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He's a Rebel

Phil Spector--Rock and Roll's Legendary Producer

by Mark Ribowsky
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2000

Phil Spector created the "wall of sound," produced the Beatles' last record, persuaded the Ramones to go "pop," made the Righteous Brothers sound respectable, and was a millionaire by age 21. His credits include some of the most important and memorable songs of the 1960s: The Ronettes'...
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by Mike Watkinson
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2009

Syd Barrett was Pink Floyd's founder singer guitarist and principal composer who left the group in 1968 amidst tales of acid-induced madness. Barrett's brief flash of erratic brilliance has is now the stuff of rock legend and his post-Floyd recordings have become cult classics. Updated for 2006 this book draws on years on research to relate an epic rock tragedy.
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Fool the World

The Oral History of a Band Called Pixies

by Josh Frank, Caryn Ganz
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007

It's the 1980s and the rock landscape is littered with massive hair, synthesizers, and monster riffs, but there is an alternative being born in the sleepy East of America-we just don't know it yet. Before the Internet, MTV, and iPods provided far-off music fans with information and communities-and...
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Homeward Bound

The Life of Paul Simon

by Peter Ames Carlin
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016

A revelatory account of the life of beloved American music icon, Paul Simon, by the bestselling rock biographer Peter Ames Carlin To have been alive during the last sixty years is to have lived with the music of Paul Simon. The boy from Queens scored his first hit record in 1957, just months...
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Nico

The End

by James Young
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1994

Nico’s keyboardist recounts her ill-advised eighties tour in this “funny memoir . . . A well-written black comedy” of life on the fringes of rock & roll (The New York Times).   This is the story of the last “scene” of the art rock diva Nico, whose fifteen minutes of fame included...
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So Many Roads

The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead

by David Browne
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015

The Grateful Dead's long, strange trip has been the subject of countless books-but none like So Many Roads. Drawing on new interviews with surviving members and people in their inner circle along with previously unknown details gleaned from the group's extensive archives, David Browne, acclaimed music...
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Cruel to Be Kind

The Life and Music of Nick Lowe

by Will Birch
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2019

The definitive biography of singer-songwriter Nick Lowe, best-known for "Cruel to Be Kind" and "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding" Described as "Britain's greatest living songwriter," Nick Lowe has made his mark as a pioneer of pub rock, power-pop,...
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by Martin Huxley
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015

Sound, throb, and a long low wail of pure, hard pain...Nine Inch Nails. The world's most disturbing rock band is in effect one man singer and songwriter Trent Reznor. Since stealing the show during the original Lollapalooza tour in 1991, NIN has limned the hard edge of the techno revolution....
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by Paul LaRaia
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009

Levon Helm's Rambles have quickly become the stuff of legend. Helm, of course, is the charismatic drummer, singer, and sometimes mandolin picker for The Band, a group whose songs and stature have made them a pillar of classic rock and rootsy Americana. Beyond their work with Bob Dylan, their own hits...
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Human Punk For Real

An Autobiography [English Edition]

by Marco Thiede
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017

If you used to be a punk, you never where! I wasn’t even twelve years old in 1976 when I heard about this "New Thing” from England called: PUNK ROCK! Something completely new, snotty and revolutionary. A musical and verbal revolution against the Establishment! A punch right in the face of...
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Big Day Coming

Yo La Tengo and the Rise of Indie Rock

by Jesse Jarnow
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012

The first biography of Yo La Tengo, the massively influential band who all but defined indie music. Yo La Tengo has lit up the indie scene for three decades, part of an underground revolution that defied corporate music conglomerates, eschewed pop radio, and found a third way. Going behind...
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How to Be a Man

(and other illusions)

by Duff McKagan, Chris Kornelis
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015

Duff McKagan is one of the most respected survivors in hard rock. In How to Be a Man, he shares the wisdom he gained on the path to superstardom—from his time with Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver to getting sober after a life of hard living to achieving his personal American Dream of marrying...
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by Joel McIver
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2010

Arriving on the music scene in 2003 the Kings of Leon embarked on a sex drug and booze-fuelled rampage through the London music and fashion scene never afraid to reveal all to the press and somehow surviving to tell the tale. Joel McIver's new book the first ever Kings of Leon biography digs deep into their history to reveal a band like no other.
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The Living Years

The First Genesis Memoir

by Mike Rutherford
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015

The story of Genesis is the rock legend of how a humble schoolboy band grew into a group of global superstars. At its center stood Mike Rutherford, driving the music from pioneering prog rock to chart-topping hits. Now for the first time, he tells the remarkable inside story of Genesis and his own...
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