rock musicians

An introduction to the lives and work of the members of the Australian musical group, 5 Seconds of Summer.

A biography of the pop group One Direction.

"From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, . . . a . . . memoir about growing up Korean-American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. In this . . . story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner . . . tells of growing up the only Asian-American kid at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother's particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence of treasured months spent in her grandmother's tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food. As she grew up, moving to the East Coast for college, finding work in the restaurant industry, performing gigs with her fledgling band--and meeting the man who would become her husband--her Koreanness began to feel ever more distant, even as she found the life she wanted to live. It was her mother's diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer, when Michelle was twenty-five, that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her"--.

A brief illustrated biography of English singer-songwriter and actor David Bowie.

Text and illustrations look at the life of singer and songwriter John Lennon who was a member of the Beatles.

An illustrated biography of American singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer, Prince.

A brief illustrated biography of English singer-songwriter Elton John.

"HOLLYWOOD PARK is a remarkable memoir of a tumultuous life. Mikel Jollett was born into one of the country's most infamous cults, and subjected to a childhood filled with poverty, addiction, and emotional abuse. Yet, ultimately, his is a story of fierce love and family loyalty told in a raw, poetic voice that signals the emergence of a uniquely gifted writer. We were never young. We were just too afraid of ourselves. No one told us who we were or what we were or where all our parents went. They would arrive like ghosts, visiting us for a morning, an afternoon. They would sit with us or walk around the grounds, to laugh or cry or toss us in the air while we screamed. Then they'd disappear again, for weeks, for months, for years, leaving us alone with our memories and dreams, our questions and confusion. ... So begins Hollywood Park, Mikel Jollett's remarkable memoir. His story opens in an experimental commune in California, which later morphed into the Church of Synanon, one of the country's most infamous and dangerous cults. Per the leader's mandate, all children, including Jollett and his older brother, were separated from their parents when they were six months old, and handed over to the cult's "School." After spending years in what was essentially an orphanage, Mikel escaped the cult one morning with his mother and older brother. But in many ways, life outside Synanon was even harder and more erratic. In his raw, poetic and powerful voice, Jollett portrays a childhood filled with abject poverty, trauma, emotional abuse, delinquency and the lure of drugs and alcohol. Raised by a clinically depressed mother, tormented by his angry older brother, subjected to the unpredictability of troubled step-fathers and longing for contact with his father, a former heroin addict and ex-con, Jollett slowly, often painfully, builds a life that leads him to Stanford University and, eventually, to finding his voice as a writer and musician. Hollywood Park is told at first through the limited perspective of a child, and then broadens as Jollett begins to understand the world around him. Although Mikel Jollett's story is filled with heartbreak, it is ultimately an unforgettable portrayal of love at its fiercest and most loyal"--.

A biography of the Led Zeppelin band's guitarist Jimmy Page, discussing his childhood, his rise in the music world and more.

A collection of photographs taken by Elliott Landy during the 1960s, capturing anti-war demonstrations, celebrities, the Woodstock music festival of 1969, musicians such as Bob Dylan, The Band, Janis Joplin, Van Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Joe Cocker, and more, with an introduction by Jerry Garcia, commentary by Richie Havens, and other first-hand accounts.