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REQUIRED READING LIST
(Regularly
Updated)
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
Who Killed Kurt Cobain?: The Mysterious Death of an Icon 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 Skylark (Johnny
Mercer) by
Philip Furia
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
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