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Series
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"As a member of Poster Children, Rose Marshack took part in entwined revolutions. Marshack and other women seized a much-elevated profile in music during the indie rock breakthrough while the advent of new digital technologies transformed the recording and marketing of music. Touring in a van, meeting your idols, juggling a programming job with music, keeping control and credibility, the perils of an independent record label (and the greater perils...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Detailing his experiences as a young, queer Mexican American in 1970s Los Angeles, the legendary guitarist, who was part of three groundbreaking and influential groups -- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, the Cramps and The Gun Club -- presents this memoir of personal transformation, addiction and recovery, friendship, and belonging.
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The author offers a candid account of his life and career as the harmonica player, singer, and principal songwriter for the band Blues Traveler, as well as his struggles with obesity and his political activity.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Drawing on interviews with close associates, a revelatory account of the late musician's career traces his fame as a teen rock star in the 1960s and descent to humble jobs before his comeback as a solo artist, producer, and innovator in the indie-rock genre.
Author
Publisher
Reservoir Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"The ... coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of [Prince], in his own words--featuring never-before-seen photos, original scrapbooks, and lyric sheets, and the ... memoir he began writing before his ... death"--English-language version, Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Prism
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A down-and-dirty chronicle of the birth of the Seattle grunge scene-from amateur skate parks and underground hardcore clubs to worldwide phenomenon-as told by one of its founding fathers and lead guitarist of legendary alternative rock band, Mudhoney"--
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Language
English
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This blazingly intimate biography of Janis Joplin establishes the Queen of Rock & Roll as the rule-breaking musical trailblazer and complicated, gender-bending rebel she was. Janis Joplin's first transgressive act was to be a white girl who gained an early sense of the power of the blues, music you could only find on obscure records and in roadhouses along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast. But even before that, she stood out in her conservative...
Author
Publisher
Brown Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"J.D. Davis's enthralling new biography of famous cousins Jerry Lee Lewis, Jimmy Swaggart, and Mickey Gilley, born within a twelve-month span in small-town Louisiana during the Great Depression, draws from exhaustive research and personal connections with friends and family."--P. [4] of jacket.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
An intimate portrait of the two-time Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter, who is a muse to some of the 20th-century's most influential rock musicians, reveals the strength, resilience and inner and outer beauty{u2014}as well as her strong sense of heritage and devotion to her family{u2014}that helped her survive and thrive the music world.
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