Is This The Real Life? the untold story of Queen by Blake, Mark
39.99 NZD
Category: Music
It is nearly twenty years since their front man Freddie Mercury’s death brought the band to an end, yet Queen’s fan base remains huge. Their musical history is one of constant reinvention from heavy metal and progressive rock to funk, pop and stadium anthems. Mark Blake has written their definitive ...Show more
Passion is a Fashion: The Real Story of the "Clash" by Pat Gilbert
29.99 NZD
Category: Music
RE-RELEASED WITH NEW COVER ACCLAIMED AS THE DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF THE BAND NEW INTEREST WITH SHEA STADIUM LIVE CD AND OFFICIAL CLASH BOOK Pat Gilbert's definitive biography of the Clash - universally acclaimed as a great book - has already sold over 20,000 copies in paperback. Now, for the 30th annivers ...Show more
Pigs Might Fly - The inside story of Pink Floyd by Mark Blake
29.99 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: good
Mark Blake's history of Pink Floyd - the first for fifteen years - has already been acknowledged as the final word on this remarkable band's life. Lucidly written, incorporating over a hundred new and exclusive interviews, it covers Pink Floyd from their Cambridge beginnings in the early sixties to thei ...Show more
Pigs Might Fly: (O/P 7/7/09) The Inside Story of Pink Floyd by Mark Blake
49.99 NZD
Category: Music
In July 2005 in Hyde Park, before a global audience in the tens of millions, Pink Floyd performed together on stage for the first time in 24 years. As even Bob Geldof himself acknowledged, it was 'a far bigger story than Live 8 itself'. From the moment the metronomic pulse of a human heartbeat thudded o ...Show more
History of Musical Instruments and Music-making by Max Wade-Matthews
14.99 NZD
Category: Music
The art of music-making has existed for thousands of years, probably beginning with the voice and then proceeding to simple rhythmic drumming - hitting a log with a stick or banging a rock with a club - and blowing a blade of grass or a conch shell. Since these humble beginnings there has been an explos ...Show more
White Riot: Punk Rock and the Politics of Race by Stephen Duncombe
45.99 NZD
Category: Music
From The Sex Pistols to Bad Brains, skinheads to afropunks, the punk rock movement has been obsessed by race. And yet the connections have never been addressed in a comprehensive way. White Riot will become the standard study of the subject, and the ultimate reader on the topic for punk professors and a ...Show more
The Wire Primers - A Guide to Modern Music by Rob Young (ed.)
36.99 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
Since it was founded in 1982, "The Wire" magazine has covered a vast range of alternative, experimental, underground and non-mainstream music. Now some of that knowledge has been distilled into "The Wire Primers": a comprehensive guide to the core recordings of some of the most visionary and inspiring, ...Show more
The Simple Flip-over Chord Finder by Polly Willis (ed.)
19.99 NZD
30.00 (33% off)
Category: Music
This work offers an ingenious new practical way to learn guitar chords. Now, there's no need to put down the guitar while you leaf through a book. "The Simple Flip-Over Chord Finder" stands up by itself, enabling you to refer to it easily and flip over the pages single-handedly. It covers 380 basic and ...Show more