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Originally Posted by CaptainYooh
You know, when I was younger I used to look for and read a lot about my favourite music performers. Subscribed to Rolling Stone for decades. Then, I just stopped. The less personal details we know about any of them, the better.
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I agree that you don’t really want to know about the personal lives of these people, as even the few who were decent human beings before they became famous inevitably become deranged egomaniacs. Someone gave me a biography of Brian Jones for Christmas a few years ago, and he was a nasty, nasty piece of work right from the get-go as an adolescent.
Still, I’ve read several biographies of the Beatles (including the absurdly detailed Tune In*) just because I find their early lives, the environment they grew up in, and rise to fame such a compelling story.
* 944 pages (1728 in the extended edition!) gets you to the release of their first single