Rock Star

Rock Star
Author: Jackie Collins
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2009
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780330478243

Rock Star blows the lid off the hard-driving lifestyles of today's music superstars. Kris Phoneix - the legendary and wildly sexy guitar hero. Bobby Mondella - black soul superstar with a past. Rafaella - an exotically beautiful girl who comes between them with a vengeance. Rock Star takes you on a dangerous trip through the jungle of broken dreams and blackmail, hit records and hit men... a jungle of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. Rock Star is a story that burns. Feel the heat...

How to Kill a Rock Star

How to Kill a Rock Star
Author: Tiffanie DeBartolo
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2005-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1402250398

"Funny, tender, edgy. I wanted the love story to go on forever."—Joan Johnston, bestselling author of No Longer a Stranger Written in the wonderfully honest, edgy, and hilarious voice she perfected in God-Shaped Hole, Tiffanie DeBartolo shines in a passionate new story of music, love, and sacrifice. Eliza Caelum, a young music journalist, is finally getting her footing in New York when she meets Paul Hudson, a talented songwriter and lead singer of the band Bananafish. They soon realize they share more than a reverence for rock music and plunge headlong into love. When Bananafish is signed by a big corporate label, and Paul is on his way to becoming a major rock star, Eliza's past forces her to make a heartbreaking decision that might be the key to Paul's sudden disappearance. A layered and emotional look into the world of music, this raw summer read will resonate with readers who loved Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Praise for Tiffanie DeBartolo's God-Shaped Hole: "From highs to heartbreak, DeBartolo conjures an affair to remember."—People "Honest, raw, and engaging."—Booklist "This generation's Love Story."—Kirkus Reviews

Running From the Rockstar

Running From the Rockstar
Author: Melissa Riddell
Publisher: Melissa Riddell
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2023-06-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Love can be a neverending storm of pain or a second chance at life. Paxton Ross is a kid from the wrong side of the tracks. Finding his father dead in a seedy motel room due to an overdose, sixteen-year-old Paxton suddenly becomes homeless and destitute. Terri Kingston is a girl who seems to have everything: a lavish lifestyle, a good school, a perfect family. Except outside appearances can be deceiving. What she needs most—love and acceptance—has always been denied. When Terri and Paxton meet during their teen years, their worlds collide into a messy, beautiful, forbidden love. But Terri’s parents tear them apart for twelve years. When they run into each other again, things have changed, and not for the better. Will they get a second chance to find true love, or will the temptations of the rockstar world rip them apart once more?

Rock Star Writer

Rock Star Writer
Author: Rose Bak
Publisher: Rose Bak
Total Pages: 101
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

When rock star Johnny Oliver first met Janie Williams in a crowded bar, he called her fat -- and she shoved him to the floor and poured beer on his head. Ten years later their paths cross again. Johnny is writing a book and Janie is his new editor. Johnny has forgotten their long-ago meeting, but Janie sure hasn't. All he knows is that he can't write unless Janie is around. Her job depends on her getting the scattered rock star focused on meeting his deadlines, even if that means letting him move in with her. Can Johnny get past Janie's walls and convince her that he's not the jerk she met all those years ago? Between writer's block, a meddling sister, and some sexy kitchen encounters, these enemies become friends, and much much more. But once his book is finally finished, will Johnny go back to his glamorous rockstar life, or will he and Janie find their forever? Rock Star Writer is book three in the "Oliver Boys Band" series. This steamy standalone features a strong independent woman with curves, and an outrageous alpha male who get a second chance at love and happily ever after. This book is perfect for fans of: Hope Ford, Frankie Love, LB Dunbar, Kylie Gilmore, Mia Brody, Daniella Brodsky, Kameron Claire, Fern Fraser, Melissa Foster, Bella Andre, Pamela Kelley, J.H. Croix, Kait Nolan, Donna McDonald, Erin Wright, Liz Isaacson, and of course, Rose Bak. Keywords: contemporary romance, romantic comedy, later in life, midlife, friends to lovers, enemies to lovers, instalove, second chance, reunited, short read, romance novella, romantic novella, love at first sight, unexpected love, alpha male, curvy woman, strong female lead, steamy, series, humor, rich, funny, millionaire, billionaire, seasoned romance, comedy, romance, love, work, workplace, mature couple, romantic, silver fox, milf, bbw, boss, writer, editor, author, publish, publication, New York, party, rock, rock star, rockstar, singer, star, superstar, sister, brother, small town, farm, muse

Uncommon People

Uncommon People
Author: David Hepworth
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2017-11-21
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1250124131

Named one of the best music books of 2017 by The Wall Street Journal An elegy to the age of the Rock Star, featuring Chuck Berry, Elvis, Madonna, Bowie, Prince, and more, uncommon people whose lives were transformed by rock and who, in turn, shaped our culture Recklessness, thy name is rock. The age of the rock star, like the age of the cowboy, has passed. Like the cowboy, the idea of the rock star lives on in our imaginations. What did we see in them? Swagger. Recklessness. Sexual charisma. Damn-the-torpedoes self-belief. A certain way of carrying themselves. Good hair. Interesting shoes. Talent we wished we had. What did we want of them? To be larger than life but also like us. To live out their songs. To stay young forever. No wonder many didn’t stay the course. In Uncommon People, David Hepworth zeroes in on defining moments and turning points in the lives of forty rock stars from 1955 to 1995, taking us on a journey to burst a hundred myths and create a hundred more. As this tribe of uniquely motivated nobodies went about turning themselves into the ultimate somebodies, they also shaped us, our real lives and our fantasies. Uncommon People isn’t just their story. It’s ours as well.

