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Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick
$26.99 AUD
Category: Music
Last Train to Memphis, the first part of Guralnick's two-volume life of Elvis Presley, received unprecedented accolades. This concluding volume recounts the second half of Elvis's life in rich and previously unimagined detail, and confirms Guralnick's status as one of the great biographers of our time. ...Show more
Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke by Peter Guralnick
$19.95 AUD
Category: Music
One of the most influential singers and songwriters of all time, Sam Cooke was among the first to blend gospel music and secular themes--the early foundation of soul music. He was the opposite of Elvis: a black performer who appealed to white audiences, who wrote his own songs, who controlled his own bu ...Show more
Dream Boogie : The triumph of Sam Cooke by Peter Guralnick
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music
One of the most influential African American singers/songwriters in the late 1950s, Sam Cooke was among the first to blend gospel music and secular themes - the early foundation of soul music. He was the opposite of Elvis: a black performer who appealed to white audiences, who wrote his own songs, who c ...Show more
Feel Like Going Home: Portraits In Blues and Rock'n'Roll by Peter Guralnick
$32.00 AUD
Category: Music
216 pages,hardcover. Peter Guralnick's writing on music and musicians is unique in the literature of American popular culture. His first three books Feel Like Going Home, Lost Highway and Sweet Soul Music, form a trilogy that has achieved classic status tracing twentieth-century American popular music ...Show more
Johnny Cash: the Last Interview and Other Conversations by Johnny Cash; Peter Guralnick (Introduction by)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: The\Last Interview Ser.
Johnny Cash seemed like the stuff of legend when he was alive, and even more so as he achieved something close to sainthood in death. The interviews collected here bring us closer to the actual man: brilliant, falliable, introspective, and longing for redemption.Mythmaker, philosopher, sinner, and saint ...Show more
Last Train To Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick
$26.99 AUD
Category: Music
LAST TRAIN TO MEMPHIS is arguably the first serious biography that refuses to dwell on the myth of Elvis. Aiming instead to portray in vivid, dramatic terms the life and career of this outstanding artistic and cultural phenomenon, it draws together a plethora of documentary and interview material to cre ...Show more
Looking To Get Lost: Adventures in Music and Writing by Peter Guralnick
$29.99 AUD
Category: Music
By the bestselling author of Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll and Last Train the Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley, this dazzling new book of profiles is a culmination of Peter Guralnick's remarkable work, which from the start has encompassed the full sweep of blues, gospel, country, an ...Show more
Lost Highway by Peter Guralnick
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music
This is a tribute to American roots music - country, rockabilly and the blues - spotlighting artists both celebrated and obscure. Guralnick conveys the passion that drove these men to music-making and that kept them determinedly, and sometimes desperately, on the road.
Sam Phillips - The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll by Peter Guralnick
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music
Rock 'n' roll was born in rural Alabama, 1923, in the form of Sam Phillips, the youngest son of a large family living in a remote colony called the Lovelace Community. His father had a gift for farming, which was brought to an end by the Depression. His mother picked guitar and showed the kind of forbea ...Show more
Searching For Robert Johnson by Peter Guralnick
$21.95 AUD
Category: Music
Explores the life and legend of blues singer Robert Johnson, whose music influenced Muddy Waters and an entire generation of rock 'n' roll artists.