Nick Drake: The Life by Richard Morton Jack
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music
In 1968, the 19 year-old Nick Drake had everything to live for. The product of a loving, creative family and a privileged background, he was not only a handsome and popular Cambridge undergraduate, but also a new signing to the UK's hippest record label, Island. Three years later, however - having made ...Show more
Together Forever - Beastie Boys and RUN-DMC by Glen Friedman
$99.00 AUD
Category: Music
In the early 1980s iconic skate and punk photographer Glen E. Friedman had a front row seat to the rise of hip-hop music and culture. He was able to get with both Run-DMC and Beastie Boys on their meteoric rise to fame. Befriending both groups, Friedman's eye composed the photos that have become synonym ...Show more
No Bull by Linda Bull, Vika Bull
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music
While most music careers stalled during the pandemic, Vika and Linda Bull soared with two chart-topping albums as they became beacons of warmth in uncertain times. For three decades they were best known as backing singers and collaborators to some of Australia's biggest artists, but it was when the worl ...Show more
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
THE SUNDAY TIMES NO 1 BESTSELLER * ONE OF NME's BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF 2021 * ONE OF VARIETY'S BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF 2021 * INCLUDED IN AUDIBLE'S BEST OF THE YEAR LISTSo, I've written a book. Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities ('It's a piece of cake ...Show more
David Bowie: Rock 'n' Roll with Me by GEOFF MACCORMACK
$65.00 AUD
Category: Music | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
David Bowie: Rock 'n' Roll with Me is Geoff MacCormack's remarkable photographic memoir, charting his lifelong friendship with David Bowie. Images bring MacCormack's stories to life, showing the places he and Bowie inhabited, the people they met and the adventures they shared. Beginning at Burnt Ash Pri ...Show more
Good Pop, Bad Pop by Jarvis Cocker
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Terrific... Very funny' Guardian What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? We all have a random collection of the things that made us - photos, tickets, clothes, souvenirs, stuffed in a box, packed in a suitcase, crammed into a drawe ...Show more
Into the Groove - The Story of Sound from Tin Foil to Vinyl by Jonathan Scott
$39.99 AUD
Category: Music
The story of recorded sound--the technological developments, the humans that made them happen and their impact on society, from the phonograph to LPs, EPs and the recent resurgence of vinyl. In Into the Groove, vinyl collector and music buff Jonathan Scott dissects a mind-blowing feat that we all take ...Show more
The Who and Quadrophenia by Martin Popoff
$79.99 AUD
Category: Music
Take a deep dive into one of the best-selling albums ever on the 50th anniversary of its release with this beautifully produced and authoritatively written edition.Veteran rock critic Martin Popoff leaves no stone unturned in taking apart The Who's generation-spanning masterpiece, Quadrophenia, while ex ...Show more
I Wanna Be Yours by John Cooper Clarke
$19.99 AUD
Category: Music
The first ever autobiography of John Cooper Clarke, the Bard of Salford, punk poet, rock star, fashion icon, national treasure and acerbic wit. John Cooper Clarke is a phenomenon: Poet Laureate of Punk, rock star, fashion icon, TV and radio presenter, social and cultural commentator. At 5 feet 11 inche ...Show more
Lev's Violin: An Italian Adventure by Helena Attlee
$22.99 AUD
Category: Music
An unexpected journey through Italy, led by the voice of a violinFrom the moment she hears Lev's violin for the first time, Helena Attlee is captivated. She is told that it is an Italian instrument, named after its former Russian owner. Eager to discover all she can about its ancestry and the stories co ...Show more
The Impossible Art: Adventures in Opera by Matthew Aucoin
$36.99 AUD
Category: Music
From its beginning, opera has been an impossible art. Its first practitioners, in seventeenth-century Florence, set themselves the unreachable goal of reproducing the wonders of ancient Greek drama, which no one can be sure was sung in the first place. Opera's greatest artists have striven to fuse multi ...Show more
Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me by Bernie Taupin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music
"I loved writing, I loved chronicling life and every moment I was cogent, sober, or blitzed, I was forever feeding off my surroundings, making copious notes as ammunition for future compositions. . The thing is good, bad or indifferent I never stopped writing, it was as addictive as any drug." This is ...Show more