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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
Let Love Rule by Lenny Kravitz
$38.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
"I see my story as a suite of songs that have a magical connection. I never understood that connection until I sat down to write. It was then that the magic started to flow." Let Love Rule is a work of deep reflection. Lenny Kravitz looks back at his life with candor, self-scrutiny, and humor. "My lif ...Show more
William Burroughs and the Cult of Rock and Roll by Casey Rae
$38.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
William S. Burroughs's fiction and essays are legendary, but his influence on music's counterculture has been less well documented-until now. Examining how one of America's most controversial literary figures altered the destinies of many notable and varied musicians, William S. Burroughs and the Cult o ...Show more
Wagnerism - Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music by Alex Ross
$45.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
'An absolutely masterly work' - Stephen Fry Alex Ross, renowned author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics - an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence. ...Show more
Jimi Hendrix: the Stories Behind the Songs by David Stubbs
$45.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography | Series: Stories Behind the Songs Ser.
In Jimi Hendrix: The Stories Behind the Songs, music journalist and author David Stubbs provides the definitive companion to Hendrix's recorded output, from the early years, including 'Hey Joe' and 'Purple Haze' through to his posthumously released trilogy that concluded with Both Sides Of The Sky. Qui ...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, K ...Show more
One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time by Craig Brown
$37.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
From the award-winning author of Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret comes a fascinating, hilarious, kaleidoscopic biography of the Fab Four.On April 10th 2020, it will be exactly 50 years since Paul McCartney announced the break-up of the Beatles. At that point, we will be at the same dista ...Show more
Acid for the Children: The Autobiography of Flea, the Red Hot Chili Peppers Legend by Flea
$28.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
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
The Butterfly Effect - How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America by Marcus J Moore
$38.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography | Reading Level: near fine
'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 val ...Show more
Composers - Their Lives and Works
$48.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
Introduced with a stunning portrait of each featured composer, more than 90 biographical entries trace the friendships, loves, and rivalries that inspired each musical genius and their work. Profiles offer revealing insights into what drove each individual to create the musical masterpieces - sympho ...Show more
Wild Thing: The Short, Spellbinding Life of Jimi Hendrix by Philip Norman
$38.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
Celebrated as the most innovative guitarist ever to play, Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) is renowned for symphonic solos and virtuosic picking (sometimes, with his teeth). But, as Philip Norman describes, before Hendrix was setting guitars aflame onstage, he was a shy kid in Seattle, lucking at a broken ukul ...Show more
The Beatles: the Complete Illustrated Lyrics by Welbeck
$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