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  • Detours

    by Tim Rogers ...
    A charming, honest, funny, sad, tender and beautiful literary memoir, from Tim Rogers of You Am I. Think Patti Smith meet Dylan Thomas, by way of Banjo Paterson.'Rogers is a beautiful writer, both literate and lyrical ... Detours makes most rock memoirs look like How to Hypnotise Chooks. A heartbreaking work of staggering honesty.' West Australian'Of all the utterances delivered to me by strangers ... Read more

    $7.99 AUD

  • Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?: The Autobiography

    by Steven Tyler ...
    The long-awaited, no-holds-barred memoir from the legendary Aerosmith frontman. Finally, all the lurid tales of debauchery, sex, drugs and rock n' roll are told straight from the horse's lips as The Demon of Screamin' describes his unimaginable highs and unbelievable lows as lead singer of one of the biggest rock band in the world.Prolific frontman, rock icon and sex symbol, Steven Tyler is a ... Read more

    $9.99 AUD

  • Pressure Drop

    Reggae in the Seventies

    by John Masouri ...
    The music that developed as rocksteady and early reggae gave birth to deejays, dub, rockers, lovers rock, early dancehall and 2 Tone was by turns brutal and revelatory. Including an extensive analysis of the decade’s major singles and albums, Pressure Drop includes eyewitness accounts and experiences of the decade from the likes of Burning Spear, Chris Blackwell, Gregory Isaacs, Bunny Wailer, ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD

  • All Cheeses Great and Small: A Life Less Blurry

    by Alex James ...
    This is the story of Alex James’s transition from a leading light of the Britpop movement in the 1990s, to gentleman farmer, artisan cheese-maker and father of five.All Cheeses Great and Small is the follow-up memoir to Alex James's first book, Bit of a Blur, the story of his excessive pop star lifestyle during the nineties. But now Alex has grown up, fallen in love and got married. He has also ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • Working Class Boy

    Winner of the ABIA Biography of the Year

    by Jimmy Barnes ...
    A household name, an Australian rock icon, the elder statesman of Ozrock - there isn't an accolade or cliche that doesn't apply to Jimmy Barnes. But long before Cold Chisel and Barnesy, long before the tall tales of success and excess, there was the true story of James Dixon Swan - a working class boy whose family made the journey from Scotland to Australia in search of a better life.Working Class ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • I Am the Voice Left from Drinking

    by James Freud ...
    Excessive, outrageous, hilarious - the tell-all bio from one of the princes of 80s pop. I Am the Voice Left from Drinking is the no-holds-barred, brutally honest journey of an artist who made it from the suburbs to the top of the pop music charts, graced the covers of every music mag, hosted tV shows, lived the rock'n'roll dream and is still alive (barely) to talk about it. After forming his first ... Read more

    Was $13.99 AUD Now $9.99 AUD

  • Shots

    by Don Walker ...
    This remarkable memoir begins with Don Walker's early life in rural Australia and goes up to the late ’80s. In mesmerising prose, Walker evokes childhood and youth, wild times in the ’70s, life on the road and in Kings Cross, music-making and much more. Shots is a stunningly original book, a set of word pictures – shots – that conjure up the lowlife and backroads of Australia.‘Singular, strong and ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • Ten Legendary Blues Songs You Should Know About

    by Paul Wolfle ...
    Series Book 1 - Blues Music
    From the time the first “Diddley Bo” appeared on a wooden barnyard wall, countless great sounding blues songs, acoustic and electric, have been written and recorded by many talented artists.These ten legendary songs, among them “Boom Boom,” “Little Red Rooster” and “The Thrill is Gone,” from fabled musicians like John Lee Hooker, Willie Dixon and B.B.King, provide some of the critical links in the ... Read more

    $1.31 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Seven Celebrated Women of the Blues

    by Paul Wolfle ...
    Series Book 2 - Blues Music
    The expression of innovative women in acoustic and electric blues music is both vital and far-reaching. From the beginning, remarkable female artists have helped shape popular music with important blues contributions. As a result, their legacy should be kept in mind.This book commemorates a select group of noteworthy women chosen for their compelling collective vibe along with an incredible music ... Read more

    $1.36 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ten Legendary Blues Songs You Should Know About: Vol. 2

    by Paul Wolfle ...
    Series series Blues Music
    From the time the first “Diddley Bo” appeared on a wooden barnyard wall, countless great sounding blues songs, acoustic and electric, have been written and recorded by many talented artists.These ten legendary songs, among them “Boogie Chillun,” “John the Revelator” and “St. James Infirmary” from fabled musicians like John Lee Hooker, Son House and Doc Watson, provide some of the critical links in ... Read more

    $1.43 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Acid For The Children - The autobiography of Flea, the Red Hot Chili Peppers legend

    by Flea ...
    Flea, the iconic bassist and co-founder**, alongside Anthony Kiedis,** of the immortal Red Hot Chili Peppers finally tells his fascinating origin story, complete with all the dizzying highs and the gutter lows you'd expect from an LA street rat turned world-famous rock star.Michael Peter Balzary was born in Melbourne, Australia, on October 16, 1962. His more famous stage name, Flea, and his wild ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • Nöthin' But a Good Time

