The Eighties: One Day, One Decade
By: Dylan Jones
3.70
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
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1. So You've Been Publicly Shamed
By: Jon Ronson
3.93
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world meeting recipients of high-profile pub… read more
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"The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche."-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed
"...all violence being a person’s attempt to replace shame with self-esteem."-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed
"[W]e need to think twice about raining down vengeance and anger as our default position."-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed
"A wronged person is still a wronged person even if they're an unfashionable wronged person."-Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed
2. Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge
By: Mark Yarm
4.27
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
Twenty years after the release of Nirvana’s landmark album Nevermind comes Everybody Loves Our Town… read more
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3. Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies (And Why We Don't Learn Them From Movies Any More)
By: Hadley Freeman
3.79
Format: 311 pages, Paperback
From Vogue contributor and Guardian columnist Hadley Freeman, a personalized guide to eighties movi… read more
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"Just the thought of Michael Douglas dirty dancing is faintly traumatizing."-Hadley Freeman, Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies (And Why We Don't Learn Them From Movies Any More)
"Take My Breath Away (from Top Gun): This song is so good it makes having sex with Tom Cruise seem almost sexy."-Hadley Freeman, Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies (And Why We Don't Learn Them From Movies Any More)
"Life has changed a lot in the past 30 years: men don't tend to sport Michael Douglas-style bouffant hair, more's the pity."-Hadley Freeman, Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies (And Why We Don't Learn Them From Movies Any More)
"One of the jokes in 'Back to the Future' is how people in the 1950s don't get 1980s fashion. People in the 1950s were right."-Hadley Freeman, Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies (And Why We Don't Learn Them From Movies Any More)
4. Rip it Up and Start Again
By: Simon Reynolds
4.08
Format: 752 pages, Hardcover
Punk's raw power rejuvenated rock, but by the summer of 1977 the movement had become a parody of it… read more
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5. Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!: The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé
By: Bob Stanley
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
As much fun to argue with as to quote, Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!is a monumental work of musical history, tr… read more
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- music
- history
6. What Does This Button Do?: An Autobiography
By: Bruce Dickinson
4.20
Format: None pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER A long-awaited memoir from the larger-than-life, multifaceted lead vocalis… read more
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7. Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain
By: Charles R. Cross
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The art of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain was all about his private life, but written in a code as obscure a… read more
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8. Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life as a Ramone
By: Marky Ramone
4.00
Format: 240 pages,
The “entertaining and enlightening” (Stephen King) final word on the genius and mischie… read more
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9. Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan
By: Howard Sounes
3.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
Based on three years of research, new documentary evidence, and interviews with 250 of Dylan's inti… read more
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10. Life
By: Keith Richards
3.17
Format: 55 pages, Hardcover
With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics and the songs that roused the… read more
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11. Cowboy Song: The Authorised Biography of Philip Lynott
By: Graeme Thomson
3.87
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The first biography to be written with the cooperation of the Lynott Estate, Cowboy Song is the def… read more
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12. Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars 1955-1994
By: David Hepworth
4.25
Format: 512 pages, ebook
As heard on Radcliffe and Maconie, Danny Baker and Simon Mayo 'Fascinating from start to finish' Si… read more
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13. Autobiography
By: Morrissey
3.96
Format: 286 pages, Paperback
Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder … read more
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14. The List of Suspicious Things
By: Jennie Godfrey
4.29
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more
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15. Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
By: Bono
4.20
Format: 564 pages, Hardcover
Bono--artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2--has written a memoir: honest and… read more
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"Fame is a currency. I want to spend mine on the right stuff."-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
"Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience"-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
"I remain more suspicious of religion than most people who'd never darken the door of a church."-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
"the only true way to be victorious is to surrender. To each other. To love. To the higher power."-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
16. Face It
By: Debbie Harry
3.61
Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition
‘I was saying things in songs that female singers didn’t really say back then. I wasn’t submissive … read more
