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Collector's Guide Publishing Pop Rock
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£12.34
McNidder & Grace Magazine The Biography of the Band A Biography of
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£13.50
Red Planet Publishing Ltd Popmaster Quiz Book
Book SynopsisThe official companion to the highly popular Radio 2 Popmaster Quiz from the Ken Bruce show. Featuring more than 1700 questions it is the perfect way to test your music knowledge. There are more than 170 separate ten-question quizes each with a different category.
£8.49
Red Planet Publishing Ltd Rock Atlas UK & Ireland: 800 Great Music
Book Synopsis700 great music locations and the fascinating stories behind them.
£33.25
Red Planet Publishing Ltd 57 Varieties Of Talk Soup
Book Synopsis57 Varieties is an amazing page-turning journey through the music scene of the early 1980s featuring an exclusive collection of never-republished vintage interviews with some of the biggest names in music: including Queen, Bob Marley, AC/DC, The Beach Boys, Paul & Linda McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, The Clash, The Sex Pistols, The Jam, The Damned, Marc Bolan, Malcolm McLaren, The Buzzcocks, Iggy Pop, The Who, X-Ray Spex, Blondie, The Stranglers, Dr Feelgood, Ian Dury, Spandau Ballet and many, many more.
£12.34
Red Planet Publishing Ltd Rock Atlas USA: The musical landscape of America
Book SynopsisRock Atlas is more than just a guide to 650 music locations across the USA. You can visit many of the places by following the books detailed instructions or simply just enjoy reading the fascinating fact-filled stories behind each entry. Seek out the quirky record stores, find the iconic recording studios, make a pilgrimage to the memorials and statues, check out the best festivals and visit the exact spot where your favourite album cover was photographed. Rock Atlas USA will be your guide. Providing a different insight into musicians' lives and songs through the places linked to them, Rock Atlas USA includes stories featuring artists as diverse as The Beatles, Lady Gaga, Muddy Waters, Bruce Springsteen, Kings of Leon, and Otis Redding. Illustrated with hundreds of rare, unseen, and iconic colour and black and white photographs, Rock Atlas USA is a must for anyone with an emotional tie to contemporary music and the important places associated with it.
£19.80
Graffito Books Ltd DESPERATELY SEEKING BOWIE
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£12.34
Empire Publications Ltd Hanging Around Musicians
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£9.45
Empire Publications Ltd Pieces of Morrissey: Adventures with the Mozarmy
Book SynopsisMorrissey is a figure cult. But what drives his fans devotion? What makes them trek halfway round the world to catch his shows in the US or South America when he is playing in their city a few months later? Why do they fight over pieces of his shirt, thrown each night into the crowd? Is this healthy? Should they seek help? Is Moz messainic or does he calculatedly whip the mob into a frenzy to maintain his status? And what of Morrisseys own adolescence and his obssessions with 50s rock n rollers and stars such as Bowie and Patty Smith. And what about the places of pilgrimage, venues such as Salford Lads Club or Southern Cemetry''s gates. Why do these places give fans a special connection with their hero? Morrissey devotee (and proud owner of an intact Moz shirt) Matt Jacobson examines his own obssession and that of his fellow fans to discover the lengths some will go to, from risking physical injury to ending long friendships, to get closer to their hero.
£9.45
Empire Publications Ltd MANCHESTER: IT NEVER RAINS...: A CITY PRIMED FOR
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£999.99
Red Planet Publishing Ltd Sounds Of The Sixties
Book SynopsisThe book contains fascinating facts about memorable hits from key Sixties artists, hard-to-find tracks, alongside many hidden gems. This is a comprehensive collection that music fans and hardened Sixties collectors will cherish. The book includes features on: Beatles covers / Double A Sides / Turntable Hits / The Psychedelic Era / The Big Ballads / Pop On The screen / Novelty Records / Instrumentals / TV and radio themes / Dance Crazes / They Sold a Million
£12.34
Danann Media Publishing Limited Bowie: Starchild
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£10.39
Red Planet Publishing Ltd Bob Dylan Too Much of Nothing
Book SynopsisWhen Bob Dylan picked up a silver cross thrown on stage and found Christianity in the late Seventies, it ended a search that had begun when his life crashed to a halt in 1966. According to Dylan, the turning point came one night in late 1978 when he received a "vision and a feeling." Dylan later said, "Jesus put his hand on me. It was a physical thing. I felt it. I felt it all over me. I felt my whole body tremble. The glory of the Lord knocked me down and picked me up." That search makes sense of his John Wesley Harding album and the following 12 years.
