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  • The Triumph of Vulgarity: Rock Music in the Mirror of Romanticism by Pattison, Robert
    Robert Pattison

    The Triumph of Vulgarity: Rock Music in the Mirror of Romanticism

    The Triumph of Vulgarity in a thinker's guide to rock 'n' roll. Rock music mirrors the tradition of nineteenth-century Romaniticsm, Robert Patison says. Whitman's "barbaric yawp" can still be heard in the punk rock of the Ramones, and the spirit that inspired Poe's Eureka...
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  • Electronic Inspirations: Technologies of the Cold War Musical Avant-Garde by Iverson, Jennifer
    Jennifer Iverson

    Electronic Inspirations: Technologies of the Cold War Musical Avant-Garde

    For a decimated post-war West Germany, the electronic music studio at the WDR radio in Cologne was a beacon of hope. Jennifer Iverson's Electronic Inspirations: Technologies of the Cold War Musical Avant-Garde traces the reclamation and repurposing of wartime machines, spaces, and discourses into...
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  • Rock 'n' Film: Cinema's Dance with Popular Music by James, David E.
    David E. James

    Rock 'n' Film: Cinema's Dance with Popular Music

    For two decades after the mid-1950s, biracial popular music played a fundamental role in progressive social movements on both sides of the Atlantic. Balancing rock's capacity for utopian popular cultural empowerment with its usefulness for the capitalist media industries, Rock 'N' Film explores how...
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  • Living in the Merry Ghetto: The Music and Politics of the Czech Underground by Hagen, Trever
    Trever Hagen

    Living in the Merry Ghetto: The Music and Politics of the Czech Underground

    Living in the Merry Ghetto reframes how people use music to build resistance. Author Trever Hagen addresses the social context of illegal music-making in Czechoslovakia during state socialism. He tells the story of a group of rock'n'roll musicians who went underground after 1968, building...
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  • The Devil's Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock 'n' Roll by Stephens, Randall J.
    Randall J. Stephens

    The Devil's Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock 'n' Roll

    When rock 'n' roll emerged in the 1950s, ministers denounced it from their pulpits and Sunday school teachers warned of the music's demonic origins. The big beat, said Billy Graham, was "ever working in the world for evil." Yet by the early 2000s Christian...
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  • Tell the Truth Until They Bleed by Friedman, Josh Alan
    Josh Alan Friedman

    Tell the Truth Until They Bleed

    "Josh Alan Friedman has chops like a wolf... This book deserves wide attention." --Jerry Wexler, Atlantic Records co-founder "A can't-put-it-down rock 'n' roll read ... a must for any fan of good music writing and great storytelling." --William Michael Smith, Houston Press "He dances...
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  • Tell the Truth Until They Bleed: Coming Clean in the Dirty World of Blues and Rock 'N' Roll by Friedman, Josh Alan
    Josh Alan Friedman

    Tell the Truth Until They Bleed: Coming Clean in the Dirty World of Blues and Rock 'N' Roll

    A wild insider's ride with one of music's most notorious journalists. Here are 15 music profiles, guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat: - Leiber & Stoller, the white fathers of R&B and rock and roll, who possess what is perhaps...
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  • Mastering Rock Guitar: The Complete Rock Guitar Method [With DVD] by Halbig, Erik
    Erik Halbig

    Mastering Rock Guitar: The Complete Rock Guitar Method [With DVD]

    This book and DVD-ROM is perfect for guitarists who have been playing for a while and are ready to expand their skills and technique. It includes in-depth lessons on pentatonic extensions, the major and harmonic minor scales, arpeggios, triads, chords derived from scales, and...
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  • The Giant Pop & Rock Piano Sheet Music Collection: Piano/Vocal/Guitar by Alfred Music
    Alfred Music

    The Giant Pop & Rock Piano Sheet Music Collection: Piano/Vocal/Guitar

    For music makers who love pop music, this collection provides unlimited fun It contains more than 250 pages of piano/vocal/guitar sheet music for 44 familiar favorites. Titles: Because of You (Kelly Clarkson) * The Big Bang Theory (Main Title Theme) * Billionaire (Travie McCoy)...
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  • Limelight: Rush in the '80s by Popoff, Martin
    Martin Popoff

