Author: | Steven Jay Scheider |
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Music |
With more than one and a half million copies sold worldwide in thirty languages, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die celebrates the great and groundbreaking, classic and cult, must-see movies of all time, offering a treasure trove of incisive, witty, and re... read more
"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, Andr... read more
Singer. Songwriter. Swamp child. Soul man. Tex Perkins is a true rock'n'roll animal. In this loud, uncut, no-holds-barred, laugh-out-loud and take-no-prisoners memoir, the enigmatic king of the Australian music underground lays bare an extraordinary life lived on the road, on the stage and on the... read more
Author: | Clemency Burton-Hill |
Category: |
Music |
'Year of Wonder is an absolute treat - the most enlightening way to be guided through the year.' Eddie RedmayneClassical music for everyone - an inspirational piece of music for every day of the year, celebrating composers from the medieval era to the pres... read more
Author: | Brian Wilson |
Category: |
Music |
'My life has been written about over and over again, and that's mostly okay with me. Other people can talk about my life. Sometimes they'll get it right and sometimes they'll get it wrong. For me, when I think back across my own life, there are so m... read more
Author: | David Hepworth |
Category: |
Music |
The age of the rock star, like the age of the cowboy, has passed. Like the cowboy, the idea of the rock star lives on in our imaginations.What did we see in them? Swagger. Recklessness. Sexual charisma. Damn-the-torpedoes self-belief. A ce... read more
Author: | Christopher Lawrence |
Category: |
Music |
The orchestra has tuned, the lights in the hall have dimmed, and the conductor's baton signals the downbeat for the beginning of the romance. Settle back - it's telling you something...
The history of classical mus... read more
Author: | Robert Dimery |
Category: |
Music |
From 'Eight Miles High' to 'Empire State of Mind,' from Mississippi to Mali, and from Ella Fitzgerald to Elton John, 1001 Songs You Must Hear Before you Die is a fascinating introduction to some of the greatest music ever recorded. Updated for 2016, this accla... read more
Author: | Andrew P Street |
Category: |
Music |
'Andrew tells us things about the songs that we might not know and things about the songs that no one should ever know. He does it with intelligence and humour, not to mention an acid wit.' - Jimmy BarnesWhich band is Australia... read more
Author: | Haruki Murakami; Seiji Ozawa; Jay Rubin (Translator) |
Category: |
Music |
A deeply personal, intimate conversation about music and writing between the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author and the former conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In Absolutely on Music, internationally Haruki Murakami sits down wit... read more
Author: | Antonino Tati |
Category: |
Music |
Antonino Tati (editor of Cream Magazine) celebrating 20 years of publishing by pulling together an anthology of unorthodox interviews from the music industry - delving into the juicier subjects like sex and sexuality, drink and drugs, money and politics, race and religion, and th... read more
Author: | Victoria Broackes (Editor); Anna Landreth Strong (Editor) |
Category: |
Music |
Reading Level: | General Adult |
Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains celebrates 50 years of one of the greatest bands of all time. Lavishly illustrated throughout with material from the band's archive, including never-before-seen photographs, ephemera, and more, this book examines what makes Pink Floyd u... read more