Timothy White, Author Holt McDougal $18.95 (832p) ISBN 978-0-8050-1861-5
Among the 59 rock 'n' roll legends portrayed here are Pete Townshend of The Who, Mississippi bluesman Robert Johnson, Elvis Costello, Stevie Nicks, Sting and Prince. ``Eminently browsable,'' said PW. ``The interviews catch the stars generally...
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Timothy White, Author Henry Holt & Company $24.95 (807p) ISBN 978-0-8050-1396-2
Eminently browsable, Rock Lives captures the legends of rock and roll from traditional Mississippi bluesman Robert Johnson to the explicitly erotic Prince. Through these 59 portraits, White ( Catch a Fire ) defines the influences that shaped the...
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Timothy White, Author Henry Holt & Company $25 (416p) ISBN 978-0-8050-2266-7
At once the history of an individual, a band and an entire culture, White's (Rock Lives) attempt to combine his biography of Beach Boys frontman Brian Wilson with a sweeping social history of Southern California proves too ambitious, but the book's...
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Timothy White, Author Henry Holt & Company $27.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8050-3975-7
This eclectic gathering of White's ""Music to My Ears"" Billboard columns combines interviews with recording artists and reviews of their records. Spanning rock, new wave, punk, blues, jazz, rap, country, reggae, world music, calypso, Latin,...
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