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By Simon, Carly2015., General, Flatiron Books Call No: Bio S594b Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Simon's memoir of her remarkable life, beginning with her storied childhood as a daughter of Richard L. Simon, the co-founder of publishing giant Simon & Schuster, her musical debut as half of The Simon Sisters performing folk songs with her sister Lucy in Greenwich Village, to a meteoric solo career that would result in 13 top 40 hits, including the #1 song "You're So Vain." She was the first artist in history to win a Grammy Award, an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, for her song "Let the River Run" from the movie Working Girl. The memoir recalls a childhood enriched by music and culture, but also one shrouded in secrets that would eventually tear her family apart. Simon brilliantly captures moments of creative inspiration, the sparks of songs, and the stories behind writing "Anticipation" and "We Have No Secrets" among many others. Romantic entanglements with some of the most famous men of the day fueled her confessional lyrics, as well as the unraveling of her storybook marriage to James Taylor"--Provided by publisher.
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2017., General, St. Martin's Press Call No: Bio N632d Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Stevie Nicks is a legend of rock. She's one of the most glamorous creatures rock has known. Stephen Davis presents a rich new portrait of the star. Nicks (and Lindsey Buckingham) gave Fleetwood Mac the "shot of adrenaline" they needed to become real rock stars - according to Christine McVie. Here are stories and with a life lived large and hard: How Nicks and Buckingham were asked to join Fleetwood Mac and how they turned the band into stars. The affairs that informed Nicks' greatest songs. Her relationships with the Eagles' Don Henley and Joe Walsh, and with Fleetwood himself. Why Nicks married her best friend's widower. Her dependency on cocaine, drinking and pot, but how it was a decade-long addiction to Klonopin that almost killed her. Nicks' successful solo career that has her still performing in venues like Madison Square Garden. The cult of Nicks and its extension to chart-toppers like Taylor Swift and the Dixie Chicks. Stevie Nicks was born in Phoenix, Arizona.
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By Smith, Patti2015., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Canada, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada Call No: Bio S642m Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "From the author of Just Kids: the odyssey of an artist, told through the prism of the cafés and haunts she has worked in around the world. Patti Smith describes this book as "a roadmap to my life." M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, and across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations. We travel to Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul in Mexico; to a meeting of an Arctic explorer's society in Berlin; to a ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York's Far Rockaway that Smith acquires just before Hurricane Sandy hits; and to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud, and Mishima. Woven throughout are reflections on the writer's craft and on artistic creation. Here, too, are singular memories of Smith's life in Michigan and the irremediable loss of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith. Braiding despair with hope and consolation, illustrated with her signature Polaroids, M Train is a meditation on travel, detective shows, literature, and coffee. It is a powerful, deeply moving book by one of the most remarkable multiplatform artists at work today. Patti Smith is a rock musician, visual artist and writer. She gained recognition in the 1970s for her revolutionary merging of poetry and rock, releasing twelve albums, including Horses, which has been hailed as one of the top albums of all time. Smith had her first exhibit of drawings at the Gotham Book Mart in 1973 and has been represented by the Robert Miller Gallery since 1978. Her books include Just Kids, Witt, Babel, Woolgathering, The Coral Sea, and Auguries of Innocence"--Provided by publisher.
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By Lees, Genec2004., Pantheon Books Call No: Bio M554l Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2022., Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: Bio R691s Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The memoirs of Mary Rodgers - writer, composer, Broadway royalty, and "a woman who tried everything." "What am I, bologna?" Mary Rodgers Guettel (1931-2014) often said. She was referring to being stuck in the middle: the daughter of one composer and the mother of another. And not just any composers. Her father was Richard Rodgers, perhaps the greatest American melodist; her son Adam Guettel, a worthy successor. What that leaves out is Mary herself, also a composer, whose musical Once Upon a Mattress remains one of the rare revivable Broadway hits written by a woman.
