Smiley, Tavis

Summary: "A powerful chronicle of the sixteen weeks leading up to King of Pop Michael Jackson's death. Michael Jackson's final months were like the rest of his short and legendary life: filled with deep lows and soaring highs, a constant hunt for privacy, and the pressure and fame that made him socially fragile and almost--ultimately--unable to live,"--NoveList.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JACKSON, MICHAEL SMI

Summary: "Elvis by the Presleys is the most revealing and poignant video portrait we will ever see of the artist as husband, father and friend. As never before, Priscilla Presley and Lisa Marie Presley, along with members of Elvis' family and extended family, freely share their own stories, emotions and intimate memories on camera, and they allow us to enjoy home-movie footage of Elvis never before...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony BMG Music Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC ELV

Summary: A documentary film about the life and times of rock singer Janis Joplin, presented via a series of letters Joplin wrote home over a span of years, read by Chan Marshall. Includes interviews with musicians P!nk, Kris Kristofferson, Melissa Etheridge, Bob Weir, Juliette Lewis, Dick Cavett, D.A. Pennebaker and the Joplin family.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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

Davis, Stephen

Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author, the complete story of the last rock supergroup--from their drug-fueled blast-off in the 1980s to the turbulent life of legendary singer Axl Rose and his fifteen-year, multi-million dollar effort to make the perfect hardrock album.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.4216 DAV

Davis, Stephen

Summary: An in-depth portrait of the classic rock artist includes coverage of such topics as her role in the stardom of Fleetwood Mac, the affairs that inspired her greatest songs, her struggles with addiction and her successful solo career. By the author of Hammer of the Gods.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NICKS, STEVIE DAV

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.166 ELV

Finet, 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 FIN

Schilling, Jerry.

Summary: A member of Elvis Presley's "Memphis Mafia" describes his long-time friendship with the legendary singer, tracing their relationship from his first meeting as a child, through his years of living and working with Presley, to Elvis's tragic death.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PRESLEY, ELVIS SCH

Summary: A documentary on Elvis Presley consisting of interviews, rare home movies, photographs and recordings recounting Elvis early life up to his homecoming concert in Tupelo, MS in 1956.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Michael Rose Productions 2008

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC ELV

Williamson, Joel.

Summary: In Elvis Presley: A Southern Life, one of the most admired Southern historians of our time takes on one of the greatest cultural icons of all time. The result is a masterpiece: a vivid, gripping biography, set against the rich backdrop of Southern society--indeed, American society--in the second half of the twentieth century.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PRESLEY, ELVIS WIL

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Music Presley