Mark Ribowsky

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1) Whiskey bottles and brand-new cars: the fast life and sudden death of Lynyrd Skynyrd

Author

Ribowsky, Mark

Publisher

Chicago Review Press

Pub. Date

[2015]

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A new perspective on the Southern rock band presents the history of their fame on and off the stage and describes their legacy after a fatal airplane crash that brought the band to a tragic end.

2) Hank: the short life and long country road of Hank Williams

Author

Ribowsky, Mark

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Book, eAudiobook

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After he died in the backseat of a Cadillac at the age of twenty-nine, Hank Williams? A frail, flawed man who had become country music's first real star? Instantly morphed into its first tragic martyr. Having hit the heights with simple songs of despair, depression, and tainted love, he would, with that outlaw swagger, become in death a template for the rock generation to follow. Six decades later, Mark Ribowsky now weaves together the first fully...

3) The Supremes: a saga of Motown dreams, success, and betrayal

Author

Ribowsky, Mark

Publisher

Da Capo Press

Pub. Date

c2009

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The Supremes is a sprawling tale of unforgettable music, cutthroat ambition, and heartbreaking betrayal. Mark Ribowsky explodes Dreamgirl fantasies by taking the reader behind the closed doors of Motown to witness the rise of group leader Diana Ross, the creation of timeless classics like 'Where Did Our Love Go?" and the dramatic power struggles within Detroit's fabled music factory.

4) In the name of the father: family, football, and the Manning dynasty

Author

Ribowsky, Mark

Publisher

Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company

Pub. Date

[2018]

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No family in the history of American sports has ascended to the storybook level of greatness and royal succession quite like the Mannings. Although the façade has occasionally cracked-murmurs of locker-room scandal, flashes of fraternal jealousy-this talented trio of quarterbacks is enshrined in American culture, epitomizing once-proud but dying nostrums of Southern Christian manhood. With remarkable nuance, "outstanding biographer" (Dallas Morning...