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Boy on Fire: The Young Nick Cave by Mark Mordue
$39.99 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance
The first volume of the long-awaited, near-mythical biography of Nick Cave, by award-winning writer, Mark Mordue. A deeply beautiful, profound, profane and poetic biography of the early formative years of the dark prince of Australian rock 'n' roll, Boy on Fire is Nick Cave's creation story. This is th ...Show more
Leonard Cohen: Untold Stories - The Early Years by Michael Posner
$49.99 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance | Series: Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories Ser.
The extraordinary life of one of the world's greatest music and literary icons, in the words of those who knew him best. Poet, novelist, singer-songwriter, artist, prophet, icon--there has never been a figure like Leonard Cohen. He was a true giant in contemporary western culture, entertaining and insp ...Show more
Love Is Strong As Death: Poems Chosen by Paul Kelly (HB) by Paul Kelly
$39.99 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Paul Kelly's songs are steeped in poetry. And now he has gathered from around the world the poems he loves - poems that have inspired and challenged him over the years, a number of which he has set to music. This wide-ranging and deeply moving anthology combines the ancient and the modern, the hallowed ...Show more
Dave Brubeck: a Life in Time by Philip Clark
$55.00 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance
The definitive, investigative biography of jazz legend Dave Brubeck. In 2003, music journalist Philip Clark was granted unparalleled access to jazz legend Dave Brubeck. Over the course of ten days, he shadowed the Dave Brubeck Quartet during their extended British tour, recording an epic interview with ...Show more
Beginner's Step-by-Step Guitar by DK
$39.99 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance
From Jimi Hendrix to Ed Sheeran, every guitar hero started somewhere - so stop dreaming and start playing! Covering acoustic and electric, this book includes everything you need to know, from choosing your instrument and reading guitar tab, to using amplifiers and effects. Easy-to-follow lessons take y ...Show more
Detours by Tim Rogers
$27.99 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance
'Of all the utterances delivered to me by strangers, my least favourite after "We can no longer legally serve you" would have to be, "Well, that isn't very rock'n'roll."'Tim Rogers of You Am I has always been a complicated man: a hard-drinking musician with the soul of a poet; a flamboyant flâneur; a ra ...Show more
Just Kids by Patti Smith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD In Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seve ...Show more
Hot Nights Cool Jazz by ANGELYNE WOLFE
$55.00 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance
Jazz in Available Light - Illuminating the Jazz Greats from the 1960s, '70s And '80s by Veryl Oakland; Quincy Jones (Foreword by)
$99.00 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance
Through both personal stories and stunning photographs captured behind the scenes, lose yourself in this bygone era of jazz that celebrates dozens of the most recognized and formidable jazz artists spanning three decades. As a freelance jazz photojournalist who devoted nearly thirty years in search of t ...Show more
Swooning: A Classical Music Guide to Life, Love, Lust and Other Follies by Christopher Lawrence
$27.99 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance
The history of classical music is littered with murder, sado-masochism, adultery, bigamy, fraud, riches, poverty, nervous breakdowns, bizarre habits, gluttony and terrible, terrible toilet humour (Mozart was the prime exponent of the latter). Classical music - nice? Not at all. It's the most immediate e ...Show more
Porcelain by Moby
$22.99 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance
In the late eighties and early nineties, Moby, then an underground DJ and musician, was scraping out a living in New York City. In a scene popular chiefly among working-class African-Americans and Latinos, Moby - a poor, skinny, white Christian, vegan and teetotaller - looked like he would never make it ...Show more
M Train (PB) by Patti Smith
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Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance
REVISED EDITION WITH FIVE THOUSAND WORDS BONUS MATERIAL AND NEW PHOTOGRAPHS M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village cafe where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between dr ...Show more