Biographies worth reading

[username]

I'm currently reading Keith Richards' "Life".

Before that I've read

- Chronicles (Bob Dylan)

- Slash (Slash)

- Inside Out (Nick Mason from Pink Floyd)

I really enjoyed all of them, particularly Bob's and so far Keith's.

Anybody got any tips of other artists' biographies that are worth reading? Preferably written by them and not about them.

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[Pico]

things the grandchildren should know by mark oliver everett (of eels fame) is a nice read, really heartbreaking in some places

[wasted]

Crazy from the Heat by David Lee Roth.

[ITW 2012]

The Anthony Kiedis book is my favorite. The Jim Morrison book that Stephen Davis wrote is also highly entertaining.

[Vincent Vega]

No One Here Gets Out Alive

Hammer of the Gods- Stephen Davis

[wasted]

Brando was pretty good. Can't remember who wrote it though. No one gets out of here alive was my favorite for a while. Walk this Way was pretty good if you like Aerosmith. I read richard Cole's Zepp book, that might not be very good lol but there was booze stories, and lots of black magic references. Manics biography called Everything was good read by Simon Price I think.

[dalsh327]

Crazy from the Heat by David Lee Roth.

Henry Rollins helped him pare the book down from almost 2000 pages.

I read Valerie Bertinelli's book because you'll never get Ed to talk about his life, and kind of get his side on Dave leaving VH, and how bad it got with Hagar and Ed a few years ago. But then she talks about dating Paul Schaffer and Steven Spielberg before Ed and was far from a saint in the marriage. Maybe Mike will write his book, but VH was a bigger part of her life than I thought. The stuff about her second husband and losing weight was prob. the only part that I didn't care for.

For some reason the rock star wife bios are interesting... I liked Patti Boyd's about her years with Clapton and George Harrison, and the one Deborah Curtis wrote about Ian Curtis. Cynthia Lennon's book, too. I think any woman who thinks dating a rock star (or athlete, they are no better or worse) should read them.

Dave Mustaine's book is pretty good, very open and candid, some GNR mentions, but you get why Metallica and Mustaine took forever to reconnect, and it was mostly Lars' doing over the years. Dave screwed up, but they really threw him under the bus when they kicked him out.

Belinda Carlisle had some great stories in hers. Mustaine said that Belinda and him were going to go on a date, but when she walked in, he was doing some blow. But if you read her book, she was prob. trying to stay off of drugs at that time, otherwise they would've been coke buddies pretty fast.

[wasted]

I read a Morrison book by a chick I think it was that witch one in the movie. Curtis' wife seemed to be really down on him, like pull your socks up boy stop being such an epiletic pussy. Dave's take on VH seemed to be that he was the most awesome person of alltime in any diemension that kind of carried through out the book. But it was the funniest bio I've read by far. his turn of phrase made mundane events seem like dazzling supernovas. I think I read Dave's bio or something about his drug use like going to various hospitals on a bike drunk.

[RocketQueen1985]

The Dirt - Mötley Crüe biography

Heroin Diaries - Nikki Sixx

The Real Story - Courtney Love

Nirvana - Come as you are

Fall To Pieces - Mary Weiland

[JAC185]

That I have read in the last month or so....

Touching From A Distance - Deborah Curtis

Riders On The Storm - John Densmore

Everything (A Book About Manic Street Preachers) - Simon Price

[wasted]

Everything was pretty comprehensive and up to date at the time. I'm biased but I thought it was a good book.

Heavier than heaven was a good insight into Cobain.

[Mastodonny]

White Line Fever by Lemmy is classic.

[Guest Satanisk_Slakt]

Not a musician, but;

Ron Jeremy: The Hardest (Working) Man in Showbiz

For thos that are interested, they contain several pages about GN'R related stuff.

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[dalsh327]

White Line Fever by Lemmy is classic.

It was like the heavy metal Zelig...was there when The Beatles started out to Hendrix, to being (in)famous in his own right, but did like that book a lot, You also get why he (and some of the Stones) got into collecting Nazi memorabilia.

[dalsh327]

Not a musician, but;

Ron Jeremy: The Hardest (Working) Man in Showbiz

For thos that are interested, they contain several pages about GN'R related stuff.

Porn star Christy Canyon was on Adam Carolla's show (they also went to high school together), and she had said Ron Jeremy had hooked her up with Slash... I don't remember if that was mentioned in Ron's book, and it was a funny book. GNR were also friends with a lot of standup comics in the late 80s/early 90s... when rockers don't hang at the rock clubs, they were out and about at the comedy clubs.

[Guest Satanisk_Slakt]

Ron said that it was he who brought Perla and Slash together if I recall.

[collision-tammi]

White line fever by Lemmy, Heroin Diarries by Nikki Six, The Dirt by Mötley Crüe, Slash by Slash, My Appetite For Destruction by Steven Adler, I Am Ozzy by Ozzy Osbourne, Mustaine by Dave Mustaine... I enjoyed reading them all!

[Gordon Comstock]

The Heroin Diaries is pretty embellished, but still a good read

[wasted]

American Scream: The Bill Hicks Story by Cynthia True.

Jay and Silent Bob Get Old (audio)

http://smodcast.com/getold/

[-Sephiroth-]

Slash's book

Motley Crue - Dirt

Adlers book

Ozzy's book

[ohmygod]

White Line Fever by Lemmy is classic.

ThiS. Amazing book.

[Black Sabbath]

I Am Ozzy

[Snake Eyes]

the stone roses and the ressurection of british pop - john robb

life - keith richards

[Powerage5]

As most everyone else has said, The Dirt and The Heroin Diaries are great reads. Another one of my favorites is Alice Cooper, Golf Monster. Also eagerly awaiting Scott Weiland's autobiography, and supposedly Wendy Dio is going to put out what's done of Ronnie James Dio's autobiography.

[Jackie Moon]

i liked too young too soon on the new york dolls.

scott weilands would be awesome!