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'Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky
Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
David Henderson's biography of Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child of the Aquarian Age -- first published in hardcover in 1978 -- was described by Greil Marcus of Rolling Stone as "[t]he strongest and most ambitious biography yet written about any rock and roll performer." The paperback edition...
by Victor Bockris
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
‘A triumph’ - Time Out Transformer is the only complete and comprehensive telling of the Lou Reed story. Legendary songwriter and guitarist Lou Reed passed away on the 27th October 2013, but his musical influence is assured. Now discover the true story of the Velvet Underground pioneer in this...
Sticky Fingers
The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
A delicious romp through the heyday of rock and roll and a revealing portrait of the man at the helm of the iconic magazine that made it all possible, with candid look backs at the era from Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Elton John, Bono, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, and others.
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KISS
Behind the Mask - Official Authorized Biogrphy
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2008
After three decades of wild dedication, this official authorized biography provides Kiss fans their first real look inside one of rock and roll's most extraordinary bands.
My Voice
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Angie Martinez is the “Voice of New York.” Now, for the first time, she candidly recounts the story of her rise to become an internationally celebrated hip hop radio icon.**
In her current reign at Power 105.1 and for nearly two decades at New York’s...
by Martin Popoff
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2004
Contents Under Pressure: 30 Years of Rush at Home & Away is a detailed history of the exhaustive road experience of Canadian rock icons Rush. Celebrating the band’s 30th anniversary, By-Tour features in-depth original interviews with Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart. Together, history’s...
Straight from the Source
An Expose from the Former Editor in Chief of the Hip-Hop Bible
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2008
Kim Osorio had a front-row seat for the biggest beefs, battles, and blow-ups in hip-hop. As the first female editor-in-chief of The Source, she had come up.
From her corner office, Kim got the goods on hip-hop's hottest names: Jay-Z, Nas, 50 Cent, Lil' Kim. She developed close -- sometimes...
by Darlene Love
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Featured in the film Twenty Feet From Stardom, the woman whose voice the New York Times said "is as embedded in the history of rock 'n' roll as Eric Clapton's guitar and Bob Dylan's lyrics" tells her story
Right out of high school, Darlene Love began singing lead vocals for legendary...
by Mark Blake
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Freddie Mercury was rock’s most dazzling showman, a legendary entertainer who in 1991, at the age of just forty-five, became the first major music star to die of AIDS. Mercury’s soaring four-octave voice was a defining element in Queen’s unique sound, crucial to the success of the band’s fifteen...
Elvis and Ginger
Elvis Presley's Fiancée and Last Love Finally Tells Her Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Elvis Presley’s fiancée and last love tells her story and sets the record straight in this deeply personal memoir that reveals what really happened in the final years of the King of Rock n' Roll.**
Elvis Presley and Graceland were fixtures in Ginger...
Life Is a Gift
The Zen of Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
One of the most well-known and beloved vocalists of our time, Tony Bennett is an American icon. Now, in this rich and beautiful memoir, the legendary Grammy and Emmy Award–winning singer takes us behind the scenes of his multi-platinum career. Revealing, insightful, and always moving, Life Is a...
by Víctor Blanco Labra
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 9, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 9, 2014
Un retrato vívido sobre el ídolo número 1 del rock n'roll.
Elvis Presley revolucionó la música americana, con su singular sonido y sus escandalosos movimientos de pelvis conquistó a millones de admiradores en el mundo entero. Pero antes de ser el rey del rock and roll, fue un ser humano,...
Jimi Hendrix
The True Story of Jimi Hendrix
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The genius we never understood. . . . The man we never knew. . . . The truth we never heard. . . . The music we never forgot. . . . A revealing portrait of a legend by a close and trusted friend.
Grumpy Old Rock Star
and Other Wondrous Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2009
Around about August 1948, Mr and Mrs Cyril Wakeman had an early night and some time later, at Perivale in Middlesex, Mrs Wakeman produced a bonny baby son. They named him Richard, but he quickly became known as Rick.
Rick was a likeable little fellow who had a talent for the piano and for making...