Dead People I Have Known by Shayne Carter
40.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography | Reading Level: good
In Dead People I Have Known, the legendary New Zealand musician Shayne Carter tells the story of a life in music, taking us deep behind the scenes and songs of his riotous teenage bands Bored Games and the Doublehappys and his best-known bands Straitjacket Fits and Dimmer. He traces an intimate history ...Show more
The Doors Unhinged: Jim Morrison's Legacy Goes on Trial by John Densmore
40.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
In The Doors Unhinged, New York Times bestselling author and legendary Doors drummer John Densmore offers a powerful exploration of the 'greed gene' - that part of the human psyche that propels us toward the accumulation of more and more wealth, even at the expense of our principles, friendships, and th ...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 History & Biography
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
My My!: ABBA Through the Ages by Giles Smith
40.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
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
Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Bruce Springsteen: Wisdom from the Music and Musings of an American Dreamer by Trevor Courneen
38.00 NZD
Category: Gift
Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Bruce Springsteen is an eye-popping collection of stunning photos and insightful lessons inspired by Springsteen's life and musical legacy. For decades, the Boss has imbued his work with great depths of feeling and authenticity, speaking his truth to millions of ...Show more
Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones by Dolly Parton
95.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
A beautifully illustrated celebration of Dolly Parton's iconic sense of style through entertaining personal stories and 450 full-color photographs, including exclusive images from her private costume archive. In Behind the Seams My Life in Rhinestones, global superstar Dolly Parton shares, for the firs ...Show more
Bass Guitar for Dummies by Patrick Pfeiffer
48.00 NZD
Category: Music - Instruments
Way more than just the bass-ics . . . Whatever you're playing--funk, soul, rock, blues, country--the bass is the heart of the band. Bassists provide a crucial part of the driving force and funky framework that other members of any band work off. From John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin, to The Pixies' Ki ...Show more
The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan
60.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan's first book of new writing since 2004's Chronicles: Volume One -- and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers a masterclass on the art and craft of songwriting. He writes over 60 essays focu ...Show more
Composers Who Changed History by DK
65.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
MEET THE WORLD'S GREATEST COMPOSERS - FACE TO FACE This stunning visual celebration of the world's most celebrated composers tells the fascinating stories of their lives and works. Lavishly illustrated with portraits of each composer, alongside photographs of their homes and studios, and original music ...Show more
Keith Richards - Life by Keith Richards
30.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography | Reading Level: very good
As lead guitarist of the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics, and the songs that roused the world. A true and towering original, he has always walked his own path, spoken his mind, and done things his own way. Now at last Richards pauses to tell his story in the most anticipated ...Show more
Music - A Subversive History by Ted Gioia
30.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
"A dauntingly ambitious, obsessively researched" (Los Angeles Times) global history of music that reveals how songs have shifted societies and sparked revolutions. Histories of music overwhelmingly suppress stories of the outsiders and rebels who created musical revolutions and instead celebrate the ...Show more
Woody Guthrie: A Life by Joe Klein
40.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
The classic biography of the hugely influential American folk singer who inspired a generation of songwriters, including Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan. With a foreword by Billy Bragg. Few artists have captured the American experience of their time as wholly as folk legend Woody Guthrie. Singer, son ...Show more