Hopkins, Jerry.
Summary: A biography of the rock guitarist whose short but powerful career was highlighted by a legendary performance at Woodstock in 1969.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Pub. 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HENDRIX, JIMI HOPSchemel, Patty
Summary: Hit So Hard begins with stories from a childhood informed by the AA meetings Schemel's parents hosted in the family living room. Their divorce triggered her rebellious adolescence and first forays into drinking at age 11, which coincided with her passion for punk rock and playing drums. Her efforts to come to terms with her sexuality further drove her memorably hard playing, and by the late...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCHEMEL, PATTY SCHMahin, Michael
Summary: Carlos Santana loved to listen to his father play el violín. It was a sound that filled the world with magic and love and feeling and healing--a sound that made angels real. Carlos wanted to make angels real, too. So he started playing music. Carlos tried el clarinete and el violín, but there were no angels. Then he picked up la guitarra. He took the soul of the Blues, the brains of Jazz, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC MAHSpringsteen, Bruce.
Summary: Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing the same honesty, humor, and originality found in his songs. He describes growing up Catholic in Freehold, New Jersey, amid the poetry, danger, and darkness that fueled his imagination, leading up to the moment he refers to as 'The Big Bang': seeing Elvis Presley's debut on The...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 SPRINGSTEEN, BRUCE SprEtheridge, Melissa
Summary: Etheridge has lived a life of many blessings-- but has also struggled mightily along the way. Changes in the music industry threated her livelihood; she was diagnosed with breast cancer; and she endured two contentious breakups, all under the scrutiny of the public eye. Then she lost her son Beckett to opioid addiction. Here Etheridge dives into how both joy and sorrow serve as catalysts for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ETHERIDGE, MELISSA ETHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B ETHERIDGE ETHFinet, Nicolas
Summary: A biography in comics of rock singer Janis Joplin, featuring highlights of her journey from childhood after the Second World War to her abrupt death in late 1970. Fed by the thirst for freedom of the Beat Generation and the desire for emancipation expressed by American youth in the early 1960s, Janis Joplin left for San Francisco, the epicenter of cultural innovation. There, she abandons...
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Publisher / Publication Date: NBM Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOPLIN, JANIS FINHanna, Kathleen
Summary: "An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre. Hey girlfriend I got a proposition, goes something like this: Dare ya to do what you want. Kathleen Hanna's rallying cry to feminists echoed far and wide through the punk scene of the '90s and beyond. Her band Bikini Kill embodies this iconic time, and today her personal yet feminist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2024
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Summary: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee presents reflections on her inner life from the unique perspectives of the cafes and cultural haunts she has visited and worked in around the world. --Publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMITH, PATTI SMICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Music SmithStine, Megan.
Summary: "Born in Gary, Indiana, on August 29, 1958, Michael Jackson was definitely not a regular kid. A superstar with The Jackson 5 before he was eight years old, he became the King of Pop as a solo artist. Michael was a creative--yet deeply troubled--genius who always remained devoted to his art right up until his death is 2009 before a much anticipated tour. He had a pitch-perfect voice and footwork...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A rare and personal portrait of a boy who becomes a musician, a husband, a rock star, a father and a songwriter whose words have touched millions. Cobain's story unfolds through his own narrative assembled from more than 25 hours of audiotaped conversations, never before made public.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2008
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC KURWilson, Ann
Summary: Sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson, two women who broke gender barriers in rock music, share their story, revealing their struggles with body image, relationships, and their place in the rock pantheon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: It Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.6 WILJones, Rickie Lee
Summary: "A tender and intimate memoir by one of the most remarkable, trailblazing, and tenacious women in music, the two-time Grammy Award-winning "premiere song-stylist and songwriter of her generation" (New Yorker), Rickie Lee Jones. Have you met Ms. Jones? One weekend night on primetime television, a then-unknown singer and vital part of the burgeoning Los Angeles jazz pop scene skyrocketed to fame...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JONES, RICKIE LEE JONOrbison, Roy
Summary: Chronicles the life and career of the influential rock 'n' roll pioneer, from his rise to stardom, to the tragedies that led to his obscurity, to his dramatic comeback and death at the age of fifty-two.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 921 ORBISON, ROY ORBBrownstein, Carrie
Summary: A "narrative of [rock guitarist and actor Brownstein's] escape from a turbulent family life into a world where music was the means toward self-invention, community, and rescue. Along the way, Brownstein chronicles the excitement and contradictions within the era's flourishing and fiercely independent music subculture, including experiences that sowed the seeds for the observational satire of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROWNSTEIN, CARRIE BROEtheridge, Melissa.
Summary: The Truth Is ... is a bold and unflinching account of an extraordinary life, described as only Melissa can: from her Kansas roots through her early love of music to her brilliant rise to stardom, becoming a female superstar in a male-dominated rock world. Melissa will openly discuss the massive impact of her public coming-out, a revelation that only increased her popularity and made her a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Villard Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ETHERIDGE, MELISSA ETHSummary: When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a gentle best friend. Through Priscilla's eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla's long courtship and turbulent marriage, from...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA PRI1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
Richards, Matt
Summary: "For the first time, readers have access to [an] ... account of the crucial moments leading up to Jackson's demise. Drawing on court documents and testimonials, [the book] presents a multi-perspective tracking of every individual involved and the part they played as the tragedy unfolded, examining forensically the mystery of the 83 minutes that elapsed from the moment Dr. Murray suggested he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2016
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Summary: "From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean-American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ZAUNER, MICHELLE ZAU1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 921 ZAUNER, MICHELLE ZAU
Bolden, Tonya
Summary: "Before there was Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Johnny Cash, there was Sister Rosetta Tharpe. The godmother of rock & roll started as a little girl from Arkansas with music in her air, in her hair, in her bones, wiggling her toes. With a big guitar in hand and a big voice in her soul, she grew into a rock & roll trailblazer in a time when women were rarely seen rocking out."--Front...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 THAMorrison, Simon Alexander
Summary: "Diva, heroine, icon, and-to the most devoted-a goddess. Stevie Nicks sings of spell casters and dream smiths, stars of the silver screen, her grandmother Alice and Alice in Wonderland, Joan of Arc, the power of sibyls and sylphs. This book tells her story, from the bleached Arizona landscape of her childhood to the strobe-lit Night of a Thousand Stevies celebrations, highlighting throughout...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NICKS, STEVIE MORBrownMark
Summary: "Prince's bassist BrownMark on growing up in Minneapolis, joining Prince and The Revolution, and his life in the purple kingdom"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROWNMARK BROMoore, Thurston
Summary: Thurston Moore moved to Manhattan's East Village in 1978 with a yearning for music. He wanted to be immersed in downtown New York's sights and sounds--the feral energy of its nightclubs, the angular roar of its bands, the magnetic personalities within its orbit. But more than anything, he wanted to make music--to create indelible sounds that would move, provoke, and inspire. His dream came to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023
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Summary: The co-founder of the Red Hot Chili Peppers chronicles his life from his birth in Australia and upbringing on the streets of Los Angeles through his rise to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019