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ever published. The updated and revised second edition was published ten years later and, as our subtitle has probably given away, this third edition was published in 2011, and includes over 60,000 words of brand new material covering his four 21st century albums, his archival AV projects, his third film, his series of paintings and exhibitions, his autobiography “Chronicles” and his ongoing romantic liaisons and “missing” marriages. Here is a monumental 902 pages all about probably the most important figure in post-war pop culture. From his birth on 24th May 1941 to Abraham and Beatrice, both second generation immigrants of the 1906 Eastern European Jewish exodus, right up to his 70th year, here is the life story of Shabtai Zisel ben Avraham (otherwise Robert Allen) Zimmerman, described in detail as never before. Here his family and early years, business dealings, addictions, romantic attachments, art, writing and, above all his music are all given full weight by Dylan’s own words and those of his closest associates, over 250 of whom are quoted here. Includes a full list of Dramatis Personae featured in the book and, most wonderfully, a list of all 610 songs (excluding instrumentals) written fully or partly by Bob Dylan presented in the order in which they were written - now there’s an argument solver for you! Paperback edition, some b/w photos. £20 NOW £7.50


74285 COMPLETE BOOK OF THE BRITISH CHARTS: Singles and Albums


by Neil Warwick, Jon Kutner and Tony Brown


The official UK charts began in 1952 and this epic work of reference, now in its third edition, includes absolutely every charting album, single and EP since its inception until the end of 2003. This edition now includes compiled, but unpublished


Record Retailer EP and Singles charts from the 1960s, plus, for the first time in a reference book, album charts dating back to 1956. An incredible 51 years arranged by artist and identified by country of origin, label, chart position and number of weeks in chart. Packed with insights, trivia and cross references. For all classic pop reference enthusiasts, It’s Simply the Best! A staggeringly heavyweight 1522 page softback. £19.95 NOW £6


74394 MOON RIVER AND ME: The


Autobiography by Andy Williams Andy Williams here, for the first time, tells his whole remarkable story. His glittering career has spanned eight decades, he has sold over 100 million albums, hosted a hugely successful TV show and worked with a roll-call of showbusiness legends including Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley and John Lennon. His TV show introduced stars of the next generation like The Osmonds and Elton John. An Iowa farm boy who grew up during the Great Depression so poor he had to sing for his shoes, Andy began performing at the age of seven as one quarter of the Williams Brothers. They graduated from church halls and a funeral parlour to mid-Western radio stations and found fame in Hollywood movies and a headlining nightclub act that was the sensation of its era. After going solo, Andy endured his wilderness years barely scraping a living in ‘rust-belt’ supper clubs to re-emerge as one of the greatest TV and recording stars of his era who went on to earn 18 gold and three platinum discs. Revelatory, honest, funny and touching, his is an inspiring story. 308pp, paperback with 16 pages of b/w photos. £12.99 NOW £5


73904 READER’S DIGEST


KEYBOARD COURSE by Reader’s Digest Learn to play 100 popular and unforgettable songs the easy way with this perfect beginner’s song book for all keyboards. Send in the Clowns, Tomorrow, April in Paris, As Time Goes By, Born Free, Amazing Grace, Greensleeves, Happy Birthday to You, Danny


Boy, Till We Meet Again, Shenandoah, Anniversary Song, When you Wish Upon a Star, Embraceable You and Dream A Little Dream of Me are among them. Included is a set of peel off stickers for the keys of your piano or electric keyboard and a diagram above shows how to position them. They are primarily for those who can’t read music who will be reading the top line of music printed in blue for the right hand or treble notes. The letter stickers are for the two octaves of notes in the base of left hand clef. To position the labels first find Middle C which will be number one. Even if you took lessons long ago you will be able to sound like a pro and polish your skills in no time. With colour coded musical scores, the black print is for easy piano or for more experienced players and the red marks under the lyrics represents the beat. Includes piano and organ notes, guitar chords and melody line. Huge softback, 208pp, colour.


$19.99 NOW £7 74288 DAVID BOWIE:


STARMAN by Paul Trynka In a definitive account of a monumental life, based on more than 250 new interviews with Bowie’s friends and associates, from lovers to band members, classmates and managers, the author illuminates every facet of the blue-collar boy called David Jones who spent his early days as a hard-working songwriter dedicated to learning his


craft and who then soared through the long and intriguing career that led him from movie star to trendsetter, glittery glam idol, taboo breaker and sex symbol. This book is not just about how David reinvented himself on the outside, but how an ambitious child with ‘more desire and drive than talent’ transformed himself into a ‘genius on the inside’. This genius has been both mainstream hit maker and art-rock pioneer. Proclaiming his bisexuality, he dared to push the


A restless star, with a constantly evolving style, from the delicate piano-driven melodies of Hunky Dory through the snarling guitars of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the experimental krautrock of Heroes to the MTV-ready pop of Let’s Dance, his music has influenced countless other musicians as wide-ranging as Nirvana, Lady Gaga and the Flaming Lips, and he has been friend, champion and collaborator to music icons such as Freddie Mercury, Mick Jagger, and John Lennon. A new perspective on a story of shifting loyalties, ruthlessness, monumental drug taking, decadent behaviour and musical invention. 530 pages with b/w archive photos. $25.99 NOW £6


boundaries of gender further than any other figure before him.


