Bunnyman: A Memoir by Will Sergeant
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Category: Music
The Sunday Times bestseller Growing up in Liverpool in the 1960s and '70s, when skinheads, football violence and fear of just about everything was the natural order of things, a young Will Sergeant found the emerging punk scene provided a shimmer of hope amongst a crumbling city still reeling from the d ...Show more
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz by Geoff Dyer
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Category: Music
Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle; Thelonius Monk creating his own private language on the piano... In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skilfully evokes the embattled lives of the players who shaped modern ...Show more
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART - The Biography by Mike Barnes
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Category: Music
Following Don Van Vliet's death Mike Barnes will look to reassess his legacy through new interview material and with reference to reports and eulogies that appeared in the media. Mike Barnes gives an assured survey of all of Don Van Vliet's creative work as well as an insight into the extraordinary pers ...Show more
Captain Fantastic - Elton John's Stellar Trip Through The '70s by Tom Doyle
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Category: Music
Based on rare one-on-one interviews with the flamboyant rock 'n' roll icon, this is the first book to trace Elton John's meteoric rise from obscurity to worldwide celebrity in the wildest, weirdest decade of the twentieth century. In August 1970, Elton John achieved overnight fame with a rousing perfor ...Show more
Carnegie Hall Treasures by Tim Page
$89.99 AUD
Category: Music
This interactive, authorized book about Carnegie Hall - one of the greatest cultural institutions in the world - is the only volume on the market about its subject. It is being published in sync with the Hall's 120th anniversary in 2010. Appealing to serious music aficionados, musicians, pop culture fan ...Show more
Carole King's Tapestry 33 1/3 by Loren Glass
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
Carole King's Tapestry is both an anthemic embodiment of second-wave feminism and an apotheosis of the Laurel Canyon singer-songwriter sound and scene. And these two elements of the album's historic significance are closely related insofar as the professional autonomy of the singer-songwriter is an expr ...Show more
Changes - An Oral History of Tupac Shakur by Sheldon Pearce
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Category: Music
A New Yorker writer's intimate, revealing account of Tupac Shakur's life and legacy, timed to the fiftieth anniversary of his birth and twenty-fifth anniversary of his death.In the summer of 2020, Tupac Shakur's single "Changes" became an anthem for the worldwide protests against the murder of George Fl ...Show more
Charlie's Good Tonight - The Life, The Times and The Rolling Stones by Paul Sexton
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Category: Music
The official and fully authorised biography of the world’s most revered and celebrated drummers, and mainstay of The Rolling Stones Charlie Watts was one of the most decorated musicians in the world, having joined the Rolling Stones, a few months after their formation, early in 1963. A student of jazz d ...Show more
Chasing Chopin - A Musical Journey Across Three Centuries, Four Countries, and a Half-Dozen Revolutions by Annik LaFarge
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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
Chopin's Piano: A Path Through the Romantic Century by Paul Kildea
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Category: Music
In November 1838 Frédéric Chopin, George Sand and her two children sailed to Majorca to escape the Parisian winter. They settled in an abandoned monastery at Valldemossa in the mountains above Palma, where Chopin finished what would eventually be recognised as one of the great and revolutionary works of ...Show more
Chopin's Piano: In Search of the Instrument That Transformed Music (PB) by Paul Kildea
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Category: Music | Series: Journey Through Romanticism
'Beguiling ... Limpidly written, effortlessly learned' William Boyd, TLS, Books of the Year In November 1838 Frédéric Chopin, George Sand and her two children sailed to Majorca to escape the Parisian winter. They settled in an abandoned monastery at Valldemossa in the mountains above Palma, where Chopin ...Show more
Classic Albums That Changed My Life: The vinyl that made a generation by Alan Whiticker
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Category: Music
In the late 1960s and 1970s,vinyl ruled! Fans showedtheir love and investment ina particularly rock and rollband by paying about $10($75 in today's money) for adozen songs etched into 40minutes of a vinyl 'long play'or LP record. Not only didfans receive a collection ofgreat songs, they were presented w ...Show more