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Simon's memoir reveals her remarkable life, beginning with her storied childhood as the third daughter of Richard L. Simon, the co-founder of publishing giant Simon & Schuster, her musical debut as half of The Simon Sisters performing folk songs with her sister Lucy in Greenwich Village, to a meteoric solo career that would result in 13 top-40 hits, including the #1 song "You're So Vain." She was the first artist in history to win a Grammy Award,...
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1 videodisc (89 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white with color sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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Documentary of the eccentric socialite. Includes interviews with friends and colleagues Kathleen Bayfield, Florence Darnault and Adolf Pollitz, comments from Cosme McMoon, and reminiscences from witnesses to the "night of nights," the Carnegie Hall recital of Oct. 25, 1944, Marge Champion, Alfred Hubay and Daniel Pinkham.
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"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 lyrics on anthems like "Rebel Girl" and "Double Dare Ya"...
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238 pages ; 22 cm
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A chance encounter at a summer party on Martha's Vineyard blossomed into an improbable but enduring friendship between Simon and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. An intimate, vulnerable, and insightful portrait of the bond that grew between two iconic and starkly different American women, this work is a celebration of kinship in all its many forms.
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xiii, 297 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
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As the front man for the sixties pop-rock-funk band Sly and the Family Stone, a songwriter who created some of the most memorable anthems of the 1960s and 1970s ("Everyday People," "Family Affair"), and a performer who electrified audiences at Woodstock and elsewhere, Sly Stone's influence on modern music and culture is indisputable. But as much as people know the music, the man remains a mystery. After a rapid rise to superstardom, Sly spent decades...
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xii, 319 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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Since Houston's death in 2012 Crawford has stayed out of the limelight and held the great joys, wild adventures, and hard truths of her life with the artist close to her heart. Crawford breaks her silence to share the moving and often complicated story of her life and relationship with the singer and actress.
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1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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Bob Dylan is without doubt one of the three most influential and pivotal artists of the Rock age. This film goes behind the music to discover one of the defining artists of the 20th Century. Interviews from Bob Dylan's schooldays include his English teacher and the guitarist from his first schoolboy band. The film follows his progress through his rebel days in college in Minneapolis to his development in the burgeoning folk clubs of New York's Greenwich...
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