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Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Before he became one of the greatest guitar players of all time, Jimi Hendrix was a boy who loved to paint and listen to records, and who asked himself an unusual question: could someone paint pictures with sound?
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"As a member of Poster Children, Rose Marshack took part in entwined revolutions. Marshack and other women seized a much-elevated profile in music during the indie rock breakthrough while the advent of new digital technologies transformed the recording and marketing of music. Touring in a van, meeting your idols, juggling a programming job with music, keeping control and credibility, the perils of an independent record label (and the greater perils...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Detailing his experiences as a young, queer Mexican American in 1970s Los Angeles, the legendary guitarist, who was part of three groundbreaking and influential groups -- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, the Cramps and The Gun Club -- presents this memoir of personal transformation, addiction and recovery, friendship, and belonging.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The first definitive biography of guitar legend Stevie Ray Vaughan, with an Epilogue by Jimmie Vaughan, Foreword by drummer Chris Layton, and Aterword by bassist Tommy Shannon. Despite the cinematic scope of Vaughan's life and death, there has never been a truly proper accounting of his story--until now.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Prism
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A down-and-dirty chronicle of the birth of the Seattle grunge scene-from amateur skate parks and underground hardcore clubs to worldwide phenomenon-as told by one of its founding fathers and lead guitarist of legendary alternative rock band, Mudhoney"--
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Decades before Elvis Presley was dubbed the King of Rock and Roll, before Billy Haley played 'Rock Around the Clock,' and before the Beatles revolutionized popular music, there was Sister Rosetta Tharpe, a Black guitar player from Cotton Plant, Arksansas."--
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This is the story of how Les Paul created the world's first solid- body electric guitar, countless other inventions that changed modern music, and one truly epic career in rock and roll. How to make a microphone? A broomstick, a cinderblock, a telephone, a radio. How to make an electric guitar? A record player's arm, a speaker, some tape. How to make a legendary inventor? A few tools, a lot of curiosity, and an endless faith in what is possible....
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Jimi Hendrix's death, the best-selling author of Shout! delivers a compelling new biography of the legendary guitarist. Celebrated as the most innovative guitarist ever to play, Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) is renowned for symphonic solos and virtuosic picking (sometimes, with his teeth). But, as Philip Norman describes, before Hendrix was setting guitars aflame onstage, he was a shy kid in Seattle, lucking at...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
"A Carlos Santana le encantaba escuchar a su padre tocar el viol̕n. Era un sonido que llenaba el mundo de magia, amor, sentimiento y curaci̤n; un sonido que hac̕a reales a los ̀ngeles. Carlos tambǐn quer̕a que los ̀ngeles fueran reales. As̕ que empez̤ a tocar". Carlos prob̤ el clarinete y el viol̕n, pero no hab̕a ̀ngeles. Luego tom̤ la guitarra. Tom̤ el alma del Blues, el cerebro del Jazz y la energ̕a del Rock and Roll, y agreg̤ el...
Author
Publisher
NBM Graphic Novels
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Prince Rogers Nelson aka Prince was a complete artist, all at once author, composer, performer, multi-instrumentalist and producer. A real showman on stage, songs like " 1999" or " Purple Rain," made him an international star. With his tormented life, sulfurous relationships, sex and drugs, he was above all a genius artist with a very distinctive original style who sold more than 80 million records around the world. Here is his extraordinary destiny...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"As the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame says: "Before the world heard of KISS, the New York Dolls, Marilyn Manson or Ozzy Osbourne, there was Alice Cooper, the original shock-rock band." When Alice Cooper became the stuff of legend in the early '70s, their shows were monuments of fun and invention. Riding on a string of hits like "I'm 18" and "School's Out," they became America's highest-grossing act, producing four platinum albums and hitting number one...
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