£12.34
Danann Media Publishing Limited Don't Stop: 55 Years of Fleetwood Mac
Book SynopsisThey began as a little blues band in London, England, in 1967, named, rather bizarrely, after their tight rhythm section: Mick Fleetwood on drums and John McVie on bass. Fleetwood Mac. Fifty years later,they remain one of the biggest bands of all time – a position they have held since 1977 when, with the help of John’s wife, Christine McVie, and two virtually unknown American musicians called Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, they released an LP titled Rumours that went on to become the world’s best-selling album. That, in itself, is a remarkable story. Now consider the highs and lows, the successes and failures, the personal turmoil, tragedy and heartbreak through which this band has journeyed over the last 50 years ... and the story of Fleetwood Mac becomes one of pure drama. The greatest ever rock ‘n’ roll soap opera. In this independent, lavishly illustrated publication, music writer and journalist Pete Chrisp reveals the true story of how, over the last 50 years, despite all of those confrontations, pinnacles and all-time lows ... the chain of Fleetwood Mac remains unbroken. Now fully updated to include features on Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac and all the musicans and members that have made the band one of the ebst selling of all time.
£18.00
Empire Publications PREMILLENNIUM SHAKE
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£11.35
Spenwood Books All The Songs Sound The Same: The Wedding Present
Book SynopsisOver 300 fans, friends and celebrities choose their favourite songs by 'semi-legendary' Indie band The Wedding Present, nominating the one song that means the most to them and why.
£31.50
Aboriginal Studies Press Steady Steady: The Life and music of Seaman Dan
Book SynopsisBook & CD. Born on Thursday Island in 1929, Seaman Dan didn''t release his debut album, Follow the Sun'', until his 70th birthday. In the next ten years he released five albums, showcasing traditional music from the Torres Strait, as well as those revealing his love of jazz and blues. Steady, Steady: The life and music of Seaman Dan is replete with Uncle Seaman''s stories of his active and sometimes dangerous life in the islands in the heyday of pearl diving and other jobs, and his later development as a professional singer/musician. The book includes many evocative and previously unknown images sourced from family and friends and will include a CD of tracks reflecting important periods in the life of this national treasure.
£24.29
Griffin Media Beatles' 50 Most Memorable Moments
Book SynopsisThe Beatles'' story is well-known to their fans around the world, but it''s never been told as it is in The Beatles 50 Most Memorable Moments. In this book, author Casey Piotrowski collects the 50 most essential events that shaped the band''s legacy. From the grandest to the goofiest -- group and solo. He then arranges them in their order of significance to that legacy and counts them down...from 50 to 1. What was more important... Please Please Me or Strawberry Fields Forever?... Band On The Run or All Things Must Pass? You will wonder, reconsider and rearrange them yourself... and probably compile your own list of what you think is missing... but that is the charm of The Beatles 50 Most Memorable Moments. To be sure, a one-of-a-kind look at this one-of-a-kind band.
£999.99
Monsoon Publishing LLC Sonja LIDL Info@monsoonpublishing.com we love stranger Girls coloring book for adults: strange girls Coloring Book for adults and teenagers Gothic Punk Girls Coloring Book Grayscale - Girl Portraits A4 52P
£11.97
Transcript Verlag Hawaiian Hula 'Ōlapa: Stylized Embodiment,
Book SynopsisMonika Lilleike's performance analytic study on Hawaiian Hula `Olapa reveals how this genuine performing art practice shapes and transmits oral history via a distinct set of performative means of framing and stylization. The intermedial confluence of performance elements, sound, body and words instills an oscillating effect of multisensory experience which echoes a deep rooted sense concerned with place, distinct environmental features, and story line. The study appeals to discussions on intermediality, metaphoricity, and to an anthropology of the senses. It outlines practice as research and embodied knowledge as tools to conduct performance analysis.
