Guralnick, Peter.

Summary: The author of Last Train to Memphis brings us the life of Sam Phillips, the visionary genius who singlehandedly steered the revolutionary path of Sun Records. The music that Phillips shaped in his tiny Memphis studio, with artists as diverse as Elvis Presley, B.B. King, Howlin' Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ike Turner, and Johnny Cash, introduced a sound that had never been heard before. He brought...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 Phillips 2015

Posner, Gerald.

Summary: A history of the legendary music label offers profiles of the artists, many from Detroit's inner-city projects, who achieved fame, detailing their rise to success, the inability of many to handle stardom, and their conflicts.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.644 POS

Summary: Aspiring filmmakers Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert set out to find a subject for their underground movie, one that will reflect the way it feels to be young and dissatisfied in postwar London. This unlikely partnership of two men from vastly different backgrounds was inspired by the burgeoning youth culture of the early 1960s. Lambert and Stamp searched for months and finally found in a band...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LAM

Templeman, Ted

Summary: "This autobiography (as told to Greg Renoff) recounts Templeman's remarkable life from child jazz phenom in Santa Cruz, California, in the 1950s to Grammy-winning music executive during the '70s and '80s. Along the way, Ted details his late '60s stint as an unlikely star with the sunshine pop outfit Harpers Bizarre and his grind-it-out days as a Warner Bros. tape listener, including the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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Mansfield, Ken.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadman & Holman 2000

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Boyd, Joe

Summary: When Muddy Waters came to London at the start of the 1960s, a kid from Boston called Joe Boyd was his tour manager; when Dylan went electric at the Newport Festival, Joe Boyd was plugging in his guitar; when the summer of love got going, Joe Boyd was running UFO, the coolest club in London; when a bunch of club regulars called Pink Floyd recorded their first single, Joe Boyd was the producer;...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Serpent's Tail 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 BOY

Mottola, Tommy.

Summary: One of the most powerful, famous executives in the history of the music industry, Mottola was there from Elvis to the iPod. Now, Mottola recounts how a street kid from the Bronx became the music industry's most creative and successful CEO.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2012

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 781.640 MOT

Ramone, Phil.

Summary: A successful producer presents an insider's tour of the recording business, tracing his early days working with commercials and jazz before working with such artists as Frank Sinatra and Paul Simon.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 RAM

Charnas, Dan

Summary: "Equal parts musicology, biography, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the invention of a new kind of beat by the most underappreciated musical genius of our time"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022

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Summary: The show chronicles the unlikely partnership between Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine. This revealing, compelling and often gritty story takes place in recording studios, humble homes and massive mansions, in criminal courts and in the highest corridors of corporate power. Featuring interviews with those who worked closely with Jimmy and Dr. Dre, including Bono, David Geffen, and more. The docu-series...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DEF

Sachs, Lloyd

Summary: T Bone Burnett offers the first critical appreciation of Burnett s wide-ranging contributions to American music, his passionate advocacy for analog sound, and the striking contradictions that define his maverick artistry. Lloyd Sachs highlights all the important aspects of Burnett s musical pursuits, from his early days as a member of Bob Dylan s Rolling Thunder Revue and his collaboration with...

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Texas Press 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BURNETT, T BONE SAC