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I Can’t Remember If I Cried: Rock Widows on Life, Love and Legacy
A wide range of readers and book clubs will appreciate this moving, healing, and absorbing memoir/music history.
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I Hate Old Music, Too: How Familiarity & Overuse Killed Our Favorite Music
A clever, rather than insightful, take on what irks Thompson about the state of the music industry and rock and roll. Sure to cause debates among music lovers.
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I Saw Them Standing There: Adventures of an Original Fan During Beatlemania and Beyond
A fun and intimate way to experience the height of Beatlemania.
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She’s a Badass: Women in Rock Shaping Feminism
This book’s fierce attitude and biographies that pitch towards the positive will have plenty of appeal for readers seeking some inspiration from women who’ve carved out a place in rock music.
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Silhouettes and Shadows: The Secret History of David Bowie’s Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
This book is fascinating, but its density may be more suitable for academically-inclined music readers.
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All the Leaves Are Brown: How the Mamas & the Papas Came Together and Broke Apart
Shea’s matter-of-fact journalistic style prevents sensationalism from overtaking this study of the Mamas & the Papas’ powerful influence and importance.
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The Great American Songbook: 201 Favorites You Ought To Know (& Love)
From A (“Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive”) to Z (“Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart”), this book will delight lovers of American pop songs. But those who don’t read music will find it hard to follow Suskin’s dissection of melody lines, rhythm accents, and key changes, which makes up half or more of each entry.
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When Rock Met Disco: The Story of How the Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart, KISS, Queen, Blondie, and More Got Their Groove On in the Me Decade
Fans of ’70s music will likely reminiscence and enjoy the entertaining photographs.
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