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Twenty-five years after Jerry Garcia's passing his artistry still thrives. Channeling Jerry checks in with a variety of musicians who continue to tread the storied path blazed by Garcia and his bandmates. It's an ever-evolving conversation with new ones coming in as the old ones go.

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A detailed history of the exhaustive road experience of Canadian rock icons Rush. Celebrating the band's 30th anniversary, By-Tour features in-depth original interviews with Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart.

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Following on from Giant Steps, comes the second instalment in Kenny Mathieson's series of jazz histories.

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A collection of pop culture activity fun for both adults and children, focusing on country music, this book is sure to cheer up anyone.

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In this elegantly tooled volume, Adam Sweeting gets the lowdown on cover versions - the worst, the most popular, the most frequently recorded, the most successful, the stupidest, the most tasteless, the most influential, and the ones nobody got around to yet.

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Crap Lyrics is a humorous celebration (and occasionally, condemnation) of over 120 of the most ridiculous hooks, lines and stinkers from pop poetry through the modern ages.

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The first and most complete narrative biography of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, by acclaimed music journalist and Rolling Stone contributing editor David Browne, in time for the band's 50th anniversary

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The best and most ambitious book about Jimi Hendrix, being reissued with a revised introduction on the 70th anniversary of Hendrix's birth.

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The full story for the first time of the legendary pop icon written with the full cooperation of family and friends.

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From his emergence in the 1950s - when an uncannily beautiful young man from Oklahoma appeared in the West Coast and became, seemingly overnight, the prince of 'cool' jazz - until his violent, drug-related death in Amsterdam in 1988, Chet Baker lived a life that has become an American myth.

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The official story of 25 years of the legendary Rough Trade Records.
'Long overdue...The type of reader that buys rock biographies will crave the detailed information that spans the late 1970s to 1991 - and they will not be disappointed' RECORD COLLECTOR

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A love letter to the hard-rocking, but often snubbed, music of the era of excess: the 1980s. Removing the guilt from the pleasure, Kelly invites readers to experience a critical examination of a time when big hooks, big hair, and big fun ruled the airwaves.

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Driven covers the last three decades of Rush, including the band's retirement and Peart's passing. There is much to celebrate, including a surprise platinum hit record to kick off the decade and a full-blown concept album, Clockwork Angels, to close off what is one of the most remarkable careers in rock history

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A critically-acclaimed examination of Bob Dylan's lyrics as poetry, through the prism of the 7 Deadly Sins

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The long-anticipated sequel to the bestselling Eddie Trunk's Essential Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Eddie picks up where he left off by covering 35 new bands! A fun, fact-filled combination of band history, trivia, discographies, playlists, memorabilia and personal anecdotes, this is the book that Eddie's diehard fans have been clamouring for.

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Tells the story of popular music, from the birth of recording in the 1890s to the digital age, from the first pop superstars of the twentieth century to the omnipresence of music in our lives, in hit singles, ringtones and on Spotify. The author takes us on a rollercoaster ride through the history of music.

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This close-up look at the life and music of Robert Johnson and his contributions to the evolution of blues music describes his obscurity during his own life, his innovative influence on American popular music, and how the history of blues music was shaped and transformed by white fans with different tastes and standards.

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Factory Records' fame and fortune were based on two bands - Joy Division and New Order - and one personality - that of its director, Tony Wilson.