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Author
Series
Visit from the Goon Squad volume 1
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
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Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs. (Bestseller)
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The author of Last Train to Memphis brings us the life of Sam Phillips, the visionary genius who singlehandedly steered the revolutionary path of Sun Records. The music that Phillips shaped in his tiny Memphis studio, with artists as diverse as Elvis Presley, B.B. King, Howlin' Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ike Turner, and Johnny Cash, introduced a sound that had never been heard before. He brought forth a singular mix of black and white voices unabashedly...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Allen Klein was like no one the music industry had seen before. The hard-nosed business manager became infamous for allegedly catalyzing the Beatles' breakup and robbing the Rolling Stones, but the truth is both more complex and more fascinating. As the manager of the Stones and then the Beatles - not to mention Sam Cooke, Donovan, the Kinks, and numerous other performers - he taught young soon-to-be legends how to be businessmen as well as rock stars....
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A powerful executive in the music industry recounts how a street kid from the Bronx became music's most creative and successful CEO, sharing details about his marriage to Mariah Carey and dealings with the biggest icons in music.
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"He was there! Apple Records former US manager Ken Mansfield takes a touching and comprehensive look back on one of rock'n'roll's most significant events, while bringing an insider's perspective to the days leading up to 42 fascinating minutes of the Beatles monumental Rooftop Concert"--
8) Control
Author
Publisher
Dafina
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Victoria Benning knows it's unethical to discuss the therapy sessions of her clients, but the drama of their unpredictable lives tests her professional role like never before. First, she counsels Mrs. Melody, a brutally honest, gorgeous rap artist who relies on sexual leverage with men to elevate her music career. Then there's Charles Clay, a hot young film director and master manipulator with a fetish for opportunistic women. Tyrell Hodge is...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023 .
Language
English
Description
The Islander is the story of Blackwell and his cohorts at Island Records, who time and again, identified, nurtured, and broke out musicians who had been overlooked by bigger record labels, including Steve Winwood, Nick Drake, John Martyn, and Cat Stevens.
Author
Series
Nick Travers mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
A former Chicago blues singer is in prison for the 1959 murder of her lover and producer. Nick travels to Chicago's South Side in an attempt to discover the truth behind the victim's last hours.
12) The keys
Author
Publisher
Crown Archetype
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The hip-hop impresario and social-media guru presents a collection of motivational success strategies based on his "keys" video posts and drawing from his personal experiences, sharing the philosophies behind some of his most enigmatic catchphrases.
13) White tears
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Two twenty-something New Yorkers. Seth is awkward and shy. Carter is the glamorous heir to one of America's great fortunes. They have one thing in common: an obsession with music. Seth is desperate to reach for the future. Carter is slipping back into the past. When Seth accidentally records an unknown singer in a park, Carter sends it out over the Internet, claiming it's a long lost 1920s blues recording by a musician called Charlie Shaw. When an...
Author
Publisher
Springboard Press
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Language
English
Description
The author describes her extraordinary childhood as the daughter of infamous music manager Don Arden, managing and marrying rock legend Ozzy Osbourne, and her own rising fame on television shows such as "The Osbournes" and "The X- Factor."
Author
Publisher
Diversion Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Schwartz and his partner, Joe Nicolo, built Ruffhouse from one desk and a phone to one of hip-hop's most revered record companies while simultaneously struggling with drug addiction and alcoholism. A story of money, greed, envy, betrayal, violence, addiction, loss, and redemption, not to mention a whole lot of music, Ruffhouse reveals the inside story of the record companies, recording studios, tour buses, private jets, mansions, radio stations,...