Why Bowie Matters by Will Brooker
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance
A unique, moving and dazzlingly researched exploration of the places, people, musicians, writers and filmmakers that inspired David Jones to become David Bowie, what we can learn from his life's work and journey, and why he will always matter. When David Bowie died on 10th January 2016, it seemed the w ...Show more
One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time by Craig Brown
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance
From the award-winning author of Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret comes a fascinating, hilarious, kaleidoscopic biography of the Fab Four.On April 10th 2020, it will be exactly 50 years since Paul McCartney announced the break-up of the Beatles. At that point, we will be at the same dista ...Show more
Loud by Tana Douglas
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance | Reading Level: very good
What goes on tour stays on tour - unless you're the the first woman roadie in the world At just fifteen, Tana Douglas ran away to the circus that was rock 'n' roll in the 1970s, taking a job with a young and upcoming band called AC/DC. While still a teenager she headed to the UK and later the US to wor ...Show more
Beethoven - A Life in Nine Pieces by Laura Tunbridge
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2020 marks 250 years since Beethoven's birth Ludwig van Beethoven: to some, simply the greatest ever composer of Western classical music. Yet his life remains shrouded in myths, and the image persists of him as an eccentric genius shaking his fist at heaven. Beethoven by Oxford professor Laura Tunbridge ...Show more
Wild Thing - The Short, Spellbinding Life of Jimi Hendrix by Philip Norman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance | Reading Level: very good
Celebrated as the most innovative guitarist ever to play, Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) is renowned for symphonic solos and virtuosic picking (sometimes, with his teeth). But, as Philip Norman describes, before Hendrix was setting guitars aflame onstage, he was a shy kid in Seattle, lucking at a broken ukul ...Show more
Bob Dylan - No Direction Home by Robert Shelton
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Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance
Robert Shelton met Bob Dylan when the young singer arrived in New York in 1961. He became Dylan’s friend, champion, and critic. His book, first published in 1986, was hailed as the definitive unauthorized biography of this moody, passionate genius. Shelton tells the intimate and first-hand story of Bob ...Show more
Killing Time: Short stories from the long road home by Jimmy Barnes
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Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance
Tales of adventure, misadventure, love and loss - this collection of non-fiction short stories from the Australian rock legend turned writer is vintage Jimmy. Outrageous, witty, warm and wise, Killing Time shares more than forty yarns reflecting an epic life - from an encounter with a soul legend in Mem ...Show more
Last Chance Texaco - Chronicles of a Troubadour by Rickie Lee Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance | Reading Level: near fine
This troubadour life is only for the fiercest hearts, only for those vessels that can be broken to smithereens and still keep beating out the rhythm for a new song.Last Chance Texaco is the first-ever no-holds-barred account of the life of two-time Grammy Award-winner Rickie Lee Jones, in her own words. ...Show more
My Favourite Movies: From a century of films and the world's best directors by David Stratton
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Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance
Australia's best-loved film critic shares the movies which are his personal favourites of all time, as well as titbits and insights from the leading directors and actors he has met over half a century. Wondering what to watch next? Discover a new movie or a new director among David Stratton's personal f ...Show more
The DC Book: A Vast and Vibrant Multiverse Simply Explained by Stephen Wiacek
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A unique, in-depth exploration of the DC Comics Multiverse for casual fans and comic devotees alikeTravel the myriad worlds of the DC Multiverse. If you want to truly understand DC Comics, The DC Book is your one-stop guide to the DC Multiverse. This unique, insightful examination of a mind-boggling com ...Show more
John Illsley - My Life in Dire Straits by John Illsley
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Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance | Reading Level: very good
The first - and only - inside story of one of the greatest bands in rock history, as told by bassist and founder member John Illsley, with a foreword by Mark Knopfler. Dire Straits filled giant stadiums around the world and sold hundreds of millions of records. Throughout the eighties they were one of t ...Show more
Wild Thing: The Short, Spellbinding Life of Jimi Hendrix (DIF) by Philip Norman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music, TV , Film & Performance
New York Times Book Review * "The Best Books to Give This Year" Publishers Weekly * Best Books of the Year (Nonfiction) A shattering new biography of rock music's most outrageous--and tragic--genius. Over fifty years after his death, Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) is celebrated as the greatest rock guitarist ...Show more