Burgess, 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 BURWelch, Chris
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Publisher / Publication Date: Backbeat Books 2012
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 781.66 THE WHO WELPrice, 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 PRIHook, 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 HOOStark, Steven D.
Summary: The band that changed popular culture forever has become so shrouded in cultural mythology that it is difficult today to really understand how or why. Stark puts their impact into perspective by revealing both the personal details and the larger events, examining the ways in which the Beatles' own lives were inextricably tied to the cultural, youth, and gender revolutions they helped create and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.6 STAPatterson, 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 PATConnolly, 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 CONMarshall, Ben
Summary: Blending memoir, history, and music, The Who explores the influences that shaped the band and its members, from Britain’s post-war austerity to Elvis, Lonnie Donegan, and American youth counter-culture. It follows them through the Mod and Pop years and the furiously fast sixties, and charts the hit singles—"My Generation," "I’m a Boy,, "The Kids Are Alright," and "Pinball Wizard." It revels in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperDesign, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 781.6 MARThomson, Graeme
Summary: As a Beatle, Harrison underwent a bewilderingly compressed early adulthood, buffeted by unprecedented levels of fame and success. The notoriously shy performer mostly ceded the spotlight to his more flamboyant bandmates John, Paul, and Ringo, but after the band’s breakup, Harrison charted a new path all his own. In this elegant, in-depth biography, renowned music journalist Graeme Thomson...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARRISON, GEORGE THOClash (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 CLAIdol, 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 IDOFrampton, Peter
Summary: Frampton was on a path to stardom from an early age, first as the lead singer and guitarist of the Herd and then as cofounder of one of the first supergroups, Humble Pie. As part of a tight-knit collective of British '60s musicians Frampton was touring incessantly and finding new sounds with the talk box, which would become his signature guitar effect. Here he discusses his resilient life and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRAMPTON, PETER FRASavage, Jon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.484 SAVDakers, 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 BEASpitz, Bob
Summary: "From the author of the definitive New York Times bestselling history of the Beatles comes the authoritative account of the group Jack Black and many others call the greatest rock band of all time, arguably the most successful, and certainly one of the most notorious. Rock stars. Whatever those words mean to you, chances are, they owe a debt to Led Zeppelin. No one before or since has lived the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 SPILajiness, Katie.
Summary: Meet popular boy band One Direction! In this engaging title, readers will learn about One Direction's beginnings in the United Kingdom and follow the band's success from their start on The X Factor, to their albums Up All Night, Take Me Home, Four, and the best selling Midnight Memories. The band's many awards are covered, as is its charitable work with organizations such as Rays of Sunshine....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Publishing 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ONETow, Stephen
Summary: "London, Reign Over Me captures all of the excitement, freedom of expression, love, wild abandon, and the moment of cultural transformation that gave us classic rock. Stephen Tow draws from an array of sources, including influential London music newspapers as well as original interviews with key participants in the scene"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 781.6609 TOWHughes, 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 HUGPatterson, 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 Beatles'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATSpitz, Marc.
Summary: This book ia a biography and cultural examination of the Rolling Stones' frontman Mick Jagger's spectacular life and the cultural revolution he led. As the Rolling Stones' legendary front man Mick Jagger remains an enigma. He hasn't given an in-depth interview for a decade and a half and never commented on his friend and partner, Keith Richard's often critical biography. Drawing on firsthand...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JAGGER, MICK SPICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Music SpitzMason, Nick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.4216 MASDavis, 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 BEAJones, 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 JONNorman, 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