Best Biographies/Memoirs of Popular Musicians

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Stardust Melody: The Life and Music of Hoagy Carmichael
Stardust Melody: The Life and Music of Hoagy Carmichael 3.98 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Emotional Memoirs & Short Stories
Emotional Memoirs & Short Stories 3.93 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan
Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan 4.01 avg rating — 4,960 ratings
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You Can Drum But You Can't Hide
You Can Drum But You Can't Hide 3.93 avg rating — 160 ratings
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Bedsit Disco Queen: How I Grew Up and Tried to Be a Pop Star
Bedsit Disco Queen: How I Grew Up and Tried to Be a Pop Star 4.14 avg rating — 2,940 ratings
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DJ Pascoe's Top 10 Tunes 2 - The best tracks from 101 of the hottest pop stars
DJ Pascoe's Top 10 Tunes 2 - The best tracks from 101 of the hottest pop stars it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Journey Into Beatledom: The Beatles as Prophets, Peaceniks & Holy Writ
Journey Into Beatledom: The Beatles as Prophets, Peaceniks & Holy Writ 4.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Starting at Zero
Starting at Zero 4.15 avg rating — 896 ratings
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MJ: The Genius of Michael Jackson
MJ: The Genius of Michael Jackson 3.88 avg rating — 268 ratings
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The Christian Musician: Learn What Your Real Gift Is and How To Succeed, with and Beyond Your Music
The Christian Musician: Learn What Your Real Gift Is and How To Succeed, with and Beyond Your Music 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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I Was Britpopped: The A-Z of Britpop: for anyone who grew up in the nineties, and for some that didn't...
I Was Britpopped: The A-Z of Britpop: for anyone who grew up in the nineties, and for some that didn't... 3.80 avg rating — 51 ratings
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18 and Life on Skid Row
18 and Life on Skid Row 3.75 avg rating — 2,661 ratings
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Prince And The Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions 1983-1984
Prince And The Purple Rain Era Studio Sessions 1983-1984 4.57 avg rating — 465 ratings
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We Need More Love Songs: Doo Wop the Duprees and Me
We Need More Love Songs: Doo Wop the Duprees and Me 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Been So Long: My Life and Music
Been So Long: My Life and Music 3.75 avg rating — 428 ratings
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High School
High School 4.28 avg rating — 10,390 ratings
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The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy
The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy 4.34 avg rating — 554 ratings
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Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk 4.19 avg rating — 35,977 ratings
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Long Time Gone
Long Time Gone 4.03 avg rating — 1,565 ratings
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Believe in You: Big Sister Stories and Advice on Living Your Best Life
Believe in You: Big Sister Stories and Advice on Living Your Best Life 4.25 avg rating — 175 ratings
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Serge Gainsbourg: A Fistful Of Gitanes
Serge Gainsbourg: A Fistful Of Gitanes 3.87 avg rating — 519 ratings
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Wham! George & Me
Wham! George & Me 4.05 avg rating — 6,647 ratings
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My Walk Among the Stars: Rubbing Shoulders With Country Giants
My Walk Among the Stars: Rubbing Shoulders With Country Giants it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Seduced by Sound
Seduced by Sound 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Sinner's Creed
Sinner's Creed 3.96 avg rating — 1,087 ratings
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Saved by a Song: The Art and Healing Power of Songwriting
Saved by a Song: The Art and Healing Power of Songwriting 4.52 avg rating — 744 ratings
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Love Don't Need a Reason: The Life and Music of Michael Callen
Love Don't Need a Reason: The Life and Music of Michael Callen 4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Rainbow in the Dark: The Autobiography
Rainbow in the Dark: The Autobiography 4.16 avg rating — 1,146 ratings
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I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon 4.02 avg rating — 3,525 ratings
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Pickin' Up the Pieces: The Heart and Soul of Country Rock Pioneer Richie Furay
Pickin' Up the Pieces: The Heart and Soul of Country Rock Pioneer Richie Furay 3.79 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir
Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir 4.35 avg rating — 6,688 ratings
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The Woman in Me
The Woman in Me 3.83 avg rating — 548,081 ratings
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Tenement Kid
Tenement Kid really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,112 ratings
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The Story of ABBA: Melancholy Undercover
The Story of ABBA: Melancholy Undercover 3.65 avg rating — 462 ratings
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Intimate Conversations: Face to Face with Matchless Musicians
Intimate Conversations: Face to Face with Matchless Musicians 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Nick Drake: The Life
Nick Drake: The Life 4.56 avg rating — 441 ratings
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Down with the System: A Memoir
Down with the System: A Memoir 4.44 avg rating — 5,100 ratings
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The Mountain of the Women: Memoirs of an Irish Troubadour
The Mountain of the Women: Memoirs of an Irish Troubadour 4.04 avg rating — 183 ratings
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Standing In The Shadows Of Motown: The Life And Music Of Legendary Bassist James Jamerson
Standing In The Shadows Of Motown: The Life And Music Of Legendary Bassist James Jamerson
by: Dr. Licks
4.53 avg rating — 303 ratings
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Bono
Bono 3.94 avg rating — 2,156 ratings
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I've Always Kept a Unicorn: The Biography of Sandy Denny
I've Always Kept a Unicorn: The Biography of Sandy Denny 4.27 avg rating — 229 ratings
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Where Dead Voices Gather
Where Dead Voices Gather 3.92 avg rating — 300 ratings
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Freddie Mercury: The Definitive Biography
Freddie Mercury: The Definitive Biography 3.87 avg rating — 5,226 ratings
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John Denver: It's About Time | A Collection of Stories About How John Denver's Music Inspired and Uplifted People Around the World | Beautiful, Hardcover Coffee Table Book
John Denver: It's About Time | A Collection of Stories About How John Denver's Music Inspired and Uplifted People Around the World | Beautiful, Hardcover Coffee Table Book 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Got the Life: My Journey of Addiction, Faith, Recovery, and Korn
Got the Life: My Journey of Addiction, Faith, Recovery, and Korn
by: Fieldy
3.76 avg rating — 813 ratings
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Mustaine: A Life in Metal
Mustaine: A Life in Metal 3.91 avg rating — 7,575 ratings
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Set the Boy Free: The Autobiography
Set the Boy Free: The Autobiography 4.19 avg rating — 4,269 ratings
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Learning to Fly: The Autobiography
Learning to Fly: The Autobiography 3.70 avg rating — 1,357 ratings
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Me, the Mob, and the Music: One Helluva Ride with Tommy James & The Shondells
Me, the Mob, and the Music: One Helluva Ride with Tommy James & The Shondells 3.90 avg rating — 1,114 ratings
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Life Is a Gift: The Zen of Bennett
Life Is a Gift: The Zen of Bennett 3.78 avg rating — 486 ratings
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Gaga
Gaga 3.91 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink
Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink 3.82 avg rating — 3,877 ratings
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Wild Boy: My Life in Duran Duran
Wild Boy: My Life in Duran Duran 3.78 avg rating — 1,317 ratings
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Coal to Diamonds: A Memoir
Coal to Diamonds: A Memoir 3.70 avg rating — 1,146 ratings
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Baby, Let's Play House: Elvis Presley and the Women Who Loved Him
Baby, Let's Play House: Elvis Presley and the Women Who Loved Him 4.08 avg rating — 825 ratings
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Robert Plant: A Life
Robert Plant: A Life
by: Paul Rees
3.79 avg rating — 1,206 ratings
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Save Me from Myself: How I Found God, Quit Korn, Kicked Drugs, and Lived to Tell My Story
Save Me from Myself: How I Found God, Quit Korn, Kicked Drugs, and Lived to Tell My Story 4.01 avg rating — 4,556 ratings
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Dissecting Marilyn Manson
Dissecting Marilyn Manson 3.86 avg rating — 634 ratings
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I'm the Man: The Story of That Guy from Anthrax
I'm the Man: The Story of That Guy from Anthrax
by: Scott Ian
4.13 avg rating — 1,540 ratings
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Further Adventures of a Grumpy Old Rock Star
Further Adventures of a Grumpy Old Rock Star 4.19 avg rating — 243 ratings
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Nobody Likes You: Inside the Turbulent Life, Times, and Music of Green Day
Nobody Likes You: Inside the Turbulent Life, Times, and Music of Green Day 3.91 avg rating — 780 ratings
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Reckless: My Life as a Pretender
Reckless: My Life as a Pretender 3.49 avg rating — 4,818 ratings
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Concrete, Bulletproof, Invisible and Fried: My Life As a Revolting Cock
Concrete, Bulletproof, Invisible and Fried: My Life As a Revolting Cock 4.01 avg rating — 266 ratings
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Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me
Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me 3.72 avg rating — 15,769 ratings
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The Reason: How I Discovered a Life Worth Living
The Reason: How I Discovered a Life Worth Living 4.36 avg rating — 1,961 ratings
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Really Saying Something: Sara & Keren – Our Bananarama Story
Really Saying Something: Sara & Keren – Our Bananarama Story 3.75 avg rating — 580 ratings
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Red Hot Chili Peppers: Give It Away: The Stories Behind Every Song
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Give It Away: The Stories Behind Every Song 3.79 avg rating — 29 ratings
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I'll Never Write My Memoirs
I'll Never Write My Memoirs 3.76 avg rating — 1,621 ratings
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Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag
Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag 4.10 avg rating — 8,985 ratings
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Not Dead and Not for Sale
Not Dead and Not for Sale 3.56 avg rating — 2,866 ratings
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The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help 3.92 avg rating — 36,426 ratings
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The Universal Tone: My Life
The Universal Tone: My Life 4.11 avg rating — 909 ratings
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Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter
Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter 3.93 avg rating — 3,371 ratings
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This Is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl
This Is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl 3.70 avg rating — 4,321 ratings
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Who I Am
Who I Am 3.91 avg rating — 4,886 ratings
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Grumpy Old Rockstar and Other Wondrous Stories
Grumpy Old Rockstar and Other Wondrous Stories 4.02 avg rating — 644 ratings
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We Who Believe in Freedom
We Who Believe in Freedom 4.46 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Selected
Selected 4.57 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Drinking with Strangers: Music Lessons from a Teenage Bullet Belt
Drinking with Strangers: Music Lessons from a Teenage Bullet Belt 4.17 avg rating — 838 ratings
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Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution
Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution 3.95 avg rating — 8,796 ratings
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Rod: The Autobiography
Rod: The Autobiography 3.97 avg rating — 6,181 ratings
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Life with My Sister Madonna
Life with My Sister Madonna 3.17 avg rating — 2,806 ratings
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Careless Love : Unmaking of Elvis Presley
Careless Love : Unmaking of Elvis Presley 4.37 avg rating — 4,618 ratings
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Running Up That Hill: 50 Visions of Kate Bush
Running Up That Hill: 50 Visions of Kate Bush
by: Tom Doyle
4.15 avg rating — 353 ratings
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Shell Shocked: My Life with the Turtles Flo and Eddie and Frank Zappa | Rock Music Biography and Memoir of a Legendary Musician | Behind the Scenes with The Turtles and Frank Zappa’s Band
Shell Shocked: My Life with the Turtles Flo and Eddie and Frank Zappa | Rock Music Biography and Memoir of a Legendary Musician | Behind the Scenes with The Turtles and Frank Zappa’s Band 3.87 avg rating — 391 ratings
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A Passion Play: The Story Of Ian Anderson And Jethro Tull
A Passion Play: The Story Of Ian Anderson And Jethro Tull 3.72 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Every Little Step: My Story
Every Little Step: My Story really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,334 ratings
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So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star: The Byrds Day-by-Day, 1965-1973
So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star: The Byrds Day-by-Day, 1965-1973 4.44 avg rating — 41 ratings
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It's a Love Story
It's a Love Story 4.36 avg rating — 1,121 ratings
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Spirit of Talk Talk
Spirit of Talk Talk 4.47 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Leonard Cohen: Hallelujah: A New Biography
Leonard Cohen: Hallelujah: A New Biography 3.47 avg rating — 107 ratings
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There's Something Happening Here: The Story of Buffalo Springfield : for What It's Worth
There's Something Happening Here: The Story of Buffalo Springfield : for What It's Worth 4.06 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Ticket to the World: My 80s Story
Ticket to the World: My 80s Story 3.74 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Steve Earle - Fearless Heart, Outlaw Poet: An Album-by-Album Portrait of Country-Rock's Outlaw Poet
Steve Earle - Fearless Heart, Outlaw Poet: An Album-by-Album Portrait of Country-Rock's Outlaw Poet 3.67 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Rememberings
Rememberings 4.10 avg rating — 13,561 ratings
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Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs
Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs 3.95 avg rating — 6,593 ratings
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Straight from the Heart
Straight from the Heart 3.79 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Light and Shade: Conversations with Jimmy Page
Light and Shade: Conversations with Jimmy Page 4.08 avg rating — 1,511 ratings
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Started Out Just Drinking Beer: The Mental As Anything Story
Started Out Just Drinking Beer: The Mental As Anything Story 4.25 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Raisin' Cain: The Wild and Raucous Story of Johnny Winter
Raisin' Cain: The Wild and Raucous Story of Johnny Winter 4.04 avg rating — 162 ratings
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