The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs by Ivan March
62.95 NZD
69.95 (10% off)
Category: Music | Series: Penguin Reference Books S.
Ranging from long-established recordings to the latests releases, from premium-priced CDs to bargains, this title represents the cream of the international recorded repertoire and contains all the information required to select the finest classical music available in CDs and DVDs.
Mozart and His Operas by David Cairns
29.95 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
A noted music critic weaves a brilliantly engaging narrative which puts Mozart's operas in the context of his life, showing how they illuminate his creativity as a whole. David Cairns--winner of the Whitbread Biography Award and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction--has spent his life immersed ...Show more
Bob Dylan - Behind the Shades by Clinton Heylin
32.95 NZD
Category: Music
Presents an account of Bob Dylan - a great figure to have come out of popular culture in the 20th century.
Dylan's Visions of Sin by Christopher Ricks
29.95 NZD
Category: Music
Bob Dylan's ways with words are a wonder, matched as they are with his music and verified by those voices of his. In response to the whole range of Dylan early and late work (his songs of social conscience, of earthly love, of divine love, and of contemplation), this critical appreciation listens to Dyl ...Show more
Revolution in the Head: the Beatles records and the Sixties (3rd edition 2008) by Ian MacDonald
27.99 NZD
Category: Music
As dazzling as the decade they dominated, The Beatles almost single-handedly created pop music as we know it. Today, their songs are cited as seminal influences by stars like Oasis, Blur and Kula Shaker. Eloquently giving voice to their time, The Beatles quite simply changed the world. Fully updated to ...Show more
Rock on: How I Tried to Stop Caring About Music and Learn to Love Corporate Rock by Dan Kennedy
26.99 NZD
Category: Music
How would you like a six-figure marketing job at the hallowed record label that signed everyone who counts in the last fifty years of pop music? Before you answer, we'll throw in a plush office, a hip assistant and a bottomless expense account. When Dan Kennedy is hired by a major label he thinks he has ...Show more
Donovan - The Hurdy Gurdy Man by Donovan Leitch
27.99 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
Donovan's autobiography charts his life from a post-war, Glaswegian childhood to the height of an international career as one of the leading figures of the 1960's music scene. Always feeling like an outsider he found relief through music and poetry. The book reveals how he came to be influenced by Buddh ...Show more
Van Morrison - No Surrender by Johnny Rogan
27.99 NZD
36.99 (24% off)
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
Reclusive, difficult and enigmatic, Van Morrison is a gifted singer-songwriter and an endlessly complicated man. In Van Morrison: No Surrender, Johnny Rogan has produced a provocative and revelatory biography of the musician, analysing the sense of place in his work and the tortuous journey that took hi ...Show more
Big Bangs - The story of five discoveries that changed musical history by Howard Goodall
29.99 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: good-very good
The dramatic story of five key turning points in a thousand years of Western music - discoveries that changed the course of history. Who first invented 'Doh Re Mi...'? What do we mean by "in tune"? Looking back down the corridor of a thousand years, Howard Goodall guides us through the stories of five s ...Show more
Jim Morrison by Stephen Davis
27.99 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: Music
Jim Morrison's electrifying live performances, and appetite for sexual and psychedelic experience enflamed the spirit of a generation. In Jim Morrison, critically acclaimed journalist Stephen Davis brings together insights gleaned from dozens of original interviews, long-lost recordings, and Morrison's ...Show more