I Make My Own Rules

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"There are rebels and there are innovators. I'm an innovator." "Keeping it real ain't about carrying a gun or smoking blunts. It's about being true to yourself and those around you." "Not every child who's abused has to be a negative statistic. I write this book for anyone who thinks they can make it, to show them they can."LL Cool J.Read his story.Learn from his words.Make your own rules.

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LL Up close and personal .......2007-02-28

If you are as much as an LL Fan as I am, then you won't want to miss out on this book. LL doesn't hold back anything in this book. He reveals it all. Everything. From his wild experiences with groupies, his relationship with Quincy Jones's daughter, his trials and tribulations, and even the abuse that he suffered as child by his step father.

Ladies and I LOVE COOL j.......2006-12-09

What a good book! He has a very deep history and I love the fact that he was not at all trying to brag about being rough when he was young (help him with a"ganster rap" image) or by how big he has become. He is a very REAL human- down to earth. You feel it in his music, but really get to learn through this book. Just a great guy!

Ladies Love Cool James.......2006-10-07

I'm not a person who has a lot of respect for rappers or hip-hop. Yes, it's a legal way for black people to make money, but I have a major problem with the imaging, content, and attitudes of most hip hop artists who are our most visible representatives to the world. And the way they behave has a trickle down effect on me and every other black person regardless of the way WE behave. Being black and from the ghetto doesn't make it okay to be devoid of class and dignity. Our behavior puts us in the doghouse more than our color does. And I don't see much respectable behavior in hip hop.

Nevertheless, I find LL Cool J more respectable and likeable than most of them; and his story is an interesting, worthwhile one. Maybe if the public were more exposed to the real, living, breathing individuals in rap music rather than just the "star" we could empathize more with their situations and be less critical of their flaws.

LL gets emotionally naked as he informs his readers and fans alike of his life: from growing up to becoming a man with superstar status and millions of admirers.

He discusses...

...his relationship with his father who severely wounded his mother and grandfather with a shotgun; and his stepfather who physically and emotionally abused him behind his mother's back.

...his sex life with women: including groupies, Quincy Jones' daughter and his current wife.

...his career

...his ability to forgive and to mature in order to survive and stay relevant

UNCLE L WAS A WILD FREAK!.......2006-07-09

VERY DETAILED AND HONEST AUTOBIO HE HAS TRULY MATURED AND HAD A WILD LIFE TO SAY THE LEAST! I DONT WANNA GIVE THE BOOK AWAY BUT IF U R A LL COOL J FAN U NEED TO GET THIS ONE AND LEARN ABOUT JAMES TOOD SMITH!

fun, interesting read.......2005-10-19

i think i read this book in a day and a half. its one of those books you can just keep reading and it doesn't hurt your brain. its a great autobiography; it seemed complete at the end and it didn't have many gaps in time. he big up's God in this book and seems to really care about the better nature of everyone. the title is appropriate in that he doesn't allow himself to be molded.

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My love and respect for Tina Turner knows no limits.
Tina is the best
Up by her bootstraps
The strong survive
Tina... you are one tough woman!

I, Tina
Tina Turner , and Kurt Loder
Manufacturer: Avon
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ASIN: 0380700972

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Tina Turner's is the most fascinating true story in show business. From Nut Bush, Tennessee, to Hollywood stardom...from Ike's Kings of Rhythm to onstage with Mick Jagger and the Stones...from the lowest lows to the highest highs, Tina has seen, done, suffered and survived it all. And in her spectacular bestseller I, TINA, she tells it like it really is...

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My love and respect for Tina Turner knows no limits........2006-04-06

I have read this book atleast 50 times.
I,Tina still brings out so much emotion within me.

When I was a small child, back in 1984, I remember the first time I saw the video for, "What's Love Got To Do With It?" As I marveled at the beautiful, tough, street savy woman with the wild hair I kept wondering who she was. I, like many other kids, thought that Tina Turner was a brand new artist. And all I knew was that her voice amazed me and I loved her rock and roll style...

I,Tina gave me a different perspective altogether. This is a woman who has been in the game for nearly five decades. Tina was a Rock and Roll Icon long before I was a twinkle in my father's eye.
The autobiography was incredibly well done. Tina is so candid and open about each and every detail of her life. The more I read the more I began to see Tina outside the parameters of fame and fortune.
And she did pay a great price for that fame and fortune through years of torcher and abuse.

