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Musician and artist Cosey Fanni Tutti has continually challenged boundaries and conventions for four decades. As a founding member of the hugely influential avant-garde band Throbbing Gristle, as one half...
The Blue Moment: Miles Davis's Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern
'It is the most singular of sounds, yet among the most ubiquitous. It is the sound of isolation that has sold itself to millions.' Miles Davis's Kind of Blue is...
33 Revolutions Per Minute
Why 33? Partly because that's the number of rotations performed by a vinyl album in one minute, and partly because it takes a lot of songs to tell a story...
The ABBA Activity Book: An Unofficial Lovefest
The next instalment in Pavilion's chart-topping activity book series by Sunday Times bestselling author Nathan Joyce Whether you're a diehard fan or just discovering the magic, The ABBA Activity Book...
Gilbert And Sullivan
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBehind the curtain of Victorian England's most celebrated theatrical partnership lies a story of creative genius, ego, and...
There's Music In My Madness: And Opera As Well
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFor decades, John Cargher was the irreverent, passionate, and brilliantly entertaining voice of classical music and opera on Australian radio, and There's Music in...
The Savoy Stories: Transcribed From The Gilbert And Sullivan Operas
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFor lovers of wit, wordplay, and Victorian theatrical genius, The Savoy Stories presents a charming retelling of the beloved Gilbert and Sullivan operas, transformed...
England'S Dreaming-Trade
England's Dreaming is the ultimate book on Punk. Full of new research, exclusive interviews and rare photographs, it tells the sensational story of the Sex Pistols and the turbulent period...
A Song For Every Season: A Hundred Years Of A Sussex Farming Family
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: Protective covering over dust jacket (removable)For over a century, the rolling fields and ancient farmsteads of Sussex were alive with the sound of...
The Little Chronicle Of Magdalena Bach
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerStep into the candlelit world of eighteenth-century Leipzig, where the genius of Johann Sebastian Bach unfolds not through the grand sweep of history,...
Stories Of The Great Operas & Their Composers
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: stained book blockFrom the thunderous drama of Verdi to the mythic grandeur of Wagner, Stories of the Great Operas &...
Famous Puccini Operas
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA masterwork of operatic scholarship, Famous Puccini Operas by Spike Hughes is the definitive...
The Essential Taylor Swift Fanbook
Calling all Swifties! This brand new, fully up to date book has everything that fans need to know about Taylor Swift. Follow her journey from country music sensation to global...
It's Not a Cult: 'Fierce, freewheeling modern folk horror that thrums
'I loved it straight away ... characters so vivid you feel like they might be living in your wardrobe right now' NATASHA PULLEY, author of THE WATCHMAKER OF FILIGREE STREET...
A Women's History of the Beatles
Winner of the 2022 Open Publication Prize by the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM-ANZ) A Women's History of the Beatles is the first book to offer...
When Rock Met Hip-Hop: How Run-DMC, Aerosmith, Anthrax, The Beastie
One of the most important events in modern music remains the late 80s cross-collision of rock and hip hop. Aerosmith/Run DMC, Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique, Public Enemy and Anthrax, Rick...
Into the Groove: The Story of Sound From Tin Foil to Vinyl
'By mixing lo-fi charm into hi-fi science Into the Groove captures all the wonder and absurdity of its subject, jumping and skipping with real analogue delight .' - Sunday Times...
The Lost Music of the Holocaust: Bringing the music of the camps to
For more than thirty years Francesco Lotoro, an Italian pianist and composer has been on an odyssey to recover music written by the inmates of Adolf Hitler's concentration camps and...
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Musicals: Of Thee I Sing to A Strange Loop
What is the tie that binds a show like the Gershwin Brothers' Of Thee I Sing to Michael R. Jackson's A Strange Loop ? Did you know that the Pulitzer...
The Future Saints: The new unforgettable romance from TikTok sensation
**Don't miss Ashley's brand explosive book HOT GIRL MURDER CLUB out now** THE NEW ROMANCE NOVEL FROM TIKTOK SENSATION ASHLEY WINSTEAD. 'The Future Saints is not to be missed.' Annabel...
John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs - The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller
'The first new Beatles story in decades - and the one that will make your heart burst.' CAITLIN MORAN 'Ian Leslie has done the impossible, and breathed new life into...
Renegade: The Lives and Tales of Mark E. Smith
"This might be the funniest music book ever written" - Sean O'Hagan, Observer Music Monthly Still going after thirty years, The Fall are one of the most distinctive British bands,...
Burning Down the House: Talking Heads and the New York Scene That
"Definitive...Not just for Talking Heads fans-it's a masterful dive into downtown New York in the 70s, and the changing face of rock music."- Town & Country " Riveting" - New...
