Articles tagged "music biography"

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Girls Like Us by Sheila Weller

by Howard Cohen [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[30.Apr.08] :. Trailblazing women of the '60s: Journalist Sheila Weller traces three enduring songwriters who defined -- and gave voice to -- a generation.

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Ten years in the making, documentary sings Celia Cruz’s praises

by Oscar Corral [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[24.Apr.08] :. MIAMI - Ten years ago, two young documentarians from Miami nestled a letter to Celia Cruz, Queen of Salsa, into a round, disc-shaped film canister, and sent it to her in New Jersey. They wanted her...

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Willie Nelson: An Epic Life by Joe Nick Patoski

by Mario Tarradell [The Dallas Morning News]

[23.Apr.08] :. New Willie Nelson biography light on revelations, but fans will relish intimate details.

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Storms by Carol Ann Harris

by John Bergstrom

[18.Jul.07] :. But is Harris describing isolated, drug-fuelled incidents that seem endemic of the time and culture she was living in -- or serial, criminal abuse?

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Nirvana by Everett True

by Leslie Joseph

[25.May.07] :. One of the author's major assertions, expressed through quotes of others, is that Nirvana remains a powerful entity owing much to the fact that Kurt Cobain is gone.

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Ill Sleep When Im Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon

by Howard Cohen [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[25.May.07] :. Warren Zevon's ex-wife portrays him as a genius -- and a tyrant.

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Inside the Music of Brian Wilson by Philip Lambert

by Adam Bunch

[29.Mar.07] :. It's the ultimate in the band A = band B + band C style of music criticism, and it grows old quickly.