 | A Change is Gonna Come by Craig Hansen Werner
Buy new: £7.79 / Used from: £5.95 fascinating history of black music and politics in America
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 | Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix and Post-war Pop by Charles Shaar Murray
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £0.54 not just Jimi but like it says all of post war pop - will cost you a lot in CDs you have to buy after reading it
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 | Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom by Peter Guralnick
Buy used from: £3.74 the story of southern soul - simply wonderful
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 | Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs by John Lydon
Buy used from: £1.67 the warts and all story of punk from the inside
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 | England's Dreaming: The "Sex Pistols" and Punk Rock by Jon Savage
Buy used from: £4.47 a more intellectual take on punk - read both to get a completish picture
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 | The Rough Guide to Rock
Buy used from: £0.32 an essential reference
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 | Krautrock Sampler: One Head's Guide to the Great Kosmische Music - 1968 Onwards by Julian Cope
open your mind to the krautrockers!
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 | Searching for Robert Johnson: Life and Legend of the King of the Delta Blues Singers by Peter Guralnick
Buy used from: £5.91 the man who changed the blues
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 | Espedair Street by Iain Banks
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £0.01 convincing fictional account of a rock bands rise and fall
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| The Big Wheel by Bruce Thomas
fictional(?) account of touring the USA from one of the attractions (as in Elvis Costello and the..)
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