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Strange Fruit : Billie Holiday, Cafe Society, and an Early Cry for Civil Rights
-- David Margolick, Hilton Als (Foreword); Usually ships in 24 hours; Running Pr; Hardcover; 144 pages; (March 2000)
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Avg. Customer Review: 5 out of 5 stars
The New York Times Book Review, David Nasaw: Like Holiday's performance, Margolick's book is understated but intense, suffused with grace, power and dignity. It works on several levels: as tribute, elegy, homage and cultural history. Read more

The Beatles Anthology
-- The Beatles; Chronicle Books; Hardcover; 368 pages; (October 5, 2000)
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From London Sunday Telegraph: ... will provide the frankest account yet of the band's rise to the top of the pop world in the 1960s... Read more

Paul McCartney : Many Years from Now
-- Barry Miles; Usually ships in 24 hours; Henry Holt & Company, Inc.; Hardcover; 512 pages; 1 Amer Ed edition; (October 1997)
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Avg. Customer Review: 4 out of 5 stars
Amazon.com: If you think John Lennon was the smart, arty Beatle while Paul was an empty head twittering prettily, this book will hip you to the facts. While John sat in the suburbs getting stoned to numb the pain of his imminent divorce, bachelor Paul was feeding his head by immersion in the London avant-garde....Read more

Britney Spears' Heart to Heart
-- Britney Spears; Usually ships in 24 hours; Three Rivers Pr; Paperback; 224 pages; (May 9, 2000)
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Avg. Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Book Description: American singing sensation Britney Spears and her mom talk about life, love, fame, and following your dreams.Britney Spears makes success look simple. As Brit will tell you, though, success is hard work--you need talent, belief in yourself, and someone else who believes in you. For Britney, that...Read more Get Happy : The Life of Judy Garland
-- Gerald Clarke; Usually ships in 24 hours; Random House; Hardcover; 528 pages; (March 28, 2000)
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Avg. Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars Amazon.com: Like his renowned Capote, Clarke's Get Happy is an addictively readable bio of an addict genius. We learn that it wasn't just the Hollywood moguls who mangled Judy Garland's soul. Yes, MGM's Louis B. Mayer did paw her teenage breasts, exacerbate her insecurity by calling her "my little hunchback,"...Read more

C'Mon, Get Happy...
-- David Cassidy, Chip Deffaa; Usually ships in 24 hours; Warner Books; Paperback; 242 pages; (July 1994)
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Avg. Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Synopsis: Throughout the first half of the '70s, David Cassidy of the Partridge Family was the highest-paid solo performer in the world--even bigger than Elvis, the Rolling Stones, or the Beatles. Now the definitive teen idol tells his honest story of what life was like as Keith Partridge. Includes rare...Read more

Pearl Jam: Place/Date
-- Lance Mercer(Photographer), Charles Peterson (Photographer); Usually ships in 24 hours; Universe Pub; Paperback; 128 pages; (May 1999)
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Avg. Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Amazon.com: Contemporary music photography suffers from a lack of unhindered contact between photographer and subject. The musicians prefer to control the process and, while one understands that impulse (would you want to see your mug turn up in print after a bad hair day?), the result is often an excess of...Read more

The Beatles' Story on Capitol Records, Part One : Beatlemania & The Singles
-- Bruce Spizer; Usually ships in 24 hours; 498 Productions; Hardcover; 226 pages; (March 20, 2000)
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Avg. Customer Review: 5 out of 5 stars
The World Beatles Forum, March/April 2000: A benchmark measurement to set the standards of standards with its factual, informative, interesting and visually stunning presentation. Read more

Dennis Wilson: The Real Beach Boy
-- Jon Stebbins; Usually ships in 24 hours; E C W Pr; Paperback; 185 pages; 1st edition; (March 2000)
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Avg. Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Book Description: 16-page colour photo section, 44 b&w photos Read more

Deborah Harry
-- Cathay Che; Usually ships in 24 hours; Fromm Intl; Hardcover; 272 pages; (May 2000)
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Avg. Customer Review: 3 out of 5 stars
Book Description: The first biography of the great female pop icon. Deborah Harry, who became one of the biggest stars of the eighties with her sensationally popular band Blondie, has returned to the spotlight with the recent Blondie album No Exit. It was she whose songs "Heart of Glass," 'Sunday Girl,' 'Atomic,'...Read more

It Ain't No Sin to Be Glad You're Alive : The Promise of Bruce Springsteen
-- Eric Alterman; Usually ships in 24 hours; Little Brown & Company; Hardcover; 282 pages; 1 Ed edition; (October 1999)
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Avg. Customer Review: 4 out of 5 stars
Book Description: "For the past quarter century no contemporary popular musician has had as significant a cultural impact on America as Bruce Springsteen. Since the media anointed him "the future of rock 'n' roll' in the mid-1970s, Springsteen has redefined the image of the rock star not simply as an entertainer but...Read more

