Roy Orbison's songs made him one of the founding fathers of the rock revolution. Orbison had a string of 27 chart hits in the early 1960s, and then his career and personal fortunes plummeted. Though he would remain active in the music field until his death, the personal and professional disasters that struck him in the mid-60s were so severe that ...
In this gossipy biography of Elizabeth Taylor, celebrity biographer Ellis Amburn addresses the star's salacious side, revealing shocking details about Taylor's bedroom performances and her string of famed lovers. In reading these sensational accounts, fans may learn more about Taylor and her body parts than they bargained for.
Ellis Amburn chronicles the rise of Buddy Holly, through interviews with Maria Elena Holly, two of the surviving Crickets, and a number of Holly's relatives.
To those who knew and loved her, she was Pearl. To an enthralled generation of youth, she was Janis Joplin, the first rock superstar of the '60s--locked into a doomed search for satisfaction. Pearl gives readers the real Janis, including never-before-known facts about her death. 16 pages of rare photos.
An in-depth portrait based on interviews with his friends and associates discusses his relationships, marriage to Annette Bening, work with numerous celebrities, 1960s forays into politics, and intensely private personality.
A frank biography of Jack Kerouac that explores his personal life in depth, including his sexual relationships with men, his drinking and substance abuse, and his harsh moral condemnation of his own actions.
In an attempt to create an accurate portrait of Janis Joplin, the author traveled to locations where Joplin was born, lived, and died, and interviewed people--both famous and unknown--who knew Joplin and were willing to share their recollections of her, including several colorful anecdotes pertaining to Joplin's sex life.
In this revealing biography, Ellis Amburn taps into primary sources to expose the tragedies and triumphs of the life of Elizabeth Taylor, including the removal of golfball-sized brain tumour, the lauch of a highly successful fragrance range, and a tangled web of lovers and husbands.
This is the in-depth biography of Warren Beatty, Hollywood legend, and the first person to receive Academy Award nominations twice as an actor, director, producer and writer for a single film. His movies include "Bonnie and Clyde", "Shampoo", "Reds", "Heaven Can Wait", and "Bugsy". A well-known womaniser, the notches on Beatty's bedpost read like ...
Buddy Holly was the living personification of the American dream - young, talented and in love. His image and memory have been cast in stone since his tragic death at the age of 22. Ellis Amburn's biography liberates Buddy from the constraints of myth, the chains of perfection. Buddy had been portrayed as a shy, polite and correct gangling youth ...
A well-known womaniser, the notches on Beatty's bedpost read like a who's who of female stardom. His liaisons have included Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Linda Eastman (later McCartney), Maria Callas, Cher, Brigitte Bardot, Barbara Streisand and Jane Fonda. Including a wealth of previously unreported information on early affairs with Joan Collins and ...
The singer Janis Joplin's childhood in a backwater Texas town, where her classmates punished her for her individuality, fuelled the compulsion to shock which became her hallmark. This account of the forces that drove her through a short, impulsive life, to her death from a drug overdose at the age of 27, encompasses her binges, her egotism, her ...
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