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Every song tells a story. She's a star on the rise, singing about the hard life behind her. She's also on the run. Find a future, lose a past. Nashville is where she's come to claim her destiny. It's also where the darkness she's fled might find her. And destroy her. Run, Rose, Run is a novel glittering with danger and desire--a story that only America's #1 beloved entertainer and its #1 bestselling author could have created.
2) Bird
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (160 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The life of legendary jazz musician Charlie "Yardbird" Parker, directed and produced by jazz fan, Clint Eastwood. The film uses actual recordings by Parker with the backgrounds removed, and accompaniment by modern musicians attuned to the Yardbird's improvisations.
3) Life
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Autobiography of the guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards. With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards lived the original rock and roll life. He tells his story of life in the crossfire hurricane; his listening obsessively to Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records, learning guitar and forming a band with Mick Jagger and Brian Jones, the Rolling Stones' first fame and the notorious drug busts that led to...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Formats
Description
"Now, just a few years after Reed's death, Rolling Stone writer Anthony DeCurtis, who knew Reed and interviewed him extensively, tells the provocative story of his complex and chameleonic life. With unparalleled access to dozens of Reed's friends, family, and collaborators, DeCurtis tracks Reed's five-decade career through the accounts of those who knew him and through Reed's most revealing testimony, his music. We travel deep into his defiantly subterranean...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Valentine Xavier leaves the entertainment world in New Orleans after he has one too many encounters with the law. A rainstorm leaves him stranded in a small town, where his past comes back to haunt him.
8) Rocketman
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2019.
Formats
Description
An epic musical fantasy about the uncensored human story of Sir Elton John's breakthrough years.
9) Before we go
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Formats
Description
A young woman races to catch the 1:30 train out of New York City to New Haven. Stranded in the city after being robbed and missing her train, she meets street musician Nick Vaughan. Starting as convenient acquaintances, the two soon grow into each other's most trusted confidants when a night of unexpected adventure forces them to confront their fears and take control of their lives.
10) Because
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books For Children
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
A series of events, some seemingly very insignificant, lead to a young girl attending a life-changing concert.
11) The Rose
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
c2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Presents the final days of a hard-living, burned-out rock performer who badly needs a rest. When her ruthless manager won't give her one, she sets off on a self-destructive binge.
12) A star is born
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Seasoned musician Jackson Maine discovers and falls in love with struggling artist Ally. She has given up on her dream to become a successful singer, until she meets Jack, who immediately sees her natural talent. This is the raw and passionate tale of Jack and Ally, two artistic souls coming together, on stage and in life. Theirs is a complex journey through the beauty and the heartbreak of a relationship struggling to survive.
13) Some like it hot
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
Two unemployed musicians accidentally witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and flee to Miami disguised as female musicians in an all-girl band.
14) Born to run
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xii, 510 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
"Born to Run will be revelatory for anyone who has ever enjoyed Bruce Springsteen, but this book is much more than a legendary rock stars memoir. This is a book for workers and dreamers, parents and children, lovers and loners, artists, freaks, or anyone who has ever wanted to be baptized in the holy river of rock and roll."--Amazon.com.
15) Me: Elton John
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
374 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Description
In Me, Elton also writes powerfully about getting clean and changing his life, about finding love with David Furnish and becoming a father. In a voice that is warm, humble, and open, this is Elton on his music and his relationships, his passions and his mistakes. This is a story that will stay with you by a living legend.
Author
Publisher
AUWA Books / MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xiii, 297 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) portraits, photographs ; 24 cm.
Description
The first memoir from the legendary Sly Stone, the front man of the iconic band Sly and the Family Stone.
17) Crazy heart
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The powerful story of a country music star's rocky road to redemption. Bad Blake is a boozy, broken-down singer who reaches for salvation with the help of Jean, a journalist who discovers the real man behind the music. But will Bad's hard-livin' ways and crazy heart cost him his last chance at a comeback?
18) Coco
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Formats
Description
A boy accidentally gets transported to the world of the dead and with the help of his deceased musician great-great-grandfather returns back to his family.
Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Opens the door to a world where sight, sound, and touch magically converge to elevate our everyday sensory experiences. With Evelyn Glennie, Grammy winning percussionist who is also deaf. While still a student, Evelyn Glennie learned that she was going deaf. Rather than abandon her study of music, in which she had shown such talent, she instead turned her focus toward percussion instruments and developed her ability to feel the sound through her body....
Publisher
Shout! Studios
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"From a conventional upbringing where playing the accordion was a sin, Al rebelled and made his dream of changing the words to world-renowned songs come true. An instant success and sex symbol, Al lives an excessive lifestyle and pursues an infamous romance that nearly destroys him"-
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