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Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Created in cooperation with the surviving Beatles and Yoko Ono, this anthology of personal memorabilia, documents, photographs, and other items from personal archives chronicles the band's Liverpool origins, rise to fame, and breakup.
Publisher
Azure
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Viewers will see the true story behind one of the great musical performers of all time, focusing on the musician's life and work, from his troubled childhood in Minneapolis to becoming one of the most popular and innovative artists in contemporary music.
Author
Publisher
Villard Books
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
The popular singer describes her rise to success in the world of rock music and her personal odyssey from her Kansas roots to her revelation of her homosexuality and its aftermath, which has made her an advocate for the gay and lesbian community.
Author
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
After enjoying initial success as a British blues band, Fleetwood Mac became a wildly popular "soft rock" ensemble in the 1970s and '80s, dominating the mainstream music market around the world. Their albums, including the multimillion selling "Rumours," are considered classics. "Fleetwood Mac" offers a unique view of a band whose name has become synonymous with the both the triumph and heartache of rock and roll stardom.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Starting out over fifty years ago, the Rolling Stones took the music of the blues and blended it into rock and roll to create their own unique sound. Decades later, they are still hard at work, recording and playing live to massive crowds of adoring fans. Who Are the Rolling Stones? captures the excitement of the Stones on their journey to become the greatest rock-and-roll band in the world." --Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
From the beloved host and creator of NPR’s All Songs Considered and Tiny Desk Concerts comes an essential oral history of modern music, told in the voices of iconic and up-and-coming musicians, including Dave Grohl, Jimmy Page, Michael Stipe, Carrie Brownstein, Smokey Robinson, and Jeff Tweedy, among others—published in association with NPR Music.
Author
Series
Killing volume 12
Language
English
Description
The King is dead. The Walrus is shot. The Greatest is no more. Elvis Presley, John Lennon, and Muhammad Ali. These three icons changed not only the worlds of music, film, and sports, but the world itself. Their faces were known everywhere, in every nation, across every culture. And their stories became larger than life-until their lives spun out of control at the hands of those they most trusted. In Killing the Legends, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
An intimate yet unsparing biography of one of the greatest and most mythologised musicians of the twentieth century. John Lennon was a rock star, a school clown, a writer, a wit, an iconoclast, a sometime peace activist and finally an eccentric millionaire. He was also a Beatle - his plain-speaking and impudent rejection of authority catching, and eloquently articulating, the group's moment in history. Chronicling a troubled life, from that of the...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Late on December 8th, 1980, the world abruptly stopped turning for millions, as news broke that the world's most beloved musician had been gunned down in cold blood in New York City. The most iconic Beatle left behind an unrivaled body of music and legions of faithful disciples--yet his profound legacy has brought with it as many questions and contradictions as his music has provided truths and certainties. In this compelling exploration, acclaimed...
15) The biographical dictionary of popular music: from Adele to Ziggy, the real A to Z of rock and pop
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Compiles biographical dictionary entries of over three hundred of the most important popular and rock musicians and groups.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
A documentary film about session and touring musicians that are hired by well established and famous bands and artists like Metallica, KISS, and Billy Joel. These hired guns may not be household names, but are still masters of their craft.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The definitive biography of Chuck Berry, legendary performer and inventor of rock and roll and author of classics like 'Johnny B. Goode,' 'Maybellene,' 'You Never Can Tell,' and 'Roll Over Beethoven.' Chuck Berry long ago earned a reputation as a person who gave nothing away. Best known as the groundbreaking innovator of rock and roll and the artist behind classics ranging from 'Johnny B. Goode' and 'Maybellene' to 'You Never Can Tell' and 'Roll...
19) Brothers
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In this intimate and open account--nothing like any rock-and-roll memoir you've ever read--Alex Van Halen shares his personal story of family, friendship, music and brotherly love in a remarkable tribute to his beloved brother and band mate. Told with acclaimed New Yorker writer Ariel Levy, Brothers is seventy-year-old drummer Alex Van Halen's love letter to his younger brother, Edward, (Maybe "Ed," but never "Eddie"), written while still mourning...
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