Bunnyman - A Memoir by Will Sergeant
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music
Growing up in Liverpool in the 1960s and '70s, when skinheads, football violence and fear of just about everything was the natural order of things, a young Will Sergeant found the emerging punk scene provided a shimmer of hope amongst a crumbling city still reeling from the destruction of the Second Wor ...Show more
Birth School Metallica Death - 1983-1991 Volume I by Paul Brannigan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Music
Metallica have sold in excess of 100 million albums and won seven Grammys. Their journey from scuzzy Los Angeles garages to the stages of the world's biggest stadia has been an epic and often traumatic one, and one of the few truly great rock 'n' roll sagas. No music writers have been afforded greater a ...Show more
Brother Robert - Growing up with Robert Johnson (HB) by Annye C. Anderson; Preston Lauterbach
$59.99 AUD
Category: Music
An intimate memoir by blues legend Robert Johnson's stepsister, including new details about his family, music, influences, tragic death, and musical afterlifeThough only 27-years-young and relatively unknown at the time of his tragic death in 1938, Robert Johnson's enduring recordings have solidified hi ...Show more
Listen: On Music, Sound and Us by Michel Faber
$36.99 AUD
Category: Music
'I'm not here to change your mind about Dusty Springfield or Shostakovich or Tupac Shakur or synthpop. I'm here to change your mind about your mind.' There are countless books on music with much analysis given to musicians, bands, eras and/or genres. But rarely does a book delve into what's going on in ...Show more
Guitar: The Shape of Sound, 100 Iconic Designs by Ultan Guilfoyle
$79.95 AUD
Category: Music
The 100 most iconic guitars from around the globe, from early modern beginnings to cutting-edge electric models The guitar is the iconic instrument at the heart of all popular music. From Delta blues on acoustics to electric rock & roll, and all that came in its wake, the guitar has proven the most ...Show more
Sound as Ever: A Celebration of the Greatest Decade in Australian Music: 1990-1999 by Jane Gazzo, Andrew P. Street
$49.99 AUD
Category: Music
The 90s was a magical time for Australian music. Record labels had money to spend, the Big Day Out and Triple J went national and suddenly everyone was getting a 3-piece together and gigging in the inner-city pubs of their town. Sound as Ever is a celebration and a documentation of this fertile period w ...Show more
ABBA at 50 by CARL MAGNUS PALM
$75.00 AUD
Category: Music
An illustrated celebration of ABBA, from childhood through the Voyage album. Emerging victorious from Eurovision in 1974 with winning tune "Waterloo," ABBA catapulted to fame and captured hearts across the world with their melodic and ever-so catchy pop songs. Formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fält ...Show more
Under A Rock by Chris Stein
$34.99 AUD
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
The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present by Paul McCartney
$155.00 AUD
Category: Music
'More often than I can count, I've been asked if I would write an autobiography, but the time has never been right. The one thing I've always managed to do, whether at home or on the road, is to write new songs. I know that some people, when they get to a certain age, like to go to a diary to recall day ...Show more
Harlem Nights: The Secret History of Australia's Jazz Age by Deirdre O'Connell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music
The untold story of race and power in Australia's Jazz AgeThe 1920s were a time of wonder and flux, when Australians sensed a world growing smaller, turning faster-and, for some, skittering off balance. American movies, music and dance brought together what racial lines kept apart. A spirit of youthful ...Show more
Tragedy: the Ballad of the Bee Gees by Jeff Apter
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music
The rollercoaster careers of the brothers Gibb – Barry, Robin, Maurice and younger brother Andy – is perhaps the greatest saga in Australian music history. This is the story of the brothers’ incredible careers and of the Gibb ‘curse’ – an all-too-human look at the yin and yang of fame. This edition is a ...Show more
Long Players - Writers on the Albums That Shaped Them by Tom Gatti (ed.)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music
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