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Lobotomy

Surviving the Ramones

by Dee Dee Ramone, Veronica Kofman
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016

Lobotomy is a lurid and unlikely temperance tract from the underbelly of rock 'n' roll. Taking readers on a wild rollercoaster ride from his crazy childhood in Berlin and Munich to his lonely methadone-soaked stay at a cheap hotel in Earl's Court and newfound peace on the straight and narrow, Dee...
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Finding Fogerty

Interdisciplinary Readings of John Fogerty and Creedence Clearwater Revival

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Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012

Finding Fogerty: Interdisciplinary Readings of John Fogerty and Creedence Clearwater Revival, edited by Thomas M. Kitts, begins to correct the scholarly neglect of John Fogerty, one of America’s great songwriters, one of the rock era’s great vocalists, and one of its underrated guitarists and...
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Joni

The Anthology

by Barney Hoskyns
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017

Selected by Harper's Bazaar as one of the "Best New Books of 2017 (So Far)" A Library Journal Fall Editors' Pick "Nearly 50 years’ worth of critical efforts to solve Mitchell’s mysteries have now been rounded up in Barney Hoskyns’s Joni: The Anthology....what comes through...
Cover of Smile: The Story of Brian Wilson's Lost Masterpiece
by Domenic Priore, Brian Wilson, Van Dyke Parks
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2005

Smile has become one of the most unavoidable legends of rock'n'roll folklore, and in this searching examination Domenic Priore presents the true story behind the album's 40-year conception. Work on Smile began hot on the heels of the ground-breaking Pet Sounds, when Brian Wilson collaborated...
Cover of There’s No Bones in Ice Cream: Sylvain Sylvain’s Story of the New York Dolls
by Sylvain Sylvain
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2018

There’s No Bones in Ice Cream, by Sylvain Sylvain, is the inside story of glam heroes the New York Dolls outrageous, defiant, sleaze kings, transgender posers, drug casualties and victims, not just of their own excess but of an unsympathetic music industry that simply didn’t know how to process...
Cover of The Beatles: Here, There and Everywhere
by Nancy J. Hajeski
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014

Travel across the universe, or at least the globe, with one of the greatest bands of all time. One of the most recognizable, enduring, and best-selling bands of all time, The Beatles’ influence spans time, genre, and geography. Originally popular in Liverpool and Hamburg, their fame soon...
Cover of Keith Moon: There is No Substitute
by Ian Snowball
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016

With an introduction by Pete Townshend, There Is No Substitute is a tribute to The Who's late drummer Keith Moon, compiled by Ian Snowball with the authorisation the Keith Moon Estate and Keith's daughter Amanda De Wolf. The book includes a collection of seen and unseen photographs and contributions...
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Rockabilly

The Twang Heard 'Round the World: The Illustrated History

by Michael Dregni, Greil Marcus, Guralnick
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011

It was the twang heard 'round the world: Rockabilly was born out of country, bluegrass, jazz, and the blues in the 1950s, becoming rock ’n’ roll and ruling the world. Here’s the story of Elvis Presley’s first Sun records that inspired all. And here’s Carl Perkins, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran,...
Cover of The Who: Concert File
by Joe McMichael, Jack Lyons
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2000

In this concert file, Joe McMichael and 'Irish' Jack Lyons assemble an amazingly thorough chronicle of live performances played by the hardest working rock 'n' roll band of all time. This book includes:Over 1500 gigs, including set-lists, eye-witness accounts and background notes. Updated...
Cover of Van Halen: The Legendary American Band
by William Kurtz
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013

Van Halen is a hard rock band which formed in 1972 in Pasadena, California, United States. The band was originally called Mammoth and changed their name to Van Halen by 1974. The band’s first studio album, “Van Halen”, released in 1978, is widely regarded as a milestone in...
Cover of Red Hot Chili Peppers - Uncensored On the Record
by Tom King
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012

The Red Hot Chilli Peppers are certainly one of the greatest and most influential acts of the last 30 years. To date the Red Hot Chili Peppers have sold over 70 million records worldwide, and to this day continue to show how a number of influences can form one cohesive style of music. Whilst never conforming...
Cover of Keith Richards: The Unauthorised Biography
by Victor Bockris
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013

Victor Bockriss much admired biography of Keith Richards has been constantly revised since its original publication, now with an additional 12,000 words for a new edition of the Omnibus Press paperback that brings the story up to the present day. First published in eight countries in 1992, at that...
Cover of Transformer: The Complete Lou Reed Story
by Victor Bockris
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...
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Violence Girl

East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story

by Alice Bag
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011

The proximity of the East L.A. barrio to Hollywood is as close as a short drive on the 101 freeway, but the cultural divide is enormous. Born to Mexican-born and American-naturalized parents, Alicia Armendariz migrated a few miles west to participate in the free-range birth of the 1970s punk movement....
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