Two Riders Were Approaching: The Life & Death of Jimi Hendrix by Mick Wall
$27.99 NZD
Category: Music
Jimmy was a down-at-heel guitarist in New York, relying on his latest lovers to support him while he tried to emulate his hero Bob Dylan. A black guy playing white rock music, he wanted to be all things to all people.But when Jimmy arrived in England and became Jimi, the cream of swinging London fell un ...Show more
Mstislav Rostropovich: Cellist, Teacher, Legend by Elizabeth Wilson
$45.00 NZD
Category: Music
Published to coincide with Rostropovich's 80th birthday celebrationsMstislav Rostropovich, internationally recognised as one of the world's finest cellists and musicians, has always maintained that teaching is an important responsibility for great artists. Before his emigration in 1974 from Russia to th ...Show more
Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music by Alex Ross
$39.99 NZD
Category: Music
Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics--an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and ...Show more
Wired for Sound: The Stebbing History of New Zealand Music by Grant Gillanders Robyn Welsh
$89.99 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: near fine
For the first time ever, discover the story behind the Stebbing recording legacy. From pioneering violins and 78 records, to the singers, songwriters, engineers and producers who have graced Stebbing's famous three recording studios. Come inside the mid-1960s Galaxie nightclub, the evolution of the Zodi ...Show more
This is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl by Paul Brannigan
$24.99 NZD
Category: Music
The biography of the extraordinary career of Dave Grohl, drummer of Nirvana, front man of the Foo Fighters, based on original and exclusive interviews ("A rich history"--New York Times Book Review)This Is a Call, the first in-depth, definitive biography of Dave Grohl, tells the epic story of a singular ...Show more
Little Book of Elvis in the Movies by Knight Timothy
$21.99 NZD
Category: Music
This title offers analysis and information about all the films Elvis Presley starred in throughout his career.
Immortal Axes - Guitars That Rock by Seymour Duncan (Foreword by); Lisa S. Johnson; Brad Tolinski (As told to); Suzi Quatro (Afterword by); Peter Frampton (Foreword by)
$119.99 NZD
Category: Music
What a beautiful book...a great presentation and wonderful insight into these historic guitars.--Nils Lofgren on 108 Rock Star Guitars Foreword by Peter FramptonAfterword by Suzi Quatro From the photographer of the critically acclaimed 108 Rock Star Guitars comes a new collection of beautifully ...Show more
The Complete History of Guitar World: 30 Years of Music, Magic and Six-String Mayhem by Guitar World Magazine
$19.99 NZD
$29.99 (33% off)
Category: Music
For 30 years, "Guitar World" magazine has served as North America's leading publication for rock guitarists - and with more than 325 issues under its belt, the world's best-selling guitar magazine is showing no signs of slowing down. In this extraordinary book, the complete history of "Guitar World" is ...Show more
Rock and Roll and the Beat Goes on by Cousin Brucie Morrow
$39.99 NZD
Category: Music
Through these images, you can feel, and almost hear, the trios songs calling for a more caring, better world as you see them performing before hundreds of thousands of people with a courage and conviction that became, for so many, the embodiment and soundtrack of their generations awakening to conscienc ...Show more
With the Beatles by Alistair Taylor
$32.99 NZD
Category: Music
When we went to the Palace to get The Beatles their OBEs John Lennon had some acid with him. 'I'm gonna slip it into the Queen's tea,' he told me. 'I want to open her mind and try to get her to declare war on somewhere nice and warm so we can all go and fight on the beaches.' After Jane Asher dumped ...Show more
Rolling Stones Treasures by Glenn Crouch
$59.99 NZD
Category: Music
The Rolling Stones were around when the Beatles were topping the charts throughout the 1960s, they survived metal's and then punk's popularity in the 1970s and 1980s and they kept on rockin' through the turn of the century. "Treasures of the Rolling Stones", an unofficial publication, tells the story of ...Show more