Entertainment category: 96258 books
by Frank Lisciandro
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Jim Morrison: Friends Gathered Together
Jim Morrison… We know the stories, but does anyone know the real man? If you don’t know where the truth ends and the fiction begins, you’re not alone. Lies, myths, rumors and tall tales spread by people who didn’t know him have masked Jim Morrison...
More Room in a Broken Heart
The True Adventures of Carly Simon
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
A love song to an American icon: the first full-length biography of Carly Simon, from an acclaimed music journalist who has known her for decades
Carly Simon has won two Grammys and an Academy Award, and her albums have sold more than forty million copies. Her music has touched countless lives...
Paul Simon
The Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Acclaimed music writer Robert Hilburn’s “epic” and “definitive” (Rolling Stone) biography of music icon Paul Simon, written with Simon’s full participation—but without his editorial control—that “reminds us how titanic this musician is” (The Washington Post).
For more than...
Bing Crosby
A Pocketful of Dreams - The Early Years 1903 - 1940
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2009
From Bing Crosby's early days in college minstrel shows and vaudeville, to his first hit recordings, from his 11 year triumph as star of America's most popular radio show, to his first success in Hollywood, Gary Giddins provides a detailed study of the rise of this American star.
by Lucy O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Fully Revised and Updated
MADONNA: LIKE AN ICON is a groundbreaking biography finally solves the mystery at the heart of her chameleon-like existence. Extensively researched and perceptively written by journalist Lucy O’Brien, it explores the complex personality and legendary drive that has...
The Love You Make
An Insider's Story of the Beatles
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2002
Here is the national bestseller that Newsday called “the most authoritative and candid look yet at the personal lives…of the oft-scrutinized group.” In The Love You Make*,* Peter Brown, a close friend of and business manager for the band—and the best man at John and Yoko’s wedding—presents...
Outlaw
Waylon, Willie, Kris, and the Renegades of Nashville
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Outlaw by acclaimed author Michael Streissguth follows the stories of three legends as they redefined country music: Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson.
Streissguth delves into the country music scene in the late '60s and early '70s, when these rebels found themselves in...
Talking to Girls About Duran Duran
One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
From the bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape and Turn Around Bright Eyes, "a funny, insightful look at the sublime torture of adolescence".—Entertainment Weekly
The 1980s meant MTV and John Hughes movies, big dreams and bigger shoulder pads, and millions of teen girls who nursed crushes...
by Jack Westerfil
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
When Marshall Mathers, better known as Eminem, made his album debut with The Slim Shady LP in the spring of 1999, he evoked an immediate and controversial response. Although album sales went platinum virtually overnight and his popularity soared among hip-hop fans of every color and race, the establishment...
by Michael Diamond, Adam Horovitz
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER **• A panoramic experience that tells the story of Beastie Boys, a book as unique as the band itself—by band members ADROCK and Mike D, with contributions from Amy Poehler, Colson Whitehead, Spike Jonze, Wes Anderson, Luc Sante, and more.
**NAMED ONE OF THE...
Bing Crosby
Swinging on a Star: The War Years, 1940-1946
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
"The best thing to happen to Bing Crosby since Bob Hope," (WSJ) Gary Giddins presents the second volume of his masterful multi-part biography
Bing Crosby dominated American popular culture in a way that few artists ever have. From the dizzy era of Prohibition through the dark days...
Don't Stop Believin'
The Man, the Band, and the Song that Inspired Generations
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
**From One of the Greatest Bands in History Comes a Reminder to Never Give Up Hope. **In this long-awaited memoir, complete with color photographs, songwriter and keyboardist Jonathan Cain takes us on an odyssey from center stage with Journey when all America was listening to songs like "Don't...
Calling Me Home: Gram Parsons and the Roots of Country Rock
Gram Parsons and the Roots of Country Rock
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2012
On September 19, 1973, Gram Parsons became yet another rock-and-roll casualty in an era of excess, a time when young men wore their dangerous habits like badges of honor. Unfortunately, his many musical accomplishments have been overshadowed by a morbid fascination with his drug overdose in the Joshua...
Substance
Inside New Order
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Includes full set lists not included in the physical edition.
In this final installment of his internationally bestselling three-part memoir—including The Hacienda and Unknown Pleasures—British rocker Peter Hook focuses on the 1980s New Wave and Dance Punk scene and the rise of one of the...