Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) with Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes by Stephen Sondheim
55.00 AUD
Category: Music
Stephen Sondheim has won seven Tonys, an Academy Award, seven Grammys, a Pulitzer Prize and the Kennedy Center Honors. His career has spanned more than half a century, his lyrics have become synonymous with musical theater and popular culture, and in "Finishing the Hat"--titled after perhaps his most au ...Show more
How Music Works by David Byrne
39.99 AUD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
How Music Works is an unparalleled account of a life in music and an explanation of how and why music works from one of the world's most accomplished performers. With his albums for Talking Heads, his work with Brian Eno or his solo output, David Byrne has been consistently at the forefront of musical - ...Show more
The Future is the Beginning by Bob Marley
27.95 AUD
Category: Music
For the first time, the profound, thoughtful and insightful words of Bob Marley, one the world's most popular music artists ever known, are brought together as an inspiring, moving and rallying collection of ideas. Presented with an introduction by Marley's daughter Cedella and including interviews span ...Show more
Techno Rebels The Renegades of Electronic Funk by Sicko Dan
39.95 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Painted Turtle Book
This is an updated, expanded history of techno music with special attention to its roots in Detroit. When it was originally published in 1999, "Techno Rebels" became the definitive text on a hard-to-define but vital genre of music. Author Dan Sicko demystified techno's characteristics, influences, and o ...Show more
A Lasting Record by Stephen Downes
29.99 AUD
Category: Music
A LASTING RECORD tells the unique true story of two separate but interconnected lives: New Yorker William Kapell, America's greatest home-grown concert pianist, and Roy Preston, Melbourne-based Myer cosmetics salesman and classical music aficionado. Kapell and Preston are united by one single acetate, c ...Show more
Can't be Satisfied The Life and Times of Muddy Waters by Robert Gordon
27.99 AUD
Category: Music
'Can't Be Satisfied is that rare thing in musical biographies: a book that maps out not just a single, extraordinary life but the cultural forces that shaped it' Sean O'Hagan, Observer Muddy Waters was the greatest blues musician ever, and the most influential. He invented electric blues, inspired the R ...Show more
Gurrumul: His Life and Music by Robert Hillman
29.99 AUD
Category: Music
On a November afternoon in 2010, Gurrumul sat in a studio in Sydney to be photographed for the cover of Rolling Stone. The studio was 3000 kilometres from where he was born on Echo Island off the coast of East Arnhem Land. A bare three years had passed since the release of Gurrumul, his critically accla ...Show more
The Story of the Kinks: You Really Got Me by Nick Hasted
24.95 AUD
Category: Music
The paperback edition of the bestselling biography. The Kinks are the quintessential British sixties band, revered for an incredible series of classic songs ('You Really Got Me', 'Waterloo Sunset' and 'Lola' to name but a few) and critically acclaimed albums (The Village Green Preservation Society). Fea ...Show more
Gustav Mahler by Jens Malte Fischer
45.00 AUD
Category: Music
A bestseller when first published in Germany in 2003, Jens Malte Fischer's "Gustav Mahler" has been lauded by scholars as a landmark work. He draws on important primary resources - some unavailable to previous biographers - and sets in narrative context the extensive correspondence between Mahler and hi ...Show more
Thin Lizzy The Boys Are Back In Town by Harry Doherty
29.95 AUD
Category: Music
One of the defining rock groups of the 20th Century, Thin Lizzy began life in Dublin in 1969 when childhood friends Phil Lynott and Brian Downey were approached by two former members of Van Morrison's band 'Them', Eric Wrixon (keyboards) and Eric Bell (guitar). Now for the first time, their story is tol ...Show more
Gabba Gabby Hey: The Ramones Graphic by Jim McCarthy
29.95 AUD
Category: Music
From the creators of Neverland: The Michael Jackson Graphic, The Sex Pistols Graphic Novel, Godspeed: The Kurt Cobain Graphic and Eminem: In My Skin comes an explosive new graphic novel about The Ramones.The Ramones were the archetypal American punk band and this is their story, from their beginnings in ...Show more
Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars by Scotty Bowers
22.99 AUD
Category: Music
Scotty Bowers, a dashing young ex-Marine exuding sex appeal, arrived in Hollywood in 1946 and quickly caught the attention of many of the town's stars. Working out of a gas station on Hollywood Boulevard, Bowers soon became the go-to guy for anyone looking for a bespoke sexual partner; no matter how out ...Show more