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1000 Record Covers by Michael Ochs
$46.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Jacket madness: A splendid collection of album art from the 1960s to the 90s Record covers are a sign of our life and times. Like the music on the discs, they address such issues as love, life, death, fashion, and rebellion. For music fans the covers are the expression of a period, of a particular time ...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
You've Never Heard Your Favorite Song - 100 Deep Cuts to Make Your World Sound Better by Matthew Doucet
$20.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Curios Ser.
Let go of your musical biases and dive into the deep cuts that are what music is really about. Let go of your musical biases and dive into the deep cuts that are what music is really about with You've Never Heard Your Favorite Song. From underground musicians to passed-over classics, your favorite song ...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
Rock Covers – 40 by Robbie Busch; Jonathan Kirby; Julius Wiedemann (Editor)
$60.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
Album art is indelibly linked to our collective musical memories; when you think of your favorite albums, you picture the covers. Many photographers, illustrators, and art directors have become celebrities from their album artworks--the best examples of which will go down in history as permanent fixture ...Show more
The Rolling Stones in the Beginning - With Unseen Images by Bent Rej
$80.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
A unique portrait of a band on the brink of superstardom.From March 1965 to May 1966, photographer Bent Rej enjoyed unparalleled access to the Rolling Stones as one of the trusted inner circle, accompanying the band on its first full European outing: the Satisfaction tour. The Rolling Stones In the ...Show more
Beginner's Step-by-Step Guitar by DK
$48.00 NZD
Category: Music - Instruments
From Jimi Hendrix to Ed Sheeran, every guitar hero started somewhere - so stop dreaming and start playing! Covering acoustic and electric, this book includes everything you need to know, from choosing your instrument and reading guitar tab, to using amplifiers and effects. Easy-to-follow lessons take y ...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
Beethoven - A Life in Nine Pieces by Laura Tunbridge
$48.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
2020 marks 250 years since Beethoven's birth Ludwig van Beethoven: to some, simply the greatest ever composer of Western classical music. Yet his life remains shrouded in myths, and the image persists of him as an eccentric genius shaking his fist at heaven. Beethoven by Oxford professor Laura Tunbridge ...Show more
The Mirror Steamed Over - Love and Pop in London 1962 by Anthony Byrt
$45.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
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
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock's Greatest Supergroup by David Browne
$30.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
"In what is the most comprehensive biography of the group to date, Browne compiles a fun and fast-paced music history.... an authoritative chronicle." --Publishers WeeklyThe first and most complete narrative biography of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, by acclaimed music journalist and Rolling Stone sen ...Show more
Me: Elton John Official Autobiography by Elton John
$25.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography
The best selling memoir, now in paperback!