    Limelight: Rush in the '80s

    Part two of the definitive biography of the rock 'n' roll kings of the North -- covering Rush's most iconic and popular albums, Moving Pictures and Power Windows Includes two full-color photo inserts, with 16 pages of the band on tour and in the...
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  • The Fuzzbox Diaries: the blessings and bruises of a journeyman guitarist by Campbell, Jeffrey Lee
    Jeffrey Lee Campbell

    The Fuzzbox Diaries: the blessings and bruises of a journeyman guitarist

    The Fuzzbox Diaries examines the circuitous path that led to Jeffrey Lee Campbell's amazing rocket ship ride as Sting's guitarist ... and the challenges he faced navigating the "jungle gym" of success after falling back to earth. The Fuzzbox Diaries surveys the hits, the...
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  • Take a Sad Song: The Emotional Currency of "Hey Jude" by Campion, James
    James Campion

    Take a Sad Song: The Emotional Currency of "Hey Jude"

    Discover the power of song in James Campion's Take a Sad Song: The Emotional Currency of "Hey Jude." Music columnist and podcast host Campion shows why the Beatles' epic 1968 single "Hey Jude" transcends time, taking readers through the song's riveting personal story, its...
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  • Rock and Roll, Desegregation Movements, and Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era: An Integrated Effort by Fowler, Beth
    Beth Fowler

    Rock and Roll, Desegregation Movements, and Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era: An "Integrated Effort"

    The rock and roll music that dominated airwaves across the country during the 1950s and early 1960s is often described as a triumph for integration. Black and white musicians alike, including Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Elvis Presley, and Jerry Lee Lewis, scored hit records...
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  • Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession by Marcus, Greil
    Greil Marcus

    Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession

    In life, Elvis Presley went from childhood poverty to stardom, from world fame to dissipation and early death. As Greil Marcus shows in this remarkable book, Presley's journey after death takes him even further, pushing him beyond his own frontiers to merge with the...
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  • The First 21: How I Became Nikki Sixx by Sixx, Nikki
    Nikki Sixx

    The First 21: How I Became Nikki Sixx

    Rock-and-roll icon and three-time bestselling author Nikki Sixx tells his origin story: how Frank Feranna became Nikki Sixx, chronicling his fascinating journey from irrepressible Idaho farmboy to the man who formed the revolutionary rock group Mley Cr?. Nikki Sixx is one of the most...
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  • Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir by Lanegan, Mark
    Mark Lanegan

    Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir

    This gritty bestselling memoir by the singer Mark Lanegan of Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age, and Soulsavers documents his years as a singer and drug addict in Seattle in the '80s and '90s. When Mark Lanegan first arrived in Seattle in the...
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  • Eruption: Conversations with Eddie Van Halen by Tolinski, Brad
    Brad Tolinski

    Eruption: Conversations with Eddie Van Halen

    Get a completely new look at guitar legend Eddie Van Halen with this groundbreaking oral history, composed of more than fifty hours of interviews with Eddie himself as well as his family, friends, and colleagues. When rock legend Eddie Van Halen died of cancer...
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  • Rock Covers. 40th Ed. by Busch, Robbie
    Jonathan Kirby

    Rock Covers. 40th Ed.

    Album art is indelibly linked to our collective musical memories; when you think of your favorite albums, you picture the covers. Many photographers, illustrators, and art directors have become celebrities from their album artworks--the best examples of which will go down in history as...
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  • Driven: Rush in the '90s and "In the End" by Popoff, Martin
    Martin Popoff

    Driven: Rush in the '90s and "In the End"

    The conclusion to the definitive biography of the rock 'n' roll kings of the North...now in paperback! Includes two full-colour photo inserts, with unearthed photos of the band. "Popoff's long-time access to the three band members, Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart, and...
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  • Led Zeppelin by Led Zeppelin by Zeppelin, Led
    Led Zeppelin

