Just Kids illustrated by Patti Smith
$59.99 AUD
Category: Music
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his ...Show more
Another Year of Wonder: Classical Music for Every Day by Clemency Burton-Hill
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music
'Clemency Burton-Hill makes classical music absolutely accessible, magical and medicinal. Another Year of Wonder is, indeed, another wonder.' Dolly Alderton, broadcaster, writer and bestselling author'Clemmie's recommendations have broadened my mind, sharpened my imagination, tugged on my heartstrings a ...Show more
Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism and the Soundtrack of a Generation by Daniel Rachel
$36.99 AUD
Category: Music
In 1979, 2 Tone exploded into the national conscience as records by The Specials, The Selecter, Madness, The Beat, and The Bodysnatchers burst onto the charts and a youth movement was born. 2 Tone was black and white: a multi-racial force of British and Caribbean island musicians singing about social i ...Show more
Acid For The Children - The autobiography of Flea, the Red Hot Chili Peppers legend by Flea
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
Flea, the iconic bassist and co-founder, alongside Anthony Kiedis, of the immortal Red Hot Chili Peppers finally tells his fascinating origin story, complete with all the dizzying highs and the gutter lows you'd expect from an LA street rat turned world-famous rock star. Michael Peter Balzary was born i ...Show more
Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins by Aidan Levy
$36.99 AUD
Category: Music
**Winner of the American Book Award (2023)****Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award (2023)**The long-awaited first full biography of legendary jazz saxophonist and composer Sonny Rollins Sonny Rollins has long been considered an enigma. Known as the "Saxophone Colossus," he is widely ac ...Show more
Songs by Don Walker
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Australian
Don Walker is widely considered one of Australia's greatest songwriters. For over forty years - from Cold Chisel and Tex, Don & Charlie to his solo work - he has written songs that capture what it is to be Australian. Collected here, for the first time, are lyrics from his extensive career- from 'K ...Show more
My Name is Barbra by Barbra Streisand
$75.00 AUD
Category: Music
The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in every area of entertainment. She is among the handful of EGOT winners (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) an ...Show more
Bohemian Rhapsody Freddie Mercury by Lesley-Ann Jones
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
'Exactly the sort of tribute Mercury himself would have wanted'SPECTATOR This is the definitive biography of Freddie Mercury. Written by an award-winning rock journalist, Lesley-Ann Jones toured widely with Queen forming lasting friendships with the band. Now, having secured access to the remaining ban ...Show more
This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else - Joy Division: the Oral History by Jon Savage
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music
The SUNDAY TIMES Top Ten Bestseller, #1 Book of the Year UNCUT, #1 Book of the Year ROUGH TRADE, A Book of the Year, MOJO Joy Division emerged in the mid-70s at the start of a two-decades long Manchester scene that was to become much mythologised. It was then a city still labouring in the wake of the w ...Show more
Sonic Life - A Memoir by Thurston Moore
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music
From the founding member of Sonic Youth, a passionate memoir tracing the author's life and art - from his teen years as a music obsessive in small-town Connecticut, to the formation of his legendary rock group, to thirty years of creation, experimentation, and wonder. "Downtown scientists rejoice! Fo ...Show more
Rememberings by Sinead O'Connor
$22.99 AUD
Category: Music
An intimate and revelatory memoir from the iconic, acclaimed singer-songwriter. Senead O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made her famous by the age of twenty-one. Her landmark recording of Prince's Nothing Compares 2 U made her a global icon. She outraged millions when she tore up a photogra ...Show more
Boy On Fire: The Young Nick Cave by Mark Mordue
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music
The bestselling, award-winning and critically acclaimed biography of the young Nick Cave, by award-winning writer, Mark Mordue. A beautiful, profound and poetic biography of the formative years of the dark prince of Australian rock 'n' roll, Boy on Fire is Nick Cave's creation story. This is a portrait ...Show more