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Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed the World
A century after his death, Gustav Mahler is the most important composer of modern times. Displacing Beethoven as a box-office draw, his music offers more than the usual listening satisfactions....
My Appetite for Destruction: Sex & Drugs & Guns 'N' Roses
From original Guns N' Roses drummer Steven Adler comes the inside story of Guns N' Roses through a new perspective and his own intense struggle with addiction. Guns N' Roses...
Hard Day's Write: The Stories Behind Every Beatles' Song
$55.00 AUD
Rock music journalist Steve Turner here reveals the true tales behind the Beatles' songs, drawing on in-depth interviews with the real-life subjects of the songs and the people who were...
The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics
The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics is the only major collection of illustrated Beatles lyrics available. Originally published in 1969, this book has become a symbol of an era, a must-have for...
Keith Richards: A Life in Pictures
From the early days of The Rolling Stones, with a relatively baby-faced 'Keef' sporting a hounds-tooth jacket, to his heroic piratical look of the present day, rock's indestructible hero has...
AC/DC: For Those About to Rock
To millions of fans AC/DC will always be the greatest hard rock band of them all. From their formation in Sydney, Australia in 1973 by brothers Angus and Malcolm Young,...
Four Strong Winds: Ian and Sylvia
$15.00 AUD
An acclaimed music historian brings us the long-awaited story of Ian & Sylvia - marking the first time that the legendary folk duo has endorsed a biography of their groundbreaking...
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
$40.00 AUD
June 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of what many think is the greatest Beatles album. This book is a new way of telling the story of the album and is...
The Beatles Lyrics: The Unseen Story Behind Their Music
$70.00 AUD
The first-ever collection of the original handwritten Beatles' lyrics. Never before has anyone attempted to track down and publish the original versions of the classic songs, many of which have...
Highways and Byways: Tall tales and short stories from the long way
The new book from Jimmy Barnes, the award-winning author of the number-one bestsellers Working Class Boy, Working Class Man and Killing Time From larger-than-life adventures to vivid and poignant tales...
The Elton John Activity Book: An Unofficial Lovefest
Recognising one of the most-honoured performers of all time, The Elton John Activity Book is a celebration of a musical great. Perfect for the long-standing superfan or for those wanting...
The Seekers: The 50 Year Recorded History of Australia's First
$60.00 AUD
This is the world's first 'Enseeklopedia' - a treasure trove of stories, music analysis and rare memorabilia. Moreover, it is a long overdue salute to Australia's Fab Four and their...
Great Music Makers
'The art of music-making', writes Michael Shmith, 'is a frighteningly intangible abstract thing that is as easy to describe as it is to contain murcury in your hand. Music, a...
Being John Lennon
John Lennon was a rock star, a school clown, a writer, a wit, an iconoclast, a sometime peace activist and finally an eccentric millionaire. He was also a Beatle -...
The Wagner Clan: The Saga of Germanya's Most Illustrious and Infamous
$12.00 AUD
A family saga as riveting as any opera, and a matchless mirror of Germany's rise, fall, and resurrection. Richard Wagner was many things--composer, philosopher, philanderer, failed revolutionary, and virulent anti-Semite--and...
It Was You All Along
The self-made musical artist follows his bestseller IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD with this second inspirational book for everyone who's looking for answers in all the wrong places. It's a...
Rolling Stones - Priceless: The Ultimate Memorabilia Collection
Matt Lee has been collecting Rolling Stones memorabilia for more than two decades. He amassed so much that he had to move house; he now has his own private museum...
Not Dead Yet: The Autobiography
The long-awaited autobiography from Phil Collins, one of the bestselling music artists of all time. This is the rollercoaster journey from his beginnings as a child actor to his domination...
Run Rose Run: The smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller
From America's most beloved superstar and its greatest storyteller - a thriller about a young singer-songwriter determined to do whatever it takes to survive. FIND A FUTURE. LOSE A PAST....
The Lives of Brian: The Sunday Times bestselling autobiography from
The story of AC/DC's legendary front man in his own distinctive voice 'It wasn't me. I didn't do it. And I'll never do it again!' says Brian Johnson of The...
Into the Taylor-Verse: Taylor Swift's Songwriting Journey
Unofficial illustrated, comprehensive overview of Taylor Swift's music, including hidden references for Swifties to discover in beautiful package. Fearlessly jump and fall into the world of Taylor Swift with this...
Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream
Rock icon Neil Young tells the story of a remarkable four decades in music 'I felt that writing books fit me like a glove; I just started and I just...
Eric Clapton: The Autobiography
The bestselling rock autobiography of all time. Eric Clapton is far more than a rock star. Like Dylan and McCartney, he is an icon and a living legend. He has...