    Led Zeppelin by Led Zeppelin

    Page, Plant and Jones have collaborated with Reel Art Press to publish the first illustrated book celebrating 50 years since Led Zeppelin formedLed Zeppelin by Led Zeppelin is the first and only official illustrated book ever to be produced in full collaboration with the...
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  • Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 Mystery by Clair, Adam
    Adam Clair

    Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 Mystery

    An inspiring, revelatory exploration of the genesis and impact of the fabled Elephant 6 collective and the baffling exodus of its larger-than-life luminary, Neutral Milk Hotel frontman Jeff Mangum Years after its release, Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea remains one...
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  • Mellencamp by Rees, Paul
    Paul Rees

    Mellencamp

    The definitive biography of John Mellencamp, the iconic American rock and roll original, featuring exclusive in-depth interviews and never-before-told details. Perfect for fans of Janis and Born to Run. John Mellencamp is not your typical rock star. With music inspired by the work of...
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  • Redbone: The True Story of a Native American Rock Band by Staebler, Christian
    Christian Staebler

    Redbone: The True Story of a Native American Rock Band

    Experience the riveting, powerful story of the Native American civil rights movement and the resulting struggle for identity told through the high-flying career of West Coast rock 'n' roll pioneers Redbone. You've heard the hit song "Come and Get Your Love" in the movie...
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  • Anthem: Rush in the '70s by Popoff, Martin
    Martin Popoff

    Anthem: Rush in the '70s

    Part one of the definitive biography of Rock 'n' Roll's kings of the North ... now in paperback! Includes two full-color photo inserts, with 16 pages of the early days of the band on tour and in the studio. With extensive, firsthand reflections from...
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  • Jimmy Page: The Anthology by Page, Jimmy
    Jimmy Page

    Jimmy Page: The Anthology

    "Within the contents of this book, I wanted to include items from my personal archive that have played a part in my career over 60 years, to illustrate the detail behind the detail." - Jimmy Page From his early days as a young session...
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  • Freddie Mercury: An Intimate Memoir by the Man Who Knew Him Best by Freestone, Peter
    Peter Freestone

    Freddie Mercury: An Intimate Memoir by the Man Who Knew Him Best

    Peter Freestone was Freddie Mercury's Personal Assistant for the last 12 years of his life. He lived with Mercury in London, Munich and New York, and he was with him when he died.In this book, the most intimate account of Mercury's life ever written,...
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  • Immortal Axes: Guitars That Rock by Johnson, Lisa S.
    Lisa S. Johnson

    Immortal Axes: Guitars That Rock

    Guitar International's Guitar Book of the Year 2021 "What a beautiful book...a great presentation and wonderful insight into these historic guitars."--Nils Lofgren on 108 Rock Star Guitars Foreword by Peter FramptonAfterword by Suzi Quatro From the photographer of the critically acclaimed 108 Rock Star...
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  • Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks by Davis, Stephen
    Stephen Davis

    Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks

    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!"All you ever wanted to know about Fleetwood Mac's mesmerizing frontwoman." - People Magazine "Davis is astute and respectful...adept in his literary analysis." - The New York Times Book Review Stevie Nicks is a legend of rock, but her energy...
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  • Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011 by Goodman, Lizzy
    Lizzy Goodman

    Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011

    Joining the ranks of the classics Please Kill Me, Our Band Could Be Your Life, and Can't Stop Won't Stop, an intriguing oral history of the post-9/11 decline of the old-guard music industry and rebirth of the New York rock scene, led by a...
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  • Sublime: $5 at the Door by Cady, Ryan
    Ryan Cady

    Sublime: $5 at the Door

    CELEBRATE THE SOUNDS OF SOCAL'S FAVORITE SONS WITH THIS OFFICIAL ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL! After teenage pals Bud and Eric form a band in high school, it takes a fateful meeting with a new kid named Bradley to discover the blend of punk-rock and reggae...
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  • My Life in Dire Straits: The Inside Story of One of the Biggest Bands in Rock History by Illsley, John
    John Illsley

