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No One Here Gets Out Alive
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Danny Sugarman
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 13,364 ratings
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The Dirt: Confessions Of The World's Most Notorious Rock Band
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Tommy Lee
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 10,719 ratings
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The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
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Marilyn Manson
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 9,695 ratings
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Scar Tissue
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Anthony Kiedis
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 17,732 ratings
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The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
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Nikki Sixx
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 10,245 ratings
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Slash
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Slash
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 7,652 ratings
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Life
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Keith Richards
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 24,216 ratings
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High Fidelity
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Nick Hornby
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 94,125 ratings
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Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk (An Evergreen book)
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Legs McNeil
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 10,371 ratings
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The Beatles Anthology
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The Beatles
4.43 of 5 stars 4.43 avg rating — 5,766 ratings
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Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain
by
Charles R. Cross
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 8,588 ratings
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I am Ozzy
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Ozzy Osbourne
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 7,238 ratings
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I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie
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Pamela Des Barres
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 5,347 ratings
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The Beatles: The Biography
by
Bob Spitz
4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 4,045 ratings
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I, Me, Mine
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George Harrison
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 1,444 ratings
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Clapton
by
Eric Clapton
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 8,121 ratings
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Chronicles, Vol. 1
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Bob Dylan
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 15,818 ratings
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John
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Cynthia Lennon
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 2,338 ratings
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Cash
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Johnny Cash
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 7,398 ratings
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Journals
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Kurt Cobain
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 5,291 ratings
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Neon Angel
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Cherie Currie
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 1,663 ratings
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Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix
by
Charles R. Cross
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 2,216 ratings
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Does the Noise in My Head Bother You?
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Steven Tyler
3.35 of 5 stars 3.35 avg rating — 5,141 ratings
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Shakey: Neil Young's Biography
by
Jimmy McDonough
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 2,487 ratings
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U2 by U2
by
Neil McCormick
4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 1,243 ratings
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Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend
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Stephen Davis
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 1,277 ratings
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Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll: Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll
by
Holly George-Warren
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 226 ratings
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Cobain Unseen
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Charles R. Cross
4.29 of 5 stars 4.29 avg rating — 732 ratings
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Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991
by
Michael Azerrad
4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 5,620 ratings
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Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana
by
Michael Azerrad
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 2,935 ratings
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Love, Janis
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Laura Joplin
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 1,071 ratings
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Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag
by
Henry Rollins
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 3,444 ratings
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Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley
by
Peter Guralnick
4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 1,946 ratings
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Faithfull
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Marianne Faithfull
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 770 ratings
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Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley
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Peter Guralnick
4.35 of 5 stars 4.35 avg rating — 1,066 ratings
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It's So Easy: And Other lies
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Duff McKagan (Goodreads Author)
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 1,941 ratings
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Tommyland
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Tommy Lee
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 2,190 ratings
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Many Years from Now
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Paul McCartney
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 1,175 ratings
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Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
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Lester Bangs
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 3,834 ratings
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Buried Alive: The Biography of Janis Joplin
by
Myra Friedman
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 593 ratings
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My Appetite for Destruction: Sex, and Drugs, and Guns N' Roses
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Steven Adler
3.43 of 5 stars 3.43 avg rating — 1,112 ratings
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Wonderful Tonight
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Pattie Boyd
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 4,562 ratings
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The Beatles
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Hunter Davies
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 1,067 ratings
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The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions: The Official Story of the Abbey Road Years 1962-1970
by
Mark Lewisohn
4.43 of 5 stars 4.43 avg rating — 858 ratings
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Songbook
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Nick Hornby
3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 6,571 ratings
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Hammer of the Gods
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Stephen Davis
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 4,399 ratings
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Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division
by
Deborah Curtis
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 2,815 ratings
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John Lennon: The Life
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Philip Norman
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 2,864 ratings
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Just Kids
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Patti Smith
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 38,658 ratings
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Lennon
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Ray Coleman
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 783 ratings
