Solomon, Linda

Summary: Reflections on the life of Aretha Franklin captured in exclusive photographs by her friend, photojournalist Linda Solomon.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 0000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRANKLIN, ARETHA SOL

Bailey, Philip

Summary: A personal account by the lead singer of Earth, Wind & Fire traces his professional and spiritual journey against a backdrop of the group's meteoric rise to stardom, describing the diverse influences that shaped the band's style and his own experiences as a solo performer.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BAILEY, PHILIP BAI

Ritz, David.

Summary: Aretha Franklin began life as the golden daughter of a progressive and promiscuous Baptist preacher. Raised without her mother, she was a gospel prodigy who gave birth to two sons in her teens and left them and her native Detroit for New York, where she struggled to find her true voice. She found fame, fortune, and that remarkable voice in 1967 with "Respect" and a rapid-fire string of hits....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRANKLIN, ARETHA RIT

Whitall, Susan.

Summary: Little Willie John was an American R&B singer who performed in the 1950s and early 1960s and is best known for his popular music chart successes with songs such as, "All Around the World" (1955), "Need Your Love So Bad" (1956) and "Fever" the same year, the latter covered in 1958 by Peggy Lee.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOHN, LITTLE WILLIE WHI

McBride, James

Summary: A product of the complicated history of the American South, James Brown was a cultural shape-shifter who arguably had the greatest influence of any artist on American popular music. Brown was long a figure of fascination for James McBride, a noted professional musician as well as a writer. When he received a tip that promised to uncover the man behind the myth, McBride set off to follow a trail...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2016

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 780 MCB

Etinde-Crompton, Charlotte

Summary: "Celebrates the life of the soul musician and singer, detailing the many personal and professional challenges that she overcame throughout her career." --

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Blk Hist Art Etinde-Crompton

McBride, James

Summary: A product of the complicated history of the American South, James Brown was a cultural shape-shifter who arguably had the greatest influence of any artist on American popular music. Brown was long a figure of fascination for James McBride, a noted professional musician as well as a writer. When he received a tip that promised to uncover the man behind the myth, McBride set off to follow a trail...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780 MCB

Abdurraqib, Hanif

Summary: "An empowering picture book biography of Aretha Franklin and her role in civil rights, perfect for Women's History Month and Black History Month"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2021

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

Booker T.

Summary: "The long-awaited memoir of Booker T. Jones, leader of the famed Stax Records house band, architect of the Memphis soul sound, and one of the most legendary figures in music. From Booker T. Jones's earliest years in segregated Memphis, music was the driving force in his life. While he worked paper routes and played gigs in local nightclubs to pay for lessons and support his family, Jones, on...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BOOKER T. BOO

Baram, Marcus

Summary: In this biography, Marcus Baram--an acquaintance of Gil Scott-Heron's--will trace the volatile journey of a troubled musical genius. Baram will chart Scott-Heron's musical odyssey, from Chicago to Tennessee to New York: a drug addict's twisted path to redemption and enduring fame. In Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces of a Man, Marcus Baram puts the complicated icon into full focus.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2014

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Smith, R. J.

Summary: A tribute to the life and achievements of the "Godfather of Soul" covers his unconventional youth in a segregated South, his complicated family life, and his work as a civil rights advocate and entrepreneur.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROWN, JAMES SMI

Gould, Jonathan

Summary: "Otis Redding remains an immortal presence in the canon of American music on the strength of such classic hits as "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay," "I've Been Loving You Too Long," "Try a Little Tenderness," and "Respect," a song he wrote and recorded before Aretha Franklin made it her own. As the architect of the distinctly southern, gospel-inflected style of rhythm & blues associated with...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Archetype 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 REDDING, OTIS GOU

Summary: James Brown delivers, for the first time, the in-depth story of his life and music, from the his early years of poverty and imprisonment, to his extraordinary live shows.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Music 2004

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC SOU