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- The Wrecking Crew! [videorecording] / by Tedesco, Denny.; Lunch Box Entertainment.; Magnolia Home Entertainment (Firm); Video Service Corp.;
- Narrator: Denny Tedesco.Profiles the group of Los Angeles studio musicians known as the Wrecking Crew -- featuring Tommy Tedesco, guitar; Hal Blaine, Earl Palmer drums ; Carol Kaye, Joe Osborne, bass -- who played on a slew of rock and pop hits during the sixties. Gifted, versatile and possessing the knack for turning a simple tune into something memorable, the Wrecking Crew were the players who turned the Wall of Sound in Phil Spector's head into a reality, and helped Brian Wilson create the musical vision that would redefine California pop. The Wrecking Crew also backed up everyone from Sonny and Cher, the Mamas and the Papas and the Monkees to Herb Alpert, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra, but while they became legends in the music business, they were all but unknown to the millions of people who made their records some of the biggest hits of the day. Filmmaker Denny Tedesco -- whose father Tommy was a member of the Wrecking Crew and perhaps the most recorded guitarist in history -- brings the free-wheeling story of the most famous musicians you've never heard of to the screen with the documentary The Wrecking Crew, which includes interviews with Cher, Brian Wilson, Nancy Sinatra, Roger McGuinn, Mickey Dolenz, Dick Clark and many more.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, widescreen; NTSC, region 1; Dolby Digital.
- Subjects: Wrecking Crew (Musical group); Biographical films.; Documentary films.; Rock music; Rock music; Rock musicians; Sound recording industry;
- For private home use only.
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Led Zeppelin : the biography / by Spitz, Bob,author.;
- Includes bibliographical references and index."From the author of the definitive New York Times bestselling history of the Beatles comes the authoritative account of the group Jack Black and many others call the greatest rock band of all time, arguably the most successful, and certainly one of the most notorious. Rock stars. Whatever those words mean to you, chances are, they owe a debt to Led Zeppelin. No one before or since has lived the dream quite like Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham. In Led Zeppelin, Bob Spitz takes their full measure, for good and sometimes for ill, separating the myth from the reality with the connoisseurship and storytelling flair that are his trademarks. From the opening notes of their first album, the band announced itself as something different, a collision of grand artistic ambition and brute primal force, of delicate English folk music and hard-driving African-American blues. That record sold over 10 million copies, and it was the merest beginning; Led Zeppelin's albums have sold over 300 million certified copies worldwide, and the dust has never settled. Taken together, Led Zeppelin's discography has spent an almost incomprehensible ten-plus years on the album charts. The band is notoriously guarded, and previous books shine more heat than light. But Bob Spitz's authority is undeniable and irresistible. His feel for the atmosphere, the context--the music, the business, the recording studios, the touring life, the radio stations, the fans, the whole ecosystem of popular music--is unparalleled. His account of the melding of Page and Jones, the virtuosic London sophisticates, with Plant and Bonham, the wild men from the Midlands, into a band out of the ashes of the Yardbirds, in a scene dominated by the Beatles and the Stones but changing fast, is in itself a revelation. Spitz takes the music seriously, and brings the band's artistic journey to full and vivid life. The music is only part of the legend, however: Led Zeppelin is also the story of how the 60's became the 70's, of how playing in clubs became playing in stadiums and flying your own jet, of how innocence became decadence. Led Zeppelin may not have invented the groupie, and they weren't the first rock band to let loose on the road, but they took it to an entirely new level, as with everything else. Not all the legends are true, but in Bob Spitz's careful accounting, what is true is astonishing, and sometimes disturbing. Led Zeppelin gave no quarter, and neither has Bob Spitz. Led Zeppelin is the full and honest reckoning the band has long awaited, and richly deserves"--
- Subjects: Biographies.; Led Zeppelin (Musical group); Rock musicians;
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- Nirvana : the complete illustrated history / by Cross, Charles R.; Peterson, Charles,1964-;
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- Subjects: Nirvana (Musical group); Nirvana (Musical group); Rock groups; Rock groups;
- © c2013., Voyageur Press,
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- Unknown pleasures : inside Joy Division / by Hook, Peter,1956-;
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- Subjects: Hook, Peter, 1956-; Joy Division (Musical group); Rock musicians;
- © 2012., Simon & Schuster,
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- 18 and life on Skid Row / by Bach, Sebastian,author.;
- The former front man for Skid Row traces his rise from choir boy to rock star at the height of the heavy metal era, describing his unconventional youth, friendships with fellow performers, and successful solo career.
