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AC/DC: Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be by Mick Wall
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography | Reading Level: very good
AC/DC moved to Britain from Sydney in 1975, and soon set up a residency at London's Marquee Club. Their short hair (including the odd mullet), loud rock and attitude chimed well with the lingering pub rock and soon-to-be punk crowd. They weren't really a band for guitar solos, and singer Bon Scott was t ...Show more
AC/DC: Hell Ain't a Bad Place to be by Mick Wall
$30.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
The premier rock biographer and author of When Giants Walked the Earth Mick Wall writes the compelling story of the enduring rock band that has sold 200 million albums Megan Fox wears the band’s T-shirts. Keith Richards says Malcolm Young is a better guitarist than he is. Like the Rolling Stones ...Show more
Black Sabbath - Symptom of the Universe by Mick Wall
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
Way back in the mists of time, in the days when rock giants walked the earth, the name Ozzy Osbourne was synonymous with subversive and dark. Back then, Ozzy was the singer in Black Sabbath, and they meant business. In an era when it seemed possible to measure a band's musical prowess by how 'heavy' the ...Show more
Eagles - Dark Desert Highway: How America's Dream Band Turned into a Nightmare by Mick Wall
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
'This could be heaven or this could be hell...' So sings Don Henley on their biggest hit, 'Hotel California', and it is true that the Eagles story was one that blurred the ultimate Hollywood highs and subterranean LA lows beyond recognition. The band that embodied the American dream with globe-straddli ...Show more
Foo Fighters - Learning to Fly by Mick Wall
$38.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
Everyone from Sir Paul McCartney and Jimmy Page to Queens of the Stone Age now relishes the chance to share a stage with Dave Grohl and his legendary Foo Fighters. The question is: why? Musical depth? Not really. Major success? Well, yes. Despite no longer shifting albums in the same quantity as they di ...Show more
Getcha Rocks Off - Sex & Excess Bust-Ups & Binges Life & Death on the Rock 'n' Roll Road by Mick Wall
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
Hanging out with rock stars, trying to steal their chicks, or throwing up over their guitars after launching into the hospitality a little too enthusiastically, Mick Wall spent much of the 1980s sprawled in limos and five-star hotels with the biggest rock bands in the world, including Led Zeppelin, Guns ...Show more
Hercules!: The A to Z of Elton John by Mick Wall
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music
An 'A to Z'-format biography of one of the most successful pop artists of all time. Comprising a vivid and varied series of miniature biographies, revealing profiles, thought-provoking essays and a multitude of previously unknown anecdotes and quotes, Hercules!: The A to Z of Elton John is the perfect c ...Show more
John Peel by Mick Wall
$50.00 NZD
Category: Miscellaneous
John Peel was born in Cheshire in 1939 and was educated at Shrewsbury School before going in to National Service. After that, he eventually went into broadcasting while travelling in America, where his Liverpool accent convinced them he must know the Beatles, and he was even present when Lee Harvey Oswa ...Show more
John Peel by Mick Wall
$30.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
John Peel was born in Cheshire in 1939 and, after National Service, he eventually went into broadcasting while travelling in America, where his Liverpool accent convinced them he must know the Beatles, and he was even present when Lee Harvey Oswald was shot. In 1967 he returned to the UK and joined ...Show more
Like a Bat Out of Hell: The Larger than Life Story of Meat Loaf by Mick Wall
$38.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
"I never wanted to be a big star. I just wanted to be the biggest at what I do! Powerful, unstoppable, heavy - when that word still meant something good!" - Meat Loaf, as told to Mick Wall Everything in the story of Meat Loaf is big. From the place he was born (Texas); to the family he was born into (hi ...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
Lou Reed - The Life by Mick Wall
$30.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
Rock 'n' roll was Lou Reed's life. From recording one of the most critically acclaimed albums of all time with THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO (1967), to heavy drug abuse and performing in front of the Pope, Lou Reed's story is one of great peaks and deep lows. Forever dedicated to his art, he became ...Show more