Surrender - 40 Songs, One Story by Bono
55.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Bono - artist, activist and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2 - has written a memoir; honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he's lived, the challenges he's faced and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him. "When I started to wri ...Show more
Impossible: My Story - Stan Walker by Stan Walker
40.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography | Reading Level: near fine
An extraordinary memoir about family, love, belief, redemption and the power of forgiveness. Everything has a reason. Everything has a purpose. Stan Walker is one of the finest singers to emerge from Australia and New Zealand Aotearoa in a generation. When Stan won Australian Idol in 2009, he was thrown ...Show more
Killing Time by Jimmy Barnes
30.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
Tales of adventure, misadventure, love and loss - this collection of non-fiction short stories from the Australian rock legend turned writer is vintage Jimmy. Outrageous, witty, warm and wise, Killing Time shares more than forty yarns reflecting an epic life - from an encounter with a soul legend in Mem ...Show more
Music: The Definitive Visual History
70.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
A comprehensive and accessible visual history of music - from prehistory to the present dayWhy did jazz go Latin? And how did blues influence rock? Find out how music has shaped the world from prehistory to the present day.Classical or rock, everyone has their favourite music style, but how did your top ...Show more
We Could Be Bowie and his Heroes by Tom Hagler
30.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
The story of Bowie's life told through 300 encounters with fellow icons, from Dylan to Dalí, Lennon to Lydon, Princess Margaret to Prince. With consultant editor Tony Visconti David Bowie's story has never been told quite like this. Tracing the star's encounters with fellow icons throughout his life, ...Show more
Charlie's Good Tonight - The Authorised Biography of Charlie Watts by Paul Sexton
30.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
Featuring forewords from bandmates Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, this is the official and fully authorised biography of the world's most revered and celebrated drummer.Mid-1962. The newly formed Rolling Stones are on the hunt for a permanent drummer. Their sights are set on Charlie Watts, a jazz music ...Show more
Hellzapoppin'!: The Art of Flying Nun by Peter Vangioni
20.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
Published to mark the fortieth anniversary of the founding of Flying Nun Records in Ōtautahi Christchurch, Hellzapoppin’! brings together original artwork and design, film, record covers, posters and photography from the label’s early years. From rare collectible records and vintage posters to original ...Show more
CSNY: Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young by Peter Doggett
40.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
An engaging and illuminating biography focused on the formative and highly influential early years of "rock's first supergroup" (Rolling Stone) Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young--when they were the most successful, influential, and politically potent band in America. After making their marks in popular ba ...Show more
Why Dylan Matters by Richard F. Thomas
27.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
A GUARDIAN AND INDEPENDENT BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2017. 'At last an expert classicist gets to grips with Bob Dylan' Mary Beard 'Thomas's elegant, charming book offers something for everyone - not just the super-fans' IndependentWhen the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan, the literary world ...Show more
The Birds Began to Sing - A Memoir of a New Zealand Composer by Dorothy Buchanan
40.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: near fine
Dorothy Buchanan is a prolific, much loved and much awarded composer, who pioneered the composer-in-schools scheme and has been a force in music and music-making in Aotearoa for over half a century. Born in 1945 on the West Coast, she grew up as one of six sisters in a musical family in Christchurch. Do ...Show more
Janis: Her Life and Music by Holly George-Warren
23.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
Longlisted for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence This blazingly intimate biography of Janis Joplin establishes the Queen of Rock & Roll as the rule-breaking musical trailblazer and complicated, gender-bending rebel she was. Janis Joplin's first transgressive act was to be a white girl w ...Show more
Season of the Witch - The Book of Goth by Cathi Unsworth
55.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
1979. Months of industrial action throughout the winter have left the dead unburied and mountains of rubbish piling up in the streets.After ten brutal homicides and the biggest police hunt in history, the Yorkshire Ripper is still at large and preparing to strike again.Punk has reached its bleak climax ...Show more