Reckless Daughter: A Joni Mitchell Anthology by Barney Hoskyns
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
Joni Mitchell has only visited the U.S. Top 40 singles chart four times in her long recording career - and the Top 20 just once. So much for "stoking the starmaker machinery behind the popular song", as she sang in her 1974 song 'Free Man in Paris'. What Joni has done, on the other hand, is record a han ...Show more
Record Play Pause by Stephen Morris
$38.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
Stephen Morris has had a distinguished career, spanning nearly forty years, as a pivotal member of Joy Division and New Order with his trademark machine-like drumming. After the death of Joy Division's singer, Ian Curtis, in 1980, Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Morris and his wife Gillian formed New Order, ...Show more
Remembering Whitney: A Mother's Story of Love, Loss and the Night the Music Died by Cissy Houston
$33.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
The definitive account of Whitney Houston's astonishing life, ground-breaking career and tragic death - complete with never-before-seen photographs - from the only one who truly knows the story behind the headlines: her mother, Cissy Houston. Cissy has said little publicly about Whitney's heart-breaking ...Show more
Respect - The Life of Aretha Franklin by David Ritz
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
Condition: **NEW** The definitive biography of the Queen of Soul from acclaimed music writer David Ritz. Aretha Franklin began life as the golden daughter of a progressive and promiscuous Baptist preacher. Raised without her mother, she was a gospel prodigy who gave birth to two sons in her teen ...Show more
Richard Wagner: The Sorcerer of Bayreuth by Barry Millington
$65.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
Published in the run-up to the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth in 2013, and written by one of the most distinguished Wagner scholars in the world, this will be the Wagner book of the bicentenary. Richard Wagner (18131883) is one of the most influential and also one of the most polarizing compo ...Show more
Rihanna by Rihanna
$260.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
It's a piece of art that I am really proud of..."—Rihanna "The book is a rollicking and sumptuous autobiography, told largely with intimate images."—Vogue Rihanna invites you into her world with this stunning visual autobiography. From her Barbados childhood to her worldwide tours, from iconic fashion m ...Show more
Riot Days by Maria Alyokhina
$28.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
From activist, Pussy Riot member and freedom fighter Maria Alyokhina, a raw, hallucinatory, passionate account of her arrest, trial and imprisonment in Siberian jail for standing up for what she believed in.'One of the most brilliant and inspiring things I've read in years. Couldn't put it down. This bo ...Show more
Road to Woodstock by Michael Lang
$28.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
On the afternoon of August 15, 1969, Richie Havens took the stage at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, welcoming a crowd of several hundred thousand to the green fields of Max Yasgur's farm. Havens was the first act - the legendary festival, years in the making, was finally beginning. Nothing would be t ...Show more
Robert Plant - A Life by Paul Rees
$25.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography | Reading Level: very good
Robert Plant is one of the few genuine living rock legends. Frontman of Led Zeppelin, musical innovator and seller of millions of records, Plant has had a profound influence on music for over four decades. But the full account of his life has barely been told ...until now. Robert Plant: A Life is the fi ...Show more
Rod - The Autobiography by Rod Stewart
$38.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography | Reading Level: very good
This is the long-awaited autobiography of one of rock's true megastars. Rod Stewart (aka Rod The Mod and to a very select few, Dad) was born the working-class son of a Scottish plumber in North London. He was never, as some stories later had it, a professional footballer or a gravedigger, though he did ...Show more
Rod: The Autobiography by Rod Stewart
$28.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
"Ridiculously funny and astonishingly candid, Rod Stewart's memoir is the rock autobiography of the decade". ("Daily Mail"). "One of the most entertaining, revealing, captivating books of the year". ("Independent"). Rod Stewart was born the working-class son of a Scottish plumber in North London. Despit ...Show more