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
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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
101 Hits for Ukulele Blue Book Uke Book by Music, Sales
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Category: Music
No hidden surprises here! There are 101 hit songs for you to play with your ukulele accompaniment.
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
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Category: Music
"Writing about yourself is a funny business...But in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind. In these pages, I've tried to do this." -Bruce Springsteen, from the pages of Born to Run In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl's ...Show more
The Rolling Stones : 50 years by Christopher Sandford
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Category: Music
Secondhand. In 1962 Mick Jagger was a bright, well-scrubbed boy (planning a career in the civil service), while Keith Richards was learning how to smoke and to swivel a six-shooter. Add the mercurial Brian Jones (who'd been effectively run out of Cheltenham for theft, multiple impregnations and playing ...Show more
The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner' Ring of the Nibelung by Roger Scruton
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Category: Music
Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung is one of the greatest works of art created in modern times, and has fascinated both critics and devotees for over a century and a half. No recent study has examined the meaning of Wagner's masterpiece with the attention to detail and intellectual power that Roger S ...Show more
Sinatra 100 by Charles Pignone
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Category: Music
Frank Sinatra was an entertainer of mesmerizing talent, charisma and style. As well as being one of the bestselling musical artists of all time, he was an Academy Award-winning actor who starred in over sixty movies, and a cultural icon of seismic influence. Created in close collaboration with the Sinat ...Show more
Beethoven: The Man Revealed by John Suchet
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Category: Music
You know the music... but do you know the man? Ludwig van Beethoven is one of the world's best loved and most influential composers. His life - its dramas, conflicts, loves and losses - is played out in his music. Now John Suchet shows us the man behind the music in this compelling biography of a musica ...Show more
Like Some Forgotten Dream: What if the Beatles hadn't split up? by Daniel Rachel
$37.99 NZD
Category: Music
An award-winning music author takes a serious look at a playful question of pop history: what if the Beatles had created one more album? This is the story of the great lost Beatles album. The end of the Beatles wasn't inevitable. It came through miscommunication, misunderstandings and missed opportuni ...Show more
The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of "Hallelujah" by Alan Light
$35.00 NZD
Category: Music
Praised as a “thoughtful and illuminating” (The New York Times) work of music journalism, this is the unforgettable, fascinating, and unexpected account of one of the most performed and beloved songs in pop history — Leonard Cohen’s heartrending “Hallelujah.” When Leonard Cohen first wrote and recorded ...Show more
AC/DC: Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be by Mick Wall
$39.99 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
AC/DC moved to Britain from Sydney in 1975, and soon set up a residency at London's Marquee Club. Their short hair (including the odd mullet), loud rock and attitude chimed well with the lingering pub rock and soon-to-be punk crowd. They weren't really a band for guitar solos, and singer Bon Scott was t ...Show more
Bon Jovi by Bon Jovi
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Category: Overstocks
"Bon Jovi: When We Were Beautiful" is an intimate look at one of America's most enduringly popular bands after 25 years of hits, fame, tours, and troubles. It is the companion to a major documentary of the same title released in Fall 2009, which coincided with the band's silver anniversary. Filmmaker an ...Show more