'Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: 50 Moments That Changed Music
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music
From the moment that Ike Turner and the Kings of Rhythm conceived 'Rocket 88' to the suicide of Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain and Lennon's Anniversary concert, 'Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky chronicles 50 moments in history that shaped rock and roll as we know it. The stories of behind the iconic reco ...Show more
Serious Fun - The Life and Music of Mike Nock by Norman Meehan
$50.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: near fine
Serious fun is the vibrant and accessible life story of one of New Zealand’s greatest musicians. Mike Nock’s childhood in 1940s Ngaruawahia and Nelson, and his adventures as a young teenager on the road with the Fabulous Flamingoes, and Maori rock’n’roll pioneer Johnny Cooper, are the stuff of Kiwi lege ...Show more
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by Brian Southall
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music
June 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of what many think is the greatest Beatles album. This book is a new way of telling the story of the album and is split into two distinct halves: the "A-side" is all about the Beatles, the music on the album, the recording process, how the disc was received at the ti ...Show more
She Raised Her Voice! - 50 Black Women Who Sang Their Way into Music History by Jordannah Elizabeth
$30.00 NZD
Category: Music
From jazz and blues, hip hop and R&B, pop, punk, and opera, Black women have made major contributions to the history and formation of musical genres for more than a century. In this fully illustrated middle grade anthology, 50 strong, empowering, and inspiring Black women singers' bios will teach ki ...Show more
Shock and Awe by Simon Reynolds
$55.00 NZD
Category: Music
As the sixties dream faded, a new flamboyant movement electrified the world: GLAM! In Shock and Awe, Simon Reynolds explores this most decadent of genres on both sides of the Atlantic. Bolan, Bowie, Suzi Quatro, Alice Cooper, New York Dolls, Slade, Roxy Music, Iggy, Lou Reed, Be Bop Deluxe, David Essex ...Show more
Should I Stay or Should I Go? And 87 Other Serious Answers to Questions in Songs by James Ball
$20.00 NZD
Category: Music
What is love? How soon is now? Is there life on Mars?How do you solve a problem like Maria? They're some of the most famous questions ever asked. But do you know the answer to them? In Should I Stay or Should I Go?, award-winning journalist James Ball travels from the economic status of doggies in windo ...Show more
Side by Side - Selected Lyrics by Robert Wyatt & Alfie Benge
$33.00 NZD
Category: Music
Selected and arranged by the authors themselves, and featuring an introduction by Jarvis Cocker, Side by Side presents the lyrics, poems, writings and drawings of innovative musician Robert Wyatt and his creative partner, English painter and songwriter Alfie Benge. As a founding member of influential E ...Show more
Small Town Talk - Bob Dylan, the Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix Friends in Woodstock by Barney Hoskyns
$45.00 NZD
Category: Music
Think 'Woodstock' and the mind turns to the seminal 1969 festival that crowned a seismic decade of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. But Woodstock itself was over 60 miles from the site to which the fabled half a million flocked. So why the misnomer? Quite simply, Woodstock was already a key location in the ...Show more
Something Wonderful - Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution by Todd S. Purdum
$35.00 NZD
Category: Music
They stand at the apex of the great age of songwriting, the creators of the classic Broadway musicals Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music, whose songs have never lost their popularity or emotional power. Even before they joined forces, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Ham ...Show more