Summary: Rock star John Norman Howard has noticed that his career has begun to decline. Too many years of concerts, bad managers and life on the road have made him cynical. Then he meets the innocent, pure and very talented singer Esther Hoffman. John shows Esther the way to stardom while forsaking his own career. As they fall in love, her success only makes his decline even more apparent.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2006

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STA

Summary: When rock star Conrad Birdie gets drafted, his manager organizes a nationwide contest in which one lucky girl wins a farewell kiss on The Ed Sullivan show.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1999

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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS BYE

Summary: Wayne and Garth are back, this time trying to organize a rock festival. Meanwhile, Cassandra's manager is busy trying to woo her. Wayne must rush from the concert and try and stop Cassandra's wedding. The concert features Aerosmith.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2001

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVd Movie Wayne's

Yankovic, Weird Al

Summary: A pseudo-life story of music parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Cinedigm 2014

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE COM

Summary: The brief but incandescent life of rock-and-roll trailblazer Ritchie Valens is immortalized in this enthralling biopic from another Mexican American icon, Luis Valdez, the father of Chicano cinema. With sweetness and swagger, Lou Diamond Phillips embodies the 1950s California teenager who, forged by his fiercely supportive mother and rebellious brother, rises from his farm-working roots to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA BAM

Summary: When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a gentle best friend. Through Priscilla's eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla's long courtship and turbulent marriage, from...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2011

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA PRI

Summary: Biographical drama of Buddy Holly, the 1950's rock musician from Lubbock, Texas, who changed rock'n'roll history.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 2004

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BUD

Summary: A former heavyweight boxing champion comes out of retirement to fight a 10 round exhibition bout against an opponent who is thirty years younger than he is.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ROC

Bolden, Tonya

Summary: "Before there was Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Johnny Cash, there was Sister Rosetta Tharpe. The godmother of rock & roll started as a little girl from Arkansas with music in her air, in her hair, in her bones, wiggling her toes. With a big guitar in hand and a big voice in her soul, she grew into a rock & roll trailblazer in a time when women were rarely seen rocking out."--Front...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 THA

Hanna, Kathleen

Summary: "An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre. Hey girlfriend I got a proposition, goes something like this: Dare ya to do what you want. Kathleen Hanna's rallying cry to feminists echoed far and wide through the punk scene of the '90s and beyond. Her band Bikini Kill embodies this iconic time, and today her personal yet feminist...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2024

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HANNA, KATHLEEN HAN

Rucker, Darius

Summary: "Raised by a single mother in Charleston, South Carolina, Darius Rucker founded Hootie & the Blowfish with three classmates at the University of South Carolina in 1986. What began as a party band playing frat houses and dive bars quickly became a global rock pop phenomenon through their Diamond-certified debut album Cracked Rear View. ... Later, Darius would also chart a pioneering path as a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DeySt., an imprint of William Morrow 2024

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RUCKER, DARIUS RUC