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No Woman No Cry: My Life with Bob Marley
by Rita Marley  Publisher Comments The story of Rita Marley's life as the girlfriend, wife, and eventual widow of Bob Marley, the legend of reggae music, whose distinctive sound has been part of the world's popular culture for more than three decades....
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Scar Tissue
by Anthony Kiedis and Larry Sloman Publisher Comments This "New York Times" bestseller by the lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers is a compelling story of the price of success and excess, dedication and debauchery, intrigue and integrity, and recklessness and redemption that could only come from the...
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Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon--And the Journey of a Generation
by Sheila Weller Publisher Comments A groundbreaking and irresistible biography of three of America's most important musical artists -- Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon -- charts their lives as women at a magical moment in time. Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon...
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How Can I Keep from Singing?: The Ballad of Pete Seeger
by David King Dunaway Publisher Comments How Can I Keep from Singing? is the compelling story of how the son of a respectable Puritan family became a consummate performer and American rebel. Updated with new research and interviews, unpublished photographs, and thoughtful comments from Pete...
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Drugs Are Nice: A Post-Punk Memoir
by Lisa Crystal Carver Publisher Comments In this eye-opening memoir, Lisa Crystal Carver recalls her extraordinary youth and charts the late-80s, early-90s punk subculture that she helped shape. She recounts how her band Suckdog was born in 1987 and the wild events that followed: leaving small...
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Society's Child
by Janis Ian Publisher Comments Grammy Awardawinning singer and songwriter Janis Ianas memoir of her more than forty years in the music business. Janis Ian was catapulted into the spotlight in 1966 at the age of fifteen when her soul-wrenching song aSocietyas Childa became a national...
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DJ Shadow: Endtroducing (33 1/3 Series)
by Eliot Wilder Publisher Comments 33 1/3 is a series of short books about a wide variety of albums, by artists ranging from James Brown to the Beastie Boys. Launched in September 2003, the series now contains over 50 titles and is acclaimed and loved by fans, musicians and scholars alike....
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Greetings from E Street: The Story of Bruce Springsteen with Poster and Other
by Robert Santelli Publisher Comments LIFE ON E STREET is the first and only collective biography of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band written with participation from its members. Over 200 photos, documents, handwritten notes, and souvenirs join tour stories, reminiscences, and little...
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A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties
by Suze Rotolo Publisher Comments A Freewheelin’ Time is Suze Rotolo’s firsthand, eyewitness, participant-observer account of the immensely creative and fertile years of the 1960s, just before the circus was in full swing and Bob Dylan became the anointed ringmaster. It...
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Dream Brother: The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley
by David Browne Publisher Comments Chapter One "My grandfather had a beautiful voice. Irish tenor. Beautiful. Too much of a military hardass to deal with his own and his son's talents. I wish it were otherwise. I love you, you poor bastards.... With a father like this man, it is no wonder...
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Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix
by Charles R Cross 
Powells.com Staff Pick Published to coincide with the thirty-fifth anniversary of Jimi Hendrix's death, Room Full of Mirrors gives full voice to the music that continues to enthrall each successive generation of rock fans. Hendrix's colorful, tumultuous life is brilliantly...
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Wagner Beyond Good and Evil
by John Deathridge Publisher Comments John Deathridge presents a different and critical view of Richard Wagner based on recent research that does not shy away from some unpalatable truths about this most controversial of composers in the canon of Western music. Deathridge writes...
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Clapton
by Eric Clapton Publisher Comments In "Clapton: The Autobiography," one of the most revered and private figures in the history of rock, blues, and pop finally shares his astonishing life story. The perfect gift for any Slow Hand fan....
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Life with My Sister Madonna
by Christopher Ciccone Synopsis Ciccone's extraordinary memoir is based on his life and forty-seven years of growing up with and working with his sister - the most famous woman in the world....
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The Wagner Clan: The Saga of Germany's Most Illustrious and Infamous Family
by Jonathan Carr Publisher Comments A family saga as riveting as any opera, and a matchless mirror of Germany’s rise, fall, and resurrection. Richard Wagner was many things—composer, philosopher, philanderer, failed revolutionary, and virulent anti-Semite—and his...
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Mission Impossible: My Life in Music
by Lalo Schifrin Synopsis Mission Impossible My Life in Music is the engaging autobiography of Lalo Schifrin, the musician, conductor, and composer of more than 60 jazz and classical works and over 100 film and television scores including Mission Impossible....
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Chronicles: Volume One
by Bob Dylan
Powells.com Staff Pick Imagine if the most literate songwriter of the past fifty years wrote a memoir worthy of Blood on the Tracks. Recommended by Dave...
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Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles
by Geoff Emerick Publisher Comments Geoff Emerick became an assistant engineer at the legendary Abbey Road Studios in 1962 at age fifteen, and was present as a new band called the Beatles recorded their first songs. He later worked with the Beatles as they recorded their singles "She Loves...
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A Pirate Looks at Fifty
by Jimmy Buffett Publisher Comments For the millions of fans of Jimmy Buffett's music as well as his bestselling books, Tales From Margaritaville and Where Is Joe Merchant?, here is the ultimate Jimmy Buffett philosophy on life and how to live it. As hard as it is to believe, the...
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The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier
by Thad Carhart
Publisher Comments This intimate and idiosyncratic history of the piano and a view into the secret heart of Paris life is written by an American expatriate, who details his attempts to gain entry into a piano shop where locals gathered to discuss music, love, and life....
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