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  • Wild Years

    The Music and Myth of Tom Waits

    by Jay S. Jacobs ...
    Newly updated to include his critically acclaimed post-millennial work, this look at Tom Waits - both the reality and the myriad myths - reveals the man behind the curtain. A tale of how a self-taught, drunken hipster in roach-killers and a dirty beret has influenced a generation of musicians with his sound, warmth, and willingness to take chances, this biography shows how he has moved between ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Rolling Stones: Before and beyond exile on main St

    by Peter Antony ...
    The Rolling Stones: As Long As The Guitar Plays Itll Steal Your Heart Away: Before and Beyond Exile on Main St is a poetic review of The Rolling Stones infamous album Exile on Main St. This eBook looks at the influences that helped create such a significant album, such as the place in which they recorded, Villa Nellcôte. Antonys review of Exile on Main St is a true tribute to the band who are ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • Music Men: The Playboy Interview

    50 Years of the Playboy Interview

    by Playboy, Berry Gordy, Frank Sinatra, The Beatles, Ray Charles, Elton John, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Luciano Pavarotti, Frank Zappa, Pete Townshend, Jay-Z, Kanye West ...
    The heartbreakers, lovemakers and dreamers always at the top of the music charts are revealed in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From the forefathers of modern music Frank Sinatra, the Beatles and Bob Dylan to larger-than-life rock gods Elton John, David Bowie and Frank Zappa to the kings of hip-hop Jay-Z and Kanye West, the musicians who ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD

  • Contents Under Pressure

    30 Years of Rush at Home and Away

    by Martin Popoff ...
    Contents Under Pressure: 30 Years of Rush at Home & Away is a detailed history of the exhaustive road experience of Canadian rock icons Rush. Celebrating the band’s 30th anniversary, By-Tour features in-depth original interviews with Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart. Together, history’s loudest Order of Canada recipients conjure the sights and sounds of their strange journey: one that began ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ginger Baker - Hellraiser: The Autobiography of The World's Greatest Drummer

    by Ginger Baker ...
    Peter 'Ginger' Baker is a legend. A pioneering drummer who transcends genre, he's done much to popularise world music with his fierce passion for the rhythms of Africa. He is that rare thing - both critically acclaimed and globally successful. He has also lived a life more rock'n'roll than most.Ginger tells his story for the first time. It's often harrowing but outrageously honest as he journey's ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Buried Alive

    The Biography of Janis Joplin

    by Myra Friedman ...
    Electrifying, highly acclaimed, and intensely personal, this new and updated version of Myra Friedman's classic biography of Janis Joplin teems with dramatic insights into Joplin's genius and into the chaotic times that catapulted her to fame as the legendary queen of rock. It is a stunning panorama of the turbulent decade when Joplin's was the rallying voice of a generation that lost itself in ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Getting There: Journeys Of An Accidental Adventurer

    by Sue Williams ...
    When UK-born Australian author Sue Williams first got the travel bug, it took her across Africa, South and Central America, China and India. Travelling by every means imaginable - from converted garbage truck to banana boat, 'punted' railway wagon to the passenger seat of a racing driver's sports car - she survives adventures that range from the hilarious to the horrific.At various times ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die

    Musings from the Road

    by Willie Nelson ...
    " Nelson's unmistakable voice shines through . . . funny, inspirational and bawdy, with a well-honed sense of humor." — Kirkus ReviewsIn Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die, Willie Nelson muses about his greatest influences and the things that are most important to him, and celebrates the family, friends, and colleagues who have blessed his remarkable journey. Willie riffs on everything, from music ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Northern Light

    The Enduring Mystery of Tom Thomson and the Woman Who Loved Him

    by Roy MacGregor ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE OTTAWA BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTIONRoy MacGregor's lifelong fascination with Tom Thomson first led him to write Canoe Lake, a novel inspired by a distant relative's affair with one of Canada's greatest painters. Now, MacGregor breaks new ground, re-examining the mysteries of Thomson's life, loves and violent death in the definitive non-fiction account. Why does a ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Play On

    Now, Then, and Fleetwood Mac

    by Mick Fleetwood, Anthony Bozza ...
    "Fleetwood documents his wild life, including how the creation of Rumours, one of the bestselling albums of all time, almost drove the band insane." —Larry Getlen, New York Post"This is the story of my life in rock and roll—and how the band that has meant everything to me came to define me. I'm looking forward to sharing it with you."Mick Fleetwood has been a member of the ever-evolving Fleetwood ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Prisoners of the North

    by Pierre Berton ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLERCanada’s master storyteller returns to the North to chronicle the extraordinary stories of five inspiring and controversial characters.Canada’s master storyteller returns to the North to bring history to life. Prisoners of the North tells the extraordinary stories of five inspiring and controversial characters whose adventures in Canada’ s frozen wilderness are no less ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Up and Down with The Rolling Stones - My Rollercoaster Ride with Keith Richards

    by Tony Sanchez ...
    This insider's account of the lives of Brian Jones, Keith Richard, and Mick Jagger in the sixties and seventies has become legendary in the years since its first publication in 1979. Tony Sanchez worked for Keith Richard for eight years - buying drugs, running errands, and orchestrating cheap thrills - and he records unforgettable accounts of the Stones' perilous misadventures: racing cars along ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD