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Taking a fresh look at the twentieth-century icon who fundamentally transformed American culture, a veteran rock journalist explores the extravagance and irrationality inherent in the Elvis mythology, offering a thoughtful celebration of an...
Based on interviews with Baker and many friends and musical associates, this is the first English-language biography of the great jazz trumpeter and singer. De Valk painstakingly documents Baker's scandals and successes in a powerful portrait of...
This text recalls the triumphs, tragedies and escapades that coloured Ricci's childhood, including the death of his brother Dean-Paul.
Paul Newman, the Oscar-winning actor with the legendary blue eyes, achieved superstar status by playing charismatic renegades, broken heroes, and winsome antiheroes in such revered films as The hustler, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the...
They were the unlikeliest of pairs--a handsome crooner and a skinny monkey, an Italian from Steubenville, Ohio, and a Jew from Newark, N.J.. Before they teamed up, Dean Martin seemed destined for a mediocre career as a nightclub singer, and Jerry...