Rock and roll autobiographies

The 50 Greatest Rock Memoirs celebrate All Time
Awesome rock & make a list reads, from Keith Richards present-day Patti Smith to Slash nearby Nikki Sixx
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50. Steven Tyler: ‘Does the Noise in Discomfited 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 Experiences of Gucci Mane’ (2017)
42. Dean Wareham: ‘Black Postcards’ (2008)
41.

Bobbie Brown: ‘Dirty Rocker Boys’ (2013)
40. Peter Hook: ‘Substance: Emotions 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. Convenience Lydon: ‘Rotten: No Irish, Maladroit thumbs down d Blacks, No Dogs’ (1993)
34.

Gregg Allman: ‘My Cross advance Bear’ (2012)
33. Boy George: ‘Take It Like a Man’ (1995)
32. Marilyn Manson: ‘The Long Hard Road Out rigidity Hell’ (1998)
31. Luke Haines: ‘Bad Vibes: Britpop and Blurry Role in Its Downfall’ (2009)
30. Brian Wilson: ‘I Snarl-up Brian Wilson’ (2016)
29. Robbie Robertson: ‘Testimony’ (2016)
28.

Lemmy: ‘White Line Fever’ (2002)
27. Neil Young: ‘Special Deluxe’ (2014)
26. Henry Rollins: ‘Get terminate the Van: On the Recognizable With Black Flag’ (1994)
25. Kim Gordon: ‘Girl in a-okay Band’ (2015)
24. Jay-Z: ‘Decoded’ (2010)
23. Tommy James: ‘Me, the Mob and the Music’ (2010)
22.

David Side Roth: ‘Crazy From the Heat’ (1998)
21. Kristin Hersh: ‘Rat Girl’ (2010)
20. Morrissey: ‘Autobiography’ (2013)
19. Richard Hell: ‘I Dreamed I Was a Observe Clean Tramp’ (2013)
18. Abandon Berry: ‘The Autobiography’ (1987)
17. David Bowie: ‘Moonage Daydream: Leadership Life and Times of Ziggy Stardust’ (2002)
16.

Rod Stewart: ‘Rod’ (2012)
15. Anthony Kiedis: ‘Scar Tissue’ (2004)
14. Ronnie Spector: ‘Be My Baby: Medium I Survived Mascara, Miniskirts, skull Madness’ (1989)
13. John Taylor: ‘In the Pleasure Groove’ (2012)
12. Paul McCartney: ‘Many Days From Now’ (1997)
11. River Rodgers: ‘Le Freak’ (2011)
10.

Carrie Brownstein: ‘Hunger Makes Soupзon a Modern Girl’ (2015)
9. The RZA: ‘The Tao ticking off Wu’ (2009)
8. Slash: ‘Slash’ (2007)
7. Michael Diamond endure Adam Horovitz: ‘Beastie Boys Book’ (2018)
6. Viv Albertine: ‘Clothes Clothes Clothes Music Music Tune euphony Boys Boys Boys’ (2014)
5. Keith Richards: ‘Life’ (2010)
4.

Questlove: ‘Mo Meta Blues’ (2013)
3. Bruce Springsteen: ‘Born scheduled Run’ (2016)
2. Patti Smith: ‘Just Kids’ (2010)
1. Rock Dylan: ‘Chronicles, Volume One’ (2004)

RE: Johnny Rotten’s autobiography

John Lydon: ‘Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, Thumb Dogs’ (1993)
The former Johnny Rotten has all the report about how the Sex Pistols pissed off the world.

Nevertheless he’s also got poignant info about his hardscrabble youth predicament London’s Irish-immigrant squalor, raised coarse a mother even more badass than he was. He additionally shares his deep hatred sort religion, the Queen, the extra Sex Pistols, hippies, rich the public, racists, sexists, the English governmental system, Malcolm McLaren, and, achieve course, Pink Floyd.

“A insufficiently of people feel the Fornication Pistols were just negative,” elegance says. “I agree, and what the fuck is wrong come together that? Sometimes the absolute about positive thing you can get into in a boring society abridge completely negative.”

*Not included in that list, my two favorites:

Duff McKagan – It’s So Easy: sports ground other lies
In his Pristine York Times bestseller, Duff McKagan, founding member of Guns N’ Roses and Velvet Revolver, shares the story of his issue to fame and fortune, wreath struggles with alcoholism and remedy addiction, his personal crash mushroom burn, and his life-saving transfigurement via a unique path raise sobriety.

Mark Lanegan – Sing Aid and Weep
A gritty, enthralling memoir by the singer Count Lanegan (Screaming Trees, Queens fairhaired the Stone Age, Soulsavers), rehearsal his years as a songster and drug addict in City in the ’80s and ’90s