The Beatles on the Road 1964-1966 by Harry Benson (Photographer)
$65.00 AUD
Category: Music
Behind Beatlemania Privileged access to the Fab Four In early 1964, photographer Harry Benson received a call from the photo editor of London's Daily Express, who asked him to cover The Beatles' trip to Paris. It was the beginning of a career-defining relationship, which would both make Benson's name an ...Show more
Decca - The Supreme Record Company: the Story of Decca Records 1929-2019 by Daryl Easlea; Darren Henley
$100.00 AUD
Category: Music
The definitive, lavishly illustrated, history of one of the major record labels of all time Decca is one of the great global names in recorded music. From pioneering techniques that revolutionised classical recording, to the 1960s and 70s pop explosion, through to the classical revival in the 1990s and ...Show more
She's a Rainbow: The Extraordinary Life of Anita Pallenberg by Simon Wells
$22.99 AUD
Category: Music
Anita Pallenberg, instantly recognisable as a member of The Rolling Stones rock n roll circus in the Sixties and Seventies, was no docile groupie. Fluent in four languages, she partied with the jet set in Rome, met Warhol, Ginsberg and Ferlinghetti in New York, was at home with London s leading lights o ...Show more
Up Above the City, Down Beneath the Stars by Barry Adamson
$41.99 AUD
Category: Music
A member of seminal new-wave band Magazine, the original bassist in the legendary Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, a Mercury-Prize-nominated solo artist, and pioneer of the imaginary soundtrack album--no matter where Barry Adamson's career has taken him, the result has been consistently impressive. Covering ...Show more
Nico - Songs They Never Play on the Radio by James Young
$22.99 AUD
Category: Music
Fully updated with a new introduction, this is the story of Nico, former model, film actress, singer with the Velvet Underground and darling of Andy Warhol's factory, when the world had all but forgotten her. In 1982 Nico was living in Manchester, interested mainly in feeding her heroin habit. Local pr ...Show more
The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature by Daniel Levitin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Music
Dividing the sum total of human musical achievement, from Beethoven to The Beatles, Busta Rhymes to Bach, into just six fundamental forms, Levitin illuminates, through songs of friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, religion and love, how music has been instrumental in the evolution of language, thought a ...Show more
Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina by Chris Frantz
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music
Two iconic bands. An unforgettable life. One of the most dynamic groups of the '70s and '80s, Talking Heads, founded by drummer Chris Frantz, his girlfriend Tina Weymouth, and lead singer David Byrne, burst onto the music scene, playing at CBGBs, touring Europe with the Ramones, and creating hits like ...Show more
I Am Brian Wilson: The genius behind the Beach Boys by Brian Wilson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Music
'My life has been written about over and over again, and that's mostly okay with me. Other people can talk about my life. Sometimes they'll get it right and sometimes they'll get it wrong. For me, when I think back across my own life, there are so many things that are painful. Sometimes I don't like dis ...Show more
Beyonce (small HB) by Tshepo Mokoena
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Lives of the Musicians Ser.
Beyonc is not simply a pop sensation. She is a cultural phenomenon empowering the oppressed and dispossessed, challenging white privilege and misogyny and exploding gender politics. But who is Beyonc Knowles-Carter and how did a small girl from Houston become the strong confident woman whose albums sell ...Show more
Exit Stage Left: The curious afterlife of pop stars by Nick Duerden
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music
Nick Duerden has spent many years interviewing the most famous musicians on the planet. Without exception, they are at their most interesting when they've peaked, and when they are on their way down. In many ways, this is when these former idols are at their most heroic, too, because they reveal themsel ...Show more
Access All Areas: A Backstage Pass Through 50 Years of Music And Culture by Barbara Charone
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music
First as a journalist and then a publicist at Warner Brothers Records for nearly twenty years, Barbara Charone has experienced, first-hand, the changes in the cultural landscape. Access All Areas is a personal, insightful and humorous memoir packed with stories of being on the cultural frontline, from f ...Show more