Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows by Harvey Kubernik
$44.95 AUD
Category: Composers
Updated edition to include details of his 13th studio album Popular Problems, released a day after his 80th birthday in September 2014 to positive reviews with The Telegraph calling the album 'a masterpiece.' Lavishly illustrated, respected journalist Harvey Kubernik charts Leonard Cohen's extraordinary ...Show more
The Double Life of Bob Dylan: Vol. 1 - A Restless Hungry Feeling, 1941-1966 by Clinton Heylin
$65.00 AUD
Category: Music
In 2016 it was announced that Bob Dylan had sold his personal archive to the George Kaiser Foundation in Tulsa, Oklahoma, reportedly for $22 million (and $64 million in tax relief). As the boxes started to arrive, the Foundation asked Clinton Heylin - author of the acclaimed Dylan behind the Shades (199 ...Show more
Six-String Stories by Eric Clapton
$89.99 AUD
Category: Music
'These guitars have been really good tools; they're not just museum pieces. They all have a soul and they all come alive.'- Eric Clapton 'In his own words, Clapton tells his story through the history of his instruments.' - Rolling Stone In Six-String Stories Eric Clapton reflects on a legendary career ...Show more
Sound as Ever: A Celebration of the Greatest Decade in Australian Music: 1990-1999 by Jane Gazzo, Andrew P. Street
$49.99 AUD
Category: Music Reference
The 90s was a magical time for Australian music. Record labels had money to spend, the Big Day Out and Triple J went national and suddenly everyone was getting a 3-piece together and gigging in the inner-city pubs of their town. Sound as Ever is a celebration and a documentation of this fertile period w ...Show more
Nick Cave - Complete Lyrics 1978-2022 by Nick Cave
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music Reference
'I walk into the corner of my room, see my friends in high places, I don't know which is which and whom is whom, they've stolen each other's faces' Spanning Nick Cave's entire career, from his writing for The Birthday Party, through highly acclaimed albums like Murder Ballads, Henry's Dream and DIG, LA ...Show more
The Song Remains the Same: 800 Years of Love Songs, Laments and Lullabies by Andrew Ford; Anni Heino
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music Reference
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
Beatles - Tune In: Volume one by Mark Lewisohn
$34.99 AUD
Category: Composers | Series: Tune in
The Beatles have been at the top for fifty years, their music remains exciting, their influence is still huge, their acclaim and achievements cannot be surpassed. But who really were the Beatles, and how did they and everything else in the 1960s fuse so explosively? Mark Lewisohn's three-part biography ...Show more
The Bach Cello Suites: A Companion by Steven Isserlis
$22.99 AUD
Category: Music
A unique Companion to J S Bach's iconic Cello Suites from internationally-renowned cellist Steven Isserlis.'The very model of how to write about music.' Philip Pullman'An essential companion.' Jeremy Denk, New York Times\'Illuminating, accessible and detailed.' ObserverBach's six cello suites for solo c ...Show more
A Coveted Possession: The Rise and Fall of the Piano in Australia by Michael Atherton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Composers
The intriguing cultural history of the piano in Australia From the instruments that floated ashore at Sydney Cove in the late eighteenth century to the resurrection of derelict heirlooms in the streets of twenty-first-century Melbourne, A Coveted Possession tells the curious story of Australia's intima ...Show more
Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen by Jeff Burger
$44.95 AUD
Category: Composers
Leonard Cohen, one of the most admired performers of the last half century, has had a stranger-than-fiction, roller-coaster ride of a life. Now, for the first time, he tells his story in his own words, via more than 50 interviews conducted world-wide between 1966 and 2012. In this book -- which includes ...Show more
Gurrumul by Robert Hillman
$27.99 AUD
Category: Composers
This unique Indigenous man is one of the most inspiring music stories of our generation. From concert halls to recording studios and into Aboriginal heartlands, this is the story of Australia's Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu. This unique Indigenous man is one of the most inspiring music stories of our gene ...Show more
Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows by Harvey Kubernik
$29.99 AUD
Category: Composers
Lavishly illustrated, respected journalist Harvey Kubernik charts Leonard Cohen's extraordinary career in detail, placing his literary and musical achievements within the context of his life. From his beginnings as a writer and poet, through his classic albums of the sixties and seventies up to his triu ...Show more