Beethoven for a Later Age: The Journey of a String Quartet by Edward Dusinberre
$45.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
'They are not for you but for a later age!' Ludwig van Beethoven, on the Opus 59 quartets Beethoven's sixteen string quartets are some of the most extraordinary and challenging pieces of music ever written. They have inspired artists of all kinds - not only musicians - and have been subject to endless ...Show more
Old Records Never Die - One Man's Quest for His Vinyl and His Past by Eric Spitznagel; Jeff Tweedy (Foreword by)
$30.00 NZD
Category: Music
A Hudson Booksellers Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year, with foreword by Wilco's Jeff Tweedy High Fidelity meets Killing Yourself to Live when one man searches for his lost record collection. As he finds himself within spitting distance of middle-age, journalist Eric Spitznagel feels acutely the ...Show more
Motherless Child: The Definitive Biography of Eric Clapton by Paul Scott
$27.99 NZD
Category: Music
From the Yardbirds to Cream, Blind Faith to Derek and the Dominos, and a hugely-successful solo career, Eric Clapton's fifty years in the music business can look like an uninterrupted rise to become one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived. But his story is as complicated as it is fascinating. ...Show more
Boss: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band - The Illustrated History by Gillian G. Gaar
$49.99 NZD
Category: Music
Find out how legendary musician Bruce Springsteen earned his monicker. There's only one Boss; his story is revealed here. Bruce Springsteen is a platinum-shifting, stadium-filling rock star, but he is also more nuanced than that. He is a man of the people, making conventional-and-proud-of-it rock musi ...Show more
Sweet Dreams and Flying Machines by RIBOWSKY MARK
$65.00 NZD
Category: Music
In 1970 a scraggly, antiheroic young man from North Carolina by way of Massachusetts began presenting a comforting new sound, a kind never heard before. Within a year of his first serious album, the rock icons of the '60s were gone: the Beatles, Hendrix, Joplin, Morrison. When young ears sought a new so ...Show more
Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy by Mike Love
$32.99 NZD
Category: Music
Mike Love is a founding member, lyricist and vocalist of The Beach Boys, considered to be the most popular American band in history, with 13 Gold Albums, 55 top-100 singles, and four number 1 hits. Love has been the lead singer of the group one of its principal lyricists since its inception in 1961. In ...Show more
Prince: Purple Reign by Mick Wall
$29.99 NZD
Category: Music
Prince was an icon. A man who defined an era of music and changed the shape of popular culture forever. There is no doubt that he was one of the most talented and influential artists of all time, and also one of the most mysterious. On 21st April 2016 the world lost its Prince; it was the day the music ...Show more
Music for Life: 100 Works to Carry You Through by Fiona Maddocks
$32.99 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
How does music reflect the key moments in our lives? How do we choose the works that inspire, delight, comfort or console? Fiona Maddocks selects 100 classical works from across nine centuries, arguing passionately, persuasively and at times obstinately for their inclusion, putting each work in its cult ...Show more
Absolutely on Music by Haruki Murakami; Seiji Ozawa
$50.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: good-very good
'My only purpose in this book was for me, as a music lover, to have a discussion of music with the musician Seiji Ozawa that was as open and honest as possible. I simply wanted to bring out the ways that each of us (though on vastly different levels) is dedicated to music.' Haruki Murakami's passion for ...Show more
How to Play the Piano by James Rhodes
$29.99 NZD
Category: Music | Series: The Little Book of Life Skills | Reading Level: fine
An accessible and inspiring guide by the pianist and international bestselling writer James Rhodes, who promises that this book gives anyone with two hands, a piano or an electric keyboard and just 45 minutes a day the tools they need to learn to play Bach's Prelude No. 1 in C Major in 6 weeks, even if ...Show more
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
$49.99 NZD
Category: Music
"Writing about yourself is a funny business...But in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind. In these pages, I've tried to do this." -Bruce Springsteen, from the pages of Born to Run In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl's ...Show more
Adele by Sean Smith
$34.99 NZD
Category: Music
Adele touches the hearts of millions of people who love her for her music and share the real and honest emotion she brings to each and every song. In a cynical age, she is a phenomenon. In Adele, bestselling biographer Sean Smith talks to those close to her as he follows her astonishing journey to fame ...Show more