The Beatles by Terry O'Neill: Five Decades of Photographs, with Unseen Images by Terry O'Neill
70.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
'An incredible photographer and good friend'-RINGO STARR The definitive collection of the breathtaking Beatles photographs of Terry O'Neill. Iconic photographer Terry O'Neill worked with the Beatles across five decades, capturing the band at the beginning of their rise to the top and the solo years be ...Show more
While We Were Getting High - Britpop in Photographs with Unseen Images by Kevin Cummins
70.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
Remember Britpop and the '90s through hundreds of its most striking images - with many seen here for the very first time. Taken by renowned photographer Kevin Cummins, chief photographer at the NME for more than a decade, the images in this book explore the rise and fall of Cool Britannia and all that c ...Show more
Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis
30.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
As lead singer and songwriter for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Anthony Kiedis has lived life on the razor's edge. So much has been written about him, but until now, we've only had Kiedis's songs as clues to his experience from the inside. In Scar Tissue, Kiedis proves himself to be as compelling a memoiri ...Show more
Mozart: the Man behind the Music by Donovan Bixley
35.00 NZD
Category: Children - Reference | Reading Level: near fine
Child prodigy, genius, freak, a man who lived frivolously and died a pauper... The myths surrounding Mozart, composer of some of the world's most sublime music, have long overtaken the known facts of his life. Now, in this charming and very personal tribute, artist Donovan Bixley offers a portrait of th ...Show more
A Fabulous Creation: How the LP Saved Our Lives by David Hepworth
24.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
_________ 'Hepworth's knowledge and understanding of rock history is prodigious ... [a] hugely entertaining study of the LP's golden age' The Times _________ The era of the LP began in 1967, with 'Sgt Pepper'; The Beatles didn't just collect together a bunch of songs, they Made An Album. Henceforth, e ...Show more
Acid For The Children - The autobiography of Flea, the Red Hot Chili Peppers legend by Flea
30.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography | Reading Level: very good
Flea, the iconic bassist and co-founder, alongside Anthony Kiedis, of the immortal Red Hot Chili Peppers finally tells his fascinating origin story, complete with all the dizzying highs and the gutter lows you'd expect from an LA street rat turned world-famous rock star. Michael Peter Balzary was born i ...Show more
Beatles: In Pictures by AMMONITE PRESS
30.00 NZD
Category: Gift | Series: In Pictures Ser.
The Beatles: In Pictures takes a nostalgic look at the world's most famous pop group, presenting 300 photographs from the Mirrorpix archives.The best-selling band in history, with sales of over a billion, The Beatles - John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr - have had more number-o ...Show more
The Mirror Steamed Over - Love and Pop in London 1962 by Anthony Byrt
45.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography | Reading Level: near fine
In the early sixties at the Royal College of Art in London, three extraordinary personalities collided to reshape contemporary art and literature. Barrie Bates (who would become Billy Apple in November 1962) was an ambitious young graphic designer from New Zealand, who transformed himself into one of po ...Show more
Around the Corners, Out to the Edges - A Memoir by composer Jonathan Besser by Jonathon Besser; Nicola McCloy
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Acclaimed classical music composer and director Jonathan Besser's career has been colourful and experimental, immersed in the burgeoning New Zealand art scene of the '70s and '80s. Born into a Jewish household in New York in 1949, Jonathan struggled in school as a neuro-atypical child, before delving in ...Show more
Eruption - The Eddie Van Halen Story by Paul Brannigan
28.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
A searching, affectionate and in-depth look at the life and legends of the late, great guitar god.
Faith, Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave, Sean O'Hagan
40.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
"Created from more than forty hours of intimate conversations with the journalist Seán O’Hagan, this is a profoundly thoughtful exploration, in Cave’s own words, of what really drives his life and creativity. The book examines questions of belief, art, music, freedom, grief and love. It draws candidly o ...Show more
Sound Bites by Ed Le Brocq
40.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
Ed Le Brocq invites you to come on a journey with him through a living tradition that spans a millennium - the tradition of Western classical music. Have you ever wondered where our music comes from? How did we arrive here, a place where we can have a hundred musicians on stage playing the wildest rhyt ...Show more