This Is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl [New Edition] by Paul Brannigan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
'Someone called and said Kurt died. I just f*****g lost it.' He has sold over 40 million albums. He's been in bands that have changed popular music forever. He saw his best friend commit suicide. He starts supergroups. He's the nicest guy in rock. From Nirvana to Foo Fighters, from brotherhood to bitter ...Show more
Vinyl Dreams: How the 1970s Changed Music by Tony Wellington
$39.99 AUD
Category: Music
A scintillating journey through the seventies and the extraordinary music it gave rise to — including the new concept of sound that defines music today.After the dense miasma of the sixties, the seventies hit like a hangover. Idealism took a pounding as cynicism began to pervade western culture. Stagfla ...Show more
Something Wonderful - Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution by Todd S. Purdum
$38.95 AUD
Category: Music
They stand at the apex of the great age of songwriting, the creators of the classic Broadway musicals Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music, whose songs have never lost their popularity or emotional power. Even before they joined forces, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Ham ...Show more
The Captain's Apprentice: Ralph Vaughan Williams and the Story of a Folk Song by Caroline Davison
$42.99 AUD
Category: Music
A beautifully written exploration of the world of Edwardian folk music, and its influence on the composer Ralph Vaughan WilliamsIn January 1905 the young Vaughan Williams, not yet one of England's most famous composers, visited King's Lynn, Norfolk, to find folk songs 'from the mouths of the singers'. H ...Show more
Looking To Get Lost: Adventures in Music and Writing by Peter Guralnick
$29.99 AUD
Category: Music
By the bestselling author of Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll and Last Train the Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley, this dazzling new book of profiles is a culmination of Peter Guralnick's remarkable work, which from the start has encompassed the full sweep of blues, gospel, country, an ...Show more
Joy Ride : Lives of the Theatricals by John Lahr
$19.99 AUD
Category: Music
'John Lahr manages to write better about the theatre than anybody in the English language,' says Richard Eyre. Joy Ride, which includes the best of his New Yorker profiles and reviews, makes his expertise and his exhilaration palpable. From modern greats, like Arthur Miller, Harold Pinter, David Mamet, ...Show more
Chopin's Piano: In Search of the Instrument That Transformed Music (PB) by Paul Kildea
$22.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Journey Through Romanticism
'Beguiling ... Limpidly written, effortlessly learned' William Boyd, TLS, Books of the Year In November 1838 Frédéric Chopin, George Sand and her two children sailed to Majorca to escape the Parisian winter. They settled in an abandoned monastery at Valldemossa in the mountains above Palma, where Chopin ...Show more
Rapper's Deluxe: How Hip Hop Made The World by Dr. Todd Boyd
$120.00 AUD
Category: Music
A visual and cultural history of hip hop, charting its meteoric rise from underground trailblazer to global tastemakerTo tell the story of contemporary American culture is to tell the story of hip hop. From its humble, underground origins, hip hop transcended the confines of rap music and spread its inf ...Show more
Killing Time by Jimmy Barnes
$27.99 AUD
Category: Music
Tales of adventure, misadventure, love and loss - this collection of non-fiction short stories from the Australian rock legend turned writer is vintage Jimmy. Outrageous, witty, warm and wise, Killing Time shares more than forty yarns reflecting an epic life - from an encounter with a soul legend in Mem ...Show more
Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska by Warren Zanes
$69.99 AUD
Category: Music
The fascinating story behind the making of Bruce Springsteen's most surprising album, Nebraska, revealing its pivotal role in Springsteen's careerWithout Nebraska, Bruce Springsteen might not be who he is today. The natural follow-up to Springsteen's hugely successful The River should have been the hit- ...Show more
Abbey Road: The Inside Story of the World's Most Famous Recording Studio by David Hepworth
$29.99 AUD
Category: Music
With a foreword by Paul McCartney 'It's semi-devotional -- a really special place' Florence Welch 'There are certain things that are mythical. Abbey Road is mythical' Nile Rodgers Many people will recognise the famous zebra crossing. Some visitors may have graffitied their name on its hallowed outer ...Show more
Sound Within Sound by Kate Molleson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
A radical new book by journalist, critic and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Kate Molleson, which fundamentally changes the way we think about classical music and the musicians who made it on a global scale. ‘Wonderful . . . This is a book of discovery that speaks of music as a life force, that urges us to l ...Show more