California Schemin' by Gavin Bain
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music
California Schemin' is the remarkable real life story of how two rappers from Dundee pretended to be two rappers from California and duped the record industry out of hundreds of thousands of pounds. Gavin Bain and Billy Boyd - or Silibil N' Brains, as they became known - were two ordinary Scottish boys ...Show more
Chopin's Piano: A Path Through the Romantic Century by Paul Kildea
$65.00 NZD
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
Christmas Carols: From Village Green to Church Choir by Andrew Gant
$30.00 NZD
Category: Music
Everyone loves a carol - in the end, even Scrooge. They have the power to summon up a special kind of midwinter mood, like the aroma of mince pies and mulled wine and the twinkle of lights on a tree. It's a kind of magic. But how did they get that magic? In Christmas Carols Andrew Gant tells the story ...Show more
Classical Music (Eyewitness Companion) by Dorling Kindersley
$50.00 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Eyewitness Companions
The guide that shows you what others only tell you. Explore and enjoy 1,000 years of classical music with this unique collaboration from DK and Classic FM. From Beethoven to Tchaikovsky, Cosi Fan Tutte to Swan Lake, discover the lives and works of the great composers, performers, instruments and key wor ...Show more
Complete Lyrics, 1978-2013 by Nick Cave
$35.00 NZD
Category: Music
'I walk into the corner of my room, see my friends in high places I don't know which is which or whom is whom, they've stolen each other's faces' Spanning Nick Cave's entire career, from his writing for The Birthday Party, through highly acclaimed albums like Murder Ballads, Henry's Dreamand Dig, Lazaru ...Show more
Country Music by Alanna Nash
$70.00 NZD
Category: Music
Containing images and memorabilia from the archives of Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, this book charts the country music story, helps you discover the recordings, live performances, key producers and performers like Johnny Cash, Tammy Wynette and Ray Charles, as well as the seminal m ...Show more
Cowboys and Indies - the Epic History of the Record Industry by Gareth Murphy
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music
From the invention of the earliest known sound-recording device in 1850s Paris to the CD crash and digital boom today, Cowboys and Indies takes us on a fascinating and wildly entertaining tour of the ever-changing music industry, introducing us to the performers and self-proclaimed 'record men' of the U ...Show more
Crap Lyrics - A celebration of the very worst pop lyrics of all time ... EVER! by Johnny Sharp
$25.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: good
This is a witty celebration of the worst lyrics ever to grace the airwaves. After all, there are bad lines, and then there are really bad lines. Snap sang "I'm as serious as cancer" in "Rhythm Is a Dancer", while Duran Duran opined 'You're about as easy as a nuclear war' in "Is There Something I Should ...Show more
Crossroads - One Man's Search for the Moments That Changed Music by Mark Radcliffe
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music
Standing at the crossroads - the Mississippi crossroads of Robert Johnson and the devil's infamous meeting - Mark Radcliffe found himself facing his own personal crunch point. Aged sixty, he had just mourned the death of his father, only to be handed a diagnosis of mouth and throat cancer. This momentou ...Show more
Dark Stuff Selected Writings on Rock Music (updated edition 2007) by Nick Kent
$35.00 NZD
Category: Music
A smart, scathing look at the most hell-bent performers of our time: Here are profiles of everyone you'd expect (and a few you wouldn't)-Brian Wilson, Miles Davis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Sid Vicious, and Kurt Cobain. "Kent matters because he wrote about rock better than anyone before or since." - ...Show more
David Bowie: The Golden Years by Roger Griffin
$130.00 NZD
Category: Music
David Bowie: The Golden YearsAuthor Roger GriffinABOUT THE BOOKDavid Bowie's career is defined by the 70s, his golden years. This book chronicles Bowie's creative life during that decade in a year by year, month by month, day by day format, placing his works in their historical, personal and creative co ...Show more
Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music by Ted Gioia
$32.00 NZD
Category: Music
The blues grew out of the plantations and prisons, the swampy marshes and fertile cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta. With original research and keen insight, Ted Gioia - the author of a landmark study of West Coast jazz and the critically acclaimed "The History of Jazz" - brings to life the stirrin ...Show more