Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis
$30.00 NZD
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
Schumann - The Faces and the Masks by Judith Chernaik
$45.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
Schumann: The Faces and the Masks is a groundbreaking account of a major composer whose life and works have been the subject of intense controversy ever since his attempted suicide and early death in an insane asylum. Schumann was a key figure in the Romanticism which swept Europe and America in the 19t ...Show more
Shania Twain: From This Moment On by Shania Twain
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener.
Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-First Century by Simon Reynolds
$28.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
A Guardian, Sunday Times, Mojo, Daily Telegraph and Observer Book of the Year As the sixties dream faded, a new flamboyant movement electrified the world: GLAM! In Shock and Awe, Simon Reynolds explores this most decadent of genres on both sides of the Atlantic. Bolan, Bowie, Suzi Quatro, Alice Cooper, ...Show more
Sinatra's Century: One Hundred Notes on the Man and His World by Lehman, David
$30.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
Slash: The Autobiography by Slash
$26.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
It seems excessive...but that doesn't mean it didn't happen. The mass of black curls. The top hat. The cigarette dangling from pouty lips. These are the trademarks of one of the world's greatest and most revered guitarists, a celebrity musician known by one name: Slash. Saul "Slash" Hudson was born in H ...Show more
Slowhand: The Life and Music of Eric Clapton by Philip Norman
$38.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
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
Small Town Talk: Bob Dylan, the Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix & Friends in the Wild Years of Woodstock by Barney Hoskyns
$28.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
Think 'Woodstock' and the mind turns to the seminal 1969 festival. But Woodstock itself was over sixty miles away, and already a key location in the rock landscape as a community of brilliant, dysfunctional musicians, opportunistic hippie capitalists, scheming dealers, and freaks dazed and confused by t ...Show more
Snakes! Guillotines! Electric Chairs! - My Adventures in the Alice Cooper Group by Dennis Dunaway; Chris Hodenfield
$28.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
A hair-raising backstage memoir of the Alice Cooper band, from the bassist and co-songwriter, co-written by the journalist who first covered the band for Rolling Stone."Before the world heard of KISS, the New York Dolls, Marilyn Manson, or Ozzy Osbourne, there was Alice Cooper, the original shock-rock b ...Show more
So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley by Roger Steffens
$54.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
Roger Steffens toured with Bob Marley for two weeks of his final tour of California in 1979 and the music icon was the first guest of Steffens' award-winning radio show. In So Much Things To Say, Steffens draws on a lifetime of scholarship to tell the story of Marley's childhood abandonment, his formati ...Show more
Sound Man - A Life Recording Hits with the Rolling Stones, the Who, Led Zeppelin, the Eagles, Eric Clapton, the Faces... by Glyn Johns
$32.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
Born just outside London in 1942, Glyn Johns was sixteen years old at the dawn of rock and roll. His big break as a producer came on the Steve Miller Band's debut album, Children of the Future, and he went on to engineer or produce iconic albums for the best in the business: Abbey Roadwith the Beatles, ...Show more
Sound Man - A Life Recording Hits with the Rolling Stones, the Who, Led Zepplin, the Eagles, Eric Clapton, the Faces... by Glyn Johns
$37.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
In this entertaining and observant memoir, Johns takes us on a tour of his world during the heady years of the sixties, with beguiling stories that will delight music fans the world over, such as when he had to bail the Steve Miller Band out of jail on their second day in London, his impressions of John ...Show more