David Bowie Rainbowman: 1967-1980 by Jerome Soligny
$45.00 NZD
Category: Music
"This is a book unlike any other, the definitive analysis of David's music, told in a quiet natural way, but with absolute authenticity, by the people's around him" - Hermione Farthingale "Jérôme Soligny is one of the best authorities in the world of David Bowie's career and life in general... His ne ...Show more
The Life, Death, and Afterlife of the Record Store - A Global History by Gina Arnold (Editor); John Dougan (Editor); Christine Feldman-Barrett (Editor); Matthew Worley (Editor)
$50.00 NZD
Category: Music
Once conduits to new music, frequently bypassing the corporate music industry in ways now done more easily via the Internet, record stores championed the most local of economic enterprises, allowing social mobility to well up from them in unexpected ways. Record stores speak volumes about our relationsh ...Show more
Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me by Bernie Taupin
$40.00 NZD
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
Fender 75 by Dave Hunter
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music
Ubiquitous in the music world, Fender(R) guitars and amplifiers are also icons in popular culture, their shapes and sounds instantly recognizable. Authoritatively written and lavishly illustrated, Fender 75 Years is the officially licensed anniversary celebration of the company and its legendary instrum ...Show more
Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of The Velvet Underground by Dylan Jones
$40.00 NZD
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
Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop by Bob Stanley
$40.00 NZD
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
Bee Gees: Children of the World by Bob Stanley
$37.00 NZD
Category: Music
"'The Definitive Biography' - PETE PAPHIDES The world is full of Bee Gees fans. Yet, for a band of such renown, little is known about Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb. Weren't two of them twins? Didn't one of them marry Lulu? Where does Andy fit into the Gibb family tree? And why did they storm out of ...Show more
The Impossible Art: Adventures in Opera by Matthew Aucoin
$40.00 NZD
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
Away From Beloved Lover: A Musical Journey Through Cambodia by Dee Peyok
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music
A journey through Cambodia to the soundtrack of its lost rock'n'roll. In the swinging 1960s, after nearly a century of colonisation, Cambodia had gained its independence and was ready to rock. Young musicians from the countryside flocked to the vibrant cosmopolitan capital city of Phnom Penh. Teenagers ...Show more
Long and Winding Roads, Revised Edition - The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles by Kenneth Womack
$55.00 NZD
Category: Music
In Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles, Revised Edition, Kenneth Womack brings the band's story vividly to life-from their salad days as a Liverpool Skiffle group and their apprenticeship in the nightclubs and mean streets of Hamburg through their early triumphs at the legendary ...Show more
Eruption: Conversations with Eddie Van Halen by Brad Tolinski, Chris Gill
$35.00 NZD
Category: Music
Get a completely new look at guitar legend Eddie Van Halen with this groundbreaking oral history, composed of more than fifty hours of interviews with Eddie himself as well as his family, friends, and colleagues.When rock legend Eddie Van Halen died of cancer on October 6, 2020, the entire world seemed ...Show more
How to Write One Song by Jeff Tweedy
$25.00 NZD
Category: Music
A ROUGH TRADE and PITCHFORK BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A guide to rediscovering the joys of creating that we all felt as children.'NEW YORK TIMES One of the century's most feted singer-songwriters, Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, digs deep into his own creative process to share his unique perspective about song-writing a ...Show more