Victor Bockris

Bebe Buell

A rollicking ride through the rock scene during the 1970s and 1980s details the author's impact on New York City as a supermodel and her adventures with some of the biggest names in the music industry, including Todd Rundgren, Steven Tyler, Elvis Costello, and Mick Jagger. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

An American Rock 'n' Roll Journey

Rebel Heart

The Velvet Underground Story

Up-Tight

Traces the life and career of Lou Reed, describes his work with the Velvet Underground, and discusses each of his major albums

The Lou Reed Story

Transformer

A Report From the Bunker

With William Burroughs

Walter Hopps

Tony Shafrazi

Dennis Hopper: Photographs 1961-1967

The Life and Death of Andy Warhol

75th Anniversay Edition

Warhol: The Biography 

Gerard Malanga

The Story of the Velvet Underground (Classic Rock Read)

Uptight

Beat Punks

In 1992, Victor Bockris's celebrated biography was the first to recognize Richards's pivotal role in the Stones' legend. Now that book on rock's most incredible survivor has been expanded to accommodate ten more years of his storied life.

The Biography

Keith Richards

Marcia Resnick

"The people from the extraordinary New York milieu amongst whom I was living and working had no way of knowing that the years between 1977 and 1982 were enchanted, endangered, and unrepeatable,” explains photographer Marcia Resnick. It was a time and place populated by icons, iconoclasts, and antiheroes whom Resnick documented with a unique and evocative eye. Here, her photographs of the "enfants terribles” reflect this unique time in the worlds of jazz, rock and roll, literature, art, and film -- an era that remains highly influential. Rockers Johnny Thunders, Joey Ramone, James Brown, Iggy Pop, David Byrne, Brian Eno, and Mick Jagger; beat poets William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Gregory Corso; and provocateurs and raconteurs John Waters, Steve Rubell, Gary Indiana, Abbie Hoffman, Norman Mailer, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and the incomparable John Belushi are included here, along with text by Victor Bockris and contemporary writings that create a context for Resnick’s photography from this inimitable era.

New York City Bad Boys, 1977-1982

Punks, Poets, and Provocateurs

‘A triumph’ - Time Out Transformer is the only complete and comprehensive telling of the Lou Reed story.

Transformer: The Complete Lou Reed Story

The only major biography of Andy Warhol, reissued to coincide with his 75th birthday.

Warhol

Bockris's book follows the roller coaster ride that is the life of the one Rolling Stone who remained true to the cause. Based on interviews with Richards as well as many who've worked and partied with him over the years, Bockris offers a comprehensive biography of this legendary figure.

The Unauthorised Biography

The Velvet Underground is arguably one of the most influential American rock bands ever. Based on interviews with former members Lou Reed, John Cale, and Sterling Morrison, as well as others from Andy Warhol's circle of artistic collaborators, Up-Tight is the definitive oral and visual history of the band and its revolutionary, often avant-garde music. Bockris and Malanga's intelligent and entertaining approach-which does not shy away from the drugs, sleaze, and controversy that enveloped the band seemingly from its inception-provides compulsive reading.

Up-tight

Lou Reed emerges from the pages of Victor Bockris's internationally acclaimed biography as a brilliant lyrical innovator. It is as a writer that Reed has been able to traverse the various terrains of his career decade by decade. And it is from his position as a writer that he stands alongside his peers, Bob Dylan and Neil Young.

Roberta Bayley

A profile of this cultural and musical icon examines her place in the 1970s rock scene, her relationships and friendships with other famous individuals, her choice to stop performing and raise a family, and her return to musical life in the 1990s

An Unauthorized Biography

Patti Smith

Lou Reed

John Cale

John Cale has been a key figure in rock music for decades. Born in 1942 in a small Welsh mining village, he was playing classical piano on BBC radio at the age of eight, and by ten he had discovered rock and roll on Radio Luxembourg. He studied music at Goldsmith's College in London and in 1963 moved to New York City, under the tutelage of Aaron Copland. Cale was quickly drawn into the heart of the artistic avant-garde via Lamonte Young's Theatre of Eternal Music and Andy Warhol's Factory, and then, together with Lou Reed, founded one of the most influential rock bands of all time, the Velvet Underground. Having left the band in 1968 after disagreements with Reed, Cale has pursued his career as a solo pianist, record producer, and composer on the international rock circuit for decades.

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