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**A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A memoir as fierce, freewheeling, and passionate as her music." --O, the Oprah magazine A memoir by the celebrated singer-songwriter and social activist Ani DiFranco** In her new memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, Ani DiFranco recounts...

The “entertaining and enlightening” (Stephen King) final word on the genius and mischief of the Ramones, told by the man who created the beat behind their iconic music and lived to tell about it. When punk rock reared its spiky head in the early seventies, Marc Bell had the best seat in...

“Do primeiro disco voador ao último porre, Rita é consistente. Corajosa. Sem culpa nenhuma. Tanto que, ao ler o livro, várias vezes temos a sensação de estar diante de uma bio não autorizada, tamanha a honestidade nas histórias. A infância e os primeiros passos na vida artística; sua prisão...

Before his untimely death in 1982, Lester Bangs was inarguably the most influential critic of rock and roll. Writing in hyper-intelligent Benzedrine prose that calls to mind Jack Kerouac and Hunter S. Thompson, he eschewed all conventional thinking as he discussed everything from Black Sabbath being...

“Friend, asshole, angel, mutant,” singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt “came along and made us gross and broken people seem . . . I dunno, cooler, I guess.” A quadriplegic who could play only simple chords on his guitar, Chesnutt recorded seventeen critically acclaimed albums before his death in 2009,...

If you live for people's acceptance, you'll die from their rejection. Two-time Grammy winning rap artist, Lecrae, learned this lesson through more than his share of adversity—childhood abuse, drugs and alcoholism, a stint in rehab, an abortion, and an unsuccessful suicide attempt. Along...

Essential Information Arising in thе mid - '90s, Shania Twain bеcаmе thе mоѕt preferred nаtіоn songs artist given thаt Garth Brooks. Skillfully fusing mainstream, AOR rоck manufacturing wіth country-pop, Twain and hеr producer/husband, Robert John "Mutt" Lange, produced а...

A revealing new look at the private life of the controversial Cuban singer as told by those closest to her—her children, her music industry collaborators, and lovers, as written by the award-winning journalist and salsa music historian Juan A. Moreno-Velázquez. This book goes behind the scenes...

Elvis’ last car was a what? What was the name of Elvis’ pet chimpanzee? What was the name of Elvis’ twin brother? Which audition did Elvis fail on CBS Network in 1955? Which country was first to honor Elvis on a postage stamp? Elvis Presley’s entourage, who all wore diamond and gold rings...

Includes full set lists not included in the physical edition. In this final installment of his internationally bestselling three-part memoir—including The Hacienda and Unknown Pleasures—British rocker Peter Hook focuses on the 1980s New Wave and Dance Punk scene and the rise of one of the...

Garth Brooks is certified by the RIAA as the #1 selling solo artist in US history. Since his debut in 1990, he has sold over 128 million albums. But success rarely comes without controversy, and Garth has had more than a share. Is he a media and market manipulator, a country music poseur, and a megalomaniac,...

Following the success of I’m Your Man and Just Kids, legendary Canadian singer and songwriter Bruce Cockburn delivers his long-awaited memoir—a chronicle of faith, fear, and activism that is also a lively cultural and musical tour through the late twentieth century. Award-winning songwriter...

Rock Diary: The Beatles is a unique, chronological, day-by-day, month-by-month and year-by-year history of the life and career of the most popular and influential rock group of all time. This definitive factual story is the ultimate biographical timeline of the legendary quartet of John Lennon, Paul...

Updated to include Paul McCartney’s knighting and the deaths of John Lennon and George Harrison. Philip Norman’s biography of the Beatles is the definitive work on the world's most influential band—a beautifully written account of their lives, their music, and their times. Now brought...