All Together Now!: We Will Rock You

Biographies and memoirs of musicians.

Updated July 18, 2023
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The number ones : twenty chart-topping hits that reveal the history of pop music
Breihan, Tom
Paper Book
Beloved music critic Tom Breihan's fascinating narrative of the history of popular music through the lens of game-changing #1 singles from the Billboard Hot 100. When Tom Breihan launched his Stereogum column in early 2018, "The Number Ones"--a space in which he has...
Surrender 40 Songs, One Story
Bono, Chaz.
Ebook
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * Bono--artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2--has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he's lived, the challenges he's faced, and the friends and family who...
Long road : Pearl Jam and the soundtrack of a generation
Hyden, Steven
Ebook
Thelonious Monk : the life and times of an American original
Kelley, Robin D. G.
Ebook
From the mind of brilliant historian Robin Kelley comes the first full biography of legendary jazz musician Thelonious Monk, including full access to the family's archives, dozens of interviews, and an afterword for Monk's 2017 centennial. Thelonious Monk is the critically...
Just kids
Smith, Patti.
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer,...
Be my baby : a memoir
Spector, Ronnie
Ebook
"Do I have to tell you that Ronnie's got one of the greatest female rock-and-roll voices of all time? She stands alone." --Keith Richards Be My Baby is the behind-the-scenes story--newly updated, and with an especially timely message--of how the original bad...
Biography of a phantom : a Robert Johnson blues odyssey
McCormick, Mack
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' PICK OF 2023 The drama of In Cold Blood meets the stylings of a Coen brothers film in this long-lost manuscript from musicologist Robert "Mack" McCormick, whose research on blues icon Robert Johnson's mysterious life and death became as much of a...
Me and Paul : untold stories of a fabled friendship
Nelson, Willie
Paper Book
Stories of Willie Nelson and Paul English's misadventures became legendary, but many have gone untold--until now. Immortalized in Willie Nelson's road song "Me and Paul," Paul English was the towering figure who acted as Willie's drummer, bodyguard, accountant, partner in crime, and right...
I'm your man : the life of Leonard Cohen
Simmons, Sylvie.
Ebook
"The major, soul-searching biography that Leonard Cohen deserves [from] a seasoned rock journalist" (Janet Maslin, New York Times).Leonard Cohen is one of the most important and influential musical artists of the past fifty years--and one of the most elusive. In I'm...
Chuck Berry : an American life
Smith, R. J.
Paper Book
The definitive biography of Chuck Berry, legendary performer and inventor of rock and roll Best known as the groundbreaking artist behind classics like "Johnny B. Goode," "Maybellene," "You Never Can Tell" and "Roll Over Beethoven," Chuck Berry was a man of wild contradictions,...
Waging heavy peace : a hippie dream
Young, Neil
Paper Book
A New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and USA Today bestseller. For the first time, legendary singer, songwriter, and guitarist Neil Young offers a kaleidoscopic view of his personal life and musical creativity. He tells of his childhood in Ontario, where his father...

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