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by Chloe Govan
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Rihanna has sold over 15 million albums and 45 million singles world-wide.
She has won 4 Grammy Awards and the 2011 Brit Award for Best International Female Artist.
Her 2007 album Good Girl Gone Bad was nominated for nine Grammy Awards and featured the world-wide number one single Umbrella.
She...
by Brian Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
Manchester’s Stone Roses woke up a stagnant late-Eighties music scene with an eponymous debut album of danceable rock that set the charts ablaze and remains a fixture in critics’ lists today. The UK went mad for them but legal hassles, family responsibilities and personal problems ensured it was...
Stone Me
The Wit and Wisdom of Keith Richards
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
In his own words-from rock's most legendary bad boy.
Rock 'n' roll legend and Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has quite a few things to say: about Mick Jagger, the Stones, sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll, and life itself. Sample these nuggets of wit and wisdom chipped from the tablets of...
Engelbert - What's In A Name?
My Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
The man known simply as 'Enge' by his millions of fans worldwide has sold over 150 million records and is in the Guinness Book of Records for achieving 56 consecutive weeks in the chart with 'Release Me'.
From living on the dole and receiving last rites with tuberculosis, to buying a Hollywood...
The Lizard King
The Essential Jim Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Jim Morrison, lead singer of the Doors, has achieved a bizarre cult status since his death in 1971. Morrison was one of the most popular and controversial figures to emerge during the sixties; described as an 'erotic politician', poet, shaman, Dionysian drunk, his style and influence have grown steadily...
It's No Secret
From Nas to Jay-Z, from Seduction to Scandal--a Hip-Hop Helen of Troy Tells All
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2006
Carmen Bryan is no stranger to the rap world. Not only did she work at Def Jam and Capitol Records but she shares a daughter with hip-hop superstar Nas -- a relationship made extremely public through Nas's celebrity status, rap lyrics, and the ever-present media. Now, in It's No Secret, a strong,...
Tattoos & Tequila
To Hell and Back with One of Rock's Most Notorious Frontmen
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Mötley Crüe's lead singer and rock's ultimate bad boy, Vince Neil, lets the real dirt fly in this raw, raunchy, and completely uncensored road trip through the unbelievable depths of rock n' roll debauchery. You've seen The Dirt on Netflex, now read the nitty gritty stories in Vince's own words.
For...
Hiding in Hip Hop
On the Down Low in the Entertainment Industry--from Music to Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
“If you love Empire, then you must read Terrance Dean’s memoir Hiding in Hip Hop. This is the real story of what it means to be black and gay in Hollywood and the music industry.”—Tananarive Due, American Book Award winner, author of Joplin’s Ghost
“If you enjoy Empire, then you...
From Pieces to Weight
Once Upon a Time in Southside Queens
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2005
GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN'
That's what this book is about--the good times and the bad times. I wrote this book to explain the world I come from. To a lot of people, I may be too young to reflect on life. And they may be right. But I'd be wasting my blessings if I didn't use the attention I'm getting to...
Bon Jovi
When We Were Beautiful
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
The first-ever official Bon Jovi book celebrates the band’s 25th anniversary with previously untold stories straight from Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, David Bryan, and Tico Torres, and never-before-seen photographs from Phil Griffin (known for his Bon Jovi documentary When We Were Beautiful, as...
How Long Will They Mourn Me?
The Life and Legacy of Tupac Shakur
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
“Buried as a g while tha whole world remembers me”
–Tupac Shakur, from “Until the End of Time”
Tupac Shakur was larger than life. A gifted rapper, actor, and poet, he was fearless, prolific, and controversial–and often said that he never expected to live past the age of thirty....
Turn Around Bright Eyes
The Rituals of Love and Karaoke
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Once upon a time I was falling apart. Now I'm always falling in love.
Pick up the microphone.
When Rob Sheffield moved to New York City in the summer of 2001, he was a young widower trying to start a new life in a new town. Behind, in the past, was his life as a happily married rock...
The Last Sultan
The Life and Times of Ahmet Ertegun
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
The Last Sultan is the definitive biography of a man who changed popular culture throughout the world. As the founder and head of Atlantic Records, Ahmet Ertegun signed and/or recorded many of the greatest musical artists of all time, among them Ruth Brown; Big Joe Turner; Ray Charles; Bobby Darin;...
by Viv Albertine
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
A feminist musician icon, Viv Albertine reveals the rocking, uncompromising story of her life on the front lines at the birth of the British punk movement and beyond in this exciting, humorous, and inspiring memoir.
Selected by the New York Times as one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50...