Bob Marley and the Wailers: The Ultimate Illustrated History by Richie Unterberger
49.99 NZD
Category: Music
Illustrated with photos and memorabilia from all phases of their journey, Bob Marley and the Wailers illuminates the lives and times of the man and his collaborators. Well over three decades after Marley's death, he and his bandmates remain the most famous reggae artists of all time. Indeed, the Wailers ...Show more
Pink Floyd Their Mortal Remains by Victoria Broackes (Editor); Anna Landreth Strong (Editor)
79.99 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: General Adult
Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains celebrates 50 years of one of the greatest bands of all time. Lavishly illustrated throughout with material from the band's archive, including never-before-seen photographs, ephemera, and more, this book examines what makes Pink Floyd unique, from the mythology underpinn ...Show more
Small Town Talk: Bob Dylan, the Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix & Friends in the Wild Years of Woodstock by Barney Hoskyns
27.99 NZD
Category: Music
Think 'Woodstock' and the mind turns to the seminal 1969 festival. But Woodstock itself was over sixty miles away, and already a key location in the rock landscape as a community of brilliant, dysfunctional musicians, opportunistic hippie capitalists, scheming dealers, and freaks dazed and confused by t ...Show more
Roots, Radicals and Rockers - How Skiffle Changed the World by Billy Bragg
45.00 NZD
Category: Music
Roots, Radicals & Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World is the first book to explore this phenomenon in depth - a meticulously researched and joyous account that explains how skiffle sparked a revolution that shaped pop music as we have come to know it. It's a story of jazz pilgrims and blues blow ...Show more
Your Song Changed My Life: From Jimmy Page to St. Vincent, Smokey Robinson to Hozier, Thirty-Five Beloved Artists on Their Journey and the Music That Inspired it by Bob Boilen
29.99 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
From the beloved host and creator of NPR's All Songs Considered and Tiny Desk Concerts comes an essential oral history of modern music, told in the voices of iconic and up-and-coming musicians, including Dave Grohl, Jimmy Page, Michael Stipe, Carrie Brownstein, Smokey Robinson, and Jeff Tweedy, among ot ...Show more
Dave Mc Cartney - Gutter Black by Dave Mcartney
44.99 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: good
An intimate, raw memoir by a founding member of one of NZ’s iconic rock bands, Hello Sailor; a tale of creativity, misadventure, success and excess. It was like David and Goliath. Only Goliath wasn’t about to be blown away, and David was stoned. Dave McArtney’s description of Hello Sailor’s campaign to ...Show more
Boys in the Trees: A Memoir by Carly Simon
27.99 NZD
Category: Music
Carly Simon is a household name. She was the staple of the '70s and '80s Billboard charts and was famously married to James Taylor with whom she has two children. She has had a career that has spanned four decades, resulting in thirteen top 40 hits, including the Number 1 song 'You're So Vain', numerous ...Show more
It's So Easy (and Other Lies): The Autobiography by Duff McKagan
27.99 NZD
Category: Music
Duff McKagan was a co-founder of Guns N' Roses, with a 13-year tenure on bass in what was at the time the biggest band on earth. As well as pulling together the classic line-up (Slash on guitar, Steven Adler on drums, rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin and vocalist Axl Rose), Duff was the unofficial musical ...Show more
With my Eyes Wide Open: Miracles and Mistakes on My Way Back to Korn by Brian Welch
32.99 NZD
Category: Music
Substance - Inside New Order: Coming Up and Coming Down by Peter Hook
37.99 NZD
Category: Music
Two acclaimed albums, an upcoming US tour - Joy Division had the world at their feet. Then, on the eve of that tour and the beginning of what would surely have been an international success story, the band's troubled lead singer, Ian Curtis, killed himself. 'We didn't really think about it afterwards. I ...Show more
Play it Loud: An Epic History of the Style, Sound, and Revolution of the Electric Guitar by Brad Tolinski
50.00 NZD
Category: Music
An unprecedented history of the electric guitar, its explosive impact on music and culture, and the players and builders who brought it to life For generations the electric guitar has been an international symbol of freedom, danger, rebellion, and hedonism. In Play It Loud, veteran music journalists Bra ...Show more
All The Songs: The Story Behind Every Beatles Release by Philippe Margotin, Jean-Michel Guesdon, Scott Freiman, Patti Smith
79.99 NZD
Category: Music | Series: All the Songs Ser.
Musical historians Phillippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon delve deep into the history and musical origins of every Beatles album, recounting the circumstances that led to the composition of each song, the recording process and the instruments used. This intimate and revealing look at the music of Th ...Show more