Your basket is empty.
Categories Music & Dance
Music & Dance
Music & Dance
Music, Dance, Theatre, actors and actresses, ballet dancers and musicians, guitar and piano playing and musical instruments. Biographies and non fiction about eveything musical.
| CYNTHIA ADAMS HOOVER ET AL Book Number: 87861 |
Published price: £14.95
Bibliophile price: £3.00
Product format: Paperback
=
|
|
Sub-titled 'Celebrating Three Centuries of People and Pianos', the book was published to accompany a special exhibition 20 years ago at the National Museum of American History in the Smithsonian's ...
|
|
|
|
|
| ROB JOVANOVIC Book Number: 87804 |
Published price: £9.99
Bibliophile price: £2.50
Product format: Paperback
=
|
|
'I've always been pretty self-analytical and my songs have always been like that. But then I am probably a lot of things I wouldn't have been had I not become famous.' - George Michael. From the f...
|
|
|
|
|
| SIMON SPENCE Book Number: 87834 |
Published price: £14.95
Bibliophile price: £3.25
Product format: Paperback
=
|
|
For UK audiences, The Bee Gees were those drippy 60s harmony-singing brothers whose hits such as their 1967 number one Massachusetts and 1968 I Gotta Get A Message to You, were difficult to dislodg...
|
|
|
|
|
| FRANK TURNER Book Number: 88307 |
Published price: £10.99
Bibliophile price: £1.50
Product format: Paperback
=
|
|
"Life is about love, last minutes and lost evenings" is an evocative line from folk-punk singer-songwriter Frank Turner's song "I knew Prufrock before he got famous". Like Paul McCartney's "Yesterd...
|
|
|
|
|
| BLAIR TINDALL Book Number: 88445 |
Published price: $16
Bibliophile price: £1.88
Product format: Paperback
=
|
|
Journalist and first oboe Blair Tindall takes you on a no-holds-barred tour of what really goes on both back-stage and in the orchestra pit! From her acclaimed debut recital at Carnegie Hall to the...
|
|
|
|
|
| CARLY SIMON Book Number: 88581 |
Published price: £20
Bibliophile price: £2.25
Product format: Hardback
=
|
|
Rock star, poet, feminist icon, seductress, survivor, Carly Simon's life and career is one of the last great untold stories of popular music. Her lyrics, sung in that instantly recognisable husky,...
|
|
|
|
|
| SCOTT CUPIT Book Number: 88735 |
Published price: £20
Bibliophile price: £2.00
Product format: Hardback
=
|
|
Strictly Come Dancing may be back on our TV screens, but one thing they have missed is the fashion, music, culture and key moves of Swing Dance, the wonderful Lindy Hop we all love to watch. Truly...
|
|
|
|
|
| ANDREW ROBERTS Book Number: 89279 |
Published price: £20
Bibliophile price: £7.50
Product format: Paperback
=
|
|
From music hall and Variety of the 1920s and 30s came Will Collinson and Alfie Dean, Bud in a raccoon coat and old straw hat and Ches, dapper and deadpan, emphasising the words in a mellow croak. ...
|
|
|
|
|
| ELIJAH WALD Book Number: 89281 |
Published price: £16.99
Bibliophile price: £4.00
Product format: Hardback
=
|
|
In 1965 on the evening of 25th July, Bob Dylan took to the stage at Newport Folk Festival in black jeans, black boots, and a black leather jacket, carrying a Fender Stratocaster in place of his fam...
|
|
|
|
|
| KENNEY JONES Book Number: 89303 |
Published price: £14.99
Bibliophile price: £6.00
Product format: Paperback
=
|
|
'The Small Faces were the most creative, The Faces were the most fun, The Who were the most exciting. These were electrifying days in music. We were all untried, untested. What was stopping us? N...
|
|
|
|
|
| DAVID DALTON Book Number: 89328 |
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £3.50
Product format: Paperback
=
|
|
The real Bob Dylan is Bobby Zimmerman, yearning to escape Hibbing, Minnesota, or the Woody Guthrie wannabe playing Greenwich Village haunts. Was he the Folk Messiah, the seething amphetamine hipst...
|
|
|
|
|
| NIGEL WILLIAMSON Book Number: 89026 |
Published price: £14.99
Bibliophile price: £6.50
Product format: Paperback
=
|
|
In 1968 Robert Plant made his way down to Jimmy Page's houseboat with a view to becoming the lead singer of the New Yardbirds, soon to be rebranded as Led Zeppelin. They bonded over favourite recor...
|
|
|
|
|
| RICHARD HOUGHTON Book Number: 89036 |
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £6.00
Product format: Paperback
=
|
|
More than any other band that emerged in the 1960s, The Who is associated with live performance, and these accounts of over 300 gigs by people who were there is an unusual take on the band's colour...
|
|
|
|
|
| JOHN GOSLING & MARCUS CORRIE Book Number: 89015 |
Published price: £21.99
Bibliophile price: £7.00
Product format: Hardback
=
|
|
The violin finds its origins in Moorish instruments from the Northern African and Arabian tribes. The rebab and rebec were popular folk instruments with a simple sound box and only a couple of str...
