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The Meaning of Mariah Carey
BUY Amazon | Bookshop It took me a lifetime to have the courage and the clarity to write my memoir. I want to tell the story of the moments - the ups...
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My Life in the Purple Kingdom by BrownMark
BUY Amazon | Bookshop In the summer of 1981, Mark Brown was a teenager working at a 7-11 store when he wasn’t rehearsing with his high school band, Phantasy. Come fall, Brown,...
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Blues All Around Me: The Autobiography of B.B. King
BUY Amazon | Bookshop B. B. King has the blues running through his blood. Growing up in the rural poverty of the Mississippi Delta, King first experienced the blues at nine years...
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If You See Me: My Six-Decade Journey in Rock and Roll by Pepé Willie
BUY Amazon | Bookshop Pepé Willie grew up in music. As a teenager in Brooklyn, he was immersed in the R&B and soul scene of 1960s New York—rubbing elbows with top musicians...
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Fangirls: Scenes from Modern Music Culture by Hannah Ewens
BUY Amazon | Bookshop "To be a fan is to scream alone together." This is the discovery Hannah Ewens makes in Fangirls: how music fandom is at once a journey of self-definition and...
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One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time by Craig Brown
BUY Amazon From the award-winning author of Maam Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret comes a fascinating, hilarious, kaleidoscopic biography of the Fab Four.John Updike compared them to the sun coming...
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Knock! Knock! Knock! On Wood: My Life In Soul by Eddie Floyd
BUY Amazon Known for the classics “Knock on Wood,” “634-5789,” “Raise Your Hand,” “Big Bird,” and “I’ve Never Found a Girl (To Love Me Like You Do),” among others, Eddie Floyd’s...
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Larger Than Life: A History of Boy Bands from NKOTB to BTS by Maria Sherman
BUY Amazon | Bookshop Featured on The Thread: A new book traces the history of boy bands, the pop phenomenon 'Larger Than Life' The music, the fans, the choreography, the clothes, the merch,...
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Blues People: Negro Music in White America by Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka)
BUY Amazon | Indiebound "The path the slave took to 'citizenship' is what I want to look at. And I make my analogy through the slave citizen's music -- through the music that...
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