Bowie's Books - The Hundred Literary Heroes Who Changed His Life (HB) by John O'Connell
37.99 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: 3 Biography
David Bowie once said that his idea of perfect happiness was reading. Three years before he died, he made a list of the one hundred books that had transformed his life - a list that formed something akin to an autobiography. From Lolita to Madame Bovary, the Beano to The Iliad, these were the books that ...Show more
Just Kids illustrated by Patti Smith
64.99 NZD
Category: Music
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his ...Show more
Chord Progressions (Pick up and Play) by Jake Jackson
22.99 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Pick up and Play Ser.
Understanding and using Chord progressions is fundamental for anyone who wants to play popular songs, and to write their own. Most of the memorable tunes are based on a few simple structures which can be learned and adapted. This book focuses on the basic keys and, simply, shows you how to make great mu ...Show more
I'll Be Your Mirror - The Collected Lyrics by Lou Reed
55.00 NZD
Category: Music
Out of print for several years, a comprehensive volume of Lou Reed's lyrics, now updated in a new text design to include the lyrics from his final album with Metallica, Lulu. Through his many incarnations-from proto punk to glam rocker to elder statesman of the avant garde Lou Reed's work has maintaine ...Show more
Hendrix: The Illustrated Story by Gillian G. Gaar
32.99 NZD
Category: Music
Hendrix is the definitive, illustrated biography of the man widely considered the greatest rock guitarist of all time. Jimi Hendrix's music still lives on today. This (incredibly) is the first full-blown illustrated gift book exploring the life and career of one of the rock world's most celebrated music ...Show more
Searches for Tradition by Brown Michael
40.00 NZD
Category: Music
In Douglas Lilburn's famous address to the 1946 Cambridge Summer School of Music, the composer described his `search for tradition' in the music of New Zealand and spelled out his hopes that a distinctive art music might yet emerge here. Sixty years on, this collection of scholarly essays brings togethe ...Show more
Why Bowie Matters by Will Brooker
27.99 NZD
Category: Music
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
Wichita Lineman by Dylan Jones
32.99 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Faber Social Ser.
Dylan Jones' luminous excavation of Jimmy Webb's song 'Wichita Lineman' offers a portal into a defining moment of American cultural history. The sound of Wichita Lineman was the sound of ecstatic solitude - but then its hero was the quintessential loner. What a great metaphor he was: a man who needed a ...Show more
Guitar - The Worlds Most Seductive Instrument by David Schiller
79.99 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: near fine
Celebrate the significance, the magic, and the mojo of the world's most seductive instrument. An obsessive, full-color book presented in an irresistible slipcase, Guitar features 200 instruments in stunning detail. Here are icons, like Prince's Yellow Cloud, Willie Nelson's "Trigger," Muddy Water's Th ...Show more
Sing New Zealand by Guy Jansen
30.00 NZD
59.99 (49% off)
Category: Music | Reading Level: near fine
New Zealanders love to sing together. Thousands of us sing in hundreds of choirsthroughout the country, making it our most popular and participated in performing art. Most of us have sung in school choirs, or participated in national competitions such as the Big Sing, and increasingly people are joining ...Show more
Crossroads - One Man's Search for the Moments That Changed Music by Mark Radcliffe
39.99 NZD
Category: Music
Standing at the crossroads - the Mississippi crossroads of Robert Johnson and the devil's infamous meeting - Mark Radcliffe found himself facing his own personal crunch point. Aged sixty, he had just mourned the death of his father, only to be handed a diagnosis of mouth and throat cancer. This momentou ...Show more
Morning Glory on the Vine: early songs & drawings by Joni Mitchell
55.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: Biography
A gorgeous compendium of Joni Mitchell's handwritten lyrics and drawings, originally handcrafted as a gift for a select group of friends in 1971 and now available to the public for the first time. In 1971, as her album Blue topped charts around the world, Joni Mitchell crafted one hundred copies of Mor ...Show more