 | Mystery Train by Greil Marcus
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.45 Marcus on Robert Johnson, Elvis, The Band, Sly Stone... A classic.
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 | Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes by Greil Marcus
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Dylan´s Basement Tapes meet Harry Smith and his Anthology.
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 | The Heart of Rock and Soul: The 1001 Greatest Hits Ever Made by Dave Marsh
Buy new: £14.24 / Used from: £12.00 A tasteful list of the best singles ever made.
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 | England's Dreaming by Jon Savage
Buy new: £7.79 / Used from: £6.81 The history of punk. Essential.
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 | Please Kill Me: Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil
Buy new: £7.66 / Used from: £4.26 The oral history of punk. Also essential...
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 | Song and Dance Man III: The Art of Bob Dylan by Michael Gray
Buy new: £16.99 / Used from: £8.99 Extensive Dylan study.
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 | DJ Shadow "Endtroducing" (33 1/3) (33 1/3) by Eliot Wilder
Buy new: £4.74 / Used from: £2.00 33 1/3 is a great series on classic albums. This one´s a good example.
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 | On The Road with Bob Dylan by Larry Ratso Sloman
Buy new: £11.69 / Used from: £7.77 On the road with Bob in ´75. Great stuff.
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 | Last Train to Memphis: Rise of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £4.49 On Elvis in the beginning. Part 2 (Careless Love) is also excellent.
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 | Hellfire: The Jerry Lee Lewis Story by Nick Tosches
Buy used from: £4.21 The Jerry Lee Lewis Story. Tosches rules.
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 | The Dark Stuff: Selected Writings on Rock Music: 1972-1995 by Nick Kent
Buy used from: £18.17 Nick Kent was one of the best rock hacks of the seventies.
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 | Ball the Wall: Nik Cohn in the Age of Rock (Picador Books) by Nik Cohn
Buy used from: £0.10 Nik Cohn was a pioneer... A best of collection.
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 | Shots from the Hip (Penguin originals) by Charles Shaar Murray
Buy used from: £2.37 Charles Shaar Murray in fine style. Great collection of magazine writings.
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| The Boy Looked at Johnny: The Obituary of Rock and Roll by Julie Burchill
Buy used from: £28.16 Burchill & Parsons: controversial but great.
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 | Crosstown Traffic by Charles Shaar Murray
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £0.92 Jimi Hendrix in depth. Voodoo chile!
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 | Reggae Explosion: The Story of Jamaican Music by Chris Salewicz
Buy used from: £41.00 The reggae coffeetable book. Beautiful.
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 | People Funny Boy: The Genius of Lee 'Scratch' Perry (Revised Edition) by David Katz
Buy new: £7.67 / Used from: £3.98 The Lee Perry story. A bit too much sometimes, but still worthwhile...
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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: £3.42 A history of American alternative rock leading to Nirvana. Great read.
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 | Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk, 1978-1984 by Simon Reynolds
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £2.00 Extensive, well informed study on postpunk.
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 | Straight Life: The Story of Art Pepper by Art Pepper
Buy used from: £15.46 The biography of altist supreme Art Pepper. An amazing read.
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 | Head On/Repossessed by Julian Cope
Buy new: £6.88 / Used from: £5.55 The story of the Teardrop Explodes. Julian can actually write.
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 | From the Velvets to the Voidoids: The Birth of American Punk Rock by Clinton Heylin
Buy new: £9.20 / Used from: £6.75 On punk rock and its predecessors in the US. Cool.
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 | Get in the Van by Henry Rollins
Buy used from: £18.31 Life on the road according to Rollins... Heavy stuff.
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| Written in My Soul by Bill Flanagan
Buy used from: £2.99 Songwriters about their profession. Very insightful.
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 | Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung (Five Star) by Lester Bangs
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £4.25 The king of gonzo rock journalism. Do the Godz speak Esperanto?
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