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Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter

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Michael Jackson: The Magic, The Madness, The Whole Story, 1958-2009

J. Randy Taraborrelli · 776 pages

Portrait de Michael Jackson à partir d'entetiens du chanteur et de ses proches. Le biographe raconte ses débuts d'enfant star, ses succès avec les Jackson five, sa vie de famille, ses démêlés avec la justice, ses préparatifs pour son retour sur scène, etc.

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Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney

Howard Sounes · 634 pages

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Bowie: The Biography

Wendy Leigh · 315 pages

In this exploration of Bowie's kaleidoscopic personal life, Leigh reveals his star-crossed inheritance--his mother was once an acolyte of the British Fascist party; his father, the PR genius who masterminded his early career--in a dramatic contrast to those family members grappling with mental illness. Above all, there is Bowie's hard won rise to fame and fortune, his astounding creativity, his co

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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

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Tearing Down the Wall of Sound

Mick Brown · 480 pages

The strange life and times of Phil Spector - legendary record producer, recluse and demented control freak, who was charged in 2002 with the murder of an actress, just hours after giving his first interview in 25 years to journalist Mick Brown.

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Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye

David Ritz · 376 pages

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No One Here Gets Out Alive

Jerry Hopkins, Danny Sugerman · 387 pages

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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

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You are Not Alone: Michael: Through a Brother's Eyes

Jermaine Jackson · 442 pages

This work is a portrait of Michael Jackson, illuminating the private man, offering access into a rarefied world. The author, his brother, older than Michael by four years, offers a keenly observed and surprisingly candid memoir tracing Michael's life starting with their shared childhood and extending through the Jackson 5 years, Michael's phenomenal solo career, his loves, his suffering, and his t

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Mick: The Wild Life and Mad Genius of Jagger

Christopher Andersen · 364 pages

Shares insights into the iconic rock-and-roll performer's life, from his substance abuse challenges and his bisexual history to his connections to the British royal family and the secret attempt on his life.

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A Perfect Union of Contrary Things

Maynard James Keenan, Sarah Jensen · 288 pages

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Freddie Mercury

Peter Freestone · 256 pages

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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

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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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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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I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen

Sylvie Simmons · 584 pages

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To Selena, With Love

Chris Perez · 320 pages

Chris Perez tells the story of his relationship with music superstar Selena in this heartfelt tribute. One of the most compelling and adored superstars in Latin music history, Selena was nothing short of a phenomenon who shared all of herself with her millions of devoted fans. Her tragic murder, at the young age of twenty-three, stripped the world of her talent and boundless potential, her tigh

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Frank: The Voice

James Kaplan · 786 pages

Who was Frank Sinatra? And how did who he was lead to him creating such incomparable music? In this book, fans finally have a biography that goes more deeply into who he really was than any previous book about this extraordinary man.

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The Lives of John Lennon

Albert Goldman · 720 pages

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