Echo Publishing Melbourne Vic (2 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Very good condition. Some general edgewear. Bend to front cover right tail corner. Up From Down Under tells the remarkable untold story of how Australian music took over the world. Beginning with Peter Allen's unlikely journey from the plains of Tenterfield to the stage of New York's Radio City Music Hall astride a camel, no less and charting the rollercoaster rides of the Little River Band, Helen Reddy, the Bee Gees, Air Supply, Rick Springfield, Men at Work, Keith Urban and recent Grammy-winner Gotye, this broad panorama plots the massive influence our tiny population has had on popular culture over the past 40 years. Along the way Australian artists have collected Grammys, Oscars and sales registering in the hundreds of millions. (publisher blurb).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges.The rise and fall of the brothers Gibb is perhaps the greatest saga in Australian, even world, music history. As ubiquitous as the falsetto harmonies, flares and multi-platinum record sales were the tragedies: the highs, the lows, the highs again. Then the brothers fell, one by one. Shortly before his death, Robin made it clear that he believed the Gibbs had been forced to pay the highest possible price for their success. 'All the tragedies my family has suffered .is a kind of karmic price we are paying for all the fame and fortune we've had.'This is the story of all four brothers' incredible careers, lives and influence. A beautifully drawn examination of the Gibb 'curse' and an all-too-human look at the rollercoaster ride of fame. It captures the incredible highs, and the terrible lows: divorce, drunkenness and death. For Bee Gees fans, and for everyone, because we've all been touched by the music. (back cover).…