Music Historical Books


Sex Pistols : The End is Near 25.12.77

Sex Pistols : The En...

The Sex Pistols - Book - by Kevin Cummins

Hardback 176 pages, 10 colour, 150 b&w - 284 x 224 x 22 (mm)

UK Import 5-7 days

33.99 €

She Bop : The Definitive History of Women in Popular Music

She Bop : The Defini...

Women in Popular Music - Book - by Lucy O'Brien

UPDATED Paperback / softback 440 pages - 153 x 217 x 26 (mm)

UK Import 5-7 days

19.49 €

Shock and Awe - from the Seventies to the Twenty-First Century

Shock and Awe - from...

Glam Rock and Its Legacy - Book - by Simon Reynolds

Paperback / softback 704 pages - 129 x 197 x 44 (mm)

UK Import 5-7 days

19.49 €

Sight Readings : Photographers and American Jazz, 1900-1960

Sight Readings : Pho...

Jazz Photographers 1900-1960 - Book - by Alan John Ainsworth

Hardback 472 pages, 135 halftones - 177 x 247 x 39 (mm)

UK Import 5-7 days

43.49 €

Smokin' Valves : A Headbanger's Guide To 900 NWOBHM Records

Smokin' Valves : A H...

New Wave Of British Heavy Metal - Book - by Martin Popoff

Paperback / softback 240 pages, Fully illustrated throughout - 156 x 232 x 15 (mm)

UK Import 5-7 days

19.49 €

Strat! : The Charismatic Life & Times of Tony Stratton Smith

Strat! : The Charism...

Charisma Record Label - Book - by Chris Groom

Paperback / softback 352 pages, 8 page b/w plate section - 158 x 234 x 25 (mm)

UK Import 5-7 days

21.49 €

Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay : The dodgy business of popular music

Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay ...

Simon Napier-Bell - book

Hardback 400 pages - 241 x 159 (mm)

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12.99 €

That Old-Time Rock & Roll : A Chronicle of an Era, 1954-63

That Old-Time Rock &...

1954-63 - Book - by Richard Aquila

USA Paperback / softback 424 pages - 155 x 231 x 32 (mm)

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23.49 €

The Art of the Bizarre Vinyl Sleeve : Crazy, Exotic, Tastelesss, Funny, Peculiar, Strange, Inept, Mind-Boggling, or Just Plain Wrong

The Art of the Bizar...

Bizarre Vinyl Sleeves - Book - by Simon Robinson

Published 1st Dec 2023 - Paperback - 180 pages, 300 + colour illustrations - 210 x 210 (mm) - All our prices include SHIPPING within Germany

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29.99 € 31.23 €

The Beatles are Coming (Book and exclusive DVD documentary)

The Beatles are Comi...

The Beatles - Book and DVD - by Tim Hill

Rare Hardback fully illustrated b/w photos including DVD - 30 x 21 x 1.5cm

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14.99 €

The Beatles: The Illustrated Lyrics

The Beatles: The Ill...

The Beatles - Book - by Welbeck

OFFER !!! Hardback 304 pages, 150 clr and b&w photos - 193 x 243 x 32 (mm) - All our prices include SHIPPING within Germany

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12.99 € 24.99 €

The Big Book of Rock & Roll Names: : How Arcade Fire, Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, Vampire Weekend, and 532 Other Bands Got Their Names

The Big Book of Rock...

How Bands Got Their Names - Book - by Adam Dolgins

Offer !!! USA Paperback / softback 304 pages - 152 x 214 x 24 (mm) - All our BOOK prices include FREE shipping within Germany

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11.99 € 17.15 €

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Historical Performance in Music

The Cambridge Encycl...

Historical Performance in Music - Book - by C. Lawson/R.Stowell

Paperback / softback 765 pages, 50 Printed music items; 5 Tables - 153 x 230 x 43 (mm)

UK Import 5-7 days

39.99 €

The Complete Misfits Discography : Authorized Releases and Bootlegs, Including Recordings by Danzig, Samhain and The Undead

The Complete Misfits...

Misfits / Glenn Danzig - Book - by Robert Michael Cotter

USA Paperback / softback 177 pages, loads of photographs - 178 x 253 x 18 (mm)

Out Of Stock

39.99 €

The Encyclopedia Of Swedish Punk 1977-1987

The Encyclopedia Of ...

