The Rolling Stones 1972 50th Anniversary Edition by Jim Marshall
$80.00 AUD
Category: Music
A deluxe edition of the seminal book that unites two legends of rock 'n' roll: Jim Marshall and the Rolling Stones. Now with new essays and never-before-seen proof sheets! The year 1972 brought together two legends of rock 'n' roll at the peaks of their careers: Jim Marshall and the Rolling Stones. ...Show more
The Rolling Stones: Sixty Years by Christopher Sandford
$22.99 AUD
Category: Music
A new, updated edition of Christopher Sandford's classic biography of the band, The Rolling Stones is a gripping account of the band's remarkable 60 years at the top of the rock industry. In 1962 Mick Jagger was a bright, well-scrubbed boy (planning a career in the civil service), while Keith Richards w ...Show more
The Second Summer of Love - The Birth of Acid House and the Rise of Global Dance Culture by Alon Shulman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Music
The story of the birth of acid house and dance music in the UK - as told by the men and women who made it happen.
The Song Remains the Same: 800 Years of Love Songs, Laments and Lullabies by Andrew Ford; Anni Heino
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music
Often today, the word 'song' is used to describe all music. A free-jazz improvisation, a Hindustani raga, a movement from a Beethoven symphony, a Springsteen anthem or a Leonard Cohen ballad- they're all songs. But, in fact, a song is a specific musical form. It's not so much that they all have verses ...Show more
The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives by Jude Rogers
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music
'Too often we treat popular music as wallpaper surrounding us as we live our lives. Jude Rogers shows the emotional and cerebral heft such music can have. It's a personal journey which becomes universal. Fascinating'Ian Rankin'Moving and absorbing, The Sound of Being Human mixes memoir, analysis, anecdo ...Show more
The Strokes - The First Ten Years by Cody Smyth (By (photographer)); Claude Franques (Contribution by); Mick Rock (Foreword by)
$89.99 AUD
Category: Music
The first authorized visual record of one of New York's greatest bands.An intimate and impressionistic narrative of The Strokes' first ten years, including images of the guys when they were students at the Dwight School in Manhattan and would gather for lunches at their local diner. This is a peerless w ...Show more
The Vinyl Frontier - The Story of the Voyager Golden Record by Jonathan Scott
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music
'Blends extraterrestrial wonder with earthbound charm and brims with poignant revelations.' - Mojo. 'Bursts with gloriously geeky detail.' - The Telegraph Have you ever made someone you love a mix-tape? Forty years ago, a group of scientists, artists and writers gathered in a house in Ithaca, New York ...Show more
The Wild Tchoupitoulas 33 1/3 by Bryan Wagner
$19.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
The Wild Tchoupitoulas is a definitive expression of the modern New Orleans sound. From "Hey Pocky A-Way" to "Big Chief Got a Golden Crown," the album draws on carnival traditions stretching back a century, adapting songs from the Mardi Gras Indians. Music chanted in the streets with tambourines and mak ...Show more
This Is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl [New Edition] by Paul Brannigan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
'Someone called and said Kurt died. I just f*****g lost it.' He has sold over 40 million albums. He's been in bands that have changed popular music forever. He saw his best friend commit suicide. He starts supergroups. He's the nicest guy in rock. From Nirvana to Foo Fighters, from brotherhood to bitter ...Show more
This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else: Joy Division: The Oral History by Jon Savage
$39.99 AUD
Category: Music
An exciting new book on Joy Division, featuring never before told stories. Jon Savage's oral history of Joy Division is the last word on the band that ended with the suicide of Ian Curtis in Macclesfield on 18 May, 1980. It weaves together interviews conducted by the author, but never used in the maki ...Show more
This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else - Joy Division: the Oral History by Jon Savage
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
The SUNDAY TIMES Top Ten Bestseller, #1 Book of the Year UNCUT, #1 Book of the Year ROUGH TRADE, A Book of the Year, MOJO Joy Division emerged in the mid-70s at the start of a two-decades long Manchester scene that was to become much mythologised. It was then a city still labouring in the wake of the w ...Show more
This is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession by Daniel Levitin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
This is the first book to offer a comprehensive explanation of how humans experience music and to unravel the mystery of our perennial love affair with it. Using musical examples from Bach to the Beatles, Levitin reveals the role of music in human evolution, shows how our musical preferences begin to fo ...Show more