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Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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The result is Me - the joyously funny, honest and moving story of the most enduringly successful singer/songwriter of all time. Christened Reginald Dwight, he was a shy boy with Buddy Holly glasses who grew up in the London suburb of Pinner and dreamed of becoming a pop star. By the age of twenty-three, he was performing his first gig in America, facing an astonished audience in his bright yellow dungarees, a star-spangled T-shirt and boots with wings....
2) Bessie Smith
Author
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Scotland's National Poet Jackie Kay brings to life the tempestuous story of the greatest blues singer who ever lived.
3) Rememberings
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
THE LANDMARK MEMOIR OF A GLOBAL MUSIC ICON Sinǎd O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made her famous by the age of twenty-one. Her recording of Prince's Nothing Compares 2 U made her a global icon. She outraged millions when she tore up a photograph of Pope John Paul II on American television. O'Connor was unapologetic and impossible to ignore, calling out hypocrisy wherever she saw it. She has remained that way for three decades. Now, in...
Author
Publisher
Serpent's Tail
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Robert Wyatt started out as the drummer and singer for Soft Machine, who shared a residency at Middle Earth with Pink Floyd and toured America with Jimi Hendrix. He brought a Bohemian and jazz outlook to the 60s rock scene, having honed his drumming skills in a shed at the end of Robert Graves' garden in Mallorca. His life took an abrupt turn after he fell from a fourth-floor window at a party and was paralysed from the waist down. He reinvented himself...
Author
Publisher
Cornerstone Digital
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Prince was a musical genius, one of the most talented, beloved, accomplished, popular, and acclaimed musicians in pop history. But he wasn't only a musician-he was also a startlingly original visionary with an imagination deep enough to whip up whole worlds, from the sexy, gritty funk paradise of his early records to the mythical landscape of Purple Rain to the psychedelia of Paisley Park. But his greatest creative act was turning Prince Rogers Nelson,...
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