74319 WHO I AM by Pete Townshend


Spearheading 1960s rock, smashing guitars in auto-destructive performances and writing songs that challenge the function of popular music, Pete Townshend of The Who created the power chord and broke the three minute mould of the pop song in Tommy, Quadrophenia and later works. Song writer, composer, lead guitarist and creative


powerhouse behind the legendary Who, Townshend was uncomfortable at being labelled as the windmilling guitar hero. Yet he had the crowd in the palm of his hand during a 5am Woodstock set in 1969. His intelligence, imagination and restless mind would lead him into unchartered areas as writer, poet, playwright and publisher. Here is an intensely moving account of his difficult childhood, repercussions in later life and his quest to understand his own past while keeping faith with his audience. It is a chronicle of relentless perfectionism and rock and roll excess in this hit biography. 538pp with many photos in big hardback. £20 NOW £6


74409 PIGS MIGHT FLY: The


Inside Story of Pink Floyd by Mark Blake


Selected as Book of the Year by Record Collector, this authoritative, extensive and detailed biography draws on over 100 new interviews to follow the band from the early psychedelic nights at UFO in the mid-sixties to the acrimonious schism that, by the nineties, had sundered the band. Meticulous, exacting and


as ambitious as any Pink Floyd album, this first full- length history of the group for over 15 years is the definitive account of one of the most adventurous, and at the same time most English of rock bands. It tells how a group of Cambridge school friends went on to conquer the world with classic albums like Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall, and put on some of the most spectacular shows of all time. Here they are in Sausalito California, during their debut US tour, in Germany, the Netherlands, Canada - all over the world, in fact - not to mention Hyde Park and the Royal Albert Hall. In July 2005 Pink Floyd performed together on stage for the first time in 24 years. Almost a year later, reclusive founder-member Syd Barrett died, and the death in 2008 of keyboard player Rick Wright confirmed that there would be no more reunions of one of the world’s most famous bands. 422 paperback pages with colour and b/ w photos.


£9.99 NOW £5 73224 ELVIS IN WORDS AND PICTURES:


Book and Six Free Prints by Adam Powley If you get All Shook Up by Elvis, the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, you will not be able to resist this super history charting his meteoric rise, his spell in the army and his success in the 1960s. Take a front seat for Elvis’s movie career and his Las Vegas heyday and mourn the King’s end on that sad and unforgettable day in 1977. A big picture book, 64pp in glamorous softback packed with colour photos and information and in addition there are two mono and four colour prints each measuring 8" x 10" and ready for framing. £9.99 NOW £4


73565 MICK: THE WILD LIFE AND MAD


GENIUS OF JAGGER by Christopher Andersen


When Mick Jagger and Keith Richards bumped into each other again on Dartford station as students, they were soon performing Chuck Berry numbers at a new jazz club in Ealing together with the owner, Alex Korner, his drummer Charlie Watts and Brian Jones. According to Anita Pallenberg, who had affairs with Brian, Keith and Mick, the bisexual Jagger seduced Brian’s female partner then moved in on Brian, the first of many sexual power games he was to play throughout his life. Jagger was drawn to people who looked and behaved like himself, for instance the bisexual ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev, David Bowie with whom he gave some legendary performances, Madonna, with whom he had a brief fling while extricating himself from Bianca and moving in with Jerry Hall, and Carla Bruni, whose attractiveness was increased by the prospect of luring her away from Eric Clapton. 364pp, photos. Remainder mark. $27 NOW £8


73569 A NATURAL WOMAN: A Memoir by Carole King


One of the most successful female singer-songwriters of her time, Carole King has recorded 25 solo albums and holds the record for the longest time for an album by a female to remain in the charts and the longest time for an album by a female to hold the number 1 position. From her beginnings as a teenage songwriter who hid from the spotlight, to her first time timidly singing lead in front of an audience, to her present-day status. She chronicles her extraordinary career, taking readers deep into the world of music from the 1960s through to today. Woven throughout are her deeply personal and revealing descriptions of her childhood in Brooklyn, her experience as a young bride and mother, her subsequent moves all over the country, and the relationships with men and fellow musicians that shaped her character. 488 pages, photos.