Bootleg Stardust

Bootleg Stardust
Author: Glenn Dixon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2021-04-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1982144688

Daisy Jones & the Six meets Nick Hornby in this uplit debut novel about a young musician who auditions for a band and is suddenly catapulted into the wild world of rock and roll stardom, where nothing is quite what it seems. Sometimes you have to hit rock bottom on your way to the top. It’s 1974. The music world is rocking with bellbottoms, platform shoes, and lots and lots of drugs. This year’s sensation is an American band called Downtown Exit and their latest album has just gone gold. For high school dropout Levi Jaxon, things aren’t so great. After bouncing around foster homes for years, he’s living in his best friend’s basement. His dream is to someday be a rock star, but he has a problem—his own band has just broken up. In an uncanny stroke of luck, Levi lands an audition for Downtown Exit, who are now recording their second album at Abbey Road Studios. He arrives in London and aces his audition, only to learn he’s not really in the band. No, Levi’s job is to sit in the wings and cover for the band’s real guitarist when he inevitably starts tripping on stage. Levi sticks with it, hoping to step into the role he’s always dreamed of. But he must first navigate egos, jealousies, and deceptions. Frankie, the band’s front man, has it out for him. And Levi has fallen for Ariadne, the band’s photographer. All of them have their secrets, Levi included. And as the band tours through Europe and struggles to finish their new album, Levi comes face to face with unanswered questions from his past and the impossible price that fame demands. Utterly magical and transporting, Bootleg Stardust is a one-of-a-kind joyride about the power of music to bring people together—and break them apart—and the courage it takes to find your own voice.

Party Like a Rockstar

Party Like a Rockstar
Author: J. T. Harding
Publisher: Twelve
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2022
Genre: Composers
ISBN: 9781538735404

Tyler Merritt's video "Before You Call the Cops" has been viewed millions of times. He's appeared on Jimmy Kimmel and Sports Illustrated and has been profiled in the New York Times. The viral video's main point-the more you know someone, the more empathy, understanding, and compassion you have for that person-is the springboard for this book. By sharing his highs and exposing his lows, Tyler welcomes us into his world in order to help bridge the divides that seem to grow wider every day. In I Take My Coffee Black, Tyler tells hilarious stories from his own life as a black man in America. He talks about growing up in a multi-cultural community and realizing that he wasn't always welcome, how he quit sports for musical theater (that's where the girls were) to how Jesus barged in uninvited and changed his life forever (it all started with a Triple F.A.T. Goose jacket) to how he ended up at a small Bible college in Santa Cruz because he thought they had a great theater program (they didn't). Throughout his stories, he also seamlessly weaves in lessons about privilege, the legacy of lynching and sharecropping and why you don't cross black mamas. He teaches readers about the history of encoded racism that still undergirds our society today. By turns witty, insightful, touching, and laugh-out-loud funny, I Take My Coffee Black paints a portrait of black manhood in America and enlightens, illuminates, and entertains-ultimately building the kind of empathy that might just be the antidote against the racial injustice in our society.

Trusting a Rockstar

Trusting a Rockstar
Author: Missy Walker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2021-06-25
Genre:
ISBN:

A troubled rockstar, on the path to destruction. A feisty photographer who knows heart-ache like the back of her hand Will she give her trust to a man who cannot be trusted? JASMINE Could life suck anymore? Not only did I catch my a-hole ex cheating with my own eyes, but now I'm struggling to pay the rent while I'm stuck in an all-consuming job. When my boss approaches me with the opportunity to photograph international rockstar Kit Jones while he's in town...I refuse. Why? Because- Kit Jones is a womanizer, arrogant and frustratingly handsome. Just the type I swore I'd never fall for. KIT Escaping New York to record a new single in Seaview, was the record labels idea, not mine. Actually, it was more of an ultimatum. I guess it was my own fault, bedding most of Manhattan hasn't exactly cleaned up my image. As fate would have it, Jasmine, the spirited red-head I'd propositioned in the bar, was now the band's photographer. But she doesn't seem to care about my reputation, except as more fuel for her disdain of me. Maybe it's the blistering Australian heat, but she is the fire to my frozen heart. Will she dare to trust me? Or will we both go up in flames? Strap yourself in for this hot-as-hell playboy rockstar and feisty small-town girl romance.

Sorta Like a Rock Star

Sorta Like a Rock Star
Author: Matthew Quick
Publisher: Little Brown
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2014-06-05
Genre: JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN: 9780316167475

With a unique and irresistible voice, debut YA author Quick creates a beautifully beaten-up world of love, friendship, and hard-earned hope, in which a young girl focuses on bettering the lives of her oddball circle of friends.

Rock Star, Interrupted

Rock Star, Interrupted
Author: S. M. Shade
Publisher:
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2019-10-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9781700540133

I found my stillness, my space between breaths, when I was a kid. The answer is simple. If it hurts, I pour music on it.After years of hard work, it's finally happening. Tragic has a number one album and we've gone from being discussed as one hit wonders to hearing words like meteoric mentioned alongside our name. With two tours planned and another album on its way, we have a lot to look forward to. Playing in a different city every night, the shimmer and roar of the crowd, after parties and endless women.My lifelong dream is in the palm of my hand until one phone call leaves everything hanging in the balance.