I can't believe any human being(well, I don't consider Ike Turner human)could subject another to that level of sadistic treatment. At times I have had to reread Tina's accounts over and over again because I couldn't believe it! The broken jaw, the broken ribs, strangulation, punching, and beatings with household objects.
Ike was a pure animal. The man was a genius when it came to music, but he is a scoundrel in every other facet of his life. He should cease and desist with the claims that Tina falsifying her story. The accounts from eyewitnesses and doctors are there, in bold print. Ike was an abusive S.O.B. and he should be thankful that Tina didn't buy a gun and pump him full of led!

My question is what human being could endure all of that? My answer was Tina Turner.
This is a woman who, literally, left with only the clothes on her back. She gave up everything. Her career was in shambles; she had no home, four children, and spent a decade living in cubby holes and cleaning houses...Yet, she managed to rise to the top and become an even bigger star than she was before.

There are no words that I can use to describe my adoration for Tina Turner. I am not only a fan of the performer, but also the woman. She truly is powerful.

Tina is the best.......2005-01-11

I love Tina and her voice.She can dance.I think beyonce is trying to be like her, but no one can be like her.Why did she let ike beat her down. If I was her i would have killed him a long time ago. She was strong and very talented. she looks good for her age. I love her so much.i like rolling on the river.

Up by her bootstraps.......2004-10-25

Tina Turner is an amazing, self made success story. It is the rocky road that she traveled to fame that made us all take notice, from a poor girl in Nutbush Tennessee to a house 'on the sea'(the Mediterranean), as she so eloquently sang in Private Dancer--Tina achieved, and achieved. In the world of music and life, she was 'I Tina'. Tina Turner left her abusive husband Ike with only pennies in her pocket, fighting only to keep her well earned name. Armed with a name, Tina's powerful, rich voice echoed acrooss packed stadiums the world over.
I, Tina tells the tale of one of the most remarkable stories of our time.

The strong survive.......2004-03-08

I remember first hearing Tina Turner when "A Fool In Love" came out in 1957 and being blown away by the sheer raw power in that awesome voice. For the next two decades, Ike and Tina Turner were household names for R&B fans, and few if anybody outside their inner circle knew the price Tina was paying for being part of the team. An abusive womanizer and control freak, Ike beat Tina with increasing violence over the ensuing 19 years as their fame grew and declined, until Tina finally reached inside herself for the strength to say "Enough". A question frequently asked is why do women wait so long to get out of such relationships; Tina was bound to Ike by emotional and financial ties and her own insecurity. The devil you know may be better than the devil you don't; who's to say what's waiting on the outside might not be worse than what you escaped from? But one beating too many tipped the scales; for Tina, it was leave or be destroyed. The story of her flight from Ike with thirty-six cents to her name; the subsequent lawsuits for breach of contract and her comeback to fame and fortune that topped anything she had known when she was part of Ike-and-Tina-Turner is well known enough not to have to recount here; but most of this book is a fascinating and well-written exploration of her childhood, her rise to fame, and the hell of her marriage with Ike, told by many different voices besides hers and Ike's that were witness to it all. We listen to Tina's own voice: "I gave in to myself. I went inside of me to help me. You can do it." We look at Tina now, over sixty and still drop-dead gorgeous, and we feel a deep admiration and respect for a very gutsy lady. This book is inspired reading.

Tina... you are one tough woman!.......2003-09-20

After all these years, her story still rocks me to the bone. This is one great re-tell of her marriage with Ike, and her struggles in the music industry while being a wife and mother with her kids. Her determination to really keep herself alive and vibrant is inspiring as she discovers life's lesson's through the abuse of her husband. Her discovery of buddhism really moved me, and she is just one tough woman.

You're Only as Good as Your Next One: 100 Great Films, 100 Good Films, and 100 for Which I Should Be Shot

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You're Only as Good as Your Next One by Mike Medavoy
You're Only As Good As Your Next One
You're Only As Good As Your Next One
You're Only As Good As Your Next One
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You're Only as Good as Your Next One: 100 Great Films, 100 Good Films, and 100 for Which I Should Be Shot
Mike Medavoy
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ASIN: 0743400542

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Few Hollywood memoirs have offered as distinctive and candid a perspective on the film industry as producer and studio executive Mike Medavoy's You're Only As Good As Your Next One. Here is a deeply personal history of four decades in American film, told by a pivotal player in the creation of more than three hundred films -- or, as Medavoy distinguishes them, "one hundred great films, one hundred good films, and one hundred for which I should be shot." Included are eight Best Picture Oscar winners. On all of them, he knows the behind-the-scenes dramas, who got credit for whose achievements, and who didn't get credit but should have.

