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by
Travis Barker
(4,544)
Summary: After breaking out as the acclaimed drummer of the multi-platinum punk band Blink-182, everything changed for Travis Barker. But the dark side of rock stardom took its toll: his marriage, chronicled...
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Call #: B BARKER
Location: Adult Biographies
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Bill Janovitz
(83)
Summary: Leon Russell is an icon, but somehow is still an under-appreciated artist. He is spoken of in tones reserved not just for the most talented musicians, but also for the most complex and fascinating....
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Call #: B RUSSELL
Location: Adult Biographies
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by
Peter Guralnick
(8,806)
Summary: From the moment that he first shook up the world in the mid 1950s, Elvis Presley has been one of the most vivid and enduring myths of American culture. This is the first biography to go past that...
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Call #: B PRESLEY
Location: Adult Biographies
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Peter Frampton
(1,176)
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 co-founder of one of the first supergroups, Humble Pie. As part of a tight-knit...
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Call #: B FRAMPTON
Location: Adult Biographies
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by
Flea
(19,036)
Summary: Flea takes readers on a deeply personal and revealing tour of his formative years, spanning from Australia to the New York City suburbs to, finally, Los Angeles. Through hilarious anecdotes, poetical...
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Call #: B FLEA
Location: Adult Biographies
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Phil Collins
(6,832)
Summary: The Genesis front man and successful solo artist presents a reflective memoir that shares insights into the remarkable experiences behind many of his iconic songs and performances, discussing his...
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Call #: B COLLINS
Location: Adult Biographies
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Bruce Springsteen
(45,980)
Summary: Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing to these pages the same honesty, humor, and originality found in his songs. He...
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Call #: B SPRINGSTEEN
Location: Adult Biographies
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Sarah Jensen
(2,835)
Summary: In the first authorized biography of the musician best known as the lead vocalist in the bands Tool, A Perfect Circle, and Puscifer, as well as a successful vintner, gives unique insight into his history and career trajectory.
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Call #: B KEENAN
Location: Adult Biographies
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by
Corey Taylor
(1,976)
Summary: "Corey Taylor has had it. Had it with the vagaries of human behavior and life in this postmodern digital blanked-out waiting room that passes for a world. Reality TV, awful music, terrible drivers,...
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BOOK
Call #: B TAYLOR
Location: Adult Biographies
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by
Tina Turner
(5,935)
Summary: From her early years in Nutbush, Tennessee to her rise to fame alongside Ike Turner to her phenomenal success in the 1980s and beyond, Tina candidly examines her personal history, from her darkest...
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Call #: B TURNER
Location: Adult Biographies
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by
Michael Jackson
(5,268)
Summary: Michael Jackson's only autobiography, illustrated with rare photographs from Jackson family albums and Michael's personal photographic archives, as well as a drawing done by Michael exclusively for this book.
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Call #: B JACKSON
Location: Adult Biographies
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by
Peter Ames Carlin
(1,819)
Summary: Takes a look at the whole life of the Beatles star, casting new light on his years with the band Wings and wife, Linda McCartney, and revealing a man as haunted by his legacy--and particularly his...
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Call #: B MCCARTNEY
Location: Adult Biographies
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by
Patti Smith
(247,352)
Summary: In this memoir, singer-songwriter Patti Smith shares tales of New York City : the denizens of Max's Kansas City, the Hotel Chelsea, Scribner's, Brentano's and Strand bookstores and her new life in...
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Call #: B SMITH
Location: Adult Biographies
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by
Ozzy Osbourne
(26,881)
Summary: One of television's best loved personalities via the wildly successful hit MTV show The Osbournes, Ozzy tells about his days on the road and the heartbreak he suffered during those days of hard living.
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Call #: B OSBOURNE
Location: Adult Biographies
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by
Debbie Harry
(7,151)
Summary: Harry recounts her path from glorious commercial success to heroin addiction, the near-death of partner Chris Stein, a heart-wrenching bankruptcy, and Blondie's breakup as a band to her multifaceted...
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Call #: B HARRY
Location: Adult Biographies
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by
Tori Amos
(2,060)
Summary: Since the release of her first career-defining solo album, Tori Amos as been one of the music industry's most enduring and ingenious artists. From her unnerving depiction of sexual assault in "Me and...
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Call #: B AMOS
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Lenny Kravitz
(5,254)
Summary: Kravitz looks back at his life with candor, self-scrutiny, and humor. It's the story of a wildly creative kid who, despite tough struggles at school and extreme tension at home, finds salvation in...
