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Across the Great Divide: The Band and America by Barney Hoskyns
$37.50 AUD
Category: Music
(Book). This is a vivid and rollicking account of The Band's journey across three decades. Spanning the history of American rock and boasting a supporting cast that includes Dylan, Janis Joplin, and U2, the book brilliantly captures the raw magic and complex personalities of a group George Harrison call ...Show more
Across the Great Divide: the Band and America by Barney Hoskyns
$49.95 AUD
Category: Music
472 pages The Band was one of the most celebrated and influential groups to arrive on the music scene in the late sixties. The Band's members - four Canadians: Robbie Robertson, Richard Manuel, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, and one drummer from Arkansas, Levon Helm - fashioned something magically new out of ...Show more
Hotel California by Barney Hoskyns
$39.95 AUD
Category: Music
The story of a remarkable time and place: Los Angeles from the dawn of the singer-songwriter era in the mid-Sixties to the peak of The Eagles’ success in the late Seventies. Hotel California is the first in-depth account of the scene – 'the mythically tangled genealogy’, in the words of writer John Roc ...Show more
Hotel California: Singer-songwriters and Cocaine Cowboys in the L.A. Canyons 1967-1976 by Barney Hoskyns
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
This is the story of a remarkable time and place: Los Angeles from the dawn of the singer-songwriter era in the mid-Sixties to the peak of The Eagles' success in the late Seventies.Hotel California is an epic tale of songs and sunshine, drugs and denim, genius and greed, and is the first in-depth accoun ...Show more
Lowside of the Road - A Life of Tom Waits by Barney Hoskyns
$19.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Faber Greatest Hits Ser.
Spanning Tom Waits' extraordinary 40-year career, from Closing Time to Orphans, Lowside of the Road is Barney Hoskyns' unique take on one of rock's great enigmas. Like Bob Dylan and Neil Young, Waits is a chameleonic survivor who's achieved long-term success while retaining cult credibility and outsider ...Show more
Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits by Barney Hoskyns
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
Spanning Tom Waits' extraordinary 40-year career, from "Closing Time" to "Orphans", "Lowside of the Road" is Barney Hoskyns' unique take on one of rock's great enigmas. Like Bob Dylan and Neil Young, Waits is a chameleonic survivor who's achieved long-term success while retaining cult credibility and ou ...Show more
Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits by Barney Hoskyns
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music
Spanning Tom Waits' extraordinary 40-year career, from Closing Time to Orphans, Lowside of the Road is Barney Hoskyns' unique take on one of rock's great enigmas. Like Bob Dylan and Neil Young, Waits is a chameleonic survivor who's achieved long-term success while retaining cult credibility and outsider ...Show more
Major Dudes - A Steely Dan Companion by Barney Hoskyns
$26.99 AUD
Category: Music
The ultimate anthology of Steely Dan, one of the defining and bestselling rock acts of the last half-century At its core a creative marriage between Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, Steely Dan has sold over 45 million albums and recorded several of the cleverest and best-produced albums of the 1970s--fr ...Show more
Major Dudes: A Steely Dan Companion by Barney Hoskyns
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music
At its core a creative marriage between Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, Steely Dan are one of the defining and bestselling American rock acts of the last half-century, recording several of the cleverest and best-produced albums of the '70s - from the breathlessly catchy Can't Buy a Thrill to the sleekly ...Show more
Never Enough: A Way Through Addiction by Barney Hoskyns
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A few months after graduating with a 1st class honours degree from Oxford University, Barney Hoskyns sat in a damp Clapham basement and asked his best friend to inject him with heroin. From that moment on, for the next 20 years, Hoskyns is hopelessly hooked. This is the searingly honest story of what br ...Show more
Present Tense A Radiohead Companion by Barney Hoskyns
$32.99 AUD
Category: Music | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
For over 25 years, Radiohead have been the most radical and fascinating rock band in the world. Fearless in their desire to change and shape-shift, the Oxfordshire quintet has - through the nine studio albums from 1993's PABLO HONEY to 2016's A MOON-SHAPED POOL - consistently stretched the boundaries of ...Show more
Ragged Glories:City Lights Country Funk American Music by Barney Hoskyns
$40.00 AUD
Category: Music