The definitive shelf: musicians telling their own stories, and the biographers who filled in what they left out. Across genres, across eras — the books that get you inside the life behind the music.
Music Biography & Memoir Books
- The Soundtrack of My Life - Paperback
- Orbit: Beastie Boys - Paperback
- Positively Fourth and Mercer: The Inside Story of New York's Iconic Music Club, the Bottom Line - Hardcover
- Michael Jackson:: The Magic, the Madness, the Whole Story, 1958-2009 - Paperback
- On Michael Jackson - Paperback
- Loud and Clear: The Grateful Dead's Wall of Sound and the Quest for Audio Perfection - Hardcover
- A Year with Swollen Appendices: Brian Eno's Diary - Paperback
- Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson - Paperback
- Beethoven's Hair: An Extraordinary Historical Odyssey and a Scientific Mystery Solved - Paperback
- When Rock Met Hip-Hop: How Run-DMC, Aerosmith, Anthrax, the Beastie Boys, and More Crossed Cultural and Musical Boundaries - Paperback
- I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone - Paperback
- Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road - Hardcover
- Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska - Paperback
- The Tao of Wu - Paperback
- The Marathon Don't Stop: The Life and Times of Nipsey Hussle /]crob Kenner - Paperback
- Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley - Paperback
- Chicken with Plums - Paperback
- Perreo. Una Revolución / Twerk. a Revolution - Paperback
- Not the Life It Seems: The True Lives of My Chemical Romance - Paperback
- Roy Orbison: King of Hearts - Hardcover
- Waylon: An Autobiography - Paperback
- Stories at the Center: A Memoir of Miles, Music, and Meaning - Paperback
- Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements - Paperback
- Just Kids - Hardcover
- Alice in Chains: The Untold Story - Paperback
- Carole King: She Made the Earth Move - Hardcover
- Chronicles: Volume One - Paperback
- The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer - Paperback
- Cudi: The Memoir - Hardcover
- Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah - Paperback
- Elvis and Me: The True Story of the Love Between Priscilla Presley and the King of Rock N' Roll - Mass Market Paperbound
- What Doesn't Kill Me Makes Me Weirder and Harder to Relate to: A Memoir - Hardcover
- Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die: Musings from the Road - Paperback
- Kiss '76: Twelve Months That Defined the Hottest Band in the Land - Hardcover
- The Chronicles of Doom: Unraveling Rap's Masked Iconoclast - Hardcover
- Down with the System: A Memoir (of Sorts) - Paperback
- Puccini Without Excuses: A Refreshing Reassessment of the World's Most Popular Composer - Paperback
- Jazz, TX: A Love Letter to Live Music, Community, and the Little Club That Could - Hardcover
- Star of the Show [Deluxe Edition]: My Life on Stage - Hardcover
- The Clean: In the Dreamlife You Need a Rubber Soul - Paperback
- Heartbreaker: A Memoir - Hardcover
- Scar Tissue - Paperback
- Vibrate Higher: A Rap Story - Paperback
- Billie Eilish - Hardcover
- Heartbreaker: A Memoir - Paperback
- Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story - Paperback
- Not That Fancy: Simple Lessons on Living, Loving, Eating, and Dusting Off Your Boots (Includes Behind-The-Scenes Stories, Photos, Recipes, and Lifesty - Hardcover
- Standing in the Shadows of Motown: The James Jamerson Bass Method Classic Motown Bass Lines and Biographical Tribute with Online Audio [With 2] - Paperback
- Dark Horses: A Memoir of Redemption - Paperback
- Fahrenheit-182: A Memoir - Hardcover