In this scandalous autobiography, the 300-pound rock singer shares the most incredible stories of his turbulent life, including anecdotes about the time his alcoholic father attempted to murder him with a butcher knife, going to Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson's luxury home with serial killer Charles Manson, and his luck in landing an ...
She was riveting to look at, a sprite of the zeitgeist, the living distillation of the over-amped vision of New York in the mid-sixties. Like many exotic creatures that Andy Warhol shed his light on, she initially bloomed--became the symbol for all that was hip and stylish--and just as quickly began to disintegrate. Told with unsparing candor and ...
In this scandalous autobiography, the 300-pound rock singer shares the most incredible stories of his turbulent life, including anecdotes about the time his alcoholic father attempted to murder him with a butcher knife, going to Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson's luxury home with serial killer Charles Manson, and his luck in landing an ...
Dalton's biography of film icon James Dean not only explores the actor's tragically short life, but also pays special attention to the "cult of celebrity" that surrounded him and how, to a large degree, this was engineered by Dean himself.
In 1972, Stonehill Books published David Dalton's Janis, a multimedia extravaganza that incorporated interviews, quotes, photographs, lyrics, Rolling Stone Clippings, sheet music, a record of rapping and singing, and prose as wild and moving as Janis's performances. Piece of My Heart is a reconstruction and revision of that early work - one of ...
From the first Acid Tests in 1965 to the mid-1980s, Rock Scully was the Grateful Dead's manager, confidant, and coconspirator. Now, in the first memoir ever published by a member of the Dead family, he gives us the full story of rock's longest-running road show. From the legendary mayhem of the Haight-Ashbury scene to the creation of signature ...
Jim Morrison, the Lizard King, was a Renaissance statue come to life with the body of an adolescent god mailed in leather. He embodied the hallucinated, under-the-volcano neon black vision of L.A. like no one else. Like a prophet from the wilderness made king, he was ultimately trapped and never made it back from the other side.
Though the actress Peggy Lipton's career has been lacking in significant dramatic roles, the star of 1960s cult cop show THE MOD SQUAD has more than made up for it with her action-packed off-screen life. Her autobiography, BREATHING OUT, documents her Long Island childhood, her early modeling career, and her first big Hollywood break, playing the ...
Marianne Faithfull, the daughter of a professor of philology and an Austro-Hungarian baroness, was convent-educated before she turned rebel in the 1960s. At just 17-years-old, she met the Rolling Stones and their manager, Andrew Oldham, at a party. Oldham asked her two weeks later to record a song. That single, "As the Tears Go By", reached number ...
'In all areas of human endeavour, time and again an individual appears who, due to a multitude of personal attributes, elevates his or her field to a hitherto unknown height. Such an individual was William Primrose. His name and the viola are synonymous.' Janos Starker This unique book is the result of a series of conversations with Primrose in ...
This is the book that restarted the James Dean cult by celebrating him as the cool, defiant visionary of pop culture who made adolescence seem heroic instead of awkward and who defined the style of rock 'n' roll's politics of delinquency. The only book to fully show how deliberately and carefully Dean crafted his own image and performances, and ...
McCabe selected 450 of the most significant 2500 pictures, organized here in chronological order. David Dalton, who took part in many of the events organized at the Factory at that time and became an insider to Warhol's world, wrote the captions and short stories that accompany McCabe's pictures. These writings reveal unique facts, stories, and ...
Dalton's biography of film icon James Dean not only explores the actor's tragically short life, but also pays special attention to the "cult of celebrity" that surrounded him and how, to a large degree, this was engineered by Dean himself.
Two hundred years after his birth, Nathaniel Hawthorne remains one of America's most important and influential writers. To celebrate that bicentennial, this new collection gathers essays by novelists, critics, historians, and biographers that explore aspects of Hawthorne's life and work. It is published by the Lenox Library in Lenox, Massachusetts ...
The Rough Guide to The Philppines is the ultimate guide to this stunning archipelago. A 24-page full-colour section introduces the country and its highlights, from the remote sun-kissed islands off the East coast to the lagoons of Palawan and the tribal villages of the Cordilleras. Each region of the country is covered in-depth, with the pick of ...
Each book in the enlightening " This Is My Faith " series features true-life photographs and interviews with a child who talks about his or her faith and discusses its role in the life of the family. Boys and girls speak of the rituals, obligations, and joys that are basic to their religions. The children in these books come from many different ...
He was the magus of pop. He debased high art - 5,000 years of sublime visions and shimmering varnishes - and reduced it to a commodity. With a sleight of hand, Andy Warhol redefined the boundaries of painting, sculpture, and film, bending them to serve the purpose of his vision. Taking its subject from comic books, tabloids, Hollywood publicity ...
Dalton's biography of film icon James Dean not only explores the actor's tragically short life, but also pays special attention to the "cult of celebrity" that surrounded him and how, to a large degree, this was engineered by Dean himself.
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