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A Voice and a Dream: The Celine Dion Story

Richard Crouse

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Total reviews: 15 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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RISE OF AN ANGEL

Hailed as a "global diva" by Time magazine, French-Canadian pop star Celine Dion has broken into the singing stratosphere, joining the pantheon of such legends as Barbra Streisand and Whitney Houston. Possessing an unforgettable voice that effortlessly soars across five octaves, Dion dazzled Europe with her winning mix of dance music and lush ballads before taking the ultimate leap into stardom on the world's toughest stage--the United States.

With the release of her soul-searing single "The Power of Love," Celine-fever quickly gripped North America. Her next album, Falling into You, won Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and Best Pop Album. Now, at the pinnacle of her career, which path will Dion take next? A VOICE AND A DREAM looks to her bright future as it plumbs her engaging past. Get the scoop on her fairy-tale marriage to manager Rene Angelil, the health struggles she suffered under a grueling workload, and her colorful experiences growing up in a large, musical family. A behind-the-scenes look at the world's hottest diva, A VOICE AND A DREAM is an exclusive glimpse at a real-life Cinderella.

Angel Standing By: The Story of Jewel

P. J. McFarland

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Total reviews: 10 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Don't buy this book 1 out of 5 stars.
22 of 26 people found this review helpful.

This is just another unauthorized biography telling stuff that you already read a million times. If you want to know what Jewel's life is really like wait until this summer when she publishes her own autobiggraphy, "Life Stories".

Jewel-Fans sollten dieses Buch lesen ! 4 out of 5 stars.
7 of 18 people found this review helpful.

Man kommt nicht über dieses Buch zu Jewel, sondern über ihre Musik. Wer diese Musik liebt und mehr über Jewel erfahren will, sollte dieses Buch lesen. Es ist in einem recht einfach und flüssig zu lesenden Englisch geschrieben, so daß sogar ich den Inhalt verstand. Mag sein das nicht alle Fakten stimmen, aber wo findet man das schon. Wer Jewel liebt wird sie nach diesem Buch anbeten, den ihr wurde NICHTS geschenkt.

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"There really aren't mistakes. Be very adventurous and brave in your life. Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous--there's really nothing to lose. There's no wrong you can't make right again, so be kind to yourself. . . There are no bounds." --Jewel

Angel Standing By offers an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at the struggles and successes of Jewel Kilcher, who in a few short years went from living in her van near the beach in San Diego to becoming a multiplatinum recording artist and nationally best selling author. With personal photographs and exclusive interview material, this fascinating account is not to be missed by any fan moved by the music of Jewel.

Tori Amos: Piece by Piece

Tori Amos, Ann Powers

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An intimate, eye-opening look inside the life of one of the most unique and adored performers of contemporary rock music

From her critically acclaimed 1992 debut, Little Earthquakes, to the recent hit, Scarlet’s Walk, Tori Amos has been a formidable force in contemporary music, with one of the most dedicated fan bases in the industry. In Tori Amos: Piece by Piece, the singer herself takes readers beyond the mere facts, explaining the specifics of her creative process—how her songs go from ideas and melodies to recordings and passionately performed concert pieces.

Written with acclaimed music journalist Ann Powers, Tori Amos: Piece by Piece is a firsthand account of the most intricate and intimate details of Amos’s life as both a private individual and a very public performing musician. In passionate and informative prose, Amos explains how her songs come to her and how she records and then performs them for audiences everywhere, all the while connecting with listeners across the world and maintaining her own family life (which includes raising a young daughter). But it is also much more, a verbal collage made by two strong female voices—and the voices of those closest to Amos—that calls upon genealogy, myth, and folklore to express Amos’s unique and fascinating personal history. In short, we see the pieces that make up—as Amos herself puts it—“the woman we call Tori.”

With photos taken especially for this book by the photographer Loren Haynes, Tori Amos: Piece by Piece is a rare treat for both Tori listeners and newcomers alike, a look into the heart and mind of an extraordinary musician.


