NOFX The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories by NOFX
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Category: Music
NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories is the first tell-all autobiography from one of the world's most influential and controversial punk bands. Fans and non-fans alike will be shocked by the stories of murder, suicide, addiction, counterfeiting, riots, bondage, terminal illness, the Yakuza, and ...Show more
Revolution by Philip Parker
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Category: Music
The twentieth century was an age of revolutions. As the pace of social and economic change quickened and the savagery of technological warfare destabilized societies, intolerable pressures were created which exploded into violent political movements. These overthrew long-standing regimes and radically r ...Show more
The Show That Never Ends - The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock by David Weigel
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Category: Music | Reading Level: General Adult
The Show That Never Ends is the behind-the-scenes story of the extraordinary rise and fall of progressive ("prog") rock, epitomised by such classic, chart-topping bands as Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull and Emerson Lake & Palmer, and their successors Rush, Styx and Asia. With inside access to ...Show more
Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy by Mike Love
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Category: Music
Mike Love is a founding member of the Beach Boys and the lead singer and lyricist of their biggest hits. With their lush vocals and endlessly inventive arrangements, the band forged art from songs about cars, surfing and first love. But beneath the Beach Boys' wholesome appearance lurked darker truths: ...Show more
The Gospel Side of Elvis by Joe Moscheo
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Category: Music
Gospel music was a significant part of not only who Elvis became as a man, but as an artist as well. As Elvis mania continues to consume generation after generation throughout the world, fans still crave new insights into the person of Elvis Presley. This book takes a look at his roots and the role of g ...Show more
Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol by Steve Jones
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Category: Music
Foreword by Chrissie HyndeWithout the Sex Pistols there would be no Punk. And without Steve Jones there would be no Sex Pistols. It was Steve who formed Kutie Jones and his Sex Pistols, the band that eventually went on to become the Sex Pistols, with his schoolmate Paul Cook and who was its original lea ...Show more
The Life of a Song by Jan Dalley; David Cheal
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Category: Music
When great songs have been written and released, they often take on a life of their own, reshaped and re-imagined. The Life Of A Song is a compilation of weekly columns written £or FT Weekend, containing the biographies of 50 songs that have been born, reborn, sometimes hideously mangled, but often rein ...Show more
Work Shy ( Workshy ) by Dave Graney
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Category: Music
Following up his 'musical memoir' 1001 Australian Nights (2011), legendary Australian showman Dave Graney returns to the page with a more autobiographical take on his remarkable life. It's half written by Dave Graney, the consummate performer and half-written by Dave Graney, the mere mortal.The trick is ...Show more
Soul Survivor: A Biography of Al Green by Jimmy McDonough
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Category: Music
With songs like "Love and Happiness," "I'm Still in Love with You," and "Tired of Being Alone," Al Green is considered by many to be the greatest soul singer of all time. He has sold more than 20 million records, been sampled by countless hip-hop artists, and even had President Obama singing his tunes. ...Show more
Hans Ulrich Obrist - A Brief History of New Music by Lionel Bovier
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Category: Music | Series: Documents
Following the success of Hans Ulrich Obrist's "A Brief History of Curating," this publication gathers the influential curator's interviews with some of the foremost musicians and composers of the 1950s-1990s. It brings together leading avant-garde composers of the early postwar period such as Elliot Car ...Show more
Bon: The Last Highway: The Untold Story of Bon Scott and AC/DC's Back In Black by Jesse Fink
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Category: Music
In the early hours of 19 February 1980, Bon Scott, lead singer of the rock band AC/DC, left The Music Machine in Camden, London, with a man called Alistair Kinnear, whereupon he lost consciousness and was left to sleep in Alistair's Renault 5, parked outside Alistair's East Dulwich apartment. That even ...Show more
I Am Brian Wilson: The genius behind the Beach Boys by Brian Wilson
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Category: Music
'My life has been written about over and over again, and that's mostly okay with me. Other people can talk about my life. Sometimes they'll get it right and sometimes they'll get it wrong. For me, when I think back across my own life, there are so many things that are painful. Sometimes I don't like dis ...Show more