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Omnibus Press Great Piano Solos the Purple Book Easy Piano Ed.
£16.99
Omnibus Press Complete Chord Songbook
(Guitar Chord Songbook). Sixty hit songs from Dire Straits, complete with full lyrics, guitar chord symbols and chord frames. Includes: Angel of Mercy * Brothers in Arms * Eastbound Train * Fade to Black * Hand in Hand * It Never Rains * Money for Nothing * Planet of New Orleans * Romeo and Juliet * Six Blade Knife * Sultans of Swing * Tunnel of Love * Walk of Life * Your Latest Trick * and more.
£18.75
Omnibus Press Absolute Beginners Ukulele
Features step by step pictures that take you from the first day exercises to playing along with a backing track. Designed to tell you what you need to know, this book uses pictures instead of long explanations. It also includes CD audio tracks to show you how things should sound, and full length accompaniment tracks to play along with.
£14.38
Omnibus Press A New Tune A Day
Contains advice on equipment, instructions for an effective embouchure and comfortable posture, and an explanatory section on reading music. This book also includes music, including duets, rounds and ensemble pieces, tests to check progress and comprehension, and useful pull out chart giving all fingerings.
£20.99
Omnibus Press Starting Ukulele
Presents a method for young ukulele players. This title gives you an introduction to playing the ukulele and lets you: listen to the CD, practise the pieces in the book, play-along with the backing tracks. Suitable for young players, it also includes colour photographs and diagrams.
£10.45
Omnibus Press A Dozen a Day Songbook 1 Pop Hits
£12.02
Omnibus Press Denes Agays Learning to Play Piano Scale Book
£10.45
OMNIBUS PRESS WILLIAM LEAVITT
Volume 1. One of the worlds most popular guitar methods.
£26.99
Omnibus Press Young Punks
£22.50
Omnibus Press Ripped and Torn: 1976 – 79 The Loudest Punk Fanzine in the UK
Ripped and Torn was one of the first punk fanzines, and continued long after others like Sniffing Glue had stopped. Ripped and Torn began in in Glasgow in November 1976 and carried on into the next wave of punk. It ran for eighteen issues, all of which are faithfully reproduced in this book. By punks and for punks, Ripped and Torn is a fascinating document of the punk subculture and a sacred text of DIY culture.
£22.50
Omnibus Press Without Frontiers: The Life and Music of Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel rose to fame as the lead vocalist and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis. After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career. His 1986 album, So, is his most commercially successful, and the album's biggest hit, Sledgehammer, won a record nine MTV Awards. He has also been involved in various humanitarian efforts and won numerous music awards throughout his career, including Brits and Grammies and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis in 2010. Includes hours of new interviews with key friends, musicians and aides. This new edition is fully updated.
£9.99
Omnibus Press Judy and I: My Life with Judy Garland
The third of Judy Garland's five husbands, Sid Luft was the one man in her life who stuck around. He was chiefly responsible for the final act of Judy's meteoric comeback after she was unceremoniously booted off the MGM lot: he produced her iconic, Oscar-nominated vehicle A Star Is Born and expertly shaped her concert career. Previously unpublished, Sid Luft's intimate autobiography tells his and Judy's story in hard-boiled yet elegant prose. It begins on a fateful night in New York City when the not quite divorced Judy Garland and the not quite divorced Sid Luft meet at Billy Reed's Little Club and fall for each other. The romance lasted Judy's lifetime, despite the separations, the reconciliations, and the divorce. Under Luft's management, Judy came back bigger than ever, building a singing career that rivalled Sinatra's. However, her drug dependencies and suicidal tendencies put a tremendous strain on the relationship. Sid did not complete his memoir; it ended in 1960 after Judy hired David Begelman and Freddie Fields to manage her career. But Randy L. Schmidt, acclaimed editor of Judy Garland on Judy Garland and author of Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter, seamlessly pieced together the final section of the book from extensive interviews with Sid, most previously unpublished. Despite everything, Sid never stopped loving Judy and never forgave himself for not being able to ultimately save her from the demons that drove her to an early death at age forty-seven in 1969. Sid served as chief conservator of the Garland legacy until his death at the age of eighty-nine in 2005. This is his testament to the love of his life.
