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1) Trigger
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1 videodisc (approximately 78 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Inspired by the classic film 'My Dinner with Andre'. The story of two lifelong friends, Victoria and Kathryn, who started a neighborhood band together. Ten years after their band, Trigger, came to an end, the dysfunctional duo join forces once more for a benefit concert in Toronto. After their decade-long estrangement, the two women come together for dinner, the concert, and the after-party, with the chance and hope of recapturing their once-magical...
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354 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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It was 1994: post-Liz Phair, mid-Courtney Love, just shy of Alanis Morissette. After seven years of slogging it out in the Boston music scene, Jen Trynin took a hard look at herself and gave "making it" one last shot. It worked. Suddenly Trynin became the spark that set off one of the most heated bidding wars of the year. Major labels vied for her, to the tune of millions of dollars in deals. Lawyers, managers, and booking agents clamored for her...
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1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Small-town girl Jerrica lives an unexceptional life; until she takes on a secret identity inspired by her music. She becomes Jem: the bold, stunning and absolutely fearless global superstar! But when it seems that she may lose touch with the things that really matter, Jerrica and her band of sisters begin a one-in-a-million journey, discovering that some talents are too special to keep hidden.
When Jerrica Benton becomes an overnight music sensation...
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1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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It's true, Joan Jett became mega-famous from the number-one hit "I Love Rock n Roll," but that's only part of the story. This documentary gives a wild ride as Jett and her close friends tell you how it really was in the burgeoning's 70s punk scene and the rocky road to rock stardom decades on. Their interviews are laced with amazing archival footage.
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1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A film about the world's first all-girl punk band who formed in London in 1976, contemporaries of The Clash & The Sex Pistols, they are the pioneering godmothers of the musical movement known as 'Punky Reggae.' The film tells the story of the band and the lives of the women involved, from the bands inception in 1976 to the bands end in 2010 coinciding at the death of lead vocalist Ari Up.
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viii, 214 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Twenty years after the success of her first memoir, the New York Times bestseller The Truth Is . . ., the Grammy and Oscar award-winning rocker and trailblazing LGBTQIA icon takes stock of the intervening years, recounting the euphoric triumphs and the life-altering tragedies of her life"--
Etheridge has lived a life of many blessings -- but has also struggled mightily along the way. Changes in the music industry threated her livelihood; she was...
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x, 312 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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English
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Pretenders singer/songwriter Chrissie Hynde tells exactly where she came from and what her crooked, winding path to stardom entailed. Her All-American upbringing in Akron, Ohio, a child of postwar power and prosperity. Her soul's capture, along with tens of millions of her generation, by the gods of sixties rock who came through Cleveland -- Mitch Ryder, David Bowie, Jeff Back, Paul Butterfield, and Iggy Pop among them. Her shocked witness in 1970...
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Lillys volume 2
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English
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"Once upon a time, the pressure to be the perfect daughter nearly broke Kayla Whitman. Desperate to find an outlet away from her controlling mother, she picked up a pair of drumsticks, forever altering the rhythm of her life. Since then, she's been determined to make her own way, finding her home with her bandmates even as she fights to keep her past and her present firmly separate. Things were simple enough when the Lillys were playing local gigs...
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vi, 584 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"Girls Like Us" is a groundbreaking and irresistible biography of three of America's most important musical artists--Carly Simon, Carole King, and Joni Mitchell--and offers an epic treatment of these mid-century women who dared to break tradition.
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405 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
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"An unprecedented celebration of the evolution, influence, and power of women in popular music. From Bessie Smith to The Supremes, Joan Baez, Madonna, Selena, Beyoncé, Amy Winehouse, Dolly Parton, Sleater-Kinney, Taylor Swift, and scores more, women have played an essential and undeniable role in the evolution of modern music including blues, rock and roll, country, folk, glam rock, punk, and hip hop. Today, in a world once traditionally dominated...
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You may know that Little Mix became instantly popular after winning The X Factor. But did you know that the group: • didn't know one other until they met on the TV show? • had one fan chase their tour bus for two hundred blocks? • has the highest-charting debut album for a British girl group in America? Want to know more about this talented pop group? Read on to learn all about Little Mix's life before stardom, breakthrough performances, passions,...
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Rock 'n' roll cinema volume 1
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1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Recently orphaned Corinne "Third Degree" Burns enlists her sister and cousin to launch a punk rock band, the Stains. Three rehearsals later, the Stains score the opening slot on a cross-country tour with aging metal act the Metal Corpses and British punk rockers the Looters. The Stains' meteoric rise (and equally lightning-quick fall) owes more to TV exposure than to talent.
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360 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Opal is a fiercely independent young woman pushing against the grain in her style and attitude, Afro-punk before that term existed. Coming of age in Detroit, she can't imagine settling for a 9-to-5 job -- despite her unusual looks, Opal believes she can be a star. So when the aspiring British singer/songwriter Neville Charles discovers her at a bar's amateur night, she takes him up on his offer to make rock music together for the fledgling Rivington...
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xviii, 364 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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English
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"A tender and intimate memoir by one of the most remarkable, trailblazing, and tenacious women in music, the two-time Grammy Award-winning "premiere song-stylist and songwriter of her generation" (New Yorker), Rickie Lee Jones. Have you met Ms. Jones? One weekend night on primetime television, a then-unknown singer and vital part of the burgeoning Los Angeles jazz pop scene skyrocketed to fame overnight after a now- iconic performance on Saturday...
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xii, 404 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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English
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Lyrical visionary, enduring style icon, and one indispensable fifth of post-Peter Green megaband Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks is one of the most recognizable figures in rock 'n' roll history--very much Fleetwood Mac's "Queen Bee," as Mick Fleetwood himself described her. With gold and quadruple platinum solo albums under her beaded belt, Stevie Nicks has enjoyed the ultimate in rock 'n' roll success as a recording artist--but this charmed life has...
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Before Carrie Brownstein co-developed and starred in the TV comedy Portlandia, she was an icon to young women for her role as a musician in the feminist punk band Sleater-Kinney. The band was a key part of the early riot- grrrl and indie rock scenes in the Pacific Northwest, known for their prodigious guitar shredding and their leftist lyrics against war, traditionalism, and gender roles. Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl is the deeply personal and revealing...
20) The Runaways
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1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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With the success of their all-girl teenage rock band The Runaways, Joan Jett and Cherie Currie's friendship begins to unwind after Currie decides to leave the group.
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