Vinyl Me Please List 100 Albums You Need on Vinyl and Why by Please Vinyl Me Staff
30.00 NZD
Category: Music
Putting the style in your stylus, The Vinyl List is more than your average book of music recommendations. Brought to you by the vinyl subscription club, Vinyl Me, Please - 'the best damn record club there is'* - The Vinyl List is a lively, visually handsome guide to the 100 albums you need to own on vin ...Show more
For the Love of Music: A Conductor's Guide to the Art of Listening by John Mauceri
30.00 NZD
Category: Music
Why do so many of us listen to classical music, and how can you get the most from listening to it?In this unpretentious and instructive book, internationally celebrated conductor and teacher John Mauceri brings to bear his lifetime of experience and profound knowledge. A protégé of Leonard Bernstein and ...Show more
Fly Away Paul: How Paul McCartney survived the Beatles and found his Wings by Lesley-Ann Jones
40.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
No comprehensive biography of the time Paul McCartney spent with Wings has ever been published. A period often dismissed as McCartney's 'missing' years, in fact the band lasted for a decade: two years longer than the Beatles, and wielded such impact and influence that they at one point achieved the stat ...Show more
Why Beethoven: A Phenomenon in 100 Pieces by Norman Lebrecht
25.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
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 hi ...Show more
3 Shades of Blue by James Kaplan
55.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
3 Shades of Blue - Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans and the Lost Empire of Cool. 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 o ...Show more
The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of "Hallelujah" by Alan Light
35.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
Praised as a “thoughtful and illuminating” (The New York Times) work of music journalism, this is the unforgettable, fascinating, and unexpected account of one of the most performed and beloved songs in pop history — Leonard Cohen’s heartrending “Hallelujah.” When Leonard Cohen first wrote and recorded ...Show more
The Voice Inside by John Farnham
40.00 NZD
Category: Coming Soon
From a childhood in London and Melbourne through to pop stardom in the 1960s, the critical success enjoyed with the release of the highest-selling Australian album of all time, Whispering Jack, and a decades-long touring career, the John Farnham story is, at first glance, one filled with remarkable high ...Show more
Sound Tracks: Uncovering Our Musical Past by Graeme Lawson
65.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
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
Moonage Daydream: The Life & Times of Ziggy Stardust by David Bowie
100.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
‘The closest we’ll ever get to a straight up Bowie autobiography — but who’d ever want anything straight-up from Bowie?’ – Rolling Stone. In 2002, David Bowie and Mick Rock created Moonage Daydream, the defining document of the life and times of Ziggy Stardust. Twenty years later, it remains the closes ...Show more
The Stone Age: Sixty Years of the Rolling Stones by Lesley-Ann Jones
37.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
The Rolling Stones juggernaut appraised and dissected as never before - the good, the bad, the ugly. On 12 July 1962, the Rollin' Stones performed their first-ever gig at London's Marquee jazz club. Down the line, a 'g' was added, a spark was lit and their destiny was sealed. No going back. These five w ...Show more
The Beatles: The Illustrated Lyrics by Unnamed
65.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
The lyrics to the songs of the Beatles read like poetry. This book treats them as such, and illustrates each track artistically, paying careful attention to detail and high design standards. The stories, themes and ideas behind nearly 200 songs are explored in this beautiful book that includes photogra ...Show more
David Bowie: Changes - A Life in Pictures 1947-2016 by Chris Welch
45.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
David Bowie: Changes \b0 is a celebration of the international figure all starry-eyed hopefuls aspired to be when setting out on a path to fame and fortune in the music industry - whether they know it or not. Through more than 150 stellar photos, it tells the story of an artist the likes of which we'd n ...Show more