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  • Dreams to Remember: Otis Redding, Stax Records, and the Transformation of Southern SoulDreams to Remember: Otis Redding, Stax Records, and the Transformation of Southern Soul
    Liveright

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

    Mark Ribowski Hardcover | 17.02 x 3.56 x 24.64 cm | 336 pp Liveright | 2015 | 9780871408730 When he died suddenly at the age of twenty-six, Otis Redding (1941-1967) had already become the conscience of a new kind of soul music. Sure, Berry...
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  • Why Karen Carpenter Matters
    Faber & Faber

    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...
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  • Why Marianne Faithfull Matters
    Faber & Faber

    Why Marianne Faithfull Matters

    Tanya Pearson Hardcover | 12.9 x 1.3 x 19.8 cm | 178 pp Faber & Faber | 2021 | 9780571368969 A remarkable feminist history and biography that features fragments from the five-decade career of an iconic artist.First as a doe-eyed ingénue with 'As Tears Go...
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  • Al Green: Take Me to the River - An Autobiography
    Chicago Review

    Al Green: Take Me to the River - An Autobiography

    Softcover | 15.24 x 1.91 x 22.86 cm | 343 pp Chicago Review | 2009 | 9781556528101 With an extraordinary appeal that has continued unabated since the early 1970s, Al Green remains the quintessential soul man; one of the most enduring, electrifying, and enigmatic...
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  • Man Enough to Be a Woman: Jayne CountyMan Enough to Be a Woman: Jayne County
    Serpent's Tail

    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...
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  • Woody Guthrie: An Intimate Life
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    Beacon Press

    Woody Guthrie: An Intimate Life

    Gustavus Stadler Softcover | 14.3 x 1.83 x 21.95 cm | 232 pp Beacon Press | 2021 | 9780807014745 An Intimate Life dismantles the Woody Guthrie we have been taught - the rough-and-ready rambling' man - to reveal an artist who discovered how intimacy is...
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  • Cosey Fanni Tutti: Re-Sisters - The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti
    Faber & Faber

    Cosey Fanni Tutti: Re-Sisters - The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti

    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,...
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  • Richard Thompson: Beeswing - Fairport, Folk Rock and Finding My Voice 1967–75Richard Thompson: Beeswing - Fairport, Folk Rock and Finding My Voice 1967–75
    Faber & Faber

    Richard Thompson: Beeswing - Fairport, Folk Rock and Finding My Voice 1967–75

    Richard Thompson Softcover | 12.9 x 1.8 x 19.8 cm | 290 pp Faber & Faber | 2022 | 9780571376988 The memoir of international music icon Richard Thompson, co-founder of the legendary folk rock group Fairport Convention. Richard Thompson came of age during an extraordinary...
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  • Moby: Then It Fell Apart
    Faber & Faber

    Moby: Then It Fell Apart

    Softcover | 12.7 x 2.54 x 19.69 cm | 394 pp Faber & Faber | 2020 | 9780571339419 What do you do when you realise you have everything you think you've ever wanted but still feel completely empty? What do you do when it all...
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  • Thomas Dolby: The Speed of Sound - Breaking the Barriers between Music and Technology
    Icon Books

    Thomas Dolby: The Speed of Sound - Breaking the Barriers between Music and Technology

    Softcover | 12.9 x 1.9 x 19.8 cm | 288 pp Icon Books | 2018 | 9781785783173 Thomas Dolby is a five-time Grammy nominee, whose She Blinded Me With Science reached number 5 on the US Billboard charts in 1982, appeared in Breaking Bad,...
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  • Tracey Thorn: My Rock 'n' Roll Friend
    Cannongate

    Tracey Thorn: My Rock 'n' Roll Friend

    Softcover | 12.7 x 1.91 x 19.69 cm | 256 pp Canongate | 2022 | 9781786898227 In 1983, backstage at the Lyceum in London, Tracey Thorn and Lindy Morrison first met. Tracey's music career was just beginning, while Lindy, drummer for The Go-Betweens, was...
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  • Neil Young: Waging Heavy Peace - His Acclaimed Autobiography
    Penguin

    Neil Young: Waging Heavy Peace - His Acclaimed Autobiography

    Softcover | 13 x 3 x 20 cm | 520 pp Penguin | 2014 | 9780241971956 Waging Heavy Peace is the remarkable memoir of rock icon Neil Young. Neil Young is a singular figure in the history of rock and pop culture, inducted not...
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  • Billie Holiday: Lady Sings the Blues
    Penguin

    Billie Holiday: Lady Sings the Blues

    Softcover | 13 x 1 x 19.7 cm | 180 pp Penguin | 2018 | 9780241729441 'I've been told that no one sings the word "hunger" like l do. Or the word "love"' Billie Holiday grew up scrubbing floors and running errands in a...
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