The Beatles: Get Back by The Beatles
$80.00 AUD
Category: Music & Entertainment
The book opens in January 1969, the beginning of The Beatles' last year as a band. The Beatles (the White Album) is at number one in the charts and the foursome gather in London for a new project. Over 21 days, first at Twickenham Film Studios and then at their own brand-new Apple Studios, with cameras ...Show more
The Rolling Stones: Unzipped by The Rolling Stones
$70.00 AUD
Category: Music & Entertainment
For almost 60 years the Rolling Stones have helped shape popular culture around the world. Unzipped traces their impact and influence on rock music, art, design, fashion, photography, and filmmaking. Packed with evocative archive photos, artworks, outtakes, and memorabilia, this stunning book immerses r ...Show more
Boy On Fire: The Young Nick Cave by Mark Mordue
$29.99 AUD
Category: Music & Entertainment
The bestselling, award-winning and critically acclaimed biography of the young Nick Cave, by award-winning writer, Mark Mordue. A beautiful, profound and poetic biography of the formative years of the dark prince of Australian rock 'n' roll, Boy on Fire is Nick Cave's creation story. This is a portrait ...Show more
Doc: The Life and Times of Aussie Rock Legend Doc Neeson by Jon Bradshaw, Anne Souter
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music & Entertainment
He was a legend of Australian rock, the front man who lived as hard and as wildly as he performed . . . this is his story Often compared to David Bowie and Mick Jagger, Doc Neeson was hailed as a 'messianic rock god'. He was thumping, pumping, sweaty hard rock. He commanded the stage. He was unstoppabl ...Show more
John Illsley - My Life in Dire Straits by John Illsley
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music & Entertainment | Reading Level: very good
The first - and only - inside story of one of the greatest bands in rock history, as told by bassist and founder member John Illsley, with a foreword by Mark Knopfler. Dire Straits filled giant stadiums around the world and sold hundreds of millions of records. Throughout the eighties they were one of t ...Show more
Archie Roach - Tell Me Why - The Story of My Life and My Music by Archie Roach
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music & Entertainment | Reading Level: very good
A powerful memoir of a true Australian legend: stolen child, musical and lyrical genius, and leader. Not many have lived as many lives as Archie Roach - stolen child, seeker, teenage alcoholic, lover, father, musical and lyrical genius, and leader - but it took him almost a lifetime to find out who he r ...Show more
Dreaming the Beatles - The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World by Rob Sheffield
$29.99 AUD
Category: Music & Entertainment
NPR Best Book of 2017 Winner of the 2017 Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism "This is the best book about the Beatles ever written" --Mashable Rob Sheffield, the Rolling Stone columnist and bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape offers an entertaining, unconventional look at the mo ...Show more
Long Players - Writers on the Albums That Shaped Them by Tom Gatti (ed.)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music & Entertainment | Reading Level: near fine
Fifty great writers reflect on the albums that shaped them in this captivating collection curated by the New Statesman's Tom Gatti. Our favorite albums are our most faithful companions: we listen to them hundreds of times over decades, we know them far better than any novel or film. These records don' ...Show more
Leonard Cohen, Marianne Ihlen, and Me - Magical Summers on Hydra by Judy Scott
$49.99 AUD
Category: Music & Entertainment | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Leonard, Marianne, and Me chronicles forty years of Judy Scott's frequent summers on the Greek island of Hydra with a diverse artistic community and her friendship with singer-songwriter and poet Leonard Cohen and his legendary muse Marianne Ihlen. This memoir, based on Scott's notebooks and journals, i ...Show more
Bad Boy Boogie: The true story of AC/DC legend Bon Scott by Jeff Apter
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music & Entertainment
The life, death and rock'n'roll rollercoaster career of AC/DC frontman Bon Scott. Australia has produced any number of great rock and roll frontmen and women. But none has left quite the same mark as AC/DC's Bon Scott. No one had the same skill with lyrics as Bon, who called his words 'toilet poetry', h ...Show more
Anger is an Energy - My Life Uncensored by John Lydon
$19.99 AUD
Category: Music & Entertainment
This is the definitive autobiography of John Lydon, one of the most recognizable icons in the annals of music history. As Johnny Rotten, he was the lead singer of the Sex Pistols - the world's most notorious band, who shot to fame in the mid-1970s with singles such as 'Anarchy in the UK' and 'God Save t ...Show more
Last Chance Texaco - Chronicles of a Troubadour by Rickie Lee Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music & Entertainment | Reading Level: near fine
This troubadour life is only for the fiercest hearts, only for those vessels that can be broken to smithereens and still keep beating out the rhythm for a new song.Last Chance Texaco is the first-ever no-holds-barred account of the life of two-time Grammy Award-winner Rickie Lee Jones, in her own words. ...Show more