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Music
Mick Jagger
By Philip Norman
Hardback
Published 04-Oct-2012
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A miracle of still-plentiful hair, raw sex-appeal, and strutting talent . The frontman of one of the most influential and controversial groups of all time. A musical genius with a career spanning over four decades. He is a testament to British glamour, the ultimate architect and demi-god of rock.
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Pete Townshend: Who I am
By Pete Townshend
Hardback
Published 11-Oct-2012
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He is one of the greatest musical talents Britain has ever produced. But even as the principle songwriter and lead guitarist for The Who, it would be unjust to define Pete Townshend's life simply through his achievements with bandmates Daltrey, Moon and Entwistle.
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Telling Stories
By Tim Burgess
Paperback
Published 26-Apr-2012
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Reveals the joys, the agonies, and the stories of what it's like to be in a rock band, as told by front man and survivor.
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New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs
By Julia Steve Bishop Roud
Hardback
Published 07-Jun-2012
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One of the great English popular art forms, the folk song can be painful, satirical, erotic, dramatic, rueful or funny. They have thrived when sung on a whim to a handful of friends in a pub. This title brings together all the classic folk songs and many discoveries, complete with music and annotations on their original sources and meaning.
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Sergey Prokofiev Diaries, 1924-1933
By Sergey Prokofiev
Hardback
Published 01-Nov-2012
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Covering the years 1924 to1933 when the author was living in Paris, this title offers an account of the successes and disappointments of a great creative artist at the heart of the European arts world between the two World Wars. It documents the inner world of a Russian exile uncomfortably aware of the nature of life in Stalin's Russia.
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Reelin' in the Years
By Mark Radcliffe
Paperback
Published 10-May-2012
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BBC Radio broadcaster Mark Radcliffe looks back at the soundtrack of his lifetime, choosing one single that defined each of his years
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True Adventures of the Rolling Stones
By Stanley Booth
Paperback
Published 12-Apr-2012
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'The one authentic masterpiece of rock 'n' roll writing'. Peter Guralnick
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Rolling Stones: 50
By The Rolling Stones
Hardback
Published 12-Jul-2012
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On Thursday 12 July 1962 the Rolling Stones went on stage at the Marquee Club in London's Oxford Street. In the intervening fifty years the Stones have performed live in front of more people than any band... ever. Curated, introduced and narrated by the band themselves, this book to celebrate this milestone.
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Just Kids
By Patti Smith
Paperback
Published 04-Jan-2011
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Winner of the 2010 Non-Fiction National Book Award Patti Smith's evocative, honest and moving coming-of-age story of her extraordinary relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe
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Verdi and/or Wagner
By Peter Conrad
Hardback
Published 17-Oct-2011
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Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner, the two greatest operatic composers of their time, had everything and nothing in common. Their achievements were comparable, but their personalities, their approaches to music and drama, and their complex legacies made them incompatible. This book investigates their affinities and explains their mutual mistrust.
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