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Me and a Guy Named Elvis
My Lifelong Friendship with Elvis Presley
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2006
On a lazy Sunday in 1954, twelve-year-old Jerry Schilling wandered into a Memphis touch football game, only to discover that his team was quarterbacked by a nineteen-year-old Elvis Presley, the local teenager whose first record, "That’s All Right," had just debuted on Memphis radio. The...
His Way
An Unauthorized Biography Of Frank Sinatra
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • With a new afterword by the author in honor of Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthday
This is the book that Frank Sinatra tried—but failed—to keep from publication, and it’s easy to understand why. This unauthorized biography goes behind the iconic myth of Sinatra...
Johnny Cash
The Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
The national bestseller celebrated as "the ultimate Johnny Cash biography....Rock writer great Robert Hilburn goes deep." -- Rolling Stone
In this, the definitive biography of an American legend, Robert Hilburn conveys the unvarnished truth about a musical superstar. Johnny Cash's...
Sex, Drugs, Ratt & Roll
My Life in Rock
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
A jaw-dropping tell-all from the lead singer of the 1980s supergroup Ratt: the groupies, the trashed hotel rooms, the drugs—and just how much you can get away with when you’re one of the biggest hair metal stars of all time.
Women. Spandex. Drugs. Hair spray...Welcome to heavy metal rock...
Freddie Mercury
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
**THE DEFINITIVE, UP-TO-DATE BIOGRAPHY OF FREDDIE MERCURY**
'An outstanding biography. . .a fitting testament to the creative genius' -- Daily Mail
'Touches all manner of intriguing rock 'n' roll debauchery. . .fascinating reading' -- Time Out
This fascinating biography of Freddie...
Man on the Run
Paul McCartney in the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
An illuminating look at the most tumultuous decade in the life of a rock icon—the only McCartney biography in decades based on firsthand interviews with the ex-Beatle himself.
As the 1970s began, the Beatles ended, leaving Paul McCartney to face the new decade with only his wife Linda by...
Unbreak My Heart
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
In this heartfelt memoir, six-time Grammy Award-winning artist and star of WE TV’s reality hitBraxton Family Values, Toni Braxton writes about her personal life decisions and their impact on her health, family and career.
While Braxton appears to be living a gilded life—selling 60 million...
Captain Fantastic
Elton John's Stellar Trip Through the '70s
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
The true story of Elton John’s meteoric rise from obscurity to worldwide celebrity in the weird, wild 1970s, based on rare one-on-one interviews with the Rocket Man himself—now the subject of a major motion picture.
In August 1970, Elton John achieved overnight fame with a rousing performance...
Buried Alive
The Biography of Janis Joplin
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Electrifying, highly acclaimed, and intensely personal, this new and updated version of Myra Friedman's classic biography of Janis Joplin teems with dramatic insights into Joplin's genius and into the chaotic times that catapulted her to fame as the legendary queen of rock. It is a stunning panorama...
by Richard Blade
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Richard Blade’s autobiography is much more than a spotlight on any one decade. Instead, he gives you a jaw-dropping, uncensored insider’s look into the world of music, movies, and television and its biggest stars, starting in the sixties and continuing through to the new century. Richard takes...
Enter Night
A Biography of Metallica
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Their roots lie in the heavy rock of 70s groups like Deep Purple. The music they played—heavy metal mixed with punk attitude—became its own genre: thrash. Their bassist died and they survived to became the biggest-selling band in the world. As grunge threatened to overtake them, they reinvented...
So Much to Say
Dave Matthews Band--20 Years on the Road
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND has one of the largest and most loyal followings of any band today—after twenty years of constant touring and several acclaimed, multiplatinum albums, the members enjoy a connection with their fans that few other acts can match. Ask DMB devotees and they’ll happily tell you...
True Brit
The Story of Singing Sensation Britney Spears
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
POP PRINCESS
Britney Spears is putting girls back on the map in the pop music world. With the effervescent and intoxicating sounds of her first album, ...Baby One More Time, Britney shot straight to the top of the charts--in just the first week of the album's release. Her ripe style and smart...
Nothin' to Lose
The Making of KISS (1972-1975)
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Nothin' to Lose: The Making of KISS (1972-1975) chronicles, for the first time, the crucial formative years of the legendary rock band KISS, culminating with the groundbreaking success of their classic 1975 album Alive! and the smash single "Rock and Roll All Nite," a song that nearly four...