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Author
Publisher
Backbeat Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
xi, 259 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of Joan Jett, "complete and uncensored, from her days carousing with the likes of The Ramones and the Dead Boys through heavy rotation on MTV and a slew of killer hits, a 1990s regeneration, and her continued unstoppable popularity"--From publisher description.
83) Life
Author
Language
English
Description
Autobiography of the guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards. With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards lived the original rock and roll life. He tells his story of life in the crossfire hurricane; his listening obsessively to Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records, learning guitar and forming a band with Mick Jagger and Brian Jones, the Rolling Stones' first fame and the notorious drug busts that led to...
84) The Rose
Series
Criterion collection volume 757
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tells about rock-and-roll singer Mary Rose Foster (known as the Rose to her legions of fans), whose romantic relationships and mental health are continuously imperiled by the demands of life on the road.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Deluxe edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 106 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A biographical documentary using home movies, interviews, tv footage, songs and reminiscences of friends and family. Lennon's own voice provides the narration.
Author
Publisher
Miller Freeman Books
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1969, young rock reporter Ben Fong-Torres was hired by Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner to "come in and do what you think needs to be done." Now Fong-Torres revisits his most intriguing pieces and - for the first time - reveals the stories behind the stories, the stars, and life at Rolling Stone."--Jacket.
92) Me
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Christened Reginald Dwight, he was a shy boy with Buddy Holly glasses who grew up in the London suburb of Pinner and dreamed of becoming a pop star. By the age of twenty-three he was performing his first gig in America, facing an astonished audience in his bright yellow dungarees, a star-spangled T-shirt, and boots with wings. Elton John had arrived and the music world would never be the same again. His life has been full of drama, from the early...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
94) The Beatles
Author
Publisher
Times Books
Pub. Date
[1980]
Physical Desc
245 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 364 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Shares insights into the iconic rock-and-roll performer's life, from his substance abuse challenges and his bisexual history to his connections to the British royal family and the secret attempt on his life.
97) 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.
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
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The first complete, unvarnished history of Southern rock’s legendary and most popular band, from its members’ hardscrabble boyhoods in Jacksonville, Florida and their rise to worldwide fame to the tragic plane crash that killed the founder and the band’s rise again from the ashes.
In the summer of 1964 Jacksonville, Florida teenager Ronnie Van Zant and some of his friends hatched the idea of forming a band to play covers...
In the summer of 1964 Jacksonville, Florida teenager Ronnie Van Zant and some of his friends hatched the idea of forming a band to play covers...
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