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AC/DC: Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be by Mick Wall
$39.99 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
AC/DC moved to Britain from Sydney in 1975, and soon set up a residency at London's Marquee Club. Their short hair (including the odd mullet), loud rock and attitude chimed well with the lingering pub rock and soon-to-be punk crowd. They weren't really a band for guitar solos, and singer Bon Scott was t ...Show more
Black Sabbath - Symptom of the Universe by Mick Wall
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Way back in the mists of time, in the days when rock giants walked the earth, the name Ozzy Osbourne was synonymous with subversive and dark. Back then, Ozzy was the singer in Black Sabbath, and they meant business. In an era when it seemed possible to measure a band's musical prowess by how 'heavy' the ...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
Eagles - Dark Desert Highway by Mick Wall
$29.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs
'This could be heaven or this could be hell...' So sings Don Henley on their biggest hit, 'Hotel California', and it is true that the Eagles story was one that blurred the ultimate Hollywood highs and subterranean LA lows beyond recognition.The band that embodied the American dream with globe-straddlin ...Show more
Eagles - Dark Desert Highway: How America's Dream Band Turned into a Nightmare by Mick Wall
$39.99 NZD
Category: Music
'This could be heaven or this could be hell...' So sings Don Henley on their biggest hit, 'Hotel California', and it is true that the Eagles story was one that blurred the ultimate Hollywood highs and subterranean LA lows beyond recognition. The band that embodied the American dream with globe-straddli ...Show more
Foo Fighters - Learning to Fly by Mick Wall
$37.99 NZD
Category: Music
Everyone from Sir Paul McCartney and Jimmy Page to Queens of the Stone Age now relishes the chance to share a stage with Dave Grohl and his legendary Foo Fighters. The question is: why? Musical depth? Not really. Major success? Well, yes. Despite no longer shifting albums in the same quantity as they di ...Show more
Getcha Rocks Off - Sex & Excess Bust-Ups & Binges Life & Death on the Rock 'n' Roll Road by Mick Wall
$39.99 NZD
Category: Music
Hanging out with rock stars, trying to steal their chicks, or throwing up over their guitars after launching into the hospitality a little too enthusiastically, Mick Wall spent much of the 1980s sprawled in limos and five-star hotels with the biggest rock bands in the world, including Led Zeppelin, Guns ...Show more
Hercules!: The A to Z of Elton John by Mick Wall
$39.99 NZD
Category: Music
An 'A to Z'-format biography of one of the most successful pop artists of all time. Comprising a vivid and varied series of miniature biographies, revealing profiles, thought-provoking essays and a multitude of previously unknown anecdotes and quotes, Hercules!: The A to Z of Elton John is the perfect c ...Show more
Last of the Giants: The True Story of Guns N' Roses by Mick Wall
$24.99 NZD
Category: Music
INCLUDES BRAND NEW CHAPTER COVERING GUNS N' ROSES EPIC WORLD TOUR Many millions of words have already been written about Guns N' Roses, the old line-up, the new line-up. But none of them have ever really gotten to the truth. Which is this: Guns N' Roses has always been a band out of time, the Last of th ...Show more
Lemmy - The Ace of Spades by Mick Wall
$37.99 NZD
Category: Music
In 'The Ace of Spades', Motorhead's most famous song, Lemmy, the born-to-lose, live-to-win frontman of the band sang, 'I don't want to live forever'. Yet as he told his friend of 35 years, former PR and biographer Mick Wall, 'Actually, I want to go the day before forever. To avoid the rush...'. This is ...Show more
Like a Bat Out of Hell: The Larger Than Life Story of Meat Loaf by Mick Wall
$27.99 NZD
Category: Music
'A passionate, pacey tome you should do anything for a copy of' - Kerrang ****"I never wanted to be a big star. I just wanted to be the biggest at what I do Powerful, unstoppable, heavy - when that word still meant something good " - Meat Loaf, as told to Mick Wall Everything in the story of Meat Loaf ...Show more
Like a Bat Out of Hell: The Larger than Life Story of Meat Loaf by Mick Wall
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
"I never wanted to be a big star. I just wanted to be the biggest at what I do! Powerful, unstoppable, heavy - when that word still meant something good!" - Meat Loaf, as told to Mick Wall Everything in the story of Meat Loaf is big. From the place he was born (Texas); to the family he was born into (hi ...Show more