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Stranger Than Kindness
A journey in images and words into the creative world of musician, storyteller and cultural icon Nick Cave
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Why Bowie Matters
A unique, moving and dazzlingly researched exploration of the places, people, musicians, writers and filmmakers that inspired David Jones to become David Bowie, what we can learn from his life's work and journey, and why he will...
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Just Kids: Illustrated Edition
Patti's Smith's exquisite prose is generously illustrated in this full-color edition of her classic coming-of-age memoir, Just Kids.
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Your Own Kind of Girl
Clare Bowditch has always had a knack for telling stories. Through her music and performing, this beloved Australian artist has touched hundreds of thousands of lives. But what of the stories she used to tell herself? That 'real...
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Acid for the Children
Iconic bassist and co-founder of the immortal Red Hot Chili Peppers finally tells his fascinating life story, complete with all the dizzying highs and the gutter lows you'd expect from an LA street rat turned world-famous rock...
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I’ll Be Your Mirror: The Collected Lyrics
Out of print for several years, a comprehensive volume of Lou Reed's lyrics, now updated in a new text design to include the lyrics from his final album with Metallica, Lulu.
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The Beautiful Ones
The Beautiful Ones is the official story of Prince's life, told through his own words, work, and personal effects, illustrated in beautiful colour full-colour. It will be an intimate, unconventional narrative, echoing his mantra...
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Arboretum
An intimate, enigmatic glimpse into the mind of the legendary musician and internationally bestselling author of How Music Works. With a new introduction by the author
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Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music
One of the most powerful and highly anticipated life stories to be told in Australian history. A breathtakingly powerful memoir by beloved Australian music legend Archie Roach - stolen child, musical and lyrical genius and the...
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Morning Glory on the Vine: Early Songs and Drawings
Originally handcrafted in 1971 as a gift for friends, this edition of Joni Mitchell's best-loved poems, illustrations, watercolours and hand-lettered song lyrics is now publicly available for the first time
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Hell Is Round the Corner
The autobiography of one of the most original artists to emerge from the UK in the past 30 years.
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Bowie’s Books: The Hundred Literary Heroes Who Changed His Life
Bowie's Books is much more than a list of books you should read in your lifetime: it is a unique insight into one of the greatest minds of our times, and an indispensable part of the legacy that Bowie left behind.
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Janis: Her Life and Music
The first biography of Janis Joplin to establish her as the rule-breaking trailblazer and complicated, gender-bending rebel she was - based on unprecedented access to her family, friends, forgotten archives, and long-lost...
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Jeff Buckley: His Own Voice
The fully authorised biography of late singer Jeff Buckley, which includes his never before seen lyrics, diaries and letters.
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Me: Elton John
A multiple Grammy-winning legend and flamboyant superstar, Elton is the most enduringly successful singer/songwriter of all time. Fans have been eagerly waiting for him to tell his story. Now the wait is over.<br...
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Year of the Monkey
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.
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Elton John by Terry O'Neill
A photographic portrait of Elton John, by iconic photographer Terry O'Neill.
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Wham! George & Me
The long-awaited and lovingly told story of Andrew, George and their time together as WHAM!
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Face It: A Memoir
A multilayered memoir from a multifaceted artist
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‘Til Wrong Feels Right: Lyrics and More
Lyrics, essays and photographs from one of music's most influential, enduring and endearing artists.
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Surf by Day, Jam by Night
Surf by Day, Jam by Night takes you inside the hearts and minds of some of the most iconic surfing musicians and musical surfers of our time including Kelly Slater, Stephanie Gilmore, Jack Johnson and Pete Murray.
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Fried & Justified
In 1980, Houghton set up his own PR company, Brassneck Publicity, and for the next 20 years the list of his charges reads like a who's who of some of the greatest, most influential, and most dysfunctional cult groups of the...
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Songs
For over forty years, Don Walker's songwriting has captured what it is to be Australian. From Cold Chisel to his solo work, as well as many other writing collaborations, Walker's words are poetic, moving and incisive. This...
