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Publication Date
2026.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the award-winning, bestselling author of classic histories of the Beatles and Led Zeppelin, a groundbreaking reckoning with the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band All great music is a threat. What left is there to say about The Rolling Stones? A hell of a lot, it turns out. Bob Spitz has brought his indefatigable energy and five decades of experiences in the fields and hollows of rock 'n' roll to bear on his five-year journey to reexamine one...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Publication Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"More than five years in the making, based on hundreds of interviews and access to previously unavailable documents, and infused with irresistible storytelling charm, Bob Spitz's REAGAN stands fair to be the first truly post-partisan biography of our 40th President, and thus a balm for our own bitterly divided times. It is the quintessential American triumph, brought to life with cinematic vividness: a young man is born into poverty and raised in...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Publication Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the definitive New York Times bestselling history of the Beatles comes the authoritative account of the group Jack Black and many others call the greatest rock band of all time, arguably the most successful, and certainly one of the most notorious. Rock stars. Whatever those words mean to you, chances are, they owe a debt to Led Zeppelin. No one before or since has lived the dream quite like Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Publication Date
2007
Language
English
Description
The New York Times bestselling biography of the Beatles, in a style and format for young readers. It starts in the housing projects and school playgrounds of Liverpool, where four boys would discover themselves--and a new form of music called rock 'n roll. It takes us from the famous first meeting between John and Paul, to the clubs of Liverpool and Germany when George and Ringo join the band, down Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields, to America and...
Author
Publisher
Reader's Digest
Publication Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Highlighted by more than two hundred photographs and illustrations, a visual, living history of the past six decades offers eyewitness accounts and reflections by people present at milestone events in science, industry, society, natural disasters, and combat, from the outbreak of World War II, to the devastating tsunami of December 2004, to the death of Pope John Paul II.


