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By Alexis Petridis. 2000
This text provides a concise and well-researched view into the career of this unique rock 'n' roll icon. The author…
includes full biographical information and a comprehensive discography, and explores the influence of Young on a huge range of artists, from Sonic Youth and Nirvana to Ron Sexsmith. 2000.By Frank Donovan. 1971
By James Haskins, Kathleen Benson. 1984
By Scott Young. 1984
By Laura Jackson. 2004
This portrait of Neil Diamond, his life, his music and his passions are explored from his childhood struggle to get…
out of Brooklyn, through five decades of global stardom, to the present day. This biography provides a definitive insight into one of the most enduring, creative, and prolific singer-songwriters of his generation. 2004.By David Dalton, Paul Anka. 2013
Autobiography of Canadian singer-songwriter whose lengthy career began as a teen idol in the late 1950s. Describes singing through the…
decades to a changing audience and hanging out with and writing hits for other singers, including Frank Sinatra and Buddy Holly. Some strong language. 2013.By Joyce Gray Jackson. 2009
The story of star-struck Kentucky girl Joyce Gray, who grew up, moved to Nashville where she worked behind-the-scenes on behalf…
of such Music City legends as singer Jim Reeves. This book documents her professional and private lives. 2009.By Kathryn Crosby. 1983
Kathryn Crosby discusses her first 12 years with her singer-actor husband, Bing, and their children. She describes the joys and…
difficulties of raising a family with the famous star, while she maintained her own acting career. 1983.By Mary Lawrence. 1996
Born in 1950 on the Vernon, B.C. Indian reserve, Lawrence was placed in residential schools and then in a series…
of foster homes. Her dysfunctional upbringing led to substance abuse, which she was able to beat eventually. She recounts her dark years and subsequent recovery. 1996.By R. Murray Schafer. 2012
A memoir by the internationally-acclaimed Canadian composer, music educator and writer R. Murray Schafer, traces the author's life and growth…
as an artist from his earliest memories to the present. Scenes from his youth as an aspiring painter, a music student at the University of Toronto and a sailor on a Great Lakes freighter give way to memories of his several years of work and wandering in Europe, where he gained a deeper understanding of his vocation, and found, especially in Greece, the inspiration for much of the astonishing music he would create after his return to Canada. 2012.By Margaret Crosland, Edith Piaf, Jean Noli. 1990
This autobiography of Edith Piaf offers romantic, and sometimes melodramatic, recollections of the French singer's celebrated, yet tragic, life. Her…
rise from poverty, her philosophical and religious convictions and her legendary generosity are intermingled with scandals of love affairs, drug addiction and alcoholism. 1990. Uniform title: Ma vie.By Jeff Coplon, Tina Sinatra. 2000
A portrait of Frank Sinatra by his youngest daughter, Tina. Focuses on his home life, marriage to teenage sweetheart, Nancy,…
and his loyalty to his three children. Also describes the entertainer's tempestuous marriages to Ava Gardner and Mia Farrow, and his last years with domineering wife Barbara Marx Sinatra. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2000.By James Willard Schultz. 1997
Autobiography of a trader and rancher who married a Piegan woman and moved to the Blackfeet reservation in 1886. He…
recalls his adventures in the Montana Territory, where he learned the customs, language, and traditions of his wife's people - participating in buffalo hunts and enjoying the wilderness. c1997.By Tommy Hunter, Liane Heller. 1985
Country singer Tommy Hunter became known while on the television show "Country Hoedown" in the late 1950s. For the past…
20 years, he has had his own TV show on CBC. 1985.By Plácido Domingo. 1983
By John Robert Colombo. 1988
This collection of more than 500 entries explores some of Canada's strange and mysterious phenomena, from each province and territory.…
The mysteries include native traditions, prehistoric America, lost worlds, sacred and profane places, treasures, wild creatures, spirits, and even alien encounters. Each mystery also presents little-known facts about famous people, from Susanna Moodie to Houdini. c1988, 1989.By Artur Rubinstein. 1973
The pianist travels to South America in 1917 and then to New York and the glittering Paris of the 1920s…
and 1930s. He relates behind-the-scenes stories of concert life, tours, and his flight from the Nazis to Hollywood. 1973.By Eve Ruggieri. 2006
De Mozart on connaît bien sur l'enfant prodige, l'adolescent rebelle, le génie foudroyé à trente-cinq ans. Mais il en est…
un autre, plus proche de nous, qu'Eve Ruggieri accompagne tout au long d'un itinéraire sentimental et libertin où l'on découvre son insatiable soif d'amour et de plaisirs. Des premiers émois de l'adolescence, des palpitations de Chérubin, aux jeux érotiques chez la Cousinette : d'une folle passion abusée aux conquêtes musiciennes transposées de l'alcôve aux scènes d'opéra, il n'est de note chez Mozart qui ne chante les feux du coeur et des sens. 2006.By Alain Gueullette. 1982
By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Robert Spaethling. 2001
These letters of Mozart span almost 22 years, from his first journey to Italy as a shy teenager to his…
final months in Vienna. These translations capture the "vibrant, earthy flavour" of his writing, even retaining the misspellings and inaccuracies of the original German. 2001.