Margrave of the Marshes
8 best books like Margrave of the Marshes (John Peel): Life, Cider With Roadies, Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs, Let it Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic, Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer, Head-On/Repossessed, Going to Sea in a Sieve, The Haçienda: How Not to Run a Club
| Author | Keith Richards |
| ISBN | 0297854399 |
Keith Richards was a clever kid, a talented artist, a choirboy who sang for the Queen and became an outstanding musician in one of the world's best bands. What is most on display in this book is his tremendous interest in music and musicians, not in rock, bands, money and fame - a lot of which he finds a bit...
| Author | Stuart Maconie |
| ISBN | 0091897459 |
Cider with Roadies is the story of a boy's obsessive relationship with pop. A life lived through music from Stuart's audience with the Beatles (aged 3); his confessions as a pubescent prog rocker; a youthful gymnastic dalliance with northern soul; the radical effects of punk on his politics, homework...
"I have no time for lies and fantasy, and neither should you. Enjoy or die..." --John Lydon
Punk has been romanticized and embalmed in various media. An English class revolt that became a worldwide fashion statement, punk's idols were the Sex Pistols, and its sneering hero was Johnny Rotten.
Seventeen...
| Author | Jim DeRogatis |
| ISBN | 0767905091 |
Let it Blurt is the raucous and righteous biography of Lester Bangs (1949-82)–the gonzo journalist, gutter poet, and romantic visionary of rock criticism. No writer on rock ‘n’ roll ever lived harder or wrote better–more passionately, more compellingly, more penetratingly. He lived the...
The Clash was--and still is--one of the most important groups of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Indebted to rockabilly, reggae, Memphis soul, cowboy justice, and '60s protest, the overtly political band railed against war, racism, and a dead-end economy, and in the process imparted a conscience...
| Author | Julian Cope |
| ISBN | 0007197756 |
Julian Cope's highly acclaimed autobiography and its long-awaited sequel in one extraordinary volume. Contents: Julian Cope shot to fame with eighties band 'Teardrop Explodes' during the Punk era. Hailed as a visionary by those people who recognise his genius and a madman by those who find him perplexing,...
| Author | Danny Baker |
| ISBN | 0297863401 |
Danny Baker was born in Deptford, South East London in June 1957, and from an early age was involved in magazine journalism, with the founding of fanzine Sniffin' Glue alongside friend Mark Perry. From there he moved to documentary series for LWT and over the years worked on a variety of quiz shows (Win,...
The Haçienda: How Not to Run a Club
| Author | Peter Hook |
| ISBN | 1847371353 |
The Legendary musician and cofounder of Joy Division and New Order tells the whole story—the fun, the music, the vast loss of money, the legacy—of Manchester's most iconic nightclub
Peter Hook has been shaping the course of popular music for 30 years. He provided the propulsive...
