Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star by Nikki Sixx
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Set against the frenzied world of heavy metal superstardom, the co-founder of legendary Motley Crue offers an unflinching and gripping look at his own descent into drug addiction. When Motley Crue were at the height of their fame, there wasn't a drug Nikki Sixx wouldn't do. He spent days - sometimes alo ...Show more
Mozart in Motion: His Work and His World in Pieces by Patrick Mackie
$45.00 NZD
Category: Music
The music and life of one of modernity's most prevalent figures through the compositions that shaped him, from a dazzling new writer of non-fiction. Mozart holds a central, unwavering place in our culture, and his works are widely loved and listened to, often as much-loved favourites, or as background ...Show more
Black Sabbath - Symptom of the Universe by Mick Wall
$24.99 NZD
Category: Music
The final word on the only name synonymous with heavy metal - Black Sabbath. Way back in the mists of time, in the days when rock giants walked the earth, the name Ozzy Osbourne was synonymous with the subversive and dark. Back then, Ozzy was the singer in Black Sabbath, and they meant business. A four- ...Show more
The Rolling Stone Years by Baron Wolman
$49.99 NZD
$59.99 (16% off)
Category: Photography
Featuring the work of Baron Wolman, the first photographer to work for America's legendary "Rolling Stone" magazine, many of whose images from the late sixties and early seventies have become iconic shots from rock's most fertile era. Alongside scores of classic photos is Baron's first-hand account of t ...Show more
Play On: Now, Then and Fleetwood Mac, The Autobiography by Mick Fleetwood & Anthony Bozza
$39.99 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
"After forty-six years of being on the road, now is the right time to look back in a way I've never done before: now and then. I'm looking forward to sharing it with you." Mick Fleetwood has been part of one of the world's most successful and adored bands for over four decades. Here he tells the full an ...Show more
The Beatles by Allan Kozinn
$26.00 NZD
Category: Music
The Beatlesfollows the extraordinary development of four self-taught musicians from Liverpool, from their beginnings, until the break-up in 1970. This biography sets the group’s evolution against the backdrop of a popular culture explosion in the 1960s. A serious study of the Beatles’ music is expanded ...Show more
Pink Floyd - Album by Album by Martin Popoff
$45.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Album by Album Ser.
With more than a quarter billion albums sold, Pink Floyd stands among the all-time giants of rock. This beautifully produced look back at Pink Floyd's fifteen studio releases features entertaining, in-depth panel discussions with rock journalists and musicians moderated by author Martin Popoff. The resu ...Show more
Guns N' Roses : The Life and Times of a Rock N' Roll Band by Paul Elliot
$69.99 NZD
Category: Music
Guns N' Roses emerged from Los Angeles in the 1980s to become a global rock'n'roll phenomenon, selling in total more than 100 million albums. Three decades on, Guns N' Roses are once again headline news around the world - with the return of iconic guitarist Slash marking the end of his bitter 20-year fe ...Show more
The Double Life of Bob Dylan: Vol. 1 - A Restless Hungry Feeling, 1941-1966 by Clinton Heylin
$75.00 NZD
Category: Music
In 2016 it was announced that Bob Dylan had sold his personal archive to the George Kaiser Foundation in Tulsa, Oklahoma, reportedly for $22 million (and $64 million in tax relief). As the boxes started to arrive, the Foundation asked Clinton Heylin - author of the acclaimed Dylan behind the Shades (199 ...Show more
Chasing Chopin - A Musical Journey Across Three Centuries, Four Countries, and a Half-Dozen Revolutions by Annik LaFarge
$35.00 NZD
Category: Music
A modern take on a classical icon: this "luminous book" (Susan Orlean, New York Times bestselling author of The Library Book) tells the story of when, where, and how Chopin composed his most famous work, uncovering many surprises along the way and showing how his innovative music still animates and thri ...Show more
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by Brian Southall
$39.99 NZD
Category: Music
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 split into two distinct halves: the "A-side" is all about the Beatles, the music on the album, the recording process, how the disc was received at the ti ...Show more
The Rolling Stones: On Air in the Sixties by Richard Havers
$95.00 NZD
Category: Music
This new official book tells the story, for the first time, of the Stones through their many radio and TV appearances as they rose to fame in the sixties. From their first TV appearance on Thank Your Lucky Stars!, buttoned up in matching hounds-tooth suits at manager Andrew Loog Oldham's insistence, to ...Show more