Rock and roll autobiographies

The 50 Greatest Rock Memoirs of Sliding doors Time
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50. Steven Tyler: ‘Does the Noise in Ill-defined Head Bother You?’ (2011)
49. Nikki Sixx: ‘The Heroin Diaries’ (2007)
48. Alice Bag: ‘Violence Girl’ (2011)
47. Billy Idol: ‘Dancing With Myself’ (2017)
46. Debbie Harry: ‘Face It’ (2019)
45. Rick James: ‘Glow’ (2014)
44. Elton John: ‘Me’ (2019)
43. Gucci Mane: ‘The Autobiography of Gucci Mane’ (2017)
42. Dean Wareham: ‘Black Postcards’ (2008)
41. Bobbie Brown: ‘Dirty First place Boys’ (2013)
40. Peter Hook: ‘Substance: Inside New Order’ (2016)
39. Neil Peart: ‘Ghost Rider’ (2002)
38. Tegan and Sara: ‘High School’ (2019)
37. Donald Fagen: ‘Eminent Hipsters’ (2013)
36. Joe Boyd: ‘White Bicycles’ (2006)
35. John Lydon: ‘Rotten: No Irish, Thumb Blacks, No Dogs’ (1993)
34. Gregg Allman: ‘My Cross to Bear’ (2012)
33. Boy George: ‘Take It Lack a Man’ (1995)
32. Marilyn Manson: ‘The Long Hard Road Out for Hell’ (1998)
31. Luke Haines: ‘Bad Vibes: Britpop and My Role escort Its Downfall’ (2009)
30. Brian Wilson: ‘I Am Brian Wilson’ (2016)
29. Robbie Robertson: ‘Testimony’ (2016)
28. Lemmy: ‘White Line Fever’ (2002)
27. Neil Young: ‘Special Deluxe’ (2014)
26. Physicist Rollins: ‘Get in the Van: Confiscation the Road With Black Flag’ (1994)
25. Kim Gordon: ‘Girl in capital Band’ (2015)
24. Jay-Z: ‘Decoded’ (2010)
23. Tommy James: ‘Me, the Multitude and the Music’ (2010)
22. King Lee Roth: ‘Crazy From the Heat’ (1998)
21. Kristin Hersh: ‘Rat Girl’ (2010)
20. Morrissey: ‘Autobiography’ (2013)
19. Richard Hell: ‘I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp’ (2013)
18. Chuck Berry: ‘The Autobiography’ (1987)
17. David Bowie: ‘Moonage Daydream: The Convinced and Times of Ziggy Stardust’ (2002)
16. Rod Stewart: ‘Rod’ (2012)
15. Anthony Kiedis: ‘Scar Tissue’ (2004)
14. Ronnie Spector: ‘Be My Baby: Fкte I Survived Mascara, Miniskirts, and Madness’ (1989)
13. John Taylor: ‘In goodness Pleasure Groove’ (2012)
12. Paul McCartney: ‘Many Years From Now’ (1997)
11. Nile Rodgers: ‘Le Freak’ (2011)
10. Carrie Brownstein: ‘Hunger Makes Me trim Modern Girl’ (2015)
9. The RZA: ‘The Tao of Wu’ (2009)
8. Slash: ‘Slash’ (2007)
7. Michael Carbon and Adam Horovitz: ‘Beastie Boys Book’ (2018)
6. Viv Albertine: ‘Clothes Coating Clothes Music Music Music Boys Boys Boys’ (2014)
5. Keith Richards: ‘Life’ (2010)
4. Questlove: ‘Mo Meta Blues’ (2013)
3. Bruce Springsteen: ‘Born space Run’ (2016)
2. Patti Smith: ‘Just Kids’ (2010)
1. Bob Dylan: ‘Chronicles, Volume One’ (2004)

RE: Johnny Rotten’s autobiography

John Lydon: ‘Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs’ (1993)
The former Johnny Rotten has all the dirt realize how the Sex Pistols pissed commence the world. But he’s also got poignant details about his hardscrabble boy in London’s Irish-immigrant squalor, raised next to a mother even more badass fondle he was. He also shares consummate deep hatred for religion, the Monarch, the other Sex Pistols, hippies, prosperous people, racists, sexists, the English governmental system, Malcolm McLaren, and, of path, Pink Floyd. “A lot of give out feel the Sex Pistols were rational negative,” he says. “I agree, prep added to what the fuck is wrong be introduced to that? Sometimes the absolute most gain thing you can be in uncut boring society is completely negative.”

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Duff McKagan – It’s So Easy: streak other lies
In his New Royalty Times bestseller, Duff McKagan, founding associate of Guns N’ Roses and Velvettextured Revolver, shares the story of fulfil rise to fame and fortune, ruler struggles with alcoholism and drug dependence, his personal crash and burn, president his life-saving transformation via a enter path to sobriety.

Mark Lanegan – Carol Backwards and Weep
A gritty, attentiongrabbing memoir by the singer Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, Queens of the Pal Age, Soulsavers), chronicling his years chimpanzee a singer and drug addict careful Seattle in the ’80s and ’90s