    The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion

    Now streaming on Paramount+ as an exclusive docuseries!**The New York Times BestsellerThe Explosive National Bestseller**"A backstage pass to the wildest and loudest party in rock history—you'll feel like you were right there with us!" —Bret Michaels of PoisonNothin' But a Good Time is the definitive, no-holds-barred oral history of 1980s hard rock and hair metal, told by the musicians and ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD

  • I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp

    An Autobiography

    by Richard Hell ...
    The autobiography of Richard Hell, icon of an indelible era of rock and roll and “rueful, battle-scarred, darkly witty observer of his own life and times” (The New York Times).From an early age, Richard Hell dreamed of running away. He arrived penniless in New York City at seventeen; ten years later he was a pivotal voice of the age of punk, cofounding such seminal bands as Television, The ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Riding So High: The Beatles and Drugs

    by Joe Goodden ...
    ‘Who gave the drugs to the Beatles? I didn’t invent those things. I bought it from someone who got it from somebody. We never invented the stuff.’ – John LennonRiding So High charts the Beatles’ extraordinary odyssey from teenage drinking and pill-popping, to cannabis, LSD, the psychedelic Summer of Love and the darkness beyond.Drugs were central to the Beatles’ story from the beginning. The acid, ... Read more

    $6.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story

    Rude Boys, Racism and the Soundtrack of a Generation

    by Daniel Rachel ...
    #2 UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023In 1979, 2 Tone exploded into the national consciousness as records by The Specials, The Selecter, Madness, The Beat, and The Bodysnatchers burst onto the charts and a youth movement was born.2 Tone was black and white: a multi-racial force of British and Caribbean island musicians singing about social issues, racism, class and gender struggles. It spoke of injustices ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • All You Need Is Love

    The End of The Beatles - Unpublished, Unvarnished and Told by The Beatles and Their Inner Circle

    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA Daily Mail Music Book of the Year, 2024An Observer Book of the Week'I can think of no one better placed to tell the story behind The Beatles than Peter Brown.' -Pattie Boyd Harrison'Interviews so controversial they were locked in a vault for 40 years' -The Times'A fascinating snapshot of the t... ... Read more

    Was $16.99 AUD Now $12.99 AUD

  • The Beautiful Ones

    by Prince ...
    THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA Times**,** Sunday Times and Telegraph Book of the Year______________________________________________'A triumph ... a masterclass in the bottling of its subject's seductive essence. His presence in this book is so strong that it's har... ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD

  • The Tao of Wu

    by The RZA ...
    From the founder of the Wu-Tang Clan, an inspirational book for the hip-hop fan.The RZA, founder of the Wu-Tang Clan, imparts the lessons he’s learned on his journey from the Staten Island projects to international superstardom. A devout student of knowledge in every form in which he’s found it, he distills here the wisdom he’s acquired into seven “pillars,” each based on a formative event in his ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD

  • Left of the Dial

    Conversations with Punk Icons

    Left of the Dial features interviews by musical journalist, folklorist, educator, and musician David Ensminger with leading figures of the punk underground: Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat/Fugazi), Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys), Dave Dictor (MDC), and many more. Ensminger probes the legacy of punk’s sometimes fuzzy political ideology, its ongoing DIY traditions, its rupture of cultural and social norms, ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From this Moment on

    by Shania Twain ...
    From music legend Shania Twain comes the extraordinary memoir everyone is talking about,including Oprah.the world may know Shania twain as many things: a music legend, a mother, and recently, a fixture in the news for her painful, public divorce and subsequent marriage to a cherished friend. But in this extraordinary autobiography, Shania reveals that she is so much more. She is Eilleen twain, one ... Read more

    $9.99 AUD

  • Phil Lynott: The Rocker

    The definitive biography of Thin Lizzy's charismatic lead singer . Using dozens of interviews with family, friends and band members, Putterford gives a touching and sometimes shocking account of the life of the one and only black Irish rock legend. ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • The Who - Uncensored On the Record

    by Steven Rosen ...
    Were The Who the godfathers of Punk? They are certainly one of the most influential rock bands of all time, and they continue to impress audiences and gain new fans to this day. This is the true story of The Who in the words of those who knew best: the band themselves. With the help of a leading team of critics, we follow the band from their beginnings as The High Numbers during the Mod era to ... Read more

    $5.23 AUD

  • Who's Crazee Now?

    My Autobiography

    As lead singer and extraordinary frontman of SLADE, Noddy Holder was one of the most successful musicians of the '70s and '80s. The epitome of the Glam Rock look and lifestyle, they released anthem after anthem as they mixed pure pop madness with football chant choruses. Seemingly on a mission to corrupt the spelling of a generation, the hits are songs we still hold dear today: MAMA WEER ALL ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD

  • Last of the Giants

    The True Story of Guns N' Roses

    by Mick Wall ...
    'Last Of the Giants is the mad, funny, dark and often painful story of a lost band from a now-distant time' CLASSIC ROCK MAGAZINEINCLUDES BRAND NEW CHAPTER COVERING GUNS N' ROSES EPIC WORLD TOUR'Any story about Guns is worth reading. But when the author is Mick Wall it's absolutely essential' KERRANGMany millions of words have already been written about Guns N' Roses, the old line-up, the new line ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD