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Pete Doherty
Ebury Publishing 2011; US$ 12.00Pete Doherty, erstwhile singer with The Libertines, is a British icon. Whether he is playing impromptu gigs in his front room or performing at Live 8, he possesses a sense of drama and expectation not seen in a performer since Sid Vicious. He is enigmatic, charismatic and thoroughly entertaining. Since leaving The Libertines, his life... more...
Wild Boy
Orion 2010; US$ 24.45When 19-year-old Andy Taylor returned from his band's tour of military bases in Germany and saw an advert in Melody Maker in April 1980 asking for a 'live wire guitarist' to audition in Birmingham, he saw his chance. Even he could not have predicted what happened next. The group, Duran Duran, released their first single, 'Planet Earth', ten months... more...
Lulu: I Don't Want to Fight
Little, Brown Book Group 2011; US$ 22.64This is the remarkable memoir of the small girl (5 foot 1 inch tall) with the huge voice. At the age of 15, in 1964, Lulu - born Marie Lawrie in Glasgow - was already a star with her international hit song 'Shout'. At 18 she stole hearts as an English schoolgirl to Sidney Poitier's teacher with the movie hit 'To Sir With Love'. At 21, she married... more...
Appetite for Destruction
Orion 2010; US$ 22.64Collected interviews of Mick Wall from the 1980S heyday of KERRANG! Whether it's hanging around with Marillion's Fish in Berlin, seeing Whitesnake fail to ignite 1985's Rock in Rio, talking through old times with Jimmy Page in his Berkshire pile or following Ozzy Osbourne to Moscow, there isn't a rock luminary that Wall hasn't cross-examined or kept... more...
Hail! Hail! Rock'n'Roll
Little, Brown Book Group 2010; US$ 36.23Want to learn how to play guitar in two pages? Ever wondered what goes into Marilyn Manson?s backstage rider? Or who wrote the worst rhyming couplet in the history of rock? John Harris?s Hail! Hail! Rock?n?Roll is the ultimate guide to what Spinal Tap called ?the majesty of rock, the mystery of roll?. Gloriously irreverent, it is also satisfyingly... more...
There Will Be Rainbows
Orion 2009; US$ 24.45"Rufus Wainwright is the greatest songwriter on the planet" - Elton John. Rufus Wainwright's work mixes innovation and tradition like no other contemporary pop performer. His private life, which, by choice or otherwise, he has lived in public, is equally incredible -- and in its own, sometimes peculiar, often exaggerated way, has encompassed all three... more...
Keith Richards
Da Capo Press 2003; US$ 22.00The definitive biography of the legendary guitarist for The Rolling Stones, now fully updated by the author more...
The Rolling Stones' Some Girls
Continuum International Publishing 2011; US$ 50.00It's October 1977, and the Rolling Stones are in a Paris recording studio. They're under siege. Keith Richards' legal troubles after his arrest for heroin possession in Canada threaten the band's future, and the broad consensus among is that the band will never again reach the heights of Exile on Main Street.But Mick Jagger is writing lyrics inspired... more...
Listening to Van Morrison
Faber and Faber 2010; US$ 13.11A celebratory, and revelatory exploration of the artist in his most sublime moments by one of the most revered cultural commentators of these times. more...
Twisting My Melon
Transworld 2011; US$ 10.67Shaun Ryder has lived a life of glorious highs and desolate lows. As lead singer of the Happy Mondays, he turned Manchester into Madchester, combining all the excesses of a true rock'n'roll star with music and lyrics that led impresario Tony Wilson to describe him as 'the greatest poet since Yeats'. The young scally who left school at fifteen without... more...