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Call #: B KRAVITZ
Location: Adult Biographies
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by
Prince
(6,948)
Summary: An acclaimed musician, Prince Rogers Nelson was a visionary with an imagination deep enough to whip up whole worlds. But his most ambitious creative act was turning himself into one of the greatest...
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Call #: B PRINCE
Location: Adult Biographies
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by
Patti Smith
(14,903)
Summary: Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a year of solitary wandering. Unfettered...
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Call #: B SMITH
Location: Adult Biographies
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by
James Patterson
(8,579)
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...
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BOOK
Call #: B LENNON
Location: Adult Biographies
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by
Sinead O'Connor
(4,684)
Summary: Born in Dublin in 1966, O'Connor's childhood was marked by a painful home life, a disdain for schooling, run-ins with the law for her incessant petty thievery, and a burgeoning love for Bob Dylan's...
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Call #: B O'CONNOR
Location: Adult Biographies
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by
Elton John
(56,645)
Summary: Christened Reginald Dwight, he was a shy boy with Buddy Holly glasses who grew up in the London suburb of Pinner and dreamed of becoming a pop star. By the age of twenty-three he was performing his...
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Call #: B JOHN
Location: Adult Biographies
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by
Mike Allred , artist
(1,299)
Summary: As one of the most magnetic icons of modern pop culture, David Bowie seduced generations of fans with his music and counterculture persona. While Bowie's legacy as a musician is remarkable and...
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BOOK
Call #: B BOWIE
Location: Adult Biographies
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by
Ted Templeman
(521)
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...
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Call #: B TEMPLEMAN
Location: Adult Biographies
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by
Steve Van Zandt
(1,810)
Summary: What story begins in a bedroom in suburban New Jersey in the early '60s, unfolds on some of the country's largest stages, and then ranges across the globe, demonstrating over and over again how Rock...
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Call #: B VAN ZANDT
Location: Adult Biographies
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by
Laura Jane Grace
(8,706)
Summary: The provocative transgender advocate and lead singer of the punk rock band Against Me! provides a searing account of her search for identity and her true self.
BOOK
Call #: B GRACE
Location: Adult Biographies
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by
Holly George-Warren
(2,265)
Summary: This blazingly intimate biography of Janis Joplin establishes the Queen of Rock & Roll as the rule-breaking musical trailblazer and complicated, gender-bending rebel she was. Janis Joplin's first...
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Call #: B JOPLIN
Location: Adult Biographies
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(128)
Summary: Kurt Cobain burst into American consciousness with a vengeance with the release of Nevermind, an instant classic that defined a sound and a generation. Three years later, he was dead of suicide,...
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Call #: B COBAIN
Location: Adult Biographies
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by
Pete Townshend
(8,793)
Summary: The legendary lead guitarist and principal songwriter for The Who, one of the most influential rock-and-roll bands of all time, pens his own story.
BOOK
Call #: B TOWNSHEND
Location: Adult Biographies
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by
Neil Young
(10,485)
Summary: An iconic figure in the history of rock and pop culture (inducted not once but twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame), Neil Young has written his eagerly awaited memoir.
BOOK
Call #: B YOUNG
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Roger Daltrey
(3,981)
Summary: The front man of The Who draws on years of careful introspection in an anecdotal memoir of his rise from poverty to rock-and-roll stardom, sharing insights into the creative processes behind iconic hits and his relationship with Keith Moon.
BOOK
Call #: B DALTREY
Location: Adult Biographies
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by
Nikki Sixx
(1,862)
Summary: Born Franklin Carlton Feranna, Sixx was abandoned by his father and partly raised by his mother, a woman who was ahead of her time but deeply troubled. He lived with other family before being on his...
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Call #: B SIXX
Location: Adult Biographies
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by
Corey Taylor
(2,060)
Summary: In this book, Corey Taylor undertakes something never before attempted in the history of rock superstardom. He takes you with him as he journeys undercover through various ghostbusting groups who do...
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BOOK
Call #: B TAYLOR
Location: Adult Biographies
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by
Ben Folds
(4,471)
Summary: Ben Folds is a celebrated American singer-songwriter, beloved for songs such as "Brick," "You Don't Know Me," "Rockin' the Suburbs," and "The Luckiest," and is the former frontman of the alternative...
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BOOK
Call #: B FOLDS
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Bobbie Brown
(3,573)
Summary: "An uncensored Hollywood tell-all filled with explicit tales of love, sex, and revenge from the video vixen made famous by Warrant's rock anthem "Cherry Pie.""-- Provided by publisher.
BOOK
Call #: B BROWN
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Bono
(10,442)
Summary: Bono, artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2, has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, this is the story of the remarkable life he's lived, the...
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Call #: B BONO
Location: Adult Biographies
copies in: 1 of 1
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