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Language
English
Description
Etheridge has lived a life of many blessings-- but has also struggled mightily along the way. Changes in the music industry threated her livelihood; she was diagnosed with breast cancer; and she endured two contentious breakups, all under the scrutiny of the public eye. Then she lost her son Beckett to opioid addiction. Here Etheridge dives into how both joy and sorrow serve as catalysts for growth. In this memoir she creates a rich portrait of success...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 582 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The definitive biography of legendary musician, composer, and performer Leon Russell, a profound influence on countless artists, including George Harrison, the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Elton John, Willie Nelson, Tom Petty, and the world of music as a whole"--
Author
Publisher
It Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
262 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the career of rock singer Tina Turner, a farmer's daughter from Tennessee, who burst upon the music scene in the 1960s and swept the 1985 Grammy Awards with her album "Private Dancer".
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An exciting and heartening mix of memories, music, and inspiration from Wilco front man and New York Times bestselling author Jeff Tweedy, sharing fifty-plus songs that changed his life, the real-life experiences behind each one, as well as what he's learned about how music and life intertwine and enhance each other. What makes us fall in love with a song? What makes us want to write our own songs? Do songs help? Do songs help us live better lives?...
Author
Publisher
AUWA Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 297 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
As the front man for the sixties pop-rock-funk band Sly and the Family Stone, a songwriter who created some of the most memorable anthems of the 1960s and 1970s ("Everyday People," "Family Affair"), and a performer who electrified audiences at Woodstock and elsewhere, Sly Stone's influence on modern music and culture is indisputable. But as much as people know the music, the man remains a mystery. After a rapid rise to superstardom, Sly spent decades...
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Series
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Monkees represent a vital problem for rock and pop, and perhaps the major question: is it the music that matters or the personality and image of the performers? This book explores the system behind the Monkees, the controversial made-for-TV band that scored some of the biggest hit records of the 1960s. The new rock criticism bewailed the fake band, while fans and audiences made it a major commercial success. More than any other group in the 1960s....
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rock-poet Lou Reed presided over the marriage of Brill Building pop and the European avant-garde, and left American culture transfigured. Hermes dramatizes Reed's long, brilliant, and contentious dialogue with fans, critics, fellow artists, and assorted habitués of the demimonde. -- adapted from half-jacket
8) Priscilla
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (approximately 113 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a gentle best friend. Through Priscilla's eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla's long courtship and turbulent marriage, from a German army base to his dream-world estate at Graceland,...
9) Quantum criminals: ramblers, wild gamblers, and other sole survivors from the songs of Steely Dan
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
268 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"According to the authors Steely Dan's songs are "exercises in fictional world-building. Each song features its own cast of rogues and heroes and creeps and schmucks, lovers and dreamers and cold-blooded operators, all tempest-tossed by the ill winds of the '70s." This book consists of sixty-some essays, each devoted to one character, and each essay is accompanied by a painting of the particular character that serves as a jumping-off point for the...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 467 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A memoir tracing the author's life and art, from his teen years, to the formation of his legendary rock group, to his years as a member of Sonic Youth"--
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