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
I'll Be Your Mirror - The Collected Lyrics by Lou Reed
55.00 NZD
Category: Music
Out of print for several years, a comprehensive volume of Lou Reed's lyrics, now updated in a new text design to include the lyrics from his final album with Metallica, Lulu. Through his many incarnations-from proto punk to glam rocker to elder statesman of the avant garde Lou Reed's work has maintaine ...Show more
Why Bowie Matters by Will Brooker
27.99 NZD
Category: Music
A unique, moving and dazzlingly researched exploration of the places, people, musicians, writers and filmmakers that inspired David Jones to become David Bowie, what we can learn from his life's work and journey, and why he will always matter. When David Bowie died on 10th January 2016, it seemed the w ...Show more
Bowie's Books - The Hundred Literary Heroes Who Changed His Life (HB) by John O'Connell
37.99 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: 3 Biography
David Bowie once said that his idea of perfect happiness was reading. Three years before he died, he made a list of the one hundred books that had transformed his life - a list that formed something akin to an autobiography. From Lolita to Madame Bovary, the Beano to The Iliad, these were the books that ...Show more
25 Years of Grace: An Anniversary Tribute to Jeff Buckley's Classic Album by Jeff Apter; Merri Cyr
70.00 NZD
Category: Music
Jeff Buckley made only one album, but the one he made has proved to be seminal. His talent awed industry giants and moved the hearts of fans spanning generations. But Buckley's untimely death in 1997 left his fans to wonder about all the sonic magic that could have been.Photographer Merri Cyr was there ...Show more
Arboretum by David Byrne
45.00 NZD
Category: Music
For over thirty years, besides making music, David Byrne has focused his unique genius upon forms as diverse as the archaeology of music as we know it, architectural photography and the uses of PowerPoint. Now he presents his most personal work to date, a collection of drawings exploring the form of the ...Show more
Just Kids illustrated by Patti Smith
64.99 NZD
Category: Music
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his ...Show more
Texas Flood - The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan by Alan Paul; Andy Aledort
49.99 NZD
Category: Music
The first definitive biography of guitar legend Stevie Ray Vaughan, with an epilogue by Jimmie Vaughan, foreword by drummer Chris Layton, and afterword by bassist Tommy Shannon. A clean and sober Stevie Ray Vaughan seemed poised for a new, limitless chapter of his life and career just a few years after ...Show more
1973 - Rock at the Crossroads by Andrew Grant Jackson
49.99 NZD
Category: Music
A fascinating account of the music and epic social change of 1973, a defining year for David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd, Elton John, the Rolling Stones, Eagles, Elvis Presley, and the former members of The Beatles. 1973 was the year rock hit its peak while splintering--just like the rest of t ...Show more
Guitar - The Worlds Most Seductive Instrument by David Schiller
79.99 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: near fine
Celebrate the significance, the magic, and the mojo of the world's most seductive instrument. An obsessive, full-color book presented in an irresistible slipcase, Guitar features 200 instruments in stunning detail. Here are icons, like Prince's Yellow Cloud, Willie Nelson's "Trigger," Muddy Water's Th ...Show more
Dead People I Have Known by Shayne Carter
40.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: good
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 bands Straitjacket Fits and Dimmer. He traces an intimate history ...Show more