Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
Towards the end of her time, Katherine Hepburn became closer to her extended family dividing time between her New York townhouse and New England estate. She maintained close relationships with friends in Hollywood assisting them when they were in trouble and freely giving the grandmotherly advice she was famous for.
She once commented she was "America's grandmother", so beloved was she to people everywhere. In the second part of this homespun look...
Author
Language
English
Description
Ginger Baker was, without question, the foremost drummer of his generation, having formed supergroups Cream and Blind Faith. In the early 1990s, author Geoffrey Giuliano received a call from Baker asking if he would be interested in writing his autobiography. From there, a turbulent, yet fruitful relationship ensued between the two. While the book they wrote together has yet to be published, here, at last, are the exclusive, in-depth, upfront, and...
Author
Language
English
Description
Ginger Baker was, without question, the foremost drummer of his generation, having formed supergroups Cream and Blind Faith. In the early 1990s, author Geoffrey Giuliano received a call from Baker asking if he would be interested in writing his autobiography. From there, a turbulent, yet fruitful relationship ensued between the two. While the book they wrote together has yet to be published, here, at last, are the exclusive, in-depth, upfront, and...
Author
Language
English
Description
KI Longfellow Stanshall is the brilliant, and yes, controversial, author of several internationally bestselling books. She is also a prolific play-write, screenwriter, theatrical producer, soldier for women's rights, world traveler, and oh by the way, the second wife of the late Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band's iconic, singer, composer and front man, Vivian Stanshall.
In this one of a kind, audio encounter between Ms. Longfellow and actor, author and music...
Author
Language
English
Description
Everyone who knows music understands Ginger Baker was, and is, perhaps the greatest rock jazz fusion drummer ever. Author Giuliano was close to both Ginger and Jack Bruce in the 1990's and presents us with the very best of his extended three-week daily interview sessions with Mr. Baker. Here you will meet the real man behind the never ending drum kit. Neither myth, legend - nor spurious gossip can ever equal the true measure of the man and this tempestuous...
Author
Language
English
Description
Charlie Watts
Charlie Watts provided the foundation that underpinned the music of the Rolling Stones. The band became a by-word for rock 'n' roll excess but for Watts, playing with the Stones did not become the ego trip that drove Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. A jazz aficionado, Watts vied with Bill Wyman for the title of least charismatic member of the band, he eschewed the limelight and rarely gave interviews. And he famously described life with...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Beatles spent a considerable amount of time playing the seedy clubs of Hamburg, Germany, early in their career, but few know the true particulars of the pivotal, often brutal time. A time when their music and personalities fused from the white heat of the German scene to become the Beatles we know today. With rare stories from the Beatles and those who were there to witness the birth of the group that would conquer the world.
Author
Language
English
Description
In part two of this searching autobiography of the great Muhammed Ali, Ali faces the end of his boxing career as he looks squarely into the face of old age, and addresses the Parkinson's that cut short his public life, but strengthened his personal faith and family life. With rare interviews. Narrated by the author.
29) Geoffrey Giuliano In Conversation with Silky Stanshall - Daughter Of Bonzo Dog Man Viv Stanshall: #1
Author
Language
English
Description
Here, Silky Stanshall the highly intelligent daughter of the great British musical and literary artist Vivian Stanshall remembers life with her unarguably charmingly eccentric father and the turbulent, yet touching times they had together. A must for all Bonzo Dog Band fans and followers of the great cultural legacy of the late great Vivian Stanshall.
Hosted by Geoffrey Giuliano
Produced by India Juliana in Bejing
Edited and mixed by Macc Kay in...
Author
Language
English
Description
Once again internationally acclaimed, best-selling biographers Geoffrey Giuliano and Avalon Giuliano tear back the decades-old veil of myth and unquestioning hero worship surrounding the Beatles' turbulent lives and present the frank, often heart-wrenching tale of four young men from Liverpool thrust upon the world stage and into the stratosphere of untouchable super-stardom. Utilizing a wealth of unpublished personal correspondence, never-before-heard...
Author
Language
English
Description
Ginger Baker was, without question, the foremost drummer of his generation, having formed supergroups Cream and Blind Faith. In the early 1990s, author Geoffrey Giuliano received a call from Baker asking if he would be interested in writing his autobiography. From there, a turbulent, yet fruitful relationship ensued between the two. While the book they wrote together has yet to be published, here, at last, are the exclusive, in-depth, upfront, and...
Author
Language
English
Description
"I am the lizard king. I can do anything."
"Whoever controls the media, controls the mind."
"Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws."
"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself."
"Where's your will to be weird?"
"There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors."
"This is the strangest life I've ever known."
"Love cannot save you from your own...
Author
Language
English
Description
Charlie Watts June 2, 1941- August 24, 2021
"I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing."
"I hate leaving home. I love what I do, but I'd love to go home every night."
"It's been years and years and years I've been playing the drums, and they're still a challenge."
"I never had lessons. Used to try to play to records, which I hated doing. Still can't...
Author
Language
English
Description
Of all the many spiritual masters who transplanted themselves from India in the 1960s the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is perhaps the most lauded, and indeed, successful. His easy to learn technique of transcendental meditation is everywhere with millions gaining great benefits from the ageless technique today.
With the Beatles as his most famous disciples, the giggly guru changed the face of personal spirituality forever. Here is the venerated master in...
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1983 Yoko Ono selected journalist Geoffrey Giuliano for an exclusive interview (one of her first after the tragic death of John Lennon) over the iconic Barbara Walters. Arriving early at the Dakota apartments for what was initially a one-hour interview it turned into an all-day affair with Giuliano staying until early evening talking freely with Yoko Ono and a young Sean Lennon.
The remarkable interview presented here is the fruit of that long-ago...
Author
Language
English
Description
In this rare collection on the phenomena of Beatlemania here is an inside look on the lives of George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono, and those in Beatles select circle. If you think you know everything about the Beatles, think again, because here is the true story of the Fab Four from one half of the unstoppable juggernaut that was the Beatles.
Author
Language
English
Description
Graeme Edge was born on 30th March 1941 in Rochester, Staffordshire. His mother was a pianist for the silent movies and his father, grandfather and great-grandfather were all music-hall singers.
Edge trained as a draughtsman but soon went into music full time. He never started out to be a drummer, he was, in fact the manager of a group called the Blue Rhythm Band. Graeme always watched the drummer in the group and fooled around on the drums, but...
Author
Language
English
Description
Everyone who knows music understands Ginger Baker was, and is, perhaps the greatest rock jazz fusion drummer ever. Author Giuliano was close to both Ginger and Jack Bruce in the 1990s and presents us with the very best of his extended three-week daily interview sessions with Mr. Baker.
Here you will meet the real man behind the never-ending drum kit. Neither myth, legend, nor spurious gossip can ever equal the true measure of the man, and this tempestuous...
Author
Language
English
Description
Muhammad Ali, perhaps the world's most famous person, is much more than a boxer or celebrity but a man of mountain-high spirit and compassion. His deep commitments to his faith and humanity at large have shot him into the stratosphere of human history. For the first time, you can hear the living legend narrate his own story from the rough-and-tumble streets of Kentucky to everyone's favorite superstar. It is a poignant, heartfelt tale told as only...
Author
Language
English
Description
Charlie Watts June 2, 1941 - August 24, 2021
Charlie Watts provided the foundation that underpinned the music of the Rolling Stones. The band became a by-word for rock 'n' roll excess but for Watts, playing with the Stones did not become the ego trip that drove Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. A jazz aficionado, Watts vied with Bill Wyman for the title of least charismatic member of the band, he eschewed the limelight and rarely gave interviews. And...
In Clover
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by VOKAL can be requested from other Clover libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Make a purchase suggestion
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request