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"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"--
2) Just kids
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English
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"Patti's Smith's exquisite prose is generously illustrated in this full-color edition of her classic coming-of-age memoir, Just Kids. New York locations vividly come to life where, as young artists, Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe met and fell in love: a first apartment in Brooklyn, Times Square with John and Yoko's iconic billboard, Max's Kansas City, or the gritty fire escape of the Hotel Chelsea. The extraordinary people who passed through...
3) M train
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English
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee presents reflections on her inner life from the unique perspectives of the cafes and cultural haunts she has visited and worked in around the world. --Publisher's description.
An unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist. It begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Woven...
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Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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A "narrative of [rock guitarist and actor Brownstein's] escape from a turbulent family life into a world where music was the means toward self-invention, community, and rescue. Along the way, Brownstein chronicles the excitement and contradictions within the era's flourishing and fiercely independent music subculture, including experiences that sowed the seeds for the observational satire of the popular television series Portlandia years later"--Dust...
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Publisher
ItBooks
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Just in time for Elvis Presley's would-be 75th birthday comes a new book by Elvis expert, journalist, and Country Music Association Media Achievement Award winner Alanna Nash. Baby, Let's Play House is the first-ever Elvis book to focus solely on his complex relationships with women, including celebrities such as Ann-Margret, Linda Thompson, Mary Ann Mobley, Cher, Raquel Welch, Barbara Eden, and Cybill Shepherd. Featuring dozens of exclusive interviews...
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Pride
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The definitive Stevie Nicks story, featuring rare footage, archive interviews, and more. For over four decades she has been responsible for composing some of the best loved and most joyous contemporary songs ever written, as this documentary film recounts.
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Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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Heart, fronted by Ann and Nancy Wilson, has given fans classic, raw, and pure badass rock and roll for more than three decades. As the only sisters in rock who write their own music and play their own instruments, Ann and Nancy have always stood apart. By refusing to let themselves and their music be defined by their gender, and by never allowing their sexuality to overshadow their talent, the Wilson sisters have made their mark, and in the process...
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Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The legendary lead guitarist of The Runaways presents a brutally honest memoir in which she opens up about her violently abusive marriage to a metal rocker and how her escape and freedom cost her the sons she stayed in the marriage to protect.
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Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"From the moment Patti Smith burst onto the scene chanting "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine," the irreverent opening line to her 1975 debut album Horses, the punk movement had found its dissident intellectual voice. This raw compilation of interviews with Smith chronicles the creative career of the legendary "godmother of punk," from her volatile rise in the New York underground in the '70s to her continuing role as mystic and matriarch...
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Flame Tree Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Influenced by Bessie Smith, Janis Joplin became a rock star in San Francisco's Big Brother & The Holding Company, and enjoyed a meteoric solo career before her untimely death from a drug overdose in Los Angeles. She was the most compelling female blues singer of the 1960s with a thrilling, emotional depth and a fiery stage presence that dominated albums such as Big Brother's Cheap Thrills (1968) and the posthumous, chart-topping Pearl (1971). She...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"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...
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
She was the undisputed queen of rock and roll, her powerful, bluesy vocals, unmatched. But, at age 27, a blast of nearly pure heroin cut short her tumultuous life. This episode traces the roots of her addiction and uses archive footage, dramatic reenactments and interviews with her closest companions, including her brother and former band mates, to piece together the last 24 hours of a voice of a generation.
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Publisher
Villard Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Includes the lyrics for the song titles: Morning, ready to love; Bring me some water; Like the way I do; Occasionally; A truthful lullaby; You used to love to dance; Breakdown; Come to my window; The good little sheep; Goodbye Mother; I want a drink; Lonely is a child; Must be crazy for me; Scarecrow; Sleep; Stephanie; and, You can sleep while I drive.
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Publisher
Overlook Omnibus
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Lyrical visionary, enduring style icon, and one indispensable fifth of post-Peter Green megaband Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks is one of the most recognizable figures in rock 'n' roll history--very much Fleetwood Mac's "Queen Bee," as Mick Fleetwood himself described her. With gold and quadruple platinum solo albums under her beaded belt, Stevie Nicks has enjoyed the ultimate in rock 'n' roll success as a recording artist--but this charmed life has...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"A memoir about the year 2016 in which dreams and reality are interwoven" -- Provided by publisher.
Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a year of solitary wandering. Unfettered by logic or time, she draws us into her private wonderland with no design, yet heeding signs--including a talking sign that looms above her, prodding and...
