The Old Songs are Always New: Singing Traditions of the Tiwi Islands by Genevieve Campbell
$40.00 AUD
Category: Music Biography
Approximately 1300 ethnographic field recordings of Tiwi songs, made between 1912 and 1981, are archived at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) in Canberra.In November 2009, Genevieve Campbell and eleven Tiwi colleagues travelled to Canberra to reclaim the ...Show more
Energy Follows Thought: The Stories Behind My Songs by Willie Nelson, David Ritz
$65.00 AUD
Category: Music Biography
For the first time ever, and to help celebrate his 90th birthday in 2023, American icon Willie Nelson provides the stories behind the lyrics of 160 of his favorite songs, along with a dynamic assortment of never-before-seen photos and ephemera. From his earliest work in the 1950s to today, Willie looks ...Show more
Out in L.A.: The Red Hot Chili Peppers, 1983 by Hamish Duncan
$49.99 AUD
Category: Music Biography
The Red Hot Chili Peppers were going to be a one-time act for a friend's album release party. Forty years later the funk rock band is arguably one of the best known and the longest running in the United States. Everything that happened in 1983 set the course for the rest of the band's career. The scra ...Show more
Shake Some Action: My life in music (and other stuff) by Stuart Coupe
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music Biography
The story of how a gangly, music-obsessed kid from Tassie did everything and met everyone - Shake Some Action is a rip-snorting rock 'n' roll ride through a life of power and passion. First as a music writer and then as an editor, promoter, manager, broadcaster, publicist and author, Stuart Coupe has e ...Show more
Poster Child - The Psychedelic Art and Technicolor Life of David Edward Byrd by David Byrd; Robert von Goeben; Marc Myers (Foreword by)
$70.00 AUD
Category: Music Biography
Poster Child: The Psychedelic Art & Technicolor Life of David Edward Byrd is a stunning retrospective on the art and stories behind one of rock 'n' roll's most influential artists--written by Byrd and author Robert von Goeben. Foreword by Marc Myers, Award-Winning Author of Rock Concert: An Oral His ...Show more
Don't Stop the Music: A Year of Pop History, One Day at a Time by Justin Lewis
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music Biography
JANUARY 1 1958 Johnny Cash plays the first of many concerts at San Quentin State Prison, California. It had become traditional for the prison to stage a New Year’s Day musician’s union extravaganza for the 4,000 inmates, and it just so happened that Cash was touring the west coast of the US when he and ...Show more
The Islander - My Life in Music and Beyond by Chris Blackwell; Paul Morley
$27.99 AUD
Category: Music Biography
In the vein of Sound Man and The Soundtrack of My Life, a lyrical memoir from the founder of one of the greatest music labels of all time, Island Records, about his astonishing life and career helping to bring reggae music to the world stage and working with Bob Marley, U2, Grace Jones, Cat Stevens, and ...Show more