Swedish Punk 1977-1987 - Book - by Peter Jandreus

Hardback 320 pages,fully illustrated - 246 x 175 x 21 (mm)

Out Of Stock

33.49 €

The Final Days of EMI : Selling the Pig

The Final Days of EM...

EMI Records - Book - by Eamonn Forde

Paperback / softback 384 pages - 130 x 198 x 32 (mm)

UK Import 5-7 days

15.49 €

The Geography of Jazz

The Geography of Jaz...

Jazz Poems - Book - by Lenard D. Moore

USA Paperback / softback 82 pages - 153 x 228 x 7 (mm)

UK Import 5-7 days

17.49 €

The Great Jazz and Pop Vocal Albums

The Great Jazz and P...

57 Jazz and Pop Albums by Will Friedwald - Book

Hardcover - Fully Illustrated- 432 pages - 186 x 242 x 33 (mm)

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14.99 € 17.31 €

The Greatest Albums You'll Never Hear

The Greatest Albums ...

Lost Recordings - Book - by Bruno MacDonald

OFFER - Hardback - 256 pages - 242 x 182 (mm) - All our prices include VAT and SHIPPING within UK

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14.99 €

The History of the Music in the 1000 Best Albums

The History of the M...

The Penguin Jazz Guide - Book - by Brian Morton

Paperback / softback 800 pages - 232 x 154 x 36 (mm)

UK Import 5-7 days

31.99 €

The music festivals that defined the 1960s

The music festivals ...

Woodstock and Altamont - Book - by Brian Ireland

Paperback / softback 224 pages, 8 page b/w photo section - 254 x 180 x 15 (mm)

UK Import 5-7 days

24.49 €

The Music, Politics and People that Changed Our Culture

The Music, Politics ...

50 Years of Rolling Stone Magazine - Book - by Jann S. Wenner

USA Hardback 288 pages, 224 Halftones, colour - 362 x 290 x 32 (mm)

UK Import 5-7 days

48.99 €

The Official Story of Glastonbury Festival

The Official Story o...

Glastonbury 50 - Book - by Emily and Michael Eavis

Hardback 304 pages - 295 x 250 x 30 (mm)

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33.99 €

The Punk Reader : Research Transmissions from the Local and the Global

The Punk Reader : Re...

Punk Worldwide - Research Book by Dines, Gordon,Guerra,Bestley

328 pages, 3 Tables, black and white; 25 Halftones, b/w; 24 Illustrations - 173 x 243 x 19

UK Import 5-7 days

34.99 €

The Rest is Noise : Listening to the Twentieth Century

The Rest is Noise : ...

20th Century Classical Music - Book - by Alex Ross

Paperback / softback 640 pages - 230 x 147 x 54 (mm)

UK Import 5-7 days

21.49 €

The Story of NASA's Interstellar Mixtape

The Story of NASA's ...

The Vinyl Frontier - Book - by Jonathan Scott

Paperback / softback 288 pages - 128 x 198 x 22 (mm)

UK Import 5-7 days

15.99 €

The There's That Beat! Guide To The Philly Sound : Philadelphia Soul Music and its R&B Roots: From Gospel & Bandstand to TSOP

The There's That Bea...

Philadelphia Soul - Book - by Dave Moore and Jason Thornton

Hardback 696 pages - 235 x 292 x 45 (mm)

Out Of Stock

65.99 €

The Worst Gig : From Psycho Fans to Stage Riots, Famous Musicians Tell All

The Worst Gig : From...

The Worst Gig - Various - Book - by Jon Niccum

USA Paperback / softback 240 pages - 152 x 204 x 16 (mm)

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9.99 €

The Yardbirds, The Dave Clark Five, Manfred Mann, Herman's Hermits, The Hollies, The Troggs, The Kinks, The Zombies, and More

The Yardbirds, The D...

My British Invasion - Book - by Harold Bronson

USA Paperback / softback 320 pages - 142 x 215 x 22 (mm)

UK Import 5-7 days

17.49 €

Through the Prism : Untold rock stories from the Hipgnosis archive

Through the Prism : ...

Hipgnosis Art Work - Book - by Aubrey Powell

Published 21st October - Hardback 320 pages, 253 Illustrations - 234 x 153 (mm)

UK Import 5-7 days

32.99 €

Tim Book Two (Limited Edition)

Tim Book Two (Limite...