So Tell Me What You Want: The must-read 2025 music memoir on life
*One of Waterstones' Best Entertainment Books of the Year 2024* 1987. Armed with a Filofax, a brick of a mobile phone and steely determination, 20-year-old Nicki Chapman is walking through...
Quartet for the End of Time: On Music, Grief and Birdsong
A personal reckoning with grief, doubt, faith and poetry set to one of the most celebrated musical works of the twentieth century, from the award-winning poet and librettist. 'This is...
Prince: Icon
This sumptuous and luxuriously produced volume gathers portraits, album covers, photographs of performances and rehearsals, rarely seen private moments, and candid snapshots of Prince, one of the greatest singer-songwriters of...
Thanks A Lot Mr Kibblewhite
'Before the sixties, you were a child and then you were a man. You went to school and then you went to work. That changed. Our generation changed it.' Roger...
Bruce Springsteen: 50 Years of Rock 'n' Roll
Bruce Springsteen: A musician. A family man. A religious man. An activist. A boss. THE BOSS. From podcasts with former President Barak Obama to record smashing sales deals, Bruce Springsteen...
Music: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Musical Instruments and the
Each family of instruments is discussed in detail: strings, woodwind and brass, percussion and keyboards, as well as a section on the voice. All the modern orchestral instruments and their...
Beethoven's Hair
After his death, Fremming's daughter inherited the lock, and eventually put it up for sale at Sotheby's, where two American Beethoven enthusiasts, Ira Brilliant and Che Guevara, purchased it in...
Stereophonics: Performance and Cocktails
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Titles are: Roll Up and Shine * The Bartender and the Thief * Hurry Up and Wait * Pick a Part That's New * Just Looking * Half the Lies...
The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely
See the film Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song from Sony Pictures Classics This "thoughtful and illuminating" ( The New York Times ) work of music journalism is an...
The Meaning of Mariah Carey
The global icon, award-winning singer, songwriter, producer, actress, mother, daughter, sister, storyteller and artist finally tells the unfiltered story of her life in The Meaning of Mariah Carey. It took...
Yoko
'Absorbing' Telegraph 'Gentle, empathetic, committed to righting undeniable wrongs' S unday Times, Book of the Week 'Illuminating and affectionate... an intimate and perceptive portrait' Publishers Weekly An intimate and revelatory...
Over the Top and Back: The Autobiography
The first full memoir from one of the world's most famous singers In a career that has spanned six decades, Sir Tom Jones has performed with almost every major recording...
The Times Lives Behind the Music: Era-defining obituaries of rock and
A must-read collection for all music fans. Delve into the tumultuous world of music stardom with this collection of obituaries from The Times . From the rock'n'roll pioneers of the...
Secret Lives of Great Composers: What Your Teachers Never Told You
Secret Lives of Great Authors revealed the dirty secrets of Hemingway, Kafka, and Tolstoy. Secret Lives of Great Artists explored the bizarre behavior of Picasso, Matisse, and Monet. Now you...
Streisand: In the Camera Eye
Streisand: In the Camera Eye is a collection of 170 of the most compelling photographs of Barbra Streisand, chosen for their rarity, beauty, and insight into Streisand's multifaceted life and...
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
$12.00 AUD
So, I've written a book. Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities ('It's a piece of cake! Just do four hours of interviews, find...
Ticket to the World: My 80s Story
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...
The Lives and Times of the Great Composers
Comprehensive and meticulously researched, Lives and Times of the Great Composers is a lovingly constructed biographical history of the giants of classical music. Each self-contained chapter narrates the life and...
Later ... With Jools Holland: 30 Years of Music, Magic and Mayhem
'You never knew what you were going to be confronted with when you went on Later... ' Nick Cave' Later... is a voyage of discovery for us as well as...
Love Brought Me Back: A Journey of Loss and Gain
IN THIS LUMINOUS MEMOIR, LEGENDARY SINGER AND ACTRESS NATALIE COLE TELLS A REMARKABLE STORY OF LIFE-THREATENING ILLNESS AND RECOVERY, AND THE STORY OF A DEATH THAT BROUGHT NEW LIFE. In...
The Natural Mystics: Marley, Tosh, and Wailer
$15.00 AUD
Over one dramatic decade, a trio of Trenchtown R&B crooners swapped their 1960s Brylcreem hairdos and two-tone suits for 1970s battle fatigues and dreadlocks to become the Wailers--one of the...
Cher: The Memoir, Part One: The global number 1 bestseller
Part One of a Two Part Memoir from the Iconic Artist and Actor 'A rock 'n' roll memoir like no other' Daily Mail 'A gutsy account of tenacity and perseverance...Cher's...
Bowie at the BBC: A life in interviews
A LOUDER THAN WAR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A unique insight... An excellent companion for both the casual and obsessive Bowie fan' Louder Then War The life of an icon,...