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Malcolm Young: The Man Who Made AC/DC
This is the first biography to focus exclusively on Malcolm Young and tells the riveting story of his remarkable rise from working-class Glasgow and the Villawood migrant hostel in Sydney to the biggest stages in the world. It...
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Bowie by O'Neill: The Definitive Collection with Unseen Images
More than 500 photographs of David Bowie, shot by celebrated photographer Terry O'Neill, including images never published before.
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A Dream About Lightning Bugs
From genre-defying icon Ben Folds comes a memoir reflecting on art, life and music that is as nuanced, witty and relatable as his cult classic songs.
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Girl in a Band
In Girl in a Band Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth and role model for a generation of women, tells her story. Filled with the sights and sounds of a changing world and a remarkable life, Girl in a Band is a moving,...
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Grace: Based on the Jeff Buckley Story
Written by Tiffanie DeBartolo and with art by Pascal Dizin and Lisa Reist, this graphic biography includes archival material provided by Jeff's mother, Mary Guibert, to reveal the young songwriter in the process of becoming a...
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Something to Believe In
For Andrew Stafford, music was a way up and a way out. There was just one little problem: he couldn't play. Because those who can do and those who can't review, he carved out a niche writing about it instead.
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JPY: The Autobiography
A memoir of iconic Australian singer and performer John Paul Young. John Paul Young is one of the most iconic artistS in Australian music's history, with over four million world wide album sales and numerous awards which garnered...
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A Seat at the Table
'Stretches your brain and swells your heart with every page' Caitlin Moran on Never Mind the Bollocks
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Rockonomics
How the music industry explains the workings of our economy, the changes of markets and prepares us the future - from one of the modern era's foremost economists
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A Fabulous Creation: How the LP Saved Our Lives
The LP itself had been a mark of sophistication, a measure of wealth, an instrument of education, a poster saying things you dare not say yourself, a means of attracting the opposite sex, and, for many, the single most desirable...
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Record Play Pause
A remarkable memoir from New Order's Stephen Morris, who tells his story for the first time.
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The Big Book of Rock & Roll Names
The Big Book of Rock & Roll Names tells the behind-the-scenes stories of how the world's most popular and influential rock and pop acts got their names.
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This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else: Joy Division - The Oral History
Jon Savage's oral history of Joy Division is the last word on the band that ended with the suicide of Ian Curtis in Macclesfield on 18 May, 1980.
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Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back)
Through his pioneering work in the legendary country-punk band, Uncle Tupelo, to his enduring legacy as the creative force behind the unclassifiable sound of Wilco, Jeff Tweedy has weaved his way between the underground and the...
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Serving the Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain
On the twenty-fifth anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death comes a new perspective on one of the most compelling icons of our time - and the only book written by someone who knew him.
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Present Tense: A Radiohead Compendium
A Rock's Backpages anthology of Radiohead, the most radical and fascinating rock band in modern music history, edited and introduced by Barney Hoskyns.
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How To Be Invisible
Selected and arranged by the author, with an expansive introduction by the novelist David Mitchell, How To Be Invisible presents the lyrics of Kate Bush for the first time in a beautiful cloth-bound Faber edition.
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Beastie Boys Book
A panoramic experience that tells the story of Beastie Boys, a book as unique as the band itself - by band members AD-ROCK and Mike D, with contributions from Amy Poehler, Colson Whitehead, Spike Jonze, Wes Anderson, Luc Sante,...
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The Flame
The final collection of poetry from the world's greatest lyricist Leonard Cohen, introduced by his son Adam Cohen.
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Imagine John Yoko
Featuring the lyrics of John Lennon's iconic, beloved song and illustrations by award-winning artist Jean Jullien, this poignant and timely picture book dares to imagine a world at peace. Imagine is being published in partnership...
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How To Make Gravy
A memoir in a hundred songs - classy storytelling from Australia's most prodigious singer-songwriter.
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Chronicles Volume 1
An unprecedented publishing event - the first volume in a series of memoirs by one of the most important and influential musicians and songwriters of our time.
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