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Dead People I Have Known by Shayne Carter
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography | Reading Level: good
Winner - Ockham NZ Book Awards - General Non-Fiction Award 2020 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 ba ...Show more
The Butterfly Effect - How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America by Marcus Moore
$38.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
'Kendrick Lamar understands and employs blues, jazz, and soul in his music, which makes it startling. His work is more than merely brilliant; it is magic' Toni Morrison 'Lamar is a man living on a real and metaphorical peak, with one eye trained on the heavens, the other searching for stories in the va ...Show more
Killing Time: Short Stories From the Long Road Home by Jimmy Barnes
$50.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
From the rock legend turned master storyteller, this collection of non-fiction short stories is vintage Jimmy. Stories of adventure, misadventure, love and loss from the #1 bestselling author of the critically acclaimed memoirs Working Class Boy and Working Class Man. Outrageous, witty, warm and wise, ...Show more
Wired For Sound: the Stebbing History of NZ Music by Grant Gillanders, Robyn Welsh
$90.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
For the first time ever, discover the story behind the Stebbing recording legacy. From pioneering violins and 78 records, to the singers, songwriters, engineers and producers who have graced Stebbing's famous three recording studios. Come inside the mid-1960s Galaxie nightclub, the evolution of the Zodi ...Show more
Two Riders Were Approaching: The Life & Death of Jimi Hendrix by Mick Wall
$28.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
Jimmy was a down-at-heel guitarist in New York, relying on his latest lovers to support him while he tried to emulate his hero Bob Dylan. A black guy playing white rock music, he wanted to be all things to all people. But when Jimmy arrived in England and became Jimi, the cream of swinging London fell ...Show more
Renoir's Dancer The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon by Catherine Hewitt
$33.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
In the 1880s, Suzanne Valadon was considered the Impressionists' most beautiful model. But behind her captivating facade lay a closely-guarded secret. Born in poverty in rural France, as a teenager Suzanne began, in Montmartre, posing for - and having affairs with - some of the age's most renowned paint ...Show more
The Blues - A Visual History: 100 Years of Music That Changed the World by Mike Evans; Scott Barretta (Editor); Robert Gordon (Editor); Marshall Chess (Foreword by)
$90.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
Charting the history of the blues from its rural roots in the American South, and focusing on the key musicians and singers who brought it recognition worldwide, The Blues: A Visual History is a unique and fully illustrated account of the development of the blues. This deceptively simple, 12-bar musical ...Show more
Queen Live - Queen Live 1970-2020 by Alison James
$60.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography | Series: Collected Ser.
During 20 years as one of the worlds best loved rock bands Queen played a total of over 700 concerts throughout the world. The band's earliest documented concerts were at colleges in the Home Counties of England in 1970; their performance at Live Aid in 1985 at Wembley is considered one of the best live ...Show more
A Field Guide to Post-Punk & New Wave by Steve Wide
$35.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography | Series: The\Field Guide Ser.
This book is your gateway to the pop-rock-y, disco-esque, electronic and mod-tastic movement that was (and is) New Wave. What makes New Wave... New Wave? It's the catchall name of punk's poppy offshoot, born in the 70s, simultaneously born in the United States and United Kingdom. But how would you d ...Show more
Working Class Man by Jimmy Barnes
$27.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
It's a life too big and a story too extraordinary for just one book. Jimmy Barnes has lived many lives - from Glaswegian migrant kid to iconic front man, from solo superstar to proud father of his own musical clan. In this hugely anticipated sequel to his critically acclaimed bestseller, Working Class B ...Show more
A Sharp Left Turn: Notes on a life in music, from Split Enz to Play It Strange by Mike Chunn
$45.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography | Reading Level: very good
A rollicking yarn about the early days of ground-breaking band Split Enz, but also the powerful story of how Mike Chunn dealt with a crippling mental health issue and went on to become one of our most influential music identities. This is a gripping read that works on several levels. It's the sliding-d ...Show more
Paul Simon: The Life by Robert Hilburn
$27.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
Acclaimed music writer Robert Hilburn's "epic" and "definitive" (Rolling Stone) biography of music icon Paul Simon, written with Simon's full participation--but without his editorial control--that "reminds us how titanic this musician is" (The Washington Post). For more than fifty years, Paul Simon ...Show more