£18.00
Omnibus Press The Beatles on the Roof
When the world's greatest pop band played their final public concert, in January 1969, there were no tickets or posters printed. When John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr emerged at lunchtime from the headquarters of their own company, Apple, five storeys above London's Savile Row, only a select group of people knew what the hell was happening.The rooftop concert was one of the Beatles' most spontaneous acts. Beatles on the Roof studies the rooftop concert in penetrating detail, uncovering new truths and debunking old myths about the event. Nobody knew it yet - not even the band - but this was the last time they would play live to the public.
£14.99
Omnibus Press Kraftwerk: I Was A Robot
Wolfgang Flür was a member of Kraftwerk from 1973 to 1987, contributing to albums such as Autobahn (1974), Radioaktivität (1975), Trans-Europa Express (1977), Die Mensch-Maschine (1978), Computerwelt (1981) and Electric Café (1986). He continues to record music with his solo album Eloquence being released in 2015.
£16.99
Omnibus Press I am Damo Suzuki
By the time The Fall released `I Am Damo Suzuki’ in the mid-1980s, the elusive legend to which the song paid tribute had returned to music. Since making his name as the vocalist of the great German band Can, Kenji `Damo’ Suzuki has united a vast range of musicians across the globe through The Damo Suzuki Band and Damo Suzuki’s Network. Now in his seventh decade, Damo is as contemporary a figure as ever. I Am Damo Suzuki encompasses his personal travelogue, his spiritual journey and the life-force that has allowed him to twice rise above life-threatening illness. Paul Woods’ narrative – drawing on interviews with Suzuki himself, family members, bandmates and friends – evokes the decades-long odyssey of a musical enigma.
£16.99
Omnibus Press Tales of the Smiths Graphic
Tales of The Smiths is a comic book retelling of the band members' teenage years, before the group was famous, and includes fascinating digressions about their influences (the New York Dolls, Nico, Sex Pistols, NY punk, Patti Smith, etc) and the times in which they were growing up. The story reaches its climax with the meeting of Morrissey and Marr, the formation of the band in 1982 and their first gig as The Smiths. With an introduction by Simon Wolstencroft, The Smiths' first drummer and the former drummer with The Fall, Patrol and Freak Party, which featured Andy Rourke and Johnny Marr.
£22.50
Omnibus Press Songs of Leonard Cohen: Collector'S Edition
£17.52
Omnibus Press Really Easy Piano: 50 Great Songs
£16.99
Omnibus Press The Little Black Songbook: Ac/Dc
Complete lyrics and chords to over 90 classics! A pocket-sized collection of AC/DC?s greatest hits presented in chord songbook format. Each song includes chord symbols, guitar chord boxes and complete lyrics.
£15.58
Omnibus Press The Little Black Songbook: More Acoustic Hits
A pocket-sized collection of songs from the biggest names in pop! Presented in chord songbook format, with complete lyrics and guitar chords. Complete lyrics and chords to over 100 classics!
£15.58
Omnibus Press The Little Black Songbook: Paul Weller
For the first time, this pocket-sized collection brings together all the big songs by The Jam and The Style Council alongside classics from Paul Wellers acclaimed solo albums. 78 classics are presented in chord songbook format with chord symbols, guitar chord boxes and complete lyrics, this is the ultimate Paul Weller songbook!
£15.58
Omnibus Press John Thompson's Modern Course for the Piano 1
£11.24
Omnibus Press The Essential Rory Gallagher: Acoustic
£23.99
Omnibus Press Adele: 21
£19.99
Omnibus Press Keith Richards Unauthorised
Victor Bockris's much admired biography of Keith Richards has been constantly revised since its original publication, now with an additional 12,000 words for a new edition of the Omnibus Press paperback that brings the story up to the present day. First published in eight countries in 1992, at that time Keith Richrds had stood in the shadow of Mick Jagger for thirty years. Then, as a result of Victor Bockris biography, Richards was put in the spotlight and emerged as the power behind the throne, the creator, the backbone, and the soul of the Rolling Stones.Here are the true facts behind Richards' battles with his demons: the women, the drugs and the love-hate-relationship with Jagger. His struggle with heroin and his status as the rock star most likely to die in the 1970s. His scarcely believable rebirth as a family man in the 1980s. Illuminated with revealing quotes and thoughtful insights into the man behind the band that goes on forever.
