Shiny and New: Ten Moments of Pop Genius that Defined the '80s by Dylan Jones
40.00 NZD
Category: Music
The Eighties were about big ideas writ large - new money, new style, gender fluidity, gay pride, attritional politics, the 'special relationship', nuclear fear, AIDS, cocaine, ecstasy, tabloid royalty, the rise of urban pop, and ultimately geopolitical chaos. Using a big narrative approach, Dylan Jones' ...Show more
One Last Song - Conversations on Life, Death, and Music by Mike Ayers; Studio Studio Muti (Illustrator); Shea Serrano (Contribution by); Jim James (Foreword by)
40.00 NZD
Category: Music
An ironically upbeat book that asks some of today's most inimitable musicians which song they would choose to be the last one they ever hear If you could choose the last song you'd hear before you died, what would it be and why? Your favorite song of all time? Perhaps the one you danced to at your weddi ...Show more
Me and Mr Jones: My Life with David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars (PB) by Suzi Ronson
40.00 NZD
Category: Music
From the stylist behind David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust look, an electrifying memoir taking readers behind the curtains during a legendary chapter of pop culture history. 'Suzi Ronson was there as Bowie transitioned from suburban folkie to world superstar and genius. Few can offer such insight, and tel ...Show more
The Rejects: An Alternative History of Popular Music by Jamie Collinson
40.00 NZD
Category: Music
Imagine you've made it. You and your friends have hit the big time in music and you're going to be a star. But then, quite suddenly, it's over. Your best friends don't want you anymore, and you're on the outside. Perhaps they're tired of your bad habits, they think you're not good enough, or they sense ...Show more
Under A Rock by Chris Stein
40.00 NZD
Category: Music
At its heart, Under A Rock is a love story. The codependent bond between Chris Stein and Debbie Harry carried Blondie through their many tribulations: terribly misogynistic music scenes, greasy record execs, bitter band mates, gruelling schedules, and hard drug abuse abound, and Chris lays it all bare w ...Show more
All You Need Is Love: The End of the Beatles - An Oral History by Those Who Were There by Steven Gaines, Peter Brown
40.00 NZD
Category: Music
All You Need is Love is a ground-breaking oral history of the Beatles and how it all came to an end. Based on never-before-published or heard interviews with Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and their families, friends, and business associates, this is a landmark book, containing ...Show more
Sound Tracks - Uncovering Our Musical Past by Graeme Lawson
65.00 NZD
Category: Music
Here is the history of humankind's relationship with music in fifty detective stories. Sound Tracks is a transporting and extraordinary voyage of discovery, each chapter a time-machine focusing on musical finds uncovered in archaeological digs around the world. From the present day all the way back to t ...Show more
My My!: ABBA Through the Ages by Giles Smith
40.00 NZD
Category: Music
On the fiftieth anniversary of Waterloo – the song, not the battle - one super-fan sits down to listen to the ABBA Gold album from start to finish, looking back over the half-century he has spent in the company of ABBA’s music, and attempting to unlock the secrets of its hold on him – and on all of us. ...Show more
3 Shades of Blue - Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans and the Lost Empire of Cool by James Kaplan
55.00 NZD
Category: Music
1959 saw Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the other members of Miles's sextet come together to record the seminal jazz album of all time Kind of Blue. 3 Shades of Blue is a magnificent, blended biography on the meandering paths which led Miles, Coltrane and Evans to the mountaintop of 1959 a ...Show more
Why Beethoven: A Phenomenon in 100 Pieces by Norman Lebrecht
25.00 NZD
Category: Music
Without Beethoven, music as we know it wouldn't exist. Who was this titan of world culture? 'You want to build a Beethoven library? There can be no better starting point... Brilliant.' John Suchet, Classic FM presenter Through 100 recordings, Lebrecht brings to life the composer as we've never seen him ...Show more
Down With the System: The highly-awaited memoir from the System Of A Down legend by Serj Tankian
40.00 NZD
Category: Music
The incredible first memoir by System Of A Down frontman Serj TankianWith nearly 40 million record sales, three albums topping the Billboard charts, a Grammy win and a legion of fans, System Of A Down are one of the biggest metal bands on the planet. At their core has always been Serj Tankian, whose jou ...Show more
Taylor Swift: The Whole Story by Chas Newkey-Burden
30.00 NZD
Category: Music
The updated story of Taylor Swift’s stratospheric rise to fame; all any dedicated Swifty needs to know about the pop superstar who’s taking over the world with her Eras tour. A small-town girl with incredible talent – and the strength and determination to realise her dream – Taylor Swift has gone from A ...Show more