King of the Blues by Daniel de Vise
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music Biography
The first authoritative cradle-to-grave biography of a worldwide musical and cultural legend.
The Doors Unhinged: Jim Morrison's Legacy Goes on Trial by John Densmore
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music Biography
In The Doors Unhinged, New York Times bestselling author and legendary Doors drummer John Densmore offers a powerful exploration of the 'greed gene' - that part of the human psyche that propels us toward the accumulation of more and more wealth, even at the expense of our principles, friendships, and th ...Show more
Keith Richards - Life by Keith Richards
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music Biography | Reading Level: very good
As lead guitarist of the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics, and the songs that roused the world. A true and towering original, he has always walked his own path, spoken his mind, and done things his own way. Now at last Richards pauses to tell his story in the most anticipated ...Show more
I Wanna Be Yours by John Cooper Clarke
$19.99 AUD
Category: Music Biography
The first ever autobiography of John Cooper Clarke, the Bard of Salford, punk poet, rock star, fashion icon, national treasure and acerbic wit. John Cooper Clarke is a phenomenon: Poet Laureate of Punk, rock star, fashion icon, TV and radio presenter, social and cultural commentator. At 5 feet 11 inche ...Show more
We Could Be Bowie and his Heroes by Tom Hagler
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music Biography
The story of Bowie's life told through 300 encounters with fellow icons, from Dylan to Dalí, Lennon to Lydon, Princess Margaret to Prince. With consultant editor Tony Visconti David Bowie's story has never been told quite like this. Tracing the star's encounters with fellow icons throughout his life, ...Show more
The Old Songs are Always New: Singing Traditions of the Tiwi Islands by Genevieve Campbell
$40.00 AUD
Category: Music Biography
Approximately 1300 ethnographic field recordings of Tiwi songs, made between 1912 and 1981, are archived at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) in Canberra.In November 2009, Genevieve Campbell and eleven Tiwi colleagues travelled to Canberra to reclaim the ...Show more
Energy Follows Thought: The Stories Behind My Songs by Willie Nelson, David Ritz
$65.00 AUD
Category: Music Biography
For the first time ever, and to help celebrate his 90th birthday in 2023, American icon Willie Nelson provides the stories behind the lyrics of 160 of his favorite songs, along with a dynamic assortment of never-before-seen photos and ephemera. From his earliest work in the 1950s to today, Willie looks ...Show more
Out in L.A.: The Red Hot Chili Peppers, 1983 by Hamish Duncan
$49.99 AUD
Category: Music Biography
The Red Hot Chili Peppers were going to be a one-time act for a friend's album release party. Forty years later the funk rock band is arguably one of the best known and the longest running in the United States. Everything that happened in 1983 set the course for the rest of the band's career. The scra ...Show more
Shake Some Action: My life in music (and other stuff) by Stuart Coupe
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music Biography
The story of how a gangly, music-obsessed kid from Tassie did everything and met everyone - Shake Some Action is a rip-snorting rock 'n' roll ride through a life of power and passion. First as a music writer and then as an editor, promoter, manager, broadcaster, publicist and author, Stuart Coupe has e ...Show more
Poster Child - The Psychedelic Art and Technicolor Life of David Edward Byrd by David Byrd; Robert von Goeben; Marc Myers (Foreword by)
$70.00 AUD
Category: Music Biography
Poster Child: The Psychedelic Art & Technicolor Life of David Edward Byrd is a stunning retrospective on the art and stories behind one of rock 'n' roll's most influential artists--written by Byrd and author Robert von Goeben. Foreword by Marc Myers, Award-Winning Author of Rock Concert: An Oral His ...Show more
Don't Stop the Music: A Year of Pop History, One Day at a Time by Justin Lewis
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music Biography
JANUARY 1 1958 Johnny Cash plays the first of many concerts at San Quentin State Prison, California. It had become traditional for the prison to stage a New Year’s Day musician’s union extravaganza for the 4,000 inmates, and it just so happened that Cash was touring the west coast of the US when he and ...Show more
Jimmy Page: The Anthology by Jimmy Page
$79.99 AUD
Category: Music Biography
"Within the contents of this book, I wanted to include items from my personal archive that have played a part in my career over 60 years, to illustrate the detail behind the detail." - Jimmy Page From his early days as a young session musician, through his years on the world stage with Led Zeppelin ...Show more