£9.95
Omnibus Press A Dozen a Day Book 1 CD Primary
£11.24
Omnibus Press A New Tune A Day
Contains advice on equipment, instructions for an effective embouchure and comfortable posture, and an explanatory section on reading music. This book also includes music, including duets, rounds and ensemble pieces, tests to check progress and comprehension, and useful pull out chart giving all fingerings.
£18.50
Omnibus Press Grant & I: Inside and Outside the Go-Betweens
BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 - MOJO MAGAZINE & UNCUT MAGAZINE "In early '77 I asked Grant if he'd form a band with me. `No,' was his blunt reply." Grant McLennan didn't want to be in a band. He couldn't play an instrument; Charlie Chaplin was his hero du jour. And yet, when Robert Forster wrote Hemingway, Genet, Chandler and Joyce into his lyrics, McLennan couldn't resist a second invitation to become 80s indie sensation The Go Betweens. The friends would collaborate for three decades, until Grant's premature death in 2006. Beautifully written - like lyrics, like prose - Grant & I is a rock memoir akin to no other. Part `making of', part music industry expose, part buddy-book, this is a delicate and perceptive celebration of creative endeavour. With wit and candour, Robert Forster pays tribute to a band who found huge success in the margins, having friendship at its heart.
£9.99
Omnibus Press The Gig Book
£16.99
Omnibus Press Intouchables
£19.99
OMNIBUS PRESS DAVID MARVUGLIO
Metal Bass Lines. Learn the techniques to perform metal bass lines.
£19.99
OMNIBUS PRESS ESSNTL ELEMENTS 2000 1 VLA BKCDDVD
£14.38
Omnibus Press Bowie Odyssey 73
Book by book, year by year, the ultimate literary trip through Bowie's greatest decade. It is 1973. David Bowie is finally a superstar. All he has to do to remain there is to keep pretending he's Ziggy Stardust, keep playing to thousands, keep selling to millions and keep on staying relatively sane ... As glam rock crashes and burns in a sleazy scandal-ridden Britain, a world tour convinces David to make radical changes with devastating consequences for Ziggy, his fans and his band. However, his planned 'retirement' is anything but quiet - now a friend of the Jaggers, with more lovers than he can count on one hand, more appetites than he can satisfy with one nose and still more success. But at what cost? Continuing his vivid real-time journey through the decade David changed pop forever, the fourth volume of the Bowie Odyssey series sees Simon Goddard mainline to the dark heart of Seventies sex, drugs and debauched rock'n'roll - a gripping, unsentimental portrait of inspiration, insanity and the thin line that divides. PRAISE FOR THE BOWIE ODYSSEY SERIES 'My god, it's brilliant. A delicious romp.' MIKE SCOTT, THE WATERBOYS 'The best book written about its subject... Stupendous.' CLASSIC ROCK 'The wonderful Bowie Odyssey series ... Goddard's prose is like an all-seeing eye.' RECORD COLLECTOR 'A full-on sensory immersion in Bowie's universe.' SUNDAY TIMES 'It's as if we were there.' 4**** MOJO 'Goddard's scintillating series... with its meticulous fact-checking and almost poetic prose, paints a beautifully written portrait that's almost as otherworldly as its subject... [it] strikes the perfect balance... granting us an all-access-areas pass to accompany Bowie to every gig, every engagement and to some of the most important moments in rock' CLASSIC POP 'The project's ambition is matched only by the sumptuousness of Goddard's writing... At times as I read Bowie Odyssey 73 I felt like his shadow.' CHRIS CHARLESWORTH
£16.99
Omnibus Press Bolan: The Rise and Fall of a 20th Century Superstar
Marc Bolan was the very first superstar of the Seventies. As the seductive focus of "T Rex", he revelled in fame and fortune, released a string of classic records, but then lost his way, bingeing on cocaine and booze and apparently heading for obscurity. But the fatal 1977 car crash that cut short his planned comeback as a punk rocker was also to fix him forever as the classic icon of Glam Rock. Today, almost 30 years after his death, the legend of Marc Bolan lives on and not just for the image. His music and chameleonic style were to influence many future bands. Mod, Beatnik, Hippie, Glam and Punk Rocker - Bolan's numerous guises offer a fascinating glimpse into the man himself as well as British pop history. This classic biography of a pop obsessive draws from interviews with many friends and colleagues including the late John Peel, brother Harry and band members Mickey Finn and Bill Legend.
