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REQUIRED READING LIST
(Regularly
Updated)
Skylark (Johnny Mercer) by Philip Furia
The Dead Circus: A Novel by John
Kaye (A Bobby Fuller Mystery)
Johnny Cash: by Frank
Moriarty
Cash: The Autobiography by Johnny Cash
Ring of Fire: The Johnny Cash Reader by Michael Streissguth (Editor)
From the Heart by
June Carter Cash
Jazz and Death: Medical Profiles of Jazz Greats
by Frederick J. Spencer, MD
Aaliyah: An R&B Princess in Words and Pictures by
Kelly Kenyatta
Aaliyah: More Than a Woman by Christopher John Farley
Lisa Lopes: The Life of a Supernova
by Nancy Krulik
Hey Hey Let's Go: The Story of the Ramones
by Everett True
Selena Perez: Queen of Tejano Music (Great Hispanics of Our Time)
Without You: The Tragic Story of Badfinger (with 72 minute cd)
by Dan Matovina
Thelonious Monk: His Life and Music
Thomas Fitterling, Steve Lacy, Robert Dobbin (Translator)
Before He Was Fab: George Harrison's First American Visit
by Jim Kirkpatrick
An Unsung Cat (Warne
Marsh)
by Safford Chamberlain
NEW
Dance of the Infidels: A Portrait of Bud
Powell
by Francis Paudras, Rubye Money
Bill Evans:
How My Heart Sings
by Peter Pettinger
The Artistry of Bill Evans
by Bob Hinz
Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt
Cobain
by Charles R. Cross
Songs of the Unsung: The Musical and Social Journey of Horace Tapscott
by Horace
Tapscott, Steven Louis Isoardi
Morning Glory: A Biography of Mary Lou
Williams
by Linda Dahl
Aaliyah
by Tim Footman
When Elvis Died: Media Overload and the Origins
of the Elvis Cult by Neal
Gregory, Janice Gregory (Contributor)
The Black Elvis - Jackie
Wilson
by Doug Carter
Dead Man Blues: Jelly Roll Morton Way Out West (Music of the African
Dia
spora)
by Phil Pastras
Jazz Generations: A Life in American Music
and Society (Bayou)
by Buddy Collette,
Stephen Isoardi
Down at the End of Lonely Street: The Life and Death
of Elvis Presley by
Peter Harry Brown, Pat H. Broeske
Freddie Mercury: An Intimate Memoir by the Man
Who Knew Him Best
by Peter Freestone, David Evans
(Contributor)
Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley
by Peter Guralnick
The Late Great Johnny Ace and the
Transition from R&B to Rock 'N' Roll
by James M. Salem
Tammy Wynette: A Daughter Recalls Her Mother's
Tragic Life and Death
by Jackie Daly, Tom
Carter
John Bonham:
A Thunder of Drums
by Chris Welch, Geoff Nicholls
Moon:
The Life and Death of a Rock
Legend by Tony Fletcher
--(Keith Moon book)
Remembering Buddy: The
Definitive Biography of Buddy Holly
by John Goldrosen, John
Beecher (Contributor)
Behind the Music: The Day the
Music Died by Martin
Huxley, Quinton Skinner
--(Buddy Holly book)
The Day the Music Died: The Last Tour of Buddy
Holly, the Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens
--by Larry Lehmer
Clifford Brown:
The Life
and Art of the Legendary Jazz Trumpeter
by Nick Catalano
Don't Forget Me: The Eddie Cochran Story
by Julie Mundy, Darrel Higham
El Sid: Saint Vicious
by David Dalton
Dream Brother: The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim
Buckley
by David Browne
Patsy: The Life and Times of Patsy Cline
by
Margaret Jones
Hank Williams: Snapshots
from the Lost Highway by
Colin Escott, Kira Florita, Marty Stuart (Introduction)
Hickory Wind: The Life and Times of Gram Parsons
by Ben Fong-Torres
Gram Parsons:
A Music Biography
by Sid Griffin, John Delgatto (Editor)
Gram Parsons:
God's Own Singer: by Jason
Walker
Marc Bolan: A Tribute
Lobotomy: Surviving the Ramones
by Dee Dee Ramone
Poison Heart: Surviving the Ramones
by Dee Dee Ramone
Chelsea Horror Hotel: A Novel
by Dee Dee Ramone
Taxi: The Harry Chapin Story
by Peter Morton Coan
Jaco: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius: 'the World's Greatest Bass Player'
Django Reinhardt
by Charles Delaunay, Michael James
(Translator)
Positively 4th Street : The Lives and Times of Joan
Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina, and Richard Farina
Death of a Rebel/a Biography of Phil Ochs
by Marc Eliot, Vin Scelsa
The Final Days of Michael Hutchence
by Mike Gee
Just a Man: The Real Story of Michael Hutchence
by Tina Hutchence and Patrician
Glassop
Who Killed Kurt Cobain?: The
Mysterious Death of an Icon
You Send Me: The Life and Times of Sam Cooke
Peace at Last: The After-Death
Experiences of John Lennon
by John Lennon
Catch a Fire : The Life of Bob Marley
by Timothy White
Stevie Ray Vaughan: Caught in the
Crossfire
by Joe Nick Patoski, Crawford Bill, Bill Crawford
The Final Days of Jimi Hendrix
The Lizard King: The Essential Jim
Morrison
Trouble Man: The Life and Death of
Marvin Gaye
Tupac Shakur's
poetry: The Rose
That Grew from Concrete
The Killing of Tupac Shakur
The Murder of Biggie Smalls
LAbyrinth: A Detective Investigates the Murders of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls, the Implication of Death Row Records'
Suge Knight, and the Origins of the Los Angeles Police Scandal
by Randall Sullivan
Garcia: An American Life
The Year Jerry Garcia Died
a novel by Fred Beauford
Buried Alive: The Biography of Janis
Joplin
Brian Jones:
The Last Decadent
Liberace: An American Boy
by Darden Asbury Pyron
Bird Lives!: The High Life and Hard
Times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker
Chet Baker: His Life and Music
The Covert War Against Rock : What
You Don't Know About the Deaths of Jim Morrison, Tupac Shakur, Michael
Hutchence, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Phil Ochs..
Russ Columbo:
The Amazing Life and Mysterious Death of a
Hollywood Singing Legend
Fela:
The Life & Times of an African Musical Icon
Behind the Sun : The Diary & Art of Hillel
Slovak by James Slovak,
Hillel Slovak, Chris Gallipoli (Illustrator)
Short Life and Fast Times of Darby Crash and
the Germs
by Don Bolles, Brendan Mullen
I Was A Murder Junkie: The Last Days of GG Allin
by Evan Cohen
Death Discs
by Alan Clayson |
