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It's no secret that Beethoven went deaf, that Mozart had constant money problems, and that Gilbert and Sullivan wrote musicals. But what were these people—and other famous musicians—really like? What did they eat? What did they wear? How did they spend their time? What were they like as children? What were their phobias, obsessions, and bad habits? And what did their neighbors think of it all? Here are the fascinating and often humorous...
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If not for a stint in reform school, young Louis Armstrong might never have become a musician. It was a teacher at the Colored Waifs Home who gave him a cornet, promoted him to band leader, and saw talent in the tough kid from the even tougher New Orleans neighborhood called Storyville. But it was Louis Armstrong's own passion and genius that pushed jazz into new and exciting realms with his amazing, improvisational trumpet playing. His seventy-year...
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Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
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44 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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An illustrated collection of mini-biographies of such rock music legends as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Bruce Springsteen, and Carlos Santana.
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Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2022.
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108 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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English
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"Due to his wide range of musical talent and an incomparable career spanning forty-nine years, Johnny Cash has been inducted into the Country, Rock and Roll, Rockabilly, and Gospel Halls of Fame. He also won 18 Grammys and 9 Country Music Association Awards. Who Was Johnny Cash? lets young readers learn about every step in Johnny Cash's groundbreaking musical career. As one of the best-selling American musicians of all time, Cash, born JR Carter,...
11) Hip-hop greats
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Capstone Press
Pub. Date
2012.
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Lists and describes top hip-hop artists of the past and today"--Provided by publisher.
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Molly Moon volume 6
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English
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Molly confronts the powers of a magical coin that plays hypnotic music capable of turning listeners into monster slaves.
20) Hurricane season
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Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
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282 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Eleven-year-old Fig enrolls in an art class to better understand her father, a composer and pianist whose mental illness she tries to conceal from classmates, neighbors, and social services.--
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