Song: A History in 12 Parts by John Potter
41.95 AUD
Category: Music
From one of our most innovative singers, a vibrant history of song stretching from Hildegard von Bingen and Benjamin Britten to Björk "Songs can be intensely personal (whether you hear them or sing them) and none of us would choose the same twelve songs as anyone else. My choices are based on decade ...Show more
Chain's Toward the Blues 33 1/3 by Peter Beilharz; Jon Stratton (Series edited by); Jon Dale (Series edited by)
24.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Oceania Ser.
Melbourne, 1971: radical counterculture, hippies, opposition to the Vietnam War and consumerism. The birth of Oz blues rock. Influenced by American blues after Robert Johnson, parallel to developments with Paul Butterfield, the Bluesbreakers and Canned Heat, Chain's music also developed in distinct ways ...Show more
Adventures in Modern Recording by Trevor Horn
24.99 AUD
Category: Music
A Telegraph Book of the Year As a renowned recording-studio maven, Trevor Horn has been dubbed 'the man who invented the '80s'. His production work since the glory days of ZTT represents a veritable 'who's who' of intelligent modern pop, including the likes of ABC, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Paul McCar ...Show more
Freaks Out! - Righteous Rock N Roll and the Rise and Fall of the Freaks by Luke Haines
49.99 AUD
Category: Music
Luke Haines - the outsider artist par excellence - turns his caustic eye to the rise and fall of alternative rock 'n' roll heroes.
Guitar by Earl Slick; Jeff Slate (As told to); Michael Joseph
36.99 AUD
Category: Music
Earl Slick was just 21 when he was hired as lead guitarist for David Bowie. Forty years later he was on stage when Bowie suffered the heart attack that terminated his live career. In between, Slick played Bowies's landmark albums and iconic live shows. He was also in John Lennon's band at the time of th ...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
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
Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk by Kathleen Hanna
32.99 AUD
Category: Music
An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary frontwoman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre. Hey girlfriend I got a proposition, goes something like this: Dare ya to do what you want. Kathleen Hanna's rallying cry to feminists echoed far and wide through the punk scene of the 1980s, '9 ...Show more
Orstralia - A Punk History 1974-1989 by Tristan Clark
44.99 AUD
Category: Music
With appeal to more than just punk history obsessives, Orstralia offers an unprecedented snapshot of an underacknowledged segment of Australian life and history. Far from punk's more modish North Atlantic core in the late 1970s, discontented youth in Australia were enacting similar musical and cultural ...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
To Anyone Who Ever Asks: the Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse by Howard Fishman
26.99 AUD
Category: Music
ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR CHOSEN BY PITCHFORK AS ONE OF THE TEN BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF 2023 ONE OF LOUDER THAN WAR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE PLUTARCH AWARD "It takes a great journalist to find the stories behind the mysteries we carry. Howard Fishman has done that wit ...Show more
Mixing Pop and Politics by Toby Manning
59.99 AUD
Category: Music
A radical history of the political and social upheavals of the last 70 years, told through the period's most popular music. Mixing Pop and Politics is not a history of political music, but a political history of popular music. Spanning the early 50s to the present, it shows how, from doo-wop to hip-hop ...Show more