His ties to four major studios mirror the most fascinating chapters in American filmmaking. At United Artists, he and his partners were behind the creative revolution of the hot young directors of the 1970s, and they backed such seminal films as Apocalypse Now, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and Rocky. At Orion Pictures, he backed such '80s smashes as Amadeus, The Terminator, Platoon, and The Silence of the Lambs. He navigated the '90s corporate culture at TriStar Pictures, green-lighting Philadelphia and Sleepless in Seattle. Now at his own Phoenix Pictures, the producer of such acclaimed works as The People vs. Larry Flynt and The Thin Red Line controls his destiny, but never strays far from controversy. Medavoy pulls no punches in telling his story of financial and political maneuvering, great triumphs and the inevitable disasters, and working with the industry's brightest star power including Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Milos Forman, Jonathan Demme, Francis Coppola, John Milius, Terrence Malick, Kevin Costner, Tom Hanks, Jane Fonda, Warren Beatty, Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Sharon Stone, Michael Douglas, Meg Ryan, Dustin Hoffman, and countless others.

This is also the story of how movie studio buyouts have stymied the creative process and shaped the future of film. Gone is the hands-off golden age that spawned some of the most influential and successful films of our time. An eyewitness to Hollywood history in the making, Mike Medavoy gives a powerful and poignant view of the past and future of a world he knows intimately.

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You're Only as Good as Your Next One by Mike Medavoy.......2005-06-17

Mike Medavoy's Bio is a very good educational book
Dear Sirs:
(...) I spend all my days after school and during the week-ends watching movies at home with my friends and our parents. We like, especially, all the Mike Medavoy's movies: Holes, Apocalypse Now, Rocky, Basic, Robocop, Cliffhanger, The 6th Day, Apt Pupil, The Thin Red Line, Terminator, Hook, Platoon... We like his movies because he is a producer with conscience. For these reasons I think that the Mike Medavoy's Bio is a very good educational book. This book really deserves to be distributed in all the Schools, Colleges and Universities of Cinema of the Country (Hey, teacher, thank you!).
Plus I really think that Mr. Medavoy is a Good Man, a Good Son, a Good Father and a Good Friend. He never judge the other People (he just writes the history) and he is always helping a lot of great talents. He is an unique human being in Hollywood. Mike Medavoy knows how to do movies with an extraordinary talent and with great love.
(...)

You're Only As Good As Your Next One.......2005-06-16

Dear Sirs:
Since I was 11 years old I like read "Variety" and now that I'm 12 years old I spend all my days after school watching movies at home with my friends. We like, especially, all the Mike Medavoy's movies: Apocalypse Now, Rocky, Robocop, Cliffhanger, Terminator, Hook, Platoon... We like his movies because he is a producer with conscience. For these reasons I think that the Mike Medavoy's Bio is a very good educational book. This book really deserves to be distributed in all the Schools, Colleges and Universities of Cinema of the Country (Hey, teacher, thank you!).
Plus I really think that Mr. Medavoy is a Good Man, a Good Son, a Good Father that loves fully and truly children and young people and a Good Friend. He never judge the other People (he just writes the history) and he is always helping a lot of great talents. He is an unique human being in Hollywood. Mike Medavoy knows how to do movies with an extraordinary talent and with great love.
From Joe Miller Jr., Philadelphia

You're Only As Good As Your Next One.......2005-06-16

Did not like this book.......2005-02-16

This book was not compelling and the story of Mike Medavoy simply not interesting. It seems like his life has always been about himself. After all, he's married a half a dozen times, continues to cheat, has kids who are a mess and he is grotesque. So if you are going to learn form somebody read about Ted Turner, Jack Warner...Medavoy shouldn't have a book deal in the first place. This was a total waste of my time.

