The Elvis Handbook by Tara McAdams
$30.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
The Elvis Handbook is a unique graphic and textual exploration of the musician and icon that is Elvis Presley. From his birth in a two room shack in East Tupelo, Mississippi, to his tragic early death at his Graceland home, the rise and fall of the King of Rock ânâ Roll is traced through a stunning ...Show more
The Great New Zealand Song Book by Murray Thom; Tm Harper
$100.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Secondhand. Dop May 2009, Wellington 100pp and 2 cds hardcover This strictly limited deluxe set of 'The Great New Zealand Songbook' includes a 100-page journal of handwritten lyrics, photos and memorabilia, contributed by the artists themselves -- the coolest Kiwi music coffee table book ever, and the ...Show more
The Islander by Chris Blackwell with Paul Morley
$39.99 NZD
Category: Music Biography
The definitive autobiography by renowned Island Records founder Chris Blackwell, looking back across his phenomenal life and career. As the founder of Island Records, fabled music producer Chris Blackwell has discovered and worked with some of the most important musicians of the second half of the twent ...Show more
The John Lennon Letters by John Lennon and Hunter Davies
$27.99 NZD
Category: Music Biography
A lifetime of letters, collected for the first time, from the legendary The Beatles musician and songwriter John Lennon John Lennon is one of the world's greatest-ever song writers, creator of 'Help!', 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds', 'Imagine' and dozens more. Now, his letters have been collected and p ...Show more
The John Lennon Letters by John Lennon
$50.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
A lifetime of letters, collected for the first time, from the legendary musician and songwriter.John Lennon is one of the world's greatest-ever song writers, creator of 'Help!', 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds', 'Imagine' and dozens more. Now, his letters have been collected and published, illuminating a ...Show more
The John Lennon Letters by HUNTER DAVIES (ed)
$60.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
John Lennon was a writer as well as a musician. It was entirely natural for him to put pen to paper whenever he had an idea, a thought, a reaction or a desire to communicate. He lived - and died - in an age before emails and texts. Pen and ink was what he turned to. John wrote letters and postcards all ...Show more
The King by Jim Piazza
$115.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
From his beginnings in a shotgun shack in Tupelo, Mississippi, to his untimely death at Graceland, Elvis's life story is stunningly revealed in detail in words and hundreds of pictures on a scale that dwarfs anything previously published. The leather-like binding studded with rhinestones and gold makes ...Show more
The Lady from Arezzo - My Musical Life and Other Matters by Alfred Brendel
$33.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
The title of this collection of essays refers to a tailor's mannequin that Alfred Brendel spotted in a shop window in Arezzo, a small Tuscan town. Who is this strange lady? And why is she carrying an egg on her head? What is she looking at? The mannequin was purchased and now graces a room in the at ...Show more
The Life & Times of Malcolm McLaren - The Biography by Paul Gorman
$38.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography | Reading Level: very good
'This masterful and painstaking biography opens its doorway to an era of fluorescent disenchantment and outlandish possibility' Alan Moore Malcolm McLaren was one of the most culturally significant but misunderstood figures of the modern era. Ten years after his life was cruelly cut short by cancer, The ...Show more
The Little Book of the Rolling Stones: Wisdom and Wit from Rock 'n' Roll Legends by Malcolm Croft
$15.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography | Series: The\Little Book Of Ser.
The Little Book of the Rolling Stones is a superb book of quotations by, and about, the greatest rock 'n' roll band in history. A perfect companion for Stones fans everywhere, this collection of bite-sized quips helps capture exactly what has made the band so legendary across more than 50 years in the s ...Show more
The Ox - The Last of the Great Rock Stars: the Authorised Biography of the Who's John Entwistle by Paul Rees
$38.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
The definitive no-holds-barred biography of John Entwistle, The Who's legendary bass guitarist It is an unequivocal fact that in terms of rock bands, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Who represent Year Zero; the beginning of all things, ground-breakers all. To that end, John Entwistle - the Who's ...Show more