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Big Beat Heat: Alan Freed and the Early Years of Rock & Roll
The Western world entered a new era at the end of World War II, and that was true in its music and pop culture as much as in its politics and international relations. The years after the war saw the...
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Keith Richards: The Biography
It seems that in any biography about a rock & roll great from the ‘60s and ‘70s, a problem with drug abuse is inevitable, and legal troubles and violence are an optional feature present at least...
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Hammer of the Gods: The Led Zeppelin Saga
Led Zeppelin was arguably the biggest, most successful, most influential band of any genre (rock, jazz, disco, whatever) in the 1970s. For rock music, they were almost as iconic in the ‘70s as the...
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George Harrison: Living In the Material World
This George Harrison biography, written by the former Beatle’s widow, Olivia Harrison, draws upon his collection of photographs, letters, journals, and other documentation. She follows Harrison’s life...
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A John Lennon Biography: All I Want Is the Truth
I am old enough that the Beatles were a current and very hot band when I started tuning into the radio. This was around the turning point in their music, when they stopped playing pop songs with catchy...
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