Eruption - Conversations with Eddie Van Halen by Brad Tolinski; Chris Gill
$39.99 AUD
Category: Music
A completely new look at guitar legend Eddie Van Halen via a groundbreaking oral history, composed of more than 50+ hours of interviews with Edward and his family, friends, and colleagues.When rock legend Eddie Van Halen died of cancer on October 6, 2020, the entire world seemed to stop and grieve. Sinc ...Show more
Exit Stage Left: The curious afterlife of pop stars by Nick Duerden
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music
Nick Duerden has spent many years interviewing the most famous musicians on the planet. Without exception, they are at their most interesting when they've peaked, and when they are on their way down. In many ways, this is when these former idols are at their most heroic, too, because they reveal themsel ...Show more
Scene In Between USA: The sounds and styles of American indie, 1983-1989 by Sam Knee
$39.99 AUD
Category: Music
Following on from the success of A Scene In Between, revised edition, this new title explores the musical and sartorial treasures of the American 1980s guitar-based indie scenes. Starting in 1983 with the post-hardcore movement in Washington DC, Scene USA journeys coast to coast, covering everything fro ...Show more
ABBA at 50 by CARL MAGNUS PALM
$75.00 AUD
Category: Music
An illustrated celebration of ABBA, from childhood through the Voyage album. Emerging victorious from Eurovision in 1974 with winning tune "Waterloo," ABBA catapulted to fame and captured hearts across the world with their melodic and ever-so catchy pop songs. Formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fält ...Show more
The Beatles by Terry O'Neill: Five Decades of Photographs, with Unseen Images by Terry O'Neill
$59.99 AUD
Category: Music
'An incredible photographer and good friend'-RINGO STARR The definitive collection of the breathtaking Beatles photographs of Terry O'Neill. Iconic photographer Terry O'Neill worked with the Beatles across five decades, capturing the band at the beginning of their rise to the top and the solo years be ...Show more
Enough: Scenes from Childhood by Stephen Hough
$39.99 AUD
Category: Music
An engrossing and frank coming-of-age memoir from one of the world's leading pianists. "Stephen Hough's memoir had me gripped from the beginning [ ...] riveting and revelatory. Most memoirs give me far more than I want to know - this is the rare sort that left me urgently demanding a second volume, a th ...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
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
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
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
Let's Do It - The Birth of Pop by Bob Stanley
$49.99 AUD
Category: Music
The prequel to Bob Stanley's universally acclaimed Yeah Yeah Yeah, Let's Do It is the only book that brings together all genres to tell the definitive story of the birth of Pop, from 1900 to the mid-fifties.'An absolute landmark/joy/gossip-fest/door to Narnia: the history of pop music before rock'n'roll ...Show more
The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present by Paul McCartney
$155.00 AUD
Category: Music
'More often than I can count, I've been asked if I would write an autobiography, but the time has never been right. The one thing I've always managed to do, whether at home or on the road, is to write new songs. I know that some people, when they get to a certain age, like to go to a diary to recall day ...Show more