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The South Pacific Companion
Price: $49.99 Author: Laurence Maslon

This book coincides with a revival of the musical South Pacific in America. It was a landmark musical when it was first performed, signalling the collaboration of Rodgers, Hammerstein, Logan, and the author James Michener.

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Watch You Bleed
Price: $35.00 Author: Stephen Davis

The Saga of Guns N' Roses is the result of years of interviews and research by the author into this unforgettable music band. Their onstage excesses were mirrored in their offstage lives, with drugs and alcohol being mainstays of their ride through the world and being just part of their long fall.

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Love Me Tender
Price: $39.99 Author: Max Cryer

Forty popular and traditional songs are featured in this book which tells the story behind the music. We might say we love a song; we might hum along each time we hear it; and we might be able to call up lyrics in an instant without hearing a song for years. But could we say we know how a song came to be? It is fascinating to learn where some of the most enduring songs had their start. For instance, if Miss Jane Ross had not written down the tune she heard played by a piper at an Irish village fair in 1855, singers as diverse as Bing Crosby and Eric Clapton may not have recorded Danny Boy.

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R.E.M. Hello
Price: $39.95 Author: Michael Stipe and David Belisle

Having spent seven years travelling with this iconic rock and roll band, David Belisle has created a photographic feast for fans as well as a particularly unique perspective on this group of musicians. Michael Stipe provides the introduction to Belisle's very personal account. The band has now sold over one hundred million records, been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and is about to begin a world tour to coincide with its latest album.

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The Academy Awards
Price: $32.95 Author: Jim Piazza & Gail Kinn

From Charles Chaplin to Javier Bardem. This book celebrates eighty years of these most coveted awards, with chapters for each decade and a feast of movie images to delight and rekindle the memory of when you first saw your favourite films.

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The Violin Maker
Price: $29.99 Author: John Marchese

Marchese spends a year with Luthier Sam Zygmuntowicz as he makes a violin for Eugene Drucker of Emerson String Quartet. The task for Zygmuntowicz is to present Drucker with a new violin that in fact he will accept is interchangeable with his 1686 Stradiva

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Warrior Poets
Price: $32.95 Author: Benjamin Gilmour

Travelling through Pakistan, Gilmour came into contact with a village that specialises in making guns of every description, including fakes. This chance encounter inspired him to return later to film the tribal egions of Pakistan. This book is the printed

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Icons of Australian Music: Jimmy Barnes
Price: $79.95 Author: Scott Podmore

You feel like you are looking into his family album with Mr. Barnes beside you as you browse through this chronicle of one man's musical life and fame. With an introduction by Barnes, commentary from friends and industry colleagues, and a comprehensive pi

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The Boy Who Cried Freebird
Price: $29.99 Author: Mitch Myers

Described by Myers as 'a treatise on music and popular culture of the twentieth century', this is also, in the words of others, a free-wheeling, scattered collection of stories and people that is nonetheless entertaining. Based in Chicago, Myers' backgrou

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What Happens Next: A History of American Screenwriting
Price: $49.95 Author: Marc Newman

The recent writers' strike in the USA alerted the general public to the reliance we have on these people for our daily fare of popular culture. Beginning in the silent movie era, Marc Newman follows the evolution of screenwriting to the present day. This

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Thirteen Tonne Theory
Price: $32.95 Author: Mark Seymour

Imagine eighteen years on the road, with the same people, going from pub gig to pub gig, and trying to run the gauntlet that is the music industry machine. Mark Seymour, fronting the iconic band Hunters and Collectors, had a bird's eye view of this interminable road trip.

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Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins
Price: $35.00 Author: Amanda Vaill

Jerome Robbins is credited with changing American theatre forever when he successfully combined music, action, and dance to create some of the most enduring musicals of the last century.

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Orson Welles at Work
Price: $120.00 Author: Francois Thomas and Jean-Pierre Berthome

Orson Welles was an imposing igure on the screen and this impression must have been magnified for those working alongside him. This book presents a complete picture of the work and artistry of Welles, including contracts, sketches, storyboards, models, and more found in British and American archives.

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Talking to Kinky and Karlheinz
Price: $32.95 Author: Anni Heino

This book draws on interviews with those who have been guests on ABC Radio National's Music Show, hosted by Andrew Ford.

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501 Stars You Must Know Before You Die
Price: $45.00 Author: Steven Schneider, ed

Be it Woody Allen and Fred Zinnemann, or Humphrey Bogart and Meryl Streep, these companion volumes provide a comprehensive catalogue of the directors and the actors who have inculcated our popular culture. Not restricted to the American movie industry, th

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Rudolf Nureyev: The Life
Price: $59.95 Author: Julie Kavanagh

Former dancer and biographer Kavanagh draws on unpublished letters, private papers, and diaries to invoke the person who was Nureyev - dancer, lover, defector, and icon. Reminiscences from colleagues and friends further enrich this illustrated biography.

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Fawlty Towers
Price: $39.95 Author: Graham McCann

This is very much for the fans; unabashed nostalgia for a much loved television series. It includes an episode guide and a discussion on failed attempts to get everyone together.

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Memoirs
Price: $35.00 Author: Nana Mouskouri

Staff Review by Sheila: This memoir takes us from Nana's birth in the 1930s through the war years of the 1940s up to the present day. Her passion for singing clashed with her innate shyness. Her childhood was deprived on account of her father

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Josh Hartnett Definitely Wants To Do This
Price: $39.99 Author: Bruce Beresford

Only an insider could be so illuminating on the personalities and bizarre happenings that populate the Hollywood movie industry.

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Complete Lyrics 1978-2006
Price: $26.95 Author: Nick Cave

This publication could not be more timely. Nick Cave is about to embark on his Australian tour performing with his new project, Grinderman. On the eve of his fiftieth birthday, Cave continues to write prolifically. This book is for both fans and those who

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Star Wars Vault
Price: $100.00 Author: Steve Sansweet

This is a celebration of the phenomena by a 30 year veteran collector of all things Star Wars.

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Unzipped
Price: $35.00 Author: Suzi Quatro

Growing up in Detroit into a fractious family life, Suzie Quatro took her love of music on the road, honing her sound by touring throughout the US and landing in London as Glam Rock was taking off.

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Iggy Pop: Open Up and Bleed
Price: $35.00 Author: Paul Trynka

The definitive biography of one of rock's most extraordinary and eccentric legends.

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Hollywood and the Mob
Price: $49.95 Author: Tim Adler

An expose of the sometimes dangerous, often shadowy, and occasionally glamorous relationship between the Mafia and the Hollywood film industry.

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