Pink Floyd Shine On - A book to accompany the CD boxed set

$16.00 NZD

Category: Music | Reading Level: good-very good

Phil Collins - Not Dead Yet: The Autobiography by Phil Collins

$15.00 NZD

Category: Music | Reading Level: very good

Loud - A life in rock'n'roll by the world's first female roadie by Tana Douglas

$16.00 NZD

Category: Music | 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 k for a who's who of bands and artists. Life on the road was exhilarating, hard work, occasionally surreal but never dull, particularly when you're the only woman in the road crew and the #metoo movement is still 40 years away.   ...Show more

Wired For Sound: the Stebbing History of NZ Music by Grant Gillanders, Robyn Welsh

$55.00 NZD

Category: Music | Reading Level: near fine

For the first time ever, discover the story behind the Stebbing recording legacy. From pioneering violins and 78 records, to the singers, songwriters, engineers and producers who have graced Stebbing's famous three recording studios. Come inside the mid-1960s Galaxie nightclub, the evolution of the Zodi ac record label and the Stebbing family's fearless response to industry politics, changing technologies and financial risk. This is the untold Stebbing story of resilience, enterprise and an ancestral restless spirit has underpinned the Stebbing family's generational legacy, from the pioneering days of recording in New Zealand to the digital age. Against a backdrop of New Zealand's vibrant social history, this 75-year-long story is about the bands, the artists, the singers, the songwriters, the engineers and the technical know-how that is uniquely Stebbings. Richly-told and lavishly illustrated, this warts-and-all nostalgic read is told through the artists, the musicians, the bands, the songwriters, the engineers and the wider Stebbing family itself. ...Show more

Gods of Rock - The Rockers, The Rollers, The Acoustic Pioneers, The Glam, The Punk, The Sweat and The Tears by Robert Fitzpatrick

$10.00 NZD

Category: Music | Reading Level: very good

A compendium of amazing facts, mind-boggling myths and hideous hearsay from the world of rock. Packed with music moments, lifestyles, sex, drugs, parties, loves, lost causes and untimely deaths, this book asks an important question, namely, what does it take to be a true rock god?

Why AC/DC Matters by Anthony Bozza

$8.00 NZD

Category: Music | Reading Level: very good

go on record as saying the²re the greatest rock & roll band of all time. They didnt write emotional lyrics. They didnt play emotional songs. The emotion is all in that groove. And that groove is timeless." <p> -- legendary record producer Rick Rubin <p> Even though AC/DC has sold more th an 70 million records in the US--more than the Rolling Stones, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen and Aerosmith--the band has never quite achieved critical success. In fact, many critics have been deliberately and overtly dismissive of AC/DC, despite their longevity, despite their sales, despite their loyal fan base. Jason Fine, the executive editor of Rolling Stone recently admitted just that when covering the BLACK ICE record release, "literally the last story that we did on AC/DC that was of any size was in 1980. We had literally not covered the band at all. We did very few short news stories, and Rolling Stone was not the only one. AC/DC was never a band that was really covered a lot by the critics, they were always kind of looked down on." <p> Finally, fans--even the closeted ones--will get the tribute that they all deserve and have been waiting for. WHY AC/DC MATTERS is an engaging, fun and pithy look at the bands cultural importance and how theyve influenced a generation of musicians and rock fans around the world. A fan who has seen the band 13 times, Anthony Bozza takes the double perspective of both music fan and rock critic but keeps it short and to the point, interviewing musicians such as Slash, Dave Grohl, Josh Homme but goes on record to prove that those AC/DC riffs are not as easy as they look by interviewing such heavyweights as the head of the Berklee College of Music. <p> Combing low brow and high brow with a great package to boot, WHY AC/DC MATTERS will finally and officially validate what all those AC/DC fans have known all along-AC/DC is the greatest rock and roll band of all time. ...Show more

Staying in Tune : Chamber Music New Zealand at 60 by Jane Dawson.

$15.00 NZD

Category: Music | Reading Level: very good

The Last Days of John Lennon by James Patterson, Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge

$20.00 NZD

Category: Music | Reading Level: near fine

John Lennon achieved with the Beatles a level of superstardom that defied classification. "We were the best bloody band there was," he said. "There was nobody to touch us."   In the summer of 1980, Lennon signs with a label and hires a top producer to recruit the best session musicians, ready to record new music for the first time in years. They are awestruck when Lennon dashes off "(Just Like) Starting Over." Lennon is back in peak form, with his best songwriting since "Imagine."   The Last Days of John Lennon is the amazing story of John Lennon's life and career, from his earliest days and first songs up to his last seconds. It tells the story of the most profound rock-and-roll genius of all time-and of Mark David Chapman, the consummate Nowhere Man who took him from us. Enriched by exclusive interviews with Lennon's friends and associates, including Paul McCartney, the book is a true-crime drama about two men who changed history. One whose indelible songs still enrich our lives today-and the other who ended the beautiful music with five pulls of a trigger.   ...Show more

Unsung Heroes: Songs and stories from New Zealand's distant past (CD & Book) by Chris Priestley

$8.00 NZD

Category: Music | Reading Level: near fine

 Chris Priestley's latest project, Unsung Heroes, is a series of songs and stories from New Zealand’s distant past.  While Chris was researching for his forthcoming album he discovered many amazing and interesting characters this country has and how little people know about them.  He scoured old book sh ops and public libraries hunting out old newspapers and publications.  He came across colourful characters like Little Biddy and Captain Moonlight, Kimble Bent and Darling Jennie: heroines and magicians, balloonists and guitarists, moonshiners and prospectors. Each clipping has inspired a song, and the accompanying book includes a fascinating facsimile of each.  This is a very special album, a collection of new folk ballads documenting snippets of our history. Fellow musical contributors include Nigel Gavin, Cameron Bennett, Emily Roughton, Jess Hindin, Neil Billington, Bryan Christianson, Robyn Kamira, Te Auripo Kamira and Kirsten Taylor.   ...Show more

Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart by Hans Mersmann (Selected by); M. M. Bozman (Translator)

$12.00 NZD

Category: Music | Reading Level: very good

Mozart was a faithful correspondent, and this full and expert collection of more than 100 letters covers his brief and tumultuous life, from the years when the child prodigy astonished the courts of Europe to his final days, when he wrote loving notes to his wife and long, money-seeking letters to frien ds and patrons. The letters abound in both trivial and important events: observations about the people he met; comments on the reactions to his music; satirical remarks about dilettantes and incompetent professionals; and thoughts on other composers, pianoforte and organ playing, singing, and his own methods of composition.Mozart's letters are interspersed in this edition with a generous selection of letters from his father. This two-sided, voluminous correspondence shows the close and sometimes conflicting relationship between father and son. Mozart's letters to his sister are especially playful, exhibiting an impish, lighthearted wit reminiscent of his music, and the letters to his wife are equally revealing. Taken all together, this collection presents an informal and intimately detailed portrait of a genius. ...Show more

Opera in New Zealand - Aspects of History and Performance by Adrienne Simpson (ed.)

$12.00 NZD

Category: Music | Reading Level: very good

The Lives of John Lennon by Albert Goldman

$10.00 NZD

Category: Music | Reading Level: good-very good