Time Flowing Backwards by Graeme Jefferies
$45.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
This memoir is the fascinating and revealing story of Graeme Jefferies--one of the most inventive and influential musicians to emerge from New Zealand's vibrant independent music scene in the 1980s. Time Flowing Backwards spans over three decades of Jefferies career spent with bands Nocturnal Projection ...Show more
To Throw Away Unopened by Viv Albertine
$24.99 NZD
Category: Music Biography
NPR BOOK OF THE YEAR AS HEARD ON NPR'S FRESH AIR. "Enthusiastically chaotic...on the page she is wry and vibrant..."--New York Times. "Brave and engaging."--Kirkus Reviews At the launch party for her memoir Clothes Music Boys in 2014, Viv Albertine received the news her mother was dying. She left the p ...Show more
To Throw Away Unopened by Viv Albertine
$33.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
At the launch party for her memoir in 2014, the musician Viv Albertine received news that her mother was dying, and spent a few final hours with the woman who was, in a sense, the love of her life. In the turbulent weeks after the funeral, Viv made a series of discoveries that revealed the role of famil ...Show more
Transformer: A Story of Glitter, Glam Rock & Loving Lou Reed by Simon Doonan
$37.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
"Simon Doonan’s hilarious cultural commentary meets Lou Reed’s poetic rock gravitas. Warhol, Bowie, electroshock, conflict, surprises, sequins— this book is truly a walk on the wild side, with my very favorite humorist as our guide!"—Ariel Levy, bestselling author of The Rules Do Not Apply and Female C ...Show more
Two Riders Were Approaching: The Life & Death of Jimi Hendrix by Mick Wall
$35.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
Jimmy was a down-at-heel guitarist in New York, relying on his latest lovers to support him while he tried to emulate his hero Bob Dylan. A black guy playing white rock music, he wanted to be all things to all people. But when Jimmy arrived in England and became Jimi, the cream of swinging London fell ...Show more
Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars by David Hepworth
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
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
Verse, Chorus, Monster! by Graham Coxon
$39.99 NZD
Category: Music Biography
A long-awaited memoir of Blur co-founder, guitar legend and visual artist Graham Coxon. Among the noise and clamour of the Britpop era, Blur co-founder Graham Coxon managed to carve out a niche to become one of the most innovative and respected guitarists of his generation - but it wasn't always easy. G ...Show more
Wham, George and Me by Andrew Ridgeley
$38.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
Wham! were the band that never underestimated the power of pop, nor the healing powers it possessed. In 1981, what started out as a boyhood friendship, catapulted two suburban adolescents to worldwide pop domination, becoming icons of their era. While Andrew Ridgeley may have appeared to have stood in G ...Show more
When Giants Walked the Earth: A Biography of Led Zeppelin by Mick Wall
$27.99 NZD
Category: Music Biography
The biography of the legendary band, built on interviews with all surviving band members and revealing what it's like to be in the minds and bodies of debauched rock 'n' roll genius, Featuring a rich and deep vein of new writing and interviews-over forty thousand additional words-on top of the classic o ...Show more
When Ziggy Played Guitar - David Bowie, the Man Who Changed the World by Dylan Jones
$30.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
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
Where's Bowie? Search for David Bowie in Berlin, Studio 54, Outer Space and More by Kev Gahan; Rob Cowan (Illustrator)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
Scour these intricately illustrated pages for our most beloved icon of pop culture, the late and great David Bowie. This book is a reverent and interactive homage to David Bowie, with dense illustrations of the many real and imagined universes of his own making. Hidden somewhere on each of these double ...Show more
Why Patti Smith Matters by Caryn Rose
$27.99 NZD
Category: Music Biography
Patti Smith arrived in New York City at the end of the Age of Aquarius in search of work and purpose. What she found--what she fostered--was a cultural revolution. Through her poetry, her songs, her unapologetic vocal power, and her very presence as a woman fronting a rock band, she kicked open a door t ...Show more