I Want to Talk to My Teen About Movies, Music (I Want to Talk with My Teen about)

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I Want to Talk to My Teen About Movies, Music (I Want to Talk with My Teen about)
Walt Mueller
Manufacturer: Standard Publishing Company
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PRETTY PICTURES
Jah Beauty
JAH LOVES, more Itations......
Goin'Home
yes I

Itations of Jamaica and I Rastafari
Millard Faristzaddi
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PRETTY PICTURES.......2007-05-06

THIS BOOK IS FULL OF PRETTY PICTURES THAT GIVE YOU THE FEELING THAT YOUR RIGHT THERE IN JAMAICA. ONE THING I DIDNT LIKE ABOUT THE BOOK IS HOW LITTLE INFORMATION IT HAD IN IT. THERE WERE SECTIONS IN THERE THAT WERE VERY INFORMATIVE BUT IT WAS PREDOMINATELY A PICTURE BOOK. ANOTHER THING IS THE LAYOUT AND OVERALL SIZE OF THE BOOK, ITS KIND OF SMALL I WAS EXPECTING SOMETHING A LITTLE BIT BIGGER. BUT STILL A GOOD BOOK OVERALL! READ IT AND LIVE IT!
ONE LOVE
JAH BLESS

Jah Beauty.......2005-11-05

This a lovely book to read for anyone interested in RastafarI or a Rastafarian themselves. The pictures only add to the beautiful images that the poems create in the reader's mind.

JAH LOVES, more Itations.............2004-11-30

Just wanted to let u know that there are at least to more books in this set, Itation 2+3, i have Book 1, a great read, mainly composedf of poems and spiritual words, has a section on the Arawaks, and loads of beautiful pictures of Jahs Work (Flowers!!) lovely, a must to all Rasta's or anyone interested.<br /> Pete,N.Wales,UK

Goin'Home.......2002-06-29

Reading the Itations books is always like goin' home, comforting and blessed with words and images of Jah. Like no other book I have ever read, I use quotes from it to help my friends when they are in need of spiritual advice. Give Thanks and Praise to Millard for sharing these works.

yes I.......2001-03-09

this book is truly living. the first time i saw it i realized i had to own a copy. beautiful photographs printed on quality paper; pictures that actually live and breathe, and words that sing themselves off the pages. after "stumbling" upon this book twice in my travels and actually having an opportunity to read it once through before i obtained my own copy, i began to feel dreadlocks growing from the top of my head. since i purchased mine from amazon.com i've read it several times and use it as a reference and meditation guide. i am never without it in my journeys. i recommend itations to any one interested in rastafarianism, one love, world peace and unity; to anyone with dreadlocks or even thinking of cultivating them this book will begin to show you what it is all about. from the heart- Jah Rastafari!

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Dated slang + unreliable narrator = Castle made of sand
Neither fact nor fiction
How authentic do you need to be?
Really, you must be joking!!!
Not an accurate biography-but would have been an excellent fictional novel-seriously!

Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky :HENDRIX
David Henderson
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Black Gold: The Lost Archives of Jimi Hendrix

ASIN: 0553231332

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Jimi Hendrix's explosion onto the rock and roll scene is one of the most remarkable legends in music history. Fusing blues, jazz, and outrageous psychdelia, Hendrix scored multitudes of devoted fans with his frenzied, irreverent guitar playing, singing, and song-writing. And at the age of twenty-seven, when his private nightmares caught up with his dreams, he died in a torrent of drugs and alcohol. More than a decade after his death, Hendrix is still considered by millions to be the greatest guitarist in rock and roll history. Now, David Henderson has captured the essence of Hendrix's intense, apocalyptic, and ultimately tragic life in this brilliantly researched, deeply honest and totally moving biography. Here is Hendrix, the REAL Hendrix--his boyhood in Seattle, his years in a crack U.S. paratroop regiment, his growing reputation as the best sideman in the business, his manic trip through superstardom, the songs, the concerts, the flaming guitars, the acid, the booze, and, most important, the incomparable legacy he left behind.

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Dated slang + unreliable narrator = Castle made of sand.......2007-01-22

David Eichelberger already wrote about one major weakness of this book in his review, though in Henderson's, umm, defense a lot of rock biographies written around the same time adopted a similar tone, cf. "No One Here Gets Out Alive," "Hammer of the Gods," and to a lesser extent, the Bob Marley bio by Timothy White (I think it's "Catch a Fire").

