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English
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"Since the age of twenty-one, Paul McCartney has lived one of the ultimate rock-n-roll lives played out on the most public of stages. Now, Paul's story is told by rock music's foremost biographer, with McCartney's consent and access to family members and close friends who have never spoken on the record before. Paul McCartney reveals the complex character behind the façade and sheds new light on his childhood--blighted by his mother's death but redeemed...
4) Mick Jagger
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 622 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A Mick Jagger biography that explores the keen and calculating intelligence that has kept the Stones on their plinth as "the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band" for half a century.
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Language
English
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"Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Jimi Hendrix's death, the best-selling author of Shout! delivers a compelling new biography of the legendary guitarist. Celebrated as the most innovative guitarist ever to play, Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) is renowned for symphonic solos and virtuosic picking (sometimes, with his teeth). But, as Philip Norman describes, before Hendrix was setting guitars aflame onstage, he was a shy kid in Seattle, plucking...
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 851 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A biography of the controversial, outspoken member of the Beatles whose extraordinary songwriting partnership with Paul McCartney changed the world of rock music forever. Norman also wrote Shout!, one of the first and still one of the best Beatles histories.
7) Elton John
Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
[1991]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
520 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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For half a century Eric Clapton has been acknowledged to be one of music's greatest virtuosos, the unrivalled master of an indispensable tool, the solid-body electric guitar. His career has spanned the history of rock, and often shaped it via the seminal bands with whom he's played: the Yardbirds, John Mavall's Bluesbreakers, Cream, Blind Faith, Derek and the Dominoes. Winner of 17 Grammys, the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame's only three-time inductee,...
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