Whats your favourite musical auto biography or biography you have read?

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Permalink Reply by Mark Roebuck on September 18, 2011 at 7:30pm

Tony Sheridan's "Up and Down With The Rolling Stones" -

Bizarre, sycophantic and decadent with a ring of truth nonetheless..

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Permalink Reply by shermo on September 24, 2011 at 4:46pm

So far I have read Keith's "life" and bill's "rolling with the stones". I will have to keep my eye out for that one Tony.

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Permalink Reply by Jon Bard on September 19, 2011 at 12:58pm

You can't beat "The Dirt" by Motley Crue.  Page after page of rock and roll insanity.

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Permalink Reply by shermo on September 24, 2011 at 4:50pm

Jon mate being that I am the worlds greatest tight arse that has been on my must read list for ages and even decided I will have to purchase it since it isnt in any of the regions libraries where I live. I just need to part with the cash now. If I buy it I will donate it to my local library and share the decadance with others.

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Permalink Reply by Lee Douglas Elliott on September 25, 2011 at 6:25pm

'White Bicycles' by Joe Boyd. Another tale of the 60's as told by the Zelig-like tour manager/club manager/producer/etc... The chapter on Dylan's electric performance at Newport Folk Festival is fantastic.

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Permalink Reply by Julie Jurrjens on September 28, 2011 at 7:45am

I finished that not long ago... great stuff.  It's well-written, and more importantly well-remembered. The Dylan stuff, the Nick Drake stuff, the inside information on the machinations of the music industry when it was willing to take risks...I'd recommend it.

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Permalink Reply by Julie Jurrjens on September 28, 2011 at 7:59am

Some good 'popcorn' reads:

In terms of sheer entertainment value, you can't beat Miss Pamela Desbarres' "I'm With The Band: Confessions of a Groupie".  Not entirely sure how much is true, but the cast of characters is impressive and the events goofy and/or trashy enough to keep the pages turning.

 

I admit I was horribly entertained by "White Line Fever" by Lemmy. "Spinal Tap", only for real. I also enjoyed Nikki Sixx's "Heroin Diaries." Really don't care one way or another about the Crue, but it was a good read that didn't pull any punches.

 

Billy Thorpe book sounds very cool, Shermo! Will have to see if that was published in the US, or get it on my next trip to Oz.

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Permalink Reply by shermo on October 24, 2011 at 8:30pm

Thats definitley one that gets good wraps Julie and I will have to keep an eye out for it. Pamela Desbarres is pretty famous and done what lots of girls only dreamed of doing in the seventies especialy where Led Zeppelin were concerned.

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Permalink Reply by Dennis Edinger on September 28, 2011 at 5:47pm

Iggy Pop's "I Need More: The Stooges and Other Stories"

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Permalink Reply by Bill Davidson on September 30, 2011 at 1:19pm

I loved Jen Trynin's Everything I'm Cracked Up to Be.  Jen wrote it like a novel.  You really get to know her, get into her head as the music industry is swallowing her whole and then spitting her out.  It's a great read.

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Permalink Reply by Heikki on September 30, 2011 at 2:22pm

There are many. Dave Mustaine comes to mind right now.

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Permalink Reply by Gail Manchester on October 4, 2011 at 2:22pm

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead :THe Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by his ex wife Crystal Zevon...she writes  honestly and lovingly about Warren, who could be a class act and a first class A hole at times, mostly fueled as usual by his addictions. It was a great read, especially about the artists that came together to help with with his last effort, The Wind.

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