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Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (70 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A documentary film that covers the years that the future members of Led Zep were struggling in the session studios and amateur band scenes of the 1960s, moving through the modest success of outfits like The Yardbirds and Band Of Joy and culminating in Led Zeppelin's first two albums as a band verging on huge global domination.
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (56 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Features rare live and studio performances from this hugely influential and legendary musician, interspersed with the independent review and critique of a panel of esteemed experts and close confidantes. Included are rare performances of these Syd Barrett classics : Arnold Layne, See Emily Play, Bike, Interstellar Overdrive, Apples and Oranges, Jugband Blues, Octopus, Terrapin, Dominoes, Opel, Baby Lemonade and more
7) Life
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Pub. Date
2010
Description
Autobiography of the guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards. With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards lived the original rock and roll life. He tells his story of life in the crossfire hurricane; his listening obsessively to Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records, learning guitar and forming a band with Mick Jagger and Brian Jones, the Rolling Stones' first fame and the notorious drug busts that led to...
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Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
311 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
The British Invasion musician discusses his love/hate relationship with America, from his first U.S. tour in the early 1960s to being nearly murdered during a botched robbery in New Orleans in 2004.
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jeff Beck is one of the most pioneering and innovative guitar players of rock. This release charts his career from early days learning guitar solos with Jimmy Page, through his band, the Yardbirds, the Jeff Beck Group and his multidimensional solo albums. Beck's interest in both guitar music and hot rods is studied through interviews, and his musical voyage is demonstrated through contributions from many of his fellow musicians and contemporaries....
10) David Bowie
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"As a child, young David had a head full of songs and ideas. He was inspired by the pop and mod scenes in Britain to pick up the saxophone. After earning his stripes in some of the coolest bands in London, David splashed onto the solo scene. His songwriting talent and musical skill made him one of rock and roll's all-time greatest artists."--Amazon
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
498 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"More than twelve years ago, Robbie Williams and Chris Heath published a ground-breaking memoir, Feel, about Robert P. Williams' rise to fame, a book that was met with worldwide acclaim, from critics and fans alike. Since that time, Robbie has released six solo albums, reunited with his old band Take That and, in the wake of his twelfth UK number-one album, has returned to the stage with a triumphant summer-long stadium tour. For Reveal, bestselling...
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Starting with his own unlikely beginnings in Middle England, John Illsley recounts the rise of Dire Straits from humble origins in London's spit-and-sawdust pubs to the best-known venues in the world, the working men's clubs to Madison Square Garden, sharing gigs with wild punk bands to the Live Aid stage at Wembley until, ultimately, the shattering demands of touring on a global scale and living life in the spotlight took their inevitable toll.
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"The definitive biography of George Michael, offering an expansive look at the troubled life of the legendary singer, songwriter, and pop superstar" --
George Michael was an extravagantly gifted, openhearted soul singer whose work was both pained and smolderingly erotic. He was a songwriter of true craft and substance, and his music swept the world, starting in the mid-1980s. His fabricated image--that of a hypermacho sex god--loomed large in the...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The documentary about the ailing-yet-ferocious Ginger Baker, the brilliant and wildly self-destructive drummer for Cream and Blind Faith. An almost impossible man to be around, he allows the director unprecedented access--even if he strikes him violently on the nose with his cane on the final day of filming.
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Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
391 pages ; 24 cm
Description
A renowned pop music scholar presents a dazzling biography of the Bee Gees--Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb, which is an extraordinary human story of career highs and lows that shows, even in the Gibbs' darkest times, their music was rarely out of the charts.
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