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Ticket to the World: My 80s Story

Ticket to the World: My 80s Story

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Ticket to the World is a joyous, nostalgic celebration of 80s culture from one man at the centre of it all. New Year's Eve, 1979. My family and I stand...
A Song For Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival

A Song For Everyone: The Story of Creedence Clearwater Revival

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From 1969 to 1971, as the United States convulsed with political upheaval and transformative social movements, no band was bigger than Creedence Clearwater Revival. They managed a two-year barrage of...
Bob Dylan in the 1980s

Bob Dylan in the 1980s

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No period of Bob Dylan's six-decade career confounds fans more than the 1980s. The singer began the decade with Saved, the second in a trio of explicitly religious records, and...
Total Excess

Total Excess

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It has been said of Michael Zagaris' photographic oeuvre that it is the "last untouched rock archive." Zagaris was responsible for shooting everyone in the rock music scene in San...
Live Forever: The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of Oasis

Live Forever: The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of Oasis

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The finest book on Britain's most popular rock 'n' roll band'Read on ... It's all true' Noel Gallagher Featuring an exclusive interview with Noel Gallagher ahead of the Oasis Live...
Johnny Cash At Folsom And San Quentin

Johnny Cash At Folsom And San Quentin

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"Far from Folsom Prison that's where I long to stay Then I'd let that lonesome whistle blow my blues away" A powerful portrait of a legendary musician by a legendary...
Johnny Cash At Folsom And San Quentin

Johnny Cash At Folsom And San Quentin

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"Far from Folsom Prison that's where I long to stay Then I'd let that lonesome whistle blow my blues away" A powerful portrait of a legendary musician by a legendary...
Phil Collins in the 1980s

Phil Collins in the 1980s

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Phil Collins was everywhere in the 1980s. He had more top forty singles in the US than any other artist during the 1980s: fourteen as a solo artist and eleven...
Journeying Boy: The Diaries of the Young Benjamin Britten 1928-1938

Journeying Boy: The Diaries of the Young Benjamin Britten 1928-1938

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Best remembered for his operas and his War Requiem, Benjamin Britten's radical politics and his sexuality have also ensured that he remains a controversial public figure. Journeying Boy is a...
Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split

Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split

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One of the music world's pre-eminent critics takes a fresh and much-needed look at the day Dylan "went electric" at the Newport Folk Festival, timed to coincide with the event's...
David Bowie Rainbowman: 1967-1980

David Bowie Rainbowman: 1967-1980

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'This is a book unlike any other, the definitive analysis of David's music, told in a quiet natural way, but with absolute authenticity, by the people around him.' - Hermione...
Daisy Jones and The Six

Daisy Jones and The Six

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'I devoured this in a day, falling head over heels for Daisy and the band' REESE WITHERSPOON SOON TO BE AN AMAZON PRIME TV SERIES STARRING SAM CLAFLIN, RILEY KEOUGH...
Mahler: His Life, Work and World

Mahler: His Life, Work and World

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Gustav Mahler was born on 7 July 1860 in an insignificant outpost of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He grew to become one of the greatest conductors and composers of his time,...
The Pianist

The Pianist

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The powerful memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds.'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival...
Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

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'A roadmap for a new generation' VOGUE'Radical, funny and fearless' VANITY FAIR'Gripping' NYLONAn electric, searing memoir by the original Riot Grrrl and legendary frontwoman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre...
A Really Strange and Wonderful Time: The Chapel Hill Music Scene: 1989-1999

A Really Strange and Wonderful Time: The Chapel Hill Music Scene:

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The first biography of the thriving and influential rock scene in Chapel Hill, which gave the world artists like Ben Folds Five, Superchunk, and Squirrel Nut ZippersNorth Carolina has always...
Michael Tippett: The Biography

Michael Tippett: The Biography

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'A delight to read' Philip Pullman'Essential reading ... a genuine landmark publication' Tom ServiceA BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'The music of the British composer Michael Tippett - including...
Ticket to the World: My 80s Story

Ticket to the World: My 80s Story

$19.99 AUD$15.99 AUD
Ticket to the World is a joyous, nostalgic celebration of 80s culture from one man at the centre of it all. New Year's Eve, 1979. My family and I stand...
Pierre Boulez Studies

Pierre Boulez Studies

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Pierre Boulez is acknowledged as one of the most important composers in contemporary musical life. This collection explores his works, influence, reception and legacy, shedding new light on Boulez's music...