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Musical Biographies at East Greenbush Community Library Musical Biographies At East Greenbush Community Library: ● Just Kids by Patti Smith - 920 SMITH ● Chronicles by Bob Dylan ● Cash by Johnny Cash ● Life by Keith Richards ● My Cross To Bear by Gregg Allman ● Waylon: An Autobiography by Waylon Jennings ● Blues All Around Me by B.B. King ● Steven Tyler: 'Does The Noise In My Head Bother You?' (2011) ● Love, Janis by Laura Joplin ● Shakey: Neil Young’s Biography by Jimmy McDonough ● Reba: My Story by Reba McEntire, Tom Carter ● It’s a Long Story: My Life by Willie Nelson ● Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir by Linda Ronstadt ● Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption-from South Central to Hollywood by Ice-T, Douglas Century ● Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong by Terry Teachout ● Reckless: My Life as a Pretender by Chrissie Hynde ● A Natural Woman: A Memoir by Carole King ● Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein ● Clapton: The Autobiography by Eric Clapton ● Not Dead Yet by Phil Collins ● Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink by Elvis Costello ● Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix by Charles R. Cross ● Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon ● Diary of a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star by Ian Hunter ● Dancing with Myself by Billy Idol ● I Am Ozzy by Ozzy Osbourne ● Rocks: My Life in and out of Aerosmith by Joe Perry ● Elvis and Me by Priscilla Presley ● Face the Music: A Life Exposed by Paul Stanley ● Who I Am by Pete Townshend ● Wonderful Tonight, by Pattie Boyd ● David Bowie: Starman, by Paul Trynka ● Leonard Bernstein, by Meryle Secrest ● Life is a Gift, by Tony Bennett ● The Good Life, by Tony Bennett and Will Friedwald ● My Song, Harry Bellafonte ● Sounds like Me, by Sarah Bareilles ● And a Voice to Sing With, by Joan Baez ● My Way, by Paul Anka and David Dalton ● Home: A Memoir of my Early Years, by Julie Andrews ● American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee, by Karen Abbott ● Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph, by Jan Swafford ● Beethoven, by Maynard Solomon ● Totally Uninhibited: The life and uninhibited times of Cher, by Lawrence J. Quirk ● A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love and Faith in Stages, by Kristen Chenoweth ● Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter, by Randy L. Schmidt ● The Man Called Cash: The Life, Love, and Faith of an American Legend, and Steve Turner ● Johnny Cash: A Life, by Robert Hilburn ● Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams, the early years 1903-1940, by Gary Giddons ● Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink, by Elvis Costello ● Angel on my shoulder: An Autobiography, by Natalie Cole ● Unforgettable: The Life of Mystique of Nat King Cole, Leslie Gourse ● I’m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen, by Sylvie Simmons ● The True Life of J.S. Bach, by Klaus Rogers Elsewhere in UHLS: ● Yes I Can by Sammy Davis, Jr. ● Bound For Glory by Woody Guthrie ● Slash by Slash ● Decoded by Jay Z (2010) ● Coal Miner’s Daughter by Loretta Lynn ● Rat Girl by Kristin Hersh (2010) ● Mo’ Meta Blues by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson ● When I Left Home: My Story by Buddy Guy ● Chuck Berry: The Autobiography by Chuck Berry (1989) ● Nikki Sixx: 'The Heroin Diaries' (2007) ● Rick Springfield: 'Late Late At Night' (2010) ● Anthony Kiedis: 'Scar Tissue' (2004) ● Ronnie Spector: 'Be My Baby: How I Survived Mascara, Miniskirts, and Madness' (1989) ● Tommy James: 'Me, The Mob and the Music' (2010) ● The RZA: 'The Tao of Wu' (2009) ● Lynyrd Skynyrd: Remembering the Free Birds of Southern Rock by Gene Odom, Frank Dorman ● The 50th Law by 50 Cent, Robert Greene ● Sentences: The Life of MF Grimm by Percy Carey, Ronald Wimberly ● Fight the Power: Rap, Race, and Reality by Chuck D, Yusuf Jah ● The Way I Am by Eminem ● Unashamed by Lecrae Moore ● The Rose That Grew From Concrete by Tupac Shakur ● How to Ruin Everything: Essays by George Watsky ● Gone ‘Til November by Lil Wayne ● The Godfather of Soul: An Autobiography by James Brown ● Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker by Stanley Crouch ● Can’t Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters by Robert Gordon ● John Coltrane: His Life and Music by Lewis Porter ● Jazz Cleopatra: Josephine Baker in Her Time by Phyllis Rose ● Passion Is a Fashion: The Real Story of the Clash by Pat Gilbert ● Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout by Laura Jane Grace ● I’ll Never Write My Memoirs by Grace Jones, Paul Morley ● Rod: The Autobiography by Rod Stewart ● In the Pleasure Groove: Love, Death, and Duran Duran by Nigel John Taylor ● I, Tina by Tina Turner, Kurt Loder ● Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys. by Viv Albertine ● Between a Heart and a Rock Place: A Memoir by Pat Benatar ● Lips Unsealed: A Memoir by Belinda Carlisle ● Journals by Kurt Cobain ● Neon Angel by Cherie Currie ● Hammer of the Gods by Stephen Davis ● Fleetwood: My Life and Adventures in Fleetwood Mac by Mick Fleetwood, Stephen Davis ● Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick ● Mercury: An Intimate Biography of Freddie Mercury by Lesley-Ann Jones ● Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead by Phil Lesh ● Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love by Courtney Love ● The Long Hard Road Out of Hell by Marilyn Manson ● Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd by Nick Mason, Philip Dodd ● It’s So Easy: And Other Lies by Duff McKagan ● Joan Jett by Todd Oldham, Joan Jett ● Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good by Corey Taylor ● Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke by Peter Guralnick ● Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye by David Ritz ● Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues by Elijah Wald .
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