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What You Want Is in the Limo
On the Road with Led Zeppelin, Alice Cooper, and the Who in 1973, the Year the Sixties Died and the Modern Rock Star Was Born
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
An epic joyride through three history-making tours in 1973 that defined rock and roll superstardom—the money, the access, the excess—forevermore.
The Who’s Quadrophenia. Led Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy. Alice Cooper’s Billion Dollar Babies. These three unprecedented tours—and...
by M.A. Cassata
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2013
Are you a true Big Time Rush fan? Well then, prove it! How much do you really know about James, Kendall, Logan and Carlos. On their Nickelodeon hit TV show they play four guys trying to make it big, but in reality Big Time Rush are living the dream as one of the biggest boy bands in the world.
With...
by Frankie Poullain
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
This is one man's guide to begging for sex, smuggling drugs, and pretending to be rock 'n' roll-just take up what you are worst at, hold on tight, and enjoy the ride! In this offbeat, hilarious, harebrained manual on fame, fortune, and the universe, Frankie offers a unique slant on the bigger questions...
Hey Buddy
In Pursuit of Buddy Holly, My New Buddy John, and My Lost Decade of Music
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
The “thoroughly fun . . . [and] crazy good” memoir about one man’s life and how it was changed by the legacy of a rockabilly legend (Chicago Sun-Times).
Buddy Holly, icon: black horn-rimmed glasses, blue jeans, a white T-shirt, white socks, loafers, and “Peggy Sue.” Not so much to...
by Wise Publications
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Adele: The Complete Collection presents, for the first time ever, all the songs from Adele's three chart-topping albums in one single songbook. Bonus tracks and the Oscar-winning Skyfall are included too, all arranged for Piano, Voice and Guitar with chord symbols and full lyrics.
In total,...
First KISS
My 40-Year Obsession with the Hottest Band in the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
FIRST KISS is memoir about my obsession with the hard rockin,' grease paint wearin,' fire breathin' band KISS. I discovered them right as they were beginning their careers some 40 years ago, and have remained a die hard fan since. Which is somewhat odd, given the fact that as a music writer, I am known...
Hotter Than a Match Head
My Life on the Run with The Lovin’ Spoonful
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
On October 15, 1967, bass player Steve Boone took the Ed Sullivan Show stage for the final time, with his band The Lovin’ Spoonful. Since forming in a Greenwich Village hotel in early 1965, Boone and his bandmates had released an astounding nine Top 20 singles, the first seven of which hit the Billboard...
by Lynn Goldsmith
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The story of rock lives in Lynn Goldsmith’s photographs. After coming of age in the Midwest in the tumultuous 1960s, she crashed the music scene in New York and emerged as one of its leading image-makers. She chronicled Bruce Springsteen’s passage to glory, the Rolling Stones’ legendary stadium...
Cerphe's Up
A Musical Life with Bruce Springsteen, Little Feat, Frank Zappa, Tom Waits, CSNY, and Many More
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Cerphe’s Up is an incisive musical memoir by Cerphe Colwell, a renowned rock radio broadcaster for more than forty-five years in Washington, DC. Cerphe shares his life as a rock radio insider in rich detail and previously unpublished photographs. His story includes promotion and friendship with...
NOFX
The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
The candid, hilarious, shocking, occasionally horrifying, and surprisingly moving New York Times bestselling autobiography of punk legends NOFX, their own story in their own words
NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories is the first tell-all autobiography from one of the world's most...
Smoke Snort Swallow Shoot
Legendary Binges, Lost Weekends, and Other Feats of Rock 'n' Roll Incoherence
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
"This frenzied and harrowing roller coaster ride brings together some of the wildest and craziest drug stories ever told between the covers of one book. . . . About as addicting as some of the drug addled personalities that inhabit these grimy pages. . . . Bottom line, pick this one up and if...
Under the Big Black Sun
A Personal History of L.A. Punk
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Under the Big Black Sun explores the nascent Los Angeles punk rock movement and its evolution to hardcore punk as it's never been told before. John Doe of the legendary band X and co-author Tom DeSavia have woven together an enthralling story of the legendary West Coast scene from 1977-1982 by enlisting...
Nerd Girl Rocks Paradise City
A True Story of Faking It in Hair Metal L.A.
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
This hilarious peek into the early years of the hair-band era reveals the hierarchy of fishnets, bustiers, and chicks with the Holy Grail-a backstage pass. After college, Anne Thomas Soffee journeyed to Los Angeles to start a career as a rock journalist and small-time heavy-metal flack. A taste for...
Adios, Motherfucker
A Gentleman's Progress Through Rock and Roll
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
A blend of This Is Spinal Tap and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the cult classic confessions of a debauched rock ’n’ roller and his adventures in excess on the ’80s hair-metal nostalgia tour through Middle America, now in a revised and updated edition.
Once upon a time at the start...