Pink Floyd Their Mortal Remains by Victoria Broackes (Editor); Anna Landreth Strong (Editor)
$75.00 AUD
Category: Music
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
Music Wars: The Sound of the Underground by Rell Hannah
$29.95 AUD
Category: Music
The story of Central Station Records and its crucial role in the development of the electronic dance music scene in Australia and New Zealand from the 1970s to today. Founded in the 1970s, Central Station Records grew from a tiny Melbourne store into an iconic dance music brand, with physical stores in ...Show more
Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars by David Hepworth
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music
The age of the rock star, like the age of the cowboy, has passed. Like the cowboy, the idea of the rock star lives on in our imaginations.What did we see in them? Swagger. Recklessness. Sexual charisma. Damn-the-torpedoes self-belief. A certain way of carrying themselves. Good hair. Interesting shoes. T ...Show more
Burning Desire: The Jimi Hendrix Experience Through the Lens of Ed Caraeff by Ed Caraeff
$60.00 AUD
Category: Music
In 1967, a 17-year-old aspiring photographer named Ed Caraeff found himself front row at the Monterey Pop Festival, California. Caraeff had never seen Hendrix before, nor was he familiar with his music. But Caraeff had his ever-present camera and as Hendrix lit his guitar, he snapped a photo. That pictu ...Show more
Life After Dark: A History of British Nightclubs Music Venues by Dave Haslam
$20.00 AUD
Category: Music
Nightclubs and music venues are often the source of a lifetime's music taste, best friends and vivid memories. They can define a town, a city or a generation, and breed scenes and bands that change music history. In Life After Dark Dave Haslam reveals and celebrates a definitive history of significant v ...Show more
The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart by Mitchell Cohen
$75.00 AUD
Category: Music
The Politics of Opera takes readers on a fascinating journey into the entwined development of opera and politics, from the Renaissance through the turn of the nineteenth century. What political backdrops have shaped opera? How has opera conveyed the political ideas of its times? Delving into European hi ...Show more
Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows by Harvey Kubernik
$39.95 AUD
Category: Music
Lavishly illustrated, respected journalist Harvey Kubernik charts Leonard Cohen's extraordinary career in detail, placing his literary and musical achievements within the context of his life. From his beginnings as a writer and poet, through his classic albums of the sixties and seventies up to his triu ...Show more
50 Years of Rolling Stone : The Music, Politics and People That Changed Our Culture by Jann S. Rolling Stone; Wenner
$90.00 AUD
Category: Music
For the past fifty years, Rolling Stone has been a leading voice in journalism, cultural criticism, and--above all--music. This landmark book documents the magazine's rise to prominence as the voice of rock and roll and a leading showcase for era-defining photography. From the 1960s to the present day, ...Show more
Abbey Road: The Best Studio in the World by Alistair Lawrence
$39.99 AUD
Category: Music
The first photographic celebration of the most famous recording studio in the world, publishing in its 80th year. Unprecedented access to the Abbey Road archive - from Edward Elgar to the Beatles, Kate Bush to Elbow the most famous artists in the world have recorded here. This gorgeous book includes mat ...Show more
My Life with Wagner: Fairies, Rings, and Redemption: Exploring Opera's Most Enigmatic Composer by Christian Thielemann
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music
'Idiosyncratic, humorous, enlightening and written by one of the finest conductors alive ... This is the book to buy if you are going to see Wagner or listen to him at home' LITERARY REVIEW Over a distinguished career conducting some of the world's finest orchestras, Christian Thielemann has earned a re ...Show more
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by Brian Southall
$40.00 AUD
Category: Music
June 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of what many think is the greatest Beatles album. This book is a new way of telling the story of the album and is split into two distinct halves: the "A-side" is all about the Beatles, the music on the album, the recording process, how the disc was received at the ti ...Show more
But Beautiful - A Book about Jazz by Geoff Dyer
$30.00 AUD
Category: Music
"May be the best book ever written about jazz." David Thomson, Los Angeles TimesIn eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skillfully evokes the music and the men who shaped modern jazz. Drawing on photos, anecdotes, and, most important, the way he hears the music, Dyer imaginatively reconstructs ...Show more