While the dated slang is distracting, the hero-worshipping approach to Hendrix is worse. Hendrix is either responsible for or happened to be within earshot of people talking about a lot of major developments in mid-1960s pop culture, including Eric Clapton's shift to Cream, Pete Townshend writing Tommy, Miles Davis getting into rock, etc. Yes, there is no denying that Hendrix was part of The Scene, and that he was part of the short-term changes happening in that scene, but without stronger evidence and attribution I'm not buying that Hendrix was the key nexus through which all of these changes were taking place. It takes a lot more than just one person to make change happen; Henderson's hagiographic presentation is simply untenable.

But the real deal killer here is the the omniscient third-person voice adopted by Henderson ("Jimi had not spent so much time with brothers in ages. He dug it."). You never really know if what you're reading is (a) something Hendrix said in an interview somewhere that Henderson has paraphrased, (b) something Hendrix said to a friend that Henderson has paraphrased, or (c) something Henderson imagines Jimi must have been thinking. No matter how you slice it, it comes up unreliable. You never know if what you're reading really is what Jimi thought or not.

That said, I give it two stars because it looks like Henderson at least got a lot of his facts right--at least if we are to trust the far superior 2006 Jimi bio by Charles Cross, "A Room Full of Mirrors," as a yardstick for cross-checking the data. Cross doesn't worry about being hip, just about putting down the facts (or at least the facts as the people he interviewed remember them as being) and letting Jimi speak in his own voice wherever possible. Cross is also good at comparing the different ways people remember the same event--something that doesn't seem to have occurred to Henderson as a thing to do. Nonetheless, amid all the bluster and jive talk, it is clear that Henderson did do a lot of research himself.

All in all, though, now that I've reread the Henderson book for the first time in about 20 years (found it buried in my storage space), I feel safe in saying that I have no reason to recommend to anyone other than the Hendrix completist, and that recommendation is pretty lukewarm. Get Cross' book instead if you want to know about Jimi's life and some of his musical influences. Get the CDs if you want to know about the music.

ADDITION: I see that this book is in fact a condensed version of a larger book that Henderson wrote called something like "Jimi Hendrix: Free Spirit of the Aquarian Age," a title that has not aged well. Apparently, the lack of interviews that I complain about in my review of this book here is a product of the cutting and chopping process Henderson went through to produce a shorter book that could be released as a mass-market paperback. Be that as it may, I can only judge by what THIS book is, not what it could have been. Henderson is said to be editing and updating the "Aquarian" book for new edition, to be released in 2007 or 2008. I'll keep my eyes out for that (though the long, impressionistic descriptions of Jimi's playing of various songs better not get any longer . . .).

Neither fact nor fiction.......2006-12-27

In the late 70's and early 80's there were very few books on Hendrix and this was one of the first (barring the Curtis Knight biography) and probably the most widely distributed volumes on the Hendrix story (Most public libraries have a copy or two). This was the first book I read on Hendrix but it has not weathered well over the years and there are a number of factual problems with it. However, as its already been pointed out, Henderson weaves the tale in a talented fashion and he would have made a good scriptwriter for a treatment of a Hendrix biopic. Henderson is planning to re-release the book in 2008 with updated information revealing a lot of the sources who he could/would not originally reveal. Let's hope with this new edition he makes up for the sins of the past and fleshes out the man from the myth he helped to perpetuate.

How authentic do you need to be?.......2006-02-17

As rock bios go, this one is the worst I ever made the mistake of buying. Being a Hendrix fan, I had a genuine interest in the subject at hand, but the "with it" 60's slang that David Henderson insisted upon using throughout the book was irritating, and worse, distracting. His use of "creative license" whereby he supposes himself inside Jimi's mind as he lay dying is not only disingenuous, but creepy. Avoid this one unless you're an acid casualty yourself.

Really, you must be joking!!!.......2005-08-30

In reading the other reviews of this "Biography", I have to wonder if they all read the same book that I did. Some even went so far as to state that this is the best biography about Jimi that they have ever read! Please! No way.

