Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina by Chris Frantz
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance
Two iconic bands. An unforgettable life. One of the most dynamic groups of the '70s and '80s, Talking Heads, founded by drummer Chris Frantz, his girlfriend Tina Weymouth, and lead singer David Byrne, burst onto the music scene, playing at CBGBs, touring Europe with the Ramones, and creating hits like ...Show more
John & Yoko / Plastic Ono Band by John Lennon; Yoko Ono
$80.00 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance
Described by Lennon as 'the best thing I've ever done', and widely regarded by critics as his best solo album, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band was released on 11 December 1970. With first-hand commentary by Lennon, Ono and other members of the Plastic Ono Band, and packed with previously unseen photographs ...Show more
How Music Works by David Byrne
$39.99 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance | Reading Level: very good
How Music Works is an unparalleled account of a life in music and an explanation of how and why music works from one of the world's most accomplished performers. With his albums for Talking Heads, his work with Brian Eno or his solo output, David Byrne has been consistently at the forefront of musical - ...Show more
Chronicle of Jazz Year-by-year, the Personalities, the Stories, the Innovations Behind This Century's Most Exciting Music by Mervyn Cooke
$55.00 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance
A year-by-year history of people and events, The Chronicle of Jazz tells the whole story of jazz music and its personalities. Each chronologically arranged section contains special features, on topics ranging from the bossa nova craze to jazz in Paris, personality sketches and seminal gigs and albums. R ...Show more
Abbey Road: The Best Studio in the World by Alistair Lawrence
$39.99 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance
The first photographic celebration of the most famous recording studio in the world, publishing in its 80th year. Unprecedented access to the Abbey Road archive - from Edward Elgar to the Beatles, Kate Bush to Elbow the most famous artists in the world have recorded here. This gorgeous book includes mat ...Show more
Exit Stage Left: The curious afterlife of pop stars by Nick Duerden
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance
Nick Duerden has spent many years interviewing the most famous musicians on the planet. Without exception, they are at their most interesting when they've peaked, and when they are on their way down. In many ways, this is when these former idols are at their most heroic, too, because they reveal themsel ...Show more
Orson Welles: Masters of Cinema Series by Paolo Mereghetti
$12.95 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance | Series: Masters of Cinema
Welles began his direting career in 1940, at the age of twenty-five, with Citizen Kane, an undisputed, ground-breaking masterpiece of cinema history. Welles' satture as a baroque, impetuous and profoundly free artist made the sudios uncomfortable. He had control of every detail on the twelve feature fil ...Show more
Bruce Springsteen Album by Album by Ryan White
$49.95 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance
For over forty years Bruce Springsteen has stood astride the rock 'n' roll stage like a musical colossus, his 18 studio albums - from the 1973 debut Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. to 2014's High Hopes - the testament of a life dedicated to musical prowess and committed songwriting. This book examines ...Show more
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Scheider
$39.99 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance | Series: 1001 Before You Die Ser.
With more than one and a half million copies sold worldwide in thirty languages, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die celebrates the great and groundbreaking, classic and cult, must-see movies of all time, offering a treasure trove of incisive, witty, and revealing insights. Spanning more than a cent ...Show more
Ac/Dc:Experience the Original Monsters of Rock by Jerry Ewing
$29.95 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance
AC/DC tells the story of the world's biggest band. All of its members are analysed and tracked such as the Young brothers and the late, great Bon Scott. This definitive AC/DC experience pores over every album the band ever released, from 1974's groundbreaking High Voltage through 2008's monster Black Ic ...Show more
The Seekers: The 50 Year Recorded History of Australia's First Supergroup by Graham Simpson
$49.95 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance
This is the worlds first Enseeklopedia - a treasure trove of stories, music analysis and rare memorabilia. Moreover, it is a long overdue salute to Australias Fab Four and their enduring recording catalogue. In tracing contemporary Australian music, history will recall the four young Melbourne musicians ...Show more
Play it Loud: An Epic History of the Style, Sound, and Revolution of the Electric Guitar by Brad Tolinski
$44.99 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance
An unprecedented history of the electric guitar, its explosive impact on music and culture, and the players and builders who brought it to life For generations the electric guitar has been an international symbol of freedom, danger, rebellion, and hedonism. In Play It Loud, veteran music journalists Bra ...Show more