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Ghost rider: travels on the healing road
By Neil Peart. 2002
After the deaths of his daughter and then his common-law wife, musician Neil Peart got on his motorcycle and drove…
for over a year, traveling Canada, the U.S. and Central America. The need to do something, to move, kept Neil going and pushed him toward healing. 2002.Beatles '66: the revolutionary year
By Steve Turner. 2018
Music journalist and Beatles expert Steve Turner investigates in detail the enormous changes that took place in the Beatles' lives…
and work during 1966. He looks at the historical events that had an impact on the group, the music they made that in turn profoundly affected the culture around them, and the vision that allowed four young men from Liverpool to transform popular music and serve as pioneers for artists from Coldplay to David Bowie, Jay-Z to U2. 2018.Born to run
By Bruce Springsteen. 2016
Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing to…
these pages the same honesty, humor, and originality found in his songs. He describes growing up Catholic in Freehold, New Jersey, amid the poetry, danger, and darkness that fueled his imagination, leading up to the moment he refers to as "The Big Bang": seeing Elvis Presley's debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. He vividly recounts his relentless drive to become a musician, his early days as a bar band king in Asbury Park, and the rise of the E Street Band. With disarming candor, he also tells for the first time the story of the personal struggles that inspired his best work, and shows us why the song "Born to Run" reveals more than we previously realized. Bestseller. 2016.Buddy Baker: big band arranger, Disney legend, and musical genius
By Ben Ohmart. 2016
Buddy Baker was Disney music. Mostly known as the composer of the Haunted Mansion song and score, he was also…
a composer of films (Wicked Woman, The Fox and the Hound), television shows (the original Mickey Mouse Club), and numerous theme park attractions (World of Motion, Wonders of China, Kitchen Kaberet, Impressions de France) around the globe. From a humble beginning in Springfield, Missouri, Buddy Baker began composing and arranging music at an early age. He worked for many of the top big bands, then began arranging music on hit radio shows (the Bob Hope show, the Eddie Cantor show, the Jack Benny program) before getting into film. His thirty-plus-year career with the Walt Disney Company put him at the top of his field, working alongside many of the greats, including Walt Disney himself. 2016.Everything's bigger in Texas: the life and times of Kinky Friedman (Lone Star audio)
By Mary Lou Sullivan. 2018
Best known as an irreverent cigar-chomping Jewish country-and-western singer, turned author, turned politician, Kinky has dined on monkey brains in…
the jungles of Borneo, supped with presidents, and vacationed with Bob Dylan in the tiny fishing village of Yelapa, Mexico. A satirist who loves pushing the envelope, he's been attacked onstage, received bomb threats, and put on the only show in Austin City Limits' history deemed too offensive to air. From the 1970s music scene in L.A. with Tom Waits and the Band, to political platforms advocating legalized marijuana, to friendships with John Belushi, Joseph Heller, Don Imus, Willie Nelson, Dwight Yoakam, and Billy Bob Thornton, this is the candid account based on years of interviews of the larger-than-life Texan who is still writing books and songs, recording albums, and performing for enthusiastic audiences throughout the world. 2018.Die young with me: a memoir
By Rob Rufus. 2016
Part memoir, part love song, and part tale about overcoming the odds, this is not a cancer story but an…
account of a teenager's life becoming derailed and the one thing that helped him pull it back together: music. Punk's not dead in rural West Virginia. It screams from the basement of Rob and Nat Rufus -- identical twin brothers with spiked hair, black leather jackets, and the most kick-ass record collection in Appalachia. The brothers start their own band, but their plans are cut short when Rob is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer that has already progressed to an advanced stage. While Rob suffers through nightmarish treatments and debilitating surgery, Nat continues on their band's road to success alone. But as Rob's life diverges from his brother's, he learns to find strength with himself and through his music. 2016.Billie Holiday: a musical biography
By John F Szwed. 2015
When Billie Holiday stepped into Columbia’s studios in November 1933, it marked the beginning of what is arguably the most…
remarkable and influential career in twentieth-century popular music. Her voice weathered countless shifts in public taste, and new reincarnations of her continue to arrive, most recently in the form of singers like Amy Winehouse and Adele. Most of the writing on Holiday has focused on the tragic details of her life - her prostitution at the age of fourteen, her heroin addiction and alcoholism, her series of abusive relationships - or tried to correct the many fabrications of her autobiography. “Billie Holiday” stays close to the music, to her performance style, and to the self she created and put into print, on record and on stage. 2015.Fearless as possible (under the circumstances)