I choose to fight my battles through my music . . . I was born a feminist. And then at age five, when my strict Christian grandmother punished me, I realized, I’m not penetrating here. I’m just pissing people off. So I had to find another way to penetrate. I had to redefine what that word means. That word now is really about an opening, an entering into a separate space. And after the first phase of my life, I realized that it was okay to enter that space without having to be invaded . . . I like the idea of just being able to be inside. Not using penetration as a violent word. The idea of being able to find keys . . . music, using keys to get into a space that we couldn’t before . . .

Now, backstage at an undisclosed arena where the sweat of athletes is still perfuming my makeshift dressing room, my many conversations with Ann Powers have begun . . .

“You come from the journalist side. I come from the artist side. It can become offensive. I’m sure from your side as well as from mine.”

“Well, it’s true everyone expects us to be enemies. And in some ways we are. My job is interpretation. Yours is art, which often benefits from mystery . . .”

Ann and I decided to strip our roles back to basics. We are both women born feminists in the 1960s. We are both married. We are both mothers. We are both in the music industry. Traditionally we are enemies. But for this project to be effective, I had to allow Ann to expose Tori Amos. And Tori Amos’s inner circle. And me.”

– from the Introduction

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Gloria

Gloria Trevi

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STOP THE INJUSTICE TOWARDS GLORIA TREVI 5 out of 5 stars.
16 of 19 people found this review helpful.

THE BOOK GLORIA WILL AID MANY PEOPLE IN MAKING A BETTER JUDGMENT ON GLORIA TREVI CASE. THE BOOK WRITTEN BY GLORIA IS EVIDENTLY A SCREAM TO STOP THE INJUSTICE SHE IS RECEIVING. MOST OF HER EX FANS AND MANY OTHER PEOPLE UNFORTUNATELY AND IGNORANTLY STOPPED SUPPORTING HER DUE TO THE PRESUMED ACCUSATIONS OF ALINE HERNANDEZ AND KARINA YAPOR. PEOPLE BASED THEIR OPINIONS WITHOUT HAVING ANY PROOF THAT SHE MALESTED THESE AND OTHER GIRLS. FINALLY, GLORIA HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK UP AND REVEAL THE TRUTH ABOUT THIS UNFORTUNATE CASE. EVIDENTLY, THESE GIRLS ARE USING GLORIA'S SUCCESS TO EXPLOIT THEIR CHARACTER THAT LACKS TALENT IN EVERY ASPECT.

THE TRUTH''SPEAKS 5 out of 5 stars.
10 of 12 people found this review helpful.

THIS BOOK WILL OPEN THE EYES OFF ALL THE PEOPLE;'I JUST HOPE THAT GLORIA WILL BE SET FREE;; CAS SHE IS JUST A VICTEM OFF ALL THE LIES THAT MONEY HUNGRY GIRLS THAT ARE LOOKING FOR FAME;;;;

This forum is designed to help people choose a book... 3 out of 5 stars.
2 of 7 people found this review helpful.

...not to make an opinion on whos guilty or inocent. Have some common sense and find forums for this matter and don't waste valuable space in this webpage...and no Im not racist I AM 100% MEXICAN but a Mexican that knows what "Review this book" means.
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My Life Is In Your Hands & Take My Life

Eddie Cantor

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Eddie Cantor has done it agian! 4 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

Eddie Cantor is truly a great comedian! The two new autobiographies that were just released; you hear Eddie's story about how he got in to show business, his sucess's and also failures. This is a wonderful book and I would advise it to any Cantor fan.

Eddie Cantor in His Own Words! 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

Eddie Cantor was a larger-than-life musical comedian in the first half of the twentieth century who made a splash on Broadway and in the Goldwyn Musicals of the 1930's. If you want to hear about old-time showbiz straight from the mouth of someone who lived it, seasoned with intimate memoirs, you've got to check these books out. What's more, you get two for the price of one!

