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Author
Publisher
Permuted Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
As a writer and musician, Holly Knight worked hard and played hard with the likes of KISS, Rod Stewart, Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, and Heart. She showed the boys how it was done when many women were still struggling to get a foot in the door. Starting in the late 1970s in post-punk New York, Knight, a gifted keyboardist, joined the band Spider-which quickly ascended to buzzworthy status before things began to disintegrate. Fortunately, her song "Better...
22) The rose
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Rose is one of the biggest rock stars on the planet. Her life of constant sex, drugs and rock and roll, along with constant touring, prove to be too much to handle. Nominated for four Academy Awards.
Series
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
From the moment Patti Smith burst onto the scene, chanting "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine," the irreverent opening line to Horses, her 1975 debut album, the punk movement had found its dissident intellectual voice. Yet outside the recording studio—Smith has released eleven studio albums—the punk poet laureate has been perhaps just as revelatory and rhapsodic in interviews, delivering off-the-cuff jeremiads that emboldened a generation...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Irish singer-songwriter Sinéad O'Connor burst onto the pop scene in 1987 with her album The Lion and the Cobra, and followed it with the Grammy-winning I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got (1990), which featured a cover of Prince's song "Nothing Compares 2 U." In 1992, she infamously tore a picture of Pope John Paul II on Saturday Night Live to protest the sexual abuse committed by priests and covered up by church authorities. O'Connor was immediately...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A raw chronicle of music, fashion, love, sex, feminism, and more that connects the early days of punk to the Riot Grrl movement and beyond ... [Songwriter and musician] Viv Albertine's ... memoir is the story of an empowered woman staying true to herself and making it on her own in the modern world"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Jem and The Holograms head to Hawaii for some much needed rest and relaxation, but with The Stingers renting the beach house next door, they instead get shenanigans, betrayals, hi-jinx, and ... volcanoes?! Meanwhile, has Jerrica finally made a decision about her future and, thus, the future of JEM?
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The legendary lead guitarist of The Runaways presents a brutally honest memoir in which she opens up about her violently abusive marriage to a metal rocker and how her escape and freedom cost her the sons she stayed in the marriage to protect.
29) The Go-Go's
Publisher
UMe
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The candid and archive-rich documentary assesses the group's place in music history and offers full access to The Go-Go's, including past members as well as longtime members of their inner circle. With their roots in the L.A. punk scene, they were bad girls and genuine punk rockers, and this serious appraisal of their story is the first to set the record straight about their historical ascent to global stardom. A major highlight of the film focuses...
30) Just kids
Author
Language
English
Description
In this memoir, singer-songwriter Patti Smith shares tales of New York City : the denizens of Max's Kansas City, the Hotel Chelsea, Scribner's, Brentano's and Strand bookstores and her new life in Brooklyn with a young man named Robert Mapplethorpe--the man who changed her life with his love, friendship, and genius.
31) El año del mono
Author
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Al contemplar mi imagen en la superficie gris mercurio de la tostadora, me fijé en que parecía joven y vieja al mismo tiempo. Son las dos de la madrugada de la Nochevieja de 2015 cuando Patti Smith llega al Dream Motel, junto a la playa de Santa Cruz, tras dar un concierto en la legendaria sala Fillmore de San Francisco. Acaba de cumplir setenta años. En la primera mañana del año sale a dar un paseo y toma su primera polaroid del rótulo del...
Author
Series
The Lillys volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Once upon a time, the pressure to be the perfect daughter nearly broke Kayla Whitman. Desperate to find an outlet away from her controlling mother, she picked up a pair of drumsticks, forever altering the rhythm of her life. Since then, shes been determined to make her own way, finding her home with her bandmates even as she fights to keep her past and her present firmly separate. Things were simple enough when the Lillys were playing local gigs...
Author
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In Borja González's stunning graphic novel, two parallel stories reflect and intertwine in a tale of youthful dreams and desires. In 1856, Teresa, a young aristocrat, is more interested in writing avantgarde horror poetry than making a suitable marriage. In 2016, three teenage girls, Gloria, Laura, and Cristina, want to start a punk band called the Black Holes. They have everything they need: attitude, looks, instinct . . . and an alarming lack...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Be My Baby is the behind-the-scenes story--newly updated, and with an especially timely message--of how the original bad girl of rock and roll, Ronnie Spector, survived marriage to a monster and carved out a space for herself amid the chaos of the 1960s music scene and beyond. Ronnie's first collaboration with producer Phil Spector, 'Be My Baby,' shot Ronnie and the Ronettes to stardom. No one sounded like Ronnie, with her alluring blend of innocence...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
Have you met Ms. Jones? One weekend night on primetime television, a then-unknown singer and vital part of the burgeoning Los Angeles jazz pop scene skyrocketed to fame overnight after a now iconic performance on Saturday Night Live. The year was 1979, the song "Chuck E's in Love," and the singer, donning her trademark red beret, was the soon to be pronounced "Duchess of Coolsville" (Time), Rickie Lee Jones. Last Chance Texaco is the first ever no-holds-barred...
Author
Publisher
IDW
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"Meet Jerrica Benton - a girl with a secret. She and her sister Kimber team with two friends to become...Jem and the Holograms! But what does it mean to be Jem today? Fashion, art, action, and style collide in Jem and the Holograms: Showtime!"--provided from Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The FIRST-EVER Jem/Misfits Crossover Event takes both bands to a whole new world... like, literally! Now a happy quintet, Jem and The Holograms are stronger than ever, which is a good thing because they're about to embark on an adventure unlike anything they'd ever imagined. After a public fight with The Misfits at a charity event, a strangely dressed Techrat shows up and takes them on a strange journey, a journey that is going to change EVERYTHING....
Author
Series
Jem and the holograms volume 3
Publisher
IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"Something is wrong with Synergy! As Jem and the Holograms' first tour begins, something--or someone--called Silica is after them. But who, or what, is she? Meanwhile, the Misfits need to replace their lead singer fast--and maybe even permanently?!"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
Still reeling from the shattering conclusion to "Dark Jem," Jem and the Holograms regroup-desperate to find a path forward. Meanwhile, THE MISFITS find themselves with a unique problem... one lead singer too many! Plus, a European super group takes the U.S. by storm... The Stingers! Meet Riot, Rapture, Minx, and Raya!
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