Simon Napier-Bell has been a composer, songwriter, record producer and author, but he is best known for having managed such artists as the Yardbirds, Marc Bolan, Japan and Wham!. Sour Mouth, Sweet...- £10.00
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Vendor:Nine Eight Books
Pandamonium!: How Not to Run a Record Label
Simon Williams Hardcover | 16.2 x 3.2 x 24 cm | 336 pp Nine Eight Books | 2022 | 9781788707282 As a one-time NME journalist, former Xfm radio presenter, toilet-circuit promoter and the founder of enduring homespun British record label Fierce Panda, Simon Williams has...- £10.00
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Why Karen Carpenter Matters
Karen Tongson Softcover | 12.9 x 1.1 x 19.8 cm | 138 pp Faber & Faber | 2021 | 9780571369003 In the '60s and '70s, America's music scene was marked by raucous excess, reflected in the tragic overdoses of young superstars such as Jimi Hendrix...- £5.00
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Vendor:Omnibus Press
So It Started There: From Punk to Pulp
Nick Banks Softcover | 15.88 x 3.18 x 23.5 cm | 432 pp Omnibus Press | 2023 | 9781915841100 So It Started There chronicles the life and career of drummer Nick Banks, and how he came to be in one of the UK’s most iconic...- £10.00
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The Lionel Bart Story: Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be
David Stafford & Caroline Stafford Hardcover | 24.1 x 2.8 x 16.7 cm | 288 pp Omnibus Press | 2011 | 9781849386616 Lionel Bart was a writer and composer of British pop music and musicals, best known for creating the book, music and lyrics for Oliver!...- £10.00
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Vendor:Virago
Tracey Thorn: Bedsit Disco Queen - How I grew up and tried to be a pop star
Softcover | 12.7 x 2.54 x 19.69 cm | 384 pp Virago | 2014 | 9781844088683 I was only sixteen when I bought an electric guitar and joined a band. A year later, I formed an all-girl band called the Marine Girls and played...- £6.50
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Man Enough to Be a Woman: Jayne County
Softcover | 12.9 x 1.7 x 19.8 cm | 272 pp Serpent's Tail | 2021 | 9781788166539 'If you stay alive long enough, people eventually catch up'. Born in rural Georgia in 1947, Jayne County moved to New York and became part of the 60s...- £6.50
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Vendor:Mandala Publishing Group
Ravi Shankar: My Music, My Life (Limited Edition)
Hardcover in portfolio case | 29.72 x 5.08 x 34.29 cm | 160 pp Mandala Publishing Group | 2008 | 9781601090102 Numbered limited edition of 250 copies Includes an original photographic portrait of Ravi Shankar signed by photographer Michael Collopy My Music, My Life...- £60.00
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Vendor:Da Capo Press
Indian Sun: The Life and Music of Ravi Shankar
Oliver Craske Hardcover | 16.64 x 5.97 x 25.15 cm | 672 pp Da Capo Press | 2020 | 9780306874888 The definitive biography of Ravi Shankar, one of the most influential musicians and composers of the twentieth century, told with the cooperation of his estate,...- £12.50
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Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin (Non-mint)
Softcover | 13.97 x 3.81 x 20.96 cm | 528 pp Back Bay | 2015 | 9780316196819 Aretha Franklin (1942-2018) began life as the golden daughter of a progressive and promiscuous Baptist preacher. Raised without her mother, she was a gospel prodigy who have...- £7.50
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