Straight from the Heart by Bonnie Tyler
$39.99 NZD
Category: Music
We all know the name, and we all know that voice, but what the world doesn't know is how Bonnie Tyler came to be the vocal powerhouse that took the music industry by storm. Now, after nearly 50 years in the limelight, Bonnie will lift the lid on her private life: her 50-year marriage, health, family, fr ...Show more
The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present by Paul McCartney
$155.00 NZD
Category: Music
'More often than I can count, I've been asked if I would write an autobiography, but the time has never been right. The one thing I've always managed to do, whether at home or on the road, is to write new songs. I know that some people, when they get to a certain age, like to go to a diary to recall day ...Show more
Hey Woolfie Welcome To The World by Ray Woolf; Roger Booth
$39.99 NZD
Category: Music
Ray came to New Zealand as a 17-year old pop singer from London. He joined the wave of young New Zealanders in the likes of CMon and Happen Inn on New Zealand's only television channel. He fronted Ray Woolf and the Avengers. He entertained a lot of us as a host of Play School television kids show. He br ...Show more
Elton John: Captain Fantastic on the Yellow Brick Road by Gillian G. Gaar
$49.99 NZD
Category: Music
A beautifully produced celebration of the iconic and beloved rock star, Elton John features live onstage and candid offstage photography, an entertaining history, and timeline. Few rock artists continue to gather more and more adulation with age than Sir Elton Hercules John. In this re-release of Elt ...Show more
One Way or Another: My Life in Music, Sport & Entertainment by Chris Wright
$29.99 NZD
Category: Music
One Way Or Another is multi-millionaire rock, media and sport mogul Chris Wright's explosive autobiography. In it, Wright lifts the veil on the wheeling and dealing that propelled his company Chrysalis to the forefront of the pop industry - and how the fortune he made from rock enabled him to buy Que ...Show more
Bruce Springsteen at 75 by Gillian G. Gaar
$105.00 NZD
Category: Music
Experience the extraordinary career of "The Boss" with this richly illustrated package featuring two gatefolds, exclusive pullout poster, 8" 10" glossy, and a sturdy slipcase. A unique and lavishly produced celebration of the iconic rocker, Bruce Springsteen at 75 examines an extraordinary career throug ...Show more
Me: Elton John Official Autobiography by Elton John
$29.99 NZD
$49.99 (40% off)
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
In his first and only official autobiography, music icon Elton John reveals the truth about his extraordinary life. The result is Me - the joyously funny, honest and moving story of the most enduringly successful singer/songwriter of all time. Christened Reginald Dwight, he was a shy boy with Buddy Holl ...Show more
Why Dylan Matters by Richard F. Thomas
$26.99 NZD
Category: Music
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
Sonic Boom - The Impossible Rise of Warner Bros. Records, from Hendrix to Fleetwood Mac to Madonna to Prince by Peter Ames Carlin
$70.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
The most compelling figures in the Warner Bros. story are the sagacious Mo Ostin and the unlikely crew of hippies, eccentrics, and enlightened execs who were the first in the music business to read the generational writing on the wall in the mid-1960s. By recruiting outsider artists and allowing them to ...Show more
Paul Simon: The Life by Robert Hilburn
$37.99 NZD
Category: Music
Acclaimed music writer Robert Hilburn's "epic" and "definitive" (Rolling Stone) biography of music icon Paul Simon, written with Simon's full participation--but without his editorial control--that "reminds us how titanic this musician is" (The Washington Post). For more than fifty years, Paul Simon has ...Show more
The Tastemaker: My Life with the Legends and Geniuses of Rock Music by Tony King
$45.00 NZD
Category: Music
The Tastemaker charts the singular life of a man who has been at the beating heart of music's most iconic moments for over sixty years. 'This is a brilliant book by a brilliant man. A magician with perfect taste. Thank God I met him. He is gold dust!' ELTON JOHN Leaving school at the age of sixteen to s ...Show more