    My Life in Dire Straits: The Inside Story of One of the Biggest Bands in Rock History

    The first, and only, inside story of one of the greatest bands in rock history--Dire Straits--as told by founding member and bassist John Illsley One of the most successful music acts of all time, Dire Straits filled stadiums around the world. Their albums sold...
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  • Stevie Ray Vaughan: Caught in the Crossfire by Crawford, Bill
    Bill Crawford

    Stevie Ray Vaughan: Caught in the Crossfire

    Hailed as the greatest guitarist since Hendrix, virtuoso Stevie Ray Vaughan forged a distinctive style out of blues, rock and roll and R&B roots. A genuine guitar hero who crafted his attack in countless pass-the-hat jams in Austin bars and ended his career performing...
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  • I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie by Des Barres, Pamela
    Pamela Des Barres

    I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie

    The stylish, exuberant, and remarkably sweet confession of one of the most famous groupies of the 1960s and 70s is back in print in this new edition that includes an afterword on the author's last 15 years of adventures. As soon as she graduated...
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  • Loveless by McGonigal, Mike
    Mike McGonigal

    Loveless

    Loveless remains an enigma, 15 years after its release - an album so influential and groundbreaking that its chief creator, Kevin Shields, has been unable or unwilling to release an official follow-up. In his book, Mike McGonigal talks to all the members of My...
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  • Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir by Lanegan, Mark
    Mark Lanegan

    Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir

    This gritty bestselling memoir by the singer Mark Lanegan of Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age, and Soulsavers documents his years as a singer and drug addict in Seattle in the '80s and '90s. When Mark Lanegan first arrived in Seattle in the...
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  • Beatles Gear: All the Fab Four's Instruments from Stage to Studio by Babiuk, Andy
    Andy Babiuk

    Beatles Gear: All the Fab Four's Instruments from Stage to Studio

    This ultimate guide to all the gear used by the Beatles details exactly which guitars, drums, amplifiers, and keyboards the Fab Four embraced throughout their brief but revolutionary career, from their earliest days as the Quarry Men to the dissolution of the Beatles in...
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  • Lightning Striking: Ten Transformative Moments in Rock and Roll by Kaye, Lenny
    Lenny Kaye

    Lightning Striking: Ten Transformative Moments in Rock and Roll

    "We have performed side-by-side on the global stage through half a century.... In Lightning Striking, Lenny Kaye has illuminated ten facets of the jewel called rock and roll from a uniquely personal and knowledgeable perspective." -Patti SmithAn insider's take on the evolution and enduring...
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  • Levon: From Down in the Delta to the Birth of the Band and Beyond by Tooze, Sandra B.
    Sandra B. Tooze

    Levon: From Down in the Delta to the Birth of the Band and Beyond

    A dazzling, epic biography of Levon Helm--the beloved, legendary drummer and singer of the Band. He sang the anthems of a generation: "The Weight," "Up on Cripple Creek," and "Life Is a Carnival." Levon Helm's story--told here through sweeping research and interviews with close...
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  • Caravan of Pain by Alderman, Scott
    Scott Alderman

    Caravan of Pain

    Brace yourself for a roller coaster thrill ride as you join the Tattoo the Earth 2000 summer tour of America, the most insane tour ever inflicted on a continent. Featuring twenty of metal's biggest bands, including Metallica, Slipknot, and Slayer, plus Filip Leu, Sean...
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  • Paint by Sticker: Music Icons: Re-Create 10 Classic Photographs One Sticker at a Time! by Workman Publishing
    Workman Publishing

    Paint by Sticker: Music Icons: Re-Create 10 Classic Photographs One Sticker at a Time!

