Best Music Books

[icecube]

'The Dirt' ..

AINEC

[troutman]

Originally Posted by icecube

'The Dirt' ..

aka "Diary of 4 Scumbags"

[UKflames]

Originally Posted by SportsJunky

I've been going back and re-reading some of my old biographies. This is one of my favourite warts and all bios on GnR. I just finished it again this morning as a matter of fact. These guys burned bright and burned out fast.

If you enjoyed that I would recommend Slash's autobigraphy, which gives a really good account of his life before, during and after GnR. He is very candid about his relationship with Axl, the drugs and drink. I have read it a few times and still find bits I had forgotten about or missed the first time.

[CliffFletcher]

Revolution in the Head: The Beatles Records and the Sixties. Incredibly astute and fascinating analysis of every song the Beatles recorded, and its context in the Beatles own history and the social milieu of the time.

[InglewoodFan]

The 33-1/3 series is interesting, a whole series of short books each about one seminal album. All different authors, so the quality can be all over the place, but some are really really good.

http://333sound.com/33-13-series/

[Engine09]

I've read almost all of the rock/metal biographies out there, Led Zep, Stones, Slash, Duff, Adler, Kiss, Crue, Mustaine, Keidis, Beatles, Elvis, Eagles and on and on and on.

But my favorite music related biography has to be Berry Gordy's. Motown seems like the last time when pop music that dominated the charts was authentic.

[Engine09]

Originally Posted by troutman

Just finished Pete's book. I enjoyed it, but there is a lot in there about composing and recording music (which may only interest musicians). Not as many sex, drugs and rock and roll stories as you might expect.

Definitely gong to get a copy of this. One thing that really pisses me off about a few of these guys is the humble bragging, "oh look how out of control my life was, I was craaaazy!", "The amount of drugs I did was insane, a normal person would have died, in fact my heart did stop for 3.2 seconds" etc.

So sick of junkies, those stories are boring, Keidis and Mustaine's were the most disappointing of all. No stories from the studio, the writing sessions. Who was there, who wrote what parts, who recorded which parts? Hell I would love to hear what type of gear they used but no.

[troutman]

Your Band Sucks: What I Saw at Indie Rock's Failed Revolution (But Can No Longer Hear) Hardcover – May 19, 2015


by Jon Fine (Author)

[The_Penguin]

2 of my faves, Don Felder's was really good:

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