K. D. Lang's Ingénue 33 1/3 by Joanna McNaney Stein
21.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
Canadian performer k.d. lang broke new ground in the 1980s by blending the genres of punk and country, dubbed "cowpunk," with her band, the Reclines. Despite Grammy-award-winning recordings and frequent North American TV spots, mainstream country radio excluded lang from airplay due to her unconventiona ...Show more
Beyonce (small HB) by Tshepo Mokoena
24.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Lives of the Musicians Ser.
Beyonc is not simply a pop sensation. She is a cultural phenomenon empowering the oppressed and dispossessed, challenging white privilege and misogyny and exploding gender politics. But who is Beyonc Knowles-Carter and how did a small girl from Houston become the strong confident woman whose albums sell ...Show more
No Bull by Linda Bull, Vika Bull
35.00 AUD
Category: Music
While most music careers stalled during the pandemic, Vika and Linda Bull soared with two chart-topping albums as they became beacons of warmth in uncertain times. For three decades they were best known as backing singers and collaborators to some of Australia's biggest artists, but it was when the worl ...Show more
The Art of the Straight Line: My Tai Chi by Lou Reed; Laurie Anderson (Editor)
59.99 AUD
Category: Music
The Art of the Straight Line captures the energy of Lou Reed's worlds of Tai Chi, music, and meditation. It was edited by his wife, the artist Laurie Anderson, with Stephan Berwick, Bob Currie, and Scott Richman. Lou Reed was a musician, singer, songwriter, poet, and founding member of the legendary ro ...Show more
Fryderyk Chopin - A Life and Times by Alan Walker
59.99 AUD
Category: Music
A landmark biography of the Polish composer by a leading authority on Chopin and his time. Based on ten years of research and a vast cache of primary sources located in archives in Warsaw, Paris, London, New York, and Washington, D.C., Alan Walker's monumental Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times is the mo ...Show more
Impossible: My Story by Stan Walker
34.99 AUD
Category: Music | Reading Level: near fine
An extraordinary memoir about family, love, belief, redemption and the power of forgiveness. Everything has a reason. Everything has a purpose. Stan Walker is one of the finest singers to emerge from Australia and New Zealand Aotearoa in a generation. When Stan won Australian Idol in 2009, he was thrown ...Show more
The Little Guide to Dolly Parton: It's Hard to be a Diamond in a Rhinestone World by Malcolm Croft
12.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: The\Little Book Of... Ser.
The ultimate pick-me-up to save you from the nine-to-five heartbreak blues. The Little Guide to Dolly Partonis your bible of devastating Dolly-isms. Yes, that's right, the most iconic and acclaimed female country singer in the history of music is so inventive and brilliant with her clever wisecracks an ...Show more
The Creation Records Story - My Magpie Eyes Are Hungry for the Prize by David Cavanagh; John Harris (Foreword by)
39.99 AUD
Category: Music
Out of print for many years and regarded as one of the greatest music books ever written, My Magpie Eyes are Hungry for the Prize: The Creation Records Story is the definitive account of the iconic British record label, republished for the label’s 40th anniversary. Founded by Alan McGee in 1983, Creati ...Show more
Minds Went Walking: Paul Kelly's Songs Reimagined by Jock Serong, Mark Smith, Neil A. White
32.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Paul Kelly's Songs Reimagined
For many of us, lyrics from Paul Kelly help tell the stories of our lives. From Jock Serong on the fastest Ford in Western Australia to Lorin Clarke on the death of her revered dad-comedian John Clark-and from Gina Williams on the 'special treatment' of the people of the Noongar nation to Bram Presser o ...Show more
George Michael: A Life by James Gavin
39.99 AUD
Category: Music
The definitive biography of George Michael, offering an expansive look at the troubled life of the legendary singer, songwriter, and pop superstar George Michael was an extravagantly gifted, openhearted soul singer whose work was both pained and smolderingly erotic. He was a songwriter of true craft ...Show more
This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You by Dr. Susan Rogers
35.00 AUD
Category: Music
Despite being unable to play an instrument, Susan Rogers became an extraordinarily successful record producer - and certainly one of the most successful women record producers in history - because of her ability to listen. (She was an engineer on Prince's "When Doves Cry", which inspired the title of th ...Show more
Totally Wired: The Rise and Fall of the Music Press by Paul Gorman
49.99 AUD
Category: Music
A raucous yet reflective look back at the evolution of the music press and the passionate rock and pop journalists who defined the music of the 20th century. Totally Wired is the definitive story of the music press on both sides of the Atlantic, tracing the rise and fall of the creatively fertile media ...Show more