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  • Beat Punks

    New York's Underground Culture from the Beat Generation to the Punk Explosion

    The "poet laureate of the New York underground scene" chronicles three decades of electrifying artistic expressionOnce dominated by Beat Generation writers like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, by the 1970s and '80s, New York City's creative scene had given way to a punk rock–era defined by figures like Debbie Harry and Richard Hell. While the aesthetics of these two movements seem different on ... Read more

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  • Transformer: The Complete Lou Reed Story

    ‘A triumph’ – Time OutTransformer is the only complete and comprehensive telling of the Lou Reed story.Legendary songwriter and guitarist Lou Reed passed away on the 27th October 2013, but his musical influence is assured. Now discover the true story of the Velvet Underground pioneer in this update of Bockris’s classic biography.Transformer: The Complete Lou Reed Story follows the great songwriter ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Muhammad Ali In Fighter's Heaven

    'The man who has no imagination Stands on earth He has no wings He cannot fly' Muhammad Ali Just off Highway 61 in northern Pennsylvania, up the dirt drive of a wooded hill lay a place called Fighter's Heaven. This was once the training camp of the 'greatest of all times'. From early '73 through the summer of '74 Victor Bockris visited Muhammad Ali, while Ali was preparing for his epic battle in ... Read more

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  • With William Burroughs

    A Report from the Bunker

    A trove of intimate conversations between Burroughs and Susan Sontag, Andy Warhol, Patti Smith, David Bowie, and more icons of '70s New York and beyond.During the 1970s, William Burroughs, author of Junky and Naked Lunch, lived in a loft on the Bowery in New York City's Lower East Side. Christened "The Bunker," his apartment became a modern-day literary salon with people like Andy Warhol, Lou Reed ... Read more

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  • Transformer: The Complete Lou Reed Story: Free Sampler

    ‘A triumph’ – Time OutTransformer is the only complete and comprehensive telling of the Lou Reed story.Legendary songwriter and guitarist Lou Reed passed away on the 27th October 2013, but his musical influence is assured. Now discover the true story of the Velvet Underground pioneer in this update of Bockris’s classic biography.Transformer: The Complete Lou Reed Story follows the great songwriter ... Read more

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  • Keith Richards: The Unauthorised Biography

    Victor Bockris’s much admired biography of Keith Richards has been constantly revised since its original publication, now with an additional 12,000 words for a new edition of the Omnibus Press paperback that brings the story up to the present day.First published in eight countries in 1992, at that time Keith Richrds had stood in the shadow of Mick Jagger for thirty years.Then, as a result of ... Read more

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  • Keith Richards: The Unauthorised Biography

    If Mick Jagger is the public face of The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards has always been the band's heart, soul and musical powerhouse.Discover the true facts behind the legends, including:Richards' battles with his demons: the women, the drugs and his love-hate relationship with JaggerHis struggle with heroin and his status as the rock star most likely to die in the 1970sHis triumphant rebirth as ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Up-Tight

    The Velvet Underground Story

    The Velvet Underground is arguably one of the most influential American rock bands ever. Based on interviews with former members Lou Reed, John Cale, and Sterling Morrison, as well as others from Andy Warhol's circle of artistic collaborators, Up-Tight is the definitive oral and visual history of the band and its revolutionary, often avant-garde music. Bockris and Malanga's intelligent and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Keith Richards

    The Unauthorised Biography

    Narrated by Adrian Mulraney ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 19 min

    In 1992, Victor Bockris's celebrated biography was the first to recognise Richards's pivotal role in the legend of the Rolling Stones. Now that book on rock's most incredible survivor has been expanded. Here are the true facts behind Richards' battles with his demons: the women, the drugs and the love-hate-relationship with Jagger. His struggle with heroin and his status as the rock star most ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • The Annals of Ancient Rome

    A bite-size Roman mystery

    by Paul Doherty ...
    Under a full moon, three warriors tell their tale of ghosts, mystery and death...The Annals of Ancient Rome features a new, exclusive short story from the master historian, Paul Doherty. Perfect for fans of** Lindsey Davis and Steven Saylor. Includes tasters from Paul Doherty's other Roman titles including Murder Imperial, The Song of the Gladiator, The Queen of the Night and Murder's Immortal ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Up and Down with The Rolling Stones - My Rollercoaster Ride with Keith Richards

    by Tony Sanchez ...
    This insider's account of the lives of Brian Jones, Keith Richard, and Mick Jagger in the sixties and seventies has become legendary in the years since its first publication in 1979. Tony Sanchez worked for Keith Richard for eight years - buying drugs, running errands, and orchestrating cheap thrills - and he records unforgettable accounts of the Stones' perilous misadventures: racing cars along ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • The Poison Belt

    The Poison Belt was the second story, a novella, that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about Professor Challenger. Written in 1913, roughly a year before the outbreak of World War I, much of it takes place--rather oddly, given that it follows The Lost World, a story set in the jungle--in a room in Challenger's house. This would be the last story written about Challenger until the 1920s, by which time ... Read more

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