The Silver River: A memoir of family - lost, made and found - from the Midnight Oil founding member, for readers of Dave Grohl, Tim Rogers and Rick Rubin by Jim Moginie
Category: Performing Arts
A moving and inspiring memoir of families lost and rediscovered, by a founding member of legendary band Midnight Oil. For fifty years, songwriter, guitarist and keyboard player Jim Moginie was a driving force behind the startling rise and global success of one of Australia's most powerful, influential a ...Show more
The House of Hidden Meanings: A memoir by RuPaul
Category: Performing Arts
From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date. A brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance, found family, and self-ac ...Show more
My Name is Barbra by Barbra Streisand
Category: Performing Arts
The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in every area of entertainment. She is among the handful of EGOT winners (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) an ...Show more
Unsung: A Compendium of Creativity by Kate Ceberano
Category: Performing Arts
A beautiful illustrated memoir from beloved Australian musician Kate Ceberano, featuring her inspirational song lyrics, stories, paintings and embroidery, and celebrating four decades of songwriting and recording on the release of her 30th album. Kate Ceberano is used to a hush descending as she draws ...Show more
Shoulda Been Higher: A Celebration of 30 Years of Triple J's Hottest 100 by Tom W Clarke
Category: Performing Arts
The Hottest 100 is a national institution.Every year since 1993, Australia's national youth broadcaster triple j has held annual countdown of listeners' 100 favourite songs of the year, as voted by the public. It's as iconic of modern Australiana as sausage sizzles and leadership spills. It has become s ...Show more
The Girl in the Band: Bardot – a cautionary tale by Belinda Chapple
Category: Performing Arts
For millions of girls, being in a band is the ultimate dream. For Belinda, it turned into a nightmare. The Girl in the Band takes us behind the scenes of the early days of reality TV, and reveals, for the first time, what really happened to Bardot.Belinda Chapple spent her childhood dreaming of travelli ...Show more
My My!: ABBA Through the Ages by Giles Smith
Category: Performing Arts
On the fiftieth anniversary of Waterloo – the song, not the battle - one super-fan sits down to listen to the ABBA Gold album from start to finish, looking back over the half-century he has spent in the company of ABBA’s music, and attempting to unlock the secrets of its hold on him – and on all of us. ...Show more
Sound Bites by Ed Le Brocq
Category: Performing Arts
Ed Le Brocq invites you to come on a journey with him through a living tradition that spans a millennium - the tradition of Western classical music. Have you ever wondered where our music comes from? How did we arrive here, a place where we can have a hundred musicians on stage playing the wildest rhyt ...Show more
Ringside: A Tale of Music and Mayhem From the Man Behind Rock and Roll Superstars Cold Chisel by Rod Willis
Category: Performing Arts
A tale of music and mayhem from the man who made Cold Chisel rock and roll superstars.
Taylor Swift: and the clothes she wears by TERRY NEWMAN
Category: Performing Arts | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Taylor Swift is the quintessential millennial. Free-thinking and creative, she navigates pop stardom with boundless charisma and a keen eye on her digital presence. She has become a truly global phenomenon but remains intimately connected with her fans. A born storyteller, her outfits mark the different ...Show more
Don't Dream It's Over: The remarkable life of Neil Finn by Jeff Apter
Category: Performing Arts
Don't Dream It's Over is the first biography to focus exclusively on Neil Finn, the man who wrote the timeless hits of Split Enz and Crowded House. In February 1980, 21-year-old Neil Mullane Finn wrote 'I Got You', which became the signature song, and the biggest hit, for the Kiwi band Split Enz, co-fo ...Show more
Into Your Arms: Nick Cave's Songs Reimagined by Kirsten Krauth (editor)
Category: Performing Arts
This stunning follow up to Minds Went Walking- Paul Kelly's Songs Reimagined features Christos Tsiolkas, Cate Kennedy and Andy Griffiths. From an automaton of Nick Cave, to a man who can't keep his blood out of the food he is preparing; from a vengeful Uber driver to a spinner of souls; and from a boy ...Show more