Nankering With the Rolling Stones
-- James Phelge; Usually ships in 24 hours; A Cappella Books; Paperback; 352 pages; (April 2000)
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Avg. Customer Review: 5 out of 5 stars
Mojo: "The most touching and perceptive memoir of The Rolling Stones' early days so far committed to print. . . . It's the only Stones book I've ever read that doesn't leave you asking, Yeah, but what were they really like? Peppered with belly-laughs, genuine pathos and unwitting insights into the Stones'...Read more

Stand and Be Counted : Making Music, Making History : The Dramatic Story of the Artists and Causes That Changed America
-- David Crosby, David Bender; Usually ships in 24 hours; Harper San Francisco; Hardcover; 244 pages; (March 2000)
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Avg. Customer Review: 4 out of 5 stars
Book Description: "NOBODY KIDS THEMSELVES INTO BELIEVINGTHAT THEY CAN SOLVE THE WORLD'S PROBLEMS.WE'RE JUST TRYING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE, TOCHANGE THINGS FOR THE BETTER WHEREVER WECAN. AND IF IT TAKES A LONG PUSH, THEN WE'RE IN IT FOR THE LONG HAUL. A LOT OF TIMES THIS ISN'T ABOUT THE GENIUS OF THEMOMENT. IT'S ABOUT...Read more

The Who: Maximum R&B
-- Richard Barnes, Pete Townshend (Introduction); Plexus Pub; Paperback; 168 pages; 3rd edition; (May 2000)
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Avg. Customer Review: 5 out of 5 stars
Book Description: Even 16 years after they broke up, the Who remain a potent force in rock 'n' roll. Their classic works have been reissued on remastered CDs and the band's members continue to produce innovative new work. Read more

Tammy Wynette : A Daughter Recalls Her Mother's Tragic Life and Death
-- Jackie Daly, Tom Carter (Contributor); Usually ships in 24 hours; Putnam Pub Group (T); Hardcover; 336 pages; (May 2000)
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Avg. Customer Review: 2 out of 5 stars
From Booklist: Tammy Wynette's April 6, 1998, death was a shock. An even greater shock came when her daughters demanded an autopsy in 1999. What did Daly and her siblings hope to discover? Well, the attending physician said she had died of a blood clot in a lung, and how could he have known that without an...Read more

Linda McCartney
-- Danny Fields; Usually ships in 24 hours; Renaissance Books; Hardcover; 272 pages; (April 2000)
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Avg. Customer Review: 4 out of 5 stars
From Booklist: "I wish I didn't have to write this book" is the first sentence of Fields' 'portrait' of the late photographer-singer wife of Paul McCartney. Fields means that he wishes she were still alive and no fit subject for such a book. It doesn't take much reading of it to join him in his wish. Oh, he...Read more

A Pirate Looks At Fifty
-- Jimmy Buffett(Epilogue); Usually ships in 24 hours; Random House; Hardcover; 454 pages; (June 3, 1998)
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Avg. Customer Review: 4 out of 5 stars
Amazon.com: Tales from Margaritaville (stories) and Where Is Joe Merchant? (a mystery) secured songwriter Jimmy Buffett's niche reputation as an affable, poetic beach bum. A Pirate Looks at Fifty, a travel-diary-cum-autobiography, features Buffett behind the wheel of his Grumman Albatross seaplane, safely...Read more

Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
-- Lester Bangs, Greil Marcus (Editor); Usually ships in 24 hours; Vintage Books; Paperback; 386 pages; Reprint edition; (October 1988)
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Avg. Customer Review: 5 out of 5 stars
Synopsis: Vintage presents the paperback edition of the wild and brilliant writings of Lester Bangs--the most outrageous and popular rock critic of the 1970s--edited and with an introduction -- the reigning dean of rack critics, Greil Marcus. Advertising in Rolling Stone and other major publications. Read more

Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists
-- Sacha Jenkins, et al; Usually ships in 24 hours; Griffin Trade Paperback; Paperback; 352 pages; 1 Ed edition; (November 10, 1999)
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Avg. Customer Review: 5 out of 5 stars
The publisher, D.A. , January 14, 2000: Critical praise for ego trip's Book of Rap Lists "Talk about addictive: Rap Lists will run your life for at least a week after you break the spine. You'll ask it for permission to leave the crib, the way Richard Pryor had to ask his pipe. The wealth of historical detail is staggering...It's a hip hop history that picks up the challenge that...Read more

Losing My Virginity : How I'Ve Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way
-- Richard Branson; Usually ships in 24 hours; Times Books; Paperback; 384 pages; 1st U.S. p edition; (October 1999)
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Avg. Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Amazon.com: In this autobiography, Virgin Group founder Richard Branson says one of his prime business criteria is "fun." Fun made Branson a billionaire, and few business memoirs are one-billionth as fun as Branson's, nor as niftily written. Not only does it relate his side of near-death corporate experiences,...Read more

