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The Beatles: the Complete Illustrated Lyrics by Welbeck
$59.99 AUD
Category: Music Biography
The lyrics to the songs of the Beatles read like poetry. This book treats them as such, and illustrates each track artistically, paying careful attention to detail and high design standards. The stories, themes and ideas behind nearly 200 songs are explored in this beautiful book that includes photogra ...Show more
Let Love Rule by Lenny Kravitz
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music Biography
"I see my story as a suite of songs that have a magical connection. I never understood that connection until I sat down to write. It was then that the magic started to flow." Let Love Rule is a work of deep reflection. Lenny Kravitz looks back at his life with candor, self-scrutiny, and humor. "My lif ...Show more
Billie Eilish by Billie Eilish
$45.00 AUD
Category: Music Biography
Billie Eilish is a phenomenon. With distinctive visual flare and darkly poignant lyrics that are unparalleled among music icons of the 21st century, Billie is a musician who stands out from the crowd. Between her record-shattering award-winning music and her uncompromising and unapologetic attitude, it' ...Show more
Small Moments of Glory by Jack Howard
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music Biography
Small Moments of Glory tells the insightful and illuminating tale of Jack Howard's lifelong musical journey - from his early classical music years through to the heady days of leading the horns section in iconic Australian rock bank band, Hunters & Collectors. He toured world-wide with Midnight Oil ...Show more
Love for Sale: Pop Music in America by David Hajdu
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music Biography
David Hajdu begins Love for Sale, his personal history of pop music, in an unexpected place - not with nostalgic reminiscences of the 45s of his youth but with the sheet-music era at the end of the nineteenth century. It was not so much the beginning of popular music - many songs were already popular - ...Show more
Like a Bat Out of Hell: The Larger than Life Story of Meat Loaf by Mick Wall
$32.99 AUD
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
List of the Lost by Morrissey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Music Biography
Beware the novelist . . . intimate and indiscreet . . . pompous, prophetic airs . . . here is the fact of fiction . . . an American tale where, naturally, evil conquers good, and none live happily ever after, for the complicated pangs of the empty experiences of flesh-and-blood human figures are the rea ...Show more
From Cradle to Stage by Virginia Hanlon Grohl
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music Biography | Reading Level: very good
Virginia Grohl, mother of Dave Grohl, had not seen any of it coming. Not the arenas of screaming fans, not Nirvana or the Foo Fighters, not the induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and certainly not her son, Dave, performing with Sir Paul McCartney at The White House. Theirs had always been a ...Show more
Bob Dylan - How the Songs Work by Timothy Hampton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music Biography
A career-spanning account of the artistry and politics of Bob Dylan's songwriting Bob Dylan's reception of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature has elevated him beyond the world of popular music, establishing him as a major modern artist. However, until now, no study of his career has focused on the deta ...Show more
The Holy Or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of "Hallelujah" by Alan Light
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music Biography
Today, �Hallelujah� is one of the most-performed rock songs in history. It has become a staple of movies and television shows as diverse as Shrek and The West Wing, of tribute videos and telethons. It has been covered by hundreds of artists, including Bob Dylan, U2, Justin Timberlake, and k.d. lang, and ...Show more
The Wichita Lineman - Searching in the Sun for the World's Greatest Unfinished Song by Dylan Jones
$22.99 AUD
Category: Music Biography
The sound of 'Wichita Lineman' was the sound of ecstatic solitude, but then its hero was the quintessential loner. What a great metaphor he was: a man who needed a woman more than he actually wanted her. Written in 1968 by Jimmy Webb, 'Wichita Lineman' is the first philosophical country song: a heartbre ...Show more
Texas Flood - The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan by Alan Paul; Andy Aledort
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music Biography
An instant New York Times bestseller The first definitive biography of guitar legend Stevie Ray Vaughan, with an epilogue by Jimmie Vaughan, and foreword and afterword by Double Trouble's Chris Layton and Tommy Shannon. Just a few years after he almost died from a severe addiction to cocaine and ...Show more