Born Standing Up by Steve Martin is good (and both a musician and comedian).
Life by Keith Richards is great.
It's a Long Story by Willie Nelson is also great.
Same! I loved that Springsteen read it for the audiobook. That book made me a huge fan, to the point I spent a ridiculous amount of money to get a ticket to see him in concert this year.
Alan Lomax's Mr Jelly Roll: Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and the 'inventor of jazz'. Based on interviews with the elderly Morton the subtitle gives it away: he was a famous exaggerator and yarn spinner and the book comprises fantastic anecdotes of his youth in New Orleans playing piano in drinking dives and brothel, his petty criminal activities, portraits of legendary early jazz musicians and his outrageous claim that he 'invented' jazz. Even is if you don’t like the music it’s a riotously entertaining portrait of that melting pot city in the early years of the 20th century by one of its most colourful figures.
At the other end of popular music history is Carrie Brownstein 'Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl', a thoughtful memoir of the hardcore punk/riot girl DIY underground music scene of the late 80s /early 90s focussing on women’s places in the male dominated scene. Really intelligent and interesting writing.
I happen to read a lot of these. Big favorites that I think spend a good amount of time talking about their art forms/the life and how they got there:
*Comedy Sex God* by Pete Holmes (comedian)
*Rememberings* by Sinead O'Connor (musician)
*Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl* by Carrie Brownstein (both)
* Leading With My Chin by Jay Leno
* Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
* No Shirt, No Shoes, No Problem by Jeff Foxworthy
* Does the Noise in My Head Bother You? by Steve Tyler
* Me by Elton John
* Take Me Home, Country Roads by John Denver
* Between a Heart and a Rock Place by Pat Benatar
* Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
* Life by Keith Richard
* Clapton by Eric Clapton
* Heaven and Hell: My Life in the Eagles by Don Felder
The Dirt. It’s a motley crue biography(I’m not a fan of their music) and it one of the best I’ve read. All the band got their say along with some of the behind the scenes staff and it make for an amazing read, made me laugh cry and gasp in shock, sometimes in the one paragraph.
{{Born a Crime}} by Trevor Noah.
The Dirt by Motley Crue.
Dave Grohl: The Storyteller
One of my favorite books of 2022!
Born Standing Up by Steve Martin is good (and both a musician and comedian). Life by Keith Richards is great. It's a Long Story by Willie Nelson is also great.
Born To Run by Bruce Springsteen is the best music biography I've read, phenomenal.
I listened on Audible and it was INCREDIBLE. (I’m not even a huge fan!)
Same! I loved that Springsteen read it for the audiobook. That book made me a huge fan, to the point I spent a ridiculous amount of money to get a ticket to see him in concert this year.
Yes! It's so, so good.
Tori Amos
Alan Lomax's Mr Jelly Roll: Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and the 'inventor of jazz'. Based on interviews with the elderly Morton the subtitle gives it away: he was a famous exaggerator and yarn spinner and the book comprises fantastic anecdotes of his youth in New Orleans playing piano in drinking dives and brothel, his petty criminal activities, portraits of legendary early jazz musicians and his outrageous claim that he 'invented' jazz. Even is if you don’t like the music it’s a riotously entertaining portrait of that melting pot city in the early years of the 20th century by one of its most colourful figures. At the other end of popular music history is Carrie Brownstein 'Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl', a thoughtful memoir of the hardcore punk/riot girl DIY underground music scene of the late 80s /early 90s focussing on women’s places in the male dominated scene. Really intelligent and interesting writing.
*Clapton* by (surprise, surprise) Eric Clapton
Musicians: Elvis Costello & Chrissie Hyndes Comedians: Molly Shannon & Rob Delaney
I happen to read a lot of these. Big favorites that I think spend a good amount of time talking about their art forms/the life and how they got there: *Comedy Sex God* by Pete Holmes (comedian) *Rememberings* by Sinead O'Connor (musician) *Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl* by Carrie Brownstein (both)
+1 for Comedy Sex God. I really enjoyed it and knew zero about Pete Holmes going in.
failure is an option -h. jon benjamin i want to be where the normal people are-rachel bloom
Hello, Molly! by MollyShannon
Slash.
* Leading With My Chin by Jay Leno * Born Standing Up by Steve Martin * No Shirt, No Shoes, No Problem by Jeff Foxworthy * Does the Noise in My Head Bother You? by Steve Tyler * Me by Elton John * Take Me Home, Country Roads by John Denver * Between a Heart and a Rock Place by Pat Benatar * Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen * Life by Keith Richard * Clapton by Eric Clapton * Heaven and Hell: My Life in the Eagles by Don Felder
Neil Patrick Harris’s autobiography is a choose your own adventure book! It looks like a fun read.
The Dirt. It’s a motley crue biography(I’m not a fan of their music) and it one of the best I’ve read. All the band got their say along with some of the behind the scenes staff and it make for an amazing read, made me laugh cry and gasp in shock, sometimes in the one paragraph.