Category: Musician

• NYTimes: Billy Idol Had It All, and Then He ‘Lit It With Butane’

  Billy Idol Had It All, and Then He ‘Lit It With Butane’ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/arts/music/billy-idol-should-be-dead-documentary.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  February 21, 2026

  #books, #BookTok, Autobiography, Music, Musician, Non-fiction

  #books, Autobiographies, rock-and-roll

• The Best Book and Song Pairings from Taylor Swift’s New Album, Midnights

  

  Didn’t get a ticket for Taylor Swift’s upcoming tour? Don’t despair. Think of all the money you saved when jamming out instead to Midnights along with a good book instead. The librarians at Libby, an app for borrowing ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, and more that let’s you borrow from your local library for free, went track…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  November 19, 2022

  #books, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Music, Musician, Non-fiction

  #books, "Along for the Ride", "Anti-Hero", "Beach Read" Emily Henry, "Before the Devil Breaks You" Libba Bray, "Bejeweled", "Daisy Jones & The Six" Taylor Jenkins Reid, "I'm Glad My Mom Died" Jennette McCurdy, "Isla and the Happily Ever After", "It Happened One Summer" Tessa Bailey, "It Starts With Us" by Colleen Hoover, "Karma", "Labyrinth", "lavender Haze", "Maroon", "Mastermind", "Midnight Rain", "Mocking Jay", "New Noon" Stephenie Meyer, "Question…>", "Snow on the Beach", "Sweet Nothing", "The 99 Boyfriends of Micah Summers", "The Invisible Life of Addie Larue: V.E. Schwab, "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" Taylor Jenkins Reid, "Vigilante Sh*t", "You're On Your Own Kid", :ibby Library app, Adam Sass, Fiction, Humor, Joe Skelley, Music, mystery, Mystery-Thriller, OverDrive, Sarah Dessen, Stephanie Perkins, Suzanne Collins, Taylor Swift, V.E. Schwab

• Windy City Blues

  In her fun very readable Windy City Blues (Berkley 2017; $16), Chicago author Renee Rosen again takes another slice of the city’s history and turns it into a compelling read. Rosen, who plumbs Chicago’s history to write such books as Dollface, her novel about flappers and gangers like Al Capone, and What the Lady Wants…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  February 15, 2022

  Amazon, American History, Architecture, Audiobooks, Authors, Berkley, Blues, Blues Highway, Chicago, Fiction, History, Jewish, Judaism, Music, Musician, Random House

  #bestsellingbooks, #books, #netgallery, #ReneeRosen, Architecture, Authors, Blues Highway, Chess Brothers, Chicago, Civil Rights, Dollface, Fiction, fun, Jazz, Music, musicians, New Orleans, Renee Rosen, Willie Dixon, Windy City

• Florence LaRue: Grace in Your Second Act

  

                “People ask me when I’m going to retire,” says Florence LaRue, “and I say retire? I know I can’t do what I did when I was 70 but I do have the energy to keep moving and that’s what I’m going to keep doing.”             LaRue, now 80-years-old, is certainly on the move. In…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  December 18, 2021

  Autobiography, Musician

  5th Dimension, Billboard's Hot 100, Billy Davis Jr., Florence LaRue, Go Where You Wanna Go, Grace in Your Second Act, GrRAMMY Award Winner, Lamonte McLemore, Never My Love, One Less Bell to Answer, Ron Towson, Singer, Up – Up and Away, Up – Up and Away" and 1969’s "Medley: Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In, Wedding Belle Blues