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David Bowie - A Life by Dylan Jones
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
** Shortlisted for the NME Best Music Book Award 2018 ** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A HERALD BOOK OF THE YEAR AN IRISH INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 'The definitive book on Bowie' The Times Drawn from a series of conversations between David Bowie and ...Show more
David Bowie: A Life by Dylan Jones
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music
Dylan Jones's engrossing, magisterial biography of David Bowie is unlike any Bowie story ever written. Drawn from over 180 interviews with friends, rivals, lovers, and collaborators, some of whom have never before spoken about their relationship with Bowie, this oral history weaves a hypnotic spell as i ...Show more
IPod, Therefore I Am : A Personal Journey Through Music by Dylan Jones
$22.95 AUD
Category: Music
Personal odyssey of iPod-owner Dylan Jones, an obsession about music made possible by new technology and fuelled by fashion. Since 1972, when he was eleven, Dylan Jones has been regularly buying records in a 30-year binge of glam rock, punk, disco and rap. His life is full of disparate pop stars and ...Show more
Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of The Velvet Underground by Dylan Jones
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music
Dylan Jones's definitive oral history of The Velvet Underground draws on contributions from remaining members, contemporaneous musicians, critics, film-makers, and the generation of artists who emerged in their wake, to celebrate not only their impact but their legacy, which burns brighter than ever int ...Show more
Loaded - The Life (and Afterlife) of the Velvet Underground by Dylan Jones
$26.99 AUD
Category: Music
Drawing on contributions from remaining members, contemporaneous musicians, critics, filmmakers, and the generation of artists who emerged in their wake, this "monumental origin story" celebrates the legacy of the Velvet Underground, which burns brighter than ever in the 21st century (New York Times bes ...Show more
Manxiety by Dylan Jones
$19.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Masculinity, it appears, is in crisis. Diminished by feminists, mocked by their peers and ridiculed by the media, it seems not a week goes by when men are not being accused of being too violent, too stupid or too sexual.The world in which men roamed the planet with an innate sense of entitlement, comfor ...Show more
Mr Mojo: A Biography of Jim Morrison by Dylan Jones
$19.99 AUD
Category: Music
In Paris's Pere-Lachaise cemetery, Jim Morrison's graffiti-scrawled tombstone is a place of pilgrimage for local devotees, adolescent hedonists and wayward backpackers alike. Found dead in his bathtub aged only 27 having achieved worldwide stardom as lead singer of The Doors, Morrison was quickly immort ...Show more
Sweet Dreams: From Club Culture to Style Culture, the Story of the New Romantics by Dylan Jones
$27.99 AUD
Category: Music
'Excellent' - Guardian 'Hugely enjoyable' - Irish Times 'Dazzling' - LRB 'Fascinating' - New Statesman'An absolute must-read'- GQ For a while, Sweet Dreams were made of this. From the testimony of the people who lived it, comes Dylan Jones' masterful history of the Blitz kids, synth-pop and the styl ...Show more
Sweet Dreams - The Story of the New Romantics by Dylan Jones
$39.99 AUD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
Sweet Dreams charts the rise of the New Romantics, a scene that grew out of the remnants of post-punk and developed quickly alongside club culture, ska, electronica, and goth. One of the most creative entrepreneurial periods since the Sixties, the era had a huge influence on the growth of print and broa ...Show more
The Wichita Lineman - Searching in the Sun for the World's Greatest Unfinished Song by Dylan Jones
$22.99 AUD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
The sound of 'Wichita Lineman' was the sound of ecstatic solitude, but then its hero was the quintessential loner. What a great metaphor he was: a man who needed a woman more than he actually wanted her. Written in 1968 by Jimmy Webb, 'Wichita Lineman' is the first philosophical country song: a heartbre ...Show more
When Ziggy Played Guitar: David Bowie and Four Minutes That Shook the World by Dylan Jones
$49.95 AUD
Category: Music
And then there was David Bowie, the uber-freak with the mismatched pupils, the low-tech space face from the planet Sparkle. This was Bowie's third appearance on TOTP but this was the one that properly resonated with its audience, the one that would go on to cause a seismic shift in the Zeitgeist. This i ...Show more
Wichita Lineman by Dylan Jones
$27.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Faber Social Ser.
Dylan Jones' luminous excavation of Jimmy Webb's song 'Wichita Lineman' offers a portal into a defining moment of American cultural history. The sound of Wichita Lineman was the sound of ecstatic solitude - but then its hero was the quintessential loner. What a great metaphor he was: a man who needed a ...Show more