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Be My Baby: How I Survived Mascara, Miniskirts, and Madness, or, My Life as a Fabulous Ronette

by Ronnie Spector & Vince Waldron

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Our most recommended books

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Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock by Nik Cohn

We Were Going to Change the World: Interviews with Women from the 1970s and 1980s Southern California Punk Rock Scene by Stacy Russo

Into the Black: The Inside Story of Metallica, 1991-2014 by Ian Winwood and Paul Brannigan

Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and the Making of History by John Patrick Diggins

True Norwegian Black Metal by Peter Beste

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Nico: The End
by James Young

Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock
by Nik Cohn

We Were Going to Change the World: Interviews with Women from the 1970s and 1980s Southern California Punk Rock Scene
by Stacy Russo

Into the Black: The Inside Story of Metallica, 1991-2014
by Ian Winwood and Paul Brannigan

Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and the Making of History
by John Patrick Diggins

True Norwegian Black Metal
by Peter Beste