£35.99
Transcript Verlag Dancing Age(ing) – Rethinking Age(ing) in and
Book SynopsisHow can contemporary dance contribute to a critical discourse on age and ageing? Built on the premise that age(ing) is something we practice and perform as individuals and as a society, Susanne Martin asks for and develops strategies that allow dance artists to do age(ing) differently. As a whole, this project is an artistic research inquiry, which draws on and contributes to dance practice. The study develops, discusses, and stages practices and performances of age(ing) that offer alternatives to stereotypical and normative age(ing) narratives, which are not only part of dance but also of everyday culture.
£28.89
Transcript Verlag On the Threshold of Knowing – Lectures and
Book SynopsisIn this in-depth analysis of artistic and academic lectures and performances, Lucia Rainer features an innovative conceptual and methodological tool that augments Goffman's Frame Analysis with a praxeological perspective. This way, she gives profound insight into how knowledge - as a practice and a concept - is associated with clarity rather than truth. Based on four case studies - including John Cage's unpublished and unabridged audio recording of Lecture on Nothing - the study explores how the concept of lecture performances, which adheres to two frames that never entirely blend, provides a space to (re-)negotiate the artistic-academic relationship.
£31.19
Transcript Verlag The Discourse Community of Electronic Dance Music
Book SynopsisResearch on electronic dance music communities has been initiated by scholars in the fields of sociology, cultural studies, public health research and others. Linguistic aspects, however, are rarely considered. Anita Jóri fills this gap of research and suggests a new perspective by looking at these communities as a discourse community. She gives an overview of the language use and discourse characteristics of this community while applying a mixed methodology of linguistic discourse analysis and cultural studies. The book is aimed at researchers and students in the fields of applied linguistics, popular music, media, communication and cultural studies.Table of ContentsAcknowledgement; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Theoretical Investigation; Research Aims and Questions; Methods; Analysis; Summary of Analysis and Research Findings; Final Conclusions and Future Considerations; References; Sources of Linguistic Data; Attachments.
£40.00
Transcript Verlag Hearing Sexism: Gender in the Sound of Popular
Book SynopsisIf pictures can be sexist, can analysing sound reveal sexism, too? Where is the language to discuss sexism in music? L.J. Müller tackles these important questions in their 2018 German book titled Sound und Sexismus, which was awarded the IASPM 2019 book prize. Analysing the voices of Kurt Cobain, Kate Bush, Björk and others, Müller demonstrates how gender is performed vocally and interacts with gendered aspects of embodiment and affect. The book is written from a strongly positioned and personal feminist perspective and is appealing to readers from various backgrounds -- singers, producers, music lovers, as well as academics and anyone with an interest in feminist takes on pop culture.
£23.79
Transcript Verlag Postcolonial Repercussions: On Sound Ontologies
Book SynopsisCan sound be perceived independently of its social dimension? Or is it always embedded in a discursive network? POSTCOLONIAL REPERCUSSIONS explores these questions in form of a collective conversation. The contributors have collected sound stories and sound knowledge from Brazil to Morocco, listened to resonances from the Underground and the Pacific Ocean, from Popular Music and speech recognition. The anthology gathers heterogeneous approaches to emancipatory forms of ontological listening as well as pleas for critical fabulation and a practice of care. It tells us about opportunities, perspectives and the (im)possibility of decolonised listening.Table of ContentsInstead of an Editorial; A Conversation on Race, Sound, and the Im/possibility of Decolonised Listening; Playing it Back. Critical Reflections on Curating Sound; "offensichtlich unbegründet": a work in progress meditation on sonic biometry, migration and the archive; From a Postmodernist Sound to a Decolonized Dancefloor. From Glitch to Deconstructed Club Music; Meandering Feuilleton Essay about two concerts that I did not see. Or: About how I read Hall, Mignolo and Walsh instead because I want to write an article for an anthology on Decolonizing Arts and think about whether it is possible to decolonialize Popular Music; (Post) Colonial Streaming: The Social Reproduction of Listening and Deafness in the Anthropocene; Buried in the Colonial Graveyard? Indigenous Sound Ontologies, Repatriation and the Ethics of Curating Ethnographic Sounds; Tangier 1999. In search of authenticity. Paul Bowles longs for something and insists on its existence; Passageways of Knowing. Music, Movement, Reconnection; Authors; List of Illustrations.
