Stevie Wonder By John Swenson

Strange twisted experimental music from genius Stevie. Check out the sort of cosmic electro 'Race Babbling'.

One of his best ever albums. Essential. From "Black Man" and "Pastime Paradise" to "I Wish" and "As" this album is with good reason regarded as one of...

Essential album, the first from Stevie's early 70's trilogy, the others being "Innervisions" and "Fulfillingness". Includes "Superstition" and "Maybe Your...

Perhaps the best album from Stevie Wonder! Classic Margouleff and Cecil production. Every track's a winner! Superb mid-70s space age psychedelic soul! You...

Possibly his last, truly great album. Includes the classics "Master Blaster" and "All I Do"

This 16-song set presents the hits Wonder scored after he negotiated artistic control for himself in the 1970s. A classic '70s hits collection includes...

Essential album featuring so many must have tracks. 'Superwoman', 'I Love Every Little Thing About You', 'Keep On Running', 'Evil' and more!

Teenage Stevie from 1967 with the huge title hit

SUPER RARE STUDIO ONE 45 FRESHLY REMASTERED FROM ORIGINAL TAPES The most soulful voice in reggae covers the most soulful voice in soul - what's not to...

Soul Jazz Records celebrate 25 years of working in partnership with Studio One with brand new editions of FIVE of their best-selling CLASSIC Studio One...

One-off coloured pressing exclusive for RSD 2026 15 super-rare USA punk/power pop classics you never heard from bands you never knew! Soul Jazz Records’...

After portraying Ned East in the 1971 BBC TV adaptation of Tom Brown’s Schooldays and roles in films such as The Big Sleep (with Robert Mitchum) (1978),...

'He felt a sudden deep pity for the finger joint that lay there on the dresser, a few drops of blood gathering around the white bone.'A deliberately severed...

It's only appropriate that Xzibit's highly anticipated, and often-delayed, Restless concluded hip-hop's millennial melting pot. After all, Xzibit's association...

n Feminine Gospels, Carol Ann Duffy draws on the historical, the archetypal, the biblical and the fantastical to create various visions – and revisions...

Part novel, part Pop artwork, Andy Warhol's a is an electrifying slice of life at his Factory studio'A work of genius' NewsweekIn the early 1960s, Andy...

'Empathy is the currency of all music and Joe Mulhall does a great job of explaining how that quality has been used to generate solidarity for the struggle...

Nikki Giovanni's poetry has dazzled and inspired readers for more than sixty years. When she first emerged from the Black Arts Movement in the late 1960s,...

Jamie Lidell and Luke Schneider have created a kind of sonic tool to navigate a liminal state of mind. Their new collaborative LP, A Companion For The...

Capturing the energy of New York City's music subcultures—across hip-hop, punk and rap—through an array of snapshots by photographers including...

Rock Against Racism is a body of photographs that Syd Shelton produced for and about the British Rock Against Racism movement (RAR) of 1976–1981. For...

In an illuminating blend of memoir and art history, The Other Side explores the lives and work of a group of extraordinary women artists. From the twelfth-century...

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Everyone who cares about freedom and justice for women should read The Second Sex' GuardianSimone de Beauvoir famously wrote, 'One is not born, but rather...

Wicked book! Combining the energy and vibrancy of vernacular Jamaican art with the cultural insight that only original ephemera can bring, the flyers...

By turns a handbook of countercultural living, a manual for street protest, and a feminist broadside against the repressive state apparatus, Revolutionary...

In 1964, Nell Dunn spoke to nine of her friends over a bottle of wine about men, sex, work, money, babies, freedom and love. The Pop Artist Pauline Boty...

Latin compilation

Latin compilation

Potent and vividly emotional, Simone de Beauvoir’s captivating novel questions freedom and individual responsibility in the face of brutality‘These...

Rashid Johnson, Cauleen Smith and others pay tribute to a truly extraordinary figure in 20th-century American jazz. This volume unpacks the cultural legacy...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Insightful, thought-provoking and profound. I can't recommend highly enough' Sunny Singh'A revolutionary work of beauty,...

ESSENTIAL BOOK ON NEW ORLEANS by John Swenson At its most intimate level, music heals our emotional wounds and inspires us. At its most public, it unites...

WICKED oral history of early rap. Essential!

Essential music book about African and New World Afro-musics of the Caribbean and US first published here on Roberts' own Original Music imprint in 1972.

ONLY £10 Import USA HARDBACK BOOK CHEAPER THAN AMAZON From Two Live Crew's controversial comedy to Ice Cube's gangsta styling and the battle rhymes of...

Essays on jazz.