Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: From This Broken Hill, Volume 2 by Michael Posner
$49.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Series: Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories Ser.
The second volume of the extraordinary life of the great music and literary icon Leonard Cohen, in the words of those who knew him best. Poet, novelist, singer-songwriter, artist, prophet, icon--there has never been a figure like Leonard Cohen. He was a true giant in contemporary western culture, ent ...Show more
Drums for Dummies by Jeff Strong
$41.95 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Series: For Dummies
Explore techniques that develop your rhythm Learn the tips and tricks of different drumming styles Follow the steps to set up and tune a drum kit Dreaming of drumming? Here's where to start Do you find yourself tapping on the tabletop whenever music plays? It's time to turn table-drumming into th ...Show more
Just Kids illustrated by Patti Smith
$59.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his ...Show more
Boy On Fire: The Young Nick Cave by Mark Mordue
$29.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
The bestselling, award-winning and critically acclaimed biography of the young Nick Cave, by award-winning writer, Mark Mordue. A beautiful, profound and poetic biography of the formative years of the dark prince of Australian rock 'n' roll, Boy on Fire is Nick Cave's creation story. This is a portrait ...Show more
Don't Dream It's Over: The remarkable life of Neil Finn by Jeff Apter
$34.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Don't Dream It's Over is the first biography to focus exclusively on Neil Finn, the man who wrote the timeless hits of Split Enz and Crowded House. In February 1980, 21-year-old Neil Mullane Finn wrote 'I Got You', which became the signature song, and the biggest hit, for the Kiwi band Split Enz, co-fo ...Show more
Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays The Rent by Dame Judi Dench
$36.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it before. Internationally renowned actor Dame Judi Dench's SHAKESPEARE: The Man Who Pays The Rent is a witty, insightful journey through the plays and tales of our beloved Shakespeare. 'A MAGICAL LOVE LETTER ...Show more
Herbie Hancock: Possibilities by Herbie Hancock
$29.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Now in paperback, this reflective and invaluable memoir tells the story of Hancock's incredible success as a musician, from his beginnings as a child prodigy to his work with artists like Miles Davis and Stevie Wonder. In Herbie Hancock: Possibilities the legendary jazz musician and composer reflects on ...Show more
Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You by Lucinda Williams
$34.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Reading Level: very good
Lucinda Williams's rise to fame was anything but easy. Raised in a working-class family in the Deep South, she moved from town to town each time her father--a poet, a textbook salesman, a professor, a lover of parties--got a new job, totalling twelve different places by the time she was 18. Her mother s ...Show more
Faith, Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave, Sean O'Hagan
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Category: Entertainment
"Created from more than forty hours of intimate conversations with the journalist Seán O’Hagan, this is a profoundly thoughtful exploration, in Cave’s own words, of what really drives his life and creativity. The book examines questions of belief, art, music, freedom, grief and love. It draws candidly o ...Show more
Make Music! by Norma Jean Haynes; Ann Sayre Wiseman; John Langstaff
$24.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Music is for everyone -- no prior experience required Make Music invites kids and families to celebrate the joy of sound with a variety of inventive activities, including playing dandelion trumpets, conducting percussion conversations, and composing their own pieces.Musician and educator Norma Jean Hay ...Show more
David Bowie: A Life in Pictures by Chris Welch
$39.95 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Bowie the performer. Bowie the songwriter. Bowie the fashion icon. Chameleon-like, David Bowie has consistently reinvented his stage persona, while blurring the boundaries of art, performance, fashion and music. From art school to Major Tom, the Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the iconic lightning b ...Show more
Spike by Spike Lee
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Category: Entertainment
Spike Lee is a world-renowned, Academy Award-winning filmmaker, a cultural icon, and one of the most prominent voices on race and racism for more than three decades. His prolific career has included over 35 films, including his directorial debut She's Gotta Have It (1986), his seminal masterpiece Do the ...Show more