Substance - Inside New Order: Coming Up and Coming Down by Peter Hook
37.99 NZD
Category: Music
Two acclaimed albums, an upcoming US tour - Joy Division had the world at their feet. Then, on the eve of that tour and the beginning of what would surely have been an international success story, the band's troubled lead singer, Ian Curtis, killed himself. 'We didn't really think about it afterwards. I ...Show more
Play it Loud: An Epic History of the Style, Sound, and Revolution of the Electric Guitar by Brad Tolinski
50.00 NZD
Category: Music
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
All The Songs: The Story Behind Every Beatles Release by Philippe Margotin, Jean-Michel Guesdon, Scott Freiman, Patti Smith
79.99 NZD
Category: Music | Series: All the Songs Ser.
Musical historians Phillippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon delve deep into the history and musical origins of every Beatles album, recounting the circumstances that led to the composition of each song, the recording process and the instruments used. This intimate and revealing look at the music of Th ...Show more
Te Ara Puoro: A Journey into the World of Maori Music by Richard Nunns; Allan Thomas
29.99 NZD
34.99 (14% off)
Category: Music | Reading Level: New
One of the largely unseen consequences of the European colonisation of Aotearoa was that the playing of, and knowledge about the traditional musical instruments of the Maori almost completely disappeared. In the 1970s a young Pakeha schoolteacher, Richard Nunns, started asking questions of his Maori fri ...Show more
A Road Tour of American Song Titles: From Mendocino to Memphis by Karl Du Fresne
39.99 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
Like most New Zealand kids in the 1960s, Karl du Fresne grew up listening to songs about American towns and cities: Kansas City, El Paso, New Orleans, Detroit and Tulsa, to name just a few. He found himself wondering what sort of places they were and what had motivated such illustrious pop composers as ...Show more
Piano Chords (Pick Up & Play) by Jake Jackson
29.99 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Pick up and Play Ser.
All the key chords, in every key, organised as a chord per page, this is a flexible, comprehensive solution for anyone learning or playing the piano or keyboard, especially in a band format, or with any group. This no-nonsense, easy to carry, concealed spiral book will fit into a gig bag, flight case or ...Show more
Jerry on Jerry: The Unpublished Jerry Garcia Interviews by Dennis McNally
59.99 NZD
Category: Music
Released by the Jerry Garcia Family estate and made available to the public for the first time, these are some of the most candid, intimate interviews with Jerry Garcia ever published. Here, Garcia speaks openly about everything from growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area and his first encounters with ...Show more
Moby: Porcelain: A Memoir by Moby
32.99 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
There were many reasons Moby was never going to make it as a DJ and musician in the New York club scene of the late 1980s and early 90s. This was the New York of Palladium, of Mars, Limelight, and Twilo, an era when dance music was still a largely underground phenomenon, popular chiefly among working-cl ...Show more
Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy by Mike Love
32.99 NZD
Category: Music
Mike Love is a founding member, lyricist and vocalist of The Beach Boys, considered to be the most popular American band in history, with 13 Gold Albums, 55 top-100 singles, and four number 1 hits. Love has been the lead singer of the group one of its principal lyricists since its inception in 1961. In ...Show more
Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis
29.99 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
As lead singer and songwriter for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Anthony Kiedis has lived life on the razor's edge. So much has been written about him, but until now, we've only had Kiedis's songs as clues to his experience from the inside. In Scar Tissue, Kiedis proves himself to be as compelling a memoiri ...Show more
Over the Top and Back: The Autobiography by Tom Jones
30.00 NZD
Category: Music
'For a lot of years, I've answered a lot of questions, but have never told my story before.' Across six decades, Sir Tom Jones has maintained a vital career in a risky, unstable business notorious for the short lives of its artists. With a drive that comes from nothing but the love for what he does, he ...Show more
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
49.99 NZD
Category: Music
"Writing about yourself is a funny business...But in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind. In these pages, I've tried to do this." -Bruce Springsteen, from the pages of Born to Run In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl's ...Show more