Tragedy - The Sad Ballad of the Gibb Brothers by Jeff Apter
$22.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts & Music
The rise and fall of the brothers Gibb is perhaps the greatest saga in Australian music history.Despite several rebirths in a career that spanned many decades, it seemed that tragedy followed the Gibbs like a curse. For every incredible career high there was a hefty personal downside: divorce, drunkenne ...Show more
Killing Time: Short stories from the long road home by Jimmy Barnes
$34.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts & Music
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
Bad Boy Boogie: The true story of AC/DC legend Bon Scott by Jeff Apter
$32.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts & Music
The life, death and rock'n'roll rollercoaster career of AC/DC frontman Bon Scott. Australia has produced any number of great rock and roll frontmen and women. But none has left quite the same mark as AC/DC's Bon Scott. No one had the same skill with lyrics as Bon, who called his words 'toilet poetry', h ...Show more
Paul McCartney: The Stories Behind 50 Classic Songs, 1970-2020 by Mike Evans
$49.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts & Music | Series: Stories Behind the Songs Ser.
Paul McCartney's songwriting output as a member of the Beatles, mainly with co-writer John Lennon, has been exhaustively documented over the years. Now, taking 50 key songs from his six-decade career since the break-up of the Fab Four, Paul McCartney: The Stories Behind the Songs takes an in-depth look ...Show more
Doc: The Life and Times of Aussie Rock Legend Doc Neeson by Jon Bradshaw, Anne Souter
$32.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts & Music
He was a legend of Australian rock, the front man who lived as hard and as wildly as he performed . . . this is his story Often compared to David Bowie and Mick Jagger, Doc Neeson was hailed as a 'messianic rock god'. He was thumping, pumping, sweaty hard rock. He commanded the stage. He was unstoppabl ...Show more
Forever Elizabeth: Iconic Photographers on a Legendary Star by ROBERT RISKO
$99.00 AUD
Category: Performing Arts & Music | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
- Includes many rare and unseen photos of Elizabeth Taylor- Features images from the archives of seven top photographers: Douglas Kirkland, Milton Greene, Gered Mankowitz, Norman Parkinson, Eva Sereny, Terry O'Neill, Gary Bernstein and Greg Brennan- Introduction by famed illustrator and caricaturist, Ro ...Show more
Ways of Hearing: Reflections on Music in 26 Pieces by Scott Burnham (Editor); Marna Seltzer (Editor); Dorothea von Moltke (Editor)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts & Music
An outstanding anthology in which notable musicians, artists, scientists, thinkers, poets, and more— from Gustavo Dudamel and Carrie Mae Weems to Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Paul Muldoon—explore the influence of music on their lives and work What happens when extraordinary creative spirits — musicians, poet ...Show more
The Police: Every Little Thing - The Adventures of Sting, Stewart and Andy by Caroline Stafford; David Stafford
$44.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts & Music
An American drummer, a bass player from Newcastle and a guitarist a decade older than the other two, with little in common other than their musical brilliance and towering ambition, formed one of the most successful bands in history. Covering the years 1977-1986 and the brief reincarnation in 2007-2008, ...Show more
Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child by Harvey Kubernik, Ken Kubernik
$44.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts & Music
A unique tribute to Jimi Hendrix on the 50th anniversary of his untimely death, featuring contributions by those who knew and worked with him, enhanced with images by the most renowned rock photographers of the era. In September 1970, the legendary Jimi Hendrix died at only 27 years of age. On the 50th ...Show more
Nina Simone's Gum by Warren Ellis
$39.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts & Music
From award-winning musician and composer Warren Ellis comes the unexpected and inspiring story of a piece of chewing gum. Featuring an introduction from Nick Cave. 'Warren has turned this memento, snatched from his idol's piano in a moment of rapture, into a genuine religious artefact.' NICK CAVE On T ...Show more
Nothin' but a Good Time - The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion by Tom Beaujour; Richard Bienstock
$54.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts & Music
The definitive, no-holds-barred oral history of 1980s hard rock and hair metal. 1980s hard rock was a hedonistic and often intensely creative wellspring of escapism that perfectly encapsulated--and maybe even helped to define--a spectacularly over-the-top decade. Indeed, fist-pumping hits like Twisted S ...Show more