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Updated November 9, 2024
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Willie, Waylon, and the Boys: How Nashville Outsiders Changed Country Music Forever
Brian Fairbanks
Paper Book
The tragic and inspiring story of the leaders of Outlaw country and their influence on today's Alt-County and Americana superstars, tracing a path from Waylon Jennings' survival on the Day the Music Died through to the Highwaymen and on to the current creative and commercial explosion of Chris...
Erotic Vagrancy
Roger Lewis
Paper Book
'The book of the year' SUNDAY TIMES 'One of the very best biographies I have ever read' STEPHEN FRY 'A hot thunderstorm of a book' DAVID HARE 'Erotic Vagrancy gave me a week of pure joy' CRAIG BROWN 'Unputdownable' TONY PALMER 'A genius writer...
There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland
Steven Hyden
Paper Book
A thought-provoking exploration of Bruce Springsteen's iconic album, Born in the U.S.A.-a record that both chronicled and foreshadowed the changing tides of modern America On June 4, 1984, Columbia Records issued what would become one of the best-selling and most...
The Secret Public
Jon Savage
Paper Book
'Fascinating.' NEIL TENNANT'The missing story of the heart of pop.' JOHNNY MARR 'Superb.' Alexis Petridis 'Dazzling.' GUARDIAN'So much spine, spunk and guts.' NEW STATESMAN'Utterly engrossing.' THE WIRE...
Under a Rock
Chris Stein
Paper Book
ONE OF WATERSTONES BEST ENTERTAINMENT BOOKS OF 2024 'Sometimes fate deals up a wild card. There's a lot to be said for one of these wild cards and from what I've learned over the fifty or so years of our friendship, Chris is a card from the unexpected deck' - from...
Pandora's Box: How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV
Peter Biskind
Paper Book
The revolution has been televized. From The Sopranos to Stranger Things, the shows we watch - and the ways we watch them - have been transformed over the past fifty years. Out of the bland wasteland of 'play-it-safe' broadcasting came astonishing stories of sex , violence, and...
Bowie at the BBC: A life in interviews
David Bowie
Paper Book
A LOUDER THAN WAR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A unique insight... An excellent companion for both the casual and obsessive Bowie fan' Louder Then War The life of an icon, in his own words. David Bowie had a unique relationship with the...
Curepedia: An A-Z of The Cure
Simon Price
Paper Book
A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 A GUARDIAN MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 The Cure are arguably the biggest alternative rock band in the world. Between 1985 and 2000 every album they released went to at least Gold in the UK, the US or both. In America they...

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