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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!
Leonard Cohen: Untold Stories - The Early Years by Michael Posner
$55.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography | Series: Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories Ser.
The extraordinary life of one of the world's greatest music and literary icons, in the words of those who knew him best. Poet, novelist, singer-songwriter, artist, prophet, icon--there has never been a figure like Leonard Cohen. He was a true giant in contemporary western culture, entertaining and inspi ...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
Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Dolly Parton - Country Wisdom for Life's Little Challenges by Editors of Media Lab Books
$29.99 NZD
Category: Music Biography
Throughout her life, Dolly Parton has been seen as a beacon of guts, straight-talk, kindness and grit, beginning her life in poverty and growing to become one of the most resonant, prolific and long-lived icons of the modern era. In this new book, Dolly's personal code of conduct is transformed into pra ...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
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.
Tragedy - The Sad Ballad of the Gibb Brothers by Jeff Apter
$19.99 NZD
Category: Music Biography
The rise and fall of the brothers Gibb is perhaps the greatest saga in Australian music history.Despite several rebirths in a career that spanned many decades, it seemed that tragedy followed the Gibbs like a curse. For every incredible career high there was a hefty personal downside: divorce, drunkenne ...Show more
Loud - A life in rock'n'roll by the world's first female roadie by Tana Douglas
$35.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography | Reading Level: very good
What goes on tour stays on tour - unless you're the the first woman roadie in the world At just fifteen, Tana Douglas ran away to the circus that was rock 'n' roll in the 1970s, taking a job with a young and upcoming band called AC/DC. While still a teenager she headed to the UK and later the US to wor ...Show more
Two Riders Were Approaching: The Life & Death of Jimi Hendrix by Mick Wall
$27.99 NZD
Category: Music Biography
Jimmy was a down-at-heel guitarist in New York, relying on his latest lovers to support him while he tried to emulate his hero Bob Dylan. A black guy playing white rock music, he wanted to be all things to all people. But when Jimmy arrived in England and became Jimi, the cream of swinging London fell ...Show more
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