My My!: ABBA Through the Ages by Giles Smith
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music
On the fiftieth anniversary of Waterloo – the song, not the battle - one super-fan sits down to listen to the ABBA Gold album from start to finish, looking back over the half-century he has spent in the company of ABBA’s music, and attempting to unlock the secrets of its hold on him – and on all of us. ...Show more
The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story by Sam Wasson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Film
A visionary who was ahead of his time, the book presents Francis Ford Coppola's great adventure in film-making.Say 'Coppola' and The Godfather immediately comes to mind. But Coppola isn't Corleone -- he's more than that. He's a visionary who predicted that digital cameras - no larger than one's hand - ...Show more
Transcendence: 50 Years of Unforgettable Moments at the Sydney Opera House by Ashleigh Wilson
$60.00 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
A singer overwhelmed by his crowd. A dancer on ice above sea. A teenage girl, later to become a virtuoso conductor, jolted by the sound of a symphony.Two filmmakers exchange vows on their opera set. A photographer hears a Cistercian echo in the sails. And one night, after a Verdi curtain call, an audien ...Show more
Holding the Note: Writing on Music by David Remnick
$37.00 AUD
Category: Music
The greatest popular songs, whether it’s Aretha Franklin singing ‘Respect’ or Bob Dylan performing ‘Blind Willie McTell’, have a way of embedding themselves in our memories. You remember a time and a place and a feeling when you hear that song again. In Holding the Note, David Remnick writes about the ...Show more
Rock N Roll Gallery: A Journey From Sheffield to Sydney 1983-2023 by Tony Mott
$99.00 AUD
Category: Music
If a picture tells a thousand words, Tony Mott ‘s photos tell millions of stories. His photos of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards mid performance, Peter Garrett kneeling on stage eye to eye with the front row, Tex Perkins holding court in front of an army of fans at Sydney’ s Big Day Out in 1994, tell the ...Show more
Kubrick - An Odyssey by Robert P. Kolker; Nathan Abrams
$65.00 AUD
Category: Film
The most comprehensive biography of the creator of 2001: A Space Odessey, The Shining, and A Clockwork Orange.
Lou Reed: The King of New York by Will Hermes
$55.00 AUD
Category: Music
Since his death ten years ago, Lou Reed's stature and living presence have only grown. The great rock-poet presided over the marriage of Brill Building pop and the European avant-garde, and left American culture transfigured. In Lou Reed: The King of New York, the critic Will Hermes offers the definiti ...Show more
Listen: On Music, Sound and Us by Michel Faber
$37.00 AUD
Category: Music
'I'm not here to change your mind about Dusty Springfield or Shostakovich or Tupac Shakur or synthpop. I'm here to change your mind about your mind.' There are countless books on music with much analysis given to musicians, bands, eras and/or genres. But rarely does a book delve into what's going on in ...Show more
DO NOT DETONATE Without Presidential Approval - A Portfolio on the Subjects of Mid-Century Cinema, the Broadway Stage and the American West by Wes Anderson (Editor); Jake Perlin (Editor)
$23.00 AUD
Category: Film
Inspirations for Wes Anderson's Asteroid City a collection of new and classic writing on mid-century cinema and the American West ** Includes an exclusive interview with Wes Anderson in which the director details how the pieces collected here influenced the characters, stories, and settings in the film ...Show more
Full Coverage: A History of the Australian Rock Press by Samuel J. Fell
$37.00 AUD
Category: Music
For over fifty years, Australia has maintained its own rock press - a vibrant, passionate, sometimes volatile industry of dozens of papers and magazines committed to the coverage of the country' s robust music scene.From the glossy and glamorous to the punk and pernicious, these publications were the me ...Show more
Let's Do It - The Birth of Pop by Bob Stanley
$50.00 AUD
Category: Music
The prequel to Bob Stanley's universally acclaimed Yeah Yeah Yeah, Let's Do It is the only book that brings together all genres to tell the definitive story of the birth of Pop, from 1900 to the mid-fifties.'An absolute landmark/joy/gossip-fest/door to Narnia: the history of pop music before rock'n'roll ...Show more
Refiners Fire - The Academy of Ancient Music and the Historical Performance Revolution by Richard Bratby
$50.00 AUD
Category: Music
Founded in 1973 by conductor Christopher Hogwood with the aim of energising baroque and classical music, the Academy of Ancient Music heralded a revolution in the way orchestral music is performed. During the 1970s and 80s the Academy surfed the digital boom in recorded music with unprecedented success ...Show more