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Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir
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Dave Mustaine
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 1,724 ratings
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Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota
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Chuck Klosterman
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 7,247 ratings
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Riders on the Storm: My Life with Jim Morrison and the Doors
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John Densmore (Goodreads Author)
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 2,205 ratings
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Crazy Diamond: Syd Barrett and the Dawn of Pink Floyd
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Mike Watkinson
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 322 ratings
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Long Time Gone
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David Crosby
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 329 ratings
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Bob Dylan: A Biography
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Anthony Scaduto
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 300 ratings
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Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century
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Greil Marcus
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 1,843 ratings
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Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer
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Chris Salewicz
4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 752 ratings
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The Jim Morrison Scrapbook
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James Henke
4.42 of 5 stars 4.42 avg rating — 301 ratings
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You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup
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Peter Doggett (Goodreads Author)
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 534 ratings
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I Slept With Joey Ramone
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Mickey Leigh
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 534 ratings
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Bound for Glory
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Woody Guthrie
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 1,895 ratings
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Rolling With The Stones
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Bill Wyman
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 114 ratings
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Ain't No Grave: The Life & Legacy of Brother Claude Ely
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Macel Ely II
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Before I Get Old: The Story of the Who
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Dave Marsh
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 174 ratings
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I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Life and Times of Warren Zevon
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Crystal Zevon
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 966 ratings
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Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground New Edition
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Michael Moynihan
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 2,433 ratings
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To Live Is to Die: The Life and Death of Metallica's Cliff Burton
by
Joel McIver
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 134 ratings
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The Book of Rock Lists
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Dave Marsh (Editor)
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 94 ratings
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The Love You Make: An Insider's Story of the Beatles
by
Peter Brown
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 1,121 ratings
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White Line Fever
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Lemmy Kilmister
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 1,555 ratings
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Dark Horse: The Life And Art Of George Harrison
by
Geoffrey Giuliano
3.34 of 5 stars 3.34 avg rating — 142 ratings
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Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America
by
Jonathan Gould
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 579 ratings
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The Real Frank Zappa Book
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Frank Zappa
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 2,227 ratings
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To the Limit: The Untold Story of the Eagles
by
Marc Eliot
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Broken Music
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Sting
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 1,738 ratings
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Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina
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David Hajdu
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 1,266 ratings
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Dream Brother: The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley
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David Browne
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 792 ratings
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Lips Unsealed: A Memoir
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Belinda Carlisle
3.14 of 5 stars 3.14 avg rating — 858 ratings
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Nerd Girl Rocks Paradise City: A True Story of Faking It in Hair Metal L.A.
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Anne Thomas Soffee (Goodreads Author)
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream
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Neil Young
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 2,156 ratings
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Rip It Up and Start Again
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Simon Reynolds
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 2,621 ratings
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No Regrets: A Rock'n'Roll Memoir
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Ace Frehley
3.63 of 5 stars 3.63 avg rating — 622 ratings
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Dream on: Living on the Edge with Steven Tyler and Aerosmith
by
Cyrinda Foxe-Tyler
3.45 of 5 stars 3.45 avg rating — 64 ratings
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The Doors
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The Doors
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Break on Through: The Life and Death of Jim Morrison
by
James Riordan
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 503 ratings
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Heaven And Hell: My Life In The Eagles (1974 2001)
by
Don Felder
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 377 ratings
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Kurt Cobain
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Christopher Sandford (Goodreads Author)
3.45 of 5 stars 3.45 avg rating — 478 ratings
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U2: At the End of the World
by
Bill Flanagan
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 576 ratings
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Rock Bottom: Dark Moments in Music Babylon
by
Pamela Des Barres
3.4 of 5 stars 3.40 avg rating — 137 ratings
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The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones
by
Stanley Booth
4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 517 ratings
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Neil and Me
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Scott Young
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Freddie Mercury: His Life in His Own Words
by
Greg Brooks (Editor)
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 103 ratings
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My Cross to Bear
by
Gregg Allman
3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 966 ratings
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Wonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour and Excess
by
Danny Sugarman
4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 937 ratings
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It Crawled From The South: An R.e.m. Companion
by
Marcus Gray
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 140 ratings
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Mozipedia: The Encyclopedia of Morrissey and The Smiths
by
Simon Goddard
4.52 of 5 stars 4.52 avg rating — 236 ratings
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Black Tooth Grin: The High Life, Good Times, and Tragic End of "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott
by
Zac Crain
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 107 ratings
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Got the Life: My Journey of Addiction, Faith, Recovery, and Korn
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Fieldy
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 190 ratings
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Scott Walker: A Deep Shade of Blue
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Mike Watkinson
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 32 ratings
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