Composers category: 3267 books
What Happened, Miss Simone?
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
**Inspired by the Academy Award-nominated Netflix documentary What Happened, Miss Simone?, an intimate and vivid look at the legendary life of Nina Simone, the classically trained pianist who evolved into a chart-topping chanteuse and committed civil rights activist. **
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With Billie
A New Look at the Unforgettable Lady Day
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
From Julia Blackburn, an author whose ability to conjure lives from other times and places is so vivid that one suspects she sees ghosts, here is a portrait of a woman whose voice continues to haunt anyone who hears it.
Billie Holiday’s life is inseparable from an account of her troubles,...
Twenty Thousand Roads
The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2008
**“A terrific biography of a rock innovator that hums with juicy detail and wincing truth. . . . Page after page groans with the folly of the ’60s drug culture, the tragedy of talent toasted before its time, the curse of wealth and the madness of wasted opportunity.”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Mary Wells
The Tumultuous Life of Motown's First Superstar
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Complete with never-before-revealed details about the sex, violence, and drugs in her life, this biography reveals the incredibly turbulent life of Motown artist Mary Wells. Based in part on four hours of previously unreleased and unpublicized deathbed interviews with Wells, this account delves deeply...
Juke Box Hero
My Five Decades in Rock 'n' Roll
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Lou Gramm rose from humble, working-class roots in Rochester, New York, to become one of rock’s most popular and distinctive voices in the 1970s and ’80s, singing and cowriting more than a dozen hits with the band Foreigner. Songs such as “Cold As Ice,” “I Want to Know What Love Is,” “Waiting...
by Timothy White
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010
Bob Marley was the undisputed sovereign of reggae music and a revolutionary soul-prophet whose music continues to have a major impact on people of throughout the world.
Catch A Fire chronicles Bob Marley's life and career, as well as the zeitgeist that shaped his spiritual and political beliefs....
Mad World
An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs That Defined the 1980s
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Mad World is a highly entertaining oral history that celebrates the New Wave music phenomenon of the 1980s via new interviews with 35 of the most notable artists of the period. Each chapter begins with a discussion of their most popular song but leads to stories of their history and place in the scene,...
Amy Winehouse
The Biography 1983-2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
A detailed biography that pays tribute to the award-winning singer whose turbulent life and untimely death have captivated the world
An indisputable musical icon and controversial celebrity figure, Amy Winehouse's unique blend of jazz, pop, and soul singing and songwriting brought...
Bowie
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, the Thin White Duke. Gender Bender. Rebel. Songwriter. Fashion Icon. Rock God. One of the most influential creative artists of his generation, David Bowie morphed from one glittering incarnation to the next over the course of five decades—an enduring superstar who remained...
An Outlaw and a Lady
A Memoir of Music, Life with Waylon, and the Faith that Brought Me Home
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Renowned songwriter, singer, and wife of Waylon Jennings writes an intimate, enormously entertaining memoir of American music, of life with Waylon and the Outlaws, and of faith lost and found.
The daughter of a Pentecostal evangelist and a race-car driver, Jessi Colter played piano and sang...
Chasing the Light
The Cloud Cult Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
“Cloud Cult’s grand, unkempt indie rock is at once jam band, emo, and avant-garde. Their songs, born out of personal tragedy, are otherworldly lessons in being human.” —Pitchfork During the past decade, Minnesota-grown band Cloud Cult has become one of the most inspirational indie bands, with...
by Daryl Easlea
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
When LA musicians Russell and Ron Mael moved to Britain in 1973, they hit the pop world as Sparks and looked like oddballs, even in the context of the glam rock movement that made them welcome. Soon defined by their weird and wonderful 1974 single This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us from...
Jean Coulthard
A Life in Music
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Jean Coulthard demonstrated that a Canadian woman could be a successful professional composer, whose music was, and still is, played extensively in concert halls across Canada and internationally. Through her seven-decade career she composed in every genre of traditional classical music: opera, symphonies,...
Django
The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
Django Reinhardt was arguably the greatest guitarist who ever lived, an important influence on Les Paul, Charlie Christian, B.B. King, Jerry Garcia, Chet Atkins, and many others. Yet there is no major biography of Reinhardt. Now, in Django, Michael Dregni offers a definitive portrait of this great...