By Denise Donlon. 2016
Donlon chronicles her days at MuchMusic and the music journalism show The NewMusic, where her mandate was relevance, during a…
time when music videos became a medium that would change pop music and popular culture forever. She became the first female president of Sony Music Canada, where she navigated the crisis in the music industry with the rise of Napster and the new digital revolution. She then joined CBC English Radio as General Manager and Executive Director when the corporation absorbed funding cutbacks, leading to mass reductions in people and programming and leaving a shadow over the future of Canada’s national public broadcaster. She shares stories of growing up in east Scarborough; interviewing musical icons such as Keith Richards, Run-DMC, Joni Mitchell, and Sting; working with media pioneer Moses Znaimer, and her co-host on the current affairs magazine show The Zoomer, Conrad Black. Also details her experiences with War Child Canada and her work with other charitable organizations, including Live8 and the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership. 2016.Chilton explores the life of legendary jazz performer and civil rights activist Hazel Scott. From her birthplace in Trinidad to…
the lively streets of Harlem and beyond in the 1940s and '50s, Scott created a legacy of achievement that resounds to this day. 2009.From this moment on
By Shania Twain. 2011
Forty-five-year-old Grammy-Award-winning Canadian singer Shania Twain details her impoverished childhood, her mother and stepfather’s tumultuous relationship and their accidental deaths…
when Shania was twenty-two, and the painful betrayal in her own first marriage two decades later. Discusses relishing her career, second marriage, and role as a mother. Strong language. Bestseller. 2011.I am potential: eight lessons on living, loving, and reaching your dreams
By Patrick Henry Hughes, Patrick John Hughes, Bryant A Stamford. 2008
Patrick Henry Hughes was born with a rare genetic disorder that left him without eyes and physically disabled, but he…
was also blessed with exceptional musical talent, able to play the piano at the age of two. Now, at age nineteen, he is a nationally known pianist, singer, and trumpeter who has performed at the Kennedy Center. But he's best known for playing in the University of Louisville marching band, while his devoted father pushes him in formation in his wheelchair. With determined optimism and courage, Hughes has made "I am potential" his mantra and defied the impossible at every turn. 2008.Glenn Gould: a life and variations
By Otto Friedrich. 1989
Glenn Gould, Canada's world-famous pianist, was a child prodigy. His 10 years of concert tours led to his disillusionment with…
live concerts and, in 1964, he retreated into the recording studios. Runner-up for the 1991 CNIB Torgi Award. c1989.Garth Brooks: the road out of Santa Fe
By Matt O'Meilia. 1997
Former drummer in a band called Santa Fe describes the early career of the group's country western singer. O'Meilia recalls…
meeting Garth Brooks in Stillwater, Oklahoma, in 1986, appearing with him during the next year, and being impressed with the singer's determination to succeed even after a series of failures. Some strong language. 1997.Horowitz: a biography of Vladimir Horowitz
By Glenn Plaskin. 1983
Horowitz: his life and music
By Harold C Schonberg. 1992
Schonberg chronicles the life of one of this century's greatest pianists. At times tortured by self-doubt and personal troubles, Horowitz…
was awe-inspiring and envied. Using interviews with Horowitz and his colleagues, Schonberg discusses Horowitz's youth in Russia, the beginning of his career in Berlin, and Horowitz's technique at the piano. c1992.How the weather was
By Roger Kahn. 1973
Glenn Gould
By Glenn Gould, John McGreevy. 1983
Grass beyond the mountains: discovering the last great cattle frontier on the North American continent
By Richmond P Hobson. 1951
In the fall of 1934, three cowhands with a dream of owning a cattle ranch made their way from peaceful…
Wyoming to the harsh, uncharted territory of the British Columbian interior. In conditions as challenging as any encountered by the western frontier pioneers of a hundred years earlier, the three men and their equipment-laden horses conquered the tortuous miles over narrow passes and mountain summits, hewed their first cabin from virgin timber, and attempted to carve out a space for themselves on the unforgiving landscape. Followed by "Nothing too good for a cowboy". 1951.Four strong winds: Ian & Sylvia
By Ian Tyson, John Einarson, Sylvia Tyson. 2011
Their classic "Four Strong Winds" is widely considered to be one of the great songs of all time, their admirers…
include Bob Dylan, Gordon Lightfoot, and Joni Mitchell, and their music has been recorded by Johnny Cash, Sarah McLachlan and The Tragically Hip. Einarson takes us back to Ian & Sylvia's early days in Toronto coffeehouses, to their experiences at the heart of the vibrant 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene, and beyond. 2011.Hammer of the gods: the Led Zeppelin saga
By Stephen Davis. 1985
The author recounts the rise of the rock band Led Zeppelin as well as the deaths, tragedies and violence of…
a group that represented a fast-and-free decade. Strong language and descriptions of sex. c1985.