Cover Story - 100 Beautiful, Strange and Frankly Incredible New Zealand LP Covers by Steve Braunias
$25.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
Music is a key to culture, no matter where in the world you are from and New Zealand is no exception. In the decades from 1957- 87 the LP was king of New Zealand recorded music. To sell the music cover art was needed, and the book showcases 100 of the best examples at full LP size. Divided into themes, ...Show more
Hit Men - Power Brokers and Fast Money inside the Music Business by Frederick Dannen
$12.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
Copiously researched and documented, "Hit Men" is the highly controversial portrait of the pop music industry in all its wild, ruthless glory: the insatiable greed and ambition; the enormous egos; the fierce struggles for profits and power; the vendettas, rivalries, shakedowns, and payoffs. Chronicling ...Show more
Explosions in November - The First 33 Years of Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival by Richard Steinitz
$30.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: near fine
Explosions in November tells the story of one of Europes leading cultural institutions, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (hcmf), through the eyes of its founder and former artistic director, Professor Richard Steinitz. From its modest beginnings in 1978, when winter fog nearly sabotaged the inau ...Show more
Gaga by Johnny Morgan
$25.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. The Grammy[registered] Award winning Lady Gaga has taken the world by storm, setting sales records and becoming a style icon. This volume examines the Lady's history and phenomenal rise, her music and videos and her unique look and chameleon-like nature.
Stoned - Photographs and Treasures from Life with the Rolling Stones by Jo Wood
$16.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: good-very good
"These images are great and have been tucked away for years" - Ronnie Wood Take a look inside rock 'n' roll history with over 500 never-before-seen photographs, notes, artworks, diary entries and mementoes from life behind the scenes of the Rolling Stones. Married to legendary Stones guitarist Ronnie Wo ...Show more
Absolutely on Music by Haruki Murakami; Seiji Ozawa
$14.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: good-very good
'My only purpose in this book was for me, as a music lover, to have a discussion of music with the musician Seiji Ozawa that was as open and honest as possible. I simply wanted to bring out the ways that each of us (though on vastly different levels) is dedicated to music.' Haruki Murakami's passion for ...Show more
Virgil Thomson by Virgil Thomson by Virgil Thomson
$20.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: good-very good
Taj Mahal - Autobiography of a bluesman by Taj Mahal; Stephen Foehr
$10.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: good-very good
Suzi Quatro - Unzipped by Suzi Quatro
$10.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
Little Susie from Detroit grew up to be legendary rocker Suzi Quatro, international superstar musician and actress, icon of the Seventies. The transformation was fuelled by huge talent, determination, hard work and a fabulous sense of humour, but it wasn't easy. In UNZIPPED, Suzi tells her story of life ...Show more
Freaky Dancin' - Me and The Mondays by Bez
$10.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
The story of Bez from the Happy Mondays is a rollercoaster ride through the excesses of rock 'n' roll. This is a book that became an instant cult classic.This is a story of Bez, the man with the maracas and Shaun Ryder's sidekick in the Happy Mondays. Bez was the embodiment of the eighties 'Madchester' ...Show more
The Songs We Sang - A Collection of NZ Army and Service Ballads by Les Cleveland
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
The Ballad of John and Yoko by Rolling Stone Magazine Staff
$10.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: good