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Ray Connolly

Being Elvis

What was it like to be Elvis Presley? What did it feel like when impossible fame made him its prisoner? As the world's first rock star there was no one to tell him what to expect, no one with whom he coul…

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Jimmy McDonough

Soul Survivor

McDonough tackles this most elusive of subjects and aims to present a definitive portrait of a man everyone knows but few understand. He breaks through Green's joyous veneer to reveal the contrary, tortur…

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Richard Cabut

Punk Is Dead: Modernity Killed Every Night

An anthology featuring the most astute commentators and participants of the underground rise of punk, in this nuanced portrait of the era.

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Carlos Santana

The Universal Tone

The intimate and long-awaited memoir of guitar legend Carlos Santana.

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Lol Tolhurst

Cured

As two of the first punks in the provincial English town of Crawley, Lol Tolhurst and Robert Smith didn't have it easy. First known as The Easy Cure, they began playing in pubs and soon developed their ow…

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Peter Ames Carlin

Homeward Bound

To have been alive during the last sixty years is to have lived with the music of Paul Simon. The boy from Queens scored his first hit record in 1957, just months after Elvis Presley ignited the rock era.…

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Will Friedwald

The Great Jazz and Pop Vocal Albums

The author of the magisterial A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers now approaches the great singers and their greatest work in an innovative and revelatory way: through considering their…

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Susan Compo

Earthbound

A revealing exploration of the classic 1976 film starring David Bowie, "The Man Who Fell To Earth".

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Bill Bentley

Smithsonian Rock and Roll

In December 2015, the Smithsonian called on rock and roll lovers around the world to collect photos and stories of their favorite moments in music. Fans dug through attics, basements, closets, shoeboxes, …

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Federico Spinetti

Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam

Bringing together the perspectives of ethnomusicology, Islamic studies, art history, and architecture, this edited collection investigates how sound production in built environments is central to Muslim r…

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Albert Murray

Stomping the Blues

In this classic work of American music writing, renowned critic Albert Murray argues beautifully and authoritatively that "the blues as such are synonymous with low spirits. Not only is its express p…

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Paul Du Noyer

Conversations with McCartney

The intimate portrayal of one of the most famous men in music, more than half of which is in McCartney's own words

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Jack Sullivan

New Orleans Remix

Since the 1990s, New Orleans has been experiencing its greatest musical renaissance since Louis Armstrong. Brass band, funk, hip hop, Mardi Gras Indian, zydeco, and other styles are rocking the city. Jack…

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Richard Carlin

Godfather of the Music Business

This biography tells the story of one of the most notorious figures in the history of popular music, Morris Levy (1927-1990). At age nineteen, he cofounded the nightclub Birdland in Hell's Kitchen, which …

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