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David Bowie: A Life by Dylan Jones
40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
Dylan Jones's engrossing, magisterial biography of David Bowie is unlike any Bowie story ever written. Drawn from over 180 interviews with friends, rivals, lovers, and collaborators, some of whom have never before spoken about their relationship with Bowie, this oral history weaves a hypnotic spell as i ...Show more
Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of The Velvet Underground by Dylan Jones
39.99 NZD
Category: Music
Dylan Jones's definitive oral history of The Velvet Underground draws on contributions from remaining members, contemporaneous musicians, critics, film-makers, and the generation of artists who emerged in their wake, to celebrate not only their impact but their legacy, which burns brighter than ever int ...Show more
The Wichita Lineman - Searching in the Sun for the World's Greatest Unfinished Song by Dylan Jones
24.99 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
The sound of 'Wichita Lineman' was the sound of ecstatic solitude, but then its hero was the quintessential loner. What a great metaphor he was: a man who needed a woman more than he actually wanted her. Written in 1968 by Jimmy Webb, 'Wichita Lineman' is the first philosophical country song: a heartbre ...Show more
When Ziggy Played Guitar - David Bowie, the Man Who Changed the World by Dylan Jones
30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
On 6 July 1972, David Bowie, with a flame-orange cockade quiff, lavishly applied make-up, wearing a multi-coloured jumpsuit that looked as though it were made from fluorescent fish skin, and carrying a brand spanking new blue acoustic guitar, made his third appearance on Top of the Pops. It was this per ...Show more
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