£39.59
Transcript Verlag Its How You Flip It
Book SynopsisThe cultural practices of hip-hop have been among people's favorite forms of popular culture for decades. Due to this popularity, rap, breaking, graffiti, beatboxing and other practices have entered the field of education. At the intersection of hip-hop and music education, scholars, artists, and educators cooperate in this volume to investigate topics such as representations of gangsta rap in school textbooks, the possibilities and limits of working with hip-hop in an intersectional critical music pedagogy context, and the reflection of hip-hop artists on their work in music education institutions. In addition, the contributors provide ideas for how research and theory can be transferred and applied to music educational practice.
£37.59
IP Verlag Dawn of the Metal Gods: My Life in Judas Priest &
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£17.91
Portraits Live at Montreux
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£26.99
Museum Tusculanum Press Royal Danish Orchestra: The World's Oldest
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£67.14
Edizioni Applausi The Rolling Stones: The Singles
Book SynopsisThe complete reviewed collection of the Rolling Stones 45 RPM singles
£23.79
Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij David Bowie: A Star Fell to Earth
Book SynopsisThis book takes you deep into David Bowie''s world. An honest and fascinating portrait of a very complex personality. In the seventies Bowie was the King of Glitter Rock, the trendsetter. He is a songwriter, singer, actor, performer and artist. He is regarded as one of the most influential pop musicians ever. Bowie is best known for his bizarre and decadent unisexual and bisexual behaviour. His life and career tell a story of drugs, sex, very high peaks and deep lows and the exploitation of his androgynous looks. The result of almost forty years of research. The most complete and best balanced book about David Bowie that has ever been written.
£25.16
Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij David Bowie: No Shit, Just Facts PART 1
Book SynopsisDavid Bowie conquered glam rock. His concert performances had a very huge cultural impact in the seventies. He is a spellbinding personality in rock music. All the facts about his career are now assembled in two parts. This book is the most complete and best researched book about multimedia performer and glam rock sex symbol David Bowie so far. In Part 1 a very detailed chronology/ biography/ collectors guide 1989. In Part 2 a very detailed chronology/ biography/ collectors guide 1989-2004. Albums and singles discography. All the versions of songs Bowies has performed listed A to Z. Everything about the recordings, the concerts, groups that were formed, groups that split, his influences, collaborations with other artists, soundtracks, bootlegs. Name anything about Bowie''s musical career and it''s mentioned in the book. This book is the result of a lifetime''s interest in David Bowie''s work. It''s a work of love. This book is a great ode to a man who deserves an own encyclopaedia. Jean-Paul Heck (Music Journalist for music magazine Aloha and newspaper De Telegraaf. Winner of the Jip Golstrijn prize 2004).
