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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Carter Family: Don't Forget This Song
Frank M. Young, David Lasky · 191 pages
This biography is a moving account that reveals the Carter family's rise to success, their struggles along the way, and their impact on contemporary music.
Please Be with Me: A Song for My Father, Duane Allman
Galadrielle Allman · 385 pages
Portrait of Duane Allman, founder of the legendary Allman Brothers Band, written by his daughter Galadrielle.
Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul
James McBride · 244 pages
"A product of the complicated history of the American South, James Brown was a cultural shape-shifter who arguably had the greatest influence of any artist on American popular music. Brown was long a figure of fascination for James McBride, a noted professional musician as well as a writer. When he received a tip that promised to uncover the man behind the myth, McBride set off to follow a trail t
Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story
Rick Bragg · 505 pages
"A monumental figure on the American landscape, Jerry Lee Lewis spent his childhood raising hell in Ferriday, Louisiana, and Natchez, Mississippi; galvanized the world with hit records like "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" and "Great Balls of Fire," that gave rock and roll its devil's edge; caused riots and boycotts with his incendiary performances; nearly scuttled his career by marrying his thirtee
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon
Crystal Zevon · 452 pages
When Warren Zevon died in 2003, he left behind both a fanatical cult following and a rich catalog of dark, witty rock-n-roll classics that includes "Lawyers, Guns, and Money," "Excitable Boy," and the immortal "Werewolves of London." He also left a trove of misadventures and anecdotes, a veritable rock opera of drugs, women, celebrity, high times, and hard ways. As Warren once said, "I got to be J
Man on the Run: Paul McCartney in the 1970s
Tom Doyle · 284 pages
The most famous living rock musician on the planet, Paul McCartney is now regarded as a slightly cosy figure, an (inter)national treasure. Back in the 1970s, however, McCartney cut a very different figure. He was, literally, a man on the run. Desperately trying to escape the shadow of the Beatles, he became an outlaw hippy millionaire, hiding out on his Scottish farmhouse in Kintyre before travell
Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra
Andrea Davis Pinkney · 32 pages
A brief recounting of the career of this jazz musician and composer who, along with his orchestra, created music that was beyond category.
Break on Through: The Life and Death of Jim Morrison
James Riordan, Jerry Prochnicky · 544 pages
The story of the career, life, and death of the rock legend, based on interviews, with new sources and photographs.
Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend
Stephen Davis · 482 pages
"Jim Morrison's poetic vision, electrifying live performances, and voracious appetite for sexual, spiritual, and psychedelic experience inflamed the spirit and psyche of a generation. During his scorching rise to stardom as the lead singer of the Doors in the 1960s, his voice and lyrics reached out to the darkest thoughts and most passionate desires of fans around the world." "In Jim Morrison, cr
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician
Christoph Wolff · 620 pages
Finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. A landmark biography of Bach on the 250th anniversary of the composer's death, written by the leading Bach scholar of our age. Although we have heard the music of J. S. Bach in countless performances and recordings, the composer himself still comes across only as an enigmatic figure in a single familiar portrait. As we mark the 250th anniversar
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.
Bowie In Berlin: A New Career In A New Town
Thomas Jerome Seabrook · 272 pages
By 1975 rock icon David Bowie was in crisis. Lost in Los Angeles, he was ravaged by cocaine abuse, overwork, and an obsession with the occult, while his marriage lay in tatters. Desperate to reignite his creative spark, Bowie relocated in mid-1976 to Berlin, accompanied by an equally troubled Iggy Pop, former Stooges front man. The move to Berlin proved fortuitous both personally and professionall
KISS: Behind the Mask: The Official Authorized Biography
David Leaf, Ken Sharp · 503 pages
27: A History of the 27 Club Through the Lives of Brian Jones, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse
Howard Sounes · 359 pages
When singer Amy Winehouse was found dead at her London home in 2011, the press inducted her into what Kurt Cobain's mother named the 27 Club. “Now he's gone and joined that stupid club,” she said in 1994, after being told that her son, the front man of Nirvana, had committed suicide. “I told him not to….” Kurt's mom was referring to the extraordinary roll call of iconic stars who died at the same
The Beatles
Hunter Davies · 390 pages
In this behind-the-scenes look at the most famous musical group in history, Hunter Davies gives the complete story of the Beatles. As the only authorized biographer, Davies had full access to the Fab Four as well as their help and encouragement. He spent eighteen months with them when they were at the peak of their musical genius and at the pinnacle of their popularity, and he remained friends wit
Everything: A Book About Manic Street Preachers
Simon Price · 283 pages
Strange Fascination: David Bowie: The Definitive Story
David Buckley · 688 pages
Before I Get Old: The Story of the Who
Dave Marsh · 546 pages
Never Fade Away: The Kurt Cobain Story
Dave Thompson · 172 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
The One: The Life and Music of James Brown
R.J. Smith · 455 pages
A tribute to the life and achievements of the "Godfather of Soul" covers his unconventional youth in a segregated South, his complicated family life, and his work as a civil rights advocate and entrepreneur.