Imagine John Yoko by Yoko Ono
$65.00 AUD
Category: Music Books
Personally compiled and curated by Yoko Ono, Imagine John Yoko is the definitive inside story - told in revelatory detail - of the making of the legendary album and all that surrounded it: the locations, the creative team, the artworks and the films, in the words of John & Yoko and the people who we ...Show more
A Seat at the Table - Women on the Frontline of Music by Amy Raphael
$22.99 AUD
Category: Music Books
'Fascinating and illuminating' STYLIST 'Perceptive and candid' IRISH TIMES 'Wide-ranging, deep-dive, soul-baring interviews, full of candid, intimate, spiky meditations on inspiration, artistry, sexuality, race, love, self-doubt, abuse, defiance and everything in between' OBSERVER 'Variously optimistic, ...Show more
This Isn't Happening - Radiohead's Kid A and the Beginning of the 21st Century by Steven Hyden
$39.99 AUD
Category: Music Books
The making and meaning of Radiohead's groundbreaking, controversial, epoch-defining album, Kid A.In 1999, as the end of an old century loomed, five musicians entered a recording studio in Paris without a deadline. Their band was widely recognized as the best and most forward-thinking in rock, a rarefied ...Show more
Devotion: Why I Write by Patti Smith
$17.99 AUD
Category: Music Books | Series: Why I Write Ser.
From the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, a rare and generous look into the creative process A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic--its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? ...Show more
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz by Geoff Dyer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Music Books
Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle; Thelonius Monk creating his own private language on the piano... In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skilfully evokes the embattled lives of the players who shaped modern ...Show more
Decoded by Jay-Z
$65.00 AUD
Category: Music Books
Expanded paperback edition of the acclaimed "New York Times "bestseller features 16 pages of new material, including 3 new songs decoded. "Decoded "is a book like no other: a collection of lyrics and their meanings that together tell the story of a culture, an art form, a moment in history, and one of t ...Show more
Book of Life by Deborah Conway
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music Books
A no-holds-barred memoir that charts the rise and fall - and rise - of one of Australia's most iconic music performers. You think you know Deborah Conway? You think seeing her scowling and striding and smouldering in her music videos over the years means you know who Deborah Conway is? She figures you ...Show more
Tex by Tex Perkins
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music Books
Singer. Songwriter. Swamp child. Soul man. Tex Perkins is a true rock'n'roll animal. In this loud, uncut, no-holds-barred, laugh-out-loud and take-no-prisoners memoir, the enigmatic king of the Australian music underground lays bare an extraordinary life lived on the road, on the stage and on the edge. ...Show more
Michael: My brother, lost boy of INXS by Tina Hutchence
$22.99 AUD
Category: Music Books
INXS singer/songwriter Michael Hutchence was the celebrated frontman of a band that was the biggest in the world. Michael's big sister, Tina, adored him from the start. From a 12-year-old holding him in her arms as a newborn, to being his teenage nanny, Tina remained Michael's trusted confidant until hi ...Show more
Why Dylan Matters by Richard F. Thomas
$19.99 AUD
Category: Music Books
A GUARDIAN AND INDEPENDENT BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2017. 'At last an expert classicist gets to grips with Bob Dylan' Mary Beard 'Thomas's elegant, charming book offers something for everyone - not just the super-fans' IndependentWhen the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan, the literary world ...Show more
Half Deaf, Completely Mad: The Chaotic Genius of Australia's Most Legendary Music Producer by Tony Cohen, John Olson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music Books
The music and mayhem behind the seminal sounds of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Models, Hunters & Collectors, The Saints, The Go-Betweens, Cold Chisel, The Cruel Sea and so many more'. The most obsessive, single-minded character I've ever seen, outside of the mirror' - Nick Cave. 'I first met Nic ...Show more
How Music Works by David Byrne
$29.99 AUD
Category: Music Books | Reading Level: very good
How Music Works is David Byrne’s buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. Drawing on his work over the years with Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and myriad collaborators--along with journeys to Wagnerian opera houses, African villages, and anywhere music exists--Byrne shows ho ...Show more