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Book Cover for: A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance, Hanif Abdurraqib

A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance

Hanif Abdurraqib
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This week on #SONGBOOK we welcome… @missbarton! She joins @juderogers for a chat about Hanif Abdurraqib's brilliant essay collection, A Little Devil in America, as well as discussing the music press, poetry, The Strokes and much more. Listen now ➡️ https://t.co/bCcwDvb8dY https://t.co/wvrpeTI0DD

Paperback, 2022

$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures, Chris Ott

Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures

Chris Ott
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Who would fancy reading a @Beathhigh thriller based on the lyrics from Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures? It could have been very special indeed... Ian discusses this and so much more with @juderogers in the latest #SONGBOOK Listen and subscribe at https://t.co/4LZ9XFyLfc https://t.co/DPwXWnNs48

Paperback, 2004

$14.95Member price:$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: All: A James Broughton Reader, James Broughton

All: A James Broughton Reader

James Broughton
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@shirleyeCollins @FatWhiteFamily @adellestripe @sineadgleeson @KimletGordon @juderogers In July we published a fully revised and updated edition of one of THE all-time classic music books: Last Night a DJ Saved My Life by Frank Broughton and @djhistory, the whole unruly story of dance music in one volume. AND it also has a new foreword by James Murphy. https://t.co/Mk6P2vC8aK

Paperback, 2013

$18.95Member price:$17.06 + Free shipping10% off
Book Cover for: Tenement Kid: From the Streets of Glasgow in the 1960s to Drummer in Jesus and Mary Chain and Frontman in Primal Scream, Bobby Gillespie

Tenement Kid: From the Streets of Glasgow in the 1960s to Drummer in Jesus and Mary Chain and Frontman in Primal Scream

Bobby Gillespie
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Behind the scenes, 2 years ago: discussions with Bobby Gillespie about the cover for his memoir #TenementKid, which would go on to be one of the most acclaimed music books of 2021 and a modern classic… https://t.co/fhg71S7ols

Paperback, 2022

$22.95Member price:$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Love and Let Die: James Bond, the Beatles, and the British Psyche, John Higgs

Love and Let Die: James Bond, the Beatles, and the British Psyche

John Higgs
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Amazing night @thesocial with an exclusive preview of @LukeTurnerEsq’s forthcoming new book, @destructo9000 reading their grandfather’s ‘essay’ on Bond, and @johnhiggs & @jeremydeller discussing LOVE AND LET DIE. Beautiful, inspiring stuff. Cheers to all who came down! https://t.co/1D9FrCgJ5G

Hardcover, 2023

$29.95Member price:$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, Paul McCartney

The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present

Paul McCartney
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This week on #SONGBOOK we welcome presenter, podcast legend and Beatles obsessive @GeoffLloyd. He joins @juderogers for a chat about some essential books on the Fab Four, including Paul McCartney's recent bestseller The Lyrics. 🎧 Listen and subscribe at https://t.co/cZTU5YFDKk https://t.co/uzW3CltgBe

Paperback, 2023

$30.00Member price:$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives, Jude Rogers

The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives

Jude Rogers
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Always a very cool moment handing an author the finished copies of their book for the first time... Here's the legend @juderogers with the paperbacks of The Sound of Being Human - out this Thursday https://t.co/fmTYRQNGpe https://t.co/x0G7IR3zQ4

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Book Cover for: The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives, Jude Rogers

The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives

Jude Rogers
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Paperback goods just landed... 'Mixes memoir, analysis, anecdote and personal chronicle into a mosaic that evokes what music means to the individual and the human tribe' @StuartMaconie The Sound of Being Human by @juderogers, out next Thursday ➡️ https://t.co/fmTYRQNGpe https://t.co/JOzT18YGZN

Paperback, 2023

$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Bessie Smith: A Poet's Biography of a Blues Legend, Jackie Kay

Bessie Smith: A Poet's Biography of a Blues Legend

Jackie Kay
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This week's #SONGBOOK guest is @KateMolleson, author of the brilliant book Sound Within Sound. During her chat with @juderogers they looked at Bessie Smith by Jackie Kay, and also discussed women writing about music + much more. Listen and subscribe now: https://t.co/2wL8OM2Ye7 https://t.co/iO3m6J7G5f

Paperback, 2021

$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Faster Than a Cannonball: 1995 and All That, Dylan Jones

Faster Than a Cannonball: 1995 and All That

Dylan Jones
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@mogwaiband @plasmatron Our penultimate launch of 2022 came in October with Faster Than A Cannonball by Dylan Jones and an incredible list of interviewees. It's part oral history, part narrative pop culture, part celebration of the music of the defining year of the Nineties: 1995 https://t.co/unVBACp26R

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