£20 NOW £9


73913 MORESCHI AND THE VOICE OF THE CASTRATO by Nicholas Clapton


Alessandro Morechi (1858-1922) is unique, as he was the last representative of the castrato - an act of cruelty that nevertheless produced some of the greatest singers the world has ever known - and the only one of whom recordings were made (two, in 1902 and 1904) and are still in existence. Behind the extraordinary sound of Moreschi’s unique voice there lay, perhaps unsurprisingly, a strange and lonely life, one lived in the shadow of great events and institutions and a personality that was rarely glimpsed at first hand. As well as the life, career, personality and achievements of Moreschi himself, we learn all about the history of castrati and the operatic traditions that needed them. The final section examines in detail the acoustics and psychology of the castrato voice and the pieces of music that were written specifically for it. Photos and other illus. 353pp. £16.99 NOW £6


71617 PLAY FLAMENCO by Michael Heatley and Alan Brown Olé! A handy, chunky spiral bound softback with step- by-step technique photos, 100 examples teaching you how to play chords, rhythms and melodies with these simple and effective musical samples with notation and TAV tabs. Flamenco guitar combines chord progressions with falsetas or sequences of individual notes. Playing picato and with capo completes the introduction before we go on to the palos, alegrías, bulerías, fandangos, farrucas, rumbas, sevillanas, tangos and more. 384 pages packed with musical scores, spiral bound softback. £9.99 NOW £3.50


! 72206 PENGUIN GUIDE TO THE 1000 FINEST


CLASSICAL RECORDINGS by Ivan March et al Sub-titled ‘The Must-Have CDs and DVDs’. The generous selection contains every kind of music, from the medieval to the modern period, and readers will discover new areas they had not previously considered. It also includes an essay on downloads, a history of recording and sections on composers, ballet and opera as well as a list of abbreviations to facilitate your search. There is a historical timeline for opera, and another timeline for key composers who are included in the authors’ choices. Alphabetically listed by composer. From Adolphe Adam to Alexander von Zemlinsky. 409 paperback pages. £20 NOW £4


72303 ROCK HARDWARE: 40 Years of Rock Instrumentation


by Tony Bacon and Paul Trynka The dominance of rock music in the 20th century owed as much to advances in sound technology as to celebrity scandals. The electric guitar arrived in the 1950s, but Jazz players used Gibson’s hollow-body instrument while Blues players were much quicker to pick up on the solid body and it took two decades before players were realising its full potential. Covers also keyboards, drums, brass and recording gear. 144pp, softback, colour photos. £21.50 NOW £3


72388 CHOPIN PIANO WORKS: Six CDs by Artur Rubinstein and Chopin From the introduction by Hugo Sharley in the accompanying booklet, we learn that Artur Rubinstein (1887-1982) was born in Poland and was perhaps most fêted for his highly idiomatic, uniquely poetic interpretations of the music of Chopin, very much Poland’s national composer. This collection brings together recordings from the important middle years of his career, the earliest, the Nocturnes, recorded for HMV in 1937. Includes also Ballades, Mazurkas, Preludes, Polonaises and Waltzes. 6 CD set. ONLY £12


72542 STRINGS ATTACHED: The Life and


Music of John Williams by William Starling One of the world’s great guitarists, John Williams’s early life was dominated by his father Len, himself a jazz guitarist. When John played for Segovia at the age of 12 he was given a place at Segovia’s guitar summer school in Siena, where he returned every year and became friends with Daniel Barenboim. Studying with Segovia, Williams met Julian Bream, six years his senior, who was to become a great friend and collaborator. In 1952 Len Williams founded the Spanish Guitar Centre. At 17 John made a bid for independence by moving into his own flat with friends. The book also covers John’s work commissioning new music, his collaborations, his marriages and his political views. 400pp, photos, discography. £25 NOW £6


72886 l,000 RECORDINGS TO HEAR BEFORE


YOU DIE: A Listener’s Life List by Tom Moon He presents the entries dictionary-style, alphabetically by artist. There are genre indices at the back, but Moon hopes that adventurous readers will flip through the pages, find something at random that looks interesting, seek out the music and ‘have an unexpected eureka! moment’. From classical to jazz, opera to hip-hop, techno-ska to heavy metal, folk to R and B, and from Abba and Amy Winehouse to Frank Zappa via Bach, Chopin and the Comedian Harmonists, here are a vast 1,007 informed and opinionated paperback pages illus. websites.