£12.99
Omnibus Press R.E.M.: Perfect Circle
Formed in Athens, Georgia in 1980, R.E.M. released their first single, Radio Free Europe, in 1981. By the time the band broke up they had recorded fifteen studio albums, 63 singles, sold more than 85 million records, signed the biggest recording contract in music history, and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in their first year of eligibility.
£16.99
Omnibus Press Wyatt at the Coyote Palace
The full studio album on CD. Photographs and artwork by Dave Narcizo and Kristin Hersh. Lyrics for each song, stories and essays by Kristin Hersh to accompany each track.
£16.49
Omnibus Press Looking Through You: The Beatles Monthly Archive
In 1963, it was unusual for a pop group to have a monthly magazine devoted exclusively to their career. Only Elvis Presley had been considered important enough to warrant such an honour. But then the Beatles were unusual. Within the space of that pivotal year, the Fab Four became the biggest thing in British popular culture and their worldwide fame was soon inescapable. One of the first to astutely recognise their greatness was Sean O'Mahony and the monthly magazine he launched with the full blessing of The Beatles and their manager Brian Epstein - The Beatles Book.Looking Through You presents a selection of over 300 images from the precious Beatles Book photo archive, many unpublished or unseen in their original form from the original negatives, as well as the story behind the success of the regular Beatle bulletin.With each new issue, Beatle fans worldwide would voraciously devour the contents from cover-to-cover, discovering the Fab Four's latest news and activities and most of all, savouring the exclusive B&W photographs, captured by in-house photographer, Leslie Bryce.During the magazine's six-year run only a small fraction of these photographs were printed - and then often altered in some way. The Beatles Book Monthly captured the Beatles' development from British provincial theatres - through foreign tours including their ground-breaking first American visit - and onwards to the band's withdrawal into the recording studio. It was unique in its access - as well as concert tours and television shows, the band were photographed off duty, at their homes and in the studio - locales that were generally out-of-bounds to most Beatle observers. This unique and original photographic record preserves many important moments within the Beatles' career, providing a historically important glimpse into the world's greatest ever entertainment phenomenon.
£27.00
Omnibus Press Pink Floyd: Mind Over Matter
This book features the images from Pink Floyd's album sleeves and promotional material designed for the group. It features almost all Pink Floyd's iconic album covers, posters, singles bags, a selection of band photos, booklet pages and rough artwork that developed into iconic designs. This new edition incorporates an additional 32 pages of material used in re-issues created since 2007. Storm Thorgerson, who died in 2013, was a world-famous designer whose memoirs of his time spent with Pink Floyd are combined with all the artwork he created to represent the band at each stage of their career. Storm revisited the work he created for the albums and offers insights into the work that went into the creation of this legendary album art. Designers who worked with Storm have all contributed to this new edition of Mind Over Matter. Amongst the new material is artwork from the Oh By The Way box set, the Atom Heart Mother 40th Anniversary 'Wire Cow' sculpture, the Why Pink Floyd? Campaign and the Dark Side Of The Moon 40th Anniversary images and stickers.
£31.50
Omnibus Press No Quarter: The Three Lives of Jimmy Page
No Quarter: The Three Lives Of Jimmy Page explores the life, times and music of the man behind one of the 20th century's greatest bands: the mighty Led Zeppelin.Using new and exclusive interviews Martin Power tells the full story of Jimmy Page's long career. Starting with the early Sixties session scene when the teenage Page contributed to recordings by The Who, The Rolling Stones, Tom Jones and many more, the author goes on to explore Page's time in The Yardbirds, the band that would metamorphose into the legendary Led Zeppelin.Supported by album reviews, rare photographs, a full discography and candid conversations with Page's friends, managers and musical collaborators, author Martin Power's No Quarter: The Three Lives Of Jimmy Page represents the most comprehensive and up-to-date biography yet written about Jimmy Page - a "one man guitar army" and true music legend.
