How to Make Gravy by Paul Kelly
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
Paul Kelly is a uniquely gifted storyteller. For thirty years he has written songs of uncommon directness about everything from love and land rights to cricket and cooking. 'Before Too Long', 'To Her Door', 'Leaps And Bounds', 'Don't Start Me Talking', 'Dumb Things', 'From Little Things Big Things Grow' ...Show more
Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of The Velvet Underground by Dylan Jones
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music
Dylan Jones's definitive oral history of The Velvet Underground draws on contributions from remaining members, contemporaneous musicians, critics, film-makers, and the generation of artists who emerged in their wake, to celebrate not only their impact but their legacy, which burns brighter than ever int ...Show more
Songs from the Kitchen Table: Lyrics and Stories by Archie Roach, Ruby Hunter
$59.99 AUD
Category: Music
The ultimate illustrated commemoration of iconic Australian musicians, Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter - including lyrics, stories, photographs and tributes. A year after he entered the Dreamtime, Archie Roach's spirit continues to soar, much like the wedge-tailed eagle - his totem animal from his mother' ...Show more
Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World - 'Magnificent' (Kate Mosse) by Leah Broad
$39.99 AUD
Category: Music
Ethel Smyth (b.1858): Famed for her operas, this trailblazing queer Victorian composer was a larger-than-life socialite, intrepid traveller and committed Suffragette. Rebecca Clarke (b.1886): This talented violist and Pre-Raphaelite beauty was one of the first women ever hired by a professional orchestr ...Show more
Just Kids by Patti Smith
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD In Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seve ...Show more
Song and Self - A Singer's Reflections on Music and Performance by Ian Bostridge
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music
Accustomed to being centre stage, international award-winning singer Ian Bostridge, like so many performers, spent much of 2020 and 2021 unable to take part in live music. It led him to question an identity previously defined by communicating directly with audiences.This enforced silence allowed Bostrid ...Show more
Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile by Fiona Maddocks
$49.99 AUD
Category: Music
The moving story of Rachmaninoff's years in exile and the composition of his last great work, against a cataclysmic backdrop of two world wars and personal tragedy.
Loosely Based On A Made-Up Story: A Non-Memoir by James Blunt
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music
"This book is inspired by true events but is not a biography. The truth is My Truth is not The Truth, and that's as honest as I can be. It's partially true, rather than painfully true, and I have possibly been economical with the truth, Your Honour. Basically, I made this sh*t up . . . While James Blunt ...Show more
Madonna: A Rebel Life - THE ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS GIFT by Mary Gabriel
$85.00 AUD
Category: Music
'A whopping biography of the pop phenomenon and queen of reinvention. Life is a mystery - hers oughtn't to be after reading this.' THE TIMES, ' biggest books for autumn' 'A fascinating take on one of music's greatest icons' BELFAST TELEGRAPH In this exceptional biography, Pulitzer Prize finalist Mary ...Show more
The Amplified Come As You Are: The Story Of Nirvana by Michael Azerrad
$60.00 AUD
Category: Music
A downright revolutionary 30th-anniversary deluxe edition of the iconic bestselling biography of Nirvana, updated with exclusive new content exploring the personal and cultural forces that inspired the music, the author's friendship with Kurt Cobain and why multiple generations remain fascinated by the ...Show more
Eagles - Dark Desert Highway: How America's Dream Band Turned into a Nightmare by Mick Wall
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music
'This could be heaven or this could be hell...' So sings Don Henley on their biggest hit, 'Hotel California', and it is true that the Eagles story was one that blurred the ultimate Hollywood highs and subterranean LA lows beyond recognition. The band that embodied the American dream with globe-straddli ...Show more
Goth: A History by Lol Tolhurst
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music
GOTH is an entertaining and engaging historical memoir of the genre of Goth music and culture, exploring creative giants like The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bauhaus, Joy Division and many more great bands that offered a place of refuge for the misfits of the 80s and ever since. Written by Lol Tol ...Show more