Marvin Gaye

by Tom Stockdale

Published 1 January 2000
A biography of singer Marvin Gaye, whose string of hits with Motown, including I Heard It Through the Grapevine, seemed endless until he was murdered in 1984 by his father.

John Lennon

by Tom Stockdale

Published 1 December 1997
Lennon's music was a phenomenon among the world's youth, who made him an icon in his own time and unfortunately the target for assassin Mark David Chapman.

Jimi Hendrix

by Tom Stockdale

Published 1 December 1997
The Woodstock performer has been the inspiration for countless musicians to experiment with the guitar. He died at age 27 from an accidental sleeping pill overdose.