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Publisher
MVD Visual
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
The Pixies formed in Boston in 1986 and enjoyed moderate success.Six years later, they split amidst acrimony and anger. In the time since, despite little communication with one another, they have become one of the most influential bands of the eighties. In 2004, The Pixies reunited. This documentary covers the year leading up to their final performance.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Twenty years after the success of her first memoir, the New York Times bestseller The Truth Is . . ., the Grammy and Oscar award-winning rocker and trailblazing LGBTQIA icon takes stock of the intervening years, recounting the euphoric triumphs and the life-altering tragedies of her life"--
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Until recently, glam rock has been a mere footnote in popular music history: a style-over-substance lark in an otherwise serious industry. Glam Rock: Music in Sound and Vision reveals the true story of how glam carved out a place as a diverse musical style and how it related to the artistic, political, economic, emotional, sexual, and commercial scenes of the late twentieth century. Committed to spectacle but also to musical ingenuity, glam delivered...
Author
Publisher
Trafalgar Square
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"From their formation in Sydney, Australia in 1973 by brothers Angus and Malcolm Young, AC/DC have made the most visceral and single-minded rock, and it has served them well, with more than 200 million records sold. The basic blueprint that AC/DC laid down on their early albums with Bon Scott-hard, no-nonsense, riff-driven rock'n'roll-has sustained them all the way through to their latest album, 2014's Rock Or Bust. Angus and Malcolm held AC/DC together...
46) Monterey pop
Series
Criterion collection volume 168
Publisher
Criterion
Pub. Date
©2017
Language
English
Description
Monterey Pop is the first filmed document of a rock festival. The Monterey Pop Festival, held on California's Monterey Peninsula in 1967, helped launch the careers of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Otis Redding. Legendary moments captured on film include Pete Townshend destroying his guitar and Jimi Hendrix burning his.
47) Rock star
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
A rags to riches story of a wannabe musician who gets his break and becomes a rock star overnight, only to discover that being a superstar isn't everything it's cracked up to be.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
"Girls Like Us" is a groundbreaking and irresistible biography of three of America's most important musical artists--Carly Simon, Carole King, and Joni Mitchell--and offers an epic treatment of these mid-century women who dared to break tradition.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A tender and intimate memoir by one of the most remarkable, trailblazing, and tenacious women in music, the two-time Grammy Award-winning "premiere song-stylist and songwriter of her generation" (New Yorker), Rickie Lee Jones. Have you met Ms. Jones? One weekend night on primetime television, a then-unknown singer and vital part of the burgeoning Los Angeles jazz pop scene skyrocketed to fame overnight after a now- iconic performance on Saturday...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Music journalist Mark Paul Brickley's new book Postcards From Liverpool: Beatles Moments & Memories recounts rarely heard tales from the Beatles legacy including the story of their first single, "Love Me Do." The book's Rishikesh chapter remembers the band's immersion in Transcendental Meditation and offers an alternate ending to the group's exodus from Maharishi's ashram. The world's greatest sitarist Ravi Shankar is profiled in The Sitar's Sound,...
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Language
English
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Description
A portrait of the late lead singer of the iconic rock band Queen draws on insider access to trace his rise to fame, struggles with risky behavior, relationships with loved ones, and death from AIDS complications. This rock biography is a revealing, intimate look at the man who would be Queen. The lead vocalist for the iconic rock band Queen, Freddie Mercury's unmatched skills as a songwriter and his flamboyant showmanship made him a superstar and...
Author
Series
The Lillys volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Once upon a time, the pressure to be the perfect daughter nearly broke Kayla Whitman. Desperate to find an outlet away from her controlling mother, she picked up a pair of drumsticks, forever altering the rhythm of her life. Since then, shes been determined to make her own way, finding her home with her bandmates even as she fights to keep her past and her present firmly separate. Things were simple enough when the Lillys were playing local gigs...
58) Hex
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Black Spring, the seemingly picturesque Hudson Valley town haunted by the Black Rock Witch, a seventeenth century woman whose eyes and mouth are sewn shut. Muzzled, she walks the streets and enters homes at will. She stands next to children's bed for nights on end. Everybody knows that her eyes may never be opened or the consequences will be too terrible to bear."--Amazon.com.
59) Don't stop believin': the story of Jonathan Cain, songwriter and keyboardist for the band Journey
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jonathan Cain and the band Journey were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017, but Cain's journey to fame wasn't always easy.As a child, Cain survived a horrific school fire that killed nearly 100 of his classmates. His experience formed a resilience that would carry him through both tragedy and success in the years to come.Moving from Chicago to Sunset Boulevard, Cain never let go of his musical dreams, eventually getting his big break...
Author
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"At the launch party for her memoir Clothes Music Boys in 2014, Viv Albertine received the news her mother was dying. She left the party immediately and spent a few final hours with a woman who had been an enormous presence and force in her life. In the weeks that followed, Viv was left with the task of sorting through her mother's affairs. In that process she came across one fatally curious item: a bag labelled "To throw away unopened." This auspicious...
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