Vinyl Love - Book - by Tim Burgess

RARE !!!- Signed & LTD (500) Edition rare HARDBACK – follow-up to Telling Stories from Charlatans singer - All prices include SHIPPING in Germany

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27.99 € 34.11 €

Too Fast to Live Too Young to Die

Too Fast to Live Too...

Punk & post punk graphics 1976-1986 - by Andrew Krivine

Hardback 352 pages, Over 650 colour and black and white photographs - 282 x 224 x 27 (mm)

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34.99 €

Uncommon People : The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars 1955-1994

Uncommon People : Th...

Rock Stars 1955-1994 - Book - by David Hepworth

Paperback / softback 448 pages - 198 x 130 x 29 (mm)

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9.99 € 10.94 €

Vinyl . Album . Cover . Art

Vinyl . Album . Cove...

The Complete Hipgnosis Catalogue - Book - by Aubrey Powell

Hardback 320 pages, 480 illustrations in colour and b/w - 246 x 208 x 32 (mm)

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29.99 €

Vinyl Me, Please

Vinyl Me, Please

100 Albums You Need in Your Collection - Book

Softback Paperback - 285 pages,fully Illustrated - 254 x 235 (mm)

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10.99 € 14.22 €

Vinyl: The Art of Making Records

Vinyl: The Art of Ma...

Vinyl Records - Books - by Mike Evans

Hardback 256 pages,fully illustrated - 26.04 x 1.91 x 26.04 cm

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45.99 €

We're Not Here to Entertain : Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan, and the Real Culture War of 1980s America

We're Not Here to En...

US Punk Rock - Book - by Kevin Mattson

USA Hardback 288 pages - 165 x 243 x 38 (mm)

UK Import 5-7 days

18.99 €

Were You There? : Popular Music at Manchester's Free Trade Hall - 1951 to 1996

Were You There? : Po...

Manchester's Free Trade Hall - Book - by Richard Lysons

Hardback 288 pages, 16 pages of photos - 165 x 241 x 32 (mm)

UK Import 5-7 days

24.49 €

West Hampstead's Musical Heritage Remembered

West Hampstead's Mus...

Decca Studios/Klooks Kleek - Book - Weindling & Colloms

Paperback / softback 192 pages, 53 Illustrations, black and white - 116 x 194 x 15 (mm)

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14.49 €

Western Rock Artists, Madame Butterfly, and the Allure of Japan : Dancing in an Eastern Dream

Western Rock Artists...

Western Rock in Japan - Book - by Christopher T. Keaveney

Published 15th Jan 2022 - USA Paperback / softback 284 pages - 229 x 152 (mm)

UK Import 5-7 days

37.40 €

What About Tomorrow? : An Oral History of Russian Punk from the Soviet Era to Pussy Riot

What About Tomorrow?...

Punk in the USSR and Russia - Book - by Alexander Herbert

USA Paperback / softback 288 pages - 202 x 127 x 19 (mm)

Out Of Stock

23.99 €

When the World Came to the Isle of Wight : Volume One: Stealing Dylan from Woodstock

When the World Came ...

Isle of Wight Festivals - Book - by Ray Foulk

Hardback 312 pages - 238 x 164 x 30 (mm)

UK Import 5-7 days

26.99 €

While We Were Getting High

While We Were Gettin...

Britpop & the '90s in photographs - Book - by Kevin Cummins

Hardback 256 pages - 201 x 270 x 28 (mm)

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12.99 € 21.90 €

White Bicycles : Making Music in the 1960s

White Bicycles : Mak...

1960's - Book - by Joe Boyd

# 37 - Paperback / softback 304 pages, 16 pages black and white - 199 x 130 x 21 (mm)

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16.49 €

Yeah Yeah Yeah : The Story of Modern Pop

Yeah Yeah Yeah : The...

The Story of Modern Pop - Book - by Bob Stanley

Paperback / softback 800 pages - 235 x 162 x 48 (mm)

UK Import 5-7 days

23.99 €

The World's Most Celebrated Guitarists Answer Their Fans' Most Burning Questions

The World's Most Cel...

Guitar World Presents Dear Guitar Hero - book - by Guitar World

Paperback / softback 256 pages - 178 x 129 (mm)

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9.99 €