Just Kids illustrated by Patti Smith
$65.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
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
K. D. Lang's Ingénue 33 1/3 by Joanna McNaney Stein
$25.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
Canadian performer k.d. lang broke new ground in the 1980s by blending the genres of punk and country, dubbed "cowpunk," with her band, the Reclines. Despite Grammy-award-winning recordings and frequent North American TV spots, mainstream country radio excluded lang from airplay due to her unconventiona ...Show more
Limited Edition of One by Steven Wilson; Mick Wall (As told to)
$70.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
The more I thought about it, the more I realised my career has been unusual. How did I manage to do everything wrong but still end up on the front cover of magazines, headlining world tours and achieving Top 5 albums? How did I attract such obsessive and fanatical fans, many of whom take everything I do ...Show more
Long Road - Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation by Steven Hyden
$37.99 NZD
Category: Music Biography
A leading music journalist's riveting chronicle of how beloved band Pearl Jam shaped the times, and how their legacy and longevity have transcended generations. Ever since Pearl Jam first blasted onto the Seattle grunge scene three decades ago with their debut album, Ten, they have sold 85M+ albums, pe ...Show more
Lost in Music by Giles Smith
$35.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
'In the Spring of 1989, shortly after my twenty-seventh birthday, as I stood in the sleet at a bus stop in Colchester, it dawned on me that I had probably, all things considered, failed in my mission to become Sting. At least, for the time being.'Lost in Music is about growing up with pop music - about ...Show more
M Train by Patti Smith
$28.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography | Reading Level: very good
REVISED EDITION WITH FIVE THOUSAND WORDS BONUS MATERIAL AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS. M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village cafe where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between ...Show more
Mozart in Italy by Jane Glover
$59.99 NZD
Category: Music Biography
At thirteen years old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a child prodigy who had captured the hearts of northern Europe, but his father Leopold was now determined to conquer Italy. Together, they made three visits there the last when Mozart was seventeen, all vividly recounted here by acclaimed conductor Jane ...Show more
Nina Simone's Gum by Warren Ellis
$27.99 NZD
Category: Music Biography
From award-winning musician and composer Warren Ellis comes the unexpected and inspiring story of a piece of chewing gum. Featuring an introduction from Nick Cave. On Thursday 1 July, 1999, Dr Nina Simone gave a rare performance as part of Nick Cave's Meltdown Festival. After the show, in a state of a ...Show more
Nirvana - The Complete Illustrated History by Andrew Earles
$55.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
Nirvana, the immortal grunge Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, is as relevant and influential as ever.
Rememberings by Sinead O'Connor
$26.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
An intimate and revelatory memoir from the iconic, acclaimed singer-songwriterSinead O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made her famous by the age of twenty-one. Her landmark recording of Prince's Nothing Compares 2 U made her a global icon. She outraged millions when she tore up a photograph of ...Show more
Ringside: A Tale of Music and Mayhem From the Man Behind Rock and Roll Superstars Cold Chisel by Rod Willis
$38.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
A tale of music and mayhem from the man who made Cold Chisel rock and roll superstars.
Rock - 101 Iconic Rock, Heavy Metal and Hard Rock Albums by Paul Elliot
$60.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
The 1970s was the era when the great heavy metal pioneers laid down the blueprint for everything that was to come after, forefathers like Black Sabbath and Deep Purple dominated. But as metal began to take hold in the mainstream--and then began to diversify--bands such as Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Meta ...Show more