Summary: 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 SYDSummary: Fishbone rose to become one of the most original bands of the last 25 years. With a blistering combination of punk and funk, they demolished the walls of genre and challenged the racial stereotypes and political order of the music industry and the nation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC EVESummary: As the founding member, lyricist, composer and creative force behind Pink Floyd, this powerful film presents Waters powerful music in stunning form and highlights its' message of human rights, liberty, and love. Based around his acclaimed, sold-out worldwide tour of 2017-18, comprising a total of 156 shows to 2.3 million people across the globe, it features classic songs from The Dark Side of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: In celebration of the 45th anniversary of The Dark Side of the Moon, Bill Kopp explores the ingenuity with which Pink Floyd rebranded itself following the 1968 departure of Syd Barrett. Not only did the band survive Barrett's departure, but it went on to release landmark albums that continue to influence generations of musicians and fans. Reinventing Pink Floyd follows the path taken by the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.6 KOPJohn, Elton.
Summary: 17 of Elton's very best, including: Bennie and the Jets * Candle in the Wind * Goodbye Yellow Brick Road * I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues * Rocket Man (I Think It's Gonna Be a Long Long Time) * Tiny Dancer * Your Song * and more.
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Hal Leonard Pub. 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 784.54 JOHSummary: A collection of Bruce Springsteen's music videos from 1978 to 2000, covering his albums Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978), The River (1980), Nebraska (1982), Born in the USA (1984), Tunnel of Love (1987), Human Touch (1992), Lucky Town (1992), and The Ghost of Tom Joad (1995), as well as his many soundtrack appearances in the late 1990's.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Music Video 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: It's a fast-paced, all-star reunion that spotlights performances by the biggest acts ever to come out of Detroit, including vintage footage of the groups from the Sixties and Seventies, a look behind the scenes at the songwriters who brought the Motown sound to fame, and a moving tribute to the man who started it all, Barry Gordy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: Seventeen of the greatest songs ever performed by the Grateful Dead. Our one-of-a-kind album-matching folio includes multiple pages of color photos featuring the Grateful Dead in performance and a few candid shots spanning more than two decades.
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Publications 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 784.54 GRAMorrison, Van
Contents: A sense of wonder -- Astral weeks -- Beautiful vision -- Bright side of the road -- Brown eyed girl -- Checkin' it out -- Cold wind in August -- Domino -- Enlightenment -- Full force gale -- Gloria -- Have I told you lately? -- Into the mystic -- Jackie Wilson said (I'm in heaven when you smile) -- Kingdom hall -- Moondance -- Queen of the slipstream -- Rave on, John Donne -- Real real gone --...
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Polygram Music Pub. Group 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.66 MORTaylor, James
Contents: Anywhere like heaven -- Blossom -- The blues is just a bad dream -- Brighten your night with my day -- Carolina on my mind -- Circle round the sun -- Country road -- Don't talk now -- Fire and rain -- Knocking 'round the zoo -- Lo and behold -- Night owl -- Oh baby don't loose your lip on me -- Oh Susanna -- Rainy day man -- Something in the way she moves -- Something's wrong -- Steam roller --...
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: 1972
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.4 TAYSummary: Martin Scorsese's pseudo-documentary film, composed of both fictional and non-fictional material, about Bob Dylan's legendary 1975 tour, which featured a band of troubadours including Joan Baez, Allen Ginsberg, and Joni Mitchell, and blends behind-the-scenes archival footage, interviews, and narrative mischief.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROLSummary: "As iconic a group as has ever existed, The Velvet Underground were so far ahead of their time, musically, visually and culturally, it's as if they were dropped, ready formed, into New York's avant-garde art scene, from a parallel universe. And in addition to their unique imagery, so perfectly designed by maverick artist and impresario Andy Warhol, their experiments with form and sound that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC VELSummary: For three days in the summer of 1969, a rock concert was held on an upstate New York farm, and 400,000 people attended -- far more than were anticipated, far more than paid, far more than could be fed or sheltered or cared for after injuries or drug overdoses. It rained, there was mud, all traffic in and out was gridlocked, and the music continued, night and day. "Woodstock Nation" existed for...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Pictures 2009
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD WOOYoung, Neil
Summary: All of Neil Young's greatest hits and most influential songs compiled in one amazing collection.
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred Publishing 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 784.54 YOUSummary: This unique documentary depicts the Pink Floyd band's epic rise to fame under Barrett's influence to his premature departure in a drug-induced haze and ensuing psychological problems.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: NBD TV 2004
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC PINSummary: Rutland Weekend Television takes a look at the Pre-fab Four: Dirk, Barry, Stig and Nasty; better known as the Rutles. This documentary follows their career from their early days in Liverpool and Hamburg's infamous Rat-Keller, to their amazing worldwide success. A parody of Beatlemania and the many serious documentaries made about the Beatles. Includes the 2002 "sequel" constructed mostly of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Video 2023
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY RUTClapton, Eric.
Contents: After midnight -- Anyday -- Badge -- Bell Bottom blues -- Blues power -- Born under a bad sign -- Bottle of red wine -- Carnival -- Comin' home -- Crossroads -- Do what you like -- Easy now -- Got to get better in a little while -- Have you ever loved a woman -- Hello old friend -- I feel free -- I shot the sheriff -- I've told you for the last time -- Key to the highway -- Lay down Sally --...
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Chappell/Intersong Music Group--USA 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.4 CLA1 available in Oversize, Call number: 782.4 CLA
Summary: "From rock's backpages, the online library of rock and roll. Comes this anthology of timeless rock writing from the good to the bad to the plain ugly. The sound and the fury spans four decades and comes at rock and roll from all angles, among the pieces ..."--BOOK JACKET.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780 SOUBolden, 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 THASummary: A portrait of musical iconoclast David Johansen from Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi. From his days leading The New York Dolls to his reinvention as lounge lizard Buster Poindexter, David Johansen is a chameleonic one-of-a-kind performer. Featuring a live performance at Cafe Carlyle in New York City, where he performs as Poindexter singing the Johansen songbook, along with new and archival...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Jeff Beck is a true rock legend. From his time with the Yardbirds in the sixties, through the Jeff Beck Group and throughout his solo career, his unique guitar style and constant desire to explore new musical areas and sounds have won him the admiration of his peers and the adoration of legions of fans. In 2007, Jeff Beck performed a series of concerts at the renowned Ronnie Scott's club in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008