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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 17 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Manchester Unspun: How a City Got High on Music by Andy Spinoza
    Manchester Unspun: How a City Got High on Music - by Andy Spinoza

    £12.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781526174062 | ISBN 10: 1526174065

    At the end of the 1970s, Manchester seemed to be sliding into the dustbin of history. Today the city is an international destination for culture and sport, and one of the fastest-growing urban regions in Europe. This book offers a first-hand account ... more

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  • Cover image of book Echoes: A Memoir Continued... by Will Sergeant
    Echoes: A Memoir Continued... - by Will Sergeant

    £22.00   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781408719305 | ISBN 10: 1408719304

    THE FOLLOW UP MEMOIR TO SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, BUNNYMAN   Scenic Wye Valley isn’t the typical place for a rock story to begin, but when Echo & the Bunnymen hit the studio to record their ground-breaking debut album, Crocodiles, it was anything ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bunnyman: A Memoir by Will Sergeant
    Bunnyman: A Memoir - by Will Sergeant

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781472135018 | ISBN 10: 1472135016

    Growing up in Liverpool in the 1960s and '70s, when skinheads, football violence and fear of just about everything was the natural order of things, a young Will Sergeant found the emerging punk scene provided a shimmer of hope amongst a crumbling cit ... more

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  • Cover image of book Scouse Pop by Paul Skillen
    Scouse Pop - by Paul Skillen

    £25.00   hardback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781781791233 | ISBN 10: 1781791236

    Scouse Pop is a journey into the personalities and music of the successful pioneering Liverpool pop bands of the late seventies and eighties. It examines their motivations, their uniqueness and the routes to success which made them into enduring musi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Liverpool
    Liverpool's Musical Landscapes - by Robert Kronenburg and Sara Cohen

    £27.00   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781848022843 | ISBN 10: 1848022840

    Liverpool has gained a national and international reputation for popular music, most recently recognised in its designation as a UNESCO City of Music. This book examines Liverpool’s popular music through the history of the places where it has been ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Beatles: All Our Yesterdays (Graphic Novel) by Lalit Kumar Sharma and Jason Quinn
    The Beatles: All Our Yesterdays (Graphic Novel) - by Lalit Kumar Sharma and Jason Quinn

    £13.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9789381182222 | ISBN 10: 9381182221

    The Beatles are the world’s most enduring and biggest rock band ever! This is the story of their struggle for success.  Taking us through the early days of rock ‘n’ roll, and their lives in Liverpool during the 1950s, we journey with them ... more

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  • Cover image of book Cavern Club: The Inside Story by Debbie Greenberg
    Cavern Club: The Inside Story - by Debbie Greenberg

    £17.25   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780986377044 | ISBN 10: 098637704x

    As a teenager, Debbie Greenberg was spending far too much time at the Cavern Club in her hometown of Liverpool, England. It was already the most famous music club in the world, where she had been dazzled by the Beatles’ debut performance and witnes ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Cavern Club: The Rise of The Beatles and Merseybeat by Spencer Leigh
    The Cavern Club: The Rise of The Beatles and Merseybeat - by Spencer Leigh

    £14.00   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780857160973 | ISBN 10: 0857160974

    This is the story of the Cavern Club - the most famous club in the world.  The Cavern saw the birth of the Beatles and Merseybeat, and more. Respected author, music journalist and Merseybeat historian Spencer Leigh - with a little help from Sir ... more

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  • Cover image of book Networks of Sound, Style and Subversion by Nick Crossley
    Networks of Sound, Style and Subversion - by Nick Crossley

    £17.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780719088650 | ISBN 10: 0719088658

    This book examines the birth of punk in the UK and its transformation, within a short period of time, into post-punk. Deploying innovative concepts of ‘critical mass’, ‘social networks’ and ‘music worlds’, and using sophisticated techniques of ‘socia ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bombed Out! Tales of 70s-80s Music, Punk, Eric
    Bombed Out! Tales of 70s-80s Music, Punk, Eric's, Bands & Beyond - by Peter Alan Lloyd

    £12.50   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780957592162 | ISBN 10: 0957592167

    Bombed Out! records Peter Alan Lloyd's personal journey through 1970s and 1980s Liverpool, including working in, playing at, and going to see Punk and New Wave bands in the legendary Eric's Club. � It includes references to music of the period, e ... more

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  • Cover image of book Deaf School: The Non-Stop Pop Art Punk Rock Party by Paul Du Noyer, with a Foreword by Suggs
    Deaf School: The Non-Stop Pop Art Punk Rock Party - by Paul Du Noyer, with a Foreword by Suggs

    £29.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781846318603 | ISBN 10: 1846318602

    Liverpool’s dynamic music scene gave the world The Beatles. What city could hope to follow that? But 12 years later, in 1974, lightning nearly struck twice. Deaf School were a band formed in John Lennon’s old art college, rehearsing in the very same ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sit Down! Listen to This! The Roger Eagle Story by Bill Sykes
    Sit Down! Listen to This! The Roger Eagle Story - by Bill Sykes

    £18.95   hardback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781901746907 | ISBN 10: 1901746909

    Roger Eagle was a towering figure in British popular music. Uniquely, his influence straddled the cultural divide separating Manchester and Liverpool. The task of unifying the musical talents of these two cultural hubs has proved beyond almost everyo ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Act You
    The Act You've Known for All These Years - by Clinton Heylin

    £14.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781847671059 | ISBN 10: 1847671055

    In 1967, The Beatles unleashed their seminal album on an unsuspecting world. This new edition of The Act You've Known For All These Years explores the huge impact the album had on The Beatles and their contemporaries - Bob Dylan, The Beach Boys, Pi ... more

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  • Cover image of book From a Gin Palace to a King
    From a Gin Palace to a King's Palace: Provincial Music Hall in Preston - by David John Hindle

    £12.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780752444536 | ISBN 10: 0752444530

    A roistering look at the history of music hall in the area.  This witty, warm and altogether delightful look at the history of music hall in Preston will fascinate lovers of musical history everywhere.  Travelling from back-street aleho ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Love There That
    The Love There That's Sleeping: The Art and Spirituality of George Harrison - by Dale C. Allison, Jr

    £19.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780826419170 | ISBN 10: 0826419178

    From his days as the "quiet Beatle" to his successful and critically admired solo career, George Harrison produced a memorable body of music. His songs "Something" and "Here Comes the Sun" are two of the Beatles' best, and beginning with his remarkab ... more

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  • Cover image of book John Peel: Margrave of the Marshes by John Peel and Sheila Ravenscroft
    John Peel: Margrave of the Marshes - by John Peel and Sheila Ravenscroft

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780552551199 | ISBN 10: 0552551198

    Despite the number of claims in publishers' blurbs, not many people actually achieve the staus of legend in their own lifetime. Fewer still deserve that status. John Peel is the exception who proves that rule, a Great Briton whose contribution to Bri ... more

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  • Cover image of book Magic Circles: The Beatles in Dream and History by Devin McKinney
    Magic Circles: The Beatles in Dream and History - by Devin McKinney

    £20.95   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780674016361 | ISBN 10: 067401636x

    No one expressed the heart and soul of the Sixties as powerfully as the Beatles did through the words, images and rhythms of their music. In Magic Circles Devin McKinney uncovers the secret history of a generation and a pivotal moment in twentieth-ce ... more

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