Lennon in America
-- Geoffrey Giuliano, Geoffrey Guiliano; Usually ships in 24 hours; Cooper Square Press; Hardcover; 300 pages; 1 edition; (June 1, 2000)
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Avg. Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars
The author, Geoffrey Giuliano , May 22, 2000: JOHN LENNON DIED FOR OUR MYTHS From pretty much the very day we first heard of John Lennon it has been a myth we have been in love with rather than the great personna and art that was poor John. Lennon knew this and hated it but realized it was probably inevitable. We all lived -- that myth and many still do. In the end Lennon...Read more

Let It Blurt : The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic
-- Jim Derogatis; Usually ships in 24 hours; Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub (Trd Pap); Paperback; 256 pages; (April 18, 2000)
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Avg. Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars
The New York Times Book Review, Dwight Garner: As Jim DeRogatis's readable and well-researched new biography of Bangs makes clear, he lived as exuberantly as he wrote. Read more

Dreamgirl & Supreme Faith
-- Mary Supreme Faith Wilson; Usually ships in 2-3 days; Cooper Square Pub; Paperback; 732 pages; Updated edition; (January 2000)
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Avg. Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Book Description: Chronicles the life of a Supreme. Read more

The Complete Book of Doo-Wop
-- Anthony J. Gribin, et al; Usually ships in 24 hours; Krause Publications; Paperback; 500 pages; 2nd edition; (March 2000)
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Avg. Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Book Description: For those who were teen-agers in the 1950s and the early part of the 1960s, doo-wop music conjures up memories of hanging out with friends at the malt shop, dances at the hop, and first romances. This book will transport readers back to those nostalgic times and make them want to scan the radio in...Read more

Live at the Fillmore East : A Photographic Memoir
-- Ruth Ellen Gruber(Contributor), et al; Usually ships in 24 hours; Thunder's Mouth Pr; Hardcover; 156 pages; (December 1999)
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Avg. Customer Review: 5 out of 5 stars
Book Description: From 1968 to 1971 Bill Graham's Fillmore East in New York was the headquarters of the rock explosion. Live at the Fillmore East tells the story of its heyday with hundreds of behind-the-scenes photographs and exclusive interviews. Included here are photos of the Who's premiere of Tommy in 1969; John...Read more

Three Dog Nightmare : The Chuck Negron Story
-- Chuck Negron, Chris Blatchford; Usually ships in 24 hours; Renaissance Books; Hardcover; 367 pages; 1 Ed edition; (June 1999)
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Avg. Customer Review: 5 out of 5 stars
Book Description: From 1968 through the early 1970s, Three Dog Night was one of the most popular rock bands in the world. With his sweet, soulful sound, Chuck Negron guided the group through eighteen consecutive Top Twenty hits: three hit the #1 spot, including ``Joy to the World,'' and eleven broke into the Top Ten....Read more

Somebody to Love? : A Rock-And-Roll Memoir
-- Grace Slick, Andrea Cagan (Contributor); Usually ships in 24 hours; Warner Books; Mass Market Paperback; 368 pages; (December 1999)
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Avg. Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Amazon.com: Grace Slick looks back on a lifetime of sex, drugs and rock & roll in Somebody to Love?, a wisecracking memoir featuring cameos -- some mighty famous faces. As the lead singer of Jefferson Airplane (later Jefferson Starship and, still later, Starship), Slick had a ringside seat for some of the...Read more

Girl Singer : An Autobiography
-- Rosemary Clooney, Joan Barthel (Contributor); Usually ships in 24 hours; Doubleday; Hardcover; 336 pages; (November 2, 1999)
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Avg. Customer Review: 5 out of 5 stars
Amazon.com: Girl Singer is that rarity, an entertainer's autobiography that sidesteps the usual cash-in maneuvers, instead earning the label of memoir. Rosemary Clooney, of course, is the 1950s pop sweetheart ("Come On-a My House," a song she detested) turned 1960s nervous-breakdown casualty and, finally,...Read more

Visions of Jazz : The First Century
-- Gary Giddins; Usually ships in 24 hours; Oxford Univ Press; Paperback; 704 pages; (May 1, 2000)
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Avg. Customer Review: 5 out of 5 stars
Amazon.com: As Gary Giddins makes clear in his introduction to Visions of Jazz, he's not attempting to draw a canonical line in the sand: "Everyone has his or her vision of jazz, and this is mine." Modesty aside, though, it's hard to imagine a critic with a more encyclopedic grasp of detail, or a more lucid,...Read more

Life Is Just What You Make It
-- Donny Osmond, Patricia Romanowski; Usually ships in 24 hours; Hyperion (P); Mass Market Paperback; 336 pages; (May 2000)
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Avg. Customer Review: 5 out of 5 stars
From Booklist May 1, 1999: Talk about a limp yet compelling show-biz bio! Osmond's frothy tell-all is a classic case of laying out one's scandalous past despite not having much scandal to show. Sure, there's the boxing match and ensuing hissy-fit with fellow '60s media star Danny (Partridge) Bonaduce, not to mention the...Read more