From Staircase to Stage: The Story of Raekwon and the Wu-Tang Clan by Raekwon
39.99 AUD
Category: Music
Legendary wordsmith Raekwon the Chef opens up about his journey from the staircases of Park Hill in Staten Island to sold-out stadiums around the world with the Wu-Tang Clan in this revealing memoir - perfect for fans of The Autobiography of Gucci Mane and Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter. There are rapper ...Show more
Punk, Post Punk, New Wave - Onstage, Backstage, in Your Face, 1977-1989 by Michael Grecco; Jim Sullivan (Introduction by); Fred Schneider (Foreword by)
59.99 AUD
Category: Music
Iconic and never-before-seen images of punk and post-punk's quintessential bands In the late 70s, punk rock music began to evolve into the post-punk and new wave movements that dominated until the early 90s. During this time, prolific photographer and filmmaker Michael Grecco was in the thick of thing ...Show more
King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B. B. King by Daniel de Vise
39.99 AUD
Category: Music
The first authoritative cradle-to-grave biography of a worldwide musical and cultural legend. King of the Blues is the story of the first and only superstar of American blues. But it is also a chronicle of the African American experience. B.B. King grew up in the Deep South, a few generations after the ...Show more
Wild Thing: The Short, Spellbinding Life of Jimi Hendrix (DIF) by Philip Norman
24.99 AUD
Category: Music
New York Times Book Review * "The Best Books to Give This Year" Publishers Weekly * Best Books of the Year (Nonfiction) A shattering new biography of rock music's most outrageous--and tragic--genius. Over fifty years after his death, Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) is celebrated as the greatest rock guitarist ...Show more
Lightning Striking by Lenny Kaye
34.99 AUD
Category: Music
'A true testimonial and epic love letter to the soul saving power of rock & roll . . . Read it and be inspired, as I was' Bobby Gillespie Memphis, 1954. New Orleans 1957. Philadelphia 1959. Liverpool, 1962. San Francisco 1967. Detroit 1969. New York, 1975. London 1977. Los Angeles 1984. Norway 1993 ...Show more
Unrequited Infatuations: A Memoir by Stevie Van Zandt
32.99 AUD
Category: Music
What story begins in a bedroom in suburban New Jersey in the early '60s, unfolds on some of the country's largest stages, and then ranges across the globe, demonstrating over and over again how Rock and Roll has the power to change the world for the better? This story. The first true heartbeat of UNREQ ...Show more
The Beatles and the Historians - An Analysis of Writings about the Fab Four by Erin Torkelson Weber
89.95 AUD
Category: Music
Hundreds of books have been written about The Beatles. Over the last half century, their story has been mythologized and de-mythologized and presented by biographers and journalists as history. Yet many of these works do not strictly qualify as history and the story of how the Beatles' mythology continu ...Show more
Schumann - The Faces and the Masks by Judith Chernaik
32.99 AUD
Category: Music
Drawing on previously unpublished sources, this groundbreaking biography of Robert Schumann sheds new light on the great composer's life and work. With the rigorous research of a scholar and the eloquent prose of a novelist, Judith Chernaik takes us into Schumann's nineteenth-century Romantic milieu, wh ...Show more
Rock Concert: A High-Voltage History, from Elvis to Live Aid by Marc Myers
39.99 AUD
Category: Music
A lively, entertaining, wide-ranging oral history of the golden age of the rock concert based on over ninety interviews.
Maria Callas's Lyric and Coloratura Arias 33 1/3 by Ginger Dellenbaugh
19.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
More than 40 years after her death, the legend of Maria Callas, "La Divina Assoluta," remains unsurpassed. Much has been written about her sensational opera career and fraught private life, from her definitive mastery of iconic opera roles to her love affairs and tantrums. The prototype for the 20th cen ...Show more
Alfred Wertheimer. Elvis and the Birth of Rock and Roll by Robert Santelli; Chris Murray (Editor); Alfred Wertheimer (Photographer)
125.00 AUD
Category: Music
"Elvis who?" was photographer Alfred Wertheimer's response when, in early 1956, an RCA Victor publicist asked him to photograph an up-and-coming crooner from Memphis. Little did Wertheimer know that this would be the job of his life: just 21 years old, Elvis Presley was - as we now know - about to becom ...Show more
Jean Sibelius - Life, Music, Silence by Daniel M. Grimley
49.99 AUD
Category: Music
An illuminating investigation into the interdisciplinary impact of the beloved modern classical composer. Few composers have enjoyed such critical acclaim--or longevity--as Jean Sibelius, who died in 1957 aged ninety-one. Always more than simply a Finnish national figure, an "apparition from the woo ...Show more