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"To this day, when the band separates at the airport and we all go our different ways, I still get that gut reaction. Separation. I hate parting with people and i hate goodbyes."-Debbie Harry, Face It
"I would just walk around, not looking for anything particular, looking for everything really, and ingesting and digesting it all. Art, music, theater, poetry, and the sense that everything was up for…"-Debbie Harry, Face It
"Coincidence: it's supposed to mean just these random, disconnected events that concur or collide. But coincidence is not that at all. It's the stuff that's meant to be. Things that are supposed to be…"-Debbie Harry, Face It
"I wanted to be platinum blond. On our black-and-white television and at the theater where they screened technicolor movies, there was something about platinum hair that was so luminescent and excitin…"-Debbie Harry, Face It
17. Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius
By: Nick Hornby
3.66
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Just Like You, High Fidelity, and Fever Pitch, a short, warm, and… read more
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"This book is about work, and nobody ever worked harder than these two, or at a higher standard, while connectiong with so many people for so long."-Nick Hornby, Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius
18. Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion
By: Tom Beaujour
4.07
Format: 535 pages, Hardcover
Hard rock in the 1980s was a hedonistic and often intensely creative wellspring of escapism that pe… read more
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- history
19. The Lives of Brian
By: Brian Johnson
4.51
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Brian Johnson’s memoir from growing up in a small town to starting his own band to ultimately repla… read more
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20. Faster Than A Cannonball: 1995 and All That
By: Dylan Jones
3.74
Format: 466 pages, Kindle Edition
Decades tend to crest halfway through, and 1995 was the year of the peak Britpop (Oasis v Blur), p… read more
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21. Nothing Is Real: The Beatles Were Underrated and Other Sweeping Statements About Pop
By: David Hepworth
3.74
Format: 223 pages, Kindle Edition
Pop music’s a simple pleasure. Is it catchy? Can you dance to it? Do you fancy the singer?But what’… read more
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22. The McCartney Legacy, Volume 1: 1969-73
By: Allan Kozinn
4.46
Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
In this first of a groundbreaking multivolume set, The McCartney Legacy, Vol. 1: 1969-73 captures t… read more
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23. A Chip Shop in Poznań
By: Ben Aitken
3.45
Format: 356 pages, Paperback
'One of the funniest books of the year' - Paul Ross, talkRADIO Not many Brits move to Poland to … read more
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24. The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People
By: Stuart Maconie
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Three years before George Orwell made his expedition to the far and frozen North JB Priestley – who… read more
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25. Confess: The Autobiography
By: Rob Halford
4.40
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
The legendary frontman of Judas Priest, one of the most successful heavy metal bands of all time, c… read more
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26. Tenement Kid
By: Bobby Gillespie
4.02
Format: 412 pages, Hardcover
Fizzing with an infectious passion for the magic of rock music, Gillespie’s vivid and evocative mem… read more
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"I kind of became a feminist from an early age, even though I wasn’t aware of the feminist movement in any way. I admired my mum a lot. In her own quiet way she was a fighter."-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid
"When I was a teenager I started to think about how dedicated Dad was to the struggle for working-class rights. He had devoted his life to the Labour cause fighting inequality and that’s fucking great…"-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid
"Those painful childhood memories we bury, that some of us try and drown out with sex, drugs, alcohol, gambling, all the usual crutches and distractions. These childhood experiences are going to be re…"-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid
"I began to question the world and other people from a young age. I suppose that gave me a sense of emotional distance, a lack of trust in future friendships and relationships; I would assume a friend…"-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid
27. Shiny and New: Ten Moments of Pop Genius that Defined the '80s
By: Dylan Jones
3.78
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
'A wholly successful endeavour carried along by waves of infectious enthusiasm' Mojo'Fascinating' N… read more
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28. Abbey Road: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Famous Recording Studio
By: David Hepworth
4.06
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
With a foreword by Paul McCartney'It's semi-devotional -- a really special place' Florence Welch'Th… read more
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- history
29. The Conspiracy Tourist: Travels Through a Strange World
By: Dom Joly
3.69
Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition
Dom Joly sets off on his travels again, immersing himself in the strange world of conspiracies. On … read more
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30. The Examiner
By: Janice Hallett
4.06
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Told in emails, text messages, and essays, this innovative pause-resister follows a group of studen… read more
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31. The Eighties: One Day, One Decade
By: Dylan Jones
3.70
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
One Day: Saturday 13 July 1985, nearly two billion people woke up with one purpose. Nearly a third … read more
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