Michael Jackson: The King of Pop by Chris Roberts
$34.99 AUD
Category: Classical/Contemporary
As news of the 50-year-old pop superstar's death spread around the world in 2009 there were tears, shock and surprise. Michael was preparing to perform a record-breaking sell-out season of shows at London's O2 Arena, proving he was the world's most popular entertainer. Five years later nobody has steppe ...Show more
World's Best Jazz Club - The Story of Bennetts Lane by David James
$49.99 AUD
Category: Classical/Contemporary
When you think of jazz, you think of the jazz scene in New York City or New Orleans. In Europe you think of London, Montreux or Umbria. But when you think of jazz in Australia, it's not a city or a town that comes to mind, it's a jazz club -- the Bennetts Lane Jazz Club -- described by the Lonely Planet ...Show more
Elvis the King: The Authorized Book from the Graceland Archives by Gillian G. Gaar
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classical/Contemporary
Elvis passed away in 1977 but his spirit lives on. His records still sell, his movies are still hugely popular and his concerts are still discussed by new generations of fans. The Elvis Presley estate has selected from tens of thousands of photographs from all eras of Elvis' career to make this book, wh ...Show more
The Beatles: Six Days That Changed the World. February, 1964 by Bill Eppridge
$59.99 AUD
Category: Classical/Contemporary
Astonishing, richly spontaneous, and almost entirely unpublished images of the Beatles' historic first trip to the United States, as chronicled by an award-winning photographer given unique access to their tour. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Beatles' first visit to the Unite ...Show more
Mozart: a Life by Paul Johnson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classical/Contemporary
Liszt once said that Mozart composed more bars than a trained copyist could write in a lifetime. One of the world's most enduringly popular musicians, Mozart had a profound influence on Western music and on his contemporaries such as Beethoven and Haydn. Johnson focuses on the importance of Mozart's mus ...Show more
Great Operas: A Guide to 25 of the World's Finest Musical Experiences by Michael Steen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classical/Contemporary | Series: Great Operas
With four famous operas each from Mozart, Verdi and Puccini, and two each from Rossini and Donizetti, there is a feast of information. Here are short guides to The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni; to the splendour of Aida, the heart-breaking La Traviata; the drama of Tosca. The range is very broad. ...Show more
Rock Country by Chris Ryan
$85.00 AUD
Category: Classical/Contemporary
Oceans apart, down low, far from the world's music-making epicentres and dangling on the edge of the world is a country u Australia u that produces music unlike anyplace elsea Nor has there been a book like this before. ROCK COUNTRY is a lavishly illustrated book of 35 essays exploring the culture and t ...Show more
1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die by Robert Dimery
$39.99 AUD
Category: Classical/Contemporary
Freshly revised and updated - and now in its seventh year - 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die is your essential guide to the best recorded music. You'll find a mouth-watering choice of listening here: from Miles Davis's jazz landmark Kind of Blue (1959) to The White Stripes' triumphant Elephant ( ...Show more
Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop by Bob Stanley
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classical/Contemporary
For fifty years, pop music was created and consumed like this: you heard a record on the radio, or read about it in a music paper; you bought it on Saturday; you lent it to, or taped it for, a friend; and they reciprocated with another record. It was a secret network. It was how you made friends, how yo ...Show more
Up from Down Under by Jeff Apter
$32.99 AUD
Category: Classical/Contemporary
Up From Down Under tells the remarkable untold story of how Australian music took over the world.
Verve - The Sound of America by Richard Havers
$90.00 AUD
Category: Classical/Contemporary
Verve: The Sound of America shows how one label changed the course of modern music and brought jazz to the world. The story of Verve Records is the story of jazz. Verve signed practically every major jazz artist of the fifties and sixties and is home to some of the greatest music ever recorded. Norman G ...Show more
Music: The Definitive Visual History by DORLING KINDERSLEY
$59.99 AUD
Category: Classical/Contemporary
The story of music from prehistory to the present day Classical or rock, everyone has their favourite musical style, but how did your top choice come about? Why did jazz go Latin, or blues influence rock? Find out in Music, a visual history of the most unifying art form in the world. Every musical revol ...Show more