Lenny Kravitz - Let Love Rule by Lenny Kravitz; David Ritz
37.99 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: near fine
"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
I'm Your Fan: the Songs of Leonard Cohen (33 1/3) by Ray Padgett
21.99 NZD
Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
When I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen hit stores in 1991, Leonard Cohen's career had plummeted from its revered 1960s high. Cohen's record label had refused to release his 1984 album Various Positions--including the song Hallelujah--in the United States. Luckily, Velvet Underground founder John ...Show more
The Music Advantage: How Music Helps Your Child's Brain by Anita Collins
36.99 NZD
Category: Music
Groundbreaking music educator Dr Anita Collins draws on the latest international neurological research to reveal the extraordinary and often surprising benefits of learning music for children from newborns to teenagers.
Beginner's Step-by-Step Guitar: The Complete Guide
48.00 NZD
Category: Music
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
Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry by Florence Welch
40.00 NZD
Category: Music
'Songs can be incredibly prophetic . . . like a kind of useless magic.'The complete lyrics by the iconic vocalist of Florence + the Machine, beautifully interwoven with poems, sketches and jottings from her never-before-seen scrapbooks. This is a glimpse into the work and creative processes of a fearles ...Show more
William Burroughs and the Cult of Rock and Roll by Casey Rae
37.99 NZD
Category: Music
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
Wild Thing - The Short, Spellbinding Life of Jimi Hendrix by Philip Norman
37.99 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
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
Fare Thee Well - The Final Chapter of the Grateful Dead's Long, Strange Trip by Joel Selvin; Pamela Turley (As told to)
29.99 NZD
Category: Music
A tell-all biography of the epic in-fighting of the Grateful Dead in the years following band leader Jerry Garcia's death in 1995.The Grateful Dead rose to greatness under the inspired leadership of guitarist Jerry Garcia, but the band very nearly died along with him. When Garcia passed away suddenly in ...Show more
Stranger Than Kindness by Nick Cave
69.99 NZD
Category: Music
Stranger Than Kindness is a journey in images and words into the creative world of musician, storyteller and cultural icon Nick Cave. This highly collectible book contains images selected by Cave from 'Stranger Than Kindness: The Nick Cave Exhibition', presented by the Royal Danish Library in partnershi ...Show more
The Lark Ascending - People, Music and Landscape in Twentieth Century Britain by Richard King
24.99 NZD
Category: Music
A Book of the Year, ROUGH TRADEA Book of the Year, MOJO The Lark Ascending is a lyrical exploration of how Britain's history and identity has been shaped by the mysterious relationship between its people, its music and the landscape. Taking Ralph Vaughan Williams’s most celebrated and popular compositi ...Show more
Keep 'Er Lit by Van Morrison
32.99 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Faber Social Ser.
A new volume of the timeless lyrics of Van Morrison selected by the legendary singer-songwriter himself, edited by Eamonn Hughes, with a new foreword by Paul Muldoon.
Serving the Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain by Danny Goldberg
27.99 NZD
Category: Music
In early 1991, top music manager Danny Goldberg agreed to take on Nirvana, a critically acclaimed new band from the underground music scene in Seattle. He had no idea that the band's leader, Kurt Cobain, would become a pop-culture icon with a legacy arguably at the level of John Lennon, Michael Jackson, ...Show more