£22.50
Omnibus Press George Clinton and the Cosmic Odyssey of the P-Funk Empire
The first in-depth biography of one of music's most fascinating, colourful and innovative characters. This book is the most comprehensive history yet of the life, music and cultural significance of the last of the great black music pioneers and the era which spawned him. Clinton stands alongside James Brown, Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone as one of the most influential black artists of all time who, along with his vast P-Funk army took black funk into the US charts and sold out stadiums by the mid 1970s with his mind-blowing shows and legendary Mothership extravaganzas. The book contains first hand interview material with Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Jerome "Bigfoot" Brailey, Junie Morrison, Bobby Gillespie, Afrika Bambaataa, Jalal Nuriddin (Last Poets), Juan Atkins, John Sinclair, Rob Tyner (MC5), Ed Sanders (The Fugs), Chip Monck ("The Voice of Woodstock") plus other P-Funk associates and friends. The book presents an insiders' view of the rise of Parliament and Funkadelic from the doowop era and LSD-crazed early shows through to P-Funk's huge rise, the era of the Mothership and beyond.
£17.95
Omnibus Press Every Night's a Saturday Night: The Rock 'n' Roll Life of Legendary Sax Man Bobby Keys
Bobby Keys has lived the kind of like that qualifies as a rock 'n' roll folktale. In his early teens, Keys bribed his way into neighbour Buddy Holly's garage band rehearsals, then took up the saxophone because it was the only instrument left unclaimed in the school band. While still in his teens, he convinced his grandfather to sign his guardianship over to Crickets drummer J.I. Allison so that Keys could go on tour. Keys spent years on the road during the early days of rock 'n' roll. He was a top touring and session sax man for the likes of mad Dogs and Englishmen, George Harrison and John Lennon. In 1970 he began his gig with The Rolling Stones. Every Night's A Saturday Night finds Keys setting down the many tales of an over-the-top rock 'n' roll life in his own inimitable voice. With a foreword by Keith Richards and exclusive interviews with famous friends and fellow travellers, like Joe Cocker and Jim Keltner, Every Night's A Saturday Night paints a unique picture of the coming-of-age of rock 'n' roll itself while celebrating how Key's raw talent and outsized personality have elevated him from sideman to rock icon.
£16.95
Omnibus Press Understanding Music Theory
This volume offers a foundation course for use by students and teachers. You start at the beginning and advance to the point where you can harmonize and play satisfactory piano accompaniments to familiar tunes. Each paper is accompanied by a self-test work sheet and answers are given at the end of the book. Chapters include: staves; key signatures; major triads; harmonizing melodies; scales; tones and semitones; notes and intervals.
£9.95
£12.02
Omnibus Press The Little Black Songbook: 60s Hits
A pocket-sized collection of more than eighty hits by the biggest names of the 1960s. Presented in chord songbook format, with chord symbols, Guitar chord boxes and complete lyrics.
£15.58
Omnibus Press The Little Black Songbook: Elvis
SONGS INCLUDE:- All Shook Up- Always On My Mind- Are You Lonesome Tonight?- Blue Suede Shoes- Heartbreak Hotel- Hound Dog- I Just Cant Help Believin- In the Ghetto- Its Now Or Never- Jailhouse Rock- A Little Less Conversation- Love Me Tender- Return to Sender
£15.58
Omnibus Press The Little Black Songbook: Eric Clapton
SONGS INCLUDE:Bad LoveCocaineLay Down SallyLaylaTears In HeavenMotherless ChildSunshine Of Your Love
£15.17
Omnibus Press Rodrigo & Gabriela
(Guitar). Matching guitar tab folio to the album that rocketed Rodrigo y Gabriela to popularity. Includes: Diablo Rojo * Ixtapa * Juan Loco * Orion * PPA * Satori * Stairway to Heaven * Tamacun * Vikingman.
£21.99
Omnibus Press Kill To Get Crimson
£21.99