Those Dashing McDonagh Sisters: Australia’s First Female Filmmaking Team - Shortlisted for The Age Nonfiction Book of the Year Award 2023 by Mandy Sayer
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Category: Entertainment
The trailblazing McDonagh sisters were the first women in Australia to form their own film production company. Between 1926 and 1933, this remarkable trio produced four feature films and a number of documentaries. The youngest, Paulette, was one of only five women film directors in the world. Phyllis pr ...Show more
Geek Girls Don't Cry - Real-Life Lessons from Fictional Female Characters by Andrea Towers; Marisha Ray (Foreword by)
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Category: Entertainment
Geek girls don't cry . . . they get strong Using examples from both real life and pop culture, entertainment writer Andrea Towers provides powerful tips on how women can overcome obstacles. What does it mean for a woman to be strong--especially in a world where our conception of a "hero" is still so he ...Show more
Now, Where Was I? Glenn Shorrock, the Autobiography by Glenn Shorrock
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Category: Music
Glenn Shorrock is a music icon. With a career spanning more than fifty years, he is one of the elder statesmen of Australian contemporary show business. Now, Where Was I? is Glenn's story in his own words. After emigrating with his family to Australia as a 'ten-pound Pom' in the 1950s, his success took ...Show more
Unmasked by Andrew Lloyd Webber
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Category: Music
"You have the luck of Croesus on stilts (as my Auntie Vi would have said) if you've had the sort of career, ups and downs, warts and all that I have in that wondrous little corner of show business called musical theatre." One of the most successful and distinguished artists of our time, Andrew Lloyd Web ...Show more
Bohemian Rhapsody Freddie Mercury by Lesley-Ann Jones
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Category: Music
'Exactly the sort of tribute Mercury himself would have wanted'SPECTATOR This is the definitive biography of Freddie Mercury. Written by an award-winning rock journalist, Lesley-Ann Jones toured widely with Queen forming lasting friendships with the band. Now, having secured access to the remaining ban ...Show more
British Pop Invasion - How British Music Conquered The 1960s by Alan J. Whiticker
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Category: Music
1964 was the start of the British 'pop' invasion of the United States and the world was never the same. The Beatles paved the way for countless British bands and performers to find international success during the 1960s, taking the US and other international charts by storm. British Pop Invasion is a p ...Show more
I Am the Wolf: Lyrics and Writings by Mark Lanegan
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Category: Music
With a voice that Pitchfork has called "as scratchy as a three-day beard yet as supple and pliable as moccasin leather," former Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age vocalist Mark Lanegan draws frequent comparisons to wounded masters of doom like Tom Waits, Nick Cave, and Leonard Cohen. But Lanega ...Show more
All I Ever Wanted - A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir by Kathy Valentine
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Category: Music
At twenty-one, Kathy Valentine was at the Whisky in Los Angeles when she met a guitarist from a fledgling band called the Go-Go's--and the band needed a bassist. The Go-Go's became the first multi-platinum-selling, all-female band to play instruments themselves, write their own songs, and have a number ...Show more
Behind Dark Eyes: The True Story of Jon English by Jeff Apter
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Category: Music
Behind Dark Eyes tells the complete, authorised story of Jon English, the pop star and actor with 70s/80s hits such as Hollywood Seven, Six Ribbons and Hot Town, and the star of shows such as Pirates of Penzance and Jesus Christ Superstar. The book tells of these massive highs, but also of his later str ...Show more
She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs by Sarah Smarsh
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Category: Music
Dolly Parton is the reigning queen of country music, an iconic artist in command of her own career and image, and a thriving business empire to boot. But her rise was not an easy one: born into poverty in east Tennessee, she left for Nashville at 18 with her belongings in three paper bags. Even as she s ...Show more
The Beatles from a to Zed - An Alphabetical Mystery Tour by Peter Asher
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Category: Music
A legendary record producer and performer takes readers on an alphabetical journey of insights into the music of the Beatles and individual reminiscences of John, Paul, George, and Ringo. Peter Asher met the Beatles in the spring of 1963, the start of a lifelong association with the band and its mem ...Show more
Doc: The Life and Times of Aussie Rock Legend Doc Neeson by Jon Bradshaw, Anne Souter
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Category: Music
He was a legend of Australian rock, the front man who lived as hard and as wildly as he performed . . . this is his story Often compared to David Bowie and Mick Jagger, Doc Neeson was hailed as a 'messianic rock god'. He was thumping, pumping, sweaty hard rock. He commanded the stage. He was unstoppabl ...Show more