I am Ozzy by Ozzy Osbourne
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
People ask me how come I'm still alive, and I don't know what to say. When I was growing up, if you'd have put me up against a wall with the other kids from my street and asked me which one of us was gonna make it to the age of sixty, with five kids and four grandkids and houses in Buckinghamshire and C ...Show more
How to Write One Song by Jeff Tweedy
$22.99 NZD
Category: Music
A ROUGH TRADE and PITCHFORK BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A guide to rediscovering the joys of creating that we all felt as children.'NEW YORK TIMES One of the century's most feted singer-songwriters, Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, digs deep into his own creative process to share his unique perspective about song-writing a ...Show more
Renegades - Born in the USA by Bruce Springsteen; Barack Obama
$80.00 NZD
Category: Music
Two long-time friends share an intimate and urgent conversation about life, music and their enduring love of America, with all its challenges and contradictions, in this stunningly-produced expansion of their ground-breaking Higher Ground podcast, featuring more than 350 photographs, exclusive bonus con ...Show more
How to be Invisible (Lyrics) by Kate Bush
$45.00 NZD
Category: Music
Selected and arranged by the author, with an expansive introduction by the novelist David Mitchell, How To Be Invisible presents the lyrics of Kate Bush for the first time in a beautiful cloth-bound edition. Kate Bush is a true iconoclast and one of the most revered contemporary musical artists of recen ...Show more
Substance: Inside New Order by Peter Hook
$27.00 NZD
Category: Music
'This book will delight both New Order-ites and general rock readers' MojoA ROLLICKING, NO-HOLDS-BARRED ACCOUNT OF NEW ORDER'S ENTIRE HISTORY.Two acclaimed albums and an upcoming US tour - Joy Division had the world at their feet. Then, on the eve of that tour, the band's troubled lead singer, Ian Curti ...Show more
Five Straight Lines: A History of Music by Andrew Gant
$70.00 NZD
Category: Music
Whether you prefer Baroque or pop, Theremins or violins, the music you love and listen to shapes your world. But what shaped the music? Ranging across time and space, this book takes us on a grand musical tour from music's origins in prehistory right up to the twenty-first century. Charting the leaps in ...Show more
Where's My Guitar? - An Inside Story of British Rock and Roll by Bernie Marsden
$30.00 NZD
Category: Music
A fascinating insight into the golden-age of 1970s and 80s rock and roll told through the eyes of music legend Bernie Marsden and, most notably, his role in establishing one of the world's most famous rock bands of all time - Whitesnake. 'Bernie Marsden is a musical treasure...I don't think people know ...Show more
Silences So Deep - Music, Solitude, Alaska by John Luther Adams
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music
A memoir of a composer's life in the Alaskan wilderness and a meditation on making art in a landscape acutely threatened by climate change. In the summer of 1975, the composer John Luther Adams, then a twenty-two-year-old graduate of CalArts, boarded a flight to Alaska. So began a journey into the moun ...Show more
Birth School Metallica Death - 1983-1991 Volume I by Paul Brannigan
$29.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
Metallica have sold in excess of 100 million albums and won seven Grammys. Their journey from scuzzy Los Angeles garages to the stages of the world's biggest stadia has been an epic and often traumatic one, and one of the few truly great rock 'n' roll sagas. No music writers have been afforded greater a ...Show more
John Illsley - My Life in Dire Straits by John Illsley
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
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
Mozart in Motion: His Work and His World in Pieces by Patrick Mackie
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
The music and life of one of modernity's most prevalent figures through the compositions that shaped him, from a dazzling new writer of non-fiction. Mozart holds a central, unwavering place in our culture, and his works are widely loved and listened to, often as much-loved favourites, or as background ...Show more