Bob Dylan - No Direction Home by Robert Shelton
$50.00 AUD
Category: Music Books
Robert Shelton met Bob Dylan when the young singer arrived in New York in 1961. He became Dylan’s friend, champion, and critic. His book, first published in 1986, was hailed as the definitive unauthorized biography of this moody, passionate genius. Shelton tells the intimate and first-hand story of Bob ...Show more
Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain by Charles R. Cross
$2.99 AUD
Category: Music Books
Kurt Cobain's life and death fast became rock 'n' roll legend. The worldwide success of his band, Nirvana, defined the music scene in the early 1990s and their songs spoke to and for a generation. Music journalist Charles R. Cross, a veteran of the Seattle music scene, relates this extraordinary story o ...Show more
Hero: David Bowie by Lesley-Ann Jones
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music Books
His music thrilled the generation it was written for, and has entertained and inspired every generation since. HERO: DAVID BOWIE is an exploration of the man behind the makeup. This is an in depth journey into discovering the real David Jones; on top of the David Bowie who was always in the spotlight; c ...Show more
Bob Dylan - Chronicles - Volume One by Bob Dylan
$24.95 AUD
Category: Music Books | Reading Level: very good
The celebrated first memoir from arguably the most influential singer-songwriter in the USA, Bob Dylan.“I’d come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.” So writes Bob Dylan in Chronicles ...Show more
Grant and I by Robert Forster
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music Books
"Grant and I is the story of the friendship and collaboration of Grant McLennan and Robert Forster, who gave Australia The Go-Betweens, one of our best and most influential bands. The 1980s songwriting partnership of McLennan/Forster was a little like an Australian Lennon/McCartney. The pair wrote all t ...Show more
All Gates Open - The Story of Can by Rob Young; Irmin Schmidt
$29.99 AUD
Category: Music Books | Series: Faber Social Ser.
All Gates Open presents the definitive story of arguably the most influential and revered avant-garde band of the late twentieth century: CAN. It consists of two books. In Book One, Rob Young gives us the full biography of a band that emerged at the vanguard of what would come to be called the Krautroc ...Show more
Miles: The Autobiography by Miles Davis
$22.99 AUD
Category: Music Books | Series: Picador Books
A frank autobiography of the jazz trumpeter Miles Davis. This book records his life - the music, the women and the drugs. It talks about the white promotors and producers who exploited black musicians as well as the critics.
Shots by Don Walker
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music Books
This extraordinary memoir begins with Don Walker's early life in rural Australia and goes up to the late '80s. In mesmerising prose, Walker evokes childhood and youth, wild times in the '70s, life on the road and in Kings Cross, music-making and much more. Shots is a stunningly original book, a set of w ...Show more
Another Little Piece of My Heart: My Life of Rock and Revolution in the '60s by Richard Goldstein
$19.99 AUD
Category: Music Books
In 1961, Richard Goldstein saw Bob Dylan perform for the first time at Carnegie Hall. Rock music was in its infancy, and revolution was in the air. Criticism of the genre didn't yet exist but, as it began to change music and politics for ever, the serious discussion of rock became a thriving institution ...Show more
The Collected Works of Jim Morrison: Poetry, Journals, Transcripts, and Lyrics by Jim Morrison; Tom Robbins (Foreword by)
$69.99 AUD
Category: Music Books
The definitive anthology of Jim Morrison's writings with rare photographs and numerous handwritten excerpts of unpublished and published poetry and lyrics from his 28 privately held notebooks.Created in collaboration with Jim Morrison’s estate and inspired by a posthumously discovered list entitled “Pla ...Show more
KING: Life, Death and Hip Hop by Hau Latukefu, Christopher Riley
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music Books
Rap pioneer, ARIA-winner, radio presenter, taste-maker, producer, label-owner, mentor - Hau Latukefu recounts his journey from Queanbeyan, aka 'Struggle Town', to the top of Australian hip hop in this inspiring memoir about the meaning of family, the art of the grind and what it takes to spark a music r ...Show more
Dolly Parton: Songteller - My Life in Lyrics by Dolly Parton, Robert K. Oermann
$59.99 AUD
$65.00 (7% off)
Category: Music Books
Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics is a landmark celebration of the remarkable life and career of a country music and pop culture legend. As told by Dolly Parton in her own inimitable words, explore the songs that have defined her journey. Illustrated throughout with previously unpublished imag ...Show more