We Could Be: Bowie and his Heroes by Tom Hagler
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music
With consultant editor Tony Visconti. David Bowie's story has never been told quite like this.Tracing the star's encounters with fellow icons throughout his life, We Could Be offers a new history of Bowie, collecting 300 short stories that together paint a portrait of humour, humility, compassion, trage ...Show more
Wham! George & Me: Celebrate 40 Years of Wham! with the Sunday Times Bestseller by Andrew Ridgeley
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Category: Music
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM ONE HALF OF ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS BANDS For the first time, Andrew Ridgeley tells the inside story of Wham!, his life-long friendship with George Michael and the formation of a band that changed the shape of the music scene in the early eighties. 'I couldn't put ...Show more
Wham, George and Me by Andrew Ridgeley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Music
Wham! were the band that never underestimated the power of pop, nor the healing powers it possessed. In 1981, what started out as a boyhood friendship, catapulted two suburban adolescents to worldwide pop domination, becoming icons of their era. While Andrew Ridgeley may have appeared to have stood in G ...Show more
Whatever Happened to the C86 Kids? by Nige Tassell
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Category: Music
In 1986, the NME released a cassette that would shape music for years to come. A collection of twenty-two independently signed guitar-based bands, C86 was the sound and ethos that defined a generation. It was also arguably the point at which 'indie' was born. But what happened next to all t ...Show more
Whatever It Takes by Tom Morello
$79.99 AUD
Category: Music
'I'm both blessed and cursed to be a guitar player. I didn't choose it, it chose me. The challenge was to find a way to weave my convictions into my music in a meaningful way.' — Tom Morello As the cofounder and guitarist of Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, and Prophets of Rage, and as a solo artis ...Show more
Whole World in an Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression - 1955-1972 by Aaron Leonard
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
How the radical music of the 1960s was birthed amid unprecedented upheaval and systemic repression. Seventy years since the radical music of the 1960s first hit the airwaves, the anthems of the era continue to resonate with our current times. Through studying these musicians and the political contexts i ...Show more
Why Bowie Matters by Will Brooker
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Category: Music
A unique, moving and dazzlingly researched exploration of the places, people, musicians, writers and filmmakers that inspired David Jones to become David Bowie, what we can learn from his life's work and journey, and why he will always matter. When David Bowie died on 10th January 2016, it seemed the w ...Show more
Why Bowie Matters by Will Brooker
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Category: Music
A unique, moving and dazzlingly researched exploration of the places, people, musicians, writers and filmmakers that inspired David Jones to become David Bowie, what we can learn from his life's work and journey, and why he will always matter. When David Bowie died on 10th January 2016, it seemed the w ...Show more
Why Dylan Matters by Richard F. Thomas
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Category: Music
A GUARDIAN AND INDEPENDENT BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2017. 'At last an expert classicist gets to grips with Bob Dylan' Mary Beard 'Thomas's elegant, charming book offers something for everyone - not just the super-fans' IndependentWhen the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan, the literary world ...Show more
Why Marianne Faithfull Matters by Tanya Pearson
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Category: Music | Series: Music Matters Ser.
A remarkable feminist history and biography that features fragments from the five-decade career of an iconic artist. First as a doe-eyed ingenue with 'As Tears Go By', then as a gravel-voiced phoenix rising from the ashes of the 1960s with a landmark punk album, Broken English, and finally as a genre-le ...Show more
Why Patti Smith Matters by Caryn Rose
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Category: Music
Patti Smith arrived in New York City at the end of the Age of Aquarius in search of work and purpose. What she found--what she fostered--was a cultural revolution. Through her poetry, her songs, her unapologetic vocal power, and her very presence as a woman fronting a rock band, she kicked open a door t ...Show more
Why Solange Matters by Stephanie Phillips
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Category: Music | Series: Music Matters Ser.
The dramatic story of Solange: a musician and artist whose unconventional journey to international success was far more important than her family name. 'Why Solange Matters is a significant and sober treatist on popular music . . . This book is more than necessary. Read it and join hands!' THURSTON MOO ...Show more