Cruel to Be Kind - The Life and Music of Nick Lowe by Will Birch
32.99 AUD
Category: Music
Cruel to Be Kind is the definitive account of Nick Lowe's uncompromising life as a songwriter and entertainer, from his days at Stiff Records, to becoming the driving force behind Rockpile, to the 1979 smash hit 'Cruel To Be Kind'. Nick's original compositions have been recorded by the best in the busin ...Show more
This is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession by Daniel Levitin
24.99 AUD
Category: Music
This is the first book to offer a comprehensive explanation of how humans experience music and to unravel the mystery of our perennial love affair with it. Using musical examples from Bach to the Beatles, Levitin reveals the role of music in human evolution, shows how our musical preferences begin to fo ...Show more
Hit Factories - A Journey Through the Industrial Cities of British Pop by Karl Whitney
55.00 AUD
Category: Music
After discovering a derelict record plant on the edge of a northern English city, and hearing that it was once visited by David Bowie, Karl Whitney embarks upon a journey to explore the industrial cities of British pop music. Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Leeds, Sheffield, Hull, Glasgow, Belfast, B ...Show more
All Gates Open - The Story of Can by Rob Young; Irmin Schmidt
29.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Faber Social Ser.
All Gates Open presents the definitive story of arguably the most influential and revered avant-garde band of the late twentieth century: CAN. It consists of two books. In Book One, Rob Young gives us the full biography of a band that emerged at the vanguard of what would come to be called the Krautroc ...Show more
God Save the Queens - The Essential History of Women in Hip-Hop by Kathy Iandoli
54.99 AUD
Category: Music
Can't Stop Won't Stop meets Girls to the Front in this essential and long overdue history of hip-hop's female pioneers and its enduring stars. Every history of hip-hop previously published, from Jeff Chang's Can't Stop Won't Stop to Shea Serrano's The Rap Yearbook, focuses primarily on men, glaringly om ...Show more
Wham! George and Me by Andrew Ridgeley
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Category: Music
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER For the first time, Andrew Ridgeley - one half of one of the most famous bands in the world - tells the inside story of WHAM! and his life-long friendship with George Michael. 'A joyous celebration of the WHAM! years. For anyone who was a teenager in the early 1980s, it wil ...Show more
Ron Weasley: Cinematic Guide by Scholastic
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Category: Music | Series: Harry Potter Ser.
The Essential Film Companion for RON WEASLEY that's perfect for the youngest fans Relive the magical moments when Ron Weasley proved just as courageous and loyal as his famous best friend, Harry Potter--whether he was facing the Slytherin Quidditch team or a forest of scary giant spiders This collection ...Show more
The Life of a Song by Jan Dalley; David Cheal
29.99 AUD
Category: Music
When great songs have been written and released, they often take on a life of their own, reshaped and re-imagined. The Life Of A Song is a compilation of weekly columns written £or FT Weekend, containing the biographies of 50 songs that have been born, reborn, sometimes hideously mangled, but often rein ...Show more
Bon: The Last Highway: The Untold Story of Bon Scott and AC/DC's Back In Black by Jesse Fink
34.99 AUD
Category: Music
In the early hours of 19 February 1980, Bon Scott, lead singer of the rock band AC/DC, left The Music Machine in Camden, London, with a man called Alistair Kinnear, whereupon he lost consciousness and was left to sleep in Alistair's Renault 5, parked outside Alistair's East Dulwich apartment. That even ...Show more
Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars 1955-1994 by David Hepworth
22.99 AUD
Category: Music
The age of the rock star, like the age of the cowboy, has passed. Like the cowboy, the idea of the rock star lives on in our imaginations.What did we see in them? Swagger. Recklessness. Sexual charisma. Damn-the-torpedoes self-belief. A certain way of carrying themselves. Good hair. Interesting shoes. T ...Show more
The Beatles Book by Hunter Davies
75.00 AUD
Category: Music
THE BEATLES BOOK is the ultimate authority on the fab four. Hunter Davies, the only ever authorised biographer of the group, brings together three eminent Beatles experts to compile an invaluable and essential guide. Divided into four sections - People, Songs, Places and Broadcast Cinema - The Beatles B ...Show more
I'll Never Write My Memoirs by Grace Jones
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Category: Music
Born in 1948 into a family of ministers in Kingston, Jamaica, the statuesque and strikingly beautiful Grace Jones lived with her family in Syracuse, NY, before launching a career as a model in New York City. Gaining fame as the cover girl for such publications as Vogue and Elle, Jones's flamboyant look ...Show more