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  • Elvis Costello's Armed Forces

    by Franklin Bruno ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    Thirty-Three and a Third is a series of short books about critically acclaimedand much-loved albums of the past 40 years. Over 50,000 copies have been sold!"Passionate, obsessive, and smart." -Nylon"...an inspired new series of short books about beloved works of vinyl." -DetailsFranklin Bruno's writing about music has appeared inthe Village Voice, Salon, LA Weekly, and Best MusicWriting 2003 (Da ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

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    Stories from the Mothers Who Rocked and Raised Rock Stars

    by Virginia Hanlon Grohl ...
    Written by Virginia Grohl, the mother of Dave Grohl—former Nirvana drummer and current frontman for the Foo Fighters—From Cradle to Stage shares stories and exclusive photos featuring mothers of rock icons, the icons themselves, and their Behind the Music-style relationshipsWhile the Grohl family had always been musical-the family sang together on long car trips, harmonizing to Motown and David ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Take a Walk on the Dark Side

    Rock and Roll Myths, Legends, and Curses

    by R. Gary Patterson ...
    Take a Walk on the Dark Side is the ultimate book for today's rock and roll fan: a fascinating compendium of facts, fictions, prophecies, premonitions, coincidences, hoaxes, doomsday scenarios, and other urban legends about some of the world's most beloved and mysterious pop icons.Updating, revising, and expanding on material from his cult classic Hellhounds on Their Trail, Patterson offers up a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Talking Heads' Fear of Music

    by Jonathan Lethem ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    It's the summer of 1979. A 15-year-old boy listens to WNEW on the radio in his bedroom in Brooklyn. A monotone voice (it's the singer's) announces into dead air in between songs "The Talking Heads have a new album, it's called Fear of Music" - and everything spins outward from that one moment.Jonathan Lethem treats Fear of Music (the third album by the Talking Heads, and the first produced by ... Read more

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  • The Beatles Lyrics

    The Stories Behind the Music, Including the Handwritten Drafts of More Than 100 Classic Beatles Songs

    by Hunter Davies ...
    "A fascinating, intimate glimpse into the creative process behind some of the greatest pop songs ever written." — Christian Science MonitorFor the Beatles, writing songs was a process that could happen anytime—songs we all know by heart often began as a scribble on the back of an envelope or on hotel stationery. These original documents have ended up scattered across the world at museums and ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • How Soon is Now?: The Madmen and Mavericks who made Independent Music 1975-2005

    The Madmen and Mavericks who made Independent Music 1975-2005

    by Richard King ...
    One of the most tangible aftershocks of Punk was its urgency to prompt individuals into action. Document your reality: do it yourself. From this, a generation of young men were inspired and, with often zero financial planning or business sense, in a bedroom, garage or shed, labels such as Factory, Rough Trade, Mute, 4AD, Beggars Banquet, Warp, Domino and Creation began, shifting the musical ... Read more

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  • 33 1/3 Greatest Hits, Volume 1

    Edited by David Barker ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    The writings in this book are extracted from volumes 1 through 20 of our 33 1/3 series - short books about individual albums. In here you'll find a wide variety of authors, albums, and approaches to writing about those albums. So sit back, put on your headphones, cue up your favourite songs, and let our writers transport you to a time when:Dusty Springfield headed south to Memphis to record a pop ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Fleetwood Mac's Tusk

    by Rob Trucks ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    After Rumours became the best-selling single album of all-time, Fleetwood Mac asked Warner Brothers Records to buy them a studio (the label refused, costing both Warner Brothers and the band significant cash in the long run) and then handed the reins to their guitarist and resident perfectionist Lindsey Buckingham. “You know,” Buckingham said, “we had this ridiculous success with Rumours. We were ... Read more

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  • Playing the Bass with Three Left Hands

    by Will Carruthers ...
    I can confirm that should you ever find yourself on stage playing the bass guitar with tree left hands, it is usually the one in the middle that is the real one. The other two are probably phantoms.Playing the Bass with Three Left Hands tells the story of one of the most influential, revered and ultimately demented British bands of the 1980s, Spacemen 3. In classic rock n roll style they split up ... Read more

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  • Rolling Stones on Air in the Sixties

    TV and Radio History As It Happened

    by Richard Havers ...
    The first official, in-depth history of the Rolling Stones told through the band's television and radio broadcasts—appearance by appearance—published to tie in with the global release of a DVD containing recently discovered, never-before-released footage of the Stones on TV, in front of and behind the cameras.The Rolling Stones on Air in the Sixties is a unique chronicle of the band's rise to fame ... Read more

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  • Rock Bass Guitar Lessons for Beginners

    Teach Yourself How to Play Bass Guitar (Free Video Available)

    by LearnToPlayMusic.com, Peter Gelling ...
    Series series Progressive Beginner
    Teach yourself how to play bass guitar with our easy rock bass guitar lessons for beginners.***Comes with online access to free bass videos and audio for all examples. See and hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along with the backing band. Also includes music score animation for easy music learning.***"I use this book for my bass students. It's a great primer for anyone who wants ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Everything in its Right Place

    Analyzing Radiohead

    by Brad Osborn, Ph.D. ...
    More than any rock artist since The Beatles, Radiohead's music inhabits the sweet spot between two extremes: on the one hand, music that is wholly conventional and conforms to all expectations of established rock styles, and, on the other hand, music so radically experimental that it thwarts any learned notions. While averting mainstream trends but still achieving a significant level of success in ... Read more

    $34.19 USD