£25.16
Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij David Bowie: No Shit, Just Facts PART 2
Book SynopsisDavid Bowie conquered glam rock. His concert performances had a very huge cultural impact in the seventies. He is a spellbinding personality in rock music. All the facts about his career are now assembled in two parts. This book is the most complete and best researched book about multimedia performer and glam rock sex symbol David Bowie so far. In Part 1 a very detailed chronology/ biography/ collectors guide 1989. In Part 2 a very detailed chronology/ biography/ collectors guide 1989-2004. Albums and singles discography. All the versions of songs Bowies has performed listed A to Z. Everything about the recordings, the concerts, groups that were formed, groups that split, his influences, collaborations with other artists, soundtracks, bootlegs. Name anything about Bowie''s musical career and it''s mentioned in the book. This book is the result of a lifetime''s interest in David Bowie''s work. It''s a work of love. This book is a great ode to a man who deserves an own encyclopaedia. Jean-Paul Heck (Music Journalist for music magazine Aloha and newspaper De Telegraaf. Winner of the Jip Golstrijn prize 2004).
£25.16
Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij David Bowie: On Stage in Holland
Book SynopsisAt the age of 11, in December 1975, I became interested in pop music. Aside from David Bowies music, I was tremendously fascinated by his strange hair and clothes. Santa Claus brought me my first single titles Fame and I played it again and again. When I saw the German film Christine F, in 1982, the soundtrack was filled with Bowies music. Heroes was my favorite song. From that time on Bowies was the only music playing on my record player. Ultimately I had some 30 LPs and 40 singles. In the summer of 1983, I went to Rotterdam to see the concert The Serious Moonlight Tour. That show left a big impression. Meanwhile, coinciding with my interest in Bowie, I also developed a profound interest in photography and started my internship in Amsterdam, aspiring to become a professional photographer. When the news of a new Bowie tour broke, it was early 1987 and the first European show was scheduled in Holland. My journal entry 30 March 1987 reads: David Bowies press conference at the Amsterdam pop temple Paradiso. With two cameras one loaded with a color film and one with black and white film I rode my bike to Paradiso to wait for David Bowie. From a distance I watched him enter the venue and then I waited for him to come out again. A large group of children attending the school across the street from Paradiso suddenly broke loose and ran inside. I hesitated a moment, then followed them until I was stopped and questioned by an EMI employee. Who are you? He demanded to know, and while my heart was pounding out of my chest, I told him I was a photographer for a local newspaper in the eastern part of the country and showed him my press card. Come with me he said, and instead of being sent away, I ended up right in the middle of the concert hall, with my hero for the first time at the other end of my camera. Over the years following this unique mini-concert, I frequently have had the chance to photograph David Bowie at various locations and venues. On 7 December, 2015 I saw David Bowie at what we know now was his last public appearance; the Lazarus musical premiere in New York. Although I did not know him personally, he was a constant source of musical inspiration and pleasure for me. In this book, which is a tribute to the singer who has inspired me over the years, there are pictures of the following tours: The Glass Spider, Sound and Vision, Tin Machine, Its my life, Outside, Outside Summer Festivals, and finally the Earthling Tour. It spans a decade of concerts which took place from 1987-1997 in the Netherlands. These photos of David Bowie mark the beginning, and also the breakthrough, of my career as a professional photographer. I am delighted to share these photos with you and I hope you will enjoy them as much as I do. To have been able to attend his concerts and photograph him was a feast. He is no more and thats very sad. But his music lives on forever! Bernard Rubsamen, 14 January 2016.
£15.15
Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij David Bowie: Live 1958-1986
Book SynopsisDuring 50 years David Bowie played almost 1,900 concerts throughout the world. His earliest documented concert was at the 18th Bromley Wolf Club Boy Scouts Summer Camp in August, 1958. His final performance took place at the High Line Festival in 2007 in New York City introducing Ricky Gervais with a short song. The two-part catalogue David Bowie Live 1958-1986 and David Bowie Live 1987-2007 takes you to every of these concerts. The focus of this book is on David Bowies live recordings from 1958 up to 1987. Bowie-expert Wim Hendrikse wrote detailed descriptions of all of them, complete with set lists, official releases, bootlegs and thousands of other unauthorised recordings. This is an indispensable reference book for collectors. It also is a must for those who are interested in the performer David Bowie.
