The Rolling Stones: On Air in the Sixties by Richard Havers
$95.00 NZD
Category: Music
This new official book tells the story, for the first time, of the Stones through their many radio and TV appearances as they rose to fame in the sixties. From their first TV appearance on Thank Your Lucky Stars!, buttoned up in matching hounds-tooth suits at manager Andrew Loog Oldham's insistence, to ...Show more
The Age of Bowie: How David Bowie Made a World of Difference by Paul Morley
$28.99 NZD
Category: Music
Respected arts commentator Paul Morley, one of the team who curated the highly successful retrospective exhibition for the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, David Bowie Is . . . constructs the definitive story of Bowie that explores how he worked, played, aged, structured his ideas, invented the f ...Show more
Unmasked: A Memoir (Andrew Lloyd Webber) by Andrew Lloyd Webber
$39.99 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
"You have the luck of Croesus on stilts (as my Auntie Vi would have said) if you've had the sort of career, ups and downs, warts and all that I have in that wondrous little corner of show business called musical theatre." One of the most successful and distinguished artists of our time, Andrew Lloyd W ...Show more
Hammer of the Gods by Stephen Davis
$24.99 NZD
Category: Music
If ever there were Satanic Majesties of rock their name was Led Zeppelin. The band that out-sold the Rolling Stones and made Robert Johnson's deals with the devil look like a playground game of conkers were as high, inflated and glorified as their namesake. In Stephen Davis's scorching account of their ...Show more
Bodies: Life and Death in Music by Ian Winwood
$36.99 NZD
Category: Music
Money, freedom, adoring fans: professional musicians seem to have it all. But beneath the surface lies a frightening truth: for years the music industry has tolerated death, addiction and exploitation in the name of entertainment. In Bodies, Ian Winwood explores the industry's reluctance to confront it ...Show more
Elton John at 75 by Gillian G. Gaar
$110.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: At 75 Ser.
Elton John at 75 celebrates the anniversary of the rock icon's birth with this beautifully produced retrospective of 75 touchstone achievements and life events. A unique and beautifully produced celebration of the iconic and beloved rock star, Elton John at 75 examines Sir Elton's extraordinary career ...Show more
Surrender: Bono Autobiography: 40 Songs, One Story by Bono
$30.00 NZD
Category: Music
One of the greatest rock memoirs ever written and a Sunday Times bestseller now out in paperback - the honest, irreverent and powerfully entertaining life story of the U2 front-man.Bono - artist, activist and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2 - has written his autobiography- honest and irreverent, i ...Show more
The Ninth : Beethoven and the World in 1824 by Harvey Sachs
$28.99 NZD
Category: Music
A decade after the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars had given way to an era of retrenchment and repression, 1824 became a watershed year. The premiere of the Ninth Symphony, the death of Lord Byron - who had been aiding the Greeks in their struggle for independence, Delacroix's painting of the T ...Show more
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
$39.99 NZD
Category: Music
"Escribir sobre uno mismo es algo muy curioso. ...] Pero en un proyecto como este el escritor hace una promesa: mostrarle su mente al lector. Y eso es lo que he intentado hacer en estas p ginas." --Bruce SpringsteenEn 2009, Bruce Springsteen y la E Street Band actuaron durante el intermedio de la Super ...Show more
Starting At Zero: His Own Story by Jimi Hendrix
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
It took just four years in the spotlight for Jimi Hendrix to become an international cultural icon. The sheer impact and originality of his music and his unique mastery of the guitar placed him for ever amongst musical giants. But what of the man behind the public image? Modest and intensely private by ...Show more
Great Operas: A Guide to 25 of the World's Finest Musical Experiences by Michael Steen
$29.99 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Great Operas
With four famous operas each from Mozart, Verdi and Puccini, and two each from Rossini and Donizetti, there is a feast of information. Here are short guides to The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni; to the splendour of Aida, the heart-breaking La Traviata; the drama of Tosca. The range is very broad. ...Show more
Wild Tales by Graham Nash
$50.00 NZD
Category: Music
Graham Nash, lead singer and principal songwriter of the Hollies, then member of supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, made the incredible and possibly unique journey from 60s Manchester to Swinging London to sunny California. And along the way he created many of the iconic songs which defined a ...Show more