£19.95 NOW £2.25 73223 DVD BOOK OF PAVAROTTI: Pavarotti


Live in Barcelona 75th Anniversary Edition written by Guy Cavill


October 12th 2010 marked the 75th anniversary of the birth of Luciano Pavarotti. This DVD Book of Pavarotti covers the whole life of this pre-eminent opera singer, from the first performances to the televised concerts he gave in the 1990s, singing at stadiums and great open spaces. The DVD runs for 78.14 minutes and encompasses the concert recorded live at the Gran Teatre Del Liceu, with Leone Magiera on piano, plus interview, biography, discography and list of songs, including such favourites as O Sole Mio and Una Furtiva Lagrima. 77 pages with DVD Play List, Recordings of Complete Operas and First Performances of Operatic Roles, with photos in colour and b/w. £12.99 NOW £4.50


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The Guitar Collection 74265


This is your chance to own a piece of rock ‘n’ roll history


A sleek custom- made black leather case is secured with satin nickel


latches, while its interior is lined with luxury red velvet fabric. Within, The


Guitar Collection nestles in a fitted compartment. Due to the sheer size of its pages, the book had to be printed by one of the few companies in the world capable of creating a book this size. Each leather- covered book is hand-numbered. The lid of the case houses a richly produced companion book, ‘The Guitar Collection: Stories’, a Certificate of Authentication and one of the three museum-quality prints signed by photographer John Peden. ‘The Guitar Collection’ is 512 pages, has over 30,000 words, more than 670 original full-colour images and has a hand-numbered vellum title page and top-bound in a handcrafted leather case with embossed detail. Printed on 200gsm matte paper with a varnish seal. Measures 23" wide by 11.25" tall (58.4cm wide by 28.6cm tall) and weighs 20.9 pounds (9.5kg). ‘The Guitar Collection: Stories’ contains 192 pages with more than 180 full- colour images in hardback, 8.25" x 11.25" (21cm x 28.6cm). The farmable digital C-print is a full-colour, museum-quality reproduction of one of the three guitars specially chosen from the collection and is


SIGNED by noted guitar


photographer John Peden and


74264


measures 24" wide by 12" tall (61cm wide by 30.5cm tall). The guitar-


style case is custom designed, individually handcrafted, assembled and inspected. With a premium leather- wrapped black exterior, white stitching and leather piping detail, it has a rich fleece-lined interior in classic guitar-case burgundy, durable satin nickel latches and hardware, 13" tall by 5" deep by 31.375" wide (33cm tall by 12.7cm deep by 79.7cm wide) and weighs 10.5 pounds (4.76kg). The Guitar Collection is available in three editions; each with its own museum-quality signed print. Other than the signed print the three editions are identical to one another. Each of the editions is limited to 1,500 hand-numbered. This is your


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chance to own a piece of rock ‘n’ roll history.


CUSTOMER COLLECTION FROM BIBLIOPHILE. To place an order, please telephone us on 0207 474 2474.


74263 THE GUITAR COLLECTION: The Double-neck ’05 Edition


Contains signed John Peden print of the PRS Double- neck Dragon, 2005, a double-neck (12-string) electric guitar inlaid with a fighting dragon design. ONLY £499


74264 THE GUITAR COLLECTION: The Flat- top ’43 Edition


Contains signed John Peden print of the Buddy Holly J-45, the 1943 Gibson covered with leather that Buddy Holly hand-tooled himself. ONLY £499


74265 THE GUITAR COLLECTION: The Solidbody ’54 Edition


Contains signed John Peden print of the Jeff Beck Esquire, 1954, the electric guitar Beck played with the Yardbirds. ONLY £499


Choice of Three Signed Prints


73079 CELEBRATE THE PIANO: Book Four by Gail Smith


Approximately 40 musical scores in a very large softback which will lie flat on the music stand, the pieces include Amazing Grace, Loch Lomond, It Came Upon the Midnight Clear, Sonatina, Für Elise, Silent Night, The Blues Scale and Havah Nagilah in this super series for today’s pianist. The idea is to present a variety of piano music from blues, jazz and pop idioms, folk songs and Native American songs to hymn arrangements, Christmas carols and classical music. It also includes exercises, palindromes and a duet. Only book four is available.


$9.95 NOW £4.50 72304 ROCK ROADIE


by James “Tappy” Wright and Rod Weinberg These memoirs of Tappy Wright, road manager for The Animals and later for Jimi Hendrix, created a sensation on their publication in 2009, claiming as they do that Hendrix was in fact murdered by a vengeful colleague. The Animals could have all the women they wanted, but internal relations in the band were strained. One night Tappy was told to pull the van over so that Eric Burdon could sack Chas Chandler, though when Chas burst into tears they gave him a second chance. Encounters with Elvis, Little Richard, Jayne Mansfield and Ike and Tina Turner are all in a day’s work. 236pp. $25.99 NOW £3


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