|
|
|
|
|
| NEIL YOUNG Book Number: 89632 |
Published price: £9.99
Bibliophile price: £5.50
Product format: Paperback
=
|
|
Southern Man has a fantastic music and song writing career spanning 40 years and 34 studio albums of rock and roll, folk and country. From his early days with Buffalo Springfield and his solo care...
|
|
|
|
|
| MICK WALL Book Number: 89979 |
Published price: £20
Bibliophile price: £5.50
Product format: Hardback
=
|
|
The UK's best known rock writer draws upon his own interviews and extensive research to produce an inimitable, novelistic portrait of the Guitar God. Jimmy was a down-at-heel guitarist in New York...
|
|
|
|
|
| JULIEN BITOUN Book Number: 89407 |
Published price: £30
Bibliophile price: £8.00
Product format: Hardback
=
|
|
Three days of Peace and Music at Woodstock in August 1969 became one of the defining experiences of the decade. This beautifully produced book goes through the programme artist by artist, listing a...
|
|
|
|
|
| DYLAN JONES Book Number: 89774 |
Published price: £20
Bibliophile price: £4.00
Product format: Hardback
=
|
|
Musicians, groupies, music producers like Tony Visconti, Mick Rock, Angie Bowie, photographer Brian Duffy, the mime artist Lindsay Kemp, musician Nile Rodgers, journalists, actresses and models, To...
|
|
|
|
|
| EDITED BY MATTHEW RYE Book Number: 90081 |
Bibliophile price:
£5.00
Product format: Paperback
=
|
|
Solid, readable and beautifully illustrated, this is a musical education in a single volume. 1001 works are described in chronological order, anchored on a particular recording, with informed and l...
|
|
|
|
|
| SPENCER LEIGH Book Number: 90090 |
Published price: £8.99
Bibliophile price: £3.00
Product format: Paperback
=
|
|
The journalist and author Spencer Leigh was born in Liverpool and has been broadcasting his weekly show 'On the Beat' on BBC Radio Merseyside for more than 25 years and conducted more interviews ab...
|
|
|
|
|
| SPENCER LEIGH Book Number: 90095 |
Published price: £14
Bibliophile price: £5.50
Product format: Paperback
=
|
|
A companion to Best of the Beatles and by the respected music journalist and BBC Radio Merseyside broadcaster Spencer Leigh, with a little help from Sir Paul McCartney who provides the Foreword, th...
|
|
|
|
|
| DYLAN JONES Book Number: 90131 |
Published price: £8.99
Bibliophile price: £1.50
Product format: Paperback
=
|
|
Who was the real Jim Morrison? Found dead in his bathtub aged only 27, having achieved worldwide stardom as lead singer of The Doors, Morrison was quickly immortalised among the rock 'n' roll deit...
|
|
|
|
|
| DAVID ROBERTS Book Number: 90140 |
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £4.00
Product format: Hardback
=
|
|
We absolutely love this one! Simply put, here are 127 mostly colour shots of the world's biggest names in music from the 50s to the present day with cars they have either owned, borrowed, wrecked o...
|
|
|
|
|
| JONATHAN KEATES Book Number: 90062 |
Published price: £16.99
Bibliophile price: £3.50
Product format: Hardback
=
|
|
Brimming with detail, Keates skilfully brings to life Handel the man, his music and his Age, accounting for the prehistory, composition and early performances of Handel's Messiah. He brings to lif...
|
|
|
|
|
| JAMES HAMILTON-PATERSON Book Number: 90069 |
Published price: £16.99
Bibliophile price: £2.75
Product format: Hardback
=
|
|
Ludwig van Beethoven's Third Symphony 'The Eroica' was intellectually and emotionally revolutionary music. It rudely broke the mould of the Viennese Classical Symphony and revealed a new and power...
|
|
|
|
|
| DAVID HODGE Book Number: 89934 |
Published price: $19.95
Bibliophile price: £6.00
Product format: Paperback
=
|
|
Over 140 online audios can be found with the link in the introduction to the songs and exercises referenced in the book which can be used alone to get you started playing guitar right away, even yo...
|
|
|
|
|
| JON BUCK Book Number: 89951 |
Published price: $14.99
Bibliophile price: £4.50
Product format: Paperback
=
|
|
Starting with the anatomy of the guitar, the book goes on to the basics of playing, correct positioning of thumb and fingers of the left hand, and the right way of pressing the fret wire. You can n...
|
|
|
|
|
| TIME MAGAZINE Book Number: 89958 |
Published price: $39.95
Bibliophile price: £5.00
Product format: Hardback
=
|
|
A TIME magazine 40th anniversary special picture book which is a richly illustrated chronicle of a remarkable and historic year. The year's most memorable photographs include images of the war in ...
|
|
|
|
|
| MIKE EVANS & PAUL KINGSBURY Book Number: 89961 |
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £5.50
Product format: Paperback
=
|
|
'Woodstock was beads and colours and flowers and sunshine and beautiful people.' - John Sebastian. In August 1969, drenched by torrential rain and ankle-deep in mud, half a million people gathered...
|
|
|
|
|
| DON BLACK Book Number: 90415 |
Published price: £20
Bibliophile price: £4.50
Product format: Hardback
=
|
|
Oscar-winning lyricist Don Black crafted the words behind some of the greatest songs in showbusiness, including "Diamonds Are Forever" and "Tell Me on a Sunday", but lyricists never become househol...
|
|
|
|
|