Music

You Can Drum But You Can’t Hide

You Can Drum But You Can’t Hide

Simon Wolstencroft

Of all the iconic musicians and scenes that emanate from Manchester, Simon Wolstencroft is the one who joins up the dots. He learnt his chops playing with Johnny Marr and Andy Rourke, but turned down The Smiths because he didn’t like the cut of Morrissey’s jib. He parted ways with his schoolmates Ian Brown and John Squire before The Patrol became The Stone R..

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The Chameleon Poet: Bob Dylan’s Search For Self

The Chameleon Poet: Bob Dylan’s Search For Self

John Bauldie

John Bauldie's examination of Bob Dylan covers theformative span of Dylan’s career from his emergence in the early sixties to his conversion to Christianity in the late seventies, tracing each step in the development of the artist and man from youth

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Bringing It All Back Home

Bringing It All Back Home

Ian Clayton

Shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize When you hear a certain song, where does it take you? What is the secret that connects music to our lives? Heart warming, moving and laugh out loud funny, Bringing It All Back Home is the truest book you will ever read about music and the things that really matter. Author Ian Clayton listens to music as a kid to e..

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No One Else Could Play That Tune

No One Else Could Play That Tune

Clinton Heylin

The Making and Unmaking of Bob Dylan’s 1974 Masterpiece Wanted Man Study Series: Take II ~ Vol.1 Limited edition monograph in hardback. NO ONE ELSE COULD PLAY THAT TUNE is the perfect companion to the all-singing all-dancing boxed set of the complete New York sessions for Dylan’s fabled Blood On The Tracks: More Blood, More Tracks. Clinton Heylin tra..

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What We Did Instead of Holidays

What We Did Instead of Holidays

Clinton Heylin

A History of Fairport Convention and Its Extend Folk-Rock Family In June 1968, a group of Muswell Hillbillies made their official album debut as Fairport Convention. In the next fifteen years, three of those founding Fairportees – Richard Thompson, Ashley ‘Tyger’ Hutchings and Simon Nicol – along with the next generation of Fairport recruits – Iain Matthe..

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Leave The Capital

Leave The Capital

Paul Hanley

Paul Hanley's history of Manchester music in 13 recordings, and how two recording studios facilitated a musical revolution that would be defined by its rejection of the capital.

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Trouble In Mind

Trouble In Mind

Clinton Heylin

Bob Dylan’s Gospel Years – What Really Happened Rolling Stone Book of the Year Mojo Book of the Year ‘When I get involved in something, I get totally involved. I don’t just play around on the fringes.’ – Bob Dylan In 1979 there was… trouble in mind, and trouble in store for the ever-iconoclastic Dylan. But unlike in 1965-66, the artifactal afterglo..

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JUDAS!

JUDAS!

Clinton Heylin

The fullest account yet of Bob Dylan's infamous electric tour of 1965-66, from Forest Hills to The Free Trade Hall, a historical view of The Big Boo

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Anarchy in the Year Zero

Anarchy in the Year Zero

Clinton Heylin

The story of the birth of Punk, with a capital P. How did it happen and why it still matters

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Carpet Burns: Life With Inspiral Carpets

Carpet Burns: Life With Inspiral Carpets

Tom Hingley

Carpet Burns is Tom Hingley’s account of his life as lead singer of Inspiral Carpets, one of the big three bands of the Manchester movement who, along with The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays, changed music for a generation. Tom’s own words provide an account of what it felt like to be in the eye of a pop hurricane and what happens when the hits end and the ar..

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