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No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf by Carolyn Burke
epub |eng | 2012-04-01 | Author:Carolyn Burke [Burke, Carolyn]

Some believed that Piaf worshipped the boxer for the rest of her life because he left it when their love was at its height. “If it had gone on another ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians March 26,2014 )
Can't Buy Me Love by Jonathan Gould
epub |eng | 2007-10-01 | Author:Jonathan Gould

THE FIRST SIGN of the metamorphosis that was under way in the Beatles’ music came on the group’s first single of 1966, “Paperback Writer” b/w “Rain,” a record that recalled ...
( Category: Rock March 26,2014 )
Crosstown Traffic by Charles Shaar Murray
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Shaar Murray [Murray, Charles Shaar]

As Howlin’ Wolf once said of Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix ‘started from the blues. He made his pull from the blues.’ His most fundamental musical instincts were those of a ...
( Category: Pop March 26,2014 )
Heavier Than Heaven by Charles R. Cross
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Charles R. Cross

Chapter 15 EVERY TIME I SWALLOWED SEATTLE, WASHINGTON SEPTEMBER 1991–OCTOBER 1991 Every time I swallowed a piece of food, I would experience an excruciating, burning, nauseous pain in the upper ...
( Category: Rock March 26,2014 )
A Street Cat Named Bob by Bowen James
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-15 | Author:Bowen, James [Bowen, James]

I’d been in the cell for about half an hour when the door opened suddenly and a white-shirted officer ushered me out. ‘Come on,’ he said. ‘Where are you taking ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians March 26,2014 )
Bicycle diaries by David Byrne
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-17 | Author:David Byrne

Of course, beginning with Marcos’s 1969 reelection campaign and then when martial law was declared in 1972 the scales began to tip, and the chicanery, censorship, human-rights abuses, murder, corruption, ...
( Category: Cycling March 25,2014 )
For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz Age Chicago by Simon Baatz
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2009-04-28 | Author:Simon Baatz

WHILE ROBERT CROWE AND CLARENCE Darrow each argued his case in the pages of the Chicago newspapers, a novel proposition, one that neither side had anticipated, suddenly elbowed its way ...
( Category: Jazz March 25,2014 )
Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2005-08-30 | Author:Aron Ralston

Eight “I’m Goin’ to Utah” People say that we’re searching for the meaning of life. I don’t think that’s it at all. I think that what we’re seeking is an ...
( Category: Rock March 25,2014 )
Guts: The Endless Follies and Tiny Triumphs of a Giant Disaster by Kristen Johnston
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-13 | Author:Kristen Johnston

seven BLINK . . . and I was someplace else now, in a hallway full of beeping machines and someone saying my name. I wanted to tell my surgeon something ...
( Category: Rock March 25,2014 )
Sharon Osbourne Extreme: My Autobiography by Sharon Osbourne
mobi |eng | 2006-10-10 | Author:Sharon Osbourne

And when my mother hung up the phone that morning in New York, I knew I was alone. And that from then on my life would be totally different. Ozzy ...
( Category: Rock March 25,2014 )
Lips Unsealed by Belinda Carlisle
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-01 | Author:Belinda Carlisle

I went up to my room and took the coke out of my purse. I couldn’t wait to look at this package that could have cost me my life. I ...
( Category: Pop March 25,2014 )
Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time by Rob Sheffield
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2007-12-04 | Author:Rob Sheffield

how i got that look AUGUST 1994 The spring of 1994 was marked by two key events in rock history: the death of Kurt Cobain and the birth of Zima. ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians March 25,2014 )
Life Is What You Make It by Peter Buffett
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-04-27 | Author:Peter Buffett

My entrée into the world of professional composing was as a writer of music for TV commercials. Advertising, of course, is a field in which creativity and commerce are thoroughly, ...
( Category: Rich & Famous March 25,2014 )
We'll be here for the rest of our lives: a swingin' show-biz saga by Paul Shaffer; David Ritz
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-13 | Author:Paul Shaffer; David Ritz

The name Hereafter was changed to A Year at the Top, but it wasn’t a year at the top. It was a year in the middle. It wasn’t awful and ...
( Category: Shows March 25,2014 )
The Love You Make by Peter Brown
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-24 | Author:Peter Brown

3 On November 9 I could no longer put off the worried phone calls from our English tour promoter, Arthur Howes, about booking future Beatles’ concerts. Brian, who couldn’t bear ...
( Category: Rock March 25,2014 )

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