Books

OASIS – Exlusive Photobook LIVE OPUS ’25 Out In May

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27 March 2026

The OASIS LIVE 25 OPUS is an official photographic story of the band’s huge 2025 tour, with deluxe versions featuring 1000 unseen images, captured with rare behind-the-scenes access by acclaimed portrait photographer and film director Simon Emmett and created with assistance of the Gallaghers.

It comes as a hardback refined volume made for the fans.
Measuring 33.6 cm x 24.6 cm, covering 336 pages,
weighing approx 0.5 kg.

It’s out May 26th. Details and pre-order info here.


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Instagram – Website

IRON MAIDEN Have A New Book ‘INFINITE DREAMS’ Out – You Can Listen To It

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Metal oldtimers IRON MAIDEN have a new book out. It’s titled Infinite Dreams.

“It tells the story of 50 years as a band. It’s a visual-audio book and features
commentary by band members past and present, and never-before-seen photography.
It also chronicles the evolution of heavy metal’s most influential and enthralling band
since 1975. ”

Halloween read? Don’t judge a metal book by its cover. More info right here.

Some book pictures below.
I can’t hear anything.
Can you?

No rest for the wicked.

SYD BARRETT – New Book On The Late PINK FLOYD Legend Out In 3 Weeks

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Yesterday, this message was posted on the socials of SYD BARRETT,
the legendary co-founder and inspirator of the early Pink Floyd years.

No title, nor further info, so far.

From 1965 until 1968, he was the band’s frontman and primary songwriter,
known for his whimsical style of psychedelia and stream-of-consciousness
writing. As a guitarist, he was influential for his free-form playing and for
employing effects such as dissonance, distortion, echo, and feedback.

He got fired by the group as his increasingly erratic behaviour, partly due
to his heavy use of psychedelic drugs, got worse and worse. He developed
a blank, dead-eyed stare. Barrett did not recognize friends, and he often did
not know where he was.

When his health got somewhat better, he wrote/recorded
and released 2 solo LPs, The Madcap Laughs and Barrett.
Both came out in 1970.

BARRETT


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THE MADCAP LAUGHS


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Barrett Story

OZZY OSBOURNE’s Memoir ‘LAST RITES’ Out In October

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13 July 2025

Only last Saturday metal icons Black Sabbath played their final concert. A whopping one for the history books and (as planned, of course) crackbrain frontman OZZY OSBOURNE (76 now) takes advantage of the moment to announce the upcoming arrival of his new memoir LAST RITES.

It’s out on October 7. Pre-order info HERE.

Last Rites is the shocking, bitterly hilarious, never-before-told story of Osbourne’s
descent into hell. Along the way, he reflects on his extraordinary life and career,
including his turbulent marriage to wife Sharon, his encounters with fellow
hellraisers including Slash, Bon Scott, John Bonham and Keith Moon.

The harrowing final moments he spent with Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister, all alongside
his reflections on the triumphant Back to the Beginning concert, streamed around the world, where Ozzy reunited with his Black Sabbath bandmates for the final time and
raised millions for charity.

Ozzy: “People say to me, if you could do it all again, knowing what you know now, would
you change anything? I’m like, f*** no. If I’d been clean and sober, I wouldn’t be Ozzy. If I’d
done normal, sensible things, I wouldn’t be Ozzy. Look, if it ends tomorrow, I can’t complain.
I’ve been all around the world. Seen a lot of things. I’ve done good… and I’ve done bad. But
right now, I’m not ready to go anywhere.”

Out 7 October. Pre-order info HERE.

OZZY: Instagram – Webstore

Brand New SHANE MacGOWAN Photo Book

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13 October 2024

Séan MacGabhann / Shane MacGowan: SONGSMITH is a new book featuring
many previously unpublished images photographer by Pádraig O Flannabhra of
the late Pogues frontman who passed away last year in November, aged 65.

The book supports the UNICEF–United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, which helps Palestinian Children in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, who have to battle
hunger and pain to stay alive.

More info and order details here.

NENEH CHERRY – New Memoir ‘A THOUSAND THREADS’ Out Now

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Born in Sweden in 1964, NENEH CHERRY‘s father was a musician
from Sierra Leone. Her mother was a twenty-one-year-old Swedish
textile artist.

Her parents split up just after Neneh was born, and not long afterwards her mother
met and fell in love with acclaimed jazz musician Don Cherry. Eventually, the strong pull New York City in the 1970s drew him them there, but they made a home wherever they traveled. Neneh and her brother Eagle-Eye experienced a life of creativity, freedom, and,
of course, music.

In A Thousand Threats, Neneh takes readers from the charming old schoolhouse in
the woods of Sweden where she grew up, to the village in Sierra Leone that was birthplace of her biological father, to the early punk scene in London and New York, to finding her identity with her stepfather’s family in Watts, California.

Neneh has lived an extraordinary life of connectivity and creativity and she recounts in intimate detail how she burst onto the scene as a teenager in the punk band The Slits,
and went on to release her first album in 1989 with a worldwide hit Buffalo Stance.

Neneh‘s inspiring and deeply compelling memoir both celebrates female empowerment and shines a light on the global music scene–and is perfect for anyone interested in the artistic life in all its forms.

Order info UK here.
Order info US here.

THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN – Pysch Pop Legends Have Brand New Biography ‘NEVER UNDERSTOOD’ Out

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8 September 2024

Legendary psych-pop brothers Reid who made indie history under their musical moniker THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN launched their 8th LP Glasgow Eyes last March, and have now a brand-new biography out, titled NEVER UNDERSTOOD.

Press info: “For 5 years after they’d swapped sought-after apprenticeships for life on
the dole, brothers William and Jim Reid sat up till the early hours in the front room of their parents’ East Kilbride council house, plotting their path to world domination over endless cups of tea, with the music turned down low so as not to wake their sleeping sister. They knew they couldn’t play in the same band because they’d argue too much, so they’d describe their dream ensembles to each other until finally they realised that these two perfect bands were actually the same band, and the name of that band was The Jesus
and Mary Chain“.

The rest was not silence, and picking up those conversations again more than 40 years later, William and Jim tell the full story of one of Britain‘s greatest guitar bands for the very first time – a wildly funny and improbably moving chronicle of brotherly strife, feedback, riots, drug and alcohol addiction, eternal outsiders and extreme shyness, that also somehow manages to be a love letter to the Scottish working-class family.”

Order info here.

JAMC: Instagram

THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN – Memoir ‘NEVER UNDERSTOOD’ In August

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7 March 2024

After 41 years (with a hiatus between 1999-2007) and (only) 8 albums Scottish
psych-pop heroes THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN will have their memoir out,
titled NEVER UNDERSTOOD on August 15. Pre-order info here.

It’s written by the bros, Jim and William Reid, assisted by author Ben Thompson.

Weird, when they started out their goal was to never be understood and now they write
a book about never being understood. Make your minds up, guys. Legendary band, of course.

TJMC: Instagram

New BOB MARLEY Photo Book With Rare Shots Titled ‘REBEL MUSIC: BOB MARLEY & ROOTS REGGAE’ Is Out Now

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26 December 2023

REBEL MUSIC: BOB MARLEY & ROOTS REGGAE is brand new photo book with rare shots
of reggae trailblazer BOB MARLEY taken by American photographer KATE SIMON

You can purchase a copy HERE.

In 1975, Kate Simon first photographed Bob Marley and the Wailers at the Lyceum in
London, where the now-legendary live performance of No Woman, No Cry was recorded. They then collaborated throughout the Seventies, with Simon shooting some of the most intimate, enduring and emblematic images ever taken of Marley, including his iconic Kaya album cover

Simon captured it all: portraits of the reggae greats of the Seventies, such as Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh; the Exodus Tour, on the road with Bob Marley and The Wailers as they performed across Europe.

And the One Love Peace Concert, where Bob famously united Jamaica‘s opposing political leaders. Ultimately, in 1981, Simon would ride with the funeral cortege from Kingston to
St Ann and Bob Marley‘s final resting place.

Rebel Music contains over 400 photographs from Simon‘s archives, many published here for the first time. Introduced by Patti Smith, with a foreword by Lenny Kravitz and afterword by Keith Richards.

A cast of 24 contributors join Simon in sharing the stories behind the images, including
ex-Wailers guitarist Junior Marvin and bass player and band leader Aston ‘Family Man’ Barrett; musicians such as Junior Delgado, Steve Jordan, Paul Simonon and Bruce Springsteen; filmmaker Don Letts and producer Danny Sims; and Island Records founder, Chris Blackwell.

Bob Marley: Bio – Discography – Instagram
Kate Simon: Website – Instagram