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Author:Gilinsky, JackSummary: - Author:Stewart, JeremySummary:
John is the teenage terror of his northern industrial town. With his friends, James and Simon, he is a disciple of depression and ennui. His world is a haze of smoke and heavy metal, anchored by poverty. Every day he steps closer to the...
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Author:Phillips, BeauSummary:Provides an all-access behind-the-scenes VIP tour of when rock was great, courtesy of Beau Phillips, a former head of marketing at MTV and insider / occasional accomplice to the funny, decadent, and outrageous legends of classic rock in...
- Author:Greenman, Ben, Wilson, BrianSummary:
Reveals as never before the man who fought his way back to stability and creative relevance, who became a mesmerizing live artist, who forced himself to reckon with his own complex legacy and completed Smile, the legendary unfinished...
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Author:Kelly, PaulSummary:Each chapter, and there's a hundred of them, is a tightly written story in itself somehow relating to one of a hundred Paul Kelly songs:- Anastasia Changes Her Mind "Anastasia left a kiss on the mirror And a couple of...
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Author:Boone, Steve, Moss, TonySummary:On October 15, 1967, bass player Steve Boone took the Ed Sullivan Show stage for the final time, with his band The Lovin’ Spoonful. Since forming in a Greenwich Village hotel in early 1965, Boone and his bandmates had released an...
- Author:Carlin, Peter AmesSummary:
A revelatory account of the life of beloved American music icon, Paul Simon, by the bestselling rock biographer Peter Ames CarlinTo have been alive during the last sixty years is to have lived with the music of Paul Simon. The boy from...
- Author:Jollett, MikelSummary:
This program is read by the author, and includes original music from the Airborne Toxic Event album, Hollywood Park Hollywood Park is a remarkable memoir of a tumultuous life. Mikel Jollett was born into one of the country's most...
- Author:Selvin, JoelSummary:
'Hollywood Edenbrings the lost humanity of the record business vividly back to life ... [Selvin's] style is blunt, unpretentious and brisk; he knows how to move things along entertainingly ... Songs about surfboards and...
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Author:Walker, ClintonSummary:Biography of Bon Scott for the rock band AC/DC
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Author:Cross, Charles R.Summary:Based on extensive research, more than four hundred interviews, and Kurt Cobain's unpublished diaries, a portrait of the late rock star traces his rise to fame, his relationship with wife Courtney Love, and his tragic suicide.
- Author:Holden, Wendy, Felder, DonSummary:
The Eagles are the bestselling, and arguably the tightest-lipped, American group ever. Now band member and guitarist Don Felder finally breaks the Eagles' years of public silence to take fans behind the scenes. He shares every part of...
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Author:Brown, JakeSummary:With more Top 10 hits than any other female-fronted music group in history, beginning with such '70s classics as "Crazy on You," "Barracuda," "Magic Man," and "Straight On," Rolling Stone hailed Heart's "sister team of Nancy...
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Author:Thompson, DaveSummary:By 1987, David Bowie was at a creative, critical, and commercial low. His most recent album was dismissed by the music press, his latest tour written off as a disaster. Fifteen years after becoming the most colourfully controversial...
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Author:Prato, GregSummary:Grunge Is Dead weaves together the definitive story of the Seattle music scene through a series of interviews with the people who were there. Taking the form of an “oral” history, this books contains over 130 interviews, along...
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Mike Love tells the story of his legendary, raucous, and ultimately triumphant five-decade career as the front man of The Beach Boys, the most popular American band in history-timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of "Good...
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Author:Davis, StephenSummary:Gold Dust Woman gives "the gold standard of rock biographers" (the Boston Globe) his ideal topic: Nicks' work and life are equally sexy and interesting, and Davis delves deeply into each, unearthing fresh details from new, intimate...
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Author:Peart, NeilSummary:A bold narrative written by a man trying to stay alive by staying on the move. Within a ten-month period, Neil Peart suffered family losses so devastating that they left him a ghost — physically a man but with nothing inside: no hope,...
- Author:Norman, PhilipSummary:
From the premiere Beatles biographer-author of the New York Times bestseller John Lennon: The Life and Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation -a rare and "absorbing biography" (Wall Street Journal) of George Harrison, the...
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Author:Manning, Leslie TallSummary:Monty is ready to rock. Funny thing is, she doesn’t know it yet! When her husband releases her from a stagnant marriage, forty-five-but-looks-thirty Monica Reese Taylor, freelance writer for Home & Goddess Magazine, gets the career...
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