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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThis Is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl
Paul Brannigan · 400 pages
The epic story of a singular career that includes Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, and Them Crooked Vultures. Based on ten years of original, exclusive interviews with the man himself and conversations with a legion of musical associates like Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme, DC punk legend Ian MacKaye, and Nevermind producer Butch Vig, this is Grohl₂s story. He speaks ca
No One Here Gets Out Alive
Jerry Hopkins, Danny Sugerman · 387 pages
The Love You Make: An Insider's Story of the Beatles
Peter Brown, Stephen Gaines · 433 pages
Presents the lives of the four Beatles and material on their retinue, rise to fame, and lives after the breakup of the group.
Buried Alive: The Biography of Janis Joplin
Myra Friedman · 333 pages
Pearl: The Obsessions and Passions of Janis Joplin
Ellis Amburn · 378 pages
Jimi Hendrix: The Man, the Magic, the Truth
Sharon Lawrence · 360 pages
The Jimi Hendrix legend has lived on longer than the man, who died in 1970 at the age of twenty-seven. More than thirty years later, what the world knows about him has become deeply distorted. Now Sharon Lawrence, a trusted friend of Jimi's in the final years of his astonishing life, has written a serious exploration of his life, death, and enduring legacy, based partly on the author's never-befor
Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon - and the Journey of a Generation
Sheila Weller · 544 pages
Robert Plant: A Life
Paul Rees · 368 pages
Robert Plant is a living legend. The front man of Led Zeppelin, one of the biggest and most influential rock bands of all time, Plant defined the very notion of what it means to be a rock god. The sheer scale of Led Zeppelin's success is extraordinary. In the United States alone they have sold seventy million records, a figure surpassed only by the Beatles, while "Stairway to Heaven," the band's m
Johnny Cash: The Life
Robert Hilburn · 679 pages
A noted music critic who knew him tells the unvarnished truth about Cash, whose personal life was far more troubled and his artistry much more profound than even his most devoted fans have realized.
Last Train to Memphis The Rise of Elvis Presley
Peter Guralnick · 578 pages
Piaf
Simone Berteaut · 440 pages
Interesante biografía de la cantante francesa Edith Piaf, narrada desde la perspectiva de su media hermana Simone Berteaut, con quien compartió prácticamente toda su vida, desde los inicios como cantante en las calles de París hasta su prematura muerte. La narración es ágil, sencilla, sin pretensiones académicas y permite una perspectiva muy íntima de la vida de uno de los íconos de la canción fr
Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye
David Ritz · 376 pages
Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words
Malka Marom
When singer, musician, and broadcast journalist Malka Marom had the opportunity to interview Joni Mitchell in 1973, she was eager to reconnect with the performer she'd first met late one night in 1966 at a Yorkville coffeehouse. More conversations followed over the next four decades of friendship, and it was only after Joni and Malka completed their last recorded interview, in 2012, that Malka dis
The Beatles: The Biography
Bob Spitz · 992 pages
Even before the Beatles hit the big time, a myth was created. This version of the Beatles legend smoothed the rough edges and filled in the fault lines, and for more than forty years this manicured version of the Beatles story has sustained as truth - until now. The product of almost a decade of research, hundreds of unprecedented interviews, and the discovery of scores of never-before-revealed
Shout! The Beatles in Their Generation
Philip Norman · 450 pages
Kansas City Lightning
Stanley Crouch · 382 pages
The first installment in the long-awaited portrait of one of the most talented and influential musicians of the twentieth century. Charlie Parker personified the tortured American artist: a revolutionary performer who used his alto saxophone to create a new music known as bebop even as he wrestled with a drug addiction that would lead to his death at 34. With the wisdom of a jazz scholar, the cult
Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy
Harry Shapiro, Caesar Glebbeek · 723 pages
Biography of the rock musician's life from his boyhood to his tragic death.
Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter
Randy L. Schmidt, Dionne Warwick · 368 pages
An intimate profile of Karen Carpenter, a girl from a modest Connecticut upbringing who became a Southern California superstar.
No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan
Robert Shelton · 573 pages
Explores the artistic and spiritual births, deaths, and rebirths, the guises and incarnations, that are Bob Dylan.
Beethoven
Maynard Solomon · 400 pages
Maynard Solomon's Beethoven, first published in 1977, was instantly hailed as a major reinterpretation of the life, personality, and works of the enigmatic genius. Now, a generation later, the book has been thoroughly revised, updated, and expanded by the author to incorporate new materials and the findings of later research. Solomon divides Beethoven's life and works into four periods. In part o
Johannes Brahms: A Biography
Jan Swafford · 736 pages
Jan Swafford takes a fresh look at Brahms, giving us for the first time a fully realized portrait of the man who created the magnificent music. Brahms was a man with many friends and no intimates, who experienced triumphs few artists achieve in their lifetime. Yet he lived with a relentless loneliness and a growing fatalism about the future of music and the world. The Brahms that emerges from the
Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney
Howard Sounes · 634 pages
Strange Fascination: David Bowie: The Definitive Story
David Buckley · 688 pages