- Subjects: Biographies.; Bach, Sebastian.; Skid Row (Musical group); Rock musicians;
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- Face it / by Harry, Debbie,author.; Simmons, Sylvie,author.;
- 'Face It' is the much anticipated memoir from Debbie Harry, the singer, actress, fashion icon, cultural influence and founding member of the iconic group 'Blondie'. Working alongside Sylvie Simmons, the renowned music journalist behind 'I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen', this book brings Debbie Harry's story to life, documenting her band's ascent to new wave fame. Please Note: The following title was included in a previous Bestseller list; libraries may need to re-order.
- Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Harry, Debbie.; Blondie (Musical group); Rock musicians;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Duran Duran [videorecording] : a Hollywood high / by Duffy, Stephen,1950-on-screen participant.; Le Bon, Simon,on-screen participant.; Rhodes, Nick,1962-on-screen participant.; Taylor, Andy,1961-on-screen participant.; Taylor, John,1960-on-screen participant.; Taylor, Roger,1960-on-screen participant.; Elder, Gavin,film director.; Paul, Vincent Adam,film director.; Scott, George,1966-film director.; Last Man Media,publisher.;
- Duran Duran.A Hollywood High', captures Duran Duran's live performance on a rooftop in Los Angeles. The film celebrates Duran Duran's four decade long career, the release of their latest album Future Past and the launch of a global tour. Alongside capturing the exclusive performance on the rooftop of a hotel in Los Angeles, the docu-film includes exclusive new interviews, a behind-the-scenes video, and unseen archival footage, that tells the story of their long-time relationship with the city.E.DVD ; wide screen presentation ; DTS-HD Digital surround 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1, PCM 2.0.
- Subjects: Biographical films.; Documentary films.; Rock concert films.; Personal narratives.; Duran Duran (Musical group); Rock groups; Rock musicians;
- For private home use only.
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- The other fab four : the remarkable true story of The Liverbirds, Britain's first female rock band / by McGlory, Mary,author.; Saunders, Sylvia,author.;
- Includes bibliographical references."When John Lennon told the four members of The Liverbirds-Britain's first female rock band-that girls couldn't play guitar, they proved him wrong. This is their story. The idea for Britain's first female rock band, The Liverbirds, started one evening in 1962, when Mary McGlory, then age 16, saw The Beatles play live at The Cavern Club in Liverpool, the nightclub famously known as the "cradle of British pop music." Then and there, she decided she was going to be just like them-and be the first girl to do it. Joining ranks in 1963 with three other working-class girls from Liverpool-drummer Sylvia Saunders and guitarists Valerie Gell and Pamela Birch, also self-taught musicians determined to "break the male monopoly of the beat world"-The Liverbirds went on to tour alongside the Rolling Stones, the Kinks, and Chuck Berry, and were on track to hit international stardom-until life intervened, and the group was forced to disband just five years after forming in 1968. Now, Mary and Sylvia, the band's two surviving members, are ready to tell their stories. From that fateful night in 1962, when Mary, who once aspired to become a nun, decided to provide for her family by becoming a rich-and-famous rocker, to the circumstances that led to the band splitting up-Sylvia's dangerously complicated pregnancy, and the tragic accident that paralyzed Valerie's beau-The Liverbirds tackles family, friendship, addiction, aging, and the forces-even destiny-that initially brought the four women together"--
- Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Liverbirds (Musical group); Rock groups; Rock musicians; Women rock musicians;
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- Pussy Riot! : a punk prayer for freedom : letters from prison, songs, poems, and courtroom statements, plus tributes to the punk band that shook the world. -- by Pussy Riot (Punk rock group);
- LSC
- Subjects: Pussy Riot (Punk rock group); Pussy Riot (Punk rock group); Punk rock musicians; Artists; Art; Art and society; Protest movements; Punk rock music; Music;
- © 2013., Feminist Press,
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Catch a wave : the rise, fall & redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson / by Carlin, Peter Ames;
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subjects: Wilson, Brian, 1942-; Beach Boys (Musical group); Rock musicians;
- © c2006., Rodale,
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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