    Peel the sticker, place the sticker, and watch your painting come to life. Includes everything you need to complete 10 iconic musician portraits, and have a rocking good time doing it. Paint by Sticker: Music Icons includes everything you need to create ten vibrant,...
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  • Scar Tissue by Kiedis, Anthony
    Anthony Kiedis

    Scar Tissue

    In this "vivid and inspiring" New York Times bestseller (Newsweek), the Red Hot Chili Peppers' lead singer and songwriter shares a searingly honest account of life in the rock scene's fast lane--from the darkness into the light. In 1983, four self-described "knuckleheads" burst out...
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  • Hotel California: The True-Life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles, and T by Hoskyns, Barney
    Barney Hoskyns

    Hotel California: The True-Life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles, and T

    Hoskyns brings a genuine love as well as an outsider's keen eye to the rise and fall of the California scene. . . . This is a riveting story, sensitively told.-Anthony DeCurtis, Contributing Editor, Rolling StoneFrom enduring musical achievements to drug-fueled chaos and bed-hopping...
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  • The Meaning of Metallica: Ride the Lyrics by Irwin, William
    William Irwin

    The Meaning of Metallica: Ride the Lyrics

    A serious look at the lyrics of metal's biggest band, disentangling double meanings, explaining stories, uncovering sources, and illuminating themes such as hope, despair, rage, resilience, power, liberty, justice, love, death, and insanity. More than 40 years since their formation, and 125 million album...
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  • Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by McNeil, Legs
    Legs McNeil

    Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

    "Ranks up there with the great rock & roll books of all time."--Time Out New York "Lurid, insolent, disorderly, funny, sometimes gross, sometimes mean and occasionally touching . . . Resounds with authenticity."--The New York Times "No volume serves juicier dish on punk's New...
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  • The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour and Yellow Submarine by Spizer, Bruce
    Bruce Spizer

    The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour and Yellow Submarine

    The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour and Yellow Submarine is the latest installment in the Beatles Album Series by Beatles historian Bruce Spizer. The book covers the songs and projects undertaken by the Beatles shortly after completion of their album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club...
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  • Revenge of the She-Punks: A Feminist Music History from Poly Styrene to Pussy Riot by Goldman, Vivien
    Vivien Goldman

    Revenge of the She-Punks: A Feminist Music History from Poly Styrene to Pussy Riot

    As an industry insider and pioneering post-punk musician, Vivien Goldman's perspective on music journalism is unusually well-rounded. In Revenge of the She-Punks, she probes four themes--identity, money, love, and protest--to explore what makes punk such a liberating art form for women.With her visceral style,...
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  • Rainbow in the Dark: The Autobiography by Dio, Ronnie James
    Ronnie James Dio

    Rainbow in the Dark: The Autobiography

    Instant National Bestseller The long-awaited autobiography by one of heavy metal's most revered icons, treasured vocalists, and front man for three legendary bands--Rainbow, Black Sabbath, and Dio. Prior to his tragic death in 2010, Ronnie James Dio had been writing his autobiography, looking back...
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  • Beast: John Bonham and the Rise of Led Zeppelin by Kushins, C. M.
    C. M. Kushins

    Beast: John Bonham and the Rise of Led Zeppelin

    The first full-length narrative biography of Led Zeppelin's John Bonham, considered by many to be one of the greatest drummers in rock history, and a genuine wild man of epic (and sadly fatal) proportions. Beast: John Bonham and the Rise of Led Zeppelin is...
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  • From Cradle to Stage: Stories from the Mothers Who Rocked and Raised Rock Stars by Hanlon Grohl, Virginia
    Virginia Hanlon Grohl

    From Cradle to Stage: Stories from the Mothers Who Rocked and Raised Rock Stars

    Written by Virginia Grohl, the mother of Dave Grohl--former Nirvana drummer and current frontman for the Foo Fighters--From Cradle to Stage shares stories and exclusive photos featuring mothers of rock icons, the icons themselves, and their Behind the Music-style relationships While the Grohl family...
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  • Rolling Stones: Hot Stuff: The Ultimate Memorabilia Collection by Lee, Matt
    Matt Lee

    Rolling Stones: Hot Stuff: The Ultimate Memorabilia Collection

    Contributions from Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood Over 1,400 photographs, featuring many rare and previously unpublished items of priceless memorabilia Foreword by Craig Kallman, Chairman and CEO of Atlantic Records Covers the entire history of the band Afterword by Bill...
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