Along the Road to Gundagai - Biography of Jack o'Hagan and Birth of Australian Pop Culture by Jo Gilbert
69.99 AUD
Category: Music
JACK O'HAGAN was the father of Australia's pop music industry. The most famous popular songwriter of his time, he wrote our nation's most beloved and enduring songs - 'Along the Road to Gundagai', 'Where the Dog Sits on the Tuckerbox' and 'Our Don Bradman' among them. 'Jack was the first man to prove th ...Show more
Lou Reed: The King of New York by Will Hermes
55.00 AUD
Category: Music
Since his death ten years ago, Lou Reed's stature and living presence have only grown. The great rock-poet presided over the marriage of Brill Building pop and the European avant-garde, and left American culture transfigured. In Lou Reed: The King of New York, the critic Will Hermes offers the definiti ...Show more
Mick Rock the Rise of David Bowie. 1972-1973 by Barney Hoskyns; Michael Bracewell; Mick Rock (Photographer)
29.99 AUD
Category: Music
A unique tribute from David Bowie's official photographer and creative partner, Mick Rock, compiled in 2015, with Bowie's blessing. In 1972, David Bowie released his groundbreaking album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. With it landed Bowie's Stardust alter ego: a glitter-c ...Show more
The Rolling Stones Rare and Unseen by Gered Mankowitz
79.99 AUD
Category: Music
Containing many images of the band that have never been published anywhere before now, and accompanied by Gered's memories and revealing insights into the shoots, tours and sessions he spent with the band around the world, this is the definitive collection of Mankowitz's breathtaking photography. The Ro ...Show more
The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan
59.99 AUD
Category: Music
The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan's first book of new writing since 2004's Chronicles: Volume One -- and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers a masterclass on the art and craft of songwriting. He writes over 60 essays focu ...Show more
Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows - Inside His Archive by Michael Petit (Interviewee); Leonard Cohen; Julian Cox (Editor); Jim Shedden (Editor); Joan Angel (Text by); Laura Cameron (Text by); Alan Light (Text by); Robert Kory (Afterword by)
85.00 AUD
Category: Music
Previously unseen journals, letters, sketches and more from the vast personal archive of Leonard Cohen. Leonard Cohen is renowned the world over for his meditations on beauty, death, loss and the human heart. The objects, papers and artifacts from Cohen's personal archive provide fresh insight into th ...Show more
The Essential Taylor Swift Fanbook by Mortimer Children's Books
16.99 AUD
Category: Music
Calling all Swifties! This brand new, fully up to date book has everything that fans need to know about Taylor Swift. Follow her journey from country music sensation to global megastar. Discover the hidden meanings behind her greatest songs, find out about her life as a performer and movie star, and rea ...Show more
Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me by Bernie Taupin
34.99 AUD
Category: Music
"I loved writing, I loved chronicling life and every moment I was cogent, sober, or blitzed, I was forever feeding off my surroundings, making copious notes as ammunition for future compositions. . The thing is good, bad or indifferent I never stopped writing, it was as addictive as any drug." This is ...Show more
Unsung: A Compendium of Creativity by Kate Ceberano
55.00 AUD
Category: Music
A beautiful illustrated memoir from beloved Australian musician Kate Ceberano, featuring her inspirational song lyrics, stories, paintings and embroidery, and celebrating four decades of songwriting and recording on the release of her 30th album. Kate Ceberano is used to a hush descending as she draws ...Show more
Hercules!: The A to Z of Elton John by Mick Wall
34.99 AUD
Category: Music
An 'A to Z'-format biography of one of the most successful pop artists of all time. Comprising a vivid and varied series of miniature biographies, revealing profiles, thought-provoking essays and a multitude of previously unknown anecdotes and quotes, Hercules!: The A to Z of Elton John is the perfect c ...Show more
Why Beethoven: A Phenomenon in 100 Pieces by Norman Lebrecht
44.99 AUD
Category: Music
Without Beethoven, music as we know it wouldn't exist.There'd be no Wagner, Verdi, Mahler, Nina Simone, Michael Jackson, down to cello-playing Ed Sheeran. Norman Lebrecht asks- why? Who was this titan of world culture? In 100 recordings, freely available on Idagio and YouTube, Lebrecht brings to life t ...Show more
Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World - 'Magnificent' (Kate Mosse) by Leah Broad
49.99 AUD
Category: Music
Ethel Smyth (b.1858): Famed for her operas, this trailblazing queer Victorian composer was a larger-than-life socialite, intrepid traveller and committed Suffragette. Rebecca Clarke (b.1886): This talented violist and Pre-Raphaelite beauty was one of the first women ever hired by a professional orchestr ...Show more