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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.

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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.

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This 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

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No One Here Gets Out Alive

Jerry Hopkins, Danny Sugerman · 387 pages

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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.

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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

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Crazy Diamond: Syd Barrett and the Dawn of Pink Floyd

Mike Watkinson, Pete Anderson · 192 pages

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Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy

Harry Shapiro, Caesar Glebbeek · 723 pages

Biography of the rock musician's life from his boyhood to his tragic death.

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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

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Lennon: The Definitive Biography

Ray Coleman · 784 pages

The long-time friend of John Lennon draws on his personal knowledge and the cooperation of Lennon's family and friends to detail the popular musician's life, career, and influence.

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Let It Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic

Jim Derogatis · 341 pages

"Let It Blurt is the biography of Lester Bangs (1949-82) - the gonzo journalist, gutter poet, and romantic visionary of rock criticism. He lived the rock 'n' roll lifestyle, guzzling booze and Romilar like water, matching its energy in prose that erupted from the pages of Rolling Stone, Creem, and The Village Voice. Bangs agitated in the seventies for sounds that were harsher, louder, more electri

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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.

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The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones

Stanley Booth · 576 pages

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Never Fade Away: The Kurt Cobain Story

Dave Thompson · 172 pages

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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

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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

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Shout! The Beatles in Their Generation

Philip Norman · 450 pages

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