The Silver River: A memoir of family - lost, made and found - from the Midnight Oil founding member, for readers of Dave Grohl, Tim Rogers and Rick Rubin by Jim Moginie
$34.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
A moving and inspiring memoir of families lost and rediscovered, by a founding member of legendary band Midnight Oil. For fifty years, songwriter, guitarist and keyboard player Jim Moginie was a driving force behind the startling rise and global success of one of Australia's most powerful, influential a ...Show more
All You Need Is Love: The End of the Beatles - An Oral History by Those Who Were There by Steven Gaines, Peter Brown
$34.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
All You Need is Love is a ground-breaking oral history of the Beatles and how it all came to an end. Based on never-before-published or heard interviews with Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and their families, friends, and business associates, this is a landmark book, containing ...Show more
Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday
$22.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"I've been told that no one sings the word 'hunger' like I do. Or the word 'love'." Lady Sings the Blues is the inimitable autobiography of one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century. Born to a single mother in 1915 Baltimore, Billie Holiday had her first run-in with the law at aged 13. But Bill ...Show more
Listen: On Music, Sound and Us by Michel Faber
$36.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
'I'm not here to change your mind about Dusty Springfield or Shostakovich or Tupac Shakur or synthpop. I'm here to change your mind about your mind.' There are countless books on music with much analysis given to musicians, bands, eras and/or genres. But rarely does a book delve into what's going on in ...Show more
Nina Simone's Gum by Warren Ellis
$24.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
From award-winning musician and composer Warren Ellis comes the unexpected and inspiring story of a piece of chewing gum. Featuring an introduction from Nick Cave. On Thursday 1 July, 1999, Dr Nina Simone gave a rare performance as part of Nick Cave's Meltdown Festival. After the show, in a state of a ...Show more
The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
$49.99 AUD
Category: Self Development
From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their creativity, comes a beautifully crafted book many years in the making that offers that same deep wisdom to all of us. Many famed music producers are known for a particular sound that has its day and then ...Show more
Faith, Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave, Sean O'Hagan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
"Created from more than forty hours of intimate conversations with the journalist Seán O’Hagan, this is a profoundly thoughtful exploration, in Cave’s own words, of what really drives his life and creativity. The book examines questions of belief, art, music, freedom, grief and love. It draws candidly o ...Show more
How Music Works by David Byrne
$39.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts | Reading Level: very good
How Music Works is David Byrne’s buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. Drawing on his work over the years with Talking Heads, Brian Eno, and myriad collaborators--along with journeys to Wagnerian opera houses, African villages, and anywhere music exists--Byrne shows ho ...Show more
Kubrick - An Odyssey by Robert P. Kolker; Nathan Abrams
$65.00 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
The most comprehensive biography of the creator of 2001: A Space Odessey, The Shining and A Clockwork Orange.
A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib
$22.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - A sweeping, genre-bending "masterpiece" (Minneapolis Star Tribune) exploring Black art, music, and culture in all their glory and complexity - from Soul Train, Aretha Franklin, and James Brown to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Whitney Houston, and Beyoncé . ONE OF THE TEN B ...Show more
Brat: An '80s Story by Andrew McCarthy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
Fans of Patti Smith's Just Kids and Rob Lowe's Stories I Only Tell My Friends will love this beautifully written, entertaining and bracingly honest memoir by an actor, director and author who found his start as a 1980s Hollywood Brat pack member. Most people know Andrew McCarthy from his roles in movi ...Show more
David Bowie Mixing Memory & Desire: Photographs by Kevin Cummins by Kevin Cummins
$79.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
"AS ICONIC PHOTOGRAPHER, ADVENTUROUS FAN AND INSIDER EYE-WITNESS, KEVIN CUMMINS HAS ALWAYS BEEN WHERE THE CULTURAL ACTION IS. MIXING MEMORY & DESIRE WILL MAKE YOU SEE DAVID BOWIE IN A SURPRISING AND STIMULATING NEW WAY." -PAUL MORLEY "DAVID BOWIE WAS ON A CREATIVE JOURNEY THROUGH MUSIC, FASHION A ...Show more