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  • Remember the 60's

    A decade of ground breaking cultural and social change, the 60s is famously recalled with the oft quoted statement "If You Remember the '60s, You Really Weren't There" First published in 2006 and edited by Michael Heatley, this nostalgic look at the best music, movies, TV programmes and events of the swinging 60s is now available as an ebook. Illustrated with fantastic colour and black & white ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Brian Jones

    by Alan Clayson ...
    Brian Jones, the legend and icon, is familiar to generations of rock fans, but the reality of his life has always remaned mysterious. Granted godlike status alongside giants like Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, and Janis Joplin, Jones was more than the Stones' ill-fated pretty boy.Set against the dramatic backdrop of the swingin' sixties, Alan Clayson's biography reveals an extremely talented musician ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Charlie Watts

    by Alan Clayson ...
    Often appearing as a mere onlooker who didn't really want to be there, Charlie Watts - 'the silent Stone' - embraced fame reluctantly. Yet, ironically, if any one of the Stones could have made it big without the rest, it surely would have been Watts, who showed as much early promise as an artist as he did a jazz drummer.Understated and seemingly underwhelmed, Watts provided a stark contrast to the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • John Lennon

    by Alan Clayson ...
    For many years, John Lennon has been seen as the crazed and eccentric Beatle who provided some of the most memorable melodies the music world has ever known. After remaking pop in his own image with The Beatles, the erstwhile would-be artist and Liverpudlian reprobate went on to carve out a significant solo career, with the enigmatic Yoko Ono at his side. Following his murder in 1980, his work and ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Get Yer 'Air Cut

    The Issue of Male Coiffure, Pop and Counterculture Before, During and After the Swinging Sixties

    by Alan Clayson ...
    Narrated by Finlay Robertson ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 8 min

    My hair is a statement and always will be, even when I no longer have any.The social revolution of the Swinging Sixties led to a renaissance of unchecked hair growth, and long hair, especially on men, was worn as a political or countercultural symbol of protest and as an expression of masculinity.No-one who was affected by one of a turbulent decade's loudest controversies—or anyone who ever ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Robert Plant: A Life

    The Biography

    by Paul Rees ...
    Robert Plant is one of the few genuine living rock legends.Frontman of Led Zeppelin, musical innovator and seller of millions of records, Plant has had a profound influence on music for over four decades. But the full account of his life has barely been told … until now.Robert Plant: A Life is the first complete and comprehensive telling of Plant’s story. From his earliest performances in folk ... Read more

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  • Rory Gallagher

    His Life and Times

    Rory Gallagher is a hero and icon of rock music. He inspired guitar players from The Edge to Johnny Marr, Slash to Gary Moore, Johnny Fean to Philip Donnelly, Declan Sinnott to Brian May. He toured incessantly and sold over 30 million albums worldwide. Acknowledged as one of the world's leading guitarists, he collaborated with his boyhood hero Muddy Waters, and played with Jerry Lee Lewis, Albert ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cliff Richard Story

    by Mike Read ...
    Cliff Richard has been a muscial icon for 5 decades, and this eBook has been released to help celebrate his 70th birthday last October. 250 million record sales later - Cliff still continues to delight his fans with new music and spectacular live performances. The book is written by ex DJ and Cliff's goof friend Mike Read. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 1966

    The Year the Decade Exploded

    by Jon Savage ...
    WINNER OF THE PENDERYN MUSIC PRIZEA GUARDIAN MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR, 2015Award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Jon Savage's monument to the year that shaped the future of global pop cultural history.In America, in London, in Amsterdam, in Paris, revolutionary ideas fomenting since the late 1950s reached boiling point, culminating in a year in which the transient pop moment burst forth. ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Stoned

    'People say I made the Stones. I didn't. They were there already. They only wanted exploiting. They were all bad boys when I found them. I just brought out the worst in them.'Andrew Loog Oldham was nineteen years old when he discovered and became the manager and producer of an unknown band called The Rolling Stones. His radical vision transformed them from a starving south London blues combo to ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Perfect Pub Quiz

    Perfect Pub Quiz is the ideal companion for all general knowledge nuts. Whether you're organising a quiz night in your local or you simply want to get in a bit of practice on tricky subjects, Perfect Pub Quiz has all the questions and answers. With topics ranging from the Roman Empire to Little Britain and from the Ryder Cup to Alex Rider, this easy-to-use quiz book will tax your brain and provide ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The People’s Songs

    The Story of Modern Britain in 50 Records

    These are the songs that we have listened to, laughed to, loved to and laboured to, as well as downed tools and danced to.Covering the last seven decades, Stuart Maconie looks at the songs that have sound tracked our changing times, and – just sometimes – changed the way we feel. Beginning with Vera Lynn’s ‘We’ll Meet Again’, a song that reassured a nation parted from their loved ones by the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD