A Road Tour of American Song Titles: From Mendocino to Memphis by Karl Du Fresne
$39.99 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
Like most New Zealand kids in the 1960s, Karl du Fresne grew up listening to songs about American towns and cities: Kansas City, El Paso, New Orleans, Detroit and Tulsa, to name just a few. He found himself wondering what sort of places they were and what had motivated such illustrious pop composers as ...Show more
Piano and Keyboard Chords Made Easy: Comprehensive Sound Links by Jake Jackson
$29.99 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Music Made Easy
Introducing a major new feature for print books: sound! Now you can see the chord, then reach for your phone and hear the chord. Using any free QR code reader app (Android, iPhone, Blackberry, Windows) a web site opens automatically and you can listen to the piano as a full chord, an arpeggio (each note ...Show more
To Feel the Music - A Songwriter's Mission to Save High-Quality Audio by Neil Young; Phil Baker
$47.99 NZD
Category: Music
Neil Young took on the music industry so that fans could hear his music--all music--the way it was meant to be heard. Today, most of the music fans listen to is streamed via online services and highly compressed. It's convenient, but, frustratingly, this comes at the cost of quality. Gone are the days w ...Show more
Katy Perry : The Unofficial Biography by Alice Montgomery
$30.00 NZD
Category: Music
Sassy, cheeky, classy, sexy . . . multi-platinum, award-winning Katy Perry isn't your average girl next door. Behind the headlines there's an even more astonishing story to be told than her public imagines . . .
The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey
$39.99 NZD
Category: Music
It took me a lifetime to have the courage and the clarity to write my memoir. I want to tell the story of the moments - the ups and downs, the triumphs and traumas, the debacles and the dreams, that contributed to the person I am today. Though there have been countless stories about me throughout my car ...Show more
The History of Rock & Roll, Volume 1: 1920-1963 by Ed Ward
$34.99 NZD
Category: Music
Ed Ward covers the first half of the history of rock & roll in this sweeping and definitive narrative--from the 1920s, when the music of rambling medicine shows mingled with the songs of vaudeville and minstrel acts to create the very early sounds of country and rhythm and blues, to the rise of the ...Show more
The Little Guide to Elton John: Wit, Wisdom and Wise Words from the Rocket Man by Orange Hippo!
$14.99 NZD
Category: Music | Series: The\Little Books of Music Ser.
Sir Elton Hercules John has enjoyed a phenomenal career filled with success, excess and achievement. His farewell tour was announced as more than 300 dates across all corners of the glode for years. Illness, Covid-19 and other extenuating circumstances conspired to prolong it, but the Farewell Yellow Br ...Show more
Art Record Covers. 40th Ed by Francesco Spampinato
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music
Since the dawn of modernism, visual and music production have had a particularly intimate relationship. From Luigi Russolo's 1913 Futurist manifesto L'Arte dei Rumori (The Art of Noise) to Marcel Duchamp's 1925 double-sided discs Rotoreliefs, the 20th century saw ever more fertile exchange between sound ...Show more
Listen to This by Alex Ross
$27.99 NZD
Category: Music
One of The Telegraph's Best Music Books 2011 Alex Ross's award-winning international bestseller, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, has become a contemporary classic, establishing Ross as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural historians. Listen to This, which takes its titl ...Show more
Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd by Nick Mason
$27.99 NZD
Category: Music
The definitive history of Pink Floyd, one of the world's great bands, by founder member Nick Mason. One of the most fascinating rock bands ever, Pink Floyd was formed in 1965. After a year in the London 'underground' experimenting with revolutionary techniques such as lights that matched their music, th ...Show more
Queen: The Ultimate Illustrated History of the Crown Kings of Rock by Phil Sutcliffe
$39.99 NZD
Category: Music
The revised and updated, complete illustrated history of rock 'n' roll's most dynamic band--Queen. They were renowned for stunning live performances, envied for rumors of their rock 'n' roll excess, and beloved for their occasionally anthemic and always virtuosic music. Nearly twenty years after the dea ...Show more
Freddie Mercury - The Definitive Biography by Lesley-Ann Jones
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
This is the definitive biography of Freddie Mercury. Written by an award-winning rock journalist, Lesley-Ann Jones toured widely with Queen forming lasting friendships with the band. Now, having secured access to the remaining band members and those who were closest to Freddie, from childhood to death, ...Show more