Perhaps I am being too harsh as it was written almost 25 five years ago, and it shows with the language that is used in the book. Alot of slang from the 60s. And I also found very wierd and disconcerting how Mr. Henderson writes as if he knew what was going through Jimi's mind when he lay dying, when he was arrested for drug possession in Toronto and when he was performing at his most famous concerts. I understand from reading something about Mr. Henderson that he knew Jimi, how well I couldn't really ascertain. He is also an African American. Now what importance you may attach to that, I don't know. I happen to believe that you don't have to be an African American to write a credible biography about Jimi because if that were the case, most of the biograhies about him would have remained unwritten. And just because Mr. Henderson is black does not give his book anymore credence than say the ones by Murray, Lawrence, Cross, Shadwick etc. I would say that Mr. Henderson wrote this book from his own perspective as a black man, but not from Jimi's. Yes they are both black but that should not mean that their experiences were the same. From what others who knew Jimi have said in other biographies, Jimi was only concenred about the colors in his music not the color of his skin or anyone else's. Not that he was unaware of racism, but that like any other problem in his life he simply believed that everything would turn out for the best. He was not militant, in fact most of his friends often noted how apolitical he was.

Also many of the "facts" is this book are incorrect which indicates to me that Mr. Henderson did not research his book very well. Some of the facts about Jimi's concerts, his feelings about the JHE, his various women, his friends are not correct. I would think that even ten years after Jimi's death (which is when Mr. Henderson wrote this book) most of these facts were known. He also does not include a Bibliography listing his sources. Mr. Henderson gives nary a mention about Kathy, his girlfriend in London, but goes on and on about Devon Wilson and her relationship with Jimi as if this was the only female relationship of worth that Jimi ever had. It is true that Jimi knew Devon for at least 4-5 years, but he also knew Kathy since he went to London in 1966. Also this is just a minor detail, but the song lists of various concerts are often incorrect, such as the one for Monterrey Pop. He also noted that the Grateful Dead went on after JHE but as everyone knows they played between The Who and JHE.

To me, Mr. Henderson wanted to portray Jimi as some sort of hip, antiestablishment "Superspade". This is a disservice to Jimi as he was much more than that. In fact he was such a complex, enigmatic, and original person that even the best biographies about him cannot adequately portray him.

I wanted to read this biography because it was one of the very first ones ever written about Jimi, so I do not regret buying it, but there are much better biographies about Jimi out there, like ELECTRIC GYPSY, JIMI HENDRIX MUSICIAN and the ones by Sharon Lawrence, John McDermott, and Charles Murray.

I will agree with one reviewer that stated Mr. Henderson should have written a novel about Jimi, but as a credible biography about Jimi Hendrix, this book just doesn't make the cut.

Not an accurate biography-but would have been an excellent fictional novel-seriously!.......2005-08-17

This was the first book I read about Hendrix when I was about 13 all of 20 years ago and I have always loved it, and often go back to read parts of it. It's not an accurate biography at all, and there is a certan amount of exaggeration for effect, but somehow it really captured my imagination. It just works really well as book. Henderson has a fair amount of talent as writer, he should have gone further and written a fictional novel based on Jimi's life as the inspiration where he could have taken much more licence-it would have been really wonderful.

For me as a teenager, although obviously quite mythologised, it was a real glimse into a sophisticated grown up world I never comprehended as school girl in the West Midlands in the early 1980's. You really feel as have you got inside Hendrix's head, and are able to appreciate some understanding as to what it was like to live in the ever fabled late 60's.

Hendrix's intimate friends after he made it, seemed so exotic and glamourous to me. This was not 12-year-olds girls and mudsharks, the women of his inner circle that surrounded him seemed so sassy, exotic, senuous, street smart and sexually free. They were grown up seriously well connected young women. These people were not crude boozers and drug abusers, these were connisseurs of fine herbs and substances who lived nocternal lives in fabulous richly drapped apartments and hotels suites far away from the 9-5 grind of the real world. It also seemed such a very creative colourful world with Hendrix not only creating his own music but jamming and creating music with many other notable musicians that came to town. It's probably a complete load of rubbish-but it created a wonderful mystic and I loved it.

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Ancient Forms To Polyphony - The Pelican History Of Music, Volume I

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Ancient Forms To Polyphony - The Pelican History Of Music, Volume I
Alec and Stevens, Denis - Editors Robertson
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Bach Variation Works I (Kalmus Edition)
Johann Sebastian Bach
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A collection of intermediate/advanced piano solos.

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