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Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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.
''A dazzling biography of one of the bestselling bands of all time, told with brilliant insight by renowned pop music scholar Bob Stanley. The world is full of Bee Gees fans. Yet for a band of...
82) The Doors
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Dramatized biography of Jim Morrison and the musical group which typified the 1960s.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"As the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame says: "Before the world heard of KISS, the New York Dolls, Marilyn Manson or Ozzy Osbourne, there was Alice Cooper, the original shock-rock band." When Alice Cooper became the stuff of legend in the early '70s, their shows were monuments of fun and invention. Riding on a string of hits like "I'm 18" and "School's Out," they became America's highest-grossing act, producing four platinum albums and hitting number one...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"From celebrated music writer Dan Ozzi comes a comprehensive chronicle of the punk music scene's evolution from the early nineties to the mid-aughts, following eleven bands as they dissolved, "sold out," and rose to surprise stardom. From its inception, punk music has been identified by two factors: its proximity to "authenticity," and its reliance on an antiestablishment ethos. Yet, in the mid- to late '90s, major record labels sought to capitalize...
Author
Series
Tom Gates volume 11
Publisher
Bruño
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
Tom Gates agrees to care for his friend Mark's hamster, copes with his teachers and his sister, Delia, and makes a video of his grandparents playing in a rock band at their retirement home.
88) The Runaways
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
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Description
With the success of their all-girl teenage rock band The Runaways, Joan Jett and Cherie Currie's friendship begins to unwind after Currie decides to leave the group.
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Dinah Lance is in a rock band with her two best friends and has a good relationship with her mom, but when a mysterious figure threatens her friends and family, she learns more about herself and her mother's secret past.
90) This lullaby
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Raised by a mother who has had five husbands, eighteen-year-old Remy believes in short-term, no-commitment relationships until she meets Dexter, a rock band musician.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1164
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Emerging from the primordial soup of glamour, gutter sleaze, and feverish creativity that was New York's 1960s underground culture, the Velvet Underground redefined music with its at once raw and exalted blend of experimentation and art-damaged rock and roll. In his kaleidoscopic documentary The Velvet Underground, Todd Haynes vividly evokes the band's incandescent world: the creative origins of the twin visionaries Lou Reed and John Cale, Andy Warhol's...
Author
Series
Knights of the lunch table volume 3
Publisher
Graphix
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Artie enters the school's Battle of the Bands contest with his friends, but after realizing that only one of them can play an instrument, Artie searches for the missing "Singing Sword," a magical instrument that can lead them to victory.
Author
Publisher
St. Martins Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A critical profile of the three brothers behind the iconic rock band documents their experiences through the creations of 11 classic songs to reveal lesser-known personal and creative secrets that shaped their music and success.
94) Jersey boys
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The story of four men from New Jersey who come together to form the 1960s rock group The Four Seasons.
Author
Series
Publisher
Idea and Design Works
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"You've heard the hit song "Come and Get Your Love" in the movie Guardians of the Galaxy, but the story of the band behind it is one of cultural, political, and social importance. Brothers Pat and Lolly Vegas were talented Native American rock musicians that took the 1960s Sunset Strip by storm. They influenced The Doors and jammed with Jimmy Hendrix before he was "Jimi," and the idea of a band made up of all Native Americans soon followed. Determined...
Series
Criterion collection volume 711
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Meet the Beatles! Just one month after they exploded onto the U.S. scene with their Ed Sullivan show appearance, John, Paul, George, and Ringo began working on a project that would bring their revolutionary talent to the big screen. A hard day's night, in which the bandmates play slapstick versions of themselves ... reconceived the movie musical and exerted an incalculable influence on the music video ... "--Container.
Captures all the fun, excitement,...
97) We are the best
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Swedish
Description
Stockholm, the 1980s: Three teen girls decide to form a punk band, despite only one being a musician, not having any instruments, and being told by everyone that punk is dead. Focused on stirring things up in the world, but without a clue, the trio is a tribute to DIY culture and the power of rebellion.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A high-energy comedy about fame and friendship. Tom Hanks plays the big-hearted manager of a '60s pop-rock group called The Wonders that becomes a shooting star sensation thanks to a delightfully catchy chart-topper called: That Thing You Do!
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Nora Wakelin has always felt like an outsider in her own family. Her parents and older sister love her, but they don't understand anything about her: not her passion for music, not her all-encompassing crush on her bandmate Daniel (who is very much unavailable), not her recklessness and impulsiveness. Nora has always imagined that her biological mother might somehow provide the answer as to why she feels like such an outsider. ...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Perfect for fans of Daisy Jones & The Six and Almost Famous, a gripping debut about the complicated legacy of a legendary rock band and the ghostwriter telling their story Three Rock & Roll icons. Two explosive tell-all memoirs. One ghostwriter caught inthe middle. Mari Hawthorn has just landed the biggest job of her ghostwriting career. Anke Berben, the legendary model and style icon, needs someone for her hotly anticipated memoir. In the 1960s,...
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