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Tune In
The Beatles: All These Years
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Tune In is the first volume of *All These Years—*a highly-anticipated, groundbreaking biographical trilogy by the world's leading Beatles historian. Mark Lewisohn uses his unprecedented archival access and hundreds of new interviews to construct the full story of the lives and work of John Lennon,...
Jim Morrison
LIfe, Death, Legend
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2005
As the lead singer of the Doors, Jim Morrison’s searing poetic vision and voracious appetite for sexual, spiritual, and psychedelic experience inflamed the spirit and psyche of a generation. Since his mysterious death in 1971, millions more fans from a new generation have embraced his legacy, as...
by Philip Norman
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Author Phillip Norman, whose previous bestseller, John Lennon: The Life, was praised as a “haunting, mammoth, terrific piece of work” (New York Times Book Review) and whose classic Shout! is widely considered to be the definitive biography of the Beatles, now turns his attention to the iconic...
by Jimmy McDonough
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2003
Neil Young is one of rock and roll’s most important and enigmatic figures, a legend from the sixties who is still hugely influential today. He has never granted a writer access to his inner life – until now. Based on six years of interviews with more than three hundred of Young’s associates,...
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...
by Jake Brown
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
With more Top 10 hits than any other female-fronted music group in history, beginning with such '70s classics as "Crazy on You," "Barracuda," "Magic Man," and "Straight On," Rolling Stone hailed Heart's "sister team of Nancy and Ann Wilson. . . [for] shrewdly...
Magical Mystery Tours
My Life with the Beatles
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
"If you want to know anything about the Beatles, ask Tony Bramwell. He remembers more than I do."- Sir Paul McCartney to Donovan in a January 2002 interview
Tony Bramwell's remarkable life began in a postwar Liverpool suburb, where he was childhood friends with three of the Beatles...
Ginger Baker: Hellraiser
The Autobiography of the World's Greatest Drummer
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2010
Peter "Ginger" Baker is a legend. A pioneering drummer who has transcended genres, he did much to popularize world music with his fierce passion for the rhythms of Africa. He is that rare thing, a critically acclaimed musician who has enjoyed global success with not one but several supergroups...
Bringing Metal to the Children
The Complete Berserker's Guide to World Tour Domination
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Bringing Metal to the Children is a handbook to all things Heavy Metal, brought to you by insane prankster and guitar god Zakk Wylde, of Ozzy Osbourne and Black Label Society fame.
This “Complete Berzerker's Guide to World Tour Domination” provides tips and tests for the True Rocker—as...
Check the Technique
Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
A Tribe Called Quest • Beastie Boys • De La Soul • Eric B. & Rakim • The Fugees • KRS-One • Pete Rock & CL Smooth • Public Enemy • The Roots • Run-DMC • Wu-Tang Clan • and twenty-five more hip-hop immortals
It’s a sad fact: hip-hop album liners have always been...
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...
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Remembering the Free Birds of Southern Rock
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2002
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...
by Beth Ditto, Michelle Tea
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
A raw and surprisingly beautiful coming-of-age memoir, Coal to Diamonds tells the story of Mary Beth Ditto, a girl from rural Arkansas who found her voice.
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Born and raised in Judsonia, Arkansas—a place where indoor plumbing was a luxury, squirrel was a meal, and sex ed was taught during senior...
Can I Say
Living Large, Cheating Death, and Drums, Drums, Drums
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Travis Barker’s soul-baring memoir chronicles the highlights and lowlights of the renowned drummer’s art and his life, including the harrowing plane crash that nearly killed him and his traumatic road to recovery—a fascinating never-before-told-in-full story of personal reinvention grounded...