Mozart by Jan Swafford
39.99 AUD
Category: Music
From acclaimed composer and biographer Jan Swafford comes the definitive biography of one of the most lauded musical geniuses in history, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.From his earliest years it was apparent that the singular imagination of Wolfgang Mozart was tirelessly at work. He hated to be bored and hate ...Show more
How Soon is Now?: The Madmen and Mavericks who made Independent Music 1975-2005 by Richard King
24.99 AUD
Category: Music
'If you look at all the people involved - Ivo, Tony Wilson, McGee, Geoff Travis, myself - nobody had a clue about running a record company, and that was the best thing about it.' Daniel Miller, Mute Records One of the most tangible aftershocks of punk was its prompt to individuals: do it yourself. A ge ...Show more
Sound and Vision by John Riordan
39.99 AUD
Category: Music
Love music? Love illustration? Want to know more about some of the best musicians ever to record-from Bowie and the Beastie Boys to The Smiths and St. Vincent? Then Sound and Vision is for you. Featuring 100 of the coolest artists from the last five decades, Sound and Vision reveals the influencers and ...Show more
The Bob King Collection by Bob King
99.99 AUD
Category: Music
Rock and Roll Photography is a major publishing undertaking. At 400 pages, with a quality hardback edition and more than 600 images, this book covers 50 years of rock and roll like no other. Featuring the art of Bob King, the internationally renowned photographer, and introductions by Glen A.Baker, this ...Show more
Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile by Fiona Maddocks
49.99 AUD
Category: Music
The moving story of Rachmaninoff's years in exile and the composition of his last great work, against a cataclysmic backdrop of two world wars and personal tragedy.
Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon: The Greatest Movie Never Made by Alison Castle
115.00 AUD
Category: Music
Stanley Kubrick boasted it would be "the best movie ever made." Instead, his epic Napoleon was canceled before shooting began, despite years of intense planning. This is the fascinating archive of the greatest film that never was, spanning the two years of Kubrick's near-obsessive research: from corresp ...Show more
David Bowie: The Man Who Fell to Earth by Paul Duncan (Editor)
35.00 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Loving the AlienBehind the scenes of Nic Roeg's 1976 sci-fi masterpiece starring David BowieFirst advertised as a "mind-stretching experience," Nicolas Roeg's 1976 The Man Who Fell to Earth stunned the cinema world. A tour-de-force of science fiction as art form, the movie brought not only hallucinatory ...Show more
Green Day Treasures by Gillian G. Gaar
45.00 AUD
Category: Music
Green Day, emerging from the west coast punk scene in the early 1990s, are hugely popular around the world, and made the rare move from garage punk to universal critical acceptance. The album "American Idiot" topped charts all over the globe and the award-winning Broadway show based on it plays to packe ...Show more
Like Punk Never Happened: Culture Club and the New Pop by Dave Rimmer
24.99 AUD
Category: Music
The definitive account of the first rise and fall of Boy George and Culture Club and British pop music in the 1980s. NEW EXPANDED EDITION | WITH A FOREWORD BY NEIL TENNANT | FEAUTURING A BONUS CHAPTER ON DURAN DURAN AND A NEW AFTERWORD.
BBC Radiophonic Workshop - A Retrospective (33 1/3) by William L. Weir
19.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
In 1958, an anonymous group of overworked and under-budgeted BBC employees set out to make some new sounds for radio and TV. They ended up changing the course of 20th-century music. For millions of people, the work of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop was the first electronic music they had ever heard. Samp ...Show more
Don't Dream It's Over: The remarkable life of Neil Finn by Jeff Apter
34.99 AUD
Category: Music
Don't Dream It's Over is the first biography to focus exclusively on Neil Finn, the man who wrote the timeless hits of Split Enz and Crowded House. In February 1980, 21-year-old Neil Mullane Finn wrote 'I Got You', which became the signature song, and the biggest hit, for the Kiwi band Split Enz, co-fo ...Show more