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Post some god-tier rock biographies/autobiographies.

>> No.6630012
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My favorite

I'm hoping to check out Kim Gordon's new one soon

>> No.6630025

>>6630012
I didn't even know she had one coming out.
Hopefully there won't be a lot of shit flinging towards Thurston.

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>> No.6630069

White Line Fever by Lemmy
Our Band Could be Your Life by Michael Azerrad
We Never Learn by Eric Davidson
My Fault by Billy Childish (heavy as fuck, but still excelent.)

>> No.6630072

The most recent one about Johnny Cash is fairly well written, even if it's not the most pleasing to his character.

>> No.6630074

>>6630001
I enjoyed it

>> No.6630084
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Best I've read. Although it could be less to do with the biographer and more to do with the Zeppelin boys just being crazy as shit in the day and having tonnes of good stories to be told.

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>>6630025
it's already out actually

from the reviews I've read it seems like there's a decent amount of venom in the parts where she describes the breakup, but most of the book focuses on her own life rather than the band and Thurston

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>>6630001

this

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GOAT

>> No.6630124

>>6630101
>i'm going to have my book published on Penguin before anyone can call it a classic

He wonders why nobody loves him.

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I enjoyed this quite a lot, but I'm not tremendously knowledgable about Jagger or The Stones.

>> No.6630190

>>6630025
>Hopefully there won't be a lot of shit flinging towards Thurston.
There's a bit, it's mostly at the start and end of the book though, so it doesn't really ruin it. It's pretty good otherwise

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This is the only one I've read and I thought it was cool

>> No.6630201

Our Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azerrad is good if you have any interest in underground American rock in the 1980's

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>>6630001
we're so pretty oh so pretty

>> No.6630240

>>6630001
Is this the one where he admits to having bullying Brian Jones out of the band along with Mick? The one where he talks about how he hasn't played guitar in a concert for over a decade?

>> No.6630288

>>6630200
It does a really good job of putting you in the shoes of an addict. I wanted to pull my hair out every time he fell off the wagon.

>> No.6630896

>>6630240
Where the fuck did you get this?

>> No.6630904

>>6630012
good call, this is the shit

>> No.6630962

>>6630084
>Although it could be less to do with the biographer

- cant be any worse (in that respect) than Everett Trues Nirvana. Srsly. It's jaw-dropping-pain, 700 pages of it.

http://www.amazon.com/review/R3EDRPXRBCGFVK/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0306815540