The House of Beckham: Money, Sex and Power
The explosive new book from Britain's leading investigative biographer, Tom Bower As one of the most famous and influential couples in the world, David and Victoria Beckham have attained iconic...
Fela Anikulapo-Kuti's Sorrow Tears and Blood
Sorrow Tears and Blood offers a glimpse into the complicated social, cultural, and political phenomenon that is Nigeria. Though Nigeria is the most populous African country, and sometimes called the...
The Perfect Tuba: Forging Fulfillment from the Bass Horn, Band, and
Named a best book of the year by BookPage and California Review of Books From National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Sam Quinones, the story of a demanding instrument, the...
A Women's History of the Beatles
Winner of the 2022 Open Publication Prize by the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM-ANZ) A Women's History of the Beatles is the first book to offer...
Wildfire: My Ten Years Getting High in The Prodigy
Wildfire tells the story of the first decade of The Prodigy from the perspective of original member Leeroy Thornhill, fully illustrated with entirely unseen photography from the earliest raves, to...
Goodbye Russia: Rachmaninoff in Exile
In 1940 Sergei Rachmaninoff, living in exile in America, broke his creative silence and composed a swan song to his Russian homeland. What happened in those final haunted years and...
The Great Jazz and Pop Vocal Albums
$15.00 AUD
The author of the magisterial A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers now approaches the great singers and their greatest work in an innovative and revelatory way:...
The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Strange Trip and the publicist of the Grateful Dead, Dennis McNally, a riveting social history of everything that led up...
I Don't Want to Go Home: The Oral History of the Stone Pony
"Reading Nick Corasaniti's delightful book about the storied Asbury Park, New Jersey, club is like sitting at your favorite bar listening to the old regulars tell magnificent stories." - Rolling...
To Be Young, Gifted and Black: Longlisted for the 2026 Women's Prize
When Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason's eldest daughter, Isata, made her solo debut at the BBC Proms in 2023, she could not have been prouder. Watching years of hard work transform into a...
Not for You: Pearl Jam and the Present Tense
There has never been a band like Pearl Jam. The Seattle quintet has recorded eleven studio albums; sold some 85 million records; played over a thousand shows, in fifty countries;...
Moving in Stereo: Ric Ocasek, the Driving Force of The Cars
The sounds of new wave pop music and the early days of MTV were defined by the work of a handful of iconic musicians, and few stood taller in that...
David Bowie and the Search for Life, Death and God: A spiritual
ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 'BEST BOOKS TO DIP INTO THIS SUMMER' 'The Bowie you thought you knew is recast completely' The Spectator 'A transfixing look at David Bowie's life through...
Queer Musicals: Boy Meets Boy to Jagged Little Pill
What links the shows La Cage aux Folles, Kinky Boots and BARE ? When was the first Queer musical produced on Broadway? How has queerness evolved in the context of...
A Perfect Harmony: Music, Mathematics and Science
From the earliest of civilisations, humans have found ways to make music, whether through makeshift drums or artfully drilled bone flutes. But how did music - effectively little more than...
A Charmed Life: The Autobiography of David Essex
The autobiography of one of Britain's most-loved pop performers. Born in West Ham in 1947, David recalls his childhood living in a hostel for the homeless and his passion for...
From this Moment on
From music legend Shania Twain comes the extraordinary memoir everyone is talking about,including Oprah. the world may know Shania twain as many things: a music legend, a mother, and recently,...
Drumming at the Edge of Magic
The book titled Drumming at the Edge of Magic by the author Mickey Hart. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Mozart
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew composers have captivated the world's imagination as completely as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Eric Blom's Mozart — part of...
How To Enjoy Opera Without Really Trying
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFor anyone who has ever felt intimidated by the grandeur and complexity of opera, John Cargher's How to...
The Hacienda: How Not to Run a Club
Peter Hook, as co-founder of Joy Division and New Order, has been shaping the course of popular music for thirty years. He provided the propulsive bass guitar melodies of 'Love...
Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's Last Year
'Paul Alexander tells her story in a way that could put her soul and our questions to rest' Gloria Steinem ' Bitter Crop shows just what lay behind that tragic,...
Country Roads: How Country Came to Nashville
Brian Hinton traces the Celtic elements in country music to the early Irish, English and Scottish settlers who lived in the Appalachian region and were predominantly poor. The study considers...
America's Mistress: Eartha Kitt, Her Life and Times
Eartha Kitt was a skinny, mixed-race woman with an odd, angular face, who seduced fifties white America into thinking that she was, in the words of Orson Welles, 'the most...
Devil on my Shoulder
The definitive autobiography from Alice Cooper, the Godfather of Shock Rock and one of the world's most iconic musicians with a career spanning six decades. ONE OF THE TIMES BOOKS...