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Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xi, 302 pages ; 22 cm
Description
An all-encompassing insider's look at the history, artists, instruments, and culture of drumming examines the achievements and personalities of forefront performers while analyzing some of rock and roll's most notable recordings.
Author
Description
Follows a young Cuban girl in the 1930s as she strives to become a drummer, despite being continually reminded that only boys play the drums, and that there's never been a female drummer in Cuba. Includes note about Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, who inspired the story, and Anacaona, the all-girl dance band she formed with her sisters.
Author
Series
Lupe Lopez volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Description
Stuck in Group A with the kids who can't read, upbeat first grader Lupe Lopez is made fun of by a rival but refuses to let that stop her from becoming a Reading Rock Star.
Author
Series
Lupe Lopez volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Description
Wanting fans, not friends, drummer Lupe Lopez, who is determined to rock kindergarten--literally--refuses to play by the rules until a less-than-starstruck teacher and the lack of fans make her reconsider her "no friends" rule.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xii, 365 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm.
Description
Makeup to Breakup is the definitive and heartfelt account of one of rock's most iconic figures--legendary founding KISS drummer Peter "Catman" Criss--and the importance of faith and family.--
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 344 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, photographs ; 24 cm.
Description
"The fully authorized and official biography of legendary Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, one of the world's most revered and celebrated musicians of the last half century. Charlie Watts was one of the most decorated musicians in the world, having joined the Rolling Stones, a few months after their formation, early in 1963. A student of jazz drumming, he was headhunted by the band after bumping into them regularly in London's rhythm and blues...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
302 pages
Description
"Spider from Mars reveals what it was like to be at the white-hot center of a star?s self-creation. With never-before-told stories and never-before-seen photographs, Woodmansey offers details of the album sessions for The Man Who Sold the World, Hunky Dory, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, and Aladdin Sane: the four albums that made Bowie a cult figure. And, as fame beckoned by eventually consumed Bowie, Woodmansey recalls...
Author
Publisher
It Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xiv, 286 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
Description
After forty years, twenty-eight ODs, three botched suicides, two heart attacks, a couple of jail stints, and a stroke, the most self-destructive rock star ever is ready to share the untold truth. Along with four uniquely talented--but very complicated and demanding--musicians, Steven Adler helped form Guns N' Roses, primal rockers who obliterated glam rock to resurrect rock's truer blues roots. They were relentless, onstage and off, taking "sex, drugs,...
Author
Publisher
Swoon Reads
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Lambasted in the tabloids after a night of reckless partying, bisexual teen drummer Emmy King turns to her friends for support and evaluates the wisdom of getting romantically involved with her bandmate Alfie, which may trigger another scandal.
Author
Description
"The inside story behind one of the most revered bands in music history during the early days of punk rock in New York, from legendary drummer Marky Ramone. Rolling Stone ranked the Ramones at #26 on its list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time." They received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011 and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002. And Marky Ramone played a major part in this success--his "blitzkrieg" style of...
Author
Publisher
Diversion Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
377 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
He sang the anthems of a generation: "The Weight," "Up on Cripple Creek," and "Life Is a Carnival." Levon Helm's story--told here through sweeping research and interviews with close friends and fellow musicians--is the rollicking story of American popular music itself. In the Arkansas Delta, a young Levon witnessed "blues, country, and gospel hit in a head-on collision," as he put it. The result was rock 'n' roll. As a teenager, he joined the raucous...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
398 pages
Description
Chronicling the many highs and lows of his life, including the plane crash that nearly killed him, the drummer of the multiplatinum punk band Blink-182 shares his thoughts on rock stardom, fatherhood, death, loss, and redemption.
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