Rock out (with your socks out) books
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Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon - and the Journey of a Generation
by:
Sheila Weller
3.75 avg rating — 6,225 ratings 
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Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me
by:
Pattie Boyd
3.72 avg rating — 15,769 ratings 
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Kicking & Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul, and Rock and Roll
by:
Ann Wilson
4.07 avg rating — 4,193 ratings 
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Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll
by:
Peter Guralnick
3.99 avg rating — 1,088 ratings 13. 
One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band
by:
Alan Paul
4.26 avg rating — 1,315 ratings 
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A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties
by:
Suze Rotolo
3.85 avg rating — 4,069 ratings 
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The Lennon Prophecy: A New Examination of the Death Clues of The Beatles
by:
Joseph Niezgoda
3.25 avg rating — 83 ratings 19. 
Backstage Passes & Backstabbing Bastards: Memoirs of a Rock 'N' Roll Survivor
by:
Al Kooper
4.06 avg rating — 513 ratings 20. 
Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles
by:
Geoff Emerick
4.29 avg rating — 6,427 ratings 
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One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band
by:
Alan Paul
4.26 avg rating — 1,315 ratings 23. 
Rock She Wrote: Women Write about Rock, Pop, and Rap
by:
Evelyn McDonnell
4.04 avg rating — 230 ratings 
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ALL ROOTS LEAD TO ROCK: Legends of Early Rock `n' Roll. A Bear Family Reader
by:
Colin Escott
3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings 
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Miss O'Dell: My Hard Days and Long Nights with the Beatles, the Stones, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton and the Women They Loved
by:
Chris O'Dell
3.95 avg rating — 1,830 ratings 
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Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine
by:
Joe Hagan
3.76 avg rating — 2,291 ratings 
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Is Tiny Dancer Really Elton's Little John?: Music's Most Enduring Mysteries, Myths, and Rumors Revealed
by:
Gavin Edwards
3.34 avg rating — 217 ratings 
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Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom
by:
Peter Guralnick
4.24 avg rating — 2,349 ratings 37. 
Good Rockin' Tonight: Sun Records and the Birth of Rock 'N' Roll
by:
Colin Escott
4.07 avg rating — 257 ratings 
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Where Did Our Love Go? the Rise and Fall of The Motown Sound
by:
Nelson George
3.93 avg rating — 238 ratings 
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Rythm Oil: A Journey Through the Music of the American South
by:
Stanley Booth
4.08 avg rating — 137 ratings 42. 
Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout
by:
Laura Jane Grace
4.32 avg rating — 10,756 ratings 
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Hard to Handle: The Life and Death of the Black Crowes--A Memoir
by:
Steve Gorman
4.32 avg rating — 1,913 ratings 
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Really Saying Something: Sara & Keren – Our Bananarama Story
by:
Sara Dallin
3.75 avg rating — 580 ratings 
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Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture 3.66 avg rating — 526 ratings
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The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
by:
Tommy Lee
4.14 avg rating — 48,136 ratings 59. 
Louie Louie: The History and Mythology of the World's Most Famous Rock 'N' Roll Song
by:
Dave Marsh
3.73 avg rating — 145 ratings 
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The Life and Times of Little Richard: The Authorised Biography
by:
Charles White
4.03 avg rating — 571 ratings 
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How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music
by:
Elijah Wald
3.89 avg rating — 1,096 ratings 
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The James Brown Reader: Fifty Years of Writing About the Godfather of Soul
by:
Nelson George
3.89 avg rating — 44 ratings 
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Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe
by:
Gayle Wald
4.07 avg rating — 340 ratings 77. 
Mr. Tambourine Man: The Life and Legacy of The Byrds' Gene Clark
by:
John Einarson
4.16 avg rating — 146 ratings 
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In Their Lives: Great Writers on Great Beatles Songs
by:
Andrew Blauner
3.60 avg rating — 306 ratings 83. 
Just Walkin' in the Rain: The True Story of the Prisonaires: the Convict Pioneers of R & B and Rock & Roll
by:
Jay Warner
4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings 
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Alice Cooper, Golf Monster: A Rock 'n' Roller's 12 Steps to Becoming a Golf Addict
by:
Alice Cooper
4.03 avg rating — 1,623 ratings 88. 
The Sound and the Fury: 40 Years of Classic Rock Journalism: A Rock's Backpages Reader
by:
Barney Hoskyns
3.57 avg rating — 127 ratings 88. 
Here Comes the Sun: The Spiritual and Musical Journey of George Harrison
by:
Joshua M. Greene
4.19 avg rating — 616 ratings 91. 
Canyon of Dreams: The Magic and the Music of Laurel Canyon
by:
Harvey Kubernik
3.97 avg rating — 250 ratings 
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The Elvis Reader: Texts and Sources on the King of Rock 'N' Roll
by:
Kevin Quain
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings 
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Since Then: How I Survived Everything and Lived to Tell About it
by:
David Crosby
3.71 avg rating — 332 ratings 95. 
CREEM: America's Only Rock 'N' Roll Magazine
by:
Robert Matheu
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 121 ratings 
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Old Gods Almost Dead: The 40-Year Odyssey of the Rolling Stones
by:
Stephen Davis
3.97 avg rating — 600 ratings 99. 
The Lost Women of Rock Music: Female Musicians of the Punk Era
by:
Helen Reddington
3.70 avg rating — 43 ratings