Vinyl Dreams: How the 1970s Changed Music by Tony Wellington
$39.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
A scintillating journey through the seventies and the extraordinary music it gave rise to — including the new concept of sound that defines music today.After the dense miasma of the sixties, the seventies hit like a hangover. Idealism took a pounding as cynicism began to pervade western culture. Stagfla ...Show more
Turns Out, I'm Fine: How Not To Fall Apart by Judith Lucy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
Judith Lucy was just Great! Sure, the last remaining member of her immediate family had died, she was menopausal, she suspected her career was in the shitter and it seemed like the world was going to hell in a handbasket – but she was about to move in with the love of her life! Everything would work out ...Show more
Taylor SwiftHer Biography and the Real Facts Guide to Taylor Swift (A Chronicle of Hit Songs and the People Who May Have Inspired Them) by Billy Brady
$35.00 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
Taylor Swift is the teenage sweetheart of America and fast becoming one of the world most charming pop stars. But what makes her so inspiring and her songs so popular? The answer is her realness and the emotions in her music. Taylor is famous for her autobiographical lyrics, with songs that comes strai ...Show more
Taylor Swift is Life: A Superfan's Guide to All Things We Love about Taylor Swift by Kathleen Perricone
$24.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts | Series: Modern Icons Ser.
Celebrate your best Swiftie life with this gorgeously illustrated, all-encompassing fan book on everything there is to know and love about the modern icon that is Taylor Swift.From her first vocal lessons at age nine, to learning the guitar at twelve, to becoming the most downloaded women on Spotify, an ...Show more
Slowhand: The Life and Music of Eric Clapton by Philip Norman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
Eric Clapton is acknowledged to be rock's greatest virtuoso, the unrivalled master of its most essential tool, the solid-body electric guitar. Clapton transfigured three of the 1960s' most iconic bands, the Yardbirds, Cream and Blind Faith, walking away from each when it failed to measure up to his exa ...Show more
Why Don't We - In the Limelight by Unknown; Why Don't We Staff
$49.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
In the Limelight is the official Why Don't We autobiography, full of never-before-seen photos and behind-the-scenes info about one of today's hottest bands. When five guys decided to form a band, they never imagined that they would go from playing music online to playing tours across the world so quick ...Show more
A Fabulous Creation: How LPs Saved Our Lives by David Hepworth
$35.00 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
The era of the LP began in 1967, with 'Sgt Pepper?; The Beatles didn?t just collect together a bunch of songs, they Made An Album. Henceforth, everybody else wanted to Make An Album. The end came only fifteen years later, coinciding with the release of Michael Jackson?s 'Thriller?. By then the Walkman h ...Show more
Unconditional Love: A Memoir of Filmmaking and Motherhood by Jocelyn Moorhouse
$32.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
Jocelyn Moorhouse has a successful career as a gifted scriptwriter and film director, as well as a maintaining a marriage and a family of four children. How did she do it? Her memoir is a moving story of growing up with adoring parents and siblings. She knew early on that she wanted to be a filmmaker, a ...Show more
Seven Big Australians - Adventures with Comic Actors by Anne Pender
$29.95 AUD
Category: Performing Arts | Series: Biography Ser.
Comic actors have made a particularly strong contribution to cultural life in Australia over the past sixty years. They have brought a range of memorable characters to the stage, television and film; they have transformed our image of ourselves, helped to overturn the crippling cultural cringe, and brou ...Show more
The Song Remains the Same: 800 Years of Love Songs, Laments and Lullabies by Andrew Ford; Anni Heino
$32.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
Often today, the word 'song' is used to describe all music. A free-jazz improvisation, a Hindustani raga, a movement from a Beethoven symphony, a Springsteen anthem or a Leonard Cohen ballad- they're all songs. But, in fact, a song is a specific musical form. It's not so much that they all have verses ...Show more
Bowie's Books - The Hundred Literary Heroes Who Changed His Life (HB) by John O'Connell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
David Bowie once said that his idea of perfect happiness was reading. Three years before he died, he made a list of the one hundred books that had transformed his life - a list that formed something akin to an autobiography. From Lolita to Madame Bovary, the Beano to The Iliad, these were the books that ...Show more
The Birth of Loud - Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock 'n' Roll by Ian S. Port
$26.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
"A hot-rod joy ride through mid-20th-century American history" (The New York Times Book Review), this one-of-a-kind narrative masterfully recreates the rivalry between the two men who innovated the electric guitar's amplified sound--Leo Fender and Les Paul--and their intense competition to convince rock ...Show more