This book explores the multi-faceted career of this unique figure, whose ventures into all things popular resulted in perhaps his greatest creation-Andy Warhol himself. In each chapter, the author looks at how Warhol undertook these various roles and to what extent he achieved success.
Thirty-Thousand Steps is a powerful and transformative memoir that interweaves the author's obsessive training to becoming a distance runner, along with her singular, focused research into the science of addiction in the shadow of grief after the death of her brother.
Lowell Tarling recorded Martin Sharp's life, and his effect on his friends, over twenty years. Now two volumes in one, in advance of the film of these books - GHOST TRAIN... Fully illustrated with a cast of characters including Brett Whiteley, Eric Clapton, Abe Saffron… As Sharp has said: “Like the Ancient Mariner it’s also a ghastly tale. I could ......
Idriess joins a North West Mounted Patrol in the early 1930s, and travels inremotre area of Western Australia where there are only a dozen wite families, and many wild Aboriginals. In this illustrated bestseller from 1937, he looks at the problems for both black and white.
In this deeply personal and insightful biography, Jeff Apter provides a rare glimpse inside Farnsies world. He reveals the drama behind John being named Australian of the Year and how the demo of Youre the Voice was nearly overlooked. And he explores Farnhams relationships with the figures who have been instrumental in making him The Voice.
He had it all: the scars, the swagger, the stage presence. As the highly visible and charismatic singer of Dragon, Marc Hunter was the voice behind such timeless hits as ‘April Sun in Cuba. Yet Hunter was also a maverick whose destructive genius and serious heroin addiction led to a turbulent relationship with his bandmates and an early death.
Arthur Roberts was a schoolmaster in country NSW (1861 to 1894) and it was education and the changing educational system that shaped his life. Born in the hop-growing region of Kent, England, his life and prospects were transformed by a wave of educational reform that carried him far from family, class and country.
A novel about a high school band by Lowell Tarling with artwork by Martin Sharp. You may finish school with no plans, no money, and no direction. But if all you want is to play guitar with your teeth, smash a Rickenbacker or grow your hair long - then being in a high school band could be the last thing you need... It is 1967. Tom is 18, and ......