£26.96
Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij David Bowie: Live 1987-2007
Book SynopsisDuring 50 years David Bowie played almost 1,900 concerts throughout the world. His earliest documented concert was at the 18th Bromley Wolf Club Boy Scouts Summer Camp in August, 1958. His final performance took place at the High Line Festival in 2007 in New York City introducing Ricky Gervais with a short song. The two-part catalogue David Bowie Live 1958-1986 and David Bowie Live 1987-2007 takes you to every of these concerts. The focus of this book is on David Bowies live recordings from 1987 up to 2008. Bowie expert Wim Hendrikse wrote detailed descriptions of all of them, complete with set lists, official releases, bootlegs and thousands of other unauthorised recordings. This is an indispensable reference book for collectors. It also is a must for those who are interested in the performer David Bowie.
£26.96
Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij Band. Fans. Friends. Music
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£20.66
HarperCollins Publishers Threepenny Memoir
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£14.24
HarperCollins Publishers Tom Jones The Life
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£999.99
HarperCollins Publishers Finding My Voice
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£19.80
HarperCollins Fabulosity
Book SynopsisExplains how to balance feminine, stop-them-in-their-tracks glamour with sign-on-the-dotted-line business power; how to get past barriers that exist because of gender, race, or age; how to find a marriageable man who'll support your biggest dreams (while keeping other women at bay); and how to have the most fun of your life while doing it.
£15.00
HarperCollins Stairway to Heaven Led Zepplin Uncensored
£13.29
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Punk Rock Dad
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£13.60
Harpercollins - Us Everybody Hurts
Trade Review"A smart, funny and revealing book that's pretty much a must read for kids in the scene." -- Chris Carrabba, Dashboard Confessional "If someone was to ask me, 'What is emo?,' I would hand them a copy of EVERYBODY HURTS." -- Matt Rubano, Taking Back Sunday "[D]estined to become a staple in any emo music lover's book collection ." -- Myspace.com "[T]his book is not only hilarious, but absolutely genius." -- Jason Tate, Absolutepunk.net "[T]he essential book for anyone who fancies themselves emo." -- Sarah "Ultragrrrl" Lewitinn, author of The iPod DJ
£13.60
HarperCollins Publishers Inc I Tina
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£14.44
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Outlaw
Trade ReviewRiveting -- Wall Street Journal "A biting, in-depth chronicle of Nashville's most tumultuous era told through the voices of iconic artists who used their music to accomplish significant changes in the music industry." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Offers a look at the how the 'outlaw' music of Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson shook up Nashville in the late '60s and '70s... Author Streissguth has country music bona fides: He also wrote Johnny Cash: The Biography. -- USA Today A riveting look at how how three Texans joined forces to liberate Nashville from its company-town ways in the 1970s. It is a small group portrait, tightly focused and well told by Michael Streissguth. -- Wall Street Journal Outlaw is an entertaining, authoritative account of Nashville's rebel years. -- popmatters.com "Compulsively readable..." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) Streissguth goes widescreen with this look at the social and musical ferment that produced the Seventies outlaw-country movement... [he] skillfully portrays Sixties Nashville's studio politics and their gradual loosening up, alongside a city where post-Sixties social change took its time arriving. -- Rolling Stone
£13.60
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Kicking Dreaming
Book SynopsisHeart, fronted by Ann and Nancy Wilson, has given fans everywhere classic, raw, and pure badass rock and roll for more than three decades. In this book, they recount a journey that has taken them from a gypsy-like life to the frozen back roads of Vancouver, where they got their start as a band, to the pinnacle of success - and sometimes excess.Trade Review"Righteously entertaining...[it] shows just what it's like to be a woman who rocks, then and now." -- New York Daily News "Sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson-better known as the faces and voices of Heart-look back on the personal and professional struggles and triumphs that define their legacy as one of rock's pioneering female-fronted, creatively autonomous acts." -- USA Today "Thorough and entertaining...[Kicking and Dreaming is] satisfying for its breadth and spirit...the Wilsons write movingly and with a sense of humor." -- Miami Herald "An interesting duet that details precisely how women truly rock." -- Kirkus Reviews
£13.60
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Sing to Me
£16.71
