The Eagles: An American Band by Andrew Vaughan
$60.00 NZD
Category: Music
"Take it Easy." "Lyin' Eyes." "One of these Nights." "Hotel California." These songs are among the most memorable ever written and they all came from one amazing band: the Eagles. This gorgeous volume traces the history of the group from the late 1960s through to the present. Capturing the albums, the t ...Show more
The Gilded Stage: The Social History of Opera by Daniel Snowman
$115.00 NZD
Category: Music
This is the first and only global social history the world's most romantic, flamboyant, glamorous and politically influential art-form: Opera. Opera, the most complex of all the performance arts, inspires great passions. From its beginnings in the Renaissance cities of northern Italy it has spread acros ...Show more
The Great Music Trivia Quiz Book by Rachel Federman
$20.00 NZD
Category: Music
The Ultimate Guide to Proving You Know Everything About Music! / Do you know the name of The Who's second rock opera? / Can you name the three longest running Broadway musicals in history? / How about the person Kurt Cobain referred to as his favourite performer on Nirvana's MTV Unplugged recording? ...Show more
The Greatest Covers of All Time by Barry Miles
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: General Adult
The ultimate guide to an enduring modern-day art form With the resurgence of vinyl going from strength to strength, album cover art is as important as it's ever been. This sumptuous book brings together 250 of the greatest album covers of all time and is arranged chronologically, beginning in 1956. We'v ...Show more
The Greatest Music Stories Never Told : 100 Tales from Music History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy by Rick Beyer
$35.00 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
The Hacienda - How Not to Run a Club by Peter Hook
$32.00 NZD
Category: Music
Peter Hook, as co-founder of Joy Division and New Order, has been shaping the course of popular music for thirty years. He provided the propulsive bass guitar melodies of 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' and the bestselling 12-inch single ever, 'Blue Monday' among many other songs. As co-owner of Manchester's ...Show more
The History of Rock & Roll: Volume 1: 1920-1963 by Ed Ward
$60.00 NZD
Category: Music
Ed Ward covers the first half of the social history of rock & roll in this definitive book. Beginning in the 1920s when blues, country, and black popular music played over the airwaves and the first independent record labels were born, this first volume of a two-part series finishes in December 1963 ...Show more
The History of Rock and Roll, Volume 2: 1964-1977: The Beatles, The Stones, and The Rise of Classic Rock by Ed Ward
$50.00 NZD
Category: Music
From rock and roll historian Ed Ward comes a comprehensive, authoritative, and enthralling cultural history of one of rock's most exciting eras. It's February 1964 and The Beatles just landed in New York City, where the NYPD, swarms of fans, and a crowd of two hundred journalists await their first Amer ...Show more
The Holy Or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of "Hallelujah" by Alan Light
$29.00 NZD
Category: Music
Today, �Hallelujah� is one of the most-performed rock songs in history. It has become a staple of movies and television shows as diverse as Shrek and The West Wing, of tribute videos and telethons. It has been covered by hundreds of artists, including Bob Dylan, U2, Justin Timberlake, and k.d. lang, and ...Show more
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Opera by Stanley Sadie
$30.00 NZD
Category: Music
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The Invention of Sound by Chuck Palahniuk
$25.00 NZD
Category: Music
Chuck Palahniuk returns with the chilling tale, in classic Palahniuk tradition, of a father in search of his daughter, a young woman with a secret, and a malicious recording that can make "the whole world scream at the exact same time."Private detective Foster Gates is a father is in search of his missi ...Show more