Reading the Silver Screen : A Film Lover's Guide to Decoding the Art Form That Moves by Thomas C. Foster
$27.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
From the New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes an indispensable analysis of our most celebrated medium, film.No art form is as instantly and continuously gratifying as film. When the house lights go down and the lion roars, we settle in to be shocked, frighte ...Show more
There's Your Quote, Mate by Antonino Tati
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$29.99 (49% off)
Category: Performing Arts
Antonino Tati (editor of Cream Magazine) celebrating 20 years of publishing by pulling together an anthology of unorthodox interviews from the music industry - delving into the juicier subjects like sex and sexuality, drink and drugs, money and politics, race and religion, and the pitfalls of fame and f ...Show more
Paul McCartney: The Stories Behind 50 Classic Songs, 1970-2020 by Mike Evans
$49.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts | Series: Stories Behind the Songs Ser.
Paul McCartney's songwriting output as a member of the Beatles, mainly with co-writer John Lennon, has been exhaustively documented over the years. Now, taking 50 key songs from his six-decade career since the break-up of the Fab Four, Paul McCartney: The Stories Behind the Songs takes an in-depth look ...Show more
Sweet Dreams: From Club Culture to Style Culture, the Story of the New Romantics by Dylan Jones
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Category: Performing Arts
'Excellent' - Guardian 'Hugely enjoyable' - Irish Times 'Dazzling' - LRB 'Fascinating' - New Statesman'An absolute must-read'- GQ For a while, Sweet Dreams were made of this. From the testimony of the people who lived it, comes Dylan Jones' masterful history of the Blitz kids, synth-pop and the styl ...Show more
Music: The Definitive Visual History by DK
$59.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
A comprehensive and accessible visual history of music - from prehistory to the present dayWhy did jazz go Latin? And how did blues influence rock? Find out how music has shaped the world from prehistory to the present day.Classical or rock, everyone has their favourite music style, but how did your top ...Show more
Charlie's Good Tonight - The Life, The Times and The Rolling Stones by Paul Sexton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
The official and fully authorised biography of the world’s most revered and celebrated drummers, and mainstay of The Rolling Stones Charlie Watts was one of the most decorated musicians in the world, having joined the Rolling Stones, a few months after their formation, early in 1963. A student of jazz d ...Show more
Snakes! Guillotines! Electric Chairs! - My Adventures in the Alice Cooper Group by Dennis Dunaway; Chris Hodenfield
$24.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
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
Strange Stars - David Bowie, Pop Music, and the Decade Sci-Fi Exploded by Jason Heller
$44.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
A Hugo Award-winning author and music journalist explores the weird and wild story of when the sci-fi world met the rock 'n' roll world of the 1970sAs the 1960s drew to a close, and mankind trained its telescopes on other worlds, old conventions gave way to a new kind of hedonistic freedom that celebrat ...Show more
When Words Fail - A Life with Music, War and Peace by Ed Vulliamy
$24.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
Built around 16 life-changing gigs and concerts, a passionate investigation of the charged frontier between 20th century music and politics.
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by SCHNEIDER, STEVEN JAY
$45.00 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
With over 1.75 million copies sold worldwide, this book is a must-have for all movie lovers, from casual movie-goers to film connoisseurs. This brand-new edition of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die covers more than a century of movie history. Selected and authored by a team of international film ...Show more
Kim Salmon and the Formula for Grunge by Douglas Galbraith
$39.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
This book follows Australian musician Kim Salmon, from bands The Scientists, Surrealists and Beasts of Bourbon, from childhood in Perth through his many bands, albums, tours, family upheavals, triumphs, disappointments and examines the characters of the music business he collaborates with along the way. ...Show more
When Giants Walked the Earth - A Biography of Led Zeppelin by Mick Wall
$32.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
Over ten years after WHEN GIANTS WALKED THE EARTH, Mick's seminal biography of the band, comes this major and extensively researched revision, which will provide an unflinching look at life inside one of the biggest-selling rock bands of all time, and present the definitive, final word on Led Zeppelin. ...Show more