Jeepers creepers where'd you get those peepers? 5 out of 5 stars.
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Show- business biographies tend to feed upon some of the lowest levels of human curiosity, our instinctive desire to know the dirt and the smut of the celebs. Eddie Cantor was however as show- business people go , and they will all forgive me for this, a very decent, honest, hard- working and good person. In this autobiography of two parts he tells of the long road from a little East Side tenement on Eldridge Street all the way to the Colgate Comedy Hour . He did it all on the way including vaudeville and all the road - shows imaginable.
He was the most peppy of all of entertainers filled with life and fun. A little guy with big eyes , whose trademark was rolling them he would talk on Sunday night about his wife Ida and his five- daughters just before or after rendering an always upbeat ' Jeepers Peepers where'd you get those peepers, Jeepers Peepers , where'd you get those eyes?'
He was essentially an entertainer as cheerer- upper. He didn't leer or threaten he smiled and danced on. Along with Jolson and Jessel and a bit later Uncle Milty he was an American household word. I can remember his bringing that young great hope his protege ( The son he did not have) Eddie Fisher on the stage for his great debut.
Cantor was in Joe Franklin's words ' the greatest', if by the greatest is meant a very good, helping person in a very hard cut- throat world.
This volume also has C.D.s with so those who never heard him, which I suspect is most of the world now alive, can get a feeling of it. It wasn't great music, but it was great life.
This guy wanted to make you happy, and he often did.

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One of America's best loved entertainers.

Streisand: A Biography

Anne Edwards

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Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Edwards' Failure 5 out of 5 stars.
8 of 16 people found this review helpful.

In order to be fair I read this book twice. I adore Babs--I live my life to be like hers; I want my resonance to sympathize with her resonance. I want people to spend time with me and to think that they have really been in the company of Babs. Or at least AS IF they had been in her company--I want to leave a similar impression. I really really really do. I approached this book in much the same way. I wanted to think that this book was in Babs' library. Instead, if anything, Edwards' treatment locates this book not in her library but perhaps in her pantry--right between that canned vegatable that the previous owners left behind and the cantalope pie tin. Edwards' doesn't get Babs' main rhetorical mechanism--of putting the world on the defensive to protect her from her own defensiveness. Edward's BUYS INTO Babs' mechanisms rather than calling them out. In a sense, Edwards argues for the grandeur of the Emperor's new clothes. I give it 5 stars because, as the other reviews attest, her fans want to be duped. Hence, I celebrate 5-star stupidity.

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Fans of the singer/actress/director will devour all 600 pages of this book, and even those less enamored will admit that it takes a hefty volume to do justice to the tangled psyche of a star as legendary for her temperament as her talent. Anne Edwards, who has infused the celebrity bio with class in a dozen previous books, does her usual thorough research and manages to combine plenty of juicy anecdotes with a thoughtful, generally favorable evaluation of the super-diva's career, from early fame in Funny Girl to labors of love like Yentl.

That's the Way I Like It : The Story of Harry Wayne Casey

Craig MacInnis

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Madonna: An Intimate Biography

J. Randy Taraborrelli

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Total reviews: 36 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

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What's the best part of Madonna: An Intimate Biography? The sex part! According to author J. Randy Taraborrelli, Madonna tried to insure her breasts for $6 million each. Prince dumped her because "he wanted to savor every second [of sex]; she was into multiple orgasms." Sean Penn demanded she get an HIV test. "Screw you," she said. "Not until you get tested," he said. When Penn found out about Madonna and Prince, he punched a hole in her wall. Madonna demanded that Prince plaster it ("You're responsible!"), and he did. JFK Jr. refused to give her a baby, and Jackie objected to his affair with someone called a "Material Girl." "Who in this world has been more materialistic than you?" JFK Jr. asked his mother. When he and Madonna dumped each other, he said, "Easy come, easy go." She compared her Broadway debut in Speed-the-Plow to "having really good sex." After their first kiss, Warren Beatty said, "Houston, we have lift-off." Madonna's tune "Hanky Panky" reflects Beatty's favorite sport, spanking. But Barbra Streisand helped convince him to dump the "floozy," so she picked up Tony Ward on Malibu Beach by putting out a cigarette on his back and pinching his nipple. When she realized he was more of a floozy than she was, she spent 21 and a half hours in the Carlyle Hotel trying to convince the married Penn to father her child. Rebuffed, she picked up Carlos Leon, a fitness trainer at Crunch, in Central Park, and presto, she had a baby. Dennis Rodman (whom she called "Daddy Long Legs") was a dud in bed, but she found true love in the daddy of her second child, Princess Diana's cousin Guy Ritchie, director of Snatch.

There's stuff about her career in the book, but Taraborrelli is a lousy music and film critic. I can't vouch for the accuracy of his dish, but I promise you that as a gossip he's the real thing. --Tim Appelo

Morrissey: Scandal and Passion

David Bret

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Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 3.0 of 5

You'll learn a lot about Barbara and David Bret (the author)! 3 out of 5 stars.
5 of 6 people found this review helpful.

This wasn't awful...you will learn a bit more about Morrissey, but there was a lot of annoying filler in between. The author is obsessed with letting people know that he's quite fluent in French and proceeds to tell you all the translations he's made for Barbara,that some play that Barbara was in had a character named afer HIM, that one time Morrissey went looking for him and wife (possibly while watching Barbara) etc etc. He tries to make it subtle...but it's obvious and just annoying. One of the chapter names is in French, which is ridiculous because the reference is to a French book...so even if you understand French a bit, you won't get what Bret is talking about. All of this adds up and becomes incredibly distracting.

As I said before, you do get a bit of a Morrissey overview, I'm not sure how accurate it all is but he does give some good Moz quotes here and there...although 99% all appear to come from the magazine Les Inrockuptibles. He also goes over a few of Morrissey's songs and albums, but I was a bit dissapointed with his analyses quite a few times. For example, Bret calls "The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get" a love song. This is possible, but the more common view is that this song is about trying to freak out Mike Joyce...no mention whatsoever about this from Bret.

I give it 3 stars because it's not an awful biography, and the writing isn't too bad...but Bret comes off as a pretentious, annoying guy who likes to blow his own trumpet way too overtly. I'd give it 2 1/2 if possible.

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Alternately idolized and derided, Morrissey is perhaps the only English pop star to have successfully created his own culture: an eccentric world of foibles, insuppressible opinions, and bizarre obsessions. He claims to have loved rarely, and despite leading an intensely private life, his sexuality has been the subject of acres of press coverage. The Smiths were one of the last of the great British rock bands, their wry, disaffected tunes sung by Morrissey in a haunting, melancholic voice. After the Smiths disbanded in 1987, Morrissey went on to a successful solo career. In this biography, complete with a discography, David Bret talks to friends and colleagues about one of music’s most iconic and enigmatic figures.

The Olivia Newton John Companion

Edward Wincentsen

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Not what I thought 2 out of 5 stars.
15 of 17 people found this review helpful.

It's a lovely book, but I thought it would be more discography, picture, and biography related. It's a collection of articles that have written before and now reprinted. It has a nice section of fan stories and they are the highlight of this book. There is NO new revalations on Olivia that any die-hard fan doesn't know or hasn't known in the past about Olivia. I was hoping for a book that would be useful in research on Olivia. Maybe Olivia's story will be told by Olivia herself soon and it will be the must have book on Olivia surely, not this one. Sorry about that chief :o(

A Nice Book for all Olivia fans to Own... 5 out of 5 stars.
12 of 14 people found this review helpful.

This book is a great book to have if you are an Olivia fan. Mr. Wincentsen does a fantastic job piecing together magazine articles, quotes and fan stories and artwork. I would highly reccomend this book to NEW Olivia fans who want to know more about this lady and how she's touched fans all around the world. I love how he used articles from the last 35 or so years to chronicle how Olivia has been covered in the press. There's some nice quotes in here that the lady has made too....all in all, I highly reccommend this book.