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1) Rock 'n' Reno: a history of the rock bands in Reno, Nevada fom the early '60's to the early '80's
Author
Publisher
Wordpress
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The ‘60’s, ‘70’s and ‘80’s saw an emergence of rock bands in the U.S., and around the world. Reno was no exception. Influenced by the “British Invasion”, many started out as home-grown garage bands. Some lasted longer than others, some morphed into different iterations as musicians came and went. And, some of the musicians had careers that reached the big time. This is the definitive story of the bands that came and went during that...
Author
Publisher
A TarcherPerigee book
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Matthew Santoro's originality and humor has attracted millions of fans, making him a beloved YouTube star. His weekly videos on amazing and little-known facts are eagerly anticipated by his many subscribers and followers around the world. In his first-ever book, Matthew's love of weird and wacky knowledge explodes with new facts and stories from around the planet, and beyond. Surprising, and always entertaining, Mind = Blown offers even more of Matthew's...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"When I started to write this book, I was hoping to draw in detail what I'd previously only sketched in songs. The people, places, and possibilities in my life. Surrender is a word freighted with meaning for me. Growing up in Ireland in the seventies with my fists up (musically speaking), it was not a natural concept. A word I only circled until I gathered my thoughts for the book. I am still grappling with this most humbling of commands. In the band,...
Author
Publisher
Crown Archetype
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A behind-the-scenes look at The Smiths, one of the most respected indie rock bands in music history, recreates the story of four working-class kids from a northern English city who changed the music world and the lives of their fans.
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"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 world. With 12 studio albums, tours that pack stadiums all over the world—including their recent sold out series across North America in Spring/Summer 2023—they were the first alternative band to be inducted into...
Author
Publisher
Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Twenty years ago, Barney the Dinosaur told the nation's children they were special. We're still paying the price. From "one of the funniest writers in America" comes a collection of stories culled from the front lines of the millennial culture wars (Jimmy So, Daily Beast). Rife with failing rock bands, student loans, and participation trophies, Spoiled Brats is about a generation of narcissists -- and the well-meaning boomers who made them that...
9) Tommy Land
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
I am Tommy Lee, born Thomas Lee Bass in Athens, Greece, on October 3, 1962, and raised in a suburb of California by an American father and a Greek mother. At seventeen, I joined Mötley Crüe and we became one of the baddest-ass rock bands in history. We sold over 40 million albums, we wreaked havoc, we scared parents, and we titillated too many fathers' daughters. I've been married three times: once for just a few days to a Penthouse Pet, for seven...
10) Rock of ages
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Four of Dressler's old gangster colleagues have put together a national tour of once-popular rock bands they own a piece of: three nights of concerts by guys (and a few gals) who were big shots back in the 1960s and 1970s, and who are now hoping for one more gasp of glory with this nostalgia exhibition. The Rock of Ages tour has proved itself to be anything but a love fest: plenty of the bandmates have been feuding for forty years, and-perhaps unsurprisingly-drugs...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A veteran music journalist explores how four legendary rock bands—KISS, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, and Starz—laid the foundation for two diametrically opposed subgenres: hair metal in the '80s and grunge in the '90s. It was the age when heavy-footed, humorless dinosaurs roamed the hard-rock landscape. But that all changed when into these dazed and confused mid-'70s strut-ted four flamboyant bands that reveled in revved-up anthems and flaunted a...
Author
Publisher
Music Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Fully updated edition of the bestselling and first biography on one of modern rock s most influential figures. The Foo Fighters emerged from the morass of suicide and potent musical legacy that was Nirvana to establish themselves against all odds as one of the most popular rock bands in the world. Deflecting early critical disdain, Dave Grohl has single-handedly reinvented himself and cemented his place in the rock pantheon. This is his story, from...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The legendary singer-songwriter of Bad Religion, one of America's most significant punk bands, recounts his life before and during L.A. punk's early years, detailing his observations on the genre's explosive growth and evolution.
"A historical memoir and cultural criticism of punk rock’s evolution, by the legendary singer-songwriter of Bad Religion Greg Graffin is the lead vocalist and songwriter of Bad Religion, recently described as “America's...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The definitive, no-holds-barred biography of John Entwistle, The Who's legendary bass guitarist … It is an unequivocal fact that in terms of rock bands, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Who represent Year Zero; the beginning of all things, ground-breakers all. To that incontrovertible end, John Entwistle— the Who's beloved bassist— remains an enigmatic yet undeniably influential figure, renowned as much for his immense talent as for...
Author
Language
English
Formats
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In his bestselling memoir, Look Me in the Eye, the author described growing up with Asperger's syndrome at a time when the diagnosis didn't exist. He was intelligent but socially isolated; his talents won him jobs with toy makers and rock bands but did little to endear him to authority figures and classmates, who were put off by his inclination to blurt out non sequiturs and avoid eye contact. By the time he was diagnosed at age forty, he had already...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The all-access autobiography of Bad Religion, a Southern Californian institution and one of the most influential and long-standing punk rock bands of all time In 1980, punk was declared dead in New York, done-for in London, banned in Hollywood. And yet just under the radar, the punk rock virus had continued to spread, slowly inching its way through the breezy beach towns of Southern California and into the edgier interior of East LA. Embraced by...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Ever since Pearl Jam first blasted onto the Seattle grunge scene three decades ago with their debut album, Ten, they have sold 85M plus albums, performed for hundreds of thousands of fans around the world, and have even been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In Long Road: Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack Of A Generation, music critic and journalist Steven Hyden celebrates the life, career, and music of this legendary group, widely considered...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Las memorias de Bono, el vocalista principal de U2. Un libro honesto e irreverente, íntimo y profundo, Surrender es la historia de su vida, de sus retos, y de los amigos y familia que lo han sostenido. Se trata de uno los artistas más icónicos de la música en todo el mundo y se han escrito miles y miles de páginas sobre su carrera; sin embargo, en Surrender, es ahora Bono quien se sienta ante la hoja en blanco para contarnos, por primera vez...
Author
Publisher
Yabb Records
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
For over twenty years, The Decemberists have been one of the most original, daring, and thrilling American rock bands. Their distinctive brand of hyperliterate folk-rock set them apart from the start, releasing nine full-length albums that are unbound by genre and highly ambitious. Now the beloved indie band is back with their first new album in six years. Not only is it the longest Decemberists album to date (and their first intentional, proper double-LP)...
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