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Me: Elton John Official Autobiography by Elton John
$24.99 NZD
Category: Music Biography
The best selling memoir, now in paperback!
Killing Time: Short Stories From the Long Road Home by Jimmy Barnes
$49.99 NZD
Category: Music Biography
From the rock legend turned master storyteller, this collection of non-fiction short stories is vintage Jimmy. Stories of adventure, misadventure, love and loss from the #1 bestselling author of the critically acclaimed memoirs Working Class Boy and Working Class Man. Outrageous, witty, warm and wise, K ...Show more
Acid for the Children: The Autobiography of Flea, the Red Hot Chili Peppers Legend by Flea
$27.99 NZD
Category: Music Biography
Flea, the iconic bassist and co-founder, alongside Anthony Kiedis, of the immortal Red Hot Chili Peppers finally tells his fascinating origin story, complete with all the dizzying highs and the gutter lows you'd expect from an LA street rat turned world-famous rock star. Michael Peter Balzary was born i ...Show more
The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey
$39.99 NZD
Category: Music Biography
It took me a lifetime to have the courage and the clarity to write my memoir. I want to tell the story of the moments - the ups and downs, the triumphs and traumas, the debacles and the dreams, that contributed to the person I am today. Though there have been countless stories about me throughout my car ...Show more
Janis: Her Life and Music by Holly George-Warren
$22.99 NZD
Category: Music Biography
Longlisted for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence This blazingly intimate biography of Janis Joplin establishes the Queen of Rock & Roll as the rule-breaking musical trailblazer and complicated, gender-bending rebel she was. Janis Joplin's first transgressive act was to be a white girl w ...Show more
The Eagles by Ben Fong-Torres
$45.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
Eagles: Take It To The Limit is the fascinating inside story of one of the greatest rock bands of all time, written by one of music journalism's most influential voices. Ben Fong-Torres was at Rolling Stone magazine when the Eagles were a cover story in 1979. He followed the band's career, interviewed t ...Show more
Brian May's Red Special Guitar - The Story of the Home-Made Guitar That Rocked the World by Brian May; Simon Bradley
$39.99 NZD
Category: Music Biography
Get the full story behind the Red Special, Brian May's hand-built guitar--a unique instrument that helped make May's musical dreams come true. In 1963, Brian May and his father Harold started to build the Red Special--an electric guitar meant to outperform anything commercially made. Here, Brian talks ...Show more
Not For You: Pearl Jam and the Present Tense by Ronen Givony
$40.99 NZD
Category: Music Biography
There has never been a band like Pearl Jam. The Seattle quintet has recorded 11 studio albums; sold 85 million records; played a 1,000 shows, in 50 countries; and had five different albums reach number one. But Pearl Jam's story is about much more than music. Through passion, integrity, and sheer force ...Show more
Mick Jagger: The Photobook by Francois Hebel
$19.99 NZD
Category: Music Biography
The retrospective of portraits of Mick Jagger, one of the worlds most photographed performers, was a highlight of the 2010 Arles photography festival. This book gathers together all the photographs from that exhibition. It spans Jagger's entire career.
Bus Stops on the Moon: Red Mole Days, 1974-1980 by Martin Edmond
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography | Reading Level: very good
Bus Stops on the Moon is a personal and a cultural history. As memoir, it is a sequel to The Dreaming Land (2015). A troubled and restless young Martin Edmond is on his way to becoming the wiser, older man who will sit down and write both narratives. As cultural history, the book gives us a participant' ...Show more
Bananarama: Really Saying Something by Sara Dallin; Keren Woodward
$38.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
MUSIC, FAME AND A LIFELONG FRIENDSHIP. In the early eighties, best friends Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward arrived at the YWCA in London, with their sights set on careers in journalism and the media... but that wasn't to be. London was the most vibrant and culturally innovative of places, and within the ...Show more
The Meaning of Mariah Carey (HB) by Mary Chance
$49.99 NZD
Category: Music Biography
It took me a lifetime to have the courage and the clarity to write my memoir. I want to tell the story of the moments - the ups and downs, the triumphs and traumas, the debacles and the dreams, that contributed to the person I am today. Though there have been countless stories about me throughout my car ...Show more