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Affectionately known as 'Koss', Paul Kossoff's playing touched people. It still does today, more than forty years after his sad and untimely death at the age of twenty-five. This authorised biography pays fitting tribute to a much-loved and widely admired musician whose influence and inspiration is still very evident today.
It's all here: Kossoff's musical childhood, his formative years with Black Cat Bones, forming Free at seventeen, that group's dizzying success, breakup, reforming and dissolution, the solo years, Back Street Crawler – the sessions, the tours and big concerts, the triumphs, the tragedies and the heartbreak – J.P. James takes the reader right there.
Over four distinct sections, Kossoff's many guitars and the equipment he used to make them sing are fully documented; a brand-new detailed analysis of Kossoff's distinctive playing style and technique is presented for the first time; a broad overview of Kossoff's creative life draws on the voices of family, friends and fellow… Read More

The book has some tears and creases hence the price but still a great read for Dead fans.

1993 BOOK ABOUT SRV - "Traces the life of one of America's greatest guitarists, from his early years in the Texas music scene, his rivalry with his brother Jimmie, and his battles with drugs and alcohol, to his tragic death in 1990.

In 1964, an unknown band hit number 2 in the US charts with "She's Not There". Surviving gruelling package tours, they were soon at the vanguard of the British invasion that stormed America.
Novelist and musician Claes Johansen follows them from suburban beginnings on an adventure through a pop industry in its infancy.
In 1967, before going their separate ways, the Zombies recorded their swansong, Odessey and Oracle.
When Al Kooper championed its posthumous release in the States, this classic LP started to undergo a series of re-evaluations. (It recently featured amongst Mojo magazine's best 100 LPs of all time). Here, this timeless masterpiece is fully explored.

'WHICH IS THE BEST BAND I'VE BEEN IN? THE SMALL FACES WERE THE MOST CREATIVE, THE FACES WERE THE MOST FUN,THE WHO WERE THE MOST EXCITING. THESE WERE ELECTRIFYING DAYS IN MUSIC. WE WERE ALL UNTRIED, UNTESTED. WHAT WAS STOPPING US? NOTHING.' As drummer with the Small Faces, Faces and later The Who, Kenney Jones' unique sense of rhythm was the heartbeat that powered three of the most influential rock bands of all time. Beginning in London's post-war East End, Kenney's story takes us through the birth of the Mod revolution, the mind-bending days of the late-1960s and the raucous excesses of the '70s and '80s. In a career spanning six decades, Kenney was at the epicentre of many of the most exciting moments in music history and has experienced everything the industry has to offer. He jointly created some of the world's most-loved records, hung out with the Stones, Beatles, David Bowie, Keith Moon and Rod Stewart, and suffered the loss of close friends to rock 'n' roll excess and success. The legacy created… Read More

UK: Borderline Productions, 2006-01-01. VG. The comprehensive guide to British music of the Beat, R and B, Psychedelic and Progressive, eras 1963 - 1976 This is a completely revised and updated version of a book originally published in 1995, when it was nominated as the 4th Best Music Book of '95 by Record Collector, and described as an "impressive 600 page job, that includes more across the board info than most rock encyclopedias" by "Q Magazine" Since then many entries have been rewritten, more have been added, and all have been updated to include relevant releases since 1995 The book covers British rock and pop between 1963-76 It includes full discographies (albums, EPs, singles and retrospectives) for almost all entries as well as personnel details, biographical information, in most cases some comment about the music, compilation listings and an up-to-date rarity scale A wide range of musical genres are covered: mainstream rock and pop, Merseybeat, R and B, folk, folk-rock, jazz-rock,… Read More

Large Book on bands - Canadian, Australasian, Latin American and South African rock and pop 1963-1976. 2008 version from Borderline Productions.Details of hundreds of bands, famous and not so famous with line-ups, releases etc etc.

1995 first edition.An encyclopaedic guide to British music of the beat, R&B, psychedelic and progressive. It includes an A-Z listing of the artists with bibliographies, personnel details and, for most entries, histories and comment on the music.

This was the third in a trio of publications aimed at providing a detailed encyclopaedic guide to rock and pop music of the golden era from the early sixties to the mid-seventies. Fuzz Acid and Flowers provided a comprehensive guide to the garage, psychedelic and hippie rock of the USA. The Tapestry Of Delights dealt with a wide range of musical genres in the UK during this era.
This publication branches out to cover rock, pop, beat, folk, folk-rock, blues-rock, psychedelia, flower pop, garage, progressive rock and more from Canada and Australasia in the era. It also provides an introduction to Latin American beat, psychedelia, garage and progressive rock. This book includes many artists who failed to attract the publicity they deserved at the time and many who've never appeared in music encyclopaedias before. It contains over 2,600 entries and is profusely illustrated including 12 pages of colour.

UK: BORDERLINE, 1994. VG. The fourth in the series of US regional discographies, this was a detailed study of artists and groups from Indiana, Iowa and Missouri with discographies, band personnel details, and in most cases some comment about the artists and the music Rock, pop, jazz-rock, country-rock, folk-rock, punk, new wave, garage, psychedelia, heavy rock, new country, all are covered 16 pages of black and white and colour illustrations