Last Night a DJ Saved My Life - The History of the Disc Jockey by Bill Brewster; Frank Broughton; James Murphy (Foreword by)
$27.00 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Deep Cuts Ser.
Freshly revised and chock-full of new, vibrant stories, Last Night a DJ Saved My Life is the "lively and . . . necessary" (New York Times Book Review), and first and foremost definitive history of the musical outlaws who revolutionized the music industry: the disc jockeysTwenty-five years since it first ...Show more
Dolly Parton All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track by Simon Benoit, Damien Somville, Lalie Walker
$100.00 AUD
Category: Music | Series: All the Songs Ser.
Dolly Parton All the Songs is an album-by-album, track-by-track deep dive into the almost 60 year career of a musical icon. This completist's guide features more than 400 photographs, and tells the little-known stories behind how each of Dolly's albums came together, including behind-the-scenes details ...Show more
Radiohead: Climbing Up the Walls by Tom Sheehan
$80.00 AUD
Category: Music
Explore the story of Radiohead - perhaps the finest band of a generation - through the lens of legendary Melody Maker chief photographer Tom Sheehan. Through more than 150 photographs and Sheehan's first-hand memories and stories, journey into the eye of a musical storm. From their earliest days as ind ...Show more
Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers by Mary Rodgers,Jesse Green
$40.00 AUD
Category: Music
The memoirs of Mary Rodgers–writer, composer, Broadway royalty, and a woman who tried everything. What am I, bologna? Mary Rodgers (1931-2014) often said. She was referring to being stuck in the middle of a talent sandwich: the daughter of one composer and the mother of another. And not just any compos ...Show more
Tokyo Jazz Joints by Philip Arneill
$135.00 AUD
Category: Music
Documenting a vanishing world of Japanese jazz cultureJapanese jazz bars and coffee shops are insular worlds where time ceases to exist, removed from the speed and chaos of the modern urban landscape. Tokyo Jazz Joints is a visual chronicle of this unique culture that captures the transient beauty of th ...Show more
Into the Taylor-Verse: Taylor Swift's Songwriting Journey by Satu Hämeenaho-Fox
$30.00 AUD
Category: Music
Fearlessly jump and fall into the world of Taylor Swift with this illustrated appreciation of her life and work by Swiftian Theory co-founder Satu-Hämeenaho-Fox.This is the book for all Swifties of every era, the perfect gift for the Taylor Swift fan in your life.Get ready to deep dive into the story of ...Show more
Mixing Pop and Politics by Toby Manning
$60.00 AUD
Category: Music
A radical history of the political and social upheavals of the last 70 years, told through the period's most popular music. Mixing Pop and Politics is not a history of political music, but a political history of popular music. Spanning the early 50s to the present, it shows how, from doo-wop to hip-hop ...Show more
Guitar by Earl Slick, Jeff Slate
$37.00 AUD
Category: Music
Earl Slick was just 21 when he was hired as lead guitarist for David Bowie. Forty years later he was on stage when Bowie suffered the heart attack that terminated his live career. In between, Slick played Bowies's landmark albums and iconic live shows. He was also in John Lennon's band at the time of th ...Show more
The Shortest History of Music by Andrew Ford
$28.00 AUD
Category: Music
From award-winning broadcaster and composer Andrew Ford, The Shortest History of Music is a lively, authoritative tour through several thousand years of music. Packed with colourful characters and surprising details, it sets out to understand what exactly music is - and why humans are irresistibly drawn ...Show more
The Cello and the Nightingales: The Life of Beatrice Harrison by Beatrice Harrison
$25.00 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Canons Ser.
In May 1924, the BBC broadcast a miracle to the world: a wild nightingale singing a duet with a remarkable young cellist called Beatrice Harrison. Over a million people tuned in to hear this live performance, which Beatrice repeated with a nightingale for the BBC every spring until 1942. These broadcast ...Show more
My Life in Music by Antonio Pappano
$50.00 AUD
Category: Music
A passionate memoir exploring classical music, its restorative qualities and wider cultural influence by the celebrated Music Director of the Royal Opera House.
Neu Klang: The Definitive History of Krautrock by Christoph Dallach
$50.00 AUD
Category: Music
"A book which all Krautrock fans should read." - Jean-Hervé Péron, Faust. The first ever oral history of Krautrock, the sound that changed modern music. West Germany, 1968. Like everywhere else in the Western world, the young generation is pushing for radical change, still suffering the after-effects ...Show more