Biography -- Entertainers from I Cannot Live Without Books

The Search for John Lennon: The Life, Loves, and Death of a Rock Star by Lesley-Ann Jones Late on December 8th, 1980, the world abruptly stopped turning for millions of people, as news broke that the world's most beloved bard had been gunned down in cold blood in New York City. The most iconic Beatle left behind an unrivaled body of… Read more about this item

150 Glimpses of the Beatles by Craig Brown John Updike compared them to "the sun coming up on Easter morning." William E. Buckley called them "unbelievably horrible." The Duchess of Windsor adored them. Noel Coward despised them. J.R.R. Tolkien snubbed them. The Rolling Stones copied them. Leonard Bernstein admired them. Muhammad Ali called them "little sissies." Bob Dylan introduced them to… Read more about this item

Texas Flood: The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan by Alan Paul and Andy Aledort Just a few years after he nearly died from drug and alcohol addiction, a clean and sober Stevie Ray Vaughan was riding high. His last album was his most critically lauded and commercially successful. He had fulfilled a lifelong dream by collaborating with his first and… Read more about this item

Levon: From Down in the Delta to the Birth of The Band and Beyond by Sandra B. Tooze He sang the anthems of a generation: "The Weight," Up on Cripple Creek," and "Life is a Carnival." Levon Helm's story -- told here through sweeping research and interviews with close friends and fellow musicians -- is the rollicking story of American popular… Read more about this item

And in the End: The Last Days of the Beatles by Ken McNab THERE IS A BLACK "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE TOP PAGE EDGES. Ken McNab reconstructs, for the first time, the seismic events of 1969, when The Beatles reached new highs of creativity and new lows of the internal strife that would destroy them. Between the pressure of being filmed during… Read more about this item

Being John Lennon: A Restless Life by Ray Connolly What was it like to be John Lennon? What was it like to be the castoff child, the clown at school, and the middle-class suburban boy who pretended to be a working-class hero? How did it feel to have one of the most recognizable singing voices in the world, but to dislike… Read more about this item

Dreaming the Beatles: The Love Story of the One Band and the Whole World by Rob Sheffield THERE IS A BLACK "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE BOTTOM PAGE EDGES. It is truly impossible to imagine a world without the Beatles. Yes, they are the biggest, most iconic rock band of all time. Their music continues to delight, define, and provide a soundtrack for… Read more about this item

King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King by Daniel DeVise Riley "Blues Boy" King (1925 - 2015) was born into deep poverty in Jim Crow Mississippi. Wrenched away from his sharecropper father, B.B. lost his mother at age ten, leaving him more or less alone. Music became his emancipation from exhausting toil in the fields. Inspired by… Read more about this item

This Thing Called Life: Prince's Odyssey On + Off the Record by Neal Karlen Neal Karlen was the only journalist Prince granted in-depth interviews to for more than a dozen years, from before Purple Rain to after the artist changed his name to an unpronounceable glyph. Karlen interviewed Prince for three Rolling Stone cover stories and wrote 3 Chains o' Gold,… Read more about this item

Be My Baby: A Memoir by Ronnie Spector with Vince Waldron Be My Baby is the behind-the-scenes story -- newly updated, and with an especially timely message -- of how the original bad girl of rock and roll, Ronnie Spector, survived marriage to a monster and carved out a space for herself amid the chaos of the 1960s music scene and… Read more about this item