King of the Blues by Daniel de Vise
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music Biography
The first authoritative cradle-to-grave biography of a worldwide musical and cultural legend.
The Doors Unhinged: Jim Morrison's Legacy Goes on Trial by John Densmore
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music Biography
In The Doors Unhinged, New York Times bestselling author and legendary Doors drummer John Densmore offers a powerful exploration of the 'greed gene' - that part of the human psyche that propels us toward the accumulation of more and more wealth, even at the expense of our principles, friendships, and th ...Show more
Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis
$26.99 AUD
Category: Music Biography | Reading Level: very good
As lead singer and songwriter for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Anthony Kiedis has lived life on the razor's edge. So much has been written about him, but until now, we've only had Kiedis's songs as clues to his experience from the inside. In Scar Tissue, Kiedis proves himself to be as compelling a memoiri ...Show more
Rolling Stone: The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time by Rolling Stone, Stone Rolling
$75.00 AUD
Category: Music Biography
From Rolling Stone, the definitive and lavishly illustrated companion book to one of the most popular and hotly debated lists in the world of musicWhen Rolling Stone publishes a list, the world listens. The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list was first established in 2003 and the line-up was updated in ...Show more
Keith Richards - Life by Keith Richards
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music Biography | Reading Level: very good
As lead guitarist of the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics, and the songs that roused the world. A true and towering original, he has always walked his own path, spoken his mind, and done things his own way. Now at last Richards pauses to tell his story in the most anticipated ...Show more
I Wanna Be Yours by John Cooper Clarke
$19.99 AUD
Category: Music Biography
The first ever autobiography of John Cooper Clarke, the Bard of Salford, punk poet, rock star, fashion icon, national treasure and acerbic wit. John Cooper Clarke is a phenomenon: Poet Laureate of Punk, rock star, fashion icon, TV and radio presenter, social and cultural commentator. At 5 feet 11 inche ...Show more
Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me by Bernie Taupin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music Biography
"I loved writing, I loved chronicling life and every moment I was cogent, sober, or blitzed, I was forever feeding off my surroundings, making copious notes as ammunition for future compositions. . The thing is good, bad or indifferent I never stopped writing, it was as addictive as any drug." This is ...Show more
Morning Glory on the Vine: early songs & drawings by Joni Mitchell
$59.99 AUD
Category: Music Biography | Reading Level: Biography
A gorgeous compendium of Joni Mitchell's handwritten lyrics and drawings, originally handcrafted as a gift for a select group of friends in 1971 and now available to the public for the first time. In 1971, as her album Blue topped charts around the world, Joni Mitchell crafted one hundred copies of Mor ...Show more
Lovers Dreamers Fighters by Lo Carmen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music Biography
A beautiful and moving memoir about passion, creativity and fearlessness from one of Australia's true creatives, singer/songwriter Lo Carmen, inspired by the lives and careers of other remarkable Australian women - from Renee Geyer to Chrissy Amphlett to Wendy Saddington. 'Mostly it's women with a type ...Show more
We Could Be Bowie and his Heroes by Tom Hagler
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music Biography
The story of Bowie's life told through 300 encounters with fellow icons, from Dylan to Dalí, Lennon to Lydon, Princess Margaret to Prince. With consultant editor Tony Visconti David Bowie's story has never been told quite like this. Tracing the star's encounters with fellow icons throughout his life, ...Show more
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