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Tearing Down The Wall of Sound: The Rise And Fall of Phil Spector

by Mick Brown

Our most recommended books

Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century by Greil Marcus

Queerness in Heavy Metal Music: Metal Bent by Amber R Clifford-Napoleone

I'm With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie by Pamela Des Barres

Pulphead by John Jeremiah Sullivan

England's Dreaming, Revised Edition: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond by Jon Savage

Running with the Devil: Power, Gender and Madness in Heavy Metal Music by Robert Walser

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Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century
by Greil Marcus

Queerness in Heavy Metal Music: Metal Bent
by Amber R Clifford-Napoleone

I'm With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie
by Pamela Des Barres

Pulphead
by John Jeremiah Sullivan

England's Dreaming, Revised Edition: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond
by Jon Savage

Running with the Devil: Power, Gender and Madness in Heavy Metal Music
by Robert Walser