Love Me Tender: the Stories Behind the World's Favourite Songs by Max Cryer
39.99 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: Very Good
Love Me Tender tells the remarkable stories behind 40 popular and traditional songs. Some evolved from folksongs, some are from musical theatre, while others hit the mark because a particular recording appeared at just the right time. First published September 2008.
Musica: 1 000 Years Of Classical Music by House Millenium
125.00 NZD
Category: Music
A lavishly illustrated, comprehensive reference to western classical music. Hundreds of colour photographs, artworks, musical manuscripts and maps, along with authoritative and engaging text by eminent musical scholars from around the world take you on a musical journey through time, revealing how class ...Show more
The Ultimate Fender Book by Paul Day
51.99 NZD
Category: Music
Back in the 40s, Leo Fender and his team ran a small business in California making a handful of steel guitars and amplifiers. Using this expertise to produce the world's first commercial solidbody electric guitar, they made musical history. Everyone from Hendrix and Cobain to Clapton played a Fender, an ...Show more
Guitar by Hugh Gregory
59.99 NZD
Category: Music
Although stringed instruments like the guitar--the cithera, lute, mandolin etc--have been popular for thousands of years, we tend to think of the guitar as a 20th century invention because the electric guitar was patented by George Beauchamp in 1936. Beauchamp was an inventor of musical instruments--his ...Show more
Krautrock: Cosmic Rock and Its Legacy by Erik Davis
64.99 NZD
Category: Music
"Krautrock: Cosmic Rock and its Legacy" charts the history of this influential music genre, from its roots in free jazz, psychedelia and the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen, to the groundbreaking experiments of Faust, Kraftwerk and Can. The late 1960s in West Germany was a period of profound breakthrough ...Show more
Crap Lyrics - A celebration of the very worst pop lyrics of all time ... EVER! by Johnny Sharp
24.99 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: good
This is a witty celebration of the worst lyrics ever to grace the airwaves. After all, there are bad lines, and then there are really bad lines. Snap sang "I'm as serious as cancer" in "Rhythm Is a Dancer", while Duran Duran opined 'You're about as easy as a nuclear war' in "Is There Something I Should ...Show more
Beatles for Sale by John Blaney
47.99 NZD
Category: Music
"Beatles For Sale" is a brand new way of looking at a story you may think you know inside out. Author John Blaney shows for the first time how the group and their inner circle invented so much of what we now recognise as the modern business of making and selling rock music. This was certainly not becaus ...Show more
Million Dollar Bash - Bob Dylan, The Band and The Basement Tapes by Sid Griffin
59.99 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: good
Metal The Definitive Guide by Garry Sharp Young
35.00 NZD
Category: Music
(Book). This is a comprehensive, illustrated book about one of the most enduringly popular forms of music. Combining biography, critical analysis, and detailed reference sections, it profiles all the major heavy metal artists as well as a huge selection of other niche acts from around the world. Metal: ...Show more