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Sep 27, 2023 · Rock legends like Dave Grohl and Bruce Springsteen have chronicled their respective paths to fame, while singer-songwriter Alicia Keys decided to get candid, opening up about everything from her...
Nov 23, 2016 · Here are 100 musician memoirs and biographies, sorted by the music’s genre (loosely defined), to get you rockin’ and rollin’ and movin’ and groovin’.
- Ashley Holstrom
- Steven Tyler: ‘Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?’ (2011) If you can find a single coherent sentence in this book, write and tell the publisher, so they can correct this error in future editions.
- Nikki Sixx: ‘The Heroin Diaries’ (2007) This one gets the “truth in packaging” award — Nikki Sixx does so many drugs in this book it should come in an aluminum-foil dust jacket.
- Alice Bag: ‘Violence Girl’ (2011) A Chicana punk coming-of-age story from East L.A., where a barrio kid named Alicia Armendariz starts a hardcore band called the Bags, battles her way to the stage, then finds she has to keep on battling.
- Billy Idol: ‘Dancing With Myself’ (2017) Billy Idol seems to show up at least once in every Eighties-Nineties memoir, usually when some sort of pharmaceutical dessert is consumed.
- The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star by Nikki Sixx.
- The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band by Neil Strauss (Goodreads Author) (Editor)
- Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain by Charles R. Cross.
- Slash by Slash.
- The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music. Written and narrated by Dave Grohl. Dave Grohl’s autobiography, The Storyteller, sheds light on what it’s like to be a kid from Springfield, Virginia, who goes on to live out his craziest dreams as a musician.
- The Sporty One: My Life as a Spice Girl. Written and narrated by Melanie Chisholm. After five women answered a newspaper ad, the Spice Girls were born. They recorded their first single, “Wannabe,” and nearly overnight, Melanie “Melanie C” Chisholm went from small-town girl to Sporty Spice.
- Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics. Written by Dolly Parton, Robert K. Oermann. Narrated by Dolly Parton. Dolly Parton, Songteller goes beyond the glitz, glamor, and rhinestones to the warmth, heart, and soul of a treasured pop culture icon.
- The Autobiography of Gucci Mane. Written by Gucci Mane and Neil Martinez-Belkin. Narrated by Guy Lockard. For the first time, hip-hop legend Gucci Mane tells the story of his rise, fall, and redemption in The Autobiography of Gucci Mane.
Apr 6, 2022 · From Sleater-Kinney to Springsteen, these are the tomes most deserving of joining the pantheon of essential musical memoirs. By Alex McLevy, David Brusie, Dan Bogosian, Noel Murray, Annie...
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Apr 1, 2016 · Best Biographies/Memoirs of Popular Musicians. Vote for the fairest, best-written accounts of the lives of the most charismatic pop/rock performers. flag. Score. A book’s total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book.
