Dakers, Diane.
Summary: Chronicles the story of the British band through its sensational successes of the 1960s and the four solo careers its breakup spawned in 1970, looking at the band's formation and how its music defined a generation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crabtree Pub. Co. 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BEALennon, Cynthia.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 782.42 LennoJones, Lesley-Ann
Summary: "Late on December 8th, 1980, the world abruptly stopped turning for millions, as news broke that the world's most beloved musician had been gunned down in cold blood in New York City. The most iconic Beatle left behind an unrivaled body of music and legions of faithful disciples--yet his profound legacy has brought with it as many questions and contradictions as his music has provided truths...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LENNON, JOHN JONConnolly, Ray
Summary: An intimate yet unsparing biography of one of the greatest and most mythologised musicians of the twentieth century. John Lennon was a rock star, a school clown, a writer, a wit, an iconoclast, a sometime peace activist and finally an eccentric millionaire. He was also a Beatle - his plain-speaking and impudent rejection of authority catching, and eloquently articulating, the group's moment in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LENNON, JOHN CONSummary: While his former Pink Floyd band-mates are now global superstars, Syd Barrett remains an enigma, and prior to his sad passing in 2006, was a complete recluse. But it was Syd who originally formed the group, and immediately became its chief songwriter and lead guitarist. Some would even claim he remained the force who dominated the band throughout its most creative period. Features rare live and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC SYDSting
Summary: Having been a songwriter most of my life, condensing my ideas and emotions into short rhming couplets and setting them to music, I had never really considered writing a book. But upon arriving at the reflective age of fifty, I found myself drawn, for the first time, to write long passages that were as stimulating and intriguing to me as any songwrting I had ever done. And so Broken Music began...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STING STIHook, Peter
Summary: The bassist for the band Joy Division, the godfathers of alternative rock who reinvented music in the post-punk era, recounts how four young men from Manchester rose from the punk scene to create music that would define a generation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: It Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.6 HOOSummary: "An ecstatic voyage through the creative and spiritual universe of David Bowie, Moonage Daydream is a fittingly unclassifiable tribute to the shape-shifting rock iconoclast and his singular sound and vision. Exploding the conventions of the music documentary, director Brett Morgen remixes dazzling, never-before-seen footage of the artist throughout his career, reveling in his otherworldly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The story of the extraordinary final chapter of Freddie Mercury's life and how, after his death, Queen staged one of the biggest concerts in history, to celebrate his life and challenge the prejudices around HIV/AIDS.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC FREGutman, Dan
Summary: Paige and Turner have collected some of the most unusual and surprising facts about the Beatles, from their childhoods and early days as musicians to the formation and rise of the band to become the greatest of all time.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J 782.42 GUTSummary: Directed by filmmaker Peter Jackson, this is a three-part documentary series that takes audiences back in time to the band₂s intimate recording sessions. The documentary showcases the warmth, camaraderie, and creative genius that defined the legacy of the iconic foursome, and is compiled from over 60 hours of unseen footage shot in January 1969 (by Michael Lindsay-Hogg) and more than 150 hours...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BEACopies Available at Woodmere
4 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BEACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV BEABurgess, Tim
Summary: The Charlatans. Madchester. Britpop. Taking on the world. Here are the highs, the lows, the joys, the agonies, and the stories of what it's like to be in a rock band, as told by front man and survivor, Tim Burgess.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BURGESS, TIM BURAsher, Peter
Summary: A legendary record producer and performer takes readers on an alphabetical journey of insights into the music of the Beatles and individual reminiscences of John, Paul, George, and Ringo. Peter Asher met the Beatles in the spring of 1963, the start of a lifelong association with the band and its members. He had a front-row seat as they elevated pop music into an art form, and he was present at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 ASHIdol, Billy.
Summary: In this bold and candid memoir, music legend Billy Idol shares his life story, from his childhood in England to his rise to fame during the height of the punk pop revolution, revealing intimate details about the sex, drugs, and rock and roll that he is so fabulously famous for-all told in his own utterly indelible voice. An integral member of the punk rock revolution whose music crossed over...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone, published by Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 IDOL, BILLY IDOHughes, Glenn.
Summary: Hughes recounts his personal life and professional career--including both group and solo projects--as a singer, bassist, and songwriter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jawbone 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HUGHES, GLENN HUGClash (Musical group)
Summary: "The unique story of the Clash, by the Clash. The Clash were a band like no other. Pioneers of British punk rock, their incendiary gigs, intelligent songwriting, definitive style and passionate idealism caught the spirit of the times and made them a worldwide phenomenon ..."--from inside jacket cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2008
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 782.42 CLARappaport, Doreen
Summary: Introduces the life of John Lennon who, as a member of the Beatles and as a solo artist, sought to make the world a better and more peaceful place than the one in which he was raised
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LENPatterson, James
Summary: "John Lennon was one of the world's most influential people. Mark David Chapman was one of the most invisible. By the end of 1980, the Beatles had been broken up for a decade -- a decade John Lennon had spent in search of his true identity: singer, songwriter, activist, burn out. "It's the perfect time to be coming back," he declared. Except that Lennon was a marked man. As early as the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LENNON, JOHN PATCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B LENNON PATDavis, Arthur.
Summary: This book presents memorable sayings by - and about - the Beatles, with a brillant array of photographs documenting the birth, life and passing of a music phenomenon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crescent Books 1995
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 781.66 BEAPrice, Simon
Summary: A complete and truly unique biography of Robert Smith and company, The Cure, chronicling their 40+ year history with hundreds of entries in A to Z fashion. Definitive and deeply researched, Curepedia will surprise and inform fans everywhere as they await The Cure's highly anticipated next album release. The Cure remain, 40 plus years into their career, one of the biggest rock bands in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 PRINorman, Philip
Summary: "Despite being hailed as one of the best guitarists of his era, George Harrison, particularly in his early decades, battled feelings of inferiority. He was often the butt of jokes from his bandmates owing to his lower-class background and, typically, was allowed to contribute only one or two songs per Beatles album out of the dozens he wrote. Now, acclaimed Beatles biographer Philip Norman...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Bego, Mark
Summary: "The colorful and kaleidoscopic life of one of the world's most original and talented musical artists." -- inside front jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Brown, Craig
Summary: Draws on previously unexamined lore and celebrity testimony in a kaleidoscopic group portrait of the Fab Four that reveals lesser-known examples of their indelible and enduring cultural impact.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020