 | Words and Music: A History of Pop in the Shape of a City by Paul Morley
Buy new: £6.70 / Used from: £2.80 One of my fave reference books alongside 'A User's Guide to the Millennium' & so much more!
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 | Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung (Five Star) by Lester Bangs
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £4.25 The missing link between Hunter S. Thompson & Paul Morley-
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 | Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond (Music in the Twentieth Century) by Michael Nyman
Buy new: £16.55 / Used from: £15.25 The best book on this certain kind of music & a classic really...
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 | Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £2.99 Well it was either this or 'Girlfriend in a Coma'- & this is 99p in a book-chain store at present!
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 | Head On/Repossessed by Julian Cope
Buy new: £6.88 / Used from: £4.30 Cope has written other books on the Megalithic & Krautrock; these are the first two-parts of his autobiography....
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 | This Wheel's on Fire : Levon Helm and the Story of the Band by Levon Helm
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £5.99 The bitter truth behind The Band & apparently loathed by Robbie Robertson!
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 | Please Kill Me: Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil
Buy new: £7.66 / Used from: £4.41 Went for this over 'The Sound & the Fury' or that Ian McDonald book....
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 | The Dark Stuff: Selected Writings on Rock Music by Nick Kent
Buy used from: £10.06 This guy does celebrate the cliched side of rock but there is lots great here!
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 | Serge Gainsbourg: A Fistful of Gitanes by Sylvie Simmons
Buy used from: £16.34 The best Gainsbourg biography at present-
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 | Lit Riffs: A Collection of Original Stories Inspired by Songs by Julianna Baggott
Buy used from: £0.01 A nice experiment/idea...
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 | The Wreckers of Civilization : The Story of Coum Transmissions & Throbbing Gristle: The Story of Coum Transmissions and "Throbbing Gristle" by Simon Ford
Buy new: £13.49 / Used from: £11.68 Excellent reminder of perhaps the ultimate avant-garde "rock" group-
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 | The Smiths' Meat Is Murder (Thirty Three and a Third series): 5 (33 1/3) by Joe Pernice
Buy new: £5.36 / Used from: £1.70 I really liked this approach to the band/album by the frontman of Scud Mountain Boys & Pernice Brothers. I forgot how pious some Smiths fans can be....
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 | Prince's "Sign O'the Times" (33 1/3) by Michaelangelo Matos
Buy used from: £5.04 & this is another excellent example of this cool series of books based around one album....
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 | Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis and "Joy Division" by Deborah Curtis
Buy used from: £2.08 Apparently going to be turned into a film or something....
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 | The Glamour Chase: Maverick Life of Billy MacKenzie by Tom Doyle
Buy used from: £24.98 In heaven this will be shot by Rainer Werner Fassbinder & scripted by Joe Orton...
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 | Tainted Life: The Autobiography by Marc Almond
Buy used from: £3.71 Fun stuff from the entertaining & underrated Almond- I'm a fan of his material up to 'The Stars We Are' for the most part....
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 | Espedair Street by Iain Banks
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Rumours are the central-character is based on Fish from Marillion; I wonder if Fugazi's next LP will be called 'Marillion'?
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 | Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan
Buy new: £10.39 / Used from: £0.01 The enigma is intact, but is more readable than the dire 'Tarantula'
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 | 31 Songs by Nick Hornby
Buy new: £5.56 / Used from: £0.01 Nice idea, even if some of the material he chooses does nought for me...
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 | Miles: The Autobiography (Picador Books) by Miles Davis
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £3.09 One of those books that makes me laugh a lot....
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 | Cider with Roadies by Stuart Maconie
Buy new: £5.01 / Used from: £2.40 I've read bits whilst loitering in book-shops & will now buy it in paperback!
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 | Time Travel: From the "Sex Pistols" to "Nirvana" - Pop, Media and Sexuality, 1977-96 by Jon Savage
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £1.46 This selection seems to me a bit overlooked....
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 | Showbusiness: The Diary of a Rock 'n' Roll Nobody by Mark Radcliffe
Buy used from: £11.62 From the ex-partner of Marc'Lard'Riley & that mythic-seminal act The Shirehorses...
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 | Our Band Could be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 by Michael Azerrad
Buy new: £8.26 / Used from: £4.13 Key book on the U.S. underground: Black Flag, The Replacements, DC, Husker Du et al....
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 | Demonology by Rick Moody
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £0.01 Ultimately for one-short story where a person's life is tracked by his compilation tapes...
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