So, I need a good RnR book to read, and I've read all the Stones ones. What's everyone's non-Stone fav's? Any Hank. Elvis, Everylys, etc would be appriciated.

Ian McLagan's "All The Rage".

Okay it has some Stones-content... But it's overall great.

N

hellfire by nick tosches

careless love by peter guaralnick

Last Train To Memphis - Elvis

Dear Boy - Keith Moon

God's Own Singer - Gram Parsons

even if you dont especialy like their music (like me), mötley crües "DIRT" is on of the most entertaining books about music that i've ever read.
slashs bio is also quite cool.

Miles Davis autobiography is a MUST!!!!

C

Shout is a great read, as is The Lennon Playboy interviews...

I agree MIles is a must!

Read all the liner notes from the Kinks reissues on Rhino...great! Would be cool for them to collect them into a book!

Mac: All the rage
Taj Mahal: Autobiography of a bluesman

Bill Graham Presents. My Life Inside Rock And Out from 1992 by Graham and and Robert Greenfield. To me one of the best bio`s ever written: escape from Nazi-Germany through Europe finding new parents in the US, growing up, the Filmore-times, on tour with Led Zep and the Stones til the end when he lost the race between him and Michael Cohl. A fantastic read, highly recommended.

WHo says he lost? I think Billy was actually the truer artist than Cohl...

I enjoyed these three .

X-Ray - Ray Davies
Heaven and Hell , My Life in the Eagles - Don Felder
Clapton The Autobiograhy - Eric Clapton

LEMMY!

Quincy Troupés Miles

2 1 2 0

Hickory Wind (Graham Parsons)
The Dark Stuff (Various, by Nick Kent)
Life on the Road...Dinky Dawson...sound engineer, many bands, including Early Mac, Dead, etc.)
Rhythm Oil, Stanley Boothe...early blues, boogie...
Saucerful Of Secrets, Syd Barrett, early Pink Floyd...

JR

Peter Guralnick's twin masterpieces on Elvis - Last Train to Memphis (which covers the period up to 1958) and Careless Love (1959 until his death) - are simply unbeatable IMO.

For a 'biography' (if you can call it that) dissecting an artist's MUSIC though, the best is unquestionably the late Ian McDonald's Beatles book "Revolution In The Head".



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If you're a Gratefyl Dead fan you should read these two:

Living With The Dead by Rock Skully

Home Before Daylight by Steve Parish.

Cannot recommend them enough.

It Came From Memphis- Robert Gordon
The 2 Guralnick Presleys ... Sweet Soul Music & Lost Highway
For Hank try the Colin Escott or Tosche's Hellfire ...Also Tosches'
Country & Where Dead Voices Gather which covers Emmett Miller's influence
on popular music ....Go Cat Go - Craig Morrison ....Either of the Spector
story Wall Of Pain or the more up ta date Tearing Down The Wall Of Sound

And when they all gets way too serious ya can always fall over backwards laughin' on .....



ROCKMAN

Slash , Anthony Kedis,and Eric´s Clapton autobiography were very good!

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If you're a Gratefyl Dead fan you should read these two:

Living With The Dead by Rock Skully

Home Before Daylight by Steve Parish.

Cannot recommend them enough.

phil's auto-bio of a few years back ain't bad, either...

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If you're a Gratefyl Dead fan you should read these two:

Living With The Dead by Rock Skully

Home Before Daylight by Steve Parish.

Cannot recommend them enough.

phil's auto-bio of a few years back ain't bad, either...

T&A , have you read the these two books by rock scully and steve (ramrod ) parish,and if so does the steve parish book dish any dirt on jerry?

skully's book is rock solid...and as for steve's...parish the thought, greekster...

I agree on this one:
Clapton: The Autobiograhy - Eric Clapton

and then there's the companion volume of sorts, also very good:
Wonderful Tonight - Patti Boyd (Harrison Clapton)

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skully's book is rock solid...and as for steve's...parish the thought, greekster...

ha ha im going to hell in a bucket but it least ill enjoy the ride !!!!!!!!!!

If you like Iggy Pop, "Open Up and Bleed" by Paul Trynka is amazing.

If you like "The Dirt" and/or Mötley Crüe, "The Heroin Diaries" by Nikki Sixx is in many ways better than The Dirt.

If you're interested in punk rock (Velvet Underground, Bowie, Stooges, NY Dolls, Patti Smith, Ramones, Television, etc.), the book "Please Kill Me" is very very good.

Clapton's book is really good too.

Aerosmith's autobiography, "Walk This Way" is amazing as well.

All the ones I mentioned are great for real.

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skully's book is rock solid...and as for steve's...parish the thought, greekster...

ha ha im going to hell in a bucket but it least ill enjoy the ride !!!!!!!!!!

i'm taking a limo - so i know i'll enjoy it

Elvis in the Morning - Wm F Buckley, Jr

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skully's book is rock solid...and as for steve's...parish the thought, greekster...

ha ha im going to hell in a bucket but it least ill enjoy the ride !!!!!!!!!!

i'm taking a limo - so i know i'll enjoy it

oh high falluting !

Ian Hunter "Diary of a Rock Star"